Abstract: In a vehicle seat, a side frame of a seat back frame has a front wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a front edge of a plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching an upper frame, and a rear wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a rear edge of the plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching the upper frame, and an inner edge of the front wall has a projecting piece that spreads to the inside from a virtual outline corresponding to a shape of the upper frame and is superimposed on the front wall of the upper frame from the rear. This provides a vehicle seat that can contribute to improvement of the work efficiency when assembling a seat back frame.

Abstract: An electric pump includes a case, and a motor that includes a rotor and a stator and is surrounded by the case. The case includes an introduction pipe portion for introducing a fluid and a discharge pipe portion for discharging the fluid. The rotor is disposed in a space surrounded by the case and the stator and communicating with the introduction pipe portion and the discharge pipe portion. The rotor includes a first blade member, a second blade member, and a relay portion. An outer diameter of the relay portion is smaller than an outer diameter of at least one of the first and second blade members. The relay portion is positioned between the first blade member and the second blade member.

Abstract: An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.

Abstract: A load calculator includes a coefficient storage, a replacement deriver, and an internal-load deriver. The storage stores a first coefficient, an internal load acting on a target point in a target member when a unit load acts on a concentrated load point in the target member along one of three orthogonal axes, and as a second coefficient, an internal load acting on the target point when a unit moment acts on the concentrated load point around one of the axes. The replacement deriver derives a replacement load and moment by replacing an external load acting on the target member with six force components acting on the concentrated load point. The internal load deriver derives an internal load acting on any target point with the first coefficient, the replacement load, the second coefficient, and the replacement moment when the external load acts on the target member.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.

Abstract: An internal-load calculation apparatus includes a memory and a calculator. The memory stores the results of a preliminary analysis of an internal load exerted on a member of interest in a sound condition. The calculator calculates, on the basis of the distribution of an internal load exerted on the member of interest upon the application of an external load to an element of interest and the results of the preliminary analysis stored in the memory, the distribution of an internal load exerted on the member of interest upon the occurrence of damage on the element of interest. The element of interest corresponds to at least one of a plurality of elements of the member of interest.

Abstract: An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element configured to inhibit an adverse effect, which is attributable to a light shielding film formed for disposing an OPB region, on the formation of a constituent other than the light shielding film of the solid-state imaging element, and an electronic device. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a solid-state imaging element, including: an effective pixel region in which a large number of pixels are vertically and horizontally arranged; and an OPB region formed by coating pixels around the effective pixel region with a light shielding film. Corners on at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of the OPB region are formed into an arc shape. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.

Abstract: In an intake device, an upper fuel injection device that injects a fuel and a suction port that suctions the air-fuel mixture supplied to a cylinder head are disposed in the air cleaner. The intake device includes the air cleaner including an air cleaner case and a sidewall filter that purifies an air suctioned into the air cleaner case. The sidewall filter partitions a space in the air cleaner case in a vehicle width direction, and has at least partially overlapping with the upper fuel injection device in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A load calculator includes a coefficient storage, a replacement deriver, and an internal-load deriver. The storage stores a first coefficient, an internal load acting on a target point in a target member when a unit load acts on a concentrated load point in the target member along one of three orthogonal axes, and as a second coefficient, an internal load acting on the target point when a unit moment acts on the concentrated load point around one of the axes. The replacement deriver derives a replacement load and moment by replacing an external load acting on the target member with six force components acting on the concentrated load point. The internal load deriver derives an internal load acting on any target point with the first coefficient, the replacement load, the second coefficient, and and the replacement moment when the external load acts on the target member.

Abstract: A rotary-type throttling device for an internal combustion engine includes an upstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a throttle body and having an inlet port held in fluid communication with the atmosphere, and a downstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a cylindrical valve body of a rotary valve and having an outlet port open at a downstream outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical valve body. The upstream auxiliary intake passageway and the downstream auxiliary intake passageway have a body-side joint fluid communication port and a valve-side joint fluid communication port formed in respective sliding surfaces of the throttle body and the cylindrical valve body and designed to overlap each other to keep the upstream and downstream auxiliary intake passageways and in fluid communication with each other.

Abstract: A braking control apparatus performs right and left wheel independent control to approach a slip rate of a rear-right wheel and a rear-left wheel to a target slip rate as an average of slip rates of a front-right wheel and a front-left wheel. In a high-speed range, right and left wheel independent control is started when a deceleration is equal to or larger than a start value that is smaller than a start value used in a low-speed range. In right and left wheel independent control started in the high-speed range, when there is a demand to increase braking pressures of both the rear-right wheel and the rear-left wheel, the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the outside during the occurrence of deflection of the vehicle resulting from braking is increased, and the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the inside is prohibited from increasing.

Abstract: In an intake device, an upper fuel injection device that injects a fuel and a suction port that suctions the air-fuel mixture supplied to a cylinder head are disposed in the air cleaner. The intake device includes the air cleaner including an air cleaner case and a sidewall filter that purifies an air suctioned into the air cleaner case. The sidewall filter partitions a space in the air cleaner case in a vehicle width direction, and has at least partially overlapping with the upper fuel injection device in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A braking control apparatus performs right and left wheel independent control to approach a slip rate of a rear-right wheel and a rear-left wheel to a target slip rate as an average of slip rates of a front-right wheel and a front-left wheel. In a high-speed range, right and left wheel independent control is started when a deceleration is equal to or larger than a start value that is smaller than a start value used in a low-speed range. In right and left wheel independent control started in the high-speed range, when there is a demand to increase braking pressures of both the rear-right wheel and the rear-left wheel, the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the outside during the occurrence of deflection of the vehicle resulting from braking is increased, and the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the inside is prohibited from increasing.

Abstract: An above-ground low-temperature tank includes a metal inner tank which stores low-temperature liquefied gas, and an outer tank which includes a concrete outer wall surrounding the inner tank. A hole portion which has a preset depth from a bottom surface of the inner tank is formed on a bottom portion of the inner tank, and a metal pit main body having a cylindrical bottomed accommodating portion is provided in a state where the accommodating portion is accommodated in the hole portion. A reinforcing body which supports at least an outer circumferential edge portion of a bottom surface of the pit main body is provided on the bottom surface side of the pit main body in the hole portion. A cold insulation material is provided below the reinforcing body.

Abstract: A rotary-type throttling device for an internal combustion engine includes an upstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a throttle body and having an inlet port held in fluid communication with the atmosphere, and a downstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a cylindrical valve body of a rotary valve and having an outlet port open at a downstream outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical valve body. The upstream auxiliary intake passageway and the downstream auxiliary intake passageway have a body-side joint fluid communication port and a valve-side joint fluid communication port formed in respective sliding surfaces of the throttle body and the cylindrical valve body and designed to overlap each other to keep the upstream and downstream auxiliary intake passageways and in fluid communication with each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element configured to inhibit an adverse effect, which is attributable to a light shielding film formed for disposing an OPB region, on the formation of a constituent other than the light shielding film of the solid-state imaging element, and an electronic device. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a solid-state imaging element, including: an effective pixel region in which a large number of pixels are vertically and horizontally arranged; and an OPB region formed by coating pixels around the effective pixel region with a light shielding film. Corners on at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of the OPB region are formed into an arc shape. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.

Abstract: An above-ground low-temperature tank includes a metal inner tank which stores low-temperature liquefied gas, and an outer tank which includes a concrete outer wall surrounding the inner tank. A hole portion which has a preset depth from a bottom surface of the inner tank is formed on a bottom portion of the inner tank, and a metal pit main body having a cylindrical bottomed accommodating portion is provided in a state where the accommodating portion is accommodated in the hole portion. A reinforcing body which supports at least an outer circumferential edge portion of a bottom surface of the pit main body is provided on the bottom surface side of the pit main body in the hole portion. A cold insulation material is provided below the reinforcing body.

Abstract: Training apparatus includes: a base stand which has slide shafts that are provided side by side and extend in the right-and-left directions; a slide base portion which can slide along this slide shaft; a foot stand which is provided over the slide base portion so as to be turned; a connection mechanism portion which is formed by a rod and its support portion that engages a substantially-middle proper part of the base stand in the right-and-left directions and the foot stand, so that the sliding position and the turning angle of the foot stand can be correlated; and a spring which gives the slide base portion the force by which the slide base portion moves toward a substantially-middle position of the base stand in the right-and-left directions. Thereby, a sliding exercise and a twisting exercise can be taken together, and the body trunk can be effectively trained.