Abstract: An information providing system 1 includes: an item list generator 55 that generates a match-pair list including items associated with a subject user based on information registered in a user profile database 51 and information registered in an item profile database 52; a session information processing system 6 that acquires session information in a session with the subject user via a user interface 2 and calculates a target social position of the subject user in a social space formed by reflection of sense of values of a plurality of registered users registered in the user profile database 51, based on the session information; and an item proposer 7 that proposes items to the subject user based on the match-pair list and the target social position.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock device includes a door handle base provided at a vehicle door and provided with a cylinder lock, and a door latch mechanism provided at the vehicle door. The cylinder lock includes a key cylinder, a paddle portion operably and detachably coupled to the door latch mechanism and configured to transmit rotation of the key cylinder to the door latch mechanism, and a support portion configured to rotatably support the paddle portion. The door latch mechanism includes a key rotor into which the paddle portion is detachably inserted. The paddle portion is supported on the support portion to rotate between a direction of a center axis of the support portion and a direction inclined with respect to the center axis.

Abstract: Using the generally used coating method of an active material paste to a metal foil on a 3DF made the electrode properties instable due to residual air inside of the 3DF, and had the risk of causing micro short circuit of the battery due to metal fine powder and the like adhered to the 3DF and the 3DF exposed to the electrode surface. To solve the above-mentioned, the coating of the active material paste to the 3DF was made into a two-step coating process as shown below. Step one removes the air and fills the paste at the same time by applying the paste flow from one side of the 3DF (the first step coating process). Step two coats a new paste onto the surface of the electrode obtained by step one (the second step coating process).

Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: calculate, when an assignment destination of a single task assigned to a person is changed to one of a plurality of arms of a robot in a state where tasks are assigned to the person and each arm of the robot, a working time of the person and a working time of the robot after the change of the assignment destination; compare the calculated working time of the person with the calculated working time of the robot; and generate a warning when the working time of the robot is longer than the working time of the person as a result of comparison.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock device includes a door handle base provided at a vehicle door and provided with a cylinder lock, and a door latch mechanism provided at the vehicle door. The cylinder lock includes a key cylinder, a paddle portion operably and detachably coupled to the door latch mechanism and configured to transmit rotation of the key cylinder to the door latch mechanism, and a support portion configured to rotatably support the paddle portion. The door latch mechanism includes a key rotor into which the paddle portion is detachably inserted. The paddle portion is supported on the support portion to displace in a far-near direction relative to the key rotor.

Abstract: A cathode foil for a solid electrolytic capacitor is designed to increase capacitance, reduce ESR and leakage current, enhance heat resistance, and reduce production costs, while enhancing a power density, realizing rapid charging-discharging, and improving a life property, in an electric energy storage element such as a secondary battery, an electric double layer capacitor and a hybrid capacitor. A cathode foil or a current collector may include a metal foil, a metal layer, a mixed layer containing carbon and a substance composing the metal layer in a mixed state, and a carbon layer consisting substantially of carbon, each formed on the metal foil. The mixed layer is configured to have a composition changing from a state containing substantially only the substance composing the metal layer to a state containing substantially only carbon, in a direction from the metal layer to the carbon layer.

Abstract: Using the generally used coating method of an active material paste to a metal foil on a 3DF made the electrode properties instable due to residual air inside of the 3DF, and had the risk of causing micro short circuit of the battery due to metal fine powder and the like adhered to the 3DF and the 3DF exposed to the electrode surface. To solve the above-mentioned, the coating of the active material paste to the 3DF was made into a two-step coating process as shown below. Step one removes the air and fills the paste at the same time by applying the paste flow from one side of the 3DF (the first step coating process). Step two coats a new paste onto the surface of the electrode obtained by step one (the second step coating process).

Abstract: A cathode foil for a solid electrolytic capacitor is designed to increase capacitance, reduce ESR and leakage current, enhance heat resistance, and reduce production costs, while enhancing a power density, realizing rapid charging-discharging, and improving a life property, in an electric energy storage element such as a secondary battery, an electric double layer capacitor and a hybrid capacitor. A cathode foil or a current collector may include a metal foil, a metal layer, a mixed layer containing carbon and a substance composing the metal layer in a mixed state, and a carbon layer consisting substantially of carbon, each formed on the metal foil. The mixed layer is configured to have a composition changing from a state containing substantially only the substance composing the metal layer to a state containing substantially only carbon, in a direction from the metal layer to the carbon layer.

Abstract: The blower includes a fan blade 5 extending in a centrifugal direction from an outer peripheral surface of a hub part having a cylindrically-shaped outer peripheral surface, a driving part for supporting and driving the fan blade 5, and a fan frame 2a which supports the driving part and has an intake port 4, and is characterized in that the fan frame 2a includes legs 9a to 9c for connecting a drive side inner peripheral end of the intake port 4 to an outer peripheral end, and a side of the outer peripheral end of the fan frame 2a is provided with slits 10 for extending the legs 9a to 9c.

Abstract: In order to prevent occurrence of congestion derived from an unexpected or temporary factor as much as possible, a computer is allowed to execute a process of acquiring actual operational information indicating an actual operational history of a mobile communication network; a process of acquiring setting data corresponding to station data set for each node of the mobile communication network; a process of extracting, on the basis of the actual operational information and the setting data, a node or a channel expected to have increase in traffic and a node or a channel having a margin in traffic; a process of creating station data optimized in consideration of change of traffic to be set for each extracted node; and a process of transferring the created station data to the corresponding node for update.

Abstract: A shock absorbing steering device for vehicle includes an intermediate shaft that couples a steering shaft and a steering gear. The intermediate shaft includes a hollow accordion portion allowed to undergo plastic deformation. The accordion portion has plural pairs of crest portions and trough portions disposed alternately in an axial direction. At least in a part of the accordion portion in the axial direction, a depth from apexes of the crest portions to bottoms of the trough portions includes a first depth corresponding to a part of the accordion portion in a circumferential direction and a second depth corresponding to a rest part of the accordion portion in the circumferential direction. The first depth and the second depth are different from each other.

Abstract: An extendable shaft for steering vehicle rotated according to the steering of a steering member comprises: an inner shaft and a tubular outer shaft fitted with each other in a manner to be capable of relative sliding movement; a rigid coupling element for rigidly interconnecting the inner shaft and the outer shaft in a circumferential direction of the inner shaft when a relative phase of the inner shaft and the outer shaft with respect to the circumferential direction exceeds a predetermined range; at least three pairs of axial grooves individually formed on an outer periphery of the inner shaft and an inner periphery of the outer shaft and opposed to each other; and a plurality of elongate resin rods as elastic coupling elements for elastically interconnecting the inner shaft and the outer shaft in the circumferential direction when the relative phase thereof is in the predetermined range. Each of the plural resin rods is interposed between the mutually corresponding axial grooves.

Abstract: A steering shock absorbing apparatus for motor vehicle according to the invention comprises a first universal joint for interconnecting a first end of an intermediate shaft and a steering shaft, and a second universal joint for interconnecting a second end of the intermediate shaft and an input shaft of a steering gear. The intermediate shaft includes a hollow bellows portion having slant convexes and slant concaves alternating with each other. A line interconnecting the joint centers of the first and second universal joints is tilted to the center axis of the intermediate shaft at a predetermined angle. At motor vehicle collision, a bending moment derived from an impact force of the collision is exerted on the intermediate shaft because the line is tilted. As a result, the intermediate shaft is bucklingly contracted at the bellows portion thereof.

Abstract: A shock absorbing steering apparatus for motor vehicle includes an intermediate shaft including first and second ends. The intermediate shaft includes a hollow bellows portion having convexes and concaves alternating with each other. The convexes include at least one slant convex. A plane including a ridge line of the slant convex is tilted to a perpendicular plane perpendicular to a center axis of the intermediate shaft. As a result, a part of an axial force exerted on the intermediate shaft at a motor vehicle collision is converted to a bending force on the intermediate shaft.

Abstract: A shock absorbing steering device for vehicle includes an intermediate shaft that couples a steering shaft and a steering gear. The intermediate shaft includes a hollow accordion portion allowed to undergo plastic deformation. The accordion portion has plural pairs of crest portions and trough portions disposed alternately in an axial direction. At least in a part of the accordion portion in the axial direction, a depth from apexes of the crest portions to bottoms of the trough portions includes a first depth corresponding to a part of the accordion portion in a circumferential direction and a second depth corresponding to a rest part of the accordion portion in the circumferential direction. The first depth and the second depth are different from each other.

Abstract: A shock absorbing steering device for vehicle includes an intermediate shaft that couples a steering shaft and a steering gear. The intermediate shaft includes a hollow accordion portion allowed to undergo plastic deformation. The accordion portion has plural pairs of crest portions and trough portions disposed alternately in an axial direction. At least in a part of the accordion portion in the axial direction, a height from bottoms of the trough portions to apexes of the crest portions is set relatively high in one of first and second parts of the accordion portion opposing in a radial direction and relatively low in the other one of the first and second parts.

Abstract: A telescopic shaft for steering vehicle includes: an inner shaft and a tubular outer shaft fitted with each other; at least three pairs of axial grooves formed on an outer periphery of the inner shaft and an inner periphery of the outer shaft; a rigid coupling element for rigidly connecting the inner shaft and the outer shaft in a circumferential direction of the inner shaft when a relative phase of the inner shaft and the outer shaft with respect to the circumferential direction exceeds a predetermined range; and a plurality of elongate resin rods as elastic coupling elements for elastically connecting the inner shaft and the outer shaft in the circumferential direction when the relative phase is in the predetermined range. Each of the plural resin rods is formed with a groove. A section of the groove is shaped like U opening toward the outside in a radial direction of the inner shaft.

Abstract: A device to support studies of the positions in which parts necessary for assembly are placed and the positions in which assembly tasks are performed. A manufacturing study support device has a computation portion, a display portion which displays animations, and a storage portion which stores part animation data comprising three-dimensional shapes of parts, part storage positions which are three-dimensional coordinate data of positions at which the parts are stored, and assembly starting positions which are three-dimensional coordinate data of positions from which assembly tasks using the parts are started. The computation portion calculates part supply animation paths, taking the part storage positions as starting points and the assembly starting positions as ending points, and based on the part animation data and part supply animation paths, causes the display portion to display movement of the parts.

Abstract: With a trend toward a higher intensity projection type liquid crystal display device to further increase brightness of a projection screen, rated input power of a light source lamp increases, which makes essential a fan apparatus for cooling the light source lamp, etc. Such a fan apparatus would require a light-shielding member which causes the number of parts to increase. The present invention provides a fan apparatus provided with a rotor section that can be rotated/driven around a predetermined rotation axis and a propeller section including propeller blades and attached to the rotor section arranged in such a way as to substantially shield light parallel to the rotation axis.

Abstract: An aircraft wheel support mechanism capable of reducing the impact to the tire at the time of landing and capable of reducing the impact to the tire at the time of the wheel colliding with an obstacle lying on the runway. The mechanism has a suspension mechanism for rotatably supporting a wheel by the lower end of a support member connected to the fuselage, the suspension mechanism having a crank shaft assembly. The crank shaft assembly is made up of a horizontal support shaft rotatably supported by the lower end of the support member, an axle for rotatably supporting the wheel, and an arm positioned at right angles with the horizontal support shaft and axle for connecting one end of the horizontal support shaft to one end of the axle.