Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes a processor having hardware. The processor is configured to acquire vehicle speed data before an ABS of a vehicle is activated and vehicle speed data when the ABS of the vehicle is stopped, calculate a coefficient of sliding friction based on the vehicle speed data before the ABS is activated and the vehicle speed data when the ABS is stopped, determine whether the coefficient of sliding friction is equal to or smaller than a threshold, and detect that a slip due to road freezing has occurred when the coefficient of sliding friction is equal to or smaller than the threshold.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes a processor having hardware. The processor is configured to acquire vehicle speed data before an ABS of a vehicle is activated and vehicle speed data when the ABS of the vehicle is stopped, calculate a coefficient of sliding friction based on the vehicle speed data before the ABS is activated and the vehicle speed data when the ABS is stopped, determine whether the coefficient of sliding friction is equal to or smaller than a threshold, and detect that a slip due to road freezing has occurred when the coefficient of sliding friction is equal to or smaller than the threshold.

Abstract: A submergence data detection device includes a vehicle data acquisition unit configured to acquire vehicle data including at least acceleration data and estimation data for acquiring a drive power value and a traveling resistance value, and a submergence data detection unit configured to detect submergence data based on the vehicle data by a detection method including comparison of a threshold value set according to a calculated value of an acceleration of the vehicle calculated from the drive power value and the traveling resistance value with an actual value of the acceleration, and adjust the detection method according to whether or not a traveling state indicated by the vehicle data corresponds to a first state, in which reliability of the calculated value of the acceleration is degraded, such that detection accuracy of the submergence data in the first state is improved.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a product information distribution system that can distribute product information most suitable to the preference of individual customer.

Abstract: An appropriate call cycle is set without relying on the intuition or experience of a salesperson. Proposed call cycles that have been set in advance are stored in a storage means 12. An input means 11 inputs the amount of products consumed when calling on a customer and stores this in the storage means 12. An increase/decrease calculation means 13 acquires a past consumed amount and the current consumed amount from the consumed amount stored in the storage means 12 and calculates the rate of increase or decrease in the current consumed amount compared to the past consumed amount. This is then stored in the storage means 12. The call cycle setting means 14 acquires the rate of increase or decrease from the storage means 12 and sets a call cycle corresponding to the rate of increase or decrease selected from the proposed call cycles stored in the storage means 12. The output means 15 outputs the set call cycle.

Abstract: There is provided a customer information management system for use in call sales that enables a salesperson to complete the registration of contents of a contract at a customer's place and enables a call sales company office to ascertain immediately the contents of the contract. Contents of part of categories of the product detail information or customer information to be input using the HT 6 are registered in the DB 2a as a temporary information master register 10 in advance. The temporary information master register 10 is acquired by the communication means 16 of the HT 6 via the PC 3 by a connection to the SC 2, and the customer information and product detail information are input into the HT 6 by the input means 13 using the acquired temporary information master 10.

Abstract: The problem of whether or not a product was consigned is prevented by a salesperson by reliably confirming at the time of visiting a customer the quantity of product consigned and then performing account settlement processing. The type and quantity thereof are input for all consigned products using an input means 11. After the quantity of consigned products has been confirmed by the salesperson, the total number of product types and total number of product items of the consigned products are input using the input means 11, and the total number of product types and total number of product items calculated by a calculation means 13 based on the input type and quantity of products are compared by a comparison means 14 with the input total number of product types and total number of product items. The result of the comparison is output using an output means 16.

Abstract: In the field of call sales, a stock management device and stock management method are provided for preventing stock from running out and preventing defective stock from being generated. The amount of a product to be consigned to each customer, the amount consumed by the customer, and the call cycle for the customer are each input using an input means 11 and are then stored in storage means 12. A consumption rate calculation means 13 acquires both the amount of the product to be consigned and the amount of the product consumed from the storage means 12 and calculates the rate of consumption of the product by all customers. This is then stored in the storage means 12. A total consumption amount calculation means 14 acquires both the amount of the product consumed and the call cycle from the storage means 12 and calculates the total amount of consumption over a predetermined period. This is further stored in the storage means 12.

Abstract: There are provided a product consignment management device and a product consignment management method in the field of call sales for managing product consignment so that a product is efficiently consumed before its expiry date. An amount of a product consumed by each customer and a call cycle are input using an input means 11 and stored in storage means 12. Standard deviation calculation means 13 acquires both the amount consumed and the call cycle from the storage means 12 and calculates the standard deviation S of the amount of product consumed by all customers over a predetermined period. This is then stored in the storage means 12. A rank setting means 14 acquires the standard deviation S from the storage means 12 and sets an expiry date rank for a product to be consigned to a customer based on this standard deviation S. The set expiry date rank is then output using an output means 15.

Abstract: There are provided a consignment quantity setting device and a consignment quantity setting method for products used in call sales that enable an appropriate consignment quantity to be set without relying on the intuition and experience of the salesperson. A periodic factor index that shows a trend of an increasing or decreasing quantity of consumption of a product in each period is stored in advance in a storage means 12 and the quantity of the product consumed by each customer is input using an input means 11 and stored in the storage means 12. Average consumed quantity calculation means 13 acquires the quantity of the product consumed from the storage means 12, calculates the average quantity of the product consumed by all customers and stores it in the storage means 12.

Abstract: A slide locking device for a car seat, provided with a pair of lock plates fixed to a car body and having a plurality of locking retained portions, a pair of lock levers each having an engaging portion engageable with one of the retaining portions, and a pair of lock shafts for swingably supporting the lock levers, so that between the lock levers is stretched one tension coil spring for biasing the engaging portion of each lock lever in the direction of engaging with the retained portion at each lock plate.

Abstract: An apparatus for concentrating a dilute solution comprising a heat receiving thin plate which has a good thermal conductivity and is provided on its rear surface not facing a heat source with a liquid absorbing layer for absorbing a solution supplied thereto for concentration, and at least one condensation thin plate which has a good thermal conductivity and is provided with a liquid absorbing layer on at least one surface thereof, the heat receiving plate and the condensation plate or plates being arranged in parallel spaced relationship with each other and each of them being partly formed with at least one groove for supplying the solution to be concentrated to the liquid absorbing layers. A dilute solution supplied to and impregnated in the liquid absorbing layers through the grooves is concentrated by the heat supplied to the heat receiving plate or the latent heat of condensation released to the condensation plate.

Abstract: An apparatus for distilling water in which a heat receiving plate member and a plurality of cooling plate members have a means for holding water to be treated on each reverse side thereof and are arranged in parallel spaced relationship with each other, and the water vapor produced by heating the heat receiving surface of the heat receiving plate member is condensed on the condensing surface of the adjacent cooling plate member, while giving the latent heat of the condensation to the cooling plate member and heating a water held on its back to produce the water vapor which is condensed on the condensing surface of the next cooling plate member, such evaporation by the latent heat and condensation being conducted according the number of rooms partitioned by adjacent two cooling plate members. There are apparatuses of two types, i.e.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for distilling water in which a heat receiving plate member and a plurality of cooling plate members have a means for holding water to be treated on each reverse side thereof and are arranged in parallel spaced relationship with each other, and the water vapor produced by heating the heat receiving surface of the heat receiving plate member is condensed on the condensing surface of the adjacent cooling plate member, while giving the latent heat of the condensation to the cooling plate member and heating a water held on its back to produce the water vapor which is condensed on the condensing surface of the next cooling plate member, such evaporation by the latent heat and condensation being conducted according the number of rooms partitioned by adjacent two cooling plate members. There are apparatuses of two types, i.e.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for distilling water in which a heat receiving plate member and a plurality of cooling plate members have a means for holding water to be treated on each reverse side thereof and are arranged in parallel spaced relationship with each other, and the water vapor produced by heating the heat receiving surface of the heat receiving plate member is condensed on the condensing surface of the adjacent cooling plate member, while giving the latent heat of the condensation to the cooling plate member and heating a water held on its back to produce the water vapor which is condensed on the condensing surface of the next cooling plate member, such evaporation by the latent heat and condensation being conducted according the number of rooms partitioned by adjacent two cooling plate members. There are apparatuses of two types, i.e.