Abstract: A cooling system includes: a coolant circuit through which a coolant for cooling an electric motor and electrical equipment circulates; a pump that feeds the coolant; and a degas tank that separates the bubbles from the coolant. The coolant circuit connects the devices in series. The degas tank is disposed at an upper stage, a first device as at least one of the electric motor, the electrical equipment, and the pump is disposed at a lower stage, and a remaining second device is disposed at a position that is above the lower stage and is as high as the degas tank or lower than the degas tank. The coolant circuit connects the degas tank, the second device, and the first device in this order, and the coolant flows in this order.

Abstract: A method for producing a microbial oil includes the steps of: genetically modifying a labyrinthulid by disrupting and/or silencing a gene, or by transforming another gene in addition to the disruption and/or gene silencing of the gene; culturing the labyrinthulid, such that a fatty acid composition accumulated in the labyrinthulid comprises an increased EPA content; and collecting the microbial oil having the increased EPA content from the labyrinthulid. The increased EPA content is not less than 3.3% of a total fatty acid composition.

Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle is provided, which includes a first coolant channel through which a first coolant for cooling an engine flows, a second coolant channel through which a second coolant for cooling a motor drive flows, and an oil channel through which oil for lubricating inside a transmission flows. The oil channel includes a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first coolant and the oil, a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the second coolant and the oil, and a valve configured to adjust a first flow rate of the oil circulating through the first heat exchanger and a second flow rate of the oil circulating through the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: To suppress cooling performance from being degraded by bubbles in a coolant in a cooling system for an electric drive vehicle, the cooling system includes: a first coolant circuit through which the coolant for cooling an electric motor and electrical equipment circulates; a first pump that is connected to the first coolant circuit and feeds the coolant; and a first degas tank that is connected to the first coolant circuit and separates the bubbles from the coolant. The first coolant circuit connects the electric motor, the electrical equipment, the first pump, and the first degas tank in series. The first pump and the electric motor are connected in a manner to be sequentially aligned in the first coolant circuit. The coolant flows from the first pump to the electric motor.

Abstract: A microbial oil is obtained from Labyrinthulomycetes in which a gene for fatty acid biosynthesis has been disrupted or an expression of the gene has been inhibited to highly accumulate the fatty acid. The microbial oil typically contains: (a) 1.5% or more of arachidonic acid (AA) based on a total amount of fatty acid; (b) 0.2% or more of dihomo-?-linolenic acid (DGLA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (c) 0.04% or more of eicosatetraenoic acid (ETA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (d) 3.8% or more of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (e) 13.7% or less of n-6 docosapentaenoic acid (n-6DPA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; and (f) 43.9% or less of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) based on the total amount of fatty acid.

Abstract: An intake-air temperature controlling device for an engine is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, an air intake part, an intake air temperature adjuster configured to adjust air temperature taken in through the air intake part to the passage, and a controller. An operating range in which the CI combustion is performed has a lean operating range in which A/F of mixture gas formed inside the cylinder, or G/F that is a relationship between the total weight G of gas inside the cylinder and a weight F of fuel fed to the cylinder is relatively low, and a rich operating range in which the A/F or G/F is relatively high. When the engine is in the lean operating range, the controller outputs a control signal to the intake air temperature adjuster so that the air temperature is increased, as compared in the rich operating range.

Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle is provided, which includes a first coolant channel through which a first coolant for cooling an engine flows, a second coolant channel through which a second coolant for cooling a motor drive flows, and an oil channel through which oil for lubricating inside a transmission flows. The oil channel includes a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first coolant and the oil, a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the second coolant and the oil, and a valve configured to adjust a first flow rate of the oil circulating through the first heat exchanger and a second flow rate of the oil circulating through the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle is provided, which includes an engine having an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, a supercharger, and an intercooler configured to cool intake gas containing EGR gas. The device includes a coolant channel through which coolant for cooling a motor drive flows, the coolant channel having a first channel through which a first coolant for cooling a high-voltage component of the motor drive flows and a second channel through which a second coolant for cooling the intercooler flows, the second channel being branched from the first channel. The device includes a valve provided to the second channel of the coolant channel and configured to adjust a flow rate of the second coolant.

Abstract: A compression ignition engine with a supercharger is provided, which includes one or more valves configured to switch a state between a first state where intake air is boosted by the supercharger and a second state where it is not boosted, a fluid temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of engine coolant to be supplied to a radiator from an engine body, and a controller. When the engine operates in a high-load range, the controller controls the combustion mode to be in a compression ignition combustion mode, and causes the valve(s) to be in the first state, and in a low-load range, the controller causes the valve(s) to be in the second state. In the high-load range, the controller outputs a control signal to the fluid temperature adjuster so that a target temperature of the engine coolant is lowered than that in the low-load range.

Abstract: To suppress cooling performance from being degraded by bubbles in a coolant in a cooling system for an electric drive vehicle, the cooling system includes: a first coolant circuit through which the coolant for cooling an electric motor and electrical equipment circulates; a first pump that is connected to the first coolant circuit and feeds the coolant; and a first degas tank that is connected to the first coolant circuit and separates the bubbles from the coolant. The first coolant circuit connects the electric motor, the electrical equipment, the first pump, and the first degas tank in series. The first pump and the electric motor are connected in a manner to be sequentially aligned in the first coolant circuit. The coolant flows from the first pump to the electric motor.

Abstract: A cooling system includes: a coolant circuit through which a coolant for cooling an electric motor and electrical equipment circulates; a pump that feeds the coolant; and a degas tank that separates the bubbles from the coolant. The coolant circuit connects the devices in series. The degas tank is disposed at an upper stage, a first device as at least one of the electric motor, the electrical equipment, and the pump is disposed at a lower stage, and a remaining second device is disposed at a position that is above the lower stage and is as high as the degas tank or lower than the degas tank. The coolant circuit connects the degas tank, the second device, and the first device in this order, and the coolant flows in this order.

Abstract: An intake-air temperature controlling device is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, a supercharger, a first passage, a second passage, an intake air flow rate adjuster, an intercooler, a pump, and a controller. The controller outputs a control signal to the pump so that coolant is supplied to the intercooler in a first operating range in which the intake air flow rate adjuster at least partially opens the first passage to supply intake air boosted by the supercharger to the engine body, and outputs a control signal to the pump so that the coolant is supplied to the intercooler also in a second operating range in which an engine load is below a given load, and the intake air flow rate adjuster opens the second passage and closes the first passage to supply the intake air to the engine body in a non-boosted state.

Abstract: A microbial oil is extracted from stramenopile transformed with a gene associated with synthesis of fatty acids, the gene encoding a fatty acid desaturase. The stramenopile belongs to the class Labyrinthulomycete. The microbial oil satisfies one or more of the following requirements: (a) an amount of arachidonic acid is 7% or less based on a total amount of the fatty acid composition; (b) an amount of DPA is 9% or less based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (c) an amount of ETA is 0.04% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (d) an amount of EPA is 7% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; and (e) an amount of DHA is 45% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that are capable of proactively supporting continuous communication, the information processing apparatus including: an acquiring unit that acquires a predetermined number of message content items, as candidates to be sent, from a plurality of message content items classified as a category corresponding to an image used for communication among a plurality of categories into which the message content items are classified; and an option creating unit that creates an option for prompting a selection of the message content item to be sent from the predetermined number of message content items acquired by the acquiring unit, and exhibits the option at a predetermined timing. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus that constitutes a communication support system.

Abstract: A compression ignition engine with a supercharger is provided, which includes one or more valves configured to switch a state between a first state where intake air is boosted by the supercharger and a second state where it is not boosted, a fluid temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of engine coolant to be supplied to a radiator from an engine body, and a controller. When the engine operates in a high-load range, the controller controls the combustion mode to be in a compression ignition combustion mode, and causes the valve(s) to be in the first state, and in a low-load range, the controller causes the valve(s) to be in the second state. In the high-load range, the controller outputs a control signal to the fluid temperature adjuster so that a target temperature of the engine coolant is lowered than that in the low-load range.

Abstract: An intake-air temperature controlling device for an engine is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, an air intake part, an intake air temperature adjuster configured to adjust air temperature taken in through the air intake part to the passage, and a controller. An operating range in which the CI combustion is performed has a lean operating range in which A/F of mixture gas formed inside the cylinder, or G/F that is a relationship between the total weight G of gas inside the cylinder and a weight F of fuel fed to the cylinder is relatively low, and a rich operating range in which the A/F or G/F is relatively high. When the engine is in the lean operating range, the controller outputs a control signal to the intake air temperature adjuster so that the air temperature is increased, as compared in the rich operating range.

Abstract: An intake-air temperature controlling device is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, a supercharger, a first passage, a second passage, an intake air flow rate adjuster, an intercooler, a pump, and a controller. The controller outputs a control signal to the pump so that coolant is supplied to the intercooler in a first operating range in which the intake air flow rate adjuster at least partially opens the first passage to supply intake air boosted by the supercharger to the engine body, and outputs a control signal to the pump so that the coolant is supplied to the intercooler also in a second operating range in which an engine load is below a given load, and the intake air flow rate adjuster opens the second passage and closes the first passage to supply the intake air to the engine body in a non-boosted state.

Abstract: A microbial oil is obtained from Labyrinthulomycetes in which a gene for fatty acid biosynthesis has been disrupted or an expression of the gene has been inhibited to highly accumulate the fatty acid. The microbial oil typically contains: (a) 1.5% or more of arachidonic acid (AA) based on a total amount of fatty acid; (b) 0.2% or more of dihomo-?-linolenic acid (DGLA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (c) 0.04% or more of eicosatetraenoic acid (ETA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (d) 3.8% or more of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; (e) 13.7% or less of n-6 docosapentaenoic acid (n-6DPA) based on the total amount of fatty acid; and (f) 43.9% or less of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) based on the total amount of fatty acid.

Abstract: A microbial oil is extracted from stramenopile transformed with a gene associated with synthesis of fatty acids, the gene encoding a fatty acid desaturase. The stramenopile belongs to the class Labyrinthulomycete. The microbial oil satisfies one or more of the following requirements: (a) an amount of arachidonic acid is 7% or less based on a total amount of the fatty acid composition; (b) an amount of DPA is 9% or less based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (c) an amount of ETA is 0.04% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (d) an amount of EPA is 7% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; and (e) an amount of DHA is 45% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a structure for mounting a heat exchanger in a vehicle. The structure includes a shroud, and a mount supporting a supported portion and allowing vertical vibrations of the supported portion with respect to each side of the shroud in a vehicle width direction. The supported portion is provided on each side of the heat exchanger in the vehicle width direction. The mount body of the mount is mounted in a mounting portion located higher than a fixed portion on the side of the shroud in the vehicle width direction. The fixed portion is fixed to a body member of the vehicle. A receiver supporting a lower surface of the mount body serves as the mounting portion. A fixing bracket for fixing the mount body to the side of the shroud is provided in front of or behind the mount body of the mount in the vehicle.