Abstract: A tank that is used in a temperature control system and that accommodates coolant used for temperature control includes a container body having an opening and configured to accommodate the coolant; a lid portion covering the opening, the lid portion including a pump housing portion recessed toward an inner side of the container body and including a through hole extending through an inside of the container body, and at least one inflow port into which the coolant flows from a coolant circuit of the temperature control system; and a pump housed in the pump housing portion and configured to draw the coolant accommodated in the container body through the through hole.

Abstract: A lid opening/closing device includes an actuator configured to generate first power for opening a lid, an external force operation mechanism configured to convert an external force into second power for opening the lid, and a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit the first and second power to the lid. The power transmission mechanism includes a first shaft configured to rotate by the first and second power, and a second shaft configured to open/close the lid by the rotation of the first shaft. The external force operation mechanism includes a rotation member. The power transmission mechanism includes an engagement switching portion. The rotation member is integrally incorporated into the power transmission mechanism, and is placed on a side, which is the same as a side on which the first shaft is placed, with respect to the actuator.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle tank provided in a temperature control system configured to control a temperature of a temperature control target installed in a vehicle by using a temperature control liquid. The vehicle tank includes a container having a bottomed cylindrical shape including an open end opening upward and storing the temperature control liquid, a lid portion fixed to the open end and covering an opening of the open end, the lid portion including a refill port for refilling the container with the temperature control liquid from the outside, a heat storage layer made of a heat storage material and surrounding the container, and a heat insulation layer made of a heat insulation material and surrounding the container outside of the heat storage layer. A pump for sending the temperature control liquid in the container to a flow path and a temperature control unit configured to control the temperature of the temperature control liquid flowing through the flow path are fixed to the lid portion.

Abstract: The recording device includes an elongated member 79 and a housing section 60. The housing section 60 houses the elongated member 79, and has a fixed end 61, a moving end, and an elongated variable section. A curved portion, which is a portion where the variable section is folded back on the way, moves following the movement of the carriage. In the height direction HD of the housing section 60, film member 76 having flexibility is disposed between the elongated member 79 and the housing section 60. A coefficient of friction between the film member 76 and the elongated member 79 is smaller than a coefficient of friction between the housing section 60 and the elongated member 79.

Abstract: In a lid assembly structure 1 which includes a base member 2, a lid 3, and an opening/closing mechanism 5 and in which the opening/closing mechanism 5 includes a biasing member 8, during assembling of the base member 2 and the opening/closing mechanism 5, the biasing member 8 is guided by a guide portion 90 which is a part of the opening/closing mechanism 5, and a state of the biasing member 8 is changed from a temporary assembled state where a second engagement end 82 of the biasing member 8 and a temporary engagement portion 93 engage with each other to a main assembled state where the second engagement end 82 and a main engagement portion 91 of a mating member engage with each other, thereby accumulating at least a part of a biasing force in the biasing member 8.

Abstract: A lid opening/closing structure includes: a lid openable/closable with respect to a base member between a fully-closed position and a fully-opened position; a first power-applying mechanism to apply, to the lid, first power for opening/closing the lid with respect to the base member; and a second power-applying mechanism to apply, to the lid, second power different from the first power and being for opening/closing the lid with respect to the base member by an external force operation. The second power-applying mechanism has an engagement portion and a to-be-engaged portion. The engagement portion and the to-be-engaged portion are not engaged with each other when the lid is opened/closed between the fully-closed position and the fully-opened position by the first power, and are engaged with each other such that the lid is opened/closed by the second power being applied to the lid when the external force operation is performed.

Abstract: This vehicle lid device includes: a box provided on a vehicle-body deep side and having an opening for exposing a storage space to a vehicle-body outside; a lid to open/close between opening-closed/opened positions; and an open/close mechanism to open/close the lid between the closed/opened positions. The open/close mechanism includes a rotary gear rotatable about a rotation axis extending along a vehicle-body back surface on the vehicle-body deep side, a slide member provided on the vehicle-body deep side, meshed with the rotary gear, and slidable along the vehicle-body back surface through rotation of the rotary gear, a first guide mechanism to move the lid in a vehicle-body front-back direction relative to the box by the slide member sliding in a first region section, and a second guide mechanism to move the lid along the vehicle-body back surface relative to the box by the slide member sliding in a second region section.

Abstract: This vehicle lid device includes: a box attached to a vehicle-body side surface portion, and including a storage space storing a vehicle-energy supply port, a communication hole for the storage space and a vehicle-body deep side to communicate with each other, and an opening for exposing the supply port to a vehicle-body outside; a lid to open/close between opening-closed/opened positions; and an open/close mechanism interposed between the box and the lid, for opening/closing the lid relative to the box about an axis line on an upper-periphery side of the opening. The open/close mechanism includes a plate-shaped hinge arm extending in a direction including an axial direction of the axis line, and covering a box-lid gap formed above the opening in a lid-opened state. Both axial-direction ends of the hinge arm are respectively located on axial-direction outer sides relative to axial-direction periphery ends of the supply port or the communication hole.

Abstract: A vehicle tank includes a first housing portion configured to house a first liquid for cleaning a cleaning object, and a second housing portion configured to receive a second liquid heated outside by heat exchange with a heating unit of a vehicle and house the second liquid which is received. A first wall defining the first housing portion and a second wall defining the second housing portion have a common wall shared by the first housing portion and the second housing portion.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first substrate provided with a first connector, a second substrate provided with a second connector, and an optical cable that couples the first connector with the second connector and transmits an optical signal. The optical cable is arranged movable in a curved shape in a storage space between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A vehicle lid opening/closing device includes: a base portion mounted on a vehicle body; an opening exposing a supply port for supplying energy to a vehicle; a lid closing the opening; and a link mechanism opening/closing the lid between predetermined closed and opened positions. The link mechanism includes first and second arms each rotatably supported at one end portion thereof by the base portion and at another end portion thereof by the lid. The second arm rotates in synchronization with rotation of the first arm and is positionable in a rotation trajectory of the first arm when seen in a thrust direction. The first and second arms respectively have overlap portions overlapping each other in the thrust direction at the lid opened position, and stopper portions coming into contact with each other in a rotation direction at the lid opened position to restrict further opening of the lid.

Abstract: This driving device for energy replenishment port visor member includes: a visor member which advances/retracts between an advanced position for covering, from above, a replenishment port exposed at a vehicle-body-side opening and used for replenishing a vehicle with energy, and a retracted position where the visor member is retracted from above the replenishment port; a visor driving unit which advances/retracts the visor member between the advanced position and the retracted position; a gun connection detection unit which detects whether or not an energy replenishment gun is connected to the replenishment port; and a control unit which causes the visor driving unit to execute advancing-driving for advancing the visor member from the retracted position to the advanced position, when the gun connection detection unit has detected that the energy replenishment gun is connected to the replenishment port in a state in which the visor member is at the retracted position.

Abstract: This vehicle door handle device includes: a door handle provided to a vehicle door and shiftable between a stored state of being stored in the vehicle door and an exposed state of being exposed from a surface opening of the vehicle door, the door handle being configured to allow an opening operation of releasing a latch of the vehicle door in the exposed state; a door handle actuator configured to shift the door handle between the stored state and the exposed state; an abnormality detection unit configured to detect abnormality of a vehicle; and a control unit configured to control the door handle actuator so that the door handle shifts from the stored state to the exposed state when the abnormality is detected.

Abstract: The printing apparatus includes a carriage having a print head mounted thereon, a carriage guide configured to guide movement of the carriage and to support the carriage, an optical scale member having an optical scale, an optical sensor mounting member having an optical sensor mounted thereon to read the optical scale, the optical sensor mounting member being fixed to a support surface of a support wall of the carriage, and a head portion of the fixing screw configured to be switched between a fixed state in which the optical sensor mounting member is fixed to the carriage and a release state in which the fixed state is released. The head of the fixing screw is located on a side opposite to the support surface with respect to the support wall when the optical sensor mounting member is in the fixed state.

Abstract: An object detection device that detects a specific object included in an input image includes a first candidate region specifying unit that specifies a first candidate region in which an object candidate is included from a first input image obtained by imaging a subject in a first posture, a second candidate region specifying unit that specifies a second candidate region in which an object candidate is included from a second input image obtained by imaging the subject in a second posture different from the first posture, a deformation displacement field generation unit that generates a deformation displacement field between the first input image and the second input image, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms a coordinate of the second candidate region to a coordinate of the first posture based on the deformation displacement field, an association unit that associates the first candidate region with the transformed second candidate region that is close to the first candidate region, and a same obj

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an endless transporting belt stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium, by a support face that is a surface on an opposite side from a contact surface with the roller, to transport the medium in a transport direction, and a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject liquid onto the medium supported by the support face, wherein the transporting belt is formed without a coupling portion at which end portions of the transporting belt are coupled to each other along a width direction that intersects with a circumferential direction of the transporting belt.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting device that includes an endless transporting belt that is stretched over a plurality of rollers and transports a medium in a transport direction by rotating while supporting the medium at a support surface that is a surface on an opposite side from a contact surface with the rollers, and a liquid ejecting unit that ejects a liquid onto the medium supported by the support surface. At the contact surface, recesses and protrusions are regularly formed in the circumferential direction of the transporting belt.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium by a support face being a face on an opposite side from a contact face with the roller, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium supported by the support face, and a drying section configured to dry, from a side of the contact face, the liquid adhering to the contact face.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium, and a flat plate portion for supporting the transporting belt from a side of a contact face with the roller. the flat plate portion includes an edge extending from one end of the transporting belt to the other end of the transporting belt along an extending direction intersecting the transport direction, the edge being formed by a transporting belt support face for supporting the transporting belt and a face facing upstream in a rotation direction of the transporting belt when transporting the medium in the transport direction. the edge is disposed to abut against the transporting belt along the extending direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid toward a medium, a head control board configured to control the discharge head, a circuit case having a box-like shape configured to house the head control board, and a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction while supporting the discharge head and the circuit case. The circuit case includes an air intake port in one surface of the circuit case, with the one surface intersecting with the scanning direction, and an exhaust port in another surface of the circuit case, with the other surface intersecting with the scanning direction. At the exhaust port, an exhaust fan configured to exhaust, to outside of the circuit case, heat that is inside the circuit case is installed, the heat being generated by the head control board.