Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer is not peeled off.

Abstract: A tank includes: a tank body defining a storage chamber; a recessed portion provided at the tank body; a slider positioned in the recessed portion; a fitting portion provided at the slider; and a sealing member. The recessed portion has an injection opening in communication with the storage chamber, and a connection opening through which a liquid container is connectable. The slider includes a nozzle extending toward the connection opening in an extending direction and having a communication opening communicable with the injection opening. The slider is movable toward and away from the connection opening in the extending direction while rotating relative to the recessed portion. The fitting portion can be fitted with the liquid container. The sealing member can provide a liquid tight sealing to a gap between the slider and the recessed portion, and allow liquid flow between the communication opening and the injection opening.

Abstract: A printing-agent container, having a container body, an outflow port, and an identifying portion, is provided. The container body has a chamber for containing a printing agent. Through the outflow port, the printing agent flows out of the chamber. The identifying portion is provided to the container body correspondingly to a type of the printing agent contained in the chamber of the container body. The identifying portion has an inner surface defining the chamber.

Abstract: A cartridge configured to be inserted in a first direction into a case having a plurality of engagement portions is provided. The cartridge has a body and a key member. The body has a chamber for storing a printing agent. The key member is located on the body at a position associated with a type of the printing agent stored in the chamber and is configured to engage with a corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions of the case. The key member has a surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction. The surface is configured to contact the corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions.

Abstract: A printing liquid container includes first and second members having a supply port and a valve, respectively. The members rotate with respect to each other between first and second states. The valve closes and opens the supply port in the first and second states, respectively. The first and second members have first and second fitting portions, respectively. The fitting portions fit to a fitted portion of a tank in the first state. The second fitting portion allows rotation of the second member with respect to the fitted portion when the first fitting portion are fitted to the fitting portion. The first member does not rotate together with the second member due to fitting between the fitted portion and the first fitting portion. The second member cannot be removed from the fitted portion due to fitting of the second fitting portion to the fitted portion in the second state.

Abstract: Provided is a novel heterocyclic compound having an aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonist activity and useful for the promotion of platelet production, the compound being represented by the general formula [I]: wherein ring A, ring B, R1, R2, R3, R4, n, and X are as defined above, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rechargeable battery includes forming a mixture layer and an insulating layer on an electrode substrate having an edge extending in a specified direction so that an exposed portion where the electrode substrate is exposed extends between the edge and the insulating layer; pressing the mixture layer; and stretching an extension portion, located between the edge and the mixture layer, and the insulating layer in the specified direction. The stretching includes applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the electrode substrate or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the electrode substrate and less than tensile strength of the electrode substrate to the extension portion, and applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the insulating layer or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the insulating layer to the insulating layer.

Abstract: A decorative member can be readily attached to an airbag cover of an airbag device and attaching workability is enhanced. A decorative member 10 is attached to an attaching part 3 of an airbag cover 1, and engaging projections 13 of the decorative member 10 pass through through-holes in the airbag cover 1 to the back face 1B of the airbag cover 1. A holding member 20 is bent and pressed against the airbag cover 1 side, so that the engaging sections 21 are moved from a state where they are approached to each other between the engaging projections 13, to the direction in which the engaging sections 21 separate from each other. Consequently, the engaging sections 21 are inserted to engaging holes 13K to be engaged with the engaging projections 13. The holding member 20 allows the decorative member 10 to be attached to the airbag cover 1 through the engaging projections 13.

Abstract: An air bag cover or air bag device that secures the escape path of an air bag in an upper part of a steering wheel. Developing lines are formed in an air bag cover. When the air bag is inflated and developed, the air bag cover is divided into an upper open portion, left open portion, right open portion, and lower open portion so as to be opened. A decorative part is formed on the left open portion, and the upper open portion is difficult to be caught on a wheel part of the steering wheel.

Abstract: A decorative member can be readily attached to an airbag cover of an airbag device and attaching workability is enhanced. A decorative member 10 is attached to an attaching part 3 of an airbag cover 1, and engaging projections 13 of the decorative member 10 pass through through-holes in the airbag cover 1 to the back face 1B of the airbag cover 1. A holding member 20 is bent and pressed against the airbag cover 1 side, so that the engaging sections 21 are moved from a state where they are approached to each other between the engaging projections 13, to the direction in which the engaging sections 21 separate from each other. Consequently, the engaging sections 21 are inserted to engaging holes 13K to be engaged with the engaging projections 13. The holding member 20 allows the decorative member 10 to be attached to the airbag cover 1 through the engaging projections 13.

Abstract: In a switch device, such as a horn switch device attached to a steering wheel, a water column is prevented from being formed between contact sections of a pair of contact points facing each other. A movable member (30) and a fixed member (40) of a horn switch device (20) are disposed in an opposed manner such that the movable member (30) on an upper side can be moved toward and away from the fixed member (40) on a lower side and such that it is urged upward by urging means (50). Furthermore, at least a pair of protruding contact points (35) and (45) are formed on the movable member (30) and the fixed member (40), at positions facing each other. By bringing them into contact with each other, the members (30) and (40) are electrically connected, closing a horn circuit.

Abstract: An air bag cover or air bag device that secures the escape path of an air bag in an upper part of a steering wheel. Developing lines are formed in an air bag cover. When the air bag is inflated and developed, the air bag cover is divided into an upper open portion, left open portion, right open portion, and lower open portion so as to be opened. A decorative part is formed on the left open portion, and the upper open portion is difficult to be caught on a wheel part of the steering wheel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-protection tape for semiconductor wafers having an even thickness accuracy, excellent surface smoothness, and excellent surface sliding properties such as freedom from blocking, etc., and a substrate film for the surface-protection tape. The substrate film for the surface-protection tape for semiconductor wafers has at least one layer containing a polyethylene-based resin and satisfies the following requirements: (1) the back and front surfaces of the substrate film have a surface roughness Ra measured based on JIS B0601 of not more than 0.8 ?m, and at least one surface thereof has a surface roughness Ra of not less than 0.05 ?m; and (2) the difference between the maximum and minimum thicknesses of the substrate film is not more than 4 ?m. The present invention also provides a surface-protection tape for semiconductor wafers comprising the substrate film and an adhesive layer.

Abstract: In a data multiplexing apparatus, a single external memory stores different kinds of transfer data. A header cache memory stores the system header and the header data, and a plurality of data cache memories stores the transfer data. The cache memories are connected via an internal bus to the external memory. A data input circuit sequentially fetches the transfer data from the external memory on a time division basis, so that the transfer data is stored in one of the data cache memories. Also, a system clock signal generation circuit constantly generates a system clock signal indicating the current time. A selector circuit sequentially selects the cache memories and generates a system stream formed by the system header, the header data and the transfer data. In this case, the selector circuit further selects the system clock generation circuit to input the system clock signal to a predetermined position of the system header.

Abstract: In a halftone phase shifting photomask 108, having a pattern of halftone phase shifting film 102 containing at least chromium and fluorine, the halftone phase shifting film is heat-treated at a temperature between 250° C. and 500° C. so that a change of the optical property of the film produced by the application of excimer laser for exposure to the film is decreased.

Abstract: The invention relates to a halftone phase shift photomask whose transmittance and phase angle remain unchanged even when irradiated with an excimer laser used for exposure over an extended period of time, and a blank therefor, and provides a halftone phase shift mask 108 comprising a pattern of halftone phase shift film 102 containing at least chromium and fluorine on a transparent substrate 101, wherein optical characteristic changes upon irradiation with an exposure excimer laser have been reduced by patterning a film irradiated with light 109 having a wavelength substantially absorbed by halftone phase shift film 102.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to realize a motion vector search apparatus and method that is able to perform highly accurate motion vector searching even in images containing discontinuous motion relative to encoded images immediately before. According to the present invention, global motion vector search unit searches for a global motion vector by evaluating differences between pixels at the same location of an input image and an NR reference image in the form of an input image input one frame earlier that is held in original image memory. CPU then determines the motion vector search area based on the results of this global motion vector search, and sets that range in motion vector search unit. Motion vector search unit then searches for and determines a motion vector from previously encoded reference images held in frame memory that are the same as the encoded image held in frame memory over the motion vector search area set by CPU.

Abstract: In a halftone phase shifting photomask 108, having a pattern of halftone phase shifting film 102 containing at least chromium and fluorine, the halftone phase shifting film is heat-treated at a temperature between 250° C. and 500° C.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to realize a motion vector search apparatus and method that is able to perform highly accurate motion vector searching even in images containing discontinuous motion relative to encoded images immediately before.

Abstract: A halftone phase shift photomask having a sufficiently high transmittance for light of short wavelength and usable for high-resolution lithography effected by exposure using deep-ultraviolet+radiation, e.g., krypton fluoride excimer laser light. The halftone phase shift photomask has on a transparent substrate a halftone phase shift layer which includes at least one layer composed mainly of a chromium compound. The chromium compound contains at least fluorine atoms in addition to chromium atoms. A transmittance higher than a predetermined level can be obtained even in exposure carried out a relatively short wavelength. The photomask can be used for exposure using deep-ultraviolet+radiation, e.g., krypton fluoride excimer laser light (wavelength: 248 nm). Thus, high-resolution lithography can be realized. Since the photomask can be formed by approximately the same method as in the case of the conventional photomasks, it is possible to improve the yield and reduce the cost.