Abstract: A nudge recommendation system includes a verification group storage unit configured to store a verification group management table, a user information storage unit configured to store a user management table, a user nudge storage unit configured to store a user nudge definition table, a nudge changing unit configured to perform changing recommendation information to information different from that of a target nudge and changing the recommendation information to the target nudge after the changing has been performed, and an update unit configured to acquire a result of recommendation of the target nudge to each user and to update the user management table such that the result of recommendation of the target nudge is newly defined in the user management table.

Abstract: A seatback includes a pressure-receiving member and a drive mechanism. The pressure-receiving member includes a first pressure-receiving portion configured to support a lumbar region of an occupant, and a second pressure-receiving portion joined to an upper part of the first pressure-receiving portion and configured to support a back of the occupant in cooperation with the first pressure-receiving portion. The drive mechanism is configured to displace the pressure-receiving member between a support position and a non-support position, which is a position rearward of the support position. The pressure-receiving member is configured, when in the support position, to be bent at a joining portion where the first pressure-receiving portion and the second pressure-receiving portion are joined together to become convex toward a seat front side.

Abstract: An impeller connected to a motor having a drive shaft includes a back plate having a boss having a shaft hole through which the drive shaft is inserted, a ring-shaped rim provided to face the back plate, and a plurality of blades connected to the back plate and the rim and arranged along a circumferential direction of the back plate about the rotation shaft. The back plate includes a first surface portion on which the plurality of blades are formed, a second surface portion provided at a region between the boss and the first surface portion and depressed from the first surface portion in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and a plurality of projections provided at the second surface portion and extending in the axial direction.

Abstract: A communication apparatus receives status information including a value of a status regarding reception or non-reception of a beacon signal. The status is associated with each of pieces of identification information 25_1 to 25_n. When receiving the status information after transmitting a beacon signal, the communication apparatus selects, based on the status information, another identification information different from identification information of the beacon signal transmitted most recently and transmits a beacon signal including the selected identification information, instead of the beacon signal transmitted most recently.

Abstract: There is provided an outdoor unit of refrigeration cycle apparatus that can obtain a large airflow volume even when an external static pressure is high, while preventing an increase in size of the outdoor unit. For this object, the outdoor unit includes a housing in which a machine chamber and a blower chamber are formed, the blower chamber housing a heat exchanger and a blower inside. The blower is a double inlet centrifugal blower including: an impeller; and a scroll casing having suction ports and a discharge port, the scroll casing housing the impeller inside. A plurality of discharge ports are located on an outlet placement surface of the housing. A total width of the plurality of discharge ports in a direction horizontal with the housing placed and parallel to the outlet placement surface is more than a width of the blower chamber in said direction.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a shopping support apparatus includes a reader, a memory, and a processor. The processor causes the reader to read a data code, obtains store-specific setting information, and causes the memory to store control mode information included in the obtained setting information. The processor determines, on the basis of the control mode information of the setting information stored in the memory, whether to set a first mode for shopping support at the store as the control mode of the processor or set a second mode for a task restricted to an operation of an authorized person as the control mode of the processor.

Abstract: An impeller includes: a main plate to be rotated; an annular side plate having a suction port for air; and blades in a circumferential direction. Each of the blades has: an inner peripheral end; an outer peripheral end; a sirocco blade portion that includes the outer peripheral end, and forms a forward-swept blade; and a turbo blade portion that includes the inner peripheral end and forms a swept-back blade. The blade has an end portion facing the suction port and a base portion connected to the main plate, and the end portion has a smaller thickness than that of the base portion in the sirocco blade portion. The end portion of the blade has a blade shape, and in the end portion having the blade shape, a first blade thickness of an inner circumferential side of the impeller is greater than a second blade thickness of the outer circumferential side.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus includes a storage storing a sheet, a conveyance unit, a sealing member, and a holder. The conveyance unit conveys the stored sheet in a conveyance direction. The holder movably holds the storage in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. The storage includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a pair of regulating members that regulate both edges of the sheet stored in the storage in the sheet width direction. The second unit includes a second sealing surface disposed opposite to a first sealing surface provided on the holder. The sealing member is disposed between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface. A relative position between the first unit and the second unit is changeable.

Abstract: A nudge management device includes: a storage unit configured to store information of a nudge which is a mechanism for prompting a user to voluntarily adopt a desirable behavior; an acquisition unit configured to acquire nudge intervention information which is information associated with intervention of a nudge; and an abrasion deriving unit configured to derive nudge abrasion information indicating a degree of decrease in effect of the nudge associated with the nudge intervention information based on the nudge intervention information and to output the derived nudge abrasion information.

Abstract: To realize a configuration of analyzing a captured image captured by a monocular camera and determining whether an object in the captured image is a real object or a drawing object. An image captured by a monocular camera mounted on a vehicle is analyzed to determine whether an object in the captured image is a real object or a drawing object. An image signal analysis unit determines that an object in the captured image is a drawing object in a case where a change amount per unit time of a FOE (focus of expansion) position in the captured image is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, in a case where a change amount per unit time of a lane width detected from the captured image is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, or in a case where a difference between a grounding position of a vehicle or the like in the captured image and a ground level position corresponding to the vehicle grounding position is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A behavior prediction method includes: determining a position of a host vehicle; determining a position of another vehicle in a second travel lane, the second travel lane being an opposite lane to a first travel lane in which the host vehicle travels; detecting an intersecting passage intersecting the second travel lane at a position ahead of the host vehicle; and determining whether or not the another vehicle is located within a predetermined range from an intersection position of the intersecting passage and the second travel lane to a point away from the intersection position by a predetermined distance in an opposite direction to a traveling direction of a vehicle in the second travel lane and the another vehicle is in either state of a stopped state and a decelerated state to predict that there is a probability that a mobile unit enters the first travel lane from the intersecting passage.

Abstract: An other-vehicle behavior prediction method includes calculating a travel path of the host vehicle, detecting a position of an intersection present on the travel path of the host vehicle and within a predetermined distance from the host vehicle, and detecting a position of another vehicle around the host vehicle before the intersection. A host-vehicle passing area through which the host vehicle passes when proceeding through the intersection and an other-vehicle passing area through which the first oncoming vehicle is predicted to pass when proceeding through the intersection are calculated, a space between the host-vehicle passing area and the another-vehicle passing area is calculated, and a distance between the first oncoming vehicle and the intersection is calculated. Based on the space and the distance, a probability that the first oncoming vehicle will proceed through the intersection ahead of the host vehicle is predicted.

Abstract: A contactless power supply system is provided for supplying electric power to a vehicle in a contactless manner during traveling of the vehicle. The contactless power supply system includes a plurality of primary coils installed along a traveling direction in a road and a secondary coil mounted to the vehicle. Each of the primary coils is a single-phase coil with the secondary coil being a multi-phase coil, or is a multi-phase coil with the secondary coil being a single-phase coil.

Abstract: A management apparatus for an accommodation member that accommodates components to be mounted on a board includes a memory to reserve identification information on the accommodation member required for a production of the board to each arrangement position of the accommodation member in the mounting device, and to store reservation information defining an order of use of multiple accommodation members for each production at the same arrangement position according to the number of components required for the production; and a management section configured to set the accommodation member scheduled to be finally used at each arrangement position in each production of the board based on the reservation information as a final accommodation member, and to manage the final accommodation member and other accommodation members other than the final accommodation member based on the identification information on the accommodation members in a distinguishable manner for an operator.

Abstract: A problem is to provide a formed adsorber having excellent adsorption and desorption performance for fuel vapor (in particular, n-butane) of a wide concentration range from a low concentration to a high concentration. A formed product including activated carbon fiber, granular activated carbon, and a binder is prepared. A weight ratio of the activated carbon fiber to the granular activated carbon is 5 to 95 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber to 95 to 5 parts by weight of the granular activated carbon, in a total weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, a content ratio of the binder in the formed adsorber is 0.3 to 20 parts by weight of the binder to 100 parts by weight of the activated carbon fiber and the granular activated carbon, the granular activated carbon has a total pore volume ranging from 0.90 to 2.50 cm3/g, and the activated carbon fiber has a total pore volume ranging from 0.50 to 1.20 cm3/g.

Abstract: A working vehicle includes a vehicle body, a linkage provided on the vehicle body to link a working device, a controller to cause the vehicle body to perform automatic travel, a rear obstacle detector to detect obstacles behind the vehicle body, and a setting changer to change rear setting information regarding obstacle detection performed by the rear obstacle detector.

Abstract: A dynamic wireless power transfer system performs, through a plurality of primary coils installed along a traveling direction of a road and a secondary coil mounted in a vehicle, power transfer to the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The secondary coil is an M-phase coil including M coils, M denoting an integer which is two or higher. The M coils each include a coil end extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle and a main coil portion extending along a width direction of the vehicle, the M coils each being configured such that a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the coil end passes is higher than a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the main coil portion passes.

Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus, a control method, and a program that make it possible to easily provide an image suitable for the operation of a vehicle. The controller controls reading of an image from an image sensor that captures the image, on the basis of vehicle information acquired by a vehicle, the image being displayed on a display section of the vehicle. Embodiments may be applicable to a viewing system that displays an image of a region behind a vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery method that is method of separating and recovering, from a mixture containing at least a resin layer 1 containing a hydrolyzable polymer A as a main component and a resin layer 2 containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer B as a main component, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the method including a decomposition and separation step of subjecting the mixture to a hydrothermal reaction treatment to hydrolyze and separate the hydrolyzable polymer A, and to separate the nonhydrolyzable polymer B while a molecular weight of thereof is maintained.

Abstract: A battery pack having a first cell unit and a second cell unit in which multiple battery cells are connected in series is provided. When the battery pack is not connected to an electric apparatus main body, the first cell unit and the second cell unit are in a non-connection state in which the first cell unit and the second cell unit are not electrically connected to each other. The battery pack includes: a microcomputer, connected to one of the first cell unit and the second cell unit; a residual quantity display portion, connected to the microcomputer and displaying a battery residual quantity of the battery pack; and a switch, being operated by a worker. When the switch is operated while in the non-connection state, the microcomputer is configured to perform a light-on control to display the battery residual quantity by the residual quantity display portion.