Abstract: A vehicle power supply system includes a power source control device that executes a process of switching a connection state of a driving circuit to the main power source and an auxiliary power source including; a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a backup state as a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, and a process of switching the connection state so as to transition to a normal state as the voltage decrease of the main power source is resolved. After a voltage decrease of the main power source occurs, a turning-side control device of a steering control unit sets an output-limited state for a turning-side motor. The output-limited state is canceled upon the power source control device completing switching of the connection state so as to transition.

Abstract: A tank includes a liner and a reinforcement layer. The liner has a body portion with a cylindrical shape, and a pair of dome-shaped portions respectively provided at both ends of the body portion in an axial direction of the body portion. The reinforcement layer covers the liner and is made of a fiber reinforced resin that is a resin-impregnated fiber bundle. The reinforcement layer includes a part reinforcement layer disposed from an apex side of each of the dome-shaped portions across a boundary between the dome-shaped portion and the body portion to part of the body portion, and an outer hoop layer disposed outside the part reinforcement layer and provided so as to press an end, adjacent to the body portion, of the part reinforcement layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to receive, from an information processing apparatus, a set of print setting values, an identifier of the set, and a user identifier, register the received set of print setting values in association with the received identifier of the set and the received user identifier, and receive, from an information processing apparatus, a first request for obtaining the registered identifier of the set. The received first request includes the user identifier of a user that operates the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request. The controller also transmits, to the information processing apparatus that has transmitted the first request, the identifier of the set registered in association with the user identifier included in the first request, wherein the information processing apparatus that has received the identifier of the set displays a print setting screen using the received identifier of the set.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a converter circuit and a control unit. The converter circuit includes circuits for the number of phases being more than one, the circuits each including a reactor and a corresponding first or second switching element connected to the reactor. The converter circuit converts an AC voltage output from a commercial power supply into a DC voltage. In a case where a time difference between a timing of turning off the first switching element and a timing of turning on the second switching element is within a threshold, the control unit performs control for advancing or delaying the timing of turning off the first switching element.

Abstract: An induction heating cooking apparatus includes a plurality of heating coils aligned in at least one row on a flat surface, a plurality of inverter circuits each configured to supply a high-frequency current to the corresponding one of the plurality of heating coils, and a controller configured to control driving of the plurality of inverter circuits. The plurality of heating coils include a first heating coil and a second heating coil that are adjacent to each other. The controller is configured to, when a material forming a heating target loaded on an upper part of the first heating coil is a magnetic material, and a material forming the heating target loaded on an upper part of the second heating coil at least includes a nonmagnetic material, set a frequency of the high-frequency current supplied to the second heating coil higher than a frequency of the high-frequency current supplied to the first heating coil.

Abstract: A battery management system includes multiple monitoring devices and a control device. The monitoring devices are disposed in a housing that accommodates a battery of a vehicle and monitors battery information indicating a state of the battery. The control device performs wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices and acquires data including the battery information to execute a predetermined process. The control device sets a cycle in which the multiple monitoring devices make a round in order to perform wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices, and is capable of adjusting the cycle.

Abstract: A battery management system in a vehicle includes: monitoring devices arranged in a housing accommodating battery; and a control device arranged in the housing, acquiring battery information from the monitoring devices, and performing a predetermined process. The control device stores, in advance as learning data, data that correlates with an electric field intensity in the housing for frequency channels that are usable to transmit and receive data to and from each of the monitoring devices performing wireless communication. The control device determines a target frequency channel of the frequency channel hopping based on the learning data.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a control device. The control device transmits request data requesting transmission of battery information, and the monitoring device transmits response data including the battery information to the control device. The control device makes next request data include communication establishment information and transmits the next request data. The monitoring device includes a transmission buffer capable of individually accumulating the battery information for multiple times. The monitoring device deletes the battery information corresponding to communication establishment from the transmission buffer, and holds the battery information corresponding to communication failure in the transmission buffer based on the communication establishment information.

Abstract: A battery management system includes monitoring devices arranged in a housing that houses batteries and a control device. The monitoring device includes (i) a monitoring IC capable of acquiring battery information and (ii) a wireless IC. At a start-up time of the plurality of monitoring devices, each of the wireless ICs performs an advertising operation in a cyclic advertising event for establishing a connection of wireless communication between the plurality of monitoring devices and the control device, and the control device performs a scan operation. The wireless IC of each of the two or more monitoring devices has, respectively, an event management unit that manages a generation cycle of the adverting event, for performing the advertising operation at respectively different timings.

Abstract: An inductive heating cooker includes a main body and a power-receiver device. The main body includes a top plate on which a heating target is placed, a heating coil provided under the top plate and configured to inductively heat the heating target, a drive circuit configured to supply electric power to the heating coil, a power transmission coil configured to transmit the electric power by magnetic resonance, and a power transmission circuit configured to supply the electric power to the power transmission coil. The power-receiver device includes a power reception coil configured to receive the electric power from the power transmission coil by the magnetic resonance, and a load circuit configured to operate by the electric power received by the power reception coil.

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 induction heating cooking apparatus includes a plurality of heating coils aligned in at least one row on a flat surface, a plurality of inverter circuits each configured to supply a high-frequency current to the corresponding one of the plurality of heating coils, and a controller configured to control driving of the plurality of inverter circuits. The plurality of heating coils include a first heating coil and a second heating coil that are adjacent to each other. The controller is configured to, when a material forming a heating target loaded on an upper part of the first heating coil is a magnetic material, and a material forming the heating target loaded on an upper part of the second heating coil at least includes a nonmagnetic material, set a frequency of the high-frequency current supplied to the second heating coil higher than a frequency of the high-frequency current supplied to the first heating coil.

Abstract: An induction heating cooking apparatus capable of performing wireless communication with an external apparatus includes a heating unit that inductively heats an object to be heated and a driving circuit that outputs electric power to the heating unit. Electric power output from the driving circuit during a period of time in which the wireless communication with the external apparatus is performed is less than electric power output from the driving circuit during a period of time in which the wireless communication with the external apparatus is not performed.

Abstract: An opening/closing device (14) includes: a stationary platen (20); a movable platen (22) capable of moving toward or away from the stationary platen (20); an opening/closing mechanism (28) having a plurality of toggle links (30, 31, 32) at least one (32) of which is connected to the movable platen (22); a driving device (37) including a cross head (26) connected to at least one (30) of the toggle links and capable of moving the movable platen (22); and a control portion (50). The control portion (50) is configured to control the cross head (26) such that the movable platen (22) moves at fixed speed during fine die-opening operation.

Abstract: When a temperature inside a secondary battery becomes high and a gas pressure inside a battery case increases, an inversion plate is pressed due to the gas pressure so as to project and curve in a projecting manner toward an external terminal board. Due to such a deformation, a load is transmitted to a current interruption piece via a load transmission portion. At this time, due to a pushing-up force of the load transmission portion, a vulnerable breaking portion forming part of a peripheral edge of the current interruption piece breaks, so that the current interruption piece is displaced to bend in a V-shape via a folding portion. As a result, the secondary battery is brought into an unusable state. Such a configuration can attain simplification of a structure to interrupt a current.

Abstract: An inductive heating cooker includes a main body and a power-receiver device. The main body includes a top plate on which a heating target is placed, a heating coil provided under the top plate and configured to inductively heat the heating target, a drive circuit configured to supply electric power to the heating coil, a power transmission coil configured to transmit the electric power by magnetic resonance, and a power transmission circuit configured to supply the electric power to the power transmission coil. The power-receiver device includes a power reception coil configured to receive the electric power from the power transmission coil by the magnetic resonance, and a load circuit configured to operate by the electric power received by the power reception coil.

Abstract: An induction heating cooking apparatus capable of performing wireless communication with an external apparatus includes a heating unit that inductively heats an object to be heated and a driving circuit that outputs electric power to the heating unit. Electric power output from the driving circuit during a period of time in which the wireless communication with the external apparatus is performed is less than electric power output from the driving circuit during a period of time in which the wireless communication with the external apparatus is not performed.

Abstract: A voltage monitoring device has a capacitor circuit having capacitors connected in series, first switches connecting end terminals of the capacitor circuit to specific electrode terminals of unit cells in a battery pack, second switches connecting remaining electrode terminals of the unit cells to the connection nodes between the capacitors, first voltage detection sections corresponding to each of the capacitors, a second voltage detection section connected to the end terminals of the capacitor circuit, and a microcomputer which selectively performs a first process of charging each capacitor, and a second process of charging the capacitors simultaneously. The respective specific electrode terminals correspond to the unit cells, and are arranged at an interval corresponding to the number of connection nodes formed between the capacitors.

Abstract: Provided is an antireflection film having excellent abrasion resistance. In the antireflection film, a hydrogenated carbon film as a first layer is formed on a surface of an optical substrate. A MgF2 film as a second layer having a lower refractive index than the first layer is formed on the first layer. Likewise, a third layer formed of the hydrogenated carbon film, a fourth layer formed of the MgF2 film, and a fifth layer formed of the hydrogenated carbon film are formed. During the formation of the hydrogenated carbon film, a mixed gas of argon and hydrogen is supplied to a vacuum chamber such that some of C—C bonds in the film are replaced with C—H bonds. Due to the C—H bonds, an antireflection film having excellent abrasion resistance and adhesiveness and having a low refractive index can be obtained.

Abstract: An opening/closing device (14) includes: a stationary platen (20), a movable platen (22) capable of moving toward or away from the stationary platen (20), an opening/closing mechanism (28) having a plurality of toggle links (30, 31, 32) at least one (32) of which is connected to the movable platen (22); a driving device (37) including a cross head (26) connected to at least one (30) of the toggle links and capable of moving the movable platen (22), and a control portion (50). The control portion (50) is configured to control the cross head (26) such that the movable platen (22) moves at fixed speed during fine die-opening operation.