Abstract: A sensor element includes: an element base including: a ceramic body made of an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte, and having an inlet at one end portion thereof; at least one internal chamber located inside the ceramic body, and communicating with the inlet under predetermined diffusion resistance; an electrochemical pump cell including an electrode located on an outer surface of the ceramic body, an electrode facing the internal chamber, and a solid electrolyte located therebetween; and a heater buried in the ceramic body; and a porous leading-end protective layer surrounding a first range at least including a leading end surface and a region to be coped with water-induced cracking specified in advance. A single heat insulating space is interposed between the leading-end protective layer and a whole side surface of the element base at least in the above region.

Abstract: There is provided a cutting insert having a low possibility that chips roughen a machined surface of a workpiece in back turning. The cutting insert includes a rake surface, a peripheral side surface, a front cutting edge which is provided on a ridge of the rake surface and the peripheral side surface, and a main cutting edge which is provided on the ridge so as to be continuous with the front cutting edge and has an extension direction which forms an obtuse angle with an extension direction of the front cutting edge, the main cutting edge is curved into a U shape over an entire length of an effective edge range which functions as a cutting blade, and the deepest point of the U shape is positioned in a range closer to a side of a corner than a position which divides a straight line connecting both ends of the main cutting edge at a ratio of 2:1 from the side of the corner positioned adjacent to the front cutting edge.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a pinion gear having a large pinion gear and a small pinion gear, a wall part that overlaps a revolution orbit of the large pinion gear in an axial direction, a plate that is provided between the wall part and the large pinion gear, and a bottom part provided on a lower part of the plate and a lower part of the revolution orbit of the large pinion gear with a clearance being interposed. A space on a wall part side of the plate and a space on a large pinion gear side of the plate in the axial direction are in communication with each other via the clearance positioned at the lower part of the plate.

Abstract: The driving apparatus comprising a first motor, a first gear mechanism having a first input shaft and a first output shaft connected to the first motor, a second motor, and a second gear mechanism having a second input shaft and a second output shaft connected to the second motor. The first gear mechanism is configured such that the first input shaft and the first output shaft are in an intersecting or twisted position, and the second gear mechanism is configured such that the second input shaft and the second output shaft are in an intersecting or twisted position.

Abstract: Novel factors which are involved in the mechanism of the onset of IgA nephropathy are explored, and diagnostic, preventive or therapeutic agents for this disease are provided. A method for measuring autoantibodies related to IgA nephropathy, the method comprising measuring the amount of anti-spectrin ? IgA antibodies in a sample derived from a living organism.

Abstract: A thermal management system to cool one or more battery packs of a battery system may include a heat pipe arrangement that includes a plurality of heat pipes, having a planar configuration, in thermal contact with the one or more battery packs to draw heat therefrom, and a heat sink arrangement that includes a plurality of heat sinks, in thermal contact with two or more edges of the heat pipe arrangement, to dissipate heat away from the heat pipe arrangement.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a motor, a planetary gear mechanism having a portion that overlaps the motor in an axial direction, an axial direction wall part having a portion positioned between the planetary gear mechanism and the motor, a plate provided between the axial direction wall part and a pinion gear having the gear mechanism, and a box in which the motor, the planetary gear mechanism, the axial direction wall part, and the plate are housed. The box defines a breather hole that communicates with a breather chamber. The box has a radial direction wall part having a portion positioned between the plate and the breather chamber in a radial direction. The plate has a portion positioned between the pinion gear and the breather hole.

Abstract: The present invention can realize better cutting performance while suppressing an influence of, for instance, deflection of a head and an increase in a moment acting on a fastening mechanism even when a cutting insert of a long total length is used. A shank of a head replaceable type cutting tool includes: a fastening mechanism that is formed at a leading end part in a longitudinal direction of the shank, and attaches a head; and a recessed part that is formed at the leading end part so as to accommodate a part of a cutting insert held by the head and avoid an interference with the cutting insert. The recessed part may be provided to accommodate a non-use part of the cutting insert held by the head in a state where the head is attached to the leading end part, and avoid an interference with the cutting insert.

Abstract: Provided is a cutting tool that implements both high positioning accuracy and simple operation when the cutting tool is installed in a tool rest. The cutting has: a tool a main body which includes a fixing seat fixing a cutting insert or a cutting edge; and a position pin, which includes a cylindrical portion that is used for positioning the main body by being abutted to an abutting surface of a tool rest in a case of installing the main body in the tool rest, and which is detachable from the main body. The main body includes a female screw hole that is provided with a female screw portion and a tapered surface that is symmetric with respect to a center axis of the female screw portion and that widens toward an opening thereof. The positioning pin includes a male screw portion that engages with the female screw portion, and a contact portion located at a connecting portion that connects an end of the cylindrical portion and an end of the male screw portion.

Abstract: A technique for simulating and precisely evaluating creep deformation behavior of a nozzle diaphragm in a steam turbine to be operated in a power generation plan involving large output change is provided. A damage evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire detection data from each of a plurality of sensors installed in a steam turbine; a calculation unit configured to calculate operating state quantity of a nozzle diaphragm in the steam turbine on the basis of these detection data; a computation unit configured to compute creep deformation velocity of the nozzle diaphragm on the basis of the operating state quantity; and an estimation unit configured to estimate deformation amount of the nozzle diaphragm from the creep deformation velocity on the basis of a future operation plan for the steam turbine.

Abstract: An electricity storage device includes an electricity storage module and a cooling device disposed adjacent to the electricity storage module. The cooling device includes a first cooling layer that is adjacent to the electricity storage module and a second cooling layer that is located on the opposite side of the first cooling layer from the electricity storage module. In the first cooling layer, a plurality of first cooling channels that is disposed at intervals in an array direction and first walls that are located between the first cooling channels are formed. In the second cooling layer, a plurality of second cooling channels that is disposed at intervals in the array direction and second walls that are located between the second cooling channels are formed. At least some of the first walls are disposed so as to be offset from the second walls.

Abstract: A recess filling method includes a combined process including a film formation process of forming a film in recesses formed on the surface of a substrate and having different aspect ratios, and an etching process of etching the film formed in the recesses; and a repetition process of repeating the combined process n times (n is a natural number of 2 or more), wherein the repetition process includes: a first combined process of performing the etching process with a first etching amount suitable for filling, with the film, a first recess having a first aspect ratio; and a second combined process of performing the etching process with a second etching amount that is smaller than the first etching amount and is suitable for filling, with the film, a second recess having a second aspect ratio lower than the first aspect ratio.

Abstract: A SiN film embedding method includes: an operation of adsorbing an aminosilane-based precursor inside a recess formed on a surface of a substrate; an operation of forming a SiN film inside the recess by plasmarizing and supplying a nitrogen gas into the recess to nitride the aminosilane-based precursor; and an operation of forming an adsorption-inhibiting region for the aminosilane-based precursor on an upper portion inside the recess by plasmarizing and supplying a non-halogen gas substantially more to the upper portion than a lower portion inside the recess.

Abstract: A threshold value calculation device includes: a device state acquirer that acquires a device state of a first device provided in a facility in which a home network is installed during a first period; an occupancy state determiner that determines an occupancy state by people in the facility during the first period based on information acquired from a second device in the facility; a communication log collector that collects a communication log; and a learner that calculates a threshold value for the communication transmitted and received by the first device during a second period that is a period after the first period. The learner calculates the threshold value for each of combinations of one or more states of the first device and one or more states of the people.

Abstract: The invention of the present application intends to provide a work machine that can improve the work performance by keeping the work state of work equipment conforming to the intention of an operator in machine control for causing the work equipment to follow an excavation target surface. For this purpose, a controller determines the work state of the work equipment on the basis of an operation input amount inputted from an operation input device and the posture of the work equipment with respect to the target surface, computes a range of an action command value of actuators in which the work state determined is kept, and corrects, within the range, the action command value of the actuators to make the distance between the work equipment and the target surface small.

Abstract: Chip discharge during high-feed machining and low-feed machining particularly in a high-depth-of-cut state or the like is improved so as to allow so-called freedom of feed during cutting to be improved. A cutting edge body of a cutting insert includes a front cutting edge formed on one end side in a longitudinal direction, the front cutting edge being a cutting edge formed on an intersecting edge between a peripheral side surface and an upper surface of the cutting edge body having a prismatic shape, a side cutting edge formed on one end side in a lateral direction, a recessed part provided in the upper surface of the cutting edge body to be subsequent to the side cutting edge in the lateral direction, and a wall part having a wavy wall surface formed in a portion of the recessed part and a discrete wall surface formed at a position between the wavy wall surface and the side cutting edge and including a plurality of surfaces which are discrete along the longitudinal direction.

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 vehicle includes a motor, a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor, a box that has a motor chamber that houses the motor, a gear chamber that houses the gear mechanism and lubricating oil, and an exhaust pipe. A first cooling box, in which cooling liquid that cools the motor is introduced, is configured on an outer circumference of the motor. A second cooling box, which is connected so that cooling liquid can circulate between the second cooling box and the first cooling box, is configured on an outer circumference of the box. The motor chamber is arranged at a position spaced further apart from the exhaust pipe than the gear chamber.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a motor, a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor and lubricated by oil, and a box. The box has a wall part that covers an outer circumference of the gear mechanism, and a jacket part that covers an outer circumference of the wall part. A cooling chamber, in which cooling liquid is introduced, is formed between the wall part and the jacket part. The cooling chamber includes a portion that overlaps with the gear mechanism when seen from a radial direction, and a portion that overlaps the gear mechanism when seen from an axial direction.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a drive assist apparatus capable of performing appropriate drive assist on a driver which has performed reckless driving or irritating driving and a drive assist method thereof. A drive assist apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a drive state determination unit determining a drive state including reckless driving intentionally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle on another vehicle and irritating driving accidentally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle but irritating a driver of another vehicle; and an assist controller performing control of assisting driving of the driver of the subject vehicle in accordance with each of a case where the drive state determination unit determines that the reckless driving is performed and a case where the drive state determination unit determines that the irritating driving is performed.