Abstract: A crimp terminal includes a wire connection portion including a bottom wall portion, and a pair of side wall portions. The wire connection portion includes a core wire crimping portion provided on one end side, and to be crimped onto a core wire of a wire, and a covering crimping portion provided on another end side, and to be crimped onto a covering of the wire, and integrally covers the core wire and the covering. In the core wire crimping portion before crimping, an interval between outer wall surfaces of the pair of side wall portions is widest at an end portion on the covering crimping portion side, and in the covering crimping portion before crimping, the interval is widest at an end portion on the core wire crimping portion side.

Abstract: An electric wire and terminal connecting construction has an electric wire having an insulation covering portion where a conductor portion is covered with an insulation material and a conductor exposed portion where the insulation material on an end portion of the electric wire is removed, a terminal including a crimping portion crimped to the conductor exposed portion to thereby be connected to the electric wire, and a seal portion covering the conductor exposed portion exposed from the terminal, wherein the seal portion has an external resin portion forming an outer surface side of the seal portion and made from a thermoplastic resin and an internal resin portion made from a thermoplastic resin of which a fusing point is lower than that of the external resin portion and forming an inner surface side of the seal portion, and is divided so as to be attached to the conductor exposed portion.

Abstract: An advertisement distribution management apparatus in an embodiment includes a distribution management unit. The distribution management unit selectively executes a first operating mode selecting a distribution source apparatus of advertising content for an advertisement request from among the advertisement distribution apparatuses on the basis of a given condition and a second operating mode defining a specific advertisement distribution apparatus as the distribution source apparatus from among the advertisement distribution apparatuses depending on a user making the advertisement request. The distribution management unit further divides the users into a plurality of groups, and performs an assignment process assigning a plurality of time periods shifted from one another within a given period of time to the respective groups as the time periods of the second operating mode.

Abstract: A shock absorber includes a vessel externally mounted to the outer tube, a reservoir provided inside the vessel to communicate with the bottom chamber, a discharge passage that allows the rod-side chamber to communicate with the reservoir, and a damping valve provided in the middle of the discharge passage, wherein the discharge passage has a connecting member that connects the vessel and the outer tube, a cylindrical gap provided between the outer tube and the cylinder, an installation hole provided in the outer tube and opened to the cylindrical gap, a first bottom passage that has one end communicating with the bottom chamber and the other end connected to one end of the connecting member, and a second bottom passage that has one end communicating with the installation hole and the other end communicating with the middle of the first bottom passage, and the damping valve is installed in the installation hole.

Abstract: Providing a shock absorber including a sensor accurately detecting a position of a cylinder relative to a piston rod. The shock absorber includes a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, and a sensor. The piston is inserted into the cylinder thereby to divide an interior of the cylinder into a rod-side chamber and a piston-side chamber. The piston is axially moved in the cylinder. The piston rod has an end connected to the piston and protrudes out of the cylinder. The sensor is disposed in the piston rod. The sensor detects a position of the cylinder relative to the piston rod.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images including a first image, a detection unit configured to detect a quadrilateral region from the first image included in the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit, a determination unit configured to determine a position of each edge that constitutes the quadrilateral region detected by the detection unit, and a reflection unit configured to reflect, to the plurality of images other than the first image, information about the position of each edge which has been determined by the determination unit to the first image, in a case where the detection unit detects a quadrilateral region included in each of the plurality of images other than the first image acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust device capable of preventing a silencer from interfering with a component disposed in front of the silencer by allowing the silencer to slide down even when a load is input from a rear of the vehicle. A first tailpipe 34 is provided with an inclined bracket member 37. The inclined bracket member 37 has a sliding contact surface 37b inclined rearward and downward of a vehicle. A pressing portion 44 inclined rearward and downward of the vehicle is provided in an exhaust finisher bracket member 42 attached to an exhaust finisher 40. The pressing portion 44 contacts the sliding contact surface 37b when the exhaust finisher 40 is displaced forward of the vehicle. Then, the pressing portion 44 transmits the load so as to push down a silencer 32 via the sliding contact surface 37b.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electric wire having a terminal includes a step of connecting a plurality of core wires by an ultrasonic connection process to form a connected core wire. In the step, the core wires are formed into the connected core wire having a cross-sectional shape having a width and a height in a plane orthogonal to an axis of the connected core wire, the width is not longer than a length obtained by subtracting two times a thickness of the terminal from a width of an arch groove of a crimper of a crimping apparatus in a state that a space between a support surface of an anvil of the crimping apparatus and the arch groove defines a predetermined crimped shape.

Abstract: A suspension device interposed between a vehicle body and a wheel, including a magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber in which a magnetic viscous fluid is sealed, a tube member composed of an outer tube connected to the vehicle body side and an inner tube connected to the wheel side and going into/out of the outer tube and accommodating the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber, a lubricant liquid stored in the tube member, and a seal member closing a space between the inner tube and the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber and preventing intrusion of the lubricant liquid to the wheel side.

Abstract: A terminal crimping device includes a terminal feeding device, a crimping device and an electric-wire holding mechanism that holds an electric wire with an end portion of the electric wire placed above an electric-wire connecting portion of a crimp terminal. The electric-wire holding mechanism includes an upper surface of a terminal cutting body, on which the electric wire is placed, and an electric-wire presser that is moved downward toward the upper surface and presses and thereby holds the electric wire placed on the upper surface. Between the electric-wire placing portion and a lower surface of the electric-wire presser, an electric-wire holding space is formed that inclines in the same direction to a declining direction in which the end portion of the electric wire is declined in association with downward move of the second die toward the first die, and that holds the electric wire in a thus inclined state.

Abstract: A rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, the wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and the troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less, is produced by a method comprising (a) keeping a transverse temperature distribution in a melt nozzle within ±15° C. to have as small a temperature distribution as possible in a melt paddle of the alloy, and (b) forming numerous fine linear scratches on a cooling roll surface by a wire brush, thereby providing a ground surface of the cooling roll with an arithmetical mean (average) roughness Ra of 0.1-1 ?m and a maximum roughness depth Rmax of 0.5-10 ?m.

Abstract: A front fork includes a pair of dampers standing on both sides of a wheel. One of the pair of dampers is a magnetic viscous fluid damper configured to use a magnetic viscous fluid whose viscosity is changed by an action of a magnetic field as a working fluid, while the other of the pair of dampers is a liquid-pressure damper configured to use a liquid such as oil, water, an aqueous solution and the like as the working fluid.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate in which a spray coating film made of a material different from a base material is laminated on the base material includes: a base material heating step of heating the base material; an intermediate layer forming step of forming, on a surface of the heated base material, an intermediate layer made of a material different from the base material and the spray coating film; and a spray coating film forming step of forming the spray coating film on a surface of the intermediate layer.

Abstract: A connection method of a terminal includes an inserting-arranging process for inserting and arranging conductors of a plurality of wires into a connection section. The wires have the conductor sections exposed from the sheaths thereof at the end portions. The connection section has cylindrical shape with a bottom portion and an opening section. The method further includes a heating-melting process for heating the connection section in a state that the opening section of the connection section faced upwards in the vertical direction to melt the conductors within the connection section, and a molten-metal raising process for conducting an insertion of the conductors into the connection section and/or a pressurization of the connection section from outside to raise the molten metal within the connection section to a level upper.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images including a first image, a detection unit configured to detect a quadrilateral region from the first image included in the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit, a determination unit configured to determine a position of each edge that constitutes the quadrilateral region detected by the detection unit, and a reflection unit configured to reflect, to the plurality of images other than the first image, information about the position of each edge which has been determined by the determination unit to the first image, in a case where the detection unit detects a quadrilateral region included in each of the plurality of images other than the first image acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: An iron-based soft magnetic alloy greater than 63.5 mm in width, a thickness between 13 and 20 microns and having a composition represented by the following formula: (Fe1-a Ma)100-x-y-z-p-q-rCux Siy Bz M?p M?1 Xr wherein M is Co and/or Ni, M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti and Mo, M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Cr, Mn, Al, elements in the platinum group, Sc, Y, rare earth elements, Au, Zn, Sn and Re, X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C, Ge, P, Ga, Sb, In, Be and As, and a, x, y, z, p, q and r respectively satisfy 0?a?0.5, 0.1?x?3, 0?y?30, 1?z?25, 5<y+z?30, 0.1?p?30, q?10 and r?10, the alloy being at least 50% crystalline with an average particle size of 100 nm or less. This alloy has low core loss, high permeability and low magnetostriction.

Abstract: A shock absorber includes, an outer tube arranged in an outer circumference of the cylinder to form a cylindrical gap in conjunction with the cylinder to provide a twin-tube structure, a reservoir formed in the tank, a piston passage that allows only for a flow of the hydraulic fluid directed from the piston-side chamber to the rod-side chamber, an suction passage that allows only for a flow of the hydraulic fluid directed from the reservoir to the piston-side chamber, an discharge passage that allows the rod-side chamber to communicate with the reservoir, a damping valve provided in the discharge passage, and a connecting member that connects the outer tube and the tank. The discharge passage communicates with the reservoir via the cylindrical gap and the connecting member.

Abstract: A shock absorber includes a vessel externally mounted to the outer tube, a reservoir provided inside the vessel to communicate with the bottom chamber, a discharge passage that allows the rod-side chamber to communicate with the reservoir, and a damping valve provided in the middle of the discharge passage, wherein the discharge passage has a connecting member that connects the vessel and the outer tube, a cylindrical gap provided between the outer tube and the cylinder, an installation hole provided in the outer tube and opened to the cylindrical gap, a first bottom passage that has one end communicating with the bottom chamber and the other end connected to one end of the connecting member, and a second bottom passage that has one end communicating with the installation hole and the other end communicating with the middle of the first bottom passage, and the damping valve is installed in the installation hole.

Abstract: A portion of a conductor of a flat circuit body is exposed from an insulating layer covering at least one of surfaces of the conductor. A terminal includes a bottom plate on which the exposed portion of the conductor is provided, and crimp claws which are raised at two side edges of the bottom plate so that the exposed portion of the conductor is disposed therebetween. A protective plate is provided on the exposed portion of the conductor, and has a strength so as not to be penetrated by the crimp claws when the crimp claws are crimped onto the protective member. The crimp claws are crimped onto the protective plate so that the terminal is crimped to the conductor in a state where the exposed portion of the conductor is in surface contact with the bottom plate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires posture information of an imaging unit, an extraction unit that extracts characteristic amount information of an image imaged by the imaging unit, an identification unit that identifies a subject included in the image imaged by the imaging unit using the posture information acquired by the acquisition unit and the characteristic amount information extracted by the extraction unit, a recognition unit that recognizes a subject area in the image in a recognition mode according to the subject identified by the identification unit, and a correction unit that corrects the image including the subject area by clipping, from the image, the subject area recognized by the recognition unit.