Abstract: A coating film includes a water-repellent resin having a smooth surface and a contact angle of 70 degrees or more. The coating film has a plurality of protrusions formed by the water-repellent resin, and the plurality of protrusions are scattered in the coating film and each have an end portion with a convex surface formed by cutting out a continuous region accounting for 50% or more of a spherical surface. The spherical surfaces each have an average radius of curvature of 16 ?m or less. An average distance between each ones of the plurality of protrusions adjacent to each other is less than or equal to 30 times a radius of curvature.

Abstract: A lid component is arranged to face an electric oil pump. The lid component includes an accommodation groove that accommodates at least a part of the electric oil pump on a surface side from which a lid-side connector protrudes.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a diagnostic system capable of properly identifying the cause of even an error for which multiple factors or multiple compound factors may be accountable. The diagnostic system according to the present disclosure is provided with a learning device for learning at least one of a recipe defining operations of an inspection device, log data describing states of the device, or specimen data describing characteristics of a specimen in association with error types of the device, and estimates the cause of the error by using the learning device (refer to FIG. 4).

Abstract: A defect inspection apparatus includes: a feature value calculation unit calculating a feature value based on a captured image of a sample; an image information reduction unit generating a latent variable by reducing an information quantity of the feature value; a statistic value estimation unit estimating an image statistic value that can be taken by a normal image based on the latent variable; and a defect detection unit detecting a defect in an inspection image based on the image statistic value and the inspection image of the sample.

Abstract: A lid component is arranged to face an electric oil pump. The lid component includes an accommodation groove that accommodates at least a part of the electric oil pump on a surface side from which a lid-side connector protrudes.

Abstract: A hydrophobic structure includes: a resin substrate; and a superhydrophobic mixture layer formed on the resin substrate and including a mixture of a hydrophobic part and a resin forming a surface portion of the resin substrate. The hydrophobic part includes one or both of a fluororesin and hydrophobic fine particles formed by subjecting inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of 5 nm or more and 30 nm or less to a hydrophobic treatment. The superhydrophobic mixture layer has a surface roughness Sa of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: An error cause estimation device comprising: a data pre-processing unit that uses data to be processed and generates training data that has an appropriate format for input to a machine learning model; and a model tree generation unit that generates error detection models that are training models for detecting errors and uses the training data as inputs therefor, and generates a model tree that expresses the relationship between error detection models by using a tree structure that has the error detection models as node therefor. Thus, it is possible to generate a training model that detects errors for each of a plurality of types of errors that occur, even when there has been no prior annotation of error causes.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid being such that a pigment is finely dispersed, and the viscosity, and the particle diameters of the pigment are unlikely to fluctuate, being excellent in storage stability, and enabling preparation of an emulsion-polymerized toner having properly controlled particle diameters while improving the pigment utilization rate. The aqueous pigment dispersion liquid is an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid for an emulsion-polymerized toner containing a pigment, a dispersant, and an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A heat exchanger coating composition includes an aqueous dispersion having a water-repellent resin containing spherical particles with an average particle size of 2 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: An error cause estimation device comprises a feature value generation unit for using data transmitted from the outside to generate feature values suitable for a machine learning model; a model database having a plurality of error prediction models, for determining whether an error has occurred using the feature values as input data; a model evaluation unit for evaluating the performance of an error prediction model by comparing a prediction result of the error prediction model and an actually measured error; a model selection unit for selecting from the model database an error prediction model for which an evaluation value calculated by the model evaluation unit is greater than or equal to a preset defined value; and an error prediction model generation unit for generating a new error prediction model with respect to the measured error when no corresponding error prediction model has been selected by the model selection unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a diagnostic system capable of properly identifying the cause of even an error for which multiple factors or multiple compound factors may be accountable. The diagnostic system according to the present disclosure is provided with a learning device for learning at least one of a recipe defining operations of an inspection device, log data describing states of the device, or specimen data describing characteristics of a specimen in association with error types of the device, and estimates the cause of the error by using the learning device (refer to FIG. 4).

Abstract: Provided is a water repellent coating film, including: an undercoat layer formed on a surface of a base material and containing: at least one type of spherical particles having an average particle diameter of 2 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less and selected from the group consisting of spherical molten silica particles, spherical molten alumina particles, and spherical silicone resin particles; and an underlying resin; and a topcoat layer formed on the undercoat layer and containing: inorganic fine particles having an average particle diameter of 2 nm or more and 20 nm or less; and a water repellent resin. The underlying resin is preferably a polyurethane resin or a fluororesin. The water repellent resin is preferably a fluororesin or a silicone resin.

Abstract: A water-repellent coat according to the present disclosure includes: an undercoat layer that is formed on a surface of a base material and contains a base resin, at least one kind of spherical particles, and water-repellent particles, the at least one kind of spherical particles having an average particle diameter of 2 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less and being selected from the group consisting of spherical molten silica particles, spherical molten alumina particles, and spherical silicone resin particles, the water-repellent particles having an average particle diameter of 5 nm or more and 30 nm or less; and a topcoat layer formed on the undercoat layer and containing a water-repellent resin and the water-repellent particles contained in the undercoat layer.

Abstract: A coating composition contains silica fine particles having an average particle size of 3 nm or more and 25 nm or less, a solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. or higher and 300° C. or lower, and water. The content of the silica fine particles is 0.1 mass% or more and 5 mass% or less. The content of the solvent is 20 mass% or more and 70 mass% or less.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes an image distortion estimation unit that estimates a distortion amount between a reference image and an inspection image, an image distortion correction unit that corrects the inspection image and/or the reference image using an estimated distortion amount, and an inspection unit that performs inspection using a corrected inspection image and the reference image or the inspection image and a corrected reference image. The image distortion estimation unit estimates a distortion amount in which only distortion occurring in an entire image can be corrected by adjustment of a correction condition.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a system which can infer the cause of a recipe error and present a correction candidate for the recipe error. A recipe information presentation system or recipe error inference system according to the present invention: causes a learner to learn a correspondence between a recipe and an error originating from the recipe; and acquires from the learner an inference result as to whether the error occurs when a new recipe is used (refer to FIG. 1).

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode for an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery which can reduce the internal resistance of the all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery. The positive electrode includes an active material layer containing a positive electrode active material and a solid electrolyte material. The positive electrode active material contains secondary particles comprising an aggregate of a plurality of primary particles containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide. A smoothness of the secondary particles is more than 0.73, and a degree of circularity of the secondary particles is more than 0.83.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material includes secondary particles formed by aggregation of a plurality of primary particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide having a layered structure and containing lithium and nickel. The secondary particles have a smoothness greater than 0.73, and a circularity greater than 0.83. The secondary particles contain cobalt and have a first region at a depth of 150 nm from a surface of the respective secondary particle and a second region at a depth of 10 nm or less from the surface of the respective secondary particle, and a ratio of a number of moles of cobalt to a total number of moles of metal elements other than lithium in the second region is larger than a ratio of a number of moles of cobalt to a total number of moles of metal elements other than lithium in the first region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid being such that a pigment is finely dispersed, and the viscosity, and the particle diameters of the pigment are unlikely to fluctuate, being excellent in storage stability, and enabling preparation of an emulsion-polymerized toner having properly controlled particle diameters while improving the pigment utilization rate. The aqueous pigment dispersion liquid is an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid for an emulsion-polymerized toner containing a pigment, a dispersant, and an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A heat exchanger and an air-conditioning apparatus that exhibit high performance, and also provide reliability in strength and corrosion resistance. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins each including a fin collar formed in a short cylindrical shape by perforating a flat base plate, the plurality of fins being stacked by serially connecting fin collars of the respective fins, the serially connected fin collars being bonded to form a conduit line and a fin core, the conduit line including a resin layer formed on an inner surface thereof. The heat exchanger also includes a reinforcing member having a length corresponding to a length of the conduit line from one end to the other end thereof, to improve rigidity of the conduit line.