Abstract: The invention of the present application has as its object the provision of a work machine that is equipped with a function to prevent a work device thereof from going into an entry prohibited area and can satisfy both working precision and working efficiency of the work device. A controller is therefore configured to start work range limiting control to decelerate or stop an action of a machine main body or the work device when a distance between a monitor point set beforehand on the work device and the entry prohibited area decreases to a first distance, to end the work range limiting control when the distance between the monitor point and the entry prohibited area increases to a second distance greater than the first distance, and to change the second distance according to an operation amount of an operation device.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a traveling body, a slewing body, a working front having a boom, an arm, and a bucket, an operation amount detector, a posture detector, a load detector, a drive controller, and a drive unit. The drive controller calculates a target operation speed of the actuator based on the operation amount, the posture of the working front, and the target surface distance so that the bucket excavates along the construction target surface, and determines soil hardness of a place to be excavated based on a result detected by the load detector, corrects the target operation speed based on the soil hardness, and generates a motion command value. The drive controller determines a target jack-up speed when the hydraulic excavator jacks up based on the target surface distance, and corrects the target operation speed based on the determined target jack-up speed.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes forming a metal oxide resist film on a substrate including an underlayer; forming a pattern in the metal oxide resist film; modifying the metal oxide resist film in which the pattern has been formed; and etching the underlayer by using the modified metal oxide resist film as a mask.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes an inner housing and an outer housing. An inner circumferential surface of the outer housing includes a first cylindrical surface contacting first sealing member, a second cylindrical surface contacting a second sealing member, and a third cylindrical surface in which an end part of the inner housing is press-fitted into. The second cylindrical surface has a smaller diameter than the first cylindrical surface and the third cylindrical surface has a smaller diameter than the second cylindrical surface and is provided closer to the bottom than the second cylindrical surface. The first sealing member contacts the first cylindrical surface and the second sealing member contacts the second cylindrical surface to form a gap in an axial direction between the end part of the inner housing and the third cylindrical surface where the inner housing has been inserted into the outer housing.

Abstract: A battery cooler comprises a refrigerant filling chamber, a refrigerant inflow passage, and a refrigerant outflow passage. The refrigerant filling chamber is sandwiched between opposed battery unit cells and is arranged at a position for receiving heat of the unit cells. The refrigerant inflow passage is connected to a lower portion of the refrigerant filling chamber. The refrigerant outflow passage is connected to an upper portion of the refrigerant filling chamber. The refrigerant filling chamber has at least one joint part joining partially and mutually opposed wall surfaces so as to suppress expansion and deformation of these surfaces caused by the pressure of the refrigerant. An outflow side wall surface rises from a bottom surface of the refrigerant filling chamber toward a connection part of the refrigerant outflow passage. The outflow side wall surface is provided with an inclined surface directed downward from a horizontal direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work machine capable of providing operation assistance matching an operator's intent in consideration of a rotating motion. A control device includes a storage device and a central processing device. The storage device has stored therein construction target information for a work device and determination criteria information for the work content of the work device based on the amount of operation of a rotating device. The central processing device, based on the position and attitude of the work device detected by a sensor, the amount of operation of the rotating device detected by an operation amount detection device, and the determination criteria information stored in the storage device, determines the work content of the work device, calculates a correction value for the construction target information based on the determined work content, and controls a drive device based on the construction target information and the correction value.

Abstract: An alkaline water electrolyzer includes at least two outer frames, a gasket, and a diaphragm. The at least two outer frames are stacked so as to overlap at least in part in a circumferential direction. The gasket is sandwiched between the two outer frames. The gasket can be in contact with the outer frames over the entire circumferential direction. In an inner peripheral surface of the gasket, a slit is formed along the circumferential direction. The gasket has a first protrusion portion. The first protrusion portion protrudes over the entire circumferential direction at a position overlapping the slit when viewed from a thickness direction of the slit. A diaphragm is caught in the slit of the gasket. A volume ratio of volume of the first protrusion portion, to volume between a bottom of the slit and an end of the diaphragm, is between 0.5 and 100 inclusive.

Abstract: A method of measuring a film thickness includes: storing, in a storage, relationship information indicating a relationship between an absorbance spectrum of a substrate, which has a recess formed therein and is subjected to substrate processing, and a film thickness of a film in the substrate subjected to the substrate processing, the absorbance spectrum being within a range including a peak of at least one of LO (Longitudinal Optical) phonons or TO (Transverse Optical) phonons of the film present on a surface of the substrate; performing the substrate processing on the substrate having the recess formed therein; measuring the absorbance spectrum of the substrate subjected to the substrate processing; and deriving, based on the relationship information, the film thickness of the film present on the surface of the substrate subjected to the substrate processing, from the measured absorbance spectrum.

Abstract: A solid oxide electrochemical cell stack includes: a first planar electrochemical cell; a second planar electrochemical cell stacked with the first planar electrochemical cell; a separator electrically connected to a first hydrogen electrode and a second oxygen electrode; a first conductor connecting the first hydrogen electrode and the separator; and a second conductor connecting the second oxygen electrode and the separator. The second conductor includes a porous conductor through which at least one supplied gas is supplied and diffused to second the oxygen electrode, and a structure-supporting conductor to prevent mechanical displacements of the cells.

Abstract: An internal manifold-type bipolar electrolysis element structured from an anode, a cathode, a partition wall, and an outer frame, and having a manifold, wherein at least a part of the surface of the manifold is covered with a manifold covering member, and the manifold covering member is integrated with a gasket.

Abstract: A drive device includes: a first motor that drives a left wheel; a second motor that drives a right wheel; an oil reservoir; a partition wall provided on a bottom face of the oil reservoir and sections the oil reservoir into a left oil reservoir and a right oil reservoir; a first oil pump that intakes oil from an intake port that opens to a bottom face of the left oil reservoir and supplies sucked oil to the first motor; and a second oil pump that intakes oil from a suction port that opens to a bottom face of the right oil reservoir and supplies sucked oil to the second motor. The partition wall is provided with a through hole extending from the left oil reservoir to the right oil reservoir. A blocking unit for blocking the through hole when acceleration is applied in a lateral direction is provided.

Abstract: A plastic product includes a first component made of plastic and a second component made of plastic. The first component includes a first joint surface. The second component includes a second joint surface joined to the first joint surface. The first component includes a contact surface that is located on a side opposite to the first joint surface in a facing direction. The contact surface includes a general portion and a protruding portion. The first component includes at least one recess in an outer side surface located between the first joint surface and the contact surface in a part in which the protruding portion is provided. The recess opens in the outer side surface.

Abstract: A drive device includes: a first electric motor that drives a left wheel of a vehicle; a second electric motor that drives a right wheel of the vehicle; a first oil pump that supplies oil to the first electric motor via a first oil supply passage; a second oil pump that supplies oil to the second electric motor via a second oil supply passage; a connecting channel that connects the first oil supply passage and the second oil supply passage; and a flow regulating device that is installed in the connecting channel and allows oil to flow in the connecting channel when one of the first oil pump and the second oil pump is abnormal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a damage degree management system for a steam turbine high temperature component, comprising a display information generator that generates display information for displaying: past damage degree related information indicating information regarding a damage degree of the steam turbine high temperature component from the past to the present calculated based on measured information; and future damage degree related information indicating information regarding a future damage degree of the steam turbine high temperature component in the future calculated based on a future operation plan input through an input screen of a user interface and the past damage degree related information.

Abstract: A two-component thermally conductive silicone composition long with methods of producing and uses for the same. Where the two-component thermally conductive silicone includes a first liquid containing (A) a diorganopolysiloxane having an alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom, (D) an addition catalyst, (E) a thermally conductive filler, and (F) a condensation catalyst. Where the two-component thermally conductive silicone includes a second liquid containing (A) the diorganopolysiloxane having an alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom, (B) a diorganopolysiloxane having a hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom, (C) at least one selected from (C-1) an organosilicon compound having two or more groups that are at least one selected from a methoxy group and an ethoxy group and not having a hydrocarbon group having 3 or more carbon atoms or a vinyl group, and (C-2) a hydrolysate of the organosilicon compound (C-1), and (E) the thermally conductive filler.

Abstract: A drive device for an electric vehicle having a first drive wheel and a second drive wheel. The drive device includes: (a) a first speed reducer through which the first drive wheel is to be driven by a first electric motor, and (b) a second speed reducer through which the second drive wheel is to be driven by a second electric motor. The first speed reduce and the second speed reducer are constituted by respective speed reduction mechanisms that are the same in kind as each other. The first speed reducer and the second speed reducer have respective natural frequencies that are different from each other.

Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an imaging unit, an encoding section, and a sending section. The imaging unit acquires captured image data by imaging. The encoding section encodes a plurality of pieces of image data as one piece of image data for transmission. The plurality of pieces of image data is based on one or more pieces of captured image data acquired by the imaging unit. The sending section sends the image data for transmission to an external device. The image data for transmission is generated by the encoding section.

Abstract: A work machine includes a flow control valve that controls the flow rate of a hydraulic operating fluid supplied from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic cylinder, a solenoid valve that generates an operation pressure for operating the flow control valve, and a controller. The controller executes learning processing of changing in a stepwise manner the operation pressure generated by the solenoid valve, sensing the pressure of the hydraulic cylinder, and storing the operation pressure when the pressure of the hydraulic cylinder has become a reference value, as a learning result operation pressure. The controller calculates a differential pressure across the flow control valve and computes a target opening area of the flow control valve on the basis of the differential pressure across the flow control valve and a target flow rate of the hydraulic operating fluid that passes through the flow control valve.

Abstract: A film forming method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: forming an adsorption-inhibiting region by supplying an adsorption-inhibiting gas to the substrate; adsorbing a silicon-containing gas onto a region excluding the adsorption-inhibiting region; and forming a silicon nitride film by exposing the substrate, onto which the silicon-containing gas has been adsorbed, to plasma generated from a nitriding gas, wherein the nitriding gas includes a nitrogen-containing gas and an inert gas, and the nitrogen-containing gas has a flow rate greater than a flow rate of the inert gas.

Abstract: A thinning amount managing apparatus in an embodiment for managing an amount of thinning of a first-stage rotor blade of a steam turbine caused by solid particles contained in working steam for working the steam turbine. The thinning amount managing apparatus includes a display information generation section configured to generate display information for displaying: past thinning amount related information indicating information on a past thinning amount of the first-stage rotor blade from the past to the present calculated based on measured information; and future thinning amount related information indicating information on a future thinning amount of the first-stage rotor blade calculated based on a future operating condition input via a user interface screen and the past thinning amount related information.