Abstract: The present disclosure properly calculates a wage for coating of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure accepts specification of a first vehicle on which a third coating film is to be newly formed after a second coating film formed on a first coating film is peeled from a vehicle body. The information processing apparatus calculates a wage for operation of forming the third coating film for the first vehicle based on a period elapsed since peeling of the second coating film.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides information about a coating history of a vehicle. An information processing apparatus executes acquiring, for a vehicle with a later peelable second coating film formed being layered on at least a part of a first coating film, history data that is data about work on the second coating film, and acquiring a first image that is an external appearance image of the vehicle before the second coating film being formed, based on the history data.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises a first paint film that is formed on a first section of a vehicle body and is later peelable; and a second paint film that is formed on a second section and is not continuous with the first paint film, the second section being invisible from the outside of the vehicle body.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute first processing of providing an incentive to a first user who brings a first painting film to a predetermined base. The first painting film is a painting film including an easily peeling layer and that is peeled off from a first vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed is run by a business entity that provides the service of buying and selling used vehicles or a business entity that provides the service of leasing vehicles. When the business entity buys a first vehicle having a first coating film including an easily removable layer applied thereon from a first user or receives such a first vehicle returned by a first user, if the first coating film was removed at a specific site, a controller of the information processing apparatus executes a processing for giving an incentive to the first user, The value of the incentive to be given to the first user is calculated on the basis of the length of time elapsed since the time at which the first coating film was removed at the specific site.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute processing of providing an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which at least a part of a first painting film including an easily peeling layer is peeled off.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer does not peeled off.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a data base configured to store, for a predetermined vehicle, a history of coating operation which is operation related to coating using a coating film containing an easily removable layer; and a controller configured to: acquire operation data representing details on the coating operation that is performed on the vehicle, and update the data base based on the operation data.

Abstract: A vehicle structure includes: an exterior member for a vehicle; and a strippable coating film formed by applying an easily strippable coating material to the exterior member. The coating film includes a design portion formed to cover an outer surface of the exterior member, and a non-design portion continuous with the design portion, the non-design portion being formed to cover at least a side end portion of the exterior member. A film serving as a starting point from which the coating film is stripped off is provided between the exterior member and the non-design portion such that the film is exposed from an edge of the non-design portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel trolley coupling structure that allows coupling of base parts of trolleys aligned in the vertical or horizontal direction. The present invention provides a trolley coupling structure in which a first receiving recess part is provided in a base part of one trolley, a second receiving recess part is provided in a base part of another trolley, a locking member is pivotally attached to the first receiving recess part, a recess part body and a bent section are formed in the respective first and second receiving recess parts, and retaining of the locking member is achieved by constraining and locking a constraining piece part of the locking member at the bent section.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle state acquisition unit configured to acquire vehicle state information, which is information on a vehicle state associated with at least one of traveling, steering, and braking of a vehicle, a damaged part information acquisition unit that acquires, in a case where image data showing a surface of the vehicle includes a damaged part of the vehicle, damaged part information, which is information on the damaged part, a damage information generation unit that generates, when the damaged part information acquisition unit acquires the damaged part information, vehicle damage information including the damaged part information and the image data which are associated with the damaged part, and an assessment information generation unit that generates assessment information including the vehicle state information and the vehicle damage information.

Abstract: A liquid discharging device includes a support unit configured to support a medium, a discharging unit configured to discharge liquid to the medium, a reading unit configured to read an image formed on the medium with the liquid, a holding unit configured to hold the discharging unit and the reading unit while moving in a scanning direction, and a control unit configured to control operation of the discharging unit, the reading unit, and the holding unit. The control unit is configured to perform pattern forming operation that causes the discharging unit to discharge the liquid to form a test pattern image on the medium, reading operation that causes the reading unit to read at least a partial region of the test pattern image, and flushing operation that causes the discharging unit to perform flushing for discharging the liquid to the region in the test pattern image which was read.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feed shaft configured to feed a medium in a roll form by supporting and rotating the medium, a conveyance unit including a driving roller, a driven roller and an endless conveyance belt and configured to convey, in a conveyance direction, the medium supported by the conveyance belt by rotating the driving roller forward, a printing head configured to perform printing on the medium supported by the conveyance belt, and an ear portion winding shaft configured to wind up ear portions of the medium separated from the medium supported by the feed shaft.

Abstract: In a vehicle exterior imaging system, when a vehicle is washed with a vehicle washer, an image of an exterior of the vehicle is captured by a camera provided in an assessment device, and the captured image data is acquired by a capture image data acquisition unit. Flaws are detected by a flaw detection unit from the captured image data, and presentation image data including detected flaw information is sent by a sending unit to a user terminal. Thus, a user or a manager is able to check for flaws on a vehicle, and locations, degrees, and the like of flaws from a presentation image each time of a vehicle wash of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle assessment system includes a report information evaluation unit. The report information evaluation unit is configured to adjust a report information-based evaluated price based on report information, from an appraisal price assessed by a vehicle appraisal price determination unit according to an elapsed time from a time when a report information database has acquired the report information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit including a drive roller, a driven roller, and an endless transporting belt, and transporting a recording medium supported by the transporting belt in a transport direction by rotating the drive roller in the normal direction, a printing head configured to perform printing on the recording medium, and a control unit configured to cause the transport unit to rotate the transporting belt in a forward direction when causing the transport unit to transport the recording medium in the transport direction. The transport unit includes a brake unit configured to apply a brake on the driven roller. The control unit causes the transport unit to perform a tension adjustment process of adjusting tension of the transporting belt by rotating the drive roller in the normal direction in a state in which the driven roller is braked by the brake unit before the printing.

Abstract: A recording device includes an endless transporting belt that transports a recording medium in a normal transport direction and a reverse transport direction, a recording head, a cleaning liquid attaching unit that attaches a cleaning liquid to a front surface of the transporting belt, a first blade that comes into contact with the front surface to remove the cleaning liquid attached to the front surface, and a blade moving unit that moves the first blade in approaching and separating directions with respect to the front surface. The blade moving unit causes the first blade to come into contact with the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a reverse rotation direction, and causes the first blade to be separated from the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a normal rotation direction.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool comprises a hard coating layer that includes a TiAlN layer and is provided on a surface of a cutting tool body. In case the composition of the TiAlN layer is expressed by a formula: (TixAl1-x)N, 0.10?x?0.35 (here, x is in atomic ratio) is satisfied. In the TiAlN layer, a high Ti band-like region is present in a direction at 30 degrees or less with respect to a line normal to the surface of the cutting tool body. An average composition X of the Ti component in the high Ti band-like region satisfies (x+0.01)?X?(x+0.05), an average width W of the high Ti band-like region is 30 to 500 nm, and an average area ratio St of the high Ti band-like region is 3 to 50 area %.

Abstract: An autonomous traveling type vacuum cleaner capable of cleaning an area closely adjacent to an obstacle of a floor surface, and the control method therefor. A main body includes a front face part formed in a linear shape. A detector detects an obstacle in a traveling direction of the main body. A traveling part makes the front face part of the main body face the obstacle and makes the main body travel to the obstacle, on the basis of the result detected by the detector. A cleaning unit, which is disposed on a front portion of the main body, cleans a cleaning-object surface in the state where the traveling part has made the main body travel to the obstacle.

Abstract: The hard coating layer of the cutting tool includes a complex nitride or complex carbonitride layer expressed by the composition formula: (Ti1-xAlx)(CyN1-y). xavg and yavg satisfy 0.60?xavg?0.95 and 0?yavg?0.005. xavg is an average content ratio of Al in a total amount of Ti and Al, and yavg is an average content ratio of C in a total amount of C and N. Some crystal grains composing the complex nitride or complex carbonitride layer have a cubic structure. In crystal grains having the cubic structure, the average crystal grain misorientaion is 1 degree or more; or 2 degrees or more, based on analysis of the polished surface perpendicular to a surface of the layer. A peak exists in 1-2 degrees of the average crystal grain misorientation in the frequency distribution of the average crystal grain misorientation and the area ratio.