Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that: receives, from a user terminal, a request for first update regarding a first vehicle, notifies the user terminal that the first update is to be performed at a shop, when the first update is update of hardware, and notifies the user terminal that the first update is to be performed through wireless communication, when the first update is update of software.

Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a technique capable of suppressing an erroneous detection of a presence or absence of a substrate caused by a light receiver receiving a specularly reflected light. There is provided a technique that includes: a holding structure provided with a placing surface capable of accommodating a substrate thereon; a light detector including: a light emitter arranged to irradiate an irradiation light toward a back surface of the substrate placed on the placing surface; and a light receiver arranged to be capable of receiving a diffusely reflected light of the irradiation light irradiated from the light emitter without receiving a specularly reflected light of the irradiation light; and a controller configured to be capable of determining a presence or absence of the substrate based on a light receiving state of the light receiver.

Abstract: A molten iron refining method having, an auxiliary material, and an oxidizing gas supplied through a top-blowing lance, to a cold iron source and molten pig iron that are contained/fed in a converter-type vessel, and molten iron is subjected to a refining process. A pre-charged cold iron source is charged into the converter-type vessel at an amount not larger than 0.15 times. A furnace-top-added cold iron source that's part or all of the cold iron source and added from a furnace top is fed during the refining process. A burner at a leading end of the top-blowing lance that spray holes through which a fuel and a combustion-supporting gas are ejected. During the refining process, a powdery auxiliary material processed into powder that's part of the auxiliary material is blown in, to pass through a flame formed by the burner.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a hairspring, a timepiece movement, and a timepiece. A hairspring according to the present invention is characterized by being made of a Nb-Mo alloy containing 5% or more and 14% or less of Mo in at%. Alternatively, a hairspring according to the present invention is characterized by being made of a Nb-Mo alloy containing 5% or more and 14% or less of Mo in at%, inevitable impurities and balance Nb. It is preferable that the hairspring has a deformation texture and a region having a <110>||{001} orientation degree in a cross section is 30% or more of an entire cross-sectional area.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a sealable housing, constituent surfaces of which are configured by a conductor, a plurality of heat generating components including a coil having a relatively large heating value during operation and an electrolysis capacitor having a heating value during operation relatively smaller than the heating value of the coil and having a heatproof temperature lower than the heatproof temperature of the coil, the heat generating components being housed on the inside of the housing, and an internal air fan housed on the inside of the housing. The electrolysis capacitor is housed above the coil. The internal air fan sends wind from one right side surface side of two side surfaces opposed to each other in the housing to the other side surface side between the coil and the electrolysis capacitor to thereby blow air between the electrolysis capacitor and the coil including heat generated by the coil against the other side surface.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a sealable housing, constituent surfaces of which are configured by a conductor, a plurality of heat generating components including a coil having a relatively large heating value during operation and an electrolysis capacitor having a heating value during operation relatively smaller than the heating value of the coil and having a heatproof temperature lower than the heatproof temperature of the coil, the heat generating components being housed on the inside of the housing, and an internal air fan housed on the inside of the housing. The electrolysis capacitor is housed above the coil. The internal air fan sends wind from one right side surface side of two side surfaces opposed to each other in the housing to the other side surface side between the coil and the electrolysis capacitor to thereby blow air between the electrolysis capacitor and the coil including heat generated by the coil against the other side surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a storage block configured to store information about a combination of devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a first application and devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a second application; and a selection block configured to select, among the devices controllable by the function of the second application, a device in the same combination being selected to be controlled by the function of the first application on the basis of the above-mentioned information stored in the storage block.

Abstract: A sliding component has a multi-layer structure having a sliding portion configured to undergo sliding contact with a surface of another component different from the sliding component. A lubricating oil retaining/supplying structure retains a lubricating oil and supplies the lubricating oil to the sliding portion during sliding contact between the sliding portion and the surface of another component irrespective of a contact angle between the sliding portion and the surface of the another component.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a storage block configured to store information about a combination of devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a first application and devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a second application; and a selection block configured to select, among the devices controllable by the function of the second application, a device in the same combination being selected to be controlled by the function of the first application on the basis of the above-mentioned information stored in the storage block.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sliding component of high wear resistance having a lubricating oil retaining structure and a structure helping to supply a lubricating oil regardless of the contact angle between itself and the mating component. There is provided a precision machinery component having at least three layers stacked together, characterized in that a portion substantially parallel to the stacking direction has a sliding portion coming into contact with another component, and that at least a part of the sliding portion has a recess.

Abstract: In an engine torque calculation method, basic engine torque TQb is calculated based on an engine rotational speed Ne and a fuel injection amount Q, and the basic engine torque TQb is corrected using a predetermined parameter (e.g., an intake air amount Q) which has an influence on engine torque, whereby engine torque TQact is calculated. A torque sensitivity coefficient K1 corresponding to an amount of change in the engine torque TQact when the parameter changes by a unit amount is calculated based on the engine rotational speed Ne and the fuel injection amount Q, and the engine torque TQb is corrected using the torque sensitivity coefficient K1.

Abstract: In an engine torque calculation method, basic engine torque TQb is calculated based on an engine rotational speed Ne and a fuel injection amount Q, and the basic engine torque TQb is corrected using a predetermined parameter (e.g., an intake air amount Q) which has an influence on engine torque, whereby engine torque TQact is calculated. A torque sensitivity coefficient K1 corresponding to an amount of change in the engine torque TQact when the parameter changes by a unit amount is calculated based on the engine rotational speed Ne and the fuel injection amount Q, and the engine torque TQb is corrected using the torque sensitivity coefficient K1.

Abstract: A lower limit EIEOF of a current for controlling the EGR valve employed to prevent the EGR valve from generating chattering is set in accordance with an engine revolution speed NE which indirectly indicates an amount of exhaust pressure acting on the EGR valve as the current value of the lower limit EIEOF is influenced by the exhaust pressure as a back pressure of the EGR valve. Therefore, it is possible to set a current value eiefin for EGR control in a range which has not been conventionally covered. The EGR control can be applied to a wider driving region, thus achieving an improved driving state of a diesel engine.

Abstract: An AV data transmission apparatus including an AV data storage unit for storing AV data comprising a single program and having audio data and/or video data, a reference time generating unit for generating a signal showing a predetermined reference time, a reproducing unit for reading out the stored AV data and preparing a plurality of channels of AV data comprising the single program for each channel and comprising the plurality of channels of AV data to be reproducible from the beginning of the program in order at predetermined time intervals from the reference time and comprising the predetermined time intervals to be shorter the closer to the reference time the channels are to be reproduced, and a data transmitting unit for converting the plurality of AV data into a predetermined transmission format and transmitting the same to a plurality of transmission channels and AV data server provided with a plurality of such data transmission apparatuses.

Abstract: An AV data transmission apparatus including an AV data storage unit for storing AV data comprising a single program and having audio data and/or video data, a reference time generating unit for generating a signal showing a predetermined reference time, a reproducing unit for reading out the stored AV data and preparing a plurality of channels of AV data comprising the single program for each channel and comprising the plurality of channels of AV data to be reproducible from the beginning of the program in order at predetermined time intervals from the reference time and comprising the predetermined time intervals to be shorter the closer to the reference time the channels are to be reproduced, and a data transmitting unit for converting the plurality of the AV data into a predetermined transmission format and transmitting the same to a plurality of transmission channels and AV data server provided with a plurality of such data transmission apparatuses.

Abstract: A puffer type gas-insulated circuit breaker is adapted to, when its movable electrode separates from a stationary electrode, enable an insulating gas blow toward an occurring arc to extinguish the same. An insulated nozzle is provided to direct the gas toward the arc and forms a gas passage in cooperation with an insulating cover which covers the movable electrode. The insulated cover is formed of an insulating material which contains a filler for preventing energy lines of the arc from entering the cover. Furthermore, the insulated cover has a specific inductive capacity greater than a specific inductive capacity of the insulated nozzle so as to reduce the electric field strength at the front end of the movable electrode.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switching device includes a bus bar-connecting conductor, within a cylindrical container, which connects one end of a circuit breaker portion, disposed wihtin the container, to a main bus bar mounted on the outer side of the container. The bus bar-connecting conductor is inclined relative to the axis of the container in such a manner that one end of the bus bar-connecting conductor connected to the main bus bar is situated closer to the other end of the breaker portion than to the one end of the breaker portion, and radially more outwardly of the breaker portion than the other end of the bus bar-connecting conductor connected to the one end of the breaker portion. As the bus bar-connecting conductor is inclined in the above manner, the device can be of a compact size without possibility of affecting the insulation between the bus bar-connecting conductor and the other end of the breaker portion by the voltage applied therebetween in the open or circuit-breaking state of the breaker portion.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear apparatus including a three-phase circuit breaker, a three-phase disconnecting switch and a cable head, with the disconnecting switch and the cable head being accommodated in a cable head housing. To minimize the size of the disconnecting switch, movable insulators, connected to movable conductors, and stationary insulators, supporting connecting conductors, are arranged so that the movable and stationary insulators form triangles disposed substantially in the same plane with the respective triangles being inverted in relation to each other.

Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear apparatus is disclosed, in which a bus bar-dividing unit is interposed through main bus bars between feeder units connected to a transmission line or a transformer. The main bus bars are arranged in substantially the same axis. A circuit breaker of vertical type making up the bus bar-dividing unit includes an upper electric path and a lower electric path. The lower electric path is connected to one of the main bus bars while the upper electric path is connected to the other main bus bar at a position displaced axially of the main bus bar opposed to the circuit breaker of vertical type. This construction with the circuit breakers of vertical type arranged on the same axis facilitates maintenance and inspection.