Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Rakuten, Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Leggett & Platt Canada Co.

Adient Engineering and IP Gmbh

Yuki Fukuda

Toshimitsu Mizukoshi

Taiji Misono

Hiromitsu Nagatomo

Akira Nakajima

Masaki Shimazu

Koji Onuma

Soichiro Kamei

Tatsuya Fujimura

Ryuhei Abe

Kota Yamamoto

Hiroshi Ishikawa

Masahiko Ito

Hiroki Ikeda

Masakazu Ikeda

Kisaku Shimura

Ryoji Mori

Laxmikant Indi

Sean M Osinski

Yunxiao Li

Wenting Zhang

Frederick L Wilkinson

Naoto Komiya

Souhei Noguchi

Rob Colja

A direct-current bus power supply as a power supply device supplies power to a load capable of switching a state between a driving state in which driving is performed by receiving power supply and a standby state in which driving is stopped while receiving power supply. The power supply device includes: a diode bridge circuit and capacitors as a rectifier circuit that enables an alternating-current voltage to be rectified by respective rectification systems of full-wave rectification and voltage doubler rectification; and a switching unit that perform switching between the full-wave rectification and the voltage doubler rectification on the basis of a voltage value of the alternating-current voltage and the state of the load.

Motor drive device

A mat mounting structure for mounting a mat on a seat back frame in a seat back may have a guide wire attachable to the mat configured to receive a force from a back of an occupant on the seat back. The guide wire may have a straight part extending linearly in a longitudinal direction of the seat back frame on a head side or a root side of the seat back frame. A bushing including a penetration hole in which the straight part is insertable in the longitudinal direction may be included in the structure. An attachment hole part in the seat back frame may also be part of the structure. The bushing may be detachably engageable with and attachable to the attachment hole part.

Mat mounting structure in seat back and vehicle seat

A vehicle seat includes an internal support member for supporting a seat occupant. The internal support member includes a main body in plate or sheet form positioned within a seat cushion frame, a pair of inclined portions extending laterally from a part of either lateral side of the main body with an upward slant, and front and rear mounting portions engaged by front and rear cross members of the seat cushion frame. A pressure sensor is mounted on a part of an upper surface of the internal support member located ahead of the inclined portions. The main body of the internal support member is provided with a pair of openings located on either side of the pressure sensor, and a connecting portion connecting the pressure sensor with a part of the front mounting portion. The pressure sensor and the openings are spaced from the front edge of the main body.

Vehicle seat having internal support member

A vehicle seat includes: a frame provided in at least one of a seat cushion and a seat back; an internal support member for supporting an occupant, the internal support member including a main body in plate or sheet form positioned within the frame and extending substantially in parallel with the frame, and a pair of inclined portions extending laterally outward from at least a part of either lateral side of the main body with a slant away from the frame; a pad placed on a front side of the frame and the internal support member; a skin member covering the pad; and a clip securing another member to one of the inclined portions. The one inclined portion is formed with a tubular portion projecting from a back side thereof orthogonally to the main body, the tubular portion internally defining a mounting hole receiving the clip therein.

A management system includes a first management device () and a second management device (). The first management device () includes a first updater () that updates first secret information that is managed in association with a first identifier; a first extractor () that extracts a first old fragment and a first new fragment, the first old fragment being included in the first secret information prior to an update but not included in the first secret information subsequent to the update, the first new fragment being not included in the first secret information prior to the update but included in the first secret information subsequent to the update; and a first sender () that sends a first notice that specifies the first identifier, the first old fragment, and the first new fragment to the second management device (). The second management device () includes a second receiver () that receives the first notice; and a second warning issuer () that warns a user using the first identifier to correct second secret information managed in association with the first identifier when the second secret information includes the first old fragment specified in the first notice but does not include the first new fragment specified in the first notice.

Management system, management device, management method, program, and non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium

To secure both flexibility and rigidity of a pressure-receiving member, a pressure-receiving member capable of moving rearward in a state of receiving a load from a back of an occupant is included in a seat back of a conveyance seat for supporting the back of the occupant. The pressure-receiving member has a load-receiving portion which receives the load from the back of the occupant at a front face, and the load-receiving portion includes a load-receiving portion piece formed so that a length in a vertical direction of the seat back is shorter than a length in a seat width direction, and a rear reinforcement rib protruding along a thickness direction of the load-receiving portion from the load-receiving portion piece and extending along the seat width direction.

Conveyance seat

A hand dryer includes: nozzles each provided on a wall of a hand insertion portion, transforming a high-pressure airflow from an air blower into a high-speed airflow, and blowing the high-speed airflow into the hand insertion portion. The hand dryer includes: a hand sensor including a plurality of electrode pairs and detecting a hand inserted into the hand insertion portion from a change in capacitance between two electrodes included in the plurality of electrode pairs, each of the plurality of electrode pairs consisting of a first electrode and a second electrode having different polarities to each other; and a controller that drives the air blower on the basis of a combination of the two electrodes with which a hand has been detected by the hand sensor.

Hand dryer

An object of the present invention is to develop a means capable of maintaining the enzymatic activity of a microorganism even in a dry state. Provided is a method for producing a dry microbial cell powder maintaining an enzyme titer, characterized by comprising adding a carbohydrate to a liquid of microbial cells having an enzymatic activity and then drying the liquid. Also provided is a dry microbial cell powder obtained by the method.

Method for producing dry microbial cell powder

Provided is a conveyance seat configured for adjustment of a deflection amount of a seat forming the conveyance seat, i.e., cushion properties of the seat. The conveyance seat includes a seat frame and a buffering body bridged over the seat frame configured to elastically support a seated occupant. The buffering body has a wire having both end portions attached to the seat frame, and a back restriction member configured to support at least a portion of the wire to restrict deflection of the portion of the wire. The wire includes a first right-to-left extending portion and a second right-to-left extending portion that extend in a seat right-to-left direction, and a coupling portion coupling the first right-to-left extending portion and the second right-to-left extending portion. The back restriction member is made of a resin material, and supports the first right-to-left extending portion and the second right-to-left extending portion.

A cushion pan includes a front and rear support part that extends from the front end to the rear end of a seat cushion and faces the lower face of the femoral region of an occupant and side support parts that extend obliquely upward from both right and left side edges of the front and rear support part and face side faces of the buttocks of the occupant. In addition, the front and rear support part and the side support parts may be integrally formed to reduce the number of components and assembling steps.

Vehicle seat having cushion pan and metal frame

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Wako, Japan

Yuki Fukuda