Abstract: There is provided a vehicle optical view-shielding structure including: an optical view-shielding device that is capable of optically shielding a window when a vehicle is stationary, such that a vehicle interior is rendered difficult to see from outside the vehicle; an external detection device that detects an approaching object approaching the vehicle; and a notification device that issues a notification inside the vehicle notifying that the approaching object has been detected by the external detection device.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a steering wheel that can move between a driving position in which an occupant operates the steering wheel and a table position in which a wheel axis is oriented in a vehicle vertical direction. The steering wheel in the table position functions as a table or a part of a table for use by the occupant, who is sitting in a driver's seat.

Abstract: A cooling structure for a rotary electric machine includes a first supply pipe that is disposed vertically above a rotary electric machine and that has a discharge hole through which a refrigerant is discharged toward the rotary electric machine; a second supply pipe that is disposed in parallel with the first supply pipe vertically above the rotary electric machine and that has a discharge hole through which the refrigerant is discharged toward the rotary electric machine; and a pump configured to deliver the refrigerant to the first supply pipe and the second supply pipe such that a direction of the refrigerant flowing through the first supply pipe and a direction of the refrigerant flowing through the second supply pipe are opposite to each other.

Abstract: A nozzle part dropping a slurry and a rotary disk centrifugally spraying the slurry to be dropped from the nozzle part are included. The rotary disk includes a plurality of grooves stretching in a radiation direction at least in a periphery part of a surface on which the slurry is sprayed.

Abstract: This image processing apparatus accepts a request to execute predetermined image processing, acquires an image processing name indicating a name of the predetermined image processing from the accepted request, selects a plugin application corresponding to the acquired image processing name from one or more installed plugin applications, and instructs the selected plugin application to perform the predetermined image processing.

Abstract: Disclosed are a laminate having two or more layers formed from at least one primary sheet, the at least one primary sheet containing a resin and a particulate carbon material with a content of the particulate carbon material being 50% by mass or less, and the at least one primary sheet having a tensile strength of 1.5 MPa or less, a method of producing the same, a secondary sheet that contains a resin and a particulate carbon material with a content of the particulate carbon material being 50% by mass or less, where the particulate carbon material is aligned in the thickness direction, and that has a curl index of 0.33 or less, and a method of producing the secondary sheet.

Abstract: An induction apparatus including a hardening control unit for controlling an induction hardening apparatus based on setup conditions data; a hardening monitoring unit that measures, as measurement data, the electric quantity in an electric circuit and that monitors an induction hardening status; and a data collecting unit that collects the data from various sensors in the induction hardening apparatus obtained when the induction hardening apparatus subjects the work to an induction hardening based on the setup conditions data outputted from the hardening control unit and that collects the measurement data from the hardening monitoring unit to store the collected data from the various sensors and the measurement data so that the collected data are associated to each other.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of displaying icons that are arranged properly without causing user's time and effort. A display unit displays icons for selecting a function from among mounted functions. A memory device stores a set of instructions. At least one processor executes the instructions to display various icons including a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of functions that are extended by installing at least one application in a display area of the display unit, and to collect the plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of functions extended into a predetermined icon in a case where the number of icons displayed in the display area exceeds a display upper limit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores setting information of the information processing apparatus. The processing unit starts processing for causing, in a case where the number of servers each of which manages setting information stored in other apparatus, among apparatuses including the information processing apparatus and an apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network is one, a server corresponding to the one to manage the setting information stored in the storage unit. The processing unit is also configured not to start the processing when the number of servers is two or more.

Abstract: A network device communicates with a management server that manages a shared setting value and an individual setting value as a master data. The network device includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a first instruction associated with an input from a user for the shared setting value; a second receiving unit configured to receive a second instruction indicating an initialization processing; a first requesting unit configured to make a request to the management server in accordance with the first instruction; a second requesting unit configured to request for the management server in accordance with the second instruction; an executing unit configured to execute the initialization processing in accordance with the second instruction; a query unit configured to perform a query for the management server; and a modifying and reflecting unit configured to modify and reflect the shared setting value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is capable of displaying icons that are arranged properly without causing user's time and effort. A display unit displays icons for selecting a function from among mounted functions. A memory device stores a set of instructions. At least one processor executes the instructions to display various icons including a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of functions that are extended by installing at least one application in a display area of the display unit, and to collect the plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of functions extended into a predetermined icon in a case where the number of icons displayed in the display area exceeds a display upper limit.

Abstract: When injection-hole inlets and injection-hole outlets are projected vertically onto an X-Y plane (N) perpendicular to a valve-seat axial center, an injection-hole arrangement angle (?), which is formed by a straight line (a) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of a reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center and a straight line (b) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of the injection hole neighboring the reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center on the plane (N), is set so as to become smaller as being closer to a Y-axis. A fuel turn angle (?) on a wide-angle side, which is formed by the straight line (a) and a straight line (c) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet and a center of the injection-hole outlet on the plane (N), has a relationship: 90°<?<180°.

Abstract: A nozzle part dropping a slurry and a rotary disk centrifugally spraying the slurry to be dropped from the nozzle part are included. The rotary disk includes a plurality of grooves stretching in a radiation direction at least in a periphery part of a surface on which the slurry is sprayed.

Abstract: A process for preparing 4-hydroxybutyl acrylate by transesterifying an alkyl acrylate with 1,4-butanediol in the presence of a dialkyltin oxide such that each of the alkyl groups has 4 to 8 carbon atoms, characterized in that the amount of the dialkyltin oxide is adjusted to 0.00001 to 0.01 moles per one mole of the alkyl acrylate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a cell and a peripheral area, and an insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a first region located on the cell area and having outer edge along the cell area, a second region located on the peripheral area and having inner edge along the cell area, a third region located on an area between the cell and the peripheral area and a fourth region located between the second and the third region and forming a boundary with the third region. A conductive member is embedded in the first and the third region and no conductive member is embedded in the fourth region. The boundary has a curved portion.

Abstract: A network device communicates with a management server that manages a shared setting value and an individual setting value as a master data. The network device includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a first instruction associated with an input from a user for the shared setting value; a second receiving unit configured to receive a second instruction indicating an initialization processing; a first requesting unit configured to make a request to the management server in accordance with the first instruction; a second requesting unit configured to request for the management server in accordance with the second instruction; an executing unit configured to execute the initialization processing in accordance with the second instruction; a query unit configured to perform a query for the management server; and a modifying and reflecting unit configured to modify and reflect the shared setting value.

Abstract: A network device communicates with a management server that manages a shared setting value and an individual setting value as a master data. The network device includes a first receiving unit configured to receive a first instruction associated with an input from a user for the shared setting value; a second receiving unit configured to receive a second instruction indicating an initialization processing; a first requesting unit configured to make a request to the management server in accordance with the first instruction; a second requesting unit configured to request for the management server in accordance with the second instruction; an executing unit configured to execute the initialization processing in accordance with the second instruction; a query unit configured to perform a query for the management server; and a modifying and reflecting unit configured to modify and reflect the shared setting value.

Abstract: One or more throttle bodies and a surge tank are disposed behind a cylinder head, and an intercooler is disposed by being adjacent to the surge tank at a position behind the cylinder head and the one or more throttle bodies. A supercharger is provided in front of the intercooler.

Abstract: A spray gun including: a nozzle provided with a fixed-side restricting section; a needle valve inserted inside the nozzle and provided with a valve portion such that an aperture is formed radially therebetween; an elastic seal member that comes in contact and is elastically deformed in an axial direction between the nozzle and the needle valve; and a straight joint formed by a female joint provided on a nozzle hole of the nozzle and a male joint provided on the valve portion. The straight joint is arranged such that the male joint fits inside the female joint before the elastic seal member comes in contact between the nozzle and the needle valve as well as after the aperture becomes the smallest, and the jointed state is retained until the elastic seal member comes in contact and is elastically deformed therebetween.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylate production system having a reactor (A1) provided with a distillation column (2) and a distillation apparatus (B3) provided with a distillation column (4). A condensing apparatus (6) is provided at the top of the distillation column (2).