Abstract: A planar heat pipe including a container having a protruded portion provided at a central part thereof, the protruded portion having a hollow portion formed by two plate-shaped bodies opposing each other, and a working fluid enclosed in the hollow portion. The hollow portion is provided with a wick structure. A peripheral portion surrounding the protruded portion is sealed by welding by applying heat. A groove is provided around the protruded portion between the protruded portion and a welded portion welded by the welding by applying heat.

Abstract: An nickel plating layer (5a) intended for corrosion current distribution is formed over a body (2), and a 0.05 to 2.5 micrometers thick surface chrome plating layer (6) made of trivalent chromium is formed on the surface thereof using basic chromium sulfate as a source of metal. Further on the same, a not less than 7 nm thick chromium compound film (7) is formed by cathode acidic electrolytic chromatin. The corrosion distribution nickel plating layer (5a) has a function of forming a microporous structure, a microcrack structure, or the both of the same in the surface chrome plating layer (6).

Abstract: An interior component has a projecting portion projecting rearward at a position forward and downward from a vehicle occupant when the occupant maintains a sitting posture in a passenger compartment. The interior component has a front inclined surface section and a rear inclined surface section in a lower section of the projecting portion. A retainer and air-direction changing members arranged in the retainer are arranged immediately below the projecting portion at positions forward from the front inclined surface section. A manipulating member is arranged above the rear inclined surface section with at least a part of the manipulating member exposed rearward from the projecting portion. A first transmission mechanism and a second transmission mechanism, which transmit movement of the manipulating member to the air-direction changing members, are arranged in the interior component.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material or a recording sheet using, as a color-developing agent, a non-phenol compound that is a safe compound in no danger of corresponding to an endocrine disruptor and is good in color developing performance. The non-phenol compound used in the present invention is at least one selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formulas (I) to (III).

Abstract: A rear part structure of a vehicle includes a lift gate; a light source device to be covered by the lift gate when the lift gate is closed; a lens member mounted in such a manner as to cover an opening portion in the lift gate, and configured to transmit light from the light source device when the lift gate is closed; at least one of a light source mounting portion for movably mounting the light source device with respect to a vehicle body, and a lens mounting portion for movably mounting the lens member with respect to the lift gate; and a positioning portion which causes, when the light source device and the lens member do not have a predetermined positional relationship therebetween, at least one of the light source device and the lens member to move into the predetermined positional relationship when the lift gate is closed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus transmits a print job to a server and generates print status information including user identification information and a print condition included in the print job. Each of one or more image forming apparatuses transmits a transmission request, forms an image based on the print job, and generates device information including state information indicating its operating state. The server transmits a print job that includes the same user identification information as the user identification information included in the transmission request, to the image forming apparatus that has transmitted the transmission request. One of the server, the one or more image forming apparatuses, and the portable information device generates usability information indicating usability in a case where the print job is executed in each image forming apparatus, based on the device information and the print status information. The portable information device outputs the generated usability information.

Abstract: A method for operation of a blast furnace able to greatly reduce the CO2 emission and enabling stable production of pig iron over a long period of time in a commercial blast furnace, that is, a method for operation of a blast furnace in which iron ore and coke are charged from a furnace top and is blown in pulverized coal from a usual tuyere, comprising blowing in a gas containing at least one of hydrogen and hydrocarbon from the usual tuyere together with the pulverized coal and blowing a gas comprised of a top gas of the blast furnace from which carbon dioxide and steam is removed from a shaft tuyere into the blast furnace.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is mounted to a moving body. The driving assistance apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to set, by a setting unit, driving assistance, executed in the moving body, based on loaded map data stored in a first storage unit, and give, by a notifying unit, notification of execution suitability information related to whether or not the driving assistance set by the setting unit is executable. The execution suitability information indicates a result of determining whether or not the driving assistance is executable based on the loaded map data stored in the first storage unit.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser being a light source that emits light, an optical fiber that inputs the light emitted from the semiconductor laser and guides and outputs the light, and an optical resonator that has a laser medium into which the light output from the optical fiber is input and emits laser light. The optical fiber has a GI fiber constituting a part on a light input side and an SI fiber connected to the GI fiber and constituting a part on a light output side.

Abstract: A shut-off damper of an air-conditioning register has a damper body serving as a frame portion and a sealing portion softer than the damper body. The sealing portion includes a distal sealing portion caused to contact an inner wall surface of a retainer at a closed position and a flexible joint portion joining the distal sealing portion and the damper body together. The distal sealing portion has a cross section configured by a projected curved portion and contacts the inner wall surface of the retainer at the curved portion. At least a part of the joint portion has an increased thickness portion having a thickness increasing toward the damper body.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material or a recording sheet using, as a color-developing agent, a non-phenol compound that is a safe compound in no danger of corresponding to an endocrine disruptor and is good in color developing performance. The non-phenol compound used in the present invention is at least one selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formulas (I) to (III).

Abstract: A lithium ion oxygen battery capable of achieving a high energy density without being decreased in performance due to moisture or carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is provided. A lithium ion oxygen battery 1 comprises a positive electrode 2 containing oxygen as an active material and a lithium source, a negative electrode 3 made of a material capable of occluding or releasing lithium ions, and an electrolyte layer 4 sandwiched between the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 3 and capable of conducting the lithium ions. The positive electrode 2, the negative electrode 3, and the electrolyte layer 4 are housed in a hermetic case 5. The positive electrode 2 comprises an oxygen storage material and a lithium compound (excluding a combined metal oxide of lithium and another metal) as the lithium source.

Abstract: A small antenna device having good communications performance and a wide communications area even when a metal plate is present in the antenna communications direction, even when the antenna is arranged, for example, inside a box-shaped metal case, and even when a through hole is used that has a smaller area than the antenna. This device comprises: the antenna (8); a rear surface cover (3) overlapping with the antenna (8) and being a conductor that faces the winding of the antenna (8); two first insulating areas (10a) provided in the rear surface cover (3) and extending in a direction that intersects the winding axis of the antenna (8); and a second insulating area (10b) that connects between the first insulating areas (10a). At least part of the area sandwiched by the first insulating areas (10a) faces the antenna (8).

Abstract: There is provided a metal oxygen battery which is capable of obtaining superior batter capacity when starting use from charging. In the metal oxygen battery 1 including a positive electrode 2, which includes an oxygen-storing material and lithium oxide, and uses oxygen as an active substance, a negative electrode 3 capable of absorbing and discharging lithium ions, and an electrolyte layer 4 interposed between the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 3, in which the positive electrode 2, the negative electrode 3, and the electrolyte layer 4 are hermetically accommodated in a case 5, the oxygen-storing material has an oxygen amount stored at a start of charge time diluted.

Abstract: A toroidal pressure vessel having extremely high pressure resistance has laminated latitudinal reinforcing fiber layers to improve a strength in a latitudinal direction of the pressure vessel. Moreover, putting reinforcing fibers constituting those laminated latitudinal reinforcing fiber layers in continuity enables further improvement of strength in the latitudinal direction of the pressure vessel, for example compared with a case where the reinforcing fibers are divided for each layer.

Abstract: A metal-oxygen cell capable of improving cycle performance is provided. The metal-oxygen cell 1 includes a positive electrode 2 that contains an oxygen storage material and uses oxygen as an active material, a negative electrode 3 that uses a metal as an active material, and an electrolyte layer 4 sandwiched between the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 3 and containing an electrolyte solution, effecting cell reactions of the positive electrode 2 on a surface of the oxygen storage material. The positive electrode 2 contains a conductive polymer that is capable of suppressing permeation of oxygen and conducting metal ions and covers at least a part of the surface of the oxygen storage material.

Abstract: A print system comprises notification part for providing, to a user, a notification of an inquiry about whether concurrent printing output that an image forming apparatus performs first printing output and subsequently performs second printing output is scheduled, in a non-sleep period associated with the first printing output by the image forming apparatus; and setting part for setting a transition standby period for transition of the image forming apparatus to a sleep state at a first value when a reply for informing that the concurrent printing output is scheduled is not sent from the user, and setting the transition standby period at a second value which is larger than the first value when the reply is sent from the user.

Abstract: An oxygen cell capable of minimizing overvoltage increases is provided. An oxygen cell 1 comprises a positive electrode 2 that uses oxygen as an active material, a negative electrode 3 that uses metallic lithium as an active material, and an electrolyte layer 4 sandwiched between the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 3, wherein the positive electrode 2 contains a lithium compound.

Abstract: A heat pipe suited for thinning, and achieving high heat transport performance is provided. A heat pipe 1 according to the invention includes working liquid, a container 2 into which the working liquid is sealed, and a mesh member 3 disposed in such a position as to come into contact with at least two inner surfaces of the container, the two surfaces facing to each other. The mesh member 3 is formed by a plurality of meshes 31 and 32 laminated on each other. The porosity in the portion where the respective meshes 31 and 32 contact each other is lower than the porosity in the portion where the meshes 31 and 32 contact the container 2.

Abstract: Provided is an infrared ray sensor that can conduct a plurality of different types of detection such as temperature detection and gas detection in a simple structure and that is small size and low cost. The infrared ray sensor (1) includes, on one base (10), a first infrared ray detection unit (31) including at least one infrared ray detection element (20) including an infrared ray detection material (22) with physical properties changing depending on properties of incident infrared rays and receives and detects ambient infrared rays, and a second infrared ray detection unit (32) including at least one infrared ray detection element (20) having an identical element structure to the infrared ray detection element of the first infrared ray detection unit (31), is irradiated with infrared rays X for measurement having specific physical properties, and detects a change in the physical properties of the infrared rays X for measurement.