Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that enables a more effective reduction in a load imposed on a user, with the use of force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to estimate, on the basis of a state of a user, a first amount that is predicted by the user with regard to force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object, and control presentation of information to the user on the basis of the first amount and a second amount that is preliminarily registered with regard to the force.

Abstract: A mask includes a filter portion that is formed of an air-permeable sheet material and covers at least a nose and a mouth in wearing; a substantially annular face-contacting body that is joined to the filter portion, and is in contact with at least a vicinity of the nose and a vicinity of the mouth on a face in wearing; and a hook string to be hooked around either a head or an ear so that the filter portion and the face-contacting body are worn to the face. Here, a protrusion portion is arranged at least at a part of the face-contacting body to be in contact with at least a vicinity of the nose on the face in wearing to the face and press the filter portion to form a three-dimensional shape allowing the filter portion to conform to unevenness of the face.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure prevents catalyst slurry from leaching out when applying a wash coat for making a catalyst supported, ensuring air permeability of the outer portion and in which there is no occurrence of cracking when used as a gasoline particulate filter. The honeycomb structure having: a honeycomb substrate composed of porous partition walls forming a plurality of cells and a porous outer portion; and a resin composition on the outer portion of the honeycomb substrate, wherein the outer portion and the partition walls of the honeycomb substrate are formed of the same material; a porosity of the honeycomb structure is 50% or more; and the resin composition is impregnated into pores of the whole outer portion; and the impregnation depth is equal to the outer portion thickness or a part of the resin composition is impregnated deeper than the outer portion and reaches the cell partition walls.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a film-coated cylindrical honeycomb structure formed with a coating liquid on an outer portion of a cylindrical honeycomb structure including partition walls and the outer portion, the partition walls forming a plurality of cells, the outer portion serving as a circumferential side. In the method, the cylindrical honeycomb structure is mounted between at least two rollers such that the circumferential side of the cylindrical honeycomb structure contacts with circumferential sides of the rollers, the coating liquid supplied from an application part is deposited on the cylindrical honeycomb structure while being rotated, and then the deposited coating liquid is dried or cured to form the film on the outer portion.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure prevents catalyst slurry from leaching out when applying a wash coat for making a catalyst supported, ensuring air permeability of the outer portion and in which there is no occurrence of cracking when used as a gasoline particulate filter. The honeycomb structure having: a honeycomb substrate composed of porous partition walls forming a plurality of cells and a porous outer portion; and a resin composition on the outer portion of the honeycomb substrate, wherein the outer portion and the partition walls of the honeycomb substrate are formed of the same material; a porosity of the honeycomb structure is 50% or more; and the resin composition is impregnated into pores of the whole outer portion; and the impregnation depth is equal to the outer portion thickness or a part of the resin composition is impregnated deeper than the outer portion and reaches the cell partition walls.

Abstract: An air cleaning apparatus capable of predicting a breakthrough time of a filtering portion is provided. Regarding a mask 1 as one example of the air cleaning apparatus, data on concentration of the poisonous gas element with which in ambient air (40) is contaminated on the upstream side of a filtering portion (3), a flow rate of the air (40) passing through the filtering portion (3), a temperature of the air (40), and relative humidity of the air (40) are input to an arithmetic processing unit (25). A breakthrough-time prediction formula in which the concentration, the flow rate, the temperature, and the relative humidity are provided as variables is programmed in the arithmetic processing unit (25), and the breakthrough time of the filtering portion (3) is calculated through the prediction formula, based on the data on the concentration and the like.

Abstract: An air cleaning apparatus capable of predicting a breakthrough time of a filtering portion is provided. Regarding a mask 1 as one example of the air cleaning apparatus, data on concentration of the poisonous gas element with which in ambient air (40) is contaminated on the upstream side of a filtering portion (3), a flow rate of the air (40) passing through the filtering portion (3), a temperature of the air (40), and relative humidity of the air (40) are input to an arithmetic processing unit (25). A breakthrough-time prediction formula in which the concentration, the flow rate, the temperature, and the relative humidity are provided as variables is programmed in the arithmetic processing unit (25), and the breakthrough time of the filtering portion (3) is calculated through the prediction formula, based on the data on the concentration and the like.

Abstract: An infrared light is applied to a polymer film having a thickness of less than 30.mu., and the infrared light is spectroscopically separated before or after being applied to the polymer film to obtain an infrared interference fringe spectrum based on the polymer film, and then the extreme points of the infrared interference fringe spectrum are detected by processing, whereby to measure the thickness of the polymer film.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for measuring the thicknesses of film layers of different synthetic resins forming a composite multilayer film or sheet by utilizing infrared rays. Infrared rays of sample wavelengths, each equal to the infrared absorption wavelength of each film layer, and at least one reference wavelength different from the infrared absorption wavelength of each film layer are projected onto the multilayer film to be measured. Ratios are obtained between the amounts of infrared lights of the sample and reference wavelengths transmitted through the multilayer film. An operation is achieved for solving a simultaneous equation including the ratios and the infrared absorption coefficients of the film layers at the sample and reference wavelengths as coefficients and the thicknesses of the film layers as unknowns, thereby obtaining the thicknesses of the film layers.