Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses for determining lifetimes of components, to be replaced by preventive maintenance, of respective electric devices. The information processing system includes a leading variable specifying unit configured to specify, based on variables that represent use states of the electric devices and failure data of the electric devices which have been obtained from the electric devices, a plurality of leading variables relevant to the lifetimes of the components; a lifetime matrix creating unit configured to classify a plurality of values of each of the leading variables into sections to create a lifetime matrix in which the lifetimes of the components are set with respect to combinations of the sections each of which relates to a different leading variable; and a lifetime outputting unit configured to determine the lifetimes of the components with respect to the respective electric devices.

Abstract: A machine quantity controlling device which controls a quantity of a heat source device to operate in a heat source system including a first heat source device and a second heat source device, the first heat source device being a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the second heat source device other than a waste heat recovery type absorption chiller, the machine quantity controlling device including an acquisition unit that obtains a waste heat utilization maximum load which is a maximum load when the first heat source device receives only supply of the waste heat; a determination unit that determines a predetermined load range from the waste heat utilization maximum load to be a first optimal load range as an optimal load range of the first heat source device; and a machine quantity control unit that controls a quantity of the second heat source device to operate so that the sum of a total of minimum values of the optimal load range of the first heat source device to operate and a total of minimum

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 is provided in a bead portion 4 with a bead core 5 formed of a bead wire 20. The bead core 5 has a wound single bead wire structure formed from turns of the single bead wire 20, and has at least three wire layers 10. Each side face of the bead core 5 has a shape such that it is possible to draw a common tangent 30 to at least two turns of the bead wire 20 appearing in the side face 51 which common tangent is substantially parallel with the tire radial direction. The turns of the bead wire 21 in the 1st wire layer 11 are alternated with the turns of the bead wire 22 in the 2nd wire layer 12 disposed on the outside of the 1st wire layer 11. The 1st wire layer 11 includes a turn 21 having the winding-start end 16 of the bead wire, which turn 21 is positioned between adjacent two turns 22 of the bead wire in the 2nd wire layer 12.

Abstract: This centrifugal compressor is provided with an impeller mounted on a main shaft rotating around an axis line, and a vane device for adjusting the flow rate of a fluid in an inflow flow path to the impeller. The vane device includes: a plurality of vane main bodies provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, wherein a mounting angle of the plurality of vane main bodies is changed by rotating the shaft portion; a plurality of link members which is rotated along with the shaft portion; a drive ring which is formed with an annular shape centered on the axis line and is moved in a moving direction along a rotation locus of the link member, and a drive mechanism which is connected to the drive ring and transmits a force in a tangential direction to the drive ring.

Abstract: A compressor driving motor includes: a rotor; a stator surrounding an outer peripheral part of the rotor; a case accommodating the rotor and the stator; a liquid introduction portion introducing a liquid refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit including the compressor into the case; a gas introduction portion introducing a gas refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit into the case; and an injector using, as driving fluid, the gas refrigerant introduced by the gas introduction portion, and using, as suction fluid, the liquid refrigerant introduced by the liquid introduction portion. Wet steam of a mixture of the liquid refrigerant and the gas refrigerant mixed by the injector is injected toward at least a gap between the outer peripheral part of the rotor and an inner peripheral part of the stator.

Abstract: A compressor driving motor includes: a rotor; a stator surrounding an outer peripheral part of the rotor; a case accommodating the rotor and the stator; a liquid introduction path introducing a liquid refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit including a compressor; and a gas introduction path introducing a gas refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit. The case includes a downstream chamber located on one end side of the rotor and the stator in an axial direction and provided with the compressor, and an upstream chamber located on the other end side in the axial direction and communicating with the downstream chamber through a gap between the outer peripheral part of the rotor and an inner peripheral part of the stator. The introduced liquid refrigerant and the introduced gas refrigerant are mixed in the upstream chamber, and wet steam of the mixed refrigerant is supplied to at least the gap.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a memory controller, and a transfer unit. The extraction unit extracts, on the basis of image information, pieces of color information having a high frequency of occurrence as color information that is necessary to perform image processing. The memory controller causes a first memory to store a color information group including the pieces of color information extracted by the extraction unit. The transfer unit transfers the color information group from the first memory to a second memory, an access time of the second memory being shorter than an access time of the first memory.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerant circulation device and method that can suppress acid generation caused by decomposition of a refrigerant containing an HFO or HCFO. The refrigerant circulation device has a compressor, a condenser, expansion valves and an evaporator connected by a main pipe to form a refrigerant circulation circuit through which a refrigerant is circulated, the refrigerant circulation circuit being filled with a refrigerant containing a hydrofluoroolefin or a hydrochlorofluoroolefin having a carbon-carbon double bond within the molecular structure, wherein the refrigerant circulation device includes a drive that drives the compressor via a speed increaser, and a drive cooling unit that cools the drive with the refrigerant condensed in the condenser, and a desiccant that can trap moisture is disposed in the evaporator or the drive cooling unit.

Abstract: A halogen-free type polycarbonate resin composition and a resin molded object having good flame retardant properties and physical properties that make them suitable for the use as manufactured products. The resin component includes a component A which is a polycarbonate resin, a component B including organic sulfonic acid or organic sulfonic acid metal salt, whose content is 0.05% or more and 2.0% or less by weight, a component C which is a drip inhibitor, whose content is 0.05% or more and 1.0% or less by weight, and a component D which is a silicone compound, whose content is 0.1% or more and 2.0% or less by weight. Among hydrogen atoms in the silicone compound and the proportion of hydrogen atoms in phenyl groups is 51% or more.

Abstract: A recording system, includes a recording apparatus configured to perform recording using a recording head having a plurality of recording elements; and an information processing apparatus configured to send a print job to the recording apparatus to shift a range of use of the recording elements in an array direction of the recording elements. The information processing apparatus includes a head shading correction unit configured to execute, based on information indicating that the range of use of the recording elements is one of plural ranges of use, head shading correction corresponding to the one range on image data; and a sending unit configured to send the image data subjected to the head shading correction to the recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes a recording control unit configured to control the recording head to perform recording at the one range by using the image data subjected to the head shading correction.

Abstract: Provided is an oil tank of a turbo chiller compressor whose heater can be replaced or checked without removing oil from an oil tank and removing refrigerant from a turbo chiller, and a turbo chiller compressor. An oil tank (10) of a turbo chiller compressor (3A) includes a bottom plate (11) and side plates (12, 13) standing upright so as to extend upward from an outer peripheral edge portion of the bottom plate (11). The oil tank (10) forms a bottom portion of a casing (14) forming the turbo chiller compressor (3A), a through-hole (21) is formed so as to penetrate the side plate (12) in a plate thickness direction, a protective tube (22) closed at a tip end thereof is inserted into the through-hole (21), and a rod-shaped heater (26) configured to be able to be pulled out from the protective tube (22) and be inserted into the protective tube (22) is inserted into the protective tube (22).

Abstract: A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet feeding unit to feed a sheet, a sheet separating unit disposed opposite the sheet feeding unit to separate the sheet together with the sheet feeding unit, a bottom plate on which the sheet is loaded, a pressing unit having a leading end and movably disposed between the bottom plate and the sheet separating unit, and a support to rotatably support the pressing unit such that the leading end of the pressing unit contacts and separates from the sheet feeding unit.

Abstract: A liquefied gas cooling apparatus including: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The compressor is driven through an electric motor contained in a sealed housing together with a compressor mechanism.

Abstract: A liquefied gas cooling apparatus includes: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The refrigeration unit includes: an inlet-side open/close valve and an outlet-side open/close valve provided in an inlet path and an outlet path of the compressor, respectively; and a service open/close valve in a refrigerant path between the inlet-side open/close valve and the outlet-side open/close valve.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire manufacturing method is provided in which winding collapse is prevented, there is no possibility of adverse effects on the FV, a current-carrying layer can be formed easily, and down-stitching can be dispensed with or minimized in the manufacture of SOT-structure pneumatic tires having a base-pen structure in the tread.

Abstract: A halogen-free type polycarbonate resin composition and a resin molded object having good flame retardant properties and physical properties that make them suitable for the use as manufactured products are provided. A resin composition of the present disclosure includes a component A, a component B, a component C and a component D. The component A is a polycarbonate resin. The component B is talc having an average median diameter of 4.6 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less, whose content is 5% or more and 20% or less by weight. The component C is an organic sulfonic acid or an organic sulfonic acid metal salt, whose content is 0.05% or more and 2.0% or less by weight. The component D is a drip inhibitor, whose content is 0.05% or more and 1.0% or less by weight.

Abstract: In a tire 2, on a cross-section, three or more rows in each of which cross-sections 30 of a wire are aligned almost in the axial direction, are layered in the radial direction. The cross-sections 30 of the wire in a first row disposed on an innermost side in the radial direction and the cross-sections 30 of the wire in a second row layered outward of the first row are staggered. On a cross-section obtained by the tire 2 being cut at a plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction, an outline of a heel surface 36 of a bead 8 portion has an arc C that projects toward an outside of the bead 8 portion. A radius R of curvature of the arc C is greater than or equal to 8 mm and not greater than 12 mm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a holographic viewing device that enable printing or the like to be directly applied to a transmission hologram substrate without recourse to any frame for supporting and reinforcing a transmission hologram, thereby simplifying construction while enhancing aesthetic and decorative attributes, and a holographic viewing card incorporating it. The holographic viewing device enables a given image or message to be viewed near the positions of point light sources upon viewing the point light sources through a hologram, and comprises a transparent substrate 41, a hologram-formation layer 42 and a printing layer 45. The hologram-formation layer 42 may be any one of a phase type diffractive optical element having a relief structure 43 on its surface, a phase type diffractive optical element having a refractive index profile in its layer, and an amplitude type diffractive optical element having a transmittance profile in its layer.

Abstract: The air bearing includes a main body part having a bearing surface opposed to a guide face, first and second flow path parts, which are provided in the main body part, for allowing compressed air supplied from outside to flow, an air supply hole, which is provided in the flow path part, for supplying compressed air to the guide face to form an air film between the bearing surface and the guide face, and a negative pressure generating part, which is provided in the second flow path part intersecting with the first flow path part, for generating a negative pressure for sucking air between the guide face and the main body part by increasing the flow velocity of the compressed air.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit, a foreign material position information obtaining unit, and a separation processor. The image data obtaining unit obtains image data read from a document passing over a read area. The foreign material position information obtaining unit obtains foreign material position information read from the read area in which the document is not present. The separation processor separates the image data into plural objects including a background object, detects, by using the foreign material position information, a streak image portion caused by foreign material in the read area and included in the image data, and assumes a pixel of the streak image portion to belong to the background object if the pixel is present in the background object and has a pixel value equal to or smaller than a threshold determined in accordance with a representative value of the background.