Abstract: A fuel cell composite member 1 includes a plate-like member 2 having a gasket disposition part 4 having a front-side disposition part 4U disposed on a front surface 2U and a rear-side disposition part 4D disposed on a rear surface 2D and a gasket 5 integrally molded with the gasket disposition part 4. The front-side disposition part 4U has a continuous part 40U disposed around desired sealing target regions 22ULa, 22ULc, 22URa, 22URc, and 22UM and an independent part 41U independent from the continuous part 40U and disposed on the outer side of the continuous part 40U in a surface direction. The continuous part 40U and the independent part 41U communicate with each other through continuous part inner penetrating holes 402Ua, the rear-side disposition part 4D, and independent part inner penetrating holes 410U. In the independent part 41U, the gasket 5 does not protrude forward from the front surface 2U.

Abstract: A degradable structural member made of a magnesium alloy is produced, the degradable structural member having a sufficient strength and being degradable at a proper timing in an aqueous environment. The magnesium alloy used (i) contains not less than 7.0% by mass and not more than 13.0% by mass of Al, not less than 4.5% by mass and not more than 13.0% by mass of Cu, and not less than 0% by mass and less than 0.10% by mass of Mn, with the balance being Mg and unavoidable impurities; and (ii) includes finely dispersed intermetallic compounds.

Abstract: There is provided a valve device including: a housing; and a float valve. The float valve includes a main float, a sub-float held at an upper portion of the main float to be able to ascend and descend by a predetermined distance with respect to the main float, and a sub-float biasing spring disposed between the main float and the sub-float and configured to bias the sub-float upward with respect to the main float. The sub-float includes a spring support portion configured to support an upper end of the sub-float biasing spring and a seal portion that is configured to come into contact with and separate from an opening portion. The main float is movable further upward with respect to the sub-float by compressing the sub-float biasing spring in a state where the float valve ascends and the opening portion is closed by the sub-float.

Abstract: A print management system includes a printing apparatus, a first acquisition section that acquires print information indicating a print status, a second acquisition section that acquires collection information indicating a collection status of waste paper, and a provision instruction section that gives an instruction to provide a benefit to a user of the printing apparatus based on both the print information and the collection information.

Abstract: A travel amount estimation apparatus includes a vehicle travel amount calculation unit, a sensor travel amount calculation unit, an error cause determination unit, and a vehicle travel amount correction unit. The vehicle travel amount calculation unit acquires vehicle information and calculates a vehicle travel amount based on the vehicle information. The sensor travel amount calculation unit acquires sensor information from an external sensor and calculates a sensor travel amount based on the sensor information. The error cause determination unit determines an error cause of the vehicle travel amount. The vehicle travel amount correction unit corrects the vehicle travel amount by using the sensor travel amount in accordance with the error cause and estimates a travel amount of the vehicle on which it is mounted.

Abstract: An automated warehouse system includes automated warehouses, work stations, a travel route, automated guided vehicles, and a controller. The travel route is accessible to the automated warehouses and the work stations. The automated guided vehicles travel along the travel route. The controller determines an area including at least a portion of the travel route as a travel area in which the automated guided vehicle travels, and controls the automated guided vehicle to transport an article between the automated warehouse and the work stations belonging to the travel area. The controller determines size of the travel area, in which the automated guided vehicle travels, based on the operating status of at least one of the automated warehouse and the work station.

Abstract: To provide a fuel tank check valve making it easy to assemble a cap to a valve element housing. This fuel tank check valve has a body tube provided with a valve element housing, a valve element, a cap, and a spring, wherein the valve element housing has a base end side frame, a tip end side frame to which the cap is mounted, and a first coupling frame connecting the both frames, the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion having a shape in which a circumferential part is retracted from the tip end surface thereof to the base end side frame side, the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched, and the cap is assembled to the valve element housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.

Abstract: An external recognition device that detects and tracks a moving object includes an object position detection unit that detects a position of the moving object as an observation value, based on an image; a region determination unit that determines a region to which the moving object belongs in the image, based on the observation value; an observation error setting unit that calculates an error to an observation value, based on a determination result; a state prediction unit that predicts a state of the moving object at a current time, based on the observation value up to a previous time that is a time earlier than the current time and the error; an association unit that associates the state of the moving object at the current time with the observation value; and a state update unit that updates the state of the moving object, based on a result of the association.

Abstract: A lens barrel including a first lens, an actuator that drives the first lens, a first barrel that holds a first cam follower and the actuator and moves in an optical axis direction, a second lens, and a second barrel that holds a second cam follower and the second lens and moves in the optical axis direction, the second barrel having a first hole portion in which the first cam follower is disposed.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can propose makeup that brings parts constituting a user's face closer to an ideal arrangement. A user's face image is captured, parts of the user's face image are recognized on the basis of the face image, and a best balance face image in which the parts are optimally arranged and have optimum sizes. Makeup on the user's face image is closer to the best balance face image is set, and a recipe image displaying a process of the makeup is generated and displayed.

Abstract: A travel amount estimation apparatus 10 includes a vehicle travel amount calculation unit 14, a sensor travel amount calculation unit 11, an error cause determination unit 16, and a vehicle travel amount correction unit 17. The vehicle travel amount calculation unit 14 acquires vehicle information 30 related to traveling of an own-vehicle and calculates a vehicle travel amount indicating a travel amount of the own-vehicle based on the vehicle information 30. The sensor travel amount calculation unit 11 acquires sensor information related to a surrounding environment of the own-vehicle from an external sensor 20 and calculates a sensor travel amount indicating a travel amount of the own-vehicle based on the sensor information. The error cause determination unit 16 determines an error cause of the vehicle travel amount.

Abstract: A position estimation apparatus includes: an image information calculation unit that extracts each of image feature points from a plurality of images which are sequentially captured and associates the image feature points with each other between the plurality of images; a travel amount calculation unit that estimates the position of the mobile object; a three-dimensional image feature point calculation unit that estimates a three-dimensional position of the image feature point in a real space on the basis of a result of associating the image feature points with each other and the position of the mobile object; a position correction unit that corrects the three-dimensional position and the position of the mobile object so as to reduce a position error between a position of the three-dimensional position, when the three-dimensional position is reprojected onto any one of the plurality of images, in the relevant image and the image feature point; a route regeneration judgment unit that judges whether or not to r

Abstract: A probe pin includes a coil spring extending and contracting along a center line, a first contact disposed on one side of the center line and having a rectangular cross section, and a second contact disposed on the other side of the center line and having a rectangular cross section. The first contact and the second contact are supported so as to be reciprocable via the spring coil and are electrically connected to each other. In particular, a contact surface of at least one of the first contact and the second contact is an inclined surface inclined so as to descend along a thickness direction.

Abstract: A probe pin includes a coil spring extending and contracting along a center line, a first contact disposed on one side of the center line and having a rectangular cross section, and a second contact disposed on the other side of the center line and having a rectangular cross section. The first contact and the second contact are supported so as to be reciprocable via the spring coil and are electrically connected to each other. In particular, a contact surface of at least one of the first contact and the second contact is an inclined surface inclined so as to descend along a thickness direction.

Abstract: To provide a fuel tank check valve making it easy to assemble a cap to a valve element housing. This fuel tank check valve has a body tube provided with a valve element housing, a valve element, a cap, and a spring, wherein the valve element housing has a base end side frame, a tip end side frame to which the cap is mounted, and a first coupling frame connecting the both frames, the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion having a shape in which a circumferential part is retracted from the tip end surface thereof to the base end side frame side, the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched, and the cap is assembled to the valve element housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.

Abstract: A probe pin includes a first contact part and a second contact part; a middle part located between the first contact part and the second contact part; a first flexible part configured to move the first contact part relative to the middle part in the first arrangement direction; and a movable part configured to move the second contact part relative to the middle part in a direction intersecting with the first arrangement direction.

Abstract: A probe pin is provided with a plate-like movable pin including: a flexible part configured to extend and contract lengthwise; a first contact part and a second contact part each provided at an end of the flexible part lengthwise; and a conduction-path forming element overlapping the movable pin along the thickness thereof. The conduction-path forming element includes a first contact surface and a second contact surface at lengthwise ends configured to contact the first contact part and second contact part; the movable pin and the conduction-path forming element are arranged to allow the first contact part to remain in contact with the first contact surface and the second contact part to remain in contact with the second contact surface while allowing relative movement of the movable pin and the conduction-path forming element lengthwise.

Abstract: A lens barrel including a first lens, an actuator that drives the first lens, a first barrel that holds a first cam follower and the actuator and moves in an optical axis direction, a second lens, and a second barrel that holds a second cam follower and the second lens and moves in the optical axis direction, the second barrel having a first hole portion in which the first cam follower is disposed.

Abstract: A humidifier includes: a electrode; a water absorbing humidification member configured to serve as a counter electrode for the electrode; a power supply for applying a voltage to the electrode; a water supply unit for supplying humidification water to the water absorbing humidification member; and a blower for causing air to flow through an air passage formed in a space between the electrode and the water absorbing humidification member, the electrode being configured to generate, by receiving a voltage applied thereto, ion wind flowing from the electrode to a direction normal to a surface of the water absorbing humidification member, and the ion wind is caused to impinge on the water absorbing humidification member to humidify the air in the air passage.

Abstract: A variable oil pump includes a pump rotor housed in a housing and rotationally driven, an adjustment ring that adjusts an amount of oil discharged from the pump rotor by being displaced under hydraulic pressure supplied to a hydraulic chamber between the housing and the pump rotor in a state where the pump rotor is rotatably held from an outer peripheral side, and a vane provided in a portion where the adjustment ring and the housing face each other and that seals oil leakage to an outside of the hydraulic chamber. The adjustment ring includes a vane holding portion that holds the vane and an oil passage through which the hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic chamber is drawn into the vane holding portion.