Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.

Abstract: The present disclosure efficiently performs delivery of delivery articles, collection of collection articles, and transportation of collection articles. The present disclosure is an information processing method including an information processing apparatus performing the following: setting a travel route of a vehicle that goes through both of a delivery position and a collection position based on information indicating the delivery position of a delivery article and information indicating the collection position of a collection article; and retrieving at least one recipient corresponding to an attribute of the collection article, and outputting information indicating the retrieved recipient.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle including: a plurality of dimming glass units used for a plurality of windows; a sensor that acquires an entering situation of natural light at a predetermined position; and a controller. The controller performs: specifying a first dimming glass unit that is a control target out of the plurality of dimming glass units in accordance with the entering situation of natural light; and controlling a light shielding property of the first dimming glass unit. The controller controls the first dimming glass unit so as to be into a light shielding state when the entering situation of natural light satisfies a first condition indicating that an occupant in the vehicle feels glaringness, and releases the light shielding state of the first dimming glass unit when the entering situation of natural light satisfies a second condition indicating that the occupant in the vehicle does not feel glaringness.

Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to ship a shipping object at a right time in response to a demand. An information processing apparatus transmits demand information including a quantity demanded and a shipping deadline for an agricultural and marine product as a shipping object and shipping support information including information indicating shipping equipment that is capable of being provided in regard to shipping of the shipping object to a supplier, acquires information indicating shipping equipment that is desired to be provided and information indicating a carry-in place and a carry-in time for the shipping equipment desired to be provided from a supplier that performs shipping object supply appropriate to the demand information, and transmits an instruction to transport, by a vehicle, the shipping equipment desired to be provided in accordance with the information indicating the carry-in place and the carry-in time to a manager of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to construct a production line of products using pieces of first equipment located in a geographical area and mobile second equipment. An information processing method tries to assign pieces of first equipment to a series of work processes to produce products based on the pieces of first equipment located in the geographical area and positions thereof, decides installation of pieces of second equipment to be assigned to a part of the series of work processes to which a part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment when there is the part of the series of work processes to which the part of the pieces of equipment cannot be assigned from among the pieces of first equipment, outputs a request to transport the pieces of second equipment to an installation position in the geographical area.

Abstract: A copper-based alloy which includes Cu, Ni, Si, Fe, and Mg, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, and V, and in which a content of Mg is 0.02 mass % or more. The copper-based alloy exhibits wear resistance and improved weldability with respect to a substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to deliver a construction machine through a preferred route. An information processing apparatus identifies, for a construction machine separable into an upper unit and an under unit including a self-propelled mechanism, an upper unit and an under unit to be delivered, based on positions of one or more upper units, positions of one or more under units, a position of a delivery place of the construction machine and a delivery deadline. The information processing apparatus identifies conveying vehicles to be used to convey the upper unit and under unit based on positions of the upper and under units and each position of conveying vehicles. The information processing apparatus calculates movement routes of the conveying vehicles. The information processing apparatus supplies information about the movement routes to terminals placed on the conveying vehicles.

Abstract: A hardfacing alloy satisfies the following condition when the hardfacing alloy as a whole is 100 mass % (also simply referred to as “%,” hereinafter), Ni: 10-25%, Si: 1-3%, Fe: 3-18%, the total of one or more elements of Mo, W, and Nb: 6.5-20%, and the balance: Cu and impurities. In particular, it preferably satisfies Fe+2Mo?22.6(%), Mo equivalent/Fe?1.17, and Mo equivalent=Mo+0.522W+1.033Nb. In a hardfacing part composed of the hardfacing alloy, coarse hard particles are formed to ensure the wear resistance, and a soft phase present in the hard particles ensures the machinability. This may be understood as a raw material powder for hardfacing treatment and may also be understood as a hardfacing member in which a hardfacing part is formed on a base material using the raw material powder.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower, a conveyor, and an upstream blower. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor includes a sandwiching unit to sandwich the sheet material, and conveys the sheet material to a blowing region of the blower. The upstream blower blows air toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, from an upstream side of the blowing region in the conveyance direction of the sheet material to the blowing region.

Abstract: A copper-based alloy which includes Cu, Ni, Si, Fe, and Mg, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mo, W and V, and in which a content of Mg is 0.02 mass % or more.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower and a conveyor. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor conveys the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower. The conveyor includes a surface movable member and a presser. The surface movable member conveys the sheet material with movement of a surface of the surface movable member, with a back side of the sheet material supported with the surface movable member. The presser presses at least a portion of a leading end of the sheet material toward the surface movable member in at least an area from a position upstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material to a position in the blowing region of the blower.

Abstract: A laser drilling method is a laser drilling method for performing drilling on a workpiece by use of a laser beam. The laser drilling method includes, after machining a through hole by radiating the laser beam to the workpiece (S100), scanning with the laser beam centered around the through hole toward a radial direction while changing a radiation output of the laser beam (S200).

Abstract: A hardfacing alloy satisfies the following condition when the hardfacing alloy as a whole is 100 mass % (also simply referred to as “%,” hereinafter), Ni: 10-25%, Si: 1-3%, Fe: 3-18%, the total of one or more elements of Mo, W, and Nb: 6.5-20%, and the balance: Cu and impurities. In particular, it preferably satisfies Fe+2Mo?22.6(%), Mo equivalent/Fe?1.17, and Mo equivalent=Mo+0.522W+1.033Nb. In a hardfacing part composed of the hardfacing alloy, coarse hard particles are formed to ensure the wear resistance, and a soft phase present in the hard particles ensures the machinability. This may be understood as a raw material powder for hardfacing treatment and may also be understood as a hardfacing member in which a hardfacing part is formed on a base material using the raw material powder.

Abstract: In a fuel injection valve having a nozzle hole plate wherein a nozzle hole is formed, the nozzle hole is formed with a flow path cross-section having an oval shape that has long axes and short axes, and the nozzle hole is formed having a tapered shape in which a flow path sectional area becomes larger from an entry-side open end portion toward an exit-side open end portion. The nozzle hole is formed such that a second angle that is an intersecting angle of opposing nozzle hole inner wall surface portions in an oblique section along the short axes of the entry-side open end portion and the exit-side open end portion, is greater than a first angle that is an intersecting angle of opposing nozzle hole inner wall surface portions in a longitudinal section along the long axes of the entry-side open end portion and the exit-side open end portion.

Abstract: An electrically heated catalyst device includes a catalyst support supporting a catalyst, a surface electrode disposed on an outer surface of the catalyst support and extending in an axis direction of the catalyst support, a wiring line member including a root section extending in the axis direction of the catalyst support and comb teeth-like wiring lines extending from the root section in a circumferential direction of the catalyst support and fixed to the surface electrode, an outer cylinder covering an outer surface of the catalyst support, and a holding member holding the catalyst support and packed between the catalyst support and the outer cylinder, in which the catalyst support is heated by feeding a current through the surface electrode and the wiring line member. At least a plurality of through-holes or a plurality of protrusions are formed in the root section covered by the holding member.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower, a conveyor, and an upstream blower. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor includes a sandwiching unit to sandwich the sheet material, and conveys the sheet material to a blowing region of the blower. The upstream blower blows air toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, from an upstream side of the blowing region in the conveyance direction of the sheet material to the blowing region.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a restrictor disposed at a predetermined distance from a surface of a sheet material conveyed along a sheet-material conveyance path. The restrictor includes a sheet-material opposing portion that opposes the sheet-material conveyance path. The sheet-material opposing portion is movable to a downstream side in a sheet-material conveyance direction.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower and a conveyor. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor conveys the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower. The conveyor includes a surface movable member and a presser. The surface movable member conveys the sheet material with movement of a surface of the surface movable member, with a back side of the sheet material supported with the surface movable member. The presser presses at least a portion of a leading end of the sheet material toward the surface movable member in at least an area from a position upstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material to a position in the blowing region of the blower.

Abstract: An electrically heated catalyst device includes: a carrier configured to carry a catalyst; a pair of electric diffusion layers formed on an outer peripheral surface of the carrier so as to be opposed each other; and wiring members each fixed to each of the electric diffusion layers, and the carrier is electrically heated via the wiring members. Each of the electric diffusion layers is formed so as to be divided into a plurality of regions in an axial direction of the carrier.

Abstract: An electrically heated catalyst device includes a catalyst support, a surface electrode disposed on an outer surface of the catalyst support and extending in an axis direction of the catalyst support, a wiring line member including a root section extending in the axis direction of the catalyst support and comb teeth-like wiring lines extending from the root section in a circumference direction of the catalyst support and fixed to the surface electrode, an outer cylinder covering an outer surface of the catalyst support, and a holding member holding the catalyst support and packed between the catalyst support and the outer cylinder, in which the catalyst support is heated by feeding a current through the surface electrode and the wiring line member. A slit extending from an outer edge in the circumferential direction of the catalyst support is formed in the root section of the wiring line member.