Abstract: The efficiency of the work for identifying reference points that are included in photographed images is improved. Targets are located and are photographed from short distances, and the positions of the targets are measured. A 3D reference point model is generated by using the measured positions of the targets as apexes. Then, the positions of the targets that are detected from images taken by a UAV from the air are calculated from a three-dimensional model that are generated by the principle of the stereoscopic three-dimensional measurement, whereby a 3D relative model constituted of a TIN is obtained. After a matching relationship between the 3D reference point model and the 3D relative model is identified, the positions of the targets in the 3D relative model are estimated based on the identified matching relationship, and the positions of the reference points in the images taken from the UAV are estimated.

Abstract: A washer tank is mounted on a vehicle and stores washer fluid. A first tilted portion tilted upward toward an inner side of the washer tank is formed on an inner surface of a side wall portion of the washer tank.

Abstract: A washer liquid supply system is disclosed which includes: a washer tank mounted on a vehicle to store washer liquid; a supply section mounted on the vehicle to supply the washer liquid in the washer tank to an object of the vehicle; a heat-retaining tank mounted on the vehicle and disposed between the washer tank and the supply section to temporarily store the washer liquid supplied from the washer tank to the supply section; a delivering section mounted on the vehicle to deliver the washer liquid stored in the washer tank to the supply section through the heat-retaining tank; and a control section that controls the delivering section, wherein the control section controls the delivering section to temporarily increase a delivering amount of the washer liquid at an initial time of supplying the washer liquid.

Abstract: A washer liquid supply system is disclosed which includes: a supply section mounted on a vehicle to supply the washer liquid in the washer tank to an object of the vehicle; and a bubbling section to make the washer liquid contain bubbles. The supply section integrally includes the bubbling section.

Abstract: Provided is a washer liquid supply system in a simple structure and capable of improving the capacity of washing an object of a vehicle. A washer liquid supply system includes: a washer tank mounted on a vehicle to store washer liquid; a supply section mounted on the vehicle to supply the washer liquid in the washer tank to a window shield of the vehicle; and a connecting member being a bubbling section mounted on the vehicle to make the washer liquid contain bubbles, wherein the supply section supplies the washer liquid containing the bubbles to the window shield.

Abstract: An energy storage device having sufficient energy density and sufficient power is provided. In this embodiment, an energy storage device that includes a negative electrode containing an active material layer including an active material is provided. The active material layer includes particulate graphite as the active material. A particle diameter frequency distribution of the graphite includes a first peak and a second peak which appears in a region where a particle diameter is larger than a particle diameter of the first peak, the particle diameter of the first peak is equal to or less than 10 ?m and the particle diameter of the second peak is more than 10 ?m. The active material layer further includes a particulate high hardness active material which has higher hardness than the graphite.

Abstract: Provided is an energy storage device which includes: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode respectively including a non-coated region having a metal foil; current collectors each having a support portion which is made to overlap with the non-coated region; and opposedly facing supports each configured to clamp the non-coated region cooperatively with the support portion, wherein at least one of the non-coated region, the support portion and the opposedly facing support includes a conductive layer having non-oxidizing property or hardly-oxidizable property, the conductive layer covering at least one surface out of a surface of the non-coated region facing the support portion, a surface of the non-coated region facing the opposedly facing support, a surface of the support portion facing the non-coated region, and a surface of the opposedly facing support facing the non-coated region.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electric storage device includes: a current collector assembly step of disposing a current collector between an electrolyte solution pouring opening and a power generating element so as to block a view of the power generating element from the electrolyte solution pouring opening; an electrolyte solution pouring step of pouring an electrolyte solution through the electrolyte solution pouring opening; and a sealing step of disposing a sealing member at the electrolyte solution pouring opening and sealing the electrolyte solution pouring opening by welding.

Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body, a conductor provided on the element body, a plating layer provided on the conductor, and a glass layer provided on the conductor along an outer edge of the plating layer.

Abstract: A flying vehicle has a retro-reflector, a position measuring instrument has a non-prism measurement function for performing a distance measurement and an angle measurement in non-prism and a prism measurement function for performing the distance measurement and the angle measurement with respect to the retro-reflector, a control device is adapted to have a flight range as set within a flat plane, to prepare an approximate flight plan having a two-dimensional approximate flying route as set within the flight range, to measure the approximate flying route by the non-prism measurement, to calculate a three-dimensional detailed flying route based on the measurement results and the approximate flying route, to prepare a detailed flight plan including the detailed flying route and to control the flying vehicle so as to fly in maintaining a distance between the flying vehicle system and a surface of the object to be measured at a constant value based on the detailed flight plan and a result of the prism measurement.

Abstract: A distribution apparatus installed in a washer liquid passage has an intake passage which reciprocates in a circumferential direction of a circle about a pivot shaft in a linked manner with a wiper arm and to which a washer liquid is supplied, a first ejection passage disposed further outside in a radial direction of the circle than the intake passage and disposed at a position offset toward one side in the circumferential direction with respect to the intake passage, and a second ejection passage disposed further outside in the radial direction of the circle than the intake passage and disposed at a position offset toward the other side in the circumferential direction with respect to the intake passage. A washer nozzle is connected to at least one of the first ejection passage and the second ejection passage.

Abstract: A vehicular washer device includes a tank that stores a washer fluid, a spray nozzle that sprays the washer fluid to a cleaning target, and a connection passage that connects the tank and the spray nozzles. A vortex tube that separates the washer fluid supplied from the tank into a hot fluid and a cold fluid and discharges the hot fluid toward the spray nozzles is interposed in the connection passage.

Abstract: A survey system includes a camera provided on a UAV and taking a plurality of images for photogrammetry. A surveying portion tracking the camera and continuously determining a position of the camera and a relative photographing position calculation portion calculates a relative photographing position of each image based on the plurality of images taken by the camera, and a traveling path calculation portion calculates a traveling path of the UAV from a survey result obtained by the surveying portion. A photogrammetry analysis portion associating a point group of the relative photographing positions calculated by the relative photographing position calculation portion with a flight path calculated by the flight path calculation portion, and generating data for photogrammetry.

Abstract: A washer apparatus 50 is provided to a coupling portion CN between a blade rubber 20 and a holder member 30, and has a length in a longitudinal direction of the blade rubber 20, which is set to be shorter than that of the blade rubber 20 in the longitudinal direction, and inner-peripheral-side-oriented injection nozzles 53a and 55a and an outer-peripheral-side-oriented injection nozzle 54a have openings oriented to respective ends of the blade rubber 20 in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A carriage guide surface for guiding a carriage traveling in a main scan direction, and a main scan direction regulating unit and a sub-scan direction regulating unit which position a print medium, are provided on the same member.

Abstract: A wiper apparatus is improved in wiping performance, and can suppress a disturbance due to cleaning liquid in a driver's field of view. Each cleaning liquid W1 and W2 is jetted from four forward-side injection nozzles and four backward-side injection nozzles in a direction opposite to the wiper blade 20, and toward injection-target locations, and a distance between the wiper blade 20 and an injection-target location for cleaning liquid W1 and W2 on the opposite side from a center of a swinging motion of the wiper blade 20 in a wiping direction of the wiper blade 20 is larger than a distance between the wiper blade 20 and an injection-target location for cleaning liquid W1 and W2 on the same side as the center of the swinging motion of the wiper blade in the wiping direction of the wiper blade 20.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus including: a plurality of energy storage devices each including a pair of external terminals, wherein one of two adjacent energy storage devices among the plurality of energy storage devices includes a connecting portion having at least a convex part at one of the pair of external terminals, the other of the two adjacent energy storage devices includes a connecting portion having at least a concave part at the other of the pair of external terminals, and the convex part is fitted into the concave part.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode substrate including a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed thereon; a counter substrate provided to face the pixel electrode substrate; and a liquid crystal interposed between the pixel electrode substrate and the counter substrate, the liquid crystal display device being of a mode that rotates liquid crystal molecules substantially in parallel to the pixel electrode substrate. In the display device, an initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is parallel to an extension direction of at least one of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, and a pixel includes at least one convex portion or concave portion that has a long and narrow shape and whose longitudinal direction has an oblique angle with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules in the same direction as a desired liquid crystal rotation direction.

Abstract: An electric storage device, includes an electrode assembly that includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode each including a current collector provided with an active material layer on a surface thereof except one end, the positive electrode and the negative electrode being wound or stacked with a separator interposed therebetween, wherein one end of one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode on at least one side of the electrode assembly protrudes, as active material layer-unformed parts, from a side end of the remaining electrode different in polarity; a case for housing the electrode assembly with the protruding direction of the one end oriented sideways; and an electrolytic solution being reserved in the case, wherein the active material layer-unformed parts include electrolytic solution-sucking-up layers that are porous and are formed along a direction orthogonal to the protruding direction of the one end.

Abstract: Base end sides of washer tubes 44, 45 are arranged in an axial direction of a swinging shaft PS at one end portion of an arm head 40, and they are drawn out from a head side pipe housing portion 41a so as to curve toward a side opposite to a shaft fixing portion 42 side. Each of the washer tubes 44, 45 is wound around the shaft fixing portion 42 during swinging of the arm head 40 without applying any load to the swinging shaft PS. No tension acts on each of the washer tubes 44, 45, and each of the washer tubes 44, 45 is not rubbed against the shaft fixing portion 42. Therefore, deterioration of the washer tubes 44, 45 can be suppressed. When the washer tubes 44, 45 are wound around the shaft fixing portion 42, a periphery of the shaft fixing portion 42 is suppressed from swelling outward in a radial direction thereof. This makes it possible to prevent the arm head 40 around the swinging shaft PS from increasing in size.