Abstract: A working machine may include a first ground-contact part, a driving part configured to drive the first ground-contact part, a clutch mechanism configured to be switched between a transmission state and a non-transmission state, a clutch operation part configured to switch a state of the clutch mechanism, a braking mechanism configured to be switched between a braking state and a non-braking state, and a braking operation part configured to switch a state of the braking mechanism. In a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the braking state, the clutch mechanism may be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state by operating the clutch operation part, and in a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the non-braking state, the clutch mechanism may not be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state even by operating the clutch operation part.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery stack composed of a stack of multiple battery cells and a bus bar module fixed to the battery stack. Electrodes are provided on a specific surface of each of the battery cells. The battery stack has a surface composed of the specific surface of each of the multiple battery cells. The bus bar module includes a base member and a bus bar. The base member is fixed on the surface of the battery stack. The bus bar includes a fixed portion fixed to the base member and a first extending portion extending from the fixed portion to a first electrode of the electrodes of each of the multiple battery cells. The first extending portion is welded to the first electrode in a state where stress is applied to the first extending portion in a direction away from the first electrode.

Abstract: A lower structure for a hybrid automobile in which a high-voltage battery is disposed in a lower surface of a floor panel includes an engine exhaust system component which is disposed in front of the high-voltage battery in the lower surface of the floor panel and on one vehicle-width-direction side of a center in a vehicle width direction and high-voltage devices which are disposed in front of the high-voltage battery and on another vehicle-width-direction side of the center in the vehicle width direction. In-vehicle equipment is disposed between the high-voltage battery and the high-voltage devices, and the in-vehicle equipment is in an inclined state where an upper surface of the in-vehicle equipment is inclined in a front-rear direction such that the in-vehicle equipment has a shorter dimension in the front-rear direction than a dimension in a horizontal state where the upper surface becomes horizontal.

Abstract: A retrieval device 10 includes an input unit 11 configured to receive a search query from a user, a retrieval unit 12 configured to calculate a degree of fitness between the search query and each of a plurality of pieces of retrieval target data, a query expansion unit 13 configured to generate an expanded search query, and a policy determination unit 14 configured to determine which of a first process and a second process is to be executed on the basis of the degree of fitness for each piece of the retrieval data calculated by the retrieval unit 12. The first process is presenting the retrieval target data having a high degree of fitness to the user. The second process is proposing to the user that the retrieval unit is caused to calculate the degree of fitness for each piece of the retrieval target data using the expanded search query.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery pack of the present disclosure stacks a plurality of battery cells such that one surfaces face the same direction and compresses the battery cells from both sides, inserts the compressed battery cells into the case such that the one surfaces are positioned on an open end side of the case, disposes a plurality of bus bars on the one surfaces of the battery cells so as to overlap the corresponding terminal, moves a pressurizing jig so as to press the bus bars toward a bottom surface of the case from a pressurization start position corresponding to a height position of the terminal of the battery cell farthest from the bottom surface, and bonds each of the plurality of bus bars to the corresponding terminal.

Abstract: A vehicle display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: a first display device configured to project a light pattern onto a road surface outside the vehicle; a second display device inside the vehicle configured to display a predetermined image to an occupant of the vehicle such that the predetermined image is superimposed on a real space outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the first display device and the second display device. In a case where both the predetermined image and the light pattern are displayed, the controller causes a distance from the occupant to the predetermined image to match a distance from the occupant to the light pattern.

Abstract: A steam turbine blade includes a blade body (7) including blade surfaces (70) extending in a blade height direction. The blade body (7) includes a first suction port (74) extending in the blade height direction and opening in the blade surface (70), a first drain flow path (75) internally extending in the blade height direction, and first communication passages (76) internally provided away from one another in the blade height direction and independently of one another and making the first drain port (74) and the first drain flow path (75) in communication with each other.

Abstract: A battery pack manufacturing method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes stacking battery cells, pressurizing a battery cell group provided by stacking the battery cells in a stacking direction, measuring positions of cell terminals of the battery cells included in the pressurized battery cell group, finding a center straight line passing through a center of a distribution of the positions of the cell terminals, positioning a welding jig configured to decide a position where a bus bar is pressed against at least one of the cell terminals with reference to the center straight line, and welding the bus bar that is pressed against the at least one of the cell terminals, to the at least one of the cell terminals by the welding jig.

Abstract: A method for stack-welding dissimilar metal members by placing a first metal member and a second metal member having a melting point higher than that of the first metal member on top of one another and performing laser welding is provided. The second metal member is placed on the first metal member, and a molten pool in which only the second metal member is melted is formed by applying a laser beam for thermal-conduction welding from above the second metal member. After the molten pool comes into contact with the first metal member and hence the first metal member melts in the molten pool, the molten pool solidifies, so that the first and second metal members and are welded together.

Abstract: A burner device includes a burner body which includes a protruding portion protruding from a furnace wall into an interior of a combustion furnace, a cooling pipe through which a refrigerant for cooling the burner body flows, the cooling pipe being disposed so as to surround an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion, and a light detection unit for detecting internal light of the cooling pipe.

Abstract: An automotive lamp is capable of controlling a light distribution pattern PTN based on an image captured by a camera unit. The automotive lamp is capable of switching between multiple control modes designed with different combinations of the spatial resolution of the light distribution pattern PTN and the update speed of the light distribution pattern PTN.

Abstract: A method for stack-welding dissimilar metal members by placing a first metal member and a second metal member having a melting point higher than that of the first metal member on top of one another and performing laser welding is provided. The second metal member is placed on the first metal member, and a molten pool in which only the second metal member is melted is formed by applying a laser beam for thermal-conduction welding from above the second metal member. After the molten pool comes into contact with the first metal member and hence the first metal member melts in the molten pool, the molten pool solidifies, so that the first and second metal members and are welded together.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp system includes an imaging unit which images a front of an own vehicle to generate image information, an imaging control unit which controls the imaging unit to perform an operation of generating image information with a first time period and an operation of generating image information with a second time period, a luminance analysis unit which detects luminance of individual regions in front of the own vehicle, an illuminance setting unit which determines a light distribution pattern. The illuminance setting unit, for an individual region whose luminance is within a high luminance range, sets an illuminance value such that luminance of the individual region decreases due to formation of the light distribution pattern, and for an individual region whose luminance is within a low luminance range, sets an illuminance value such that luminance of the individual region increases due to formation of the light distribution pattern.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp control device includes: an imaging unit that takes an image ahead of a host vehicle; a target analysis unit that detects target objects ahead of the host vehicle based on the information obtained from an imaging unit configured to take an image ahead of the host vehicle; and a tracking unit that determines a specific target object from the target objects detected by the target analysis unit and to detect displacement of the specific target object based on a detection result of an luminance analysis unit configured to detect luminance of each of a plurality of individual areas ahead of the host vehicle based on information obtained from the imaging unit. A light distribution pattern to be formed by a light source unit of a vehicle lamp is determined based on the detection result of the luminance analysis unit and a detection result of the tracking unit.

Abstract: A vehicle display system, which is provided in a vehicle, includes a first display device configured to emit a light pattern toward a road surface outside the vehicle; and a second display device located inside the vehicle and configured to display predetermined information toward an occupant of the vehicle such that the predetermined information is superimposed on a real space outside the vehicle.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode body and an internal terminal attached to the electrode body. The electrode body includes positive electrode sheets, negative electrode sheets, and separators. The positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, with each separator interposed between associated adjacent ones of the positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets. The positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets each include a collector foil. At least either portions of the collector foils of the positive electrode sheets or the negative electrode sheets are protruded beyond the separators in one direction. The protruded portions of the collector foils are piled in a stack in the stacking direction. The internal terminal includes a connector connected to the stack of the protruded portions of the collector foils. The stack of the protruded portions is bent around a base end of the protruded portions of the collector foils.

Abstract: A display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: an HUD positioned inside the vehicle and configured so as to display, on the vehicle window, a surrounding environment video indicating the environment surrounding the vehicle; and a display control unit controlling the HUD such that the surrounding environment video is displayed on the window in accordance with prescribed conditions associated to the vehicle or the environment surrounding the vehicle and configured so as to reduce the transmittance of the window.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp system includes an imaging unit that takes an image ahead of a host vehicle, a luminance analyzer that detects luminance of each of areas ahead of the host vehicle, a target analyzer that detects objects ahead of the host vehicle, a tracking unit that determines a specific object from the detected objects and detects displacement of the specific object based on a detection result of the luminance; a setting unit that sets, based on the detection result of the luminance and a detection result of the displacement, an illuminance value for each area, which includes a specific illuminance for a specific area determined according to a position where the specific target is present, and a controller that controls the light source the illuminance of the light to be radiated from a light source to each area based on the illuminance values set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode body and an internal terminal attached to the electrode body. The electrode body includes positive electrode sheets, negative electrode sheets, and separators. The positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, with each separator interposed between associated adjacent ones of the positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets. The positive electrode sheets and the negative electrode sheets each include a collector foil. At least either portions of the collector foils of the positive electrode sheets or the negative electrode sheets are protruded beyond the separators in one direction. The protruded portions of the collector foils are piled in a stack in the stacking direction. The internal terminal includes a connector connected to the stack of the protruded portions of the collector foils. The stack of the protruded portions is bent around a base end of the protruded portions of the collector foils.

Abstract: A laser welding method and a laser welding apparatus capable of preventing formation of blowholes and obtaining an excellent welled state are provided. An embodiment is a laser welding method for a component to be welded 40 including a third metal component 40c sandwiched between first and second metal components 40a and 40b, in which the metal components are welded to each other by scanning a laser beam in a first direction perpendicular to a direction in which the third metal component 40c is sandwiched, in which a welded part 42 is formed by applying a first laser beam 12a while scanning it in the first direction and thereby melting and then solidifying the component to be welded 40.