Abstract: A nutrient intake amount estimation system according to an embodiment includes: a sensor that is disposed in a toilet space, and configured to detect an excretion smell related to excretion of a user of the toilet space; an estimation unit configured to estimate an estimated nutrient intake amount that is an amount of nutrients taken by the user by using an output of an estimation model that outputs information indicating an amount of nutrients estimated to be taken by the user in accordance with an input based on an output value of the sensor; and an output unit configured to output information based on the estimated nutrient intake amount.

Abstract: An axle bracket includes a coupling portion that couples a damper to an axle, and a brake attachment portion that is provided on a rear side of a vehicle with respect to the coupling portion. The brake attachment portion allows a brake to be attached. At least the coupling portion includes a first introduction portions capable of guiding a traveling wind from a front of the coupling portion to a rear of the coupling portion. The first introduction portion is provided such that the brake 21 and a path of the traveling wind passing through the first introduction portion intersect each other.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one contact pin, an insulating housing for containing the at least one contact pin therein. The at least one contact pin includes a horizontally extending portion, at least one protruding portion extending from the horizontally extending portion in a width direction perpendicular to an insertion and extraction direction of a mating connector. The at least one protruding portion includes a front slope portion and a rear slope portion located closer to the tip side than the front slope portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a pair of contact pins and an insulating housing for containing the pair of contact pins therein. The contact pin includes a horizontally extending portion extending in an insertion and extraction direction of the mating connector and having a pair of surfaces, facing each other. The housing includes a cylindrical portion linearly extending in the insertion and extraction direction of the mating connector and containing the horizontally extending portion therein, and a pair of insertion holes passing through the cylindrical portion in the insertion and extraction direction of the mating connector and into which the horizontally extending portions of the pair of contact pins are respectively inserted. Each of the pair of insertion holes includes a first wall surface, a second wall surface, and a flat receiving portion formed on the first wall surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid ejection head includes an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers and dummy chambers. The pressure chambers are each part of a groove that is disposed between an adjacent pair of sidewalls. Each pressure chamber is in fluid communication with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid. The dummy chambers are each between an adjacent pair of pressure chambers. A common chamber is fluidly connected to an end of each of the pressure chambers. A throttle portion is at the end portion of each pressure chamber. Each throttle portion blocks a part of a liquid flow path from the first common chamber to the pressure chamber. The first throttle portion is formed of a resin material.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head of a side shooter type includes a plate including a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction and an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along the first direction. Each pressure chamber communicates with a corresponding one of the nozzles. The actuator further includes dummy chambers, each of which is between two otherwise adjacent pressure chambers. Common chambers are provided in the actuator. The pressure and dummy chambers are arranged between the common chambers. The end portions of the pressure chambers are connected to a common chamber. The width of the end portions of each of the pressure chambers is less than the width of a portion of the pressure chamber between the end portions.

Abstract: The plug shell of the electrical connector includes the accommodation portion for accommodating the contact pin and the housing that holds the contact pin, the insertion port for inserting the contact pin and the housing into the accommodation portion, the lid member for closing the insertion port, and the hold mechanism for holding the lid member. The hold mechanism includes the pedestal, on which the lid member is placed, and the pair of hold pieces, which hold the lid member on the pedestal by pressing. The pair of hold pieces press the end portions of the lid member toward the pedestal, so that thereby a stress that urges the end portions to become distant from the pedestal is generated in the lid member.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head of a side shooter type includes a plate including a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction and an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along the first direction. Each pressure chamber communicates with a corresponding one of the nozzles. The actuator further includes dummy chambers, each of which is between two otherwise adjacent pressure chambers. Common chambers are provided in the actuator. The pressure and dummy chambers are arranged between the common chambers. The end portions of the pressure chambers are connected to a common chamber. The width of the end portions of each of the pressure chambers is less than the width of a portion of the pressure chamber between the end portions.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid ejection head includes an actuator with a plurality of pressure chambers and dummy chambers. The pressure chambers are each part of a groove that is disposed between an adjacent pair of sidewalls. Each pressure chamber is in fluid communication with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid. The dummy chambers are each between an adjacent pair of pressure chambers. A common chamber is fluidly connected to an end of each of the pressure chambers. A throttle portion is at the end portion of each pressure chamber. Each throttle portion blocks a part of a liquid flow path from the first common chamber to the pressure chamber. The first throttle portion is formed of a resin material.

Abstract: The plug shell of the electrical connector includes the accommodation portion for accommodating the contact pin and the housing that holds the contact pin, the insertion port for inserting the contact pin and the housing into the accommodation portion, the lid member for closing the insertion port, and the hold mechanism for holding the lid member. The hold mechanism includes the pedestal, on which the lid member is placed, and the pair of hold pieces, which hold the lid member on the pedestal by pressing. The pair of hold pieces press the end portions of the lid member toward the pedestal, so that thereby a stress that urges the end portions to become distant from the pedestal is generated in the lid member.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber, and a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes formed therein and a discharge face with an upstream side and a downstream side, the plurality of nozzle holes being in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and including a first nozzle hole on the upstream side of the discharge face, and a second nozzle hole on the downstream side of the discharge face. A liquid discharge speed from the first nozzle hole is higher than a liquid discharge speed from the second nozzle hole.

Abstract: Particulate measurement processing executed by a sensor control section of a particulate measurement system includes a step of stopping voltage conversion by a first isolation transformer and a second isolation transformer, a step of obtaining correction information B, and a step of correcting ion current A through use of the correction information B. The correction information B reflects improper current generated through particulates, etc. (soot or the like) adhering to a particulate sensor. The ion current A (signal current Iesc) is corrected through use of the correction information B, and the amount of soot S is computed through use of the corrected ion current A?. As a result, it is possible to measure the amount of the soot S (the amount of particulates) while suppressing the influence of the improper current.

Abstract: A fluid ejection head comprises a pressure chamber and a nozzle plate including a nozzle group. The nozzle plate has a discharge face with an upstream side and a downstream side. The nozzle group is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber. The nozzle group includes at least a first nozzle on the upstream side of the discharge face, a second nozzle on the downstream side of the discharge face, and a third nozzle between the first and second nozzles. A flow channel dimension of the third nozzle is different from flow channel dimensions of the first and second nozzles.

Abstract: A fluid ejection head includes a pressure chamber and a nozzle plate including a nozzle group. The nozzle plate has a discharge face with an upstream side and a downstream side. The nozzle group is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and includes a first nozzle on the upstream side of the discharge face, a second nozzle on the downstream side of the discharge face, and a third nozzle between the first and second nozzles. Central axes of the first and second nozzles are inclined with respect to a central axis of the third nozzle such that the central axes of the first and second nozzles intersect the central axis of the third nozzle. A flow channel dimension of the third nozzle is different from flow channel dimensions of the first and second nozzles.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber, and a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes formed therein and a discharge face with an upstream side and a downstream side, the plurality of nozzle holes being in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and including a first nozzle hole on the upstream side of the discharge face, and a second nozzle hole on the downstream side of the discharge face. A liquid discharge speed from the first nozzle hole is higher than a liquid discharge speed from the second nozzle hole.

Abstract: An inkjet head includes a substrate, a piezoelectric unit disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of piezoelectric elements arranged along a surface of the substrate, and a plurality of pressure chambers, each of the pressure chambers being formed between two adjacent piezoelectric elements, a plurality of lid members, each of which is disposed on two adjacent piezoelectric elements and has a hole connected to one of the pressure chambers, and a nozzle plate disposed on the plurality of lid members and having a plurality of nozzles through which the liquid is discharged, each of the nozzles being connected to one of the holes of the lid members.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device has a knocking detection unit and an ignition timing adjustment unit. In a condition that the operation state of the internal combustion engine is suitable for adjustment of the ignition timing, the ignition timing control device outputs to an igniter an adjusted ignition signal as adjusted (corrected) by an adjusted ignition timing determination process. The ignition timing control device outputs to the igniter a reference ignition signal as it is outputted from an internal combustion engine control unit without adjustment (correction) in a condition that the operation state of the internal combustion engine is not suitable for adjustment of the ignition timing.

Abstract: An inkjet head comprises a pressure chamber; a nozzle plate including a first surface at the side of the pressure chamber, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first nozzle formed into a frustum which penetrates the first surface and the second surface and the diameter of which decreases as it goes closer to the second surface, and a second nozzle formed into a frustum which is the same as the frustum of the first nozzle; and a driving element configured adjacent to the pressure chamber to eject droplets from the first nozzle and the second nozzle simultaneously; wherein the part of the first nozzle on the first surface is integrally connected to the part of the second nozzle on the first surface, and the part of the first nozzle on the second surface is separated from the part of the second nozzle on the second surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ignition timing control device and ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, capable of controlling an ignition timing of the engine promptly in response to a change in engine operating conditions. An ignition timing adjustment unit (43) is adapted to correct the ignition timing to a proper ignition timing in a retard region with reference to a maximum advance value based on a knocking signal outputted from a knocking detection unit (41) and a reference ignition signal (A) outputted from an external electronic control unit (37). The output signal from the ignition timing adjustment unit (43) can be thus promptly adjusted by retarding the ignition timing relative to a reference ignition timing given from the external electronic control unit (37) upon detection of engine knocking.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an ink-jet head is provided which comprises a substrate; a piezoelectric body configured to have a plurality of parallel partition walls at the same pitch interval in the nozzle arrangement direction on the substrate and be plurally arranged in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle arrangement direction; a frame body configured to be arranged on the substrate at the outside of the piezoelectric body; and a nozzle plate configured to have a plurality of discharge openings which is formed by shifting by a half pitch in the nozzle arrangement direction in each row of pressure chambers formed with plural rows by the frame body and a plurality of the partition walls and is respectively formed in the orthogonal direction at a pitch identical to the pitch in each the pressure chamber.