Abstract: A sheet-shaped member is provided and includes a porous carbon material including a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.

Abstract: A laser processing device includes: a laser light source unit that irradiates, with laser light, a surface of a steel sheet conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction; a first nozzle that injects gas toward an irradiation site of the laser light, parallel to an optical axis direction of the laser light; and a dust collection mechanism unit that is provided only at one of an upstream side or a downstream side of the irradiation site, in the conveyance direction, and that collects, from a dust collection port, laser sputter generated from the irradiation site.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes a preview screen, and the preview screen includes i. a first preview screen that makes a first formation candidate, which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, ii. a second preview screen that makes a second formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, and iii. a third preview screen that makes a third formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a third forming surface different from the first forming surface and the second forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user.

Abstract: In order to detect the occurrence of malfunction in a sensor, this power supply unit is provided with a microphone condenser which detects an aerosol generation request, a PTC thermistor which outputs a value which changes depending on electric change in the microphone condenser, and a control portion which, on the basis of the value outputted by the PTC thermistor, detects whether the microphone condenser is in a normal state or an abnormal state.

Abstract: A spark plug 1 of the present invention includes an insulator 2 made from an alumina-based sintered body and including: a leg portion 22 provided on a front end side; a middle trunk portion 23 provided on a rear end side of the leg portion 22 and having a larger diameter than the leg portion 22; and a flange portion 24 provided on the rear end side of the middle trunk portion 23 and having a larger diameter than the middle trunk portion 23.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device suppresses the effect of errors in structural elements on the accuracy with which shortage of an aerosol source is detected. The aerosol generation device includes a power source; a load that has a temperature-variable electrical resistance value and atomizes an aerosol source by generating heat due to supply of power from the power source; a first circuit that for the load to atomize the aerosol source; a second circuit connected in parallel to the first circuit, has a higher electrical resistance value than the first circuit, and is used to detect voltage that changes as a result of changes in the temperature of the load; an acquisition part that acquires the value of voltage applied to the second circuit and the load; and sensors that output the value of the voltage that changes as a result of changes in the temperature of the load.

Abstract: A female terminal, a female connector, a terminal-attached electric wire, a connector-attached electric wire, and a wire harness can prevent a welded portion from being damaged when a conductor of an electric wire is connected by ultrasonic welding to an electric wire connection portion of a female terminal with a base portion and a spring member welded together. A female terminal includes an electric wire connection portion with a conductor of an electric wire connected by ultrasonic welding, and a terminal connection portion with a male terminal connected. The terminal connection portion includes a base portion having a pair of side walls with a connection blade of a male terminal inserted therebetween, and a spring member attached to the base portion, the spring member includes a laying plate along the side walls and an arm spring, the side walls and the laying plate are welded at an endless welded portion.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation device that can more accurately detect shortage of an aerosol source after a cartridge has been replaced. An aerosol generation device 100A that comprises: a power source 110; a load 132 that has temperature-resistance value characteristics, has a temperature-variable electrical resistance value, and atomizes an aerosol source by generating heat due to supply of power from the power source 110; memory 114 that stores the temperature-resistance value characteristics; a sensor 112 that outputs a value that is related to the resistance value of the load 132; and a control part 106 that, on the basis of the correspondence between the output value from the sensor 112 and an estimated value for the temperature of the load 132 that corresponds to the output value, calibrates the stored temperature-resistance value characteristics.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a theme-specific related information storage unit that stores videos related to destinations and a display that reads a related video from the theme-specific related information storage unit and displaying the related video for a corresponding one of the destinations. The vehicle display device thus allows users in a vehicle to maintain excitement until a vehicle arrives in the destination.

Abstract: An excess metal amount setting method includes: a thermal shrinkage prediction step of predicting a thermal shrinkage amount in the deposited body after manufacturing; a thermal shrinkage modifying step of obtaining a thermal deformation modifying profile by expanding a target profile according to the thermal shrinkage amount; a release strain prediction step of predicting an elastic deformation amount due to release strain of the deposited body after machining; an elastic deformation modifying step of obtaining an elastic deformation modifying profile by deforming the thermal deformation modifying profile according to the elastic deformation amount in a direction opposite to a deformation direction due to the release strain; and an excess metal amount setting step of adjusting an outer edge shape of the deposited body so that an excess metal amount from the elastic deformation modifying profile to an outer edge of the deposited body falls within a predetermined reference range.

Abstract: An electronic control device that executes arithmetic processing for controlling an operation of a vehicle includes: a determination unit that is connected to one or a plurality of electronic devices that recognize an external environment on the basis of information of a sensor provided in the vehicle and determines an operation of the vehicle on the basis of external recognition information transmitted from the electronic devices; and a functional boundary change determination unit that determines changes in functions of the electronic control device and the electronic devices if it is determined that a processing load of the electronic control device is high.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object, includes: an additively-manufacturing step of building a layered body by depositing a weld bead obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal, the layered body having an opening along a forming direction of the weld bead and an internal space surrounded by the weld bead; and a closing step of forming a closing wall portion connecting an edge portion of the opening with the weld bead for closing. In the additively-manufacturing step, the opening is formed with a width dimension larger than a bead width of the weld bead, and in the closing step, the closing wall portion having a width dimension larger than the bead width is formed by the weld bead to close the opening.

Abstract: An extraction apparatus includes: a pre-processing unit configured to perform, on training data that is data described in natural language and in which a tag has been provided to an important description portion in advance, pre-processing for calculating an information gain that indicates a degree of relevance to the tag for each word and deleting a description portion with low relevance to the tag from the training data based on the information gain of each word; and a learning unit configured to learn the pre-processed training data and generate a list of conditional probabilities relating to the tagged description portion.

Abstract: A building time for building an additively-manufactured object is calculated on the basis of the inter-pass time and the welding pass time and is compared with a preset upper limit value, and welding conditions in a depositing plan are repeatedly modified until the building time is equal to or less than the upper limit value. Alternatively, corrections are repeatedly performed until the shape difference between a building shape of built-up object shape data relating to the additively-manufactured object created on the basis of the inter-pass time and the inter-pass temperature, and a building shape of three-dimensional shape data, is smaller than a near net value.

Abstract: A calculation unit (15a) calculates a degree of association between words included in compound word candidates that are each constituted by consecutive words in a document. The calculation unit (15a) calculates the degree of association by using a conditional probability that is a probability of a word that precedes a last word being present in the document under the condition that the last word follows. A selection unit (15b) selects, as a compound word, a compound word candidate whose degree of association thus calculated is higher than a predetermined threshold value. A learning unit (15c) learns a positional relationship between words that include the selected compound word in the document and predetermined tags added to the document. An addition unit (15d) adds the predetermined tags to the document based on the positional relationship between words that include the learned compound word in the document and the predetermined tags added to the document.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object in which deposition is performed by melting and solidifying a metal depending on three-dimensional shape data of a target shape, includes: acquiring the three-dimensional shape data; creating a deposition plan in which a formation track and a heating condition of the metal are determined; determining a difference between a shape of the additively-manufactured object that thermally contracts by cooling after deposition and a shape of the three-dimensional shape data by an operation; modifying the deposition plan until the difference falls within a predetermined allowable range; and additively manufacturing the additively-manufactured object based on the deposition plan in which the difference falls within the allowable range.

Abstract: A printing system according to an aspect is a printing system in which a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus are connected via a network, the information processing apparatus receiving image data from an imaging apparatus that images a user of the printing apparatus and performing authentication processing for the user based on the image data, the printing apparatus including a detecting section configured to detect a human body and a transmitting section configured to transmit detection information by the detecting section. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving section configured to receive the detection information and a control section configured to control, based on the detection information, whether to perform the authentication processing.

Abstract: A processing system includes an acquisition portion that acquires authentication result information for face authentication based on a captured image of a user, and a processor that performs a process for a print job. When it is determined that the user successfully logs in by the face authentication based on the authentication result information, the processor performs a process of displaying, on a display of a printing device, a screen having a different display mode according to a situation of the print job corresponding to the user.

Abstract: In assistance processing for assisting in describing a document corresponding to a portion in a document, a calculation unit calculates a similarity degree between a sentence in a document and a document described correspondingly to a portion in the document. When the calculated similarity degree is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, an extraction unit extracts the sentence in the document in association with the document described correspondingly to the portion in the document.