Abstract: A blade ring assembly including: a turbine blade ring extending in a circumferential direction about an axis; a component to be cooled, disposed on an inner circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and an outer circumferential side component disposed on an outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring. The turbine blade ring has a cooling medium intake port leading from an outer circumferential surface to an inner circumferential surface of the turbine blade ring. The outer circumferential side component includes: a first wall portion which covers at least a portion of the cooling medium intake port from the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring; and a second wall portion which extends from an end portion of the first wall portion on the axially downstream thereof toward the outer circumferential side of the turbine blade ring.

Abstract: An alarm system is an alarm system to be mounted in a vehicle, and includes a display, an imager, and a controller. The display is used for displaying information for an in-vehicle apparatus. The imager is capable of acquiring an image including a face of a driver. The controller displays information regarding a travel condition of the vehicle on the display, upon determining, based on the image, that a situation in which the driver looks at the display has continued for a predetermined time period or longer.

Abstract: A spot welding method includes supplying a welding current having a pulse-shaped waveform to a workpiece by alternately executing a step of maintaining the welding current within a set peak current range and a step of decreasing the welding current from the peak current range toward a bottom current and then increasing the welding current toward the peak current range when an effective value of the welding current reaches a set target range for a plurality of cycles. The spatter detection method includes measuring a pulse width IW(1), IW(2), . . . in each cycle of the pulse-shaped waveform and detecting the occurrence of spatter when a pulse width difference D(M)=IW(M)?IW(M?1) between a pulse width IW(M) in a target cycle (M-th cycle) and a pulse width IW(M?1) in a cycle immediately before the target cycle exceeds a width threshold value Dth.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet. According to the present invention, there is provided a lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet comprising: (A) a lactic acid bacterium; (B) an excipient; and (C) a lubricant, wherein a content of the (C) in the tablet is less than 10 mass %, and a mass per tablet is 200 mg or more. The (B) preferably contains at least (B1) hydroxypropyl cellulose and/or (B2) crystalline cellulose or ?-cyclodextrin. The lactic acid bacterium is preferably a bacterium of the genus Lactococcus. According to the present invention, there is provided a lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet having high ingestion efficiency and excellent hardness.

Abstract: A guidance apparatus is for guidance to a charging facility and includes a positional information acquisition interface, a display and a controller. The positional information acquisition interface is configured to acquire information on the current position of a mobile object. The display is configured to display the charging facility. The controller is configured to extract a charging facility located within an area based on the current position, predict a recovery amount of a state of charge of a battery of the mobile object, expressed as a charging rate relative to a full charge of the battery, in a case in which the battery is charged at the charging facility for a predetermined charging time, and vary a display form of the charging facility displayed on a map image, according to a predicted value of the recovery amount of the state of charge.

Abstract: A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a first folding roller, a second folding roller, a return conveyance passage, and a third folding roller. The conveyor conveys a sheet along a main conveyance passage in a conveyance direction. The second folding roller facing the first folding roller across the main conveyance passage conveys the sheet by a first conveyance amount. The return conveyance passage having a curvature is branched from the main conveyance passage at a branching position and is merged to the main conveyance passage at a merging position. The third folding roller facing the second folding roller across the return conveyance passage conveys the sheet by a second conveyance amount smaller than the first conveyance amount of the second folding roller. The second folding roller is on an outer peripheral side and the third folding roller is on an inner peripheral side of the return conveyance passage.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus of the present disclosure is a navigation apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle and configured to provide guidance on a route that the vehicle is to travel, and includes a positional information acquisition interface, a memory, an output interface configured to output information to a user, and a controller. The positional information acquisition interface is configured to acquire a current position of the vehicle. The memory is configured to store map information. The controller is configured to extract a guidance location on the route based on the current position and the map information, estimate a predicted time taken until arrival at the guidance location, and cause the output interface to output the predicted time.

Abstract: A switch unit is connected between a first node electrically connected to a power source and a second node electrically connected to a load circuit which receives power supplied from the power source. As a current suppression element is connected to the switch unit in parallel. A fault sensing unit senses abnormality in an electrically conducting circuit formed by electrically interconnecting the first node and the second node. When a closing operation of a switchgear is performed, a switching command unit conducts an abnormality diagnosis in a first state in which the switch unit is controlled so that an impedance between the first node and the second node has a first value, and when no abnormal state is sensed in the abnormality diagnosis, the switching command unit controls the switch unit to establish a second state in which the impedance is equal to or smaller than the first value.

Abstract: An inspection device (12) for a cold insulator (10) includes: an RF reader 50 that receives from an RF tag 30 a detected temperature of a cold insulator in a cold insulation box, the detected temperature being detected by a temperature sensor (20) attached to a surface of the cold insulator; and a controller 61. The controller outputs information indicating a result of comparison between: at least one of a lower limit temperature obtained by adding a predetermined first value to a lowest management temperature of an article that is kept cold in the cold insulation box and an upper limit temperature obtained by subtracting a predetermined second value from a solidification temperature of the cold insulator; and the detected temperature of the cold insulator which has been received by the RF reader.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a powder material for additive manufacturing capable of forming an additive-manufactured product having more excellent mechanical strength. The present invention provides a powder material for additive manufacturing containing a carbide ceramic and a metal, in which a content of the metal is 8 to 43 volume % with respect to a total amount of the carbide ceramic and the metal, and in an XRD spectrum of an additive manufactured product obtained by additive manufacturing including laser light irradiation, peaks other than those derived from the powder material before the laser light irradiation are not included; or a solid solubility of the carbide ceramic in the metal at 1250° C. is 8 mass % or less.

Abstract: A cutting device includes a platen with a groove, a blade mount, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to perform processes including acquiring outline data indicating an outline of a pattern, controlling the first conveyor and the second conveyor to form a first cutting line by the cutting blade mounted to the blade mount positioned at a first cutting position. The first cutting line is a groove-shaped cut along the outline. The processes further include controlling the first conveyor and the second conveyor to form a second cutting line by the cutting blade mounted to the blade mount positioned at a second cutting position. The second cutting line is a cut completely passing through the cutting object in the up-down direction along a portion of the outline.

Abstract: This battery includes: an electrical storage element with positive and negative electrodes and insulating film between the positive and negative electrodes and electrically separates the positive and negative electrodes; and an airtight case housing the electrical storage element, wherein the case includes: a first member having bottom and tubular portions; a second member having a lid-like portion covering an opening of the first member and a surrounding wall portion covering the tubular portion from an outside; and a gasket between an end face of the first member and the second member and between the tubular portion and the second member, and wherein a non-contact portion with which the gasket is not in contact is provided in either one or both of a part of a first surface of the first member that faces the gasket and a part of a second surface of the second member that faces the gasket.

Abstract: The invention provides a laminated body having an excellent adhesive force with respect to a low-polarity metal member in the presence of hot water. The laminated body contains a resin substrate; an easily adhesive layer provided on at least one surface of the resin substrate; and an adhesive resin layer provided on a surface of the easily adhesive layer on a side opposite to the resin substrate, wherein the adhesive resin layer contains a polyolefin having at least one group selected from the group consisting of an acidic group and an acid anhydride group and having an acid value of 0.01 mgKOH/g to 6.5 mgKOH/g; and the laminated body is used for bonding a metal member having a ratio of a dipole term in surface free energy of 0.01% to 5.0%.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that, in a case of being applied to an image display device, it is possible to suppress redness of an image originating from the image display device, which is reflected on surrounding members arranged around the image display device; and an optical film and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic film is formed of a composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which the light absorption anisotropic film has two main surfaces facing each other, an angle between a normal direction of the main surface of the light absorption anisotropic film and a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic film is 0° to 45°, and predetermined requirements are satisfied depending on the angle.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a first insulator including Si (silicon) and O (oxygen). The device further includes a first interconnect provided in the first insulator and including a metal element. The device further includes a second insulator provided on the first insulator and the first interconnect and including Si, C (carbon) and N (nitrogen), content of Si—H groups (H represents hydrogen) in the second insulator being 6.0% or less, content of Si—CH3 groups in the second insulator being 0.5% or less. The device further includes a second interconnect provided on the first interconnect in the second insulator and including the metal element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflection film which has excellent curved surface followability during bonding to an object to be bonded, exhibits excellent abrasion resistance after bonding, and further has excellent reflection characteristics; a windshield glass; a laminate; and an image display system. The reflection film of the present invention includes, in the following order, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a reflective layer reflecting light in a wavelength-selective manner, and a hardcoat layer.

Abstract: A switching device includes: a first contact; a second contact; and a fault detection circuit. The second contact includes a fixed contactor and a movable contactor. When the second contact is energized due to an operation of opening the first contact, the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact by an electromagnetic force generated by a flow of currents in opposite directions through the pair of current-carrying electrodes, and a discharge switch is formed between the movable contact and the fixed contact that are separated. The switching device further includes: a first arc runner electrically connected to the fixed contactor for driving, by an electromagnetic force, arc discharge that occurs when the second contact is opened; and a second arc runner electrically connected to the movable contactor.

Abstract: A spot welding method includes supplying a welding current having a pulse-shaped waveform to a workpiece by alternately executing a step of maintaining the welding current within a set peak current range and a step of decreasing the welding current from the peak current range toward a bottom current and then increasing the welding current toward the peak current range when an effective value of the welding current reaches a set target range for a plurality of cycles. The spatter detection method includes measuring a pulse width IW(1), IW(2), . . . in each cycle of the pulse-shaped waveform and detecting the occurrence of spatter when a pulse width difference D(M)=IW(M)?IW(M?1) between a pulse width IW(M) in a target cycle (M-th cycle) and a pulse width IW(M?1) in a cycle immediately before the target cycle exceeds a width threshold value Dth.

Abstract: Compounds and use of the compounds for formula (I) where X is selected from the group consisting of a single bond, O, N—(C1-C4)-alkyl, N—Ar1, CR5R6, S, S(O) and SO2; Z1 and Z2 are independently selected from hydrogen, -Alk-OH, —CH2—Ar2—CH2—OH, -Alk?-C(O)ORx, —CH2—Ar2—C(O)ORx and —C(O)—Ar2—C(O)ORx, where Rx is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, phenyl, benzyl and C1-C4-alkyl; R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of optionally substituted mono- or polycyclic aryl having from 6 to 26 carbon atoms as ring members and optionally substituted mono- or polycyclic hetaryl having a total of 5 to 26 atoms as ring members, R5 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl and a radical Ar1; R6 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C1-C4-alkyl; Alk is C2-C4-alkandiyl; provided that R1 and R2 are not both phenyl, if R3 and R4 are both hydrogen.