Abstract: A motor-driven compressor, a housing structure for a motor-driven compressor, and a method of installing a soundproof cover on a motor-driven compressor are provided. A soundproof cover includes layers that include a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is placed over a housing, and the second layer is placed over the first layer. Each of the layers includes a first segment and a second segment. A second selection layer is located inward of a first selection layer. A boundary in the second selection layer is located above the boundary of the first selection layer.

Abstract: A wireless detonation system (1) includes a blasting operation device (40), a detonator (10), and a relay device (30). The blasting operation device (40) is disposed at a distance from a blasting face (71) and wirelessly transmits a first downstream signal at a first frequency. The detonator (10) is loaded in a blast hole (72) in the blasting face (71), and has a receiving coil (12) for wirelessly receiving a second downstream signal at a second frequency lower than the first frequency. A relay device (30) includes a first transmitting-receiving antenna (35) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal, a relay processor (32) that wirelessly receives the first downstream signal and processes it into the second downstream signal to be wirelessly transmitted at the second frequency, and a second transmitting-receiving antenna (37) that transmits the second downstream signal.

Abstract: A building includes an outer wall, a roof arranged so as to be orthogonal to the outer wall and inclined with respect to the ground, and a flashing arranged at a boundary between the roof and the outer wall. The flashing includes an attachment configured to extend along the outer wall, a guide connected to the attachment and arranged above the roof, and a water draining portion arranged so as to intersect the attachment and the guide.

Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor acquires state data related to a state of each product and order data related to order related to manufacturing of each product. The processor calculates a first score by using the acquired state data and the acquired order data. The first score regards a change in the acquired state data and is based on a first change model. The first change model represents the change in the state data using the order data. The processor outputs the first score.

Abstract: Included are: a captured image acquiring unit to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging an occupant; a temperature image acquiring unit to acquire a temperature image indicating a temperature of a surface of a body of the occupant measured in a non-contact manner; a motion detection unit to detect a motion of the occupant on the basis of the captured image; a temperature detection unit to detect a temperature of a hand of the occupant on the basis of the temperature image; and an awakening level estimating unit to estimate an awakening level of the occupant on the basis of the motion of the occupant detected by the motion detection unit and the temperature of the hand of the occupant detected by the temperature detection unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drive source, an object configured to be driven by the drive source, and a drive transmission mechanism including a driving member, a driven member, an intermediate member, an urging member, and an actuating portion. The intermediate member is configured to move in an axial direction. The intermediate member includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, and a positioning portion configured to determine a position of the driven member in a direction orthogonal to the axis. The shaft portion includes a receiving portion configured to receive a force. The receiving portion is positioned inward of the positioning portion in a radial direction of rotation of the intermediate member.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet conveying device including: a conveying portion; and a first conveying guide, the first conveying guide forming a conveying path above a heating portion and having a curved portion for forming a curved path in the conveying path and a plurality of ribs provided on a surface of the curved portion, the plurality of ribs extending along a conveying direction and including a first rib and a second rib adjacent to the first rib, wherein the second rib is arranged to be deviated from the first rib in a width direction and the conveying direction, and wherein in the conveying direction, a second upstream end of the second rib being positioned between a first upstream end and a first downstream end of the first rib, the first downstream end being positioned between the second upstream end and a second downstream end of the second rib.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a storage state in which a reactive compound layer can be stably maintained in a polymer film having a reactive compound layer on the surface. The film roll is obtained by winding together: a first polymer film having a reactive compound layer on the surface, and a second polymer film having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.1 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of 300 MPa or more and 10 GPa or less. The film bundle is obtained by laminating the first and second polymer films. Preferably, storing the film roll and the film bundle at a low temperature enables a thin layer of a reactive compound to be stably maintained.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an inverter device for driving an electric motor, including: an inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; and a control circuit controlling the inverter circuit. When a rotation speed of the electric motor is equal to or less than a preset rotation speed threshold and a torque of the electric motor is equal to or greater than a preset torque threshold, the control circuit changes a temperature estimation logic of the switching elements of the inverter circuit.

Abstract: The tire has, in a tread surface, at least one circumferential groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a shoulder land portion partitioned with the circumferential groove and a tread ground contact edge, the shoulder land portion has a first width direction groove that extends in a tire width direction and via which the circumferential groove communicates with the tread ground contact edge, the first width direction groove has, in the first width direction groove, a second width direction groove that communicates with the first width direction groove, and respective groove widths of the circumferential groove, the first width direction groove and the second width direction groove satisfy a relational expression of “the groove width of the circumferential groove>the groove width of the first width direction groove>the groove width of the second width direction groove”.

Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a tubular film, a heater, a first support member including a first regulation surface, and configured to rotatably support a first end of the film, a second support member including a second regulation surface, and configured to rotatably support a second end of the film, and a holding unit configured to hold the heater and determine a position of the heater in the longitudinal direction. Either one of the first support member and the second support member includes a positioning portion configured to determine a position of the holding unit in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an actuator having a support body, a movable body, a viscoelastic member adhesively bonded to one side member of the support body and the movable body by a first adhesive layer, and a magnetic drive circuit structured to relatively move the movable body may include, for adhesively bonding the viscoelastic member to the one side member by the first adhesive layer, a first step in which the viscoelastic member is disposed on a side of one face of a first jig, a second step in which the viscoelastic member and the one side member are overlapped with each other through an adhesive, a third step in which the adhesive is hardened to adhesively bond the one side member and the viscoelastic member to each other by the first adhesive layer, and a fourth step in which the first jig is separated from the viscoelastic member.

Abstract: A coil unit may include coil holding member configured to hold a coil; and a coil held by the coil holding member and formed by a conducting wire in a wound state. A direction perpendicular to a length direction of the conducting wire is a thickness direction of the coil. The coil holding member may include an abutment surface configured to abut against one end surface in the thickness direction of the coil, a convex unit protruding from the abutment surface and around which the conducting wire is wound, and a coil pressing unit extending from a front end surface of the convex unit and configured to press the other end surface in the thickness direction of the coil.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, a support member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the film, a heating member supported by the support member and provided slidably with the film, and a pressing member that forms a pressure contact portion together with the heating member through the film. The fixing device heats a recording medium while pressing the recording medium at the pressure contact portion. A first thermally conductive member and a second thermally conductive member are provided between the heating member and the support member. The first and second thermally conductive members having thermal conductivity higher than that of the support member are configured to engage with each other.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, a support member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the film, a heating member supported by the support member and provided slidably with the film, and a pressing member that forms a pressure contact portion together with the heating member through the film. The fixing device heats a recording medium while pressing the recording medium at the pressure contact portion. A first thermally conductive member and a second thermally conductive member are provided between the heating member and the support member. The first and second thermally conductive members having thermal conductivity higher than that of the support member are configured to engage with each other.

Abstract: An optical unit may include a movable member. The movable member may include a lens barrel member, an imaging element, and a holder to which either one of a coil and magnet comprised in a swing-driving mechanism is attached. The optical unit may further include a fixed member to which another one of the coil and magnet is attached. The fixed member may be configured to support the movable member. The optical unit may further include a position adjusting member attached to a tubular part of the holder. The tubular part may include a subject-side end part and a stepped part. The position adjusting member may be in an annular shape to be engaged with a small outside diameter of the tubular part. A part of the small-diameter part that is not surrounded by the position adjusting member may be bent to an outer circumference side of the tubular part.

Abstract: A plasma CVD device includes a chamber (102), an anode (104), a cathode (103), a holding portion which holds a substrate to be deposited (101) a plasma wall (88) an anti-adhesion member (91) which is arranged between a first gap (81) between the anode and the plasma wall and a first inner surface (102a) of the chamber and a pedestal (92) which is arranged between the anti-adhesion member and a back surface of the anode and which is electrically connected to the anode. The maximum diameter of each of the first gap, a second gap (82) between the anode and the anti-adhesion member, a third gap (83) between the back surface of the anode and the pedestal, a fourth gap (84) between the plasma wall and the anti-adhesion member and a fifth gap (85) between the anti-adhesion member and the pedestal is equal to or less than 4 mm.

Abstract: The tire has, in a tread surface, at least one circumferential groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a shoulder land portion partitioned with the circumferential groove and a tread ground contact edge, the shoulder land portion has a width direction groove that extends in a tire width direction and via which the circumferential groove communicates with the tread ground contact edge, the width direction groove has, in the width direction groove, a narrowed groove that communicates with the width direction groove and that has a smaller cross-sectional area than the width direction groove, and the cross-sectional area of the narrowed groove and a cross-sectional area of the width direction groove satisfy a relational expression of “0.08?the cross-sectional area of the narrowed groove/the cross-sectional area of the width direction groove?0.80”.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a cartridge including at least an image bearing member. The apparatus further includes a tray drawable from the main assembly, wherein the cartridge is mountable to and dismountable from the tray in one direction and an opposite direction, respectively; and a light emission unit provided in the tray and including a plurality of light emission elements arranged in an axial direction of the image bearing member to form a latent image on the image bearing member. The cartridge is capable of being inserted into the tray by moving it in the one direction, in response to which the light emission unit is moved in a direction crossing with the one direction to outside of a movement range of insertion of the cartridge.

Abstract: The tire has, in a tread surface, at least one circumferential groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a shoulder land portion partitioned with the circumferential groove and a tread ground contact edge, the shoulder land portion has a first width direction groove that extends in a tire width direction and via which the circumferential groove communicates with the tread ground contact edge, the first width direction groove has, in the first width direction groove, a second width direction groove that communicates with the first width direction groove, and respective groove widths of the circumferential groove, the first width direction groove and the second width direction groove satisfy a relational expression of “the groove width of the circumferential groove >the groove width of the first width direction groove >the groove width of the second width direction groove”.