Abstract: A valve (10) of an embodiment of the present invention has a tapered section (55) on an opening side of a depression (51a) of a body (1). When a projection (4b) of a ball (4) is inserted into the depression (51a), a part of a tip end edge of the projection (4b) is brought into contact with the tapered section (55), and the tapered section (55) guides the projection (4b) so that the entire circumference of the tip end edge of the projection (4b) is located on a bottom side with respect to the tapered section (55).

Abstract: An asphalt finisher includes a tractor, a hopper disposed in front of the tractor and configured to receive a pavement material, a conveyor configured to convey the pavement material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor, a screw configured to spread the pavement material conveyed by the conveyor at the rear side of the tractor, a screed configured to compact the pavement material spread by the screw at a rear side of the screw, an information acquisition device configured to obtain information on a road to be paved, and a control device. The control device is configured to support an operation of aligning the center of the tractor with the center of a pavement target area based on the information obtained by the information acquisition device.

Abstract: Notch bottom parts 152a, 152b are arranged side-by-side with terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b in a circumferential direction of an insulator 134, and a routing direction of a pair of coil ends 44a inside the terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b is directed to a direction intersecting with an insertion direction of flat-type male terminals T1, T2. Accordingly, at the time of inserting the flat-type male terminals T1, T2 into the terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b, an unreasonable force is suppressed from being applied to the pair of coil ends 44a, and, as a result, a defect such as disconnection of the pair of coil ends 44a can be prevented from occurring. In addition, it is possible to orderly route the pair of coil ends 44a on the insulator 43 via the notch bottom parts 152a, 152b, and, as a result, a short circuit with another coil 44 can be prevented.

Abstract: A speed reducer includes a casing, a crankshaft, and a speed reducer main body. The crankshaft has a rotation support part rotatably supported by the casing and an eccentric part eccentric with respect to the rotation support part. The speed reducer main body has an engagement part engaged with an outer circumferential surface of the eccentric part, decelerates rocking rotation of the eccentric part received by the engagement part, and outputs the decelerated rotation to outside. The crankshaft is provided with a flange part protruding to an outward side in a radial direction from an end part of the rotation support part on the eccentric part side and abutting an end surface of the engagement part in an axial direction. The flange part is formed such that a center thereof coincides with a center of the eccentric part in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes monitoring devices provided in a monitored device, and a controller that wirelessly communicates with the monitoring devices to acquire monitoring information. In an operating state of the monitored device, the controller and the monitoring devices establish individual connections in which the controller acting as a communication master performs wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices acting as communication slaves. In a non-operating state of the monitored device, the controller and the monitoring devices maintain communication between the controller and the monitoring devices by establishing a sequential connection.

Abstract: Provided are an organic thin film transistor, an organic semiconductor film, a compound, an organic thin film transistor-forming composition, and a method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor. The organic thin film transistor includes the organic semiconductor film. The organic semiconductor film includes a compound represented by a specific formula. The organic semiconductor film, the compound, and the organic thin film transistor-forming composition can be preferably used in the organic thin film transistor. The method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor includes a step of forming an organic semiconductor film by applying the organic thin film transistor-forming composition to a substrate.

Abstract: A valve (10) in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a body (1) having a space in which a stem (3) and a ball (4) are housed, wherein an inner lid body (60) fixing the ball (4) in the space liquid-tightly partitions the space into a part in which the stem (3) is housed and a part in which the ball (4) is housed.

Abstract: A first object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a cyclic imide compound with high yield and high purity. A second object of the present invention is to provide a composition that can be used in the method for producing a cyclic imide compound with high yield and high purity. A third object of the present invention is to provide an intermediate compound that can be used in the method for producing a cyclic imide compound with high yield and high purity. The method for producing a cyclic imide compound according to the present invention includes reacting a compound represented by formula (1) below with at least one amine compound to obtain a compound represented by formula (2) below.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery. The monitoring device monitors the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and executes a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The monitoring device holds imperfect information that is battery monitoring information indicating failure of data transmission/reception between the monitoring device and the controller. The monitoring device retransmits information corresponding to the imperfect information from next time the battery monitoring information is transmitted.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery, monitors the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and execute a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The controller transmits a request for battery monitoring information to the monitoring device. The monitoring device transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller in response to the request. The controller determines whether missing of the battery monitoring information has occurred based on a correlation between the battery monitoring information acquired from the monitoring device via wireless communication and relationship information held by the controller related to the battery monitoring information.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a conductive adhesive, a container, and an AT-cut crystal element. The AT-cut crystal element has at least one side surface intersecting with a Z?-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal constituted of three surfaces. When a dimension of a straight-line portion along the Z?-axis of a second side opposed to the first side is expressed as W1 and a dimension along the Z?-axis of the AT-cut crystal element is expressed as W0, W1/W0 is 0.91 or greater, and the straight-line portion has both sides constituting corner portions in approximately right angles with sides along an X-axis of the crystal of the AT-cut crystal element. The side of the first side is at a ?X-side in an X-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal and a side of the second side is at a +X-side in the X-axis.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector and a terminal extracting method in a connector. The connector includes a terminal, a housing having a terminal accommodating chamber in which the terminal is accommodated, and a side retainer attached to the housing. The terminal accommodating chamber is provided with an elastically deformable locking lance such that the locking lance is to be locked to the terminal. A distal end portion of the locking lance is provided with a jig hooking portion to come into contact with a jig inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber when releasing locking with the terminal. The side retainer is provided with a guide portion guiding the jig such that the jig comes into contact with the jig hooking portion and does not interfere with the terminal when being inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing configured to be fitted to a counterpart housing and having a terminal accommodating chamber configured to accommodate a terminal, and a fitting detection member slidably attached to the housing and configured to detect fitting between the housing and the counterpart housing. The fitting detection member includes a locking protrusion to be locked to a locked protrusion of the housing. In the housing, a space configured to allow the locking protrusion to pass in a sliding direction of the fitting detection member is defined between an outer peripheral surface of the housing and the locked protrusion. The locking protrusion passes through the space from a rear end toward a front end in the sliding direction and is locked to the locked protrusion.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a container and an AT-cut crystal element. The AT-cut crystal element has at least one side surface intersecting with a Z?-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal constituted of three surfaces. The first surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by 4°±3.5° with an X-axis of the crystal as a rotation axis. The second surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by ?57°±5° with the X-axis. The third surface is a surface equivalent to a surface formed by rotating the principal surface by ?42°±5° with the X-axis. When two corner portions on a side of a second side opposed to the first side of the AT-cut crystal element are viewed in plan view, each of the two corner portions have an approximately right angle.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition capable of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor having excellent carrier mobility even under low temperature conditions. The composition of the present invention contains a compound represented by Formula (1) and an alcohol represented by Formula (S1).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform control for displaying a first screen for receiving a change of setting of processing and an execution instruction of the processing, cause the screen to transition while maintaining first setting that is setting changed on the first screen, and perform notification that the first setting is changed upon receiving the execution instruction of the processing is received on the first screen in a case where a transition from the first screen to a second screen for receiving a change of second setting related to the processing or from the first screen to the second screen for receiving processing different from the processing received on the first screen is made during a period from the change of the first setting to reception of the execution instruction of the processing received on the first screen.

Abstract: A cryogenic globe valve that prevents a high sealing property and safety from being lost even through a large number of times of opening and closing for a cryogenic fluid and is easily maintained, although it has a simple structure. The cryogenic globe valve has an axial cylindrical portion as a long-neck structure extended to its body, in which a resin-made valve disk having a conical surface having a reduced-diameter tapered shape is attached to a lower end of an elongated stem such that the resin-made valve disk is three-dimensionally operable with respect to the stem even under an extremely low-temperature condition.

Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus includes an SOC calculator, a ?SOC obtaining unit, a largest block identification unit, and a diagnosis unit. The SOC calculator calculates an SOC for each parallel cell block included in a battery assembly based on an output from a battery sensor that detects a state of the battery assembly. When charging or discharging of the battery assembly is carried out, the ?SOC obtaining unit obtains ?SOC for each parallel cell block. The largest block identification unit identifies a largest block in a diagnosis target. When a degree of deviation between ?SOC of the largest block and a ?SOC reference value exceeds a prescribed level, the diagnosis unit determines that abnormality has occurred in the largest block in the diagnosis target.

Abstract: A battery system includes a controller that performs a calculation to calculate an internal resistance of a battery, and executes a predetermined operation based on the result. The calculation includes obtaining a regression line through a regression analysis of a current-voltage plot obtained from voltage sensor and current sensor, and calculating the internal resistance from a slope of the regression line. The controller calculates a first internal resistance through the calculation based on a first group of detection values of the voltage and current detected a plurality of times, and calculate a second internal resistance through the calculation based on a second group of detection values. The controller executes the predetermined operation when a resistance difference between the first and second internal resistances is smaller than a reference value, and does not execute the operation when the resistance difference is larger than the reference value.