Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a current sensor that detects a current value of a battery; and a processing device that suppresses initiation of idling stop control in a vehicle non-stop state with a vehicle speed higher than 0, in the case where an abnormal state of the battery is detected based on an output signal of the current sensor in the vehicle non-stop state.

Abstract: It is possible to cause a user to recognize an appropriate scan direction for printed matter in which additional information is embedded. An image processing apparatus that embeds information relating to an object that is displayed in a superimposing manner on a captured image, in print data of a printed matter as additional information, the image processing apparatus including: an embedment unit configured to embed information capable of at least specifying a display direction in accordance with a direction of an original image of the printed matter and a type of the object in a case of displaying the object in a superimposing manner on the printed image in the print data as the additional information.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a communication unit communicating with an information processing device via a predetermined communication method, an printing unit performing printing based on a job received from the information processing device, at least one processor, and at least one computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including transmitting first information including information based on a first transmission power at the first transmission power, receiving predetermined information from the information processing device, and transmitting, in a case where the predetermined information is received, second information at the first transmission power.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique that simplifies operations for making appropriate print settings. Accordingly, a terminal apparatus serving as an information processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires, from a printing apparatus, information indicating the sheet type and size of the sheets set in each paper feed tray. Then, the terminal apparatus determines whether the acquired information includes a sheet type that matches a sheet type suitable for an attribute of information selected by a user as a print target. If it is determined that the information includes a sheet type that matches the suitable sheet type, the terminal apparatus generates print data including information designating a paper feed tray containing sheets of the matching sheet type, and transmits the generated print data to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes a casing, a heater core that heats an air flow by heat exchange between the air flow and a heat medium, an electric heater that heats an air flow by an electric power, and a determiner that determines whether a temperature of the heat medium is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature. When the determiner determines that the temperature of the heat medium is equal to or lower than the predetermined temperature, an air flow introduced into a casing is heated by the electric heater and flows toward the vehicle interior without passing through the heater core.

Abstract: A hydraulic valve includes a biasing member for generating a biasing force to press a valve seat and a valve member. When a second hydraulic chamber has higher hydraulic pressure than a first hydraulic chamber, a hydraulic pressure difference between the first and second hydraulic chambers acts on the valve seat to separate the valve seat from the valve member against the biasing force of the biasing member so that the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic chamber come into fluidal communication.

Abstract: An aircraft hydraulic valve includes a housing, a check valve, a valve opening component, and an auxiliary hydraulic pressure supply mechanism. The housing includes a first port communicated with a first chamber of a hydraulic actuator, a second port communicated with a switch valve bypass-communicating a second chamber of the hydraulic actuator with the first chamber, and an oil channel connecting the first and second ports. The check valve interrupts oil flow from the first port to the second port. The valve opening component is configured to open the check valve with pilot pressure supplied from the second chamber. The auxiliary hydraulic pressure supply mechanism obtains hydraulic pressure, for opening the check valve, from a closed hydraulic pressure section, which is defined in the oil channel between the check valve and the first port.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique that simplifies operations for making appropriate print settings. Accordingly, a terminal apparatus serving as an information processing apparatus according to the present invention acquires, from a printing apparatus, information indicating the sheet type and size of the sheets set in each paper feed tray. Then, the terminal apparatus determines whether the acquired information includes a sheet type that matches a sheet type suitable for an attribute of information selected by a user as a print target. If it is determined that the information includes a sheet type that matches the suitable sheet type, the terminal apparatus generates print data including information designating a paper feed tray containing sheets of the matching sheet type, and transmits the generated print data to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a communication unit communicating with an information processing device via a predetermined communication method, an printing unit performing printing based on a job received from the information processing device, at least one processor, and at least one computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including transmitting first information including information based on a first transmission power at the first transmission power, receiving predetermined information from the information processing device, and transmitting, in a case where the predetermined information is received, second information at the first transmission power.

Abstract: A jet flow generation device includes: a discharge electrode; a reference electrode that is disposed away from the discharge electrode; a power supply circuit that generates an output voltage to control a potential difference between the discharge electrode and the reference electrode; a controller that switches the output voltage of the power supply circuit between a first voltage that does not induce corona discharge between the discharge electrode and the reference electrode and a second voltage that induces corona discharge between the discharge electrode and the reference electrode; and a case housing at least the reference electrode has an injection port that injects an ion wind of ions generated by the corona discharge.

Abstract: An ionic wind delivery device includes a first discharge electrode; a reference electrode arranged separate from the first discharge electrode; a first power supply circuit configured to output a voltage to induce a corona discharge between the first discharge electrode and the reference electrode; a control electrode arranged on a delivery path of an ionic wind of ions that are generated by the corona discharge induced between the first discharge electrode and the reference electrode; a second discharge electrode arranged between the reference electrode and the control electrode; and a second power supply circuit configured to output a voltage to accelerate the ions generated by the corona discharge induced between the first discharge electrode and the reference electrode and to induce a corona discharge between the second discharge electrode and the control electrode.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a drug packaging device including a printing unit configured to perform printing by jetting ink and being capable of performing the printing on a packaging paper with high printing quality without including a support, base or the like for the packaging paper. A drug packaging device (10) includes a drug supply unit (20), a packaging unit (30), a packaging paper conveying unit (40), and a printing unit (60). The printing unit (60) includes an ink ejection unit (62) capable of ejecting ink downward.

Abstract: A hydraulic actuator is adapted to drive a spoiler of a wing having a flap. When the hydraulic actuator drives the spoiler in an overlapping region where a driving range of the flap and a driving range of the spoiler overlap, an output suppressing structure suppress a drive output of the hydraulic actuator in the overlapping region to be less than that in a non-overlapping region other than the overlapping region.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention, a ring-shaped electrode plate 18 with an opening having a diameter smaller than a diameter of a semiconductor wafer W is disposed between a first electrode plate 14 and a second electrode plate 16, the semiconductor wafer W is arranged between the ring-shaped electrode plate 18 and the second electrode plate 16, and a glass film is formed on a glass film forming scheduled surface in a state where a potential lower than a potential V2 of the second electrode plate 16 is applied to the ring-shaped electrode plate 18.

Abstract: A simplified sole structure for a baseball spiked shoe can improve cushioning properties of a heel region of the sole structure and can enhance comfort when wearing the shoe. The baseball spiked shoe includes a first midsole of a soft elastic member that is disposed at a heel central portion of the shoe, a second midsole of a soft elastic member that is disposed around and outwardly e.g. horizontally away from the first midsole via a circumferential groove therebetween and that is integrated with or unitary as one unit with the first midsole, and an outsole plate of a hard elastic member that is disposed on lower surfaces of the first and second midsoles, that has a plurality of spikes fitted thereon, and that has a hardness greater than a respective hardness of each of the first and second midsoles.

Abstract: Provided is a router guide that comprises: a guide part that has a first through-hole and a guide surface that guides a cutting tool attachment part of a router device along the first through-hole; a maintaining part that maintains the position of the guide surface; and a positioning part that positions the guide part. The guide surface is formed such that, in a state where the maintaining part is in contact with a surface of a composite material, the distance from the surface becomes smaller as the guide surface approaches a second through-hole. The guide part is formed so as to be elastically deformable. In a case where the guide part is caused to elastically deform along the surface shape of the composite material, the maintaining part maintains the position of the guide surface with respect to the surface at a position that corresponds to the surface shape.

Abstract: Embodiments set forth in this disclosure providing techniques for determining formation parameters, such as horizontal resistivity (Rh), vertical resistivity (Rv), and dip, in high angle and horizontal wells using non-directional resistivity measurements. For example, a method is provided that may include using an electromagnetic logging tool to acquire non-directional resistivity measurements in a wellbore of a high angle or horizontal well. The method may also include defining a processing window that corresponds to a measurement point of the electromagnetic logging tool along a well trajectory that intersects a at least one bed boundary between two layers of a subsurface formation. The method may also include defining a formation structure and defining an initial set of formation parameters for each layer in the formation structure. Furthermore, the method may include inverting the formation parameters for each layer.

Abstract: A cooling device is applied to an in-vehicle equipment having a cooling unit which cools air, and cools an in-vehicle heat-emitting apparatus with the air cooled by the cooling unit. The cooling device includes: an adsorption unit including an adsorption material which adsorbs moisture; an adsorption case that defines a housing space in which the adsorption unit is disposed, the air cooled by the cooling unit passing through the adsorption case, the adsorption material adsorbing moisture from the air; and a cooling air outlet part that guides a dehumidification air, from which the moisture is adsorbed within the adsorption case, to a target space to be cooled where the heat-emitting apparatus is arranged.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes, in the following order: a first step of preparing a semiconductor element which includes a pn junction exposure portion; a second step of forming an insulation layer such that the insulation layer covers the pn junction exposure portion; and a third step of forming a glass layer on the insulation layer where a layer made of glass composition for protecting a semiconductor junction is formed on the insulation layer and, thereafter, the layer made of glass composition for protecting a semiconductor junction is baked.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a storage control unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires management information for managing a period during which a content update is displayed. The storage control unit controls a memory to store the acquired management information. The display control unit controls a display unit to display an object for selecting a content. When displaying the object, the display unit performs a display indicating an update of the content within a period managed by the management information, and does not perform the display indicating an update of the content out of the period managed by the management information, based on the stored management information. When displaying the content, the display control unit controls the display unit to display information indicating an update of the content within the period managed by the management information, even when the object is selected.