Abstract: A setting device for a print engine is configured to cause the print engine to print a specific image including a first image to be printed using first nozzles of a first head unit and a second image to be printed using second nozzles of a second head unit, receive relative position information determined based on the printed specific image, the relative position information including information indicating a positional deviation amount in a specific direction between the first nozzles and the second nozzles, and set, based on the relative position information, use nozzles to be used for printing and non-use nozzles not to be used for printing among the first nozzles and the second nozzles within a range in which a first range where the first nozzles are located and a second range where the second nozzles are located overlap with each other.

Abstract: An air-conditioning unit installed in a vehicle includes: an air-conditioning case; a blower to send air from the air-conditioning case into a cabin of the vehicle; a blower motor to drive the blower; and a functional component to realize a part of an air-conditioning function in the air-conditioning case. The functional component is disposed between a noise source of the blower motor that generates electromagnetic noise and a protection region that is at least a part of the cabin, and includes a substance that shields the electromagnetic noise.

Abstract: There is provided an antenna device, a control method, and a program that control enabling or disabling of a plurality of IC card antennas by using a mobile terminal. The antenna device includes: a mobile terminal antenna that receives a radio wave output by a reader/writer provided in a mobile terminal; a plurality of IC card antennas that communicates with an IC card including an IC chip for the IC card that reads/writes data in a contactless manner in response to a command transmitted by the reader/writer; and a control circuit that operates by using power generated when the mobile terminal antenna receives the radio wave output by the reader/writer and controls enabling or disabling of each of the IC card antennas in response to the command transmitted by the reader/writer. The present technology is applicable to a playmat used for a card game using a smartphone having an NFC function and an IC card.

Abstract: Provided are a touch panel conductive member intended to achieve both the reduction in electrical resistance of metal thin wires and bendability, and a method for producing same. The touch panel conductive member includes a transparent insulating substrate, an undercoat layer disposed thereon, first metal thin wires disposed on the undercoat layer, and a transparent insulating layer covering the first metal thin wires. The first metal thin wires have a thickness of 350 to 1000 nm. When a sectional image of the touch panel conductive member in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first metal thin wires extend is taken at ten positions and one of the first metal thin wires is observed at each of the ten positions, a void between a side surface of the one of the first metal thin wires and the transparent insulating layer is observed at six or more positions.

Abstract: A Schiff base-containing chain extender may be a diol having a Schiff base or a derivative thereof, as well as a polyurethane produced using the same and a modification method thereof, and a polishing layer including a polyurethane and a polishing method using the polishing layer.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an air conditioning case, a blower fan, and a facing wall portion. The air conditioning case configures an air passage through which air to be blown into an interior flows. The blower fan is disposed inside the air conditioning case. The facing wall portion is disposed on an air flow upstream side of the blower fan to face a suction port of the blower fan. The air conditioning case has a facing surface that faces the facing wall portion and in which through holes are formed. The air conditioning case has a closed space formed therein on an opposite side of the facing surface with respect to the air passage and communicating with the air passage via the through holes. The through holes and the closed space form a resonator having a predetermined resonance frequency.

Abstract: A setting device for a print engine is configured to cause the print engine to print a specific image including a first image to be printed using first nozzles of a first head unit and a second image to be printed using second nozzles of a second head unit, receive relative position information determined based on the printed specific image, the relative position information including information indicating a positional deviation amount in a specific direction between the first nozzles and the second nozzles, and set, based on the relative position information, use nozzles to be used for printing and non-use nozzles not to be used for printing among the first nozzles and the second nozzles within a range in which a first range where the first nozzles are located and a second range where the second nozzles are located overlap with each other.

Abstract: There is provided an antenna device, a control method, and a program that control enabling or disabling of a plurality of IC card antennas by using a mobile terminal. The antenna device includes: a mobile terminal antenna that receives a radio wave output by a reader/writer provided in a mobile terminal; a plurality of IC card antennas that communicates with an IC card including an IC chip for the IC card that reads/writes data in a contactless manner in response to a command transmitted by the reader/writer; and a control circuit that operates by using power generated when the mobile terminal antenna receives the radio wave output by the reader/writer and controls enabling or disabling of each of the IC card antennas in response to the command transmitted by the reader/writer. The present technology is applicable to a playmat used for a card game using a smartphone having an NFC function and an IC card.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing pad including a polishing layer having a polishing surface, wherein the polishing surface includes a deep-groove region having a first pattern formed by a deep groove or hole having a depth of 0.3 mm or more, and a land region that is a region other than the deep-groove region, and the land region includes shallow recesses having a second pattern and a depth of 0.01 to 0.1 mm, and a plurality of island-like land portions surrounded by the shallow recesses and having a maximum distance in a horizontal direction of 8 mm or less.

Abstract: A battery management device is configured to set a limited measurement range that limits a range for measuring a voltage of each of a plurality of batteries for a vehicle. The battery management device is configured to measure the voltage of each of the plurality of batteries within the limited measurement range.

Abstract: An air-conditioning includes a blower, a unit casing, an upstream partition, and a fan partition. The blower includes a centrifugal fan and a fan casing. The unit casing defines an upstream passage at a position upstream of the blower. The upstream partition is fixed to the unit casing to divide the upstream passage into a first upstream passage through which a first gas flows and a second upstream passage through which a second gas flows. The fan partition is fixed to the fan casing to divide an inner space of the fan into a first fan passage through which the first gas flows and a second fan passage through which the second gas flows. The unit casing defines an opening and includes a cover that closes the opening. The opening has an opening area such that the blower is removable from the unit casing through the opening.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioning device includes an air conditioning case having first, second case introduction ports and first, second case discharge ports, and a fan. The first, second case discharge ports are offset upward and downward in an up-down direction relative to a rotation axis, respectively. A first inner guide surface of an inner guide plate is located on the one side of a second inner guide surface in the left-right direction. Air introduced through the first case introduction port is guided by the first inner guide surface to be drawn from a first passage into the fan, the air being blown upward to flow through the first case discharge port. Air introduced through the second case introduction port is guided by the second inner guide surface to be drawn from a second passage into the fan, the air being blown upward to flow through the second case discharge port.

Abstract: Disclosed are a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, and a polishing layer and a polishing pad using the same, the polyurethane including a terminal group represented by the following formula (I): R—(OX)n— (I) wherein R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a heteroatom or may be interrupted by a heteroatom, X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, 90 to 100% of the alkylene group being an ethylene group, and n represents a number from 8 to 120.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, including a carboxylic acid ester group, and a polyurethane preferably having a carboxylic acid ester group in at least one of a side chain, a main chain terminal, and a main chain skeleton is preferably used. Also disclosed is a method for modifying a polishing layer, including the steps of: preparing a polishing layer including a polyurethane having a carboxylic acid ester group; and hydrolyzing the carboxylic acid ester group of the polyurethane, to produce a carboxyl group.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a casing that forms an air passage through which air flows, a blower fan to blow out air, and a heating device to heat air. The casing includes a passage portion through which air flows, a warm air passage that allows air to flow to the heating device, and a bypass passage that allows air to bypass the heating device. A width dimension of the passage portion in a second direction is larger than that of the heating device in the second direction, and is smaller than a height dimension of the passage portion in a first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a polishing pad including a polishing surface having a zeta potential of +0.1 mV or more at a pH of 10.0. Preferably, a polishing pad including a polyurethane having a tertiary amine is provided. Further preferably, the polyurethane having a tertiary amine is a reaction product of a polyurethane reaction raw material containing at least a chain extender having a tertiary amine. A polishing method using the polishing pads is also provided, wherein the method is performed while supplying an alkaline polishing slurry.

Abstract: There is used a polyurethane for polishing layers that can be used as a material of a polishing layer of a polishing pad, the polyurethane including a thermoplastic polyurethane that is a reaction product of a polyurethane raw material including a polymer diol, an organic diisocyanate, and a chain extender, wherein the chain extender contains 50 mass % or more of a first chain extender including a straight-chain carbon backbone having 7 to 12 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having a conjugated double bond, or a modification method of a polyurethane, including the steps of: preparing a polyurethane having a conjugated double bond; and treating the polyurethane with a liquid containing a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond is used.

Abstract: In a vehicular air conditioning unit, an air conditioning case includes a space forming portion that forms a drainage space which is partitioned from an air passage. The space forming portion includes a drainage portion that discharges water from inside the air conditioning case to outside of the air conditioning case. Further, the space forming portion includes an upstream side communication portion that communicates the drainage space to an upstream side space on an air flow upstream side of the blower in the air passage. Further, the space forming portion includes a downstream side communication portion that communicates the drainage space to a downstream side space on the air flow downstream side of the blower in the air passage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are polyurethanes useful for polishing layers, where the polyurethane is a polyurethane having a Schiff base. Also disclosed herein are polishing layers containing the polyurethanes, polishing methods that use the polishing layers, and a modification method including a step of converting the Schiff base into at least one functional group selected from an aldehyde group, a carboxylic acid group, a hydroxyl group, and an amino group.