Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering device to steer a vehicle body, a working device connected to the vehicle body, an automatic steering controller to perform automatic steering of the steering device based on a difference between a scheduled traveling line and a position of the vehicle body, and a parameter changer to change a control parameter of the automatic steering depending on the working device connected to the vehicle body.

Abstract: An action detection system (10) includes an action specification unit (18) configured to start specification of at least one action ID based on at least part of skeleton information extracted from video data that is a captured video of a user in response to detection of the user visiting checkout machine determined in advance, a determination unit (20) configured to determine whether or not an action sequence including the specified at least one action ID corresponds to registration action sequences registered in advance, and a processing control unit (21) configured to execute processing determined in advance in accordance with a determination result.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control method controls a hybrid vehicle having an electric power source, a vehicle electrical equipment and drive motor to which electric power is supplied from the electric power source. The vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are electrically connected to the electric power source via at least a shared harness. When a temperature of the harness is equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature, upper limit values of electric power supplied from the electric power source to the vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are both reduced, and a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the vehicle equipment is greater than a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the drive motor.

Abstract: The laser processing device includes a laser head that emits laser light and a camera that acquires a surface image of a processing member after being irradiated with the laser light. The laser processing device further includes an image processor that performs image processing on an acquired surface image and calculates a diameter of a processing mark, and an autofocus controller that derives an optimum focal position of the laser light based on the diameter of the processing mark. In addition, the laser processing device includes a driver that moves the laser head in an emission direction of the laser light to allow the laser light to be condensed at an optimum focal position based on the derivation result of the autofocus controller.

Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel with either manual steering by the steering handle or automatic steering of the steering handle based on a traveling reference line, an operator provided to the vehicle body, and a controller to terminate the automatic steering when the operator is operated under the automatic steering.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing osteogenic differentiation, the method comprising the following steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells under feeder-free conditions, (2) culturing the cells in a mixed culture medium of an osteogenic induction medium and a pluripotent stem cell medium, the mixed culture medium containing a ROCK inhibitor and a retinoic acid receptor ? or ? agonist, and (3) culturing the cells in an osteogenic induction medium containing the retinoic acid receptor ? or ? agonist. The method for inducing osteogenic differentiation according to the present invention is a simple, short-term, highly efficient and highly reproducible one-procedure method for inducing osteogenic differentiation, wherein the method is suitable for bone regeneration therapies, the development of bone metabolic drugs and the development of novel therapies for bone diseases.

Abstract: Provided is a laser welding method including a welding step of welding a workpiece by irradiating a surface of a workpiece with a laser beam that is swept two-dimensionally while being advanced in an X direction. In the welding step, the laser beam is swept to draw a predetermined pattern on the surface of the workpiece. Additionally, drawing speed and output of the laser beam are controlled to have an equal amount of heat input per unit drawing length in the predetermined pattern over the entire length of the predetermined pattern. The predetermined pattern is a continuous pattern in which two annular patterns are in contact with each other at one point.

Abstract: A laser welding device includes: a laser oscillator to which an incidence end of a fiber is connectable; a welding head connectable to an emission end of the fiber and configured to perform laser welding while condensing laser light emitted from the laser oscillator via the emission end and irradiating a workpiece with the laser light; a detector configured to detect presence or absence of a defect in the laser welding; and a controller including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the laser welding device to perform operations. The operations include: performing, in response to receiving, from the detector, an output signal indicating a defect at a welding point on the workpiece during the laser welding of the workpiece, control such that supplementary laser welding is performed at a predetermined position in a vicinity of the welding point.

Abstract: A laser welding device includes: a laser oscillator with which an incoming end of a fiber is connected; a welding head that is connected to an outgoing end of the fiber and that performs laser welding while irradiating a workpiece with laser light by guiding the laser light from the laser oscillator to the workpiece via the fiber; a sensor that detects, during the laser welding, an intensity of plume light that is based on the laser welding at a welded position at which the workpiece is irradiated with the laser light; and a controller that controls a height of the welding head based on a detection output from the sensor, the height being a height in a direction parallel with a direction that the laser light is emitted.

Abstract: A bus bar formed using a metal plate is provided. The metal plate includes one or more holes extending through the metal plate on a bend line. The bus bar includes a folded part formed by bending the metal plate along the bend line through hemming. The folded part includes a first region and a second region. The first region is located between an outer edge of the metal plate and the bend line. The second region overlaps in close contact with the first region. The bus bar also includes a terminal arranged in the first region. The folded part includes one or more welds in which the first region and the second region are welded to each other.

Abstract: A laser welding method includes a welding step of applying a laser beam to a surface of a workpiece while the laser beam is caused to advance in an X-direction and scanning with the laser beam is simultaneously performed in a Y-direction intersecting the X-direction. The welding step includes a first weaving step of causing the laser beam to weave in the Y-direction with first amplitude (A1), and a second weaving step of causing the laser beam to weave with a predetermined amplitude smaller than first amplitude (A1) at both end portions of a weaving trajectory drawn by the laser beam in the first weaving step.

Abstract: An inkjet printer cleaning system includes an inkjet printer and a cleaning unit. The inkjet printer includes an ink head and a table that faces the ink head and on which a substrate is to be placed. The cleaning unit includes an attachment attachable to and removable from the table, and a cleaner that faces the ink head upon attaching of the attachment to the table.

Abstract: An inkjet head cleaning unit 100 according to the present invention includes a base 110 and cleaners 120A to 120H disposed on the base 110. The cleaners 120A to 120H each include a convex surface S1. The convex surfaces S1 of the cleaners 120A to 120H are each made of a flexible ink-absorbing material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing osteogenic differentiation, the method comprising the following steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells under feeder-free conditions, (2) culturing the cells in a mixed culture medium of an osteogenic induction medium and a pluripotent stem cell medium, the mixed culture medium containing a ROCK inhibitor and a retinoic acid receptor ? or ? agonist, and (3) culturing the cells in an osteogenic induction medium containing the retinoic acid receptor ? or ? agonist. The method for inducing osteogenic differentiation according to the present invention is a simple, short-term, highly efficient and highly reproducible one-procedure method for inducing osteogenic differentiation, wherein the method is suitable for bone regeneration therapies, the development of bone metabolic drugs and the development of novel therapies for bone diseases.

Abstract: Provided herein is a fuse that includes a conductive member, two shielding portions arranged on the conductive member, and a case. The conductive member includes a two bars on each end of the conductive member and an element (e.g., melting portion) that integrally connects the two bars. The two shielding members are disk shaped and are situated on the conductive member between the element and the two bars. The case encloses the element and the two shielding members.

Abstract: A fuse includes a conductive member formed integrally with a melting portion that melts and breaks when overcurrent occurs, two shielding portions arranged on the conductive member to hold the melting portion in between, and a case formed from an electrically-insulative material. The case encloses the melting portion in cooperation with the two shielding portions.

Abstract: Provided to stabilize generation of address discharge and improve gradation characteristics of display images are the following elements: a plasma display panel; a sustain pulse generating circuit; and a ramp voltage generating circuit including a first ramp voltage generating circuit, a second ramp voltage generating circuit, and a switching circuit. The first ramp voltage generating circuit generates a first ramp voltage gently increasing in an initializing period. The second ramp voltage generating circuit generates a second ramp voltage increasing with a gradient gentler than that of the rising edge of a sustain pulse and steeper than that of the first ramp voltage, at the end of each sustain period. The switching circuit stops the operation of the second ramp voltage generating circuit immediately after the second ramp voltage reaches a predetermined electric potential. In at least one sustain period of one field, no sustain pulse but the second ramp voltage is generated.

Abstract: A press-fit terminal includes: through-hole contact portions provided at intermediate portions in a terminal protruding direction, both ends of the through-hole contact portions in a widthwise direction being pressed against an inner peripheral surface of a through-hole; distal end side wide portions and proximal end side wide portions provided on both sides of the through-hole contact portions in the terminal protruding direction, and protruding toward both sides in the widthwise direction so as to position a substrate on both sides of the substrate in a thickness direction; width varying portions whose width gradually reduces from the distal end side wide portions toward a distal end side in the terminal protruding direction; a longitudinal perforated hole provided to extend over these portions; and a distal end connecting portion integrally connecting the width varying portions separated by the perforated hole, at a distal end side in the terminal protruding direction.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front plate, and a rear plate opposed to the front plate. A discharge gap is provided between a first electrode and a second electrode of the front plate. The first electrode includes first projecting parts projecting from a first base part toward the discharge gap. The second electrode includes projecting parts projecting from a second base part toward the discharge gap. A space between a tip part of the first base part and a tip part of a first bus electrode is 5 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A press-fit terminal includes: through-hole contact portions provided at intermediate portions in a terminal protruding direction, both ends of the through-hole contact portions in a widthwise direction being pressed against an inner peripheral surface of a through-hole of a substrate; distal end side wide portions and proximal end side wide portions provided on both sides of the through-hole contact portions in the terminal protruding direction, and protruding toward both sides in the widthwise direction so as to position the substrate in a manner such that the substrate is sandwiched between the distal end side wide portions and the proximal end side wide portions on both sides of the substrate in a thickness direction; width varying portions whose width between both ends in the widthwise direction gradually reduces from the distal end side wide portions toward a distal end side in the terminal protruding direction; a longitudinal perforated hole provided to extend over the width varying portions, the dista