Abstract: A component unit included in an air conditioning apparatus includes a heat exchanger including heat transfer tubes, a distributor having a first connecting end that opens downward in an up-down direction after the component unit is installed in the air conditioning apparatus, a refrigerant pipe having a second connecting end that opens upward in the up-down direction after the component unit is installed in the air conditioning apparatus. The distributor is connected to the heat exchanger and the refrigerant pipe and distributes refrigerant from the refrigerant pipe to the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes and the distributor are made of aluminum or aluminum alloy. The refrigerant pipe is made of copper or copper alloy. The second connecting end is connected to the first connecting end directly or through a metal pipe made of a material other than aluminum, aluminum alloy, copper, or copper alloy.

Abstract: A component unit of an air conditioner includes a casing having a metallic top panel, a heat exchanger disposed in the casing and including a heat transfer tube made of a material that has higher ionization tendency than the metallic top panel, a heat insulating member, having an opening, that covers an inner surface of the metallic top panel, a supporter, having a fixing part fixed to the inner surface inside the opening, that supports the heat exchanger, and a preventing member that prevents condensation water from traveling to the supporter from a region of the inner surface between an edge of the opening and the fixing part.

Abstract: A refrigerant pipe connected to a flow divider includes a first pipe made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and a second pipe made of copper or copper alloy. A first connection end of the first pipe and a second connection end of the second pipe are connected. A cover member is disposed in a through hole to extend across an internal space and an external space of a casing, A first portion of the refrigerant pipe including the first connection end of the first pipe and the second connection end of the second pipe is covered with the cover member.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus and method for shortening a delay from inputting of a stream till generation of a decoded image. The image processing apparatus generates an encoded stream by adding at least part of header information about a second access unit (AU) to be processed immediately after a first AU or information regarding at least part of the header information, to supplemental enhancement information (SEI) about the first AU.

Abstract: A biocompatible member according to an embodiment is a biocompatible member including multiple fibers including a biocompatible material. Mutually adjacent fibers among the fibers are covalently bonded at multiple locations in an extension direction of the fibers.

Abstract: A hybrid gel comprising a particulate decellularized tissue (obtained by pulverizing animal-derived biological tissues that are decellularized (decellularized biological tissues)), fibrinogen and thrombin; a cell culture material comprising the hybrid gel; a method for preparing the hybrid gel; and a kit comprising a particulate decellularized tissue and a biological tissue adhesive are provided. The hybrid gel of the present invention exerts the effect to promote differentiation and gain of function of stem cells and the therapeutic effect to a variety of diseases.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat transfer tube allowing a refrigerant to flow; and a fin having through holes that are aligned in columns in a second direction crossing a first direction in which air flows. The through holes include: first through holes each penetrated by the heat transfer tube in a thickness direction of the fin; and second through holes not penetrated by the heat transfer tube. The fin includes: a first region having the first through holes; and a second region having the second through holes. One or both ends of the second region in the first direction are adjacent to the first region. Both ends of the second region in the second direction are adjacent to the first region.

Abstract: A method for forming a parting line in a coating using an easily peelable coating material comprising (i) attaching a masking tape to a part not to be coated on a boundary between a part to be coated and the part not to be coated along the boundary; (ii) performing a process to improve an adhesiveness with an easily peelable coating material on surfaces of a part in contact with the boundary of the part to be coated and/or a part in contact with the boundary of the masking tape; (iii) applying the easily peelable coating material over surfaces of the part to be coated and the part in contact with the boundary of the masking tape; and (iv) peeling off the masking tape.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a parting line in a coating using an easily peelable coating material. The method includes: (i) attaching a masking tape to a part not to be coated on a boundary between a part to be coated and the part not to be coated along the boundary; (ii) performing a process to improve an adhesiveness with an easily peelable coating material on surfaces of a part in contact with the boundary of the part to be coated and/or a part in contact with the boundary of the masking tape; (iii) applying the easily peelable coating material over surfaces of the part to be coated and the part in contact with the boundary of the masking tape; and (iv) peeling off the masking tape.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method for shortening a delay from inputting of a stream till generation of a decoded image. The image processing apparatus generates an encoded stream by adding at least part of header information about a second access unit (AU) to be processed immediately after a first AU or information regarding at least part of the header information, to supplemental enhancement information (SEI) about the first AU. The present technology can be applied to an image encoding device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.

Abstract: A relationship between a relative position with respect to a section where a progressing direction changes on a route and an arrangement height is set such that the arrangement height gradually increases from zero to MaxH. Then, the arrangement height gradually decreases from MaxH to zero along the route from a point on the near side of the section where the progressing direction changes (FIGS. 3B and 3G and FIGS. 4B and 4C). When traveling in the section where the progressing direction changes, a direction mark representing the progressing direction at each point on a road surface is displayed using a heads-up display so as to overlap with a position on an upper side, by an arrangement height set based on a relative position of the point with respect to the section and a set relationship, from the point.

Abstract: An anti-adhesion material comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing an anti-adhesion material comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; an anti-adhesion material kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a substitute biomembrane comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing a substitute biomembrane comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; and a substitute biomembrane kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.

Abstract: A payment system comprising: a customer terminal operated by a customer; and a server, wherein the server stores each of a plurality of pieces of shop identification information in association with authentication information that is necessary for a payment, wherein the customer terminal: receives a selection of a payee shop by the customer; receives an input of the authentication information by the payee shop; and sends shop identification information of the payee shop and the authentication information entered by the payee shop to the server, the server executes authentication processing based on authentication information received from the customer terminal and authentication information stored in association with the shop identification information received from the customer terminal, the payment system executes payment processing to the payee shop based on an authentication result.

Abstract: A position determination system includes a determination unit that repeats a position determination process in predetermined cycles to determine the present position of the terminal in each cycle. In the position determination process, the determination unit obtains a measurement value that indicates a characteristic of radio waves transmitted between a communication device and a terminal to determine the position of the terminal relative to the communication device from the measurement value. The determination unit manages the position of the terminal through a determination control that allows a position determination result to be maintained over a number of the predetermined cycles.

Abstract: A position in a left-right direction of a display position of a facility figure representing a facility is set to a position overlapping with a virtual line parallel to a traveling lane as viewed from a driver (c). A position in an up-down direction of the display position is determined to be a position overlapping with a road surface on the front side, the position separated upward by H1 from a lower end of a display area of a heads-up display when a distance L from a current position CP to a position TP of a facility is a distance ThL (b1), to be a position separated by H4 (H4<h1) when the distance L is zero, and such that distances H2 and H3 separated upward from the lower end of the display area gradually change from the distance H1 to the distance H4 as the distance L decreases from the distance ThL to zero (b2 and b3). The distance H1 is set such that the facility figure is displayed below a point facing the facility on the road surface on the front side when the distance L is the distance ThL.

Abstract: An insulation paste for forming a protective layer of a solar cell device includes: a siloxane resin; an organic solvent; and multiple fillers each having a surface covered with an organic coating containing at least one material different from a material of the siloxane resin. A method for producing the insulation paste includes: preparing the multiple fillers; and mixing together a precursor of the siloxane resin, water, a catalyst, an organic solvent, and the multiple fillers. A method for manufacturing a solar cell device includes: applying the insulation paste to the passivation layer; and drying the insulation paste to form the protective layer on the passivation layer. A solar cell device includes: the passivation layer located on a semiconductor region; and the protective layer located on the passivation layer and including a siloxane resin and dimethylpolysiloxane.

Abstract: To simplify the configuration for achieving payment with a high degree of freedom in or near a shop, position information acquisition means of a payment system acquires shop terminal position information for indicating a position of a shop terminal and customer terminal position information for indicating a position of a portable customer terminal on which a customer performs a payment operation. Determination means determines, when the payment operation is performed on the customer terminal, whether a distance between the position of the shop terminal indicated by the shop terminal position information and the position of the customer terminal indicated by the customer terminal position information is smaller than a threshold value. Pay lent processing execution means is executable for payment processing based on a result of determination made by the determination means.

Abstract: A head-up display device displays a virtual image in front of a vehicle, and includes a memory configured to store a program, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the program and perform a process that includes acquiring information related to a target object recognized from image data received from an imaging device that captures a view in front of the vehicle, generating a projection image to be projected as the virtual image, determining a display position of the projection image along a traveling direction of the vehicle, based on the information related to the target object, using the target object as a reference, transforming the projection image into a support image viewed from a predetermined direction, and projecting the support image in front of the vehicle.