Abstract: A work vehicle includes a diesel engine, a heater to heat a gas to be supplied to a combustion chamber of the diesel engine, and a controller to execute an afterglow routine to cause the heater to operate. The controller is configured or programmed to execute the afterglow routine in response to the diesel engine being started, an elapse of a predetermined stop time since an end of a previous execution of the afterglow routine, and the work vehicle being in a warming-up state.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a fixing unit including a belt, and a heater configured to heat the belt and including a substrate and a heating layer that is formed on the substrate, and a controller configured to shut off the heater if no current flows through the belt.

Abstract: A working machine is provided, which includes a machine body, a prime mover, a pair of traveling devices, a pair of traveling motors to be switched between a first speed and a second speed higher than the first speed, a pair of traveling pumps driven by the prime mover to supply operation fluid to the pair of traveling motors, respectively, a controller configured to automatically shift down the pair of traveling motors from the second speed to the first speed, a mode switch configured for an operator to select an ON position allowing the controller to automatically shift down the first traveling motor from the second speed to the first speed and an OFF position preventing the controller to automatically shift down the first traveling motor from the second speed to the first speed, and a display to display that the operator selects the ON position of the mode switch.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing, an outer shield including a tubular portion, and a terminal surrounded by the tubular portion of the outer shield. The connector is connected to a mating connector by moving toward the mating connector in a predetermined direction relatively with respect to the mating connector. A first end of the tubular portion of the outer shield is located in the predetermined direction in the tubular portion. The tubular portion of the outer shield has an inner circumferential surface facing a hollow space, an outer circumferential surface opposite to the inner circumferential surface, and a distal end surface provided at the first end. At least one of the distal end surface, the outer circumferential surface, and the inner circumferential surface is seamless over an entire circumference of the tubular portion surrounding the hollow space along a circumferential direction of the tubular portion.

Abstract: A learning device includes a learning unit configured to learn a model using learning data stored in a data storage unit; a subsampling unit configured to determine whether to use the learning data corresponding to gradient information updated by an update unit based on the model, for learning of a next model after learning of one model based on a subsampling rate; first and second buffer unit configured to buffer learning data determined to be used for and data determined not to be used for learning of the next model and gradient information corresponding to the learning data, respectively, up to a volume determined in advance. The first buffer unit and the second buffer unit are configured to write the learning data and the gradient information into the data storage unit for each predetermined block when buffering the learning data and the gradient information up to the volume.

Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a processing technique whereby the flavor of a chickpea milk can be improved. According to this method of manufacturing a processed chickpea milk including a step for treating a chickpea milk with a protein deamidase, the flavor of the chickpea milk can be improved.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a processing technique whereby the flavor of a coconut milk can be improved. According to this method of manufacturing a processed coconut milk including a step for treating a coconut milk with a protein deamidase, the flavor of the coconut milk can be improved.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, upon detection of an impact applied to an object, whether the impact has caused damage to the object, and when it is determined that damage has been caused, identify a cause of the damage, based on a result of observation of a surrounding environment of the object at a time that the impact was applied.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene which is less likely to generate C6-C14 perfluorocarboxylic acids and salts thereof. The disclosure relates to a method for producing low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene having a melt viscosity at 380° C. of 1.0×102 to 7.0×105 Pa·s. The method includes (1) irradiating high-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene with radiation in a substantially oxygen-free state and decomposing the high-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene into a low-molecular-weight component and (2) deactivating, in a substantially oxygen-free state, at least part of main-chain radicals and end radicals generated by the irradiation and providing the low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: A battery cell (1) has an electrode composition, a frame member (3) placed annularly so as to surround the electrode composition, and a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode current collector for closing openings of the frame member (3) from both sides in the thickness direction. The frame member (3) has a fragile portion (9) for communicating inside and outside of the frame member (3) when the pressure inside the frame member increases above a certain level. The battery cell (1) in question allows increase in the pressure inside the frame member (3), thereby preventing damage.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor configured to divide a three-dimensional space including a three-dimensional shape constituted by one or more forming surfaces, which are flat surfaces or curved surfaces or include both flat surfaces and curved surfaces, into plural three-dimensional regions each having a predetermined size, specify, for each of the three-dimensional regions, one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region, and redivide each of the three-dimensional regions until a size of the three-dimensional region reaches a size necessary for reproduction of a property of a portion of the three-dimensional shape expressed by one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing, an outer shield including a tubular portion, and a terminal surrounded by the tubular portion of the outer shield. The connector is connected to a mating connector by moving toward the mating connector in a predetermined direction relatively with respect to the mating connector. A first end of the tubular portion of the outer shield is located in the predetermined direction in the tubular portion. The tubular portion of the outer shield has an inner circumferential surface facing a hollow space, an outer circumferential surface opposite to the inner circumferential surface, and a distal end surface provided at the first end. At least one of the distal end surface, the outer circumferential surface, and the inner circumferential surface is seamless over an entire circumference of the tubular portion surrounding the hollow space along a circumferential direction of the tubular portion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a fixing unit including a fixing belt, and a heater configured to heat the fixing belt and including a substrate and a heating layer that is formed on the substrate, and a controller configured to, upon detecting an absence of a current flowing through the fixing belt, control the heater to not generate heat.

Abstract: Crop production in agriculture, horticulture, and the like has still been significantly damaged by pests and the like, and pests that are resistant to existing drugs have appeared. Due to such concerns, it is desired to develop novel insecticidal agents and acaricides. The present invention has found that a compound represented by general formula (1): wherein X and Y represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R2 represents a substituted phenyl group or the like, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R4 represents a phenyl group or the like, or a salt thereof has a high insecticidal effect on pests in agriculture and horticulture, and the like. The present invention provides an agricultural and horticultural insecticidal agent containing the compound or a salt thereof as an active ingredient, and a method of use thereof.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and set one or more measurement points at which an inspection target site is to be measured and a number of the one or more measurement points according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information as the inspection target item.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and decide an inspection method to be used for inspection as to the product manufacturing information as the inspection target item according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine a relationship between first product manufacturing information and second product manufacturing information included in three-dimensional model data; and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, information indicating the relationship between the first product manufacturing information and the second product manufacturing information.

Abstract: A connector includes an outer shield, a terminal surrounded by the outer shield, a housing fixed to the outer shield and holding the terminal; and an inner shield surrounded by the outer shield. The outer shield, the inner shield, and two virtual paths that connect the two tip regions of the inner shield to the outer shield by shortest distances, respectively, constitute plural electrically-closed loops surrounding the terminal. The electrically-closed loops include one or more particular electrically-closed loops. Each of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops does not surround any electrically-closed loop among the plurality of electrically-closed loops other than the each of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops. A longest loop length of the one or more loop lengths of the one or more particular electrically-closed loops is shorter than a wavelength of a maximum frequency of a transmission signal flowing through the terminal.