Abstract: An electronic control unit is configured to select a first cam as a driving cam of an intake valve in a first operation range where a target value of an EGR rate is set to a specified EGR rate, and is configured to select a second cam as the driving cam in a second operation range smaller in valve duration and lift amount than the first cam. Accordingly, in most of the operation regions, the first cam is selected, and the second cam is selected only in a high-torque and high-speed region. When the second cam is selected in the high-torque and high-speed region, the state where an actual compression ratio is high can be eliminated, and suction efficiency can be decreased. Therefore, decrease in a knocking limit can be suppressed.

Abstract: A vehicle control device turns off a clutch to put a vehicle into an inertia operation state in response to a predetermined executing condition being met, and turns on the clutch to terminate the inertia operation state in response to a predetermined terminating condition being met during the inertia operation. The vehicle control device includes a deceleration degree calculating device, a determination device, and an operation control device. The deceleration degree calculating device calculates an actual deceleration degree. The determination device determines whether the actual deceleration degree is greater than a threshold value defined on the basis of a deceleration degree of the vehicle in an accelerator-off and clutch-on state. The operation control device terminates or maintains the inertia operation depending on a condition of the actual deceleration degree.

Abstract: A cylindrical fixing member for use with a fixing device includes a heat generating layer and an electrode layer contacting the heat generating layer. The electrode layer is smaller in volume resistance value than the heat generating layer. The electrode layer is formed in a helical shape so that a helical axis thereof extends in a direction along a generatrix direction of the fixing member. One end and the other end of the electrode layer are electrically open.

Abstract: In an image heating device having a plurality of heating blocks which are controllable independently in a longitudinal direction of a heater, an increase of the size of the heater can be suppressed, and temperatures of a plurality of heating block can be detected. A heater has a first temperature sensor corresponding to a first heating block, a second temperature sensor corresponding to a second heating block, a first electric conductor electrically coupled to the first temperature sensor, a second electric conductor electrically coupled to the second temperature sensor, and a common electric conductor electrically coupled to the first and second temperature sensors.

Abstract: An information output device includes: a first output unit that outputs acquired information acquired by a sensor; and a second output unit that converts personal information included in the acquired information into attribute information from which identification of an individual is impossible, and outputs the attribute information.

Abstract: An information output device includes: a first output unit that outputs acquired information acquired by a sensor; and a second output unit that converts personal information included in the acquired information into attribute information from which identification of an individual is impossible, and outputs the attribute information.

Abstract: An auxiliary chamber having an auxiliary fuel injector is formed on the top surface of a main combustion chamber. When making the air-fuel mixture inside the auxiliary chamber burn, the air-fuel mixture inside the main combustion chamber is burned by jet flames ejected from a communicating hole. After engine startup and until the elapse of a wall surface lower temperature period where the wall surface temperature of the auxiliary chamber becomes a lower temperature than the wall surface temperature of the auxiliary chamber at the time of completion of warmup, an injection ratio of an injection amount of liquid fuel from the auxiliary fuel injector to a fuel injection amount from a main fuel injector is made to decrease compared with after completion of warmup.

Abstract: A portable radio-controlled watch includes a watch glass, an antenna that is formed on a backside of a circumference of the watch glass so as to be along the circumference, a feeder electrode adjacent to the antenna, a receiving circuit, an antenna connecting line that is at least a part of a connection circuit connecting the feeder electrode with the receiving circuit, where the antenna connecting line is directly connected to a back surface of the feeder electrode and extends in a direction away from the watch glass, and a dielectric that is disposed below the antenna and covers at least a part of the antenna in a plan view.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory array includes a first nonvolatile memory cell having a first charge storage layer and a first gate electrode and a second nonvolatile memory cell, adjacent to the first memory cell in a first direction, having a second charge storage layer and a second gate electrode. The first and second electrodes extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first electrode has a first contact section extending toward the second electrode in the first direction, and the second electrode has a second contact section extending toward the first electrode in the first direction. The first and second contact positions are shifted in the second direction, respectively, and the first electrode and the first contact section are electrically separated from the second electrode and the second contact section.

Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a message information acquisition program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: receiving, from each of a plurality of base stations that receive a first message which is transmitted by a communication terminal, a second message in which information indicated by the first message is divided into parts each in an error checkable format; performing an error check for each of the parts; extracting, in each of a plurality of second messages indicating the same information, a divided piece of information from one or more parts without an error of the parts; joining the divided pieces of information; and acquiring the information indicated by the first message.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a base station determination program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: acquiring position information on a communication terminal; assigning, based on position information on each of a plurality of base stations stored in advance in a storage and the acquired position information on the communication terminal, one or more base stations other than a base station that includes a point at which a radio wave characteristic based on longitude information changes in a time slot during which communication is to be performed, and which is provided between a position of the base station and a position of the communication terminal, as one or more base station candidates from among the plurality of base stations; and determining a base station that is to communicate with the communication terminal from among the one or more base station candidates.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a communication control program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: receiving, from each of a plurality of base stations, communication result between the respective base stations and a communication terminal; storing, when the received communication result indicates that transmission of a message from a first base station to a specific communication terminal is failed, the message in a storage in association with identification information on the specific communication terminal; and referring, when the received communication results indicates that communication is established between a second base station and the specific communication terminal, to the storage, transmitting the message stored in association with the identification information on the specific communication terminal to the second base station, and requesting the second base station to transmit the message to the specific communication terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic compound represented by the formula (R(1-x)Zrx)a(Fe(1-y)Coy)bTcMdAe (wherein R represents one or more rare earth elements, T represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Mo, and W, M represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of unavoidable impurity elements, Al, Cr, Cu, Ga, Ag, and Au, A represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of N, C, H, and P, 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.6, 4?a?20, b=100?a?c?d, 0<c<7, 0?d?1, and 1?e?18), in which a main phase of the magnetic compound includes a ThMn12 type crystal structure, and a volume percentage of an ?-(Fe,Co) phase is 20% or lower.

Abstract: A board inspection apparatus is disclosed, which includes a surface-side irradiator irradiating a surface of each inspection area of a board, a surface-side camera taking a surface-side image of the surface, a rear face-side irradiator irradiating a rear face of each inspection area, a rear face-side camera taking a rear face-side image of the rear face, and a controller moving the surface-side irradiator and the surface-side camera to a position corresponding to the surface of each inspection area, moving the rear face-side irradiator and the rear face-side camera to a position corresponding to the rear face of each inspection area, and inspecting the surface and the rear face of each inspection area based on the surface-side image and the rear face-side image, respectively.

Abstract: A rare earth magnet having a main phase and a sub-phase, wherein the main phase has a ThMn12-type crystal structure; the sub-phase contains at least any one of an Sm5Fe17-based phase, an SmCo5-based phase, an Sm2O3-based phase, and an Sm7Cu3-based phase; assuming that the volume of the rare earth magnet is 100%, the volume fraction of the sub-phase is from 2.3 to 9.5% and the volume fraction of an ?-Fe phase is 9.0% or less; and the density of the rare earth magnet is 7.0 g/cm3 or more.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an ECU, an A/F sensor being active at a first temperature lower than a PM combustion temperature and set in advance, and a heater to heat the A/F sensor to a second temperature equal to or higher than the PM combustion temperature and set in advance. The ECU detects PM based on a difference between an output value of the A/F sensor at the first temperature and an output value of the A/F sensor at the second temperature. The ECU may perform determining that a PM accumulation amount is smaller than a reference amount when the output value is higher than a threshold value, and that the PM accumulation amount is equal to or larger than the reference amount when the output value is a value equal to or smaller than the threshold value.

Abstract: A board inspection apparatus is disclosed, which includes one surface-side irradiator that irradiates a first area on a surface side of a board with first light, a surface-side camera that takes an image of the first area, one rear face-side irradiator that irradiates a second area on a rear face side of the board with second light, a rear face-side camera that takes an image of the second area; and a controller that inspects the first area based on image data obtained from the surface-side camera and the second area based on image data obtained from the rear face-side camera.

Abstract: An engine ECU includes a traveling control unit configured to bring a clutch device into a disconnection state to perform inertial traveling of a vehicle according to satisfaction of predetermined inertial traveling implementation conditions and configured to bring the clutch device into a connection state to cancel an inertial traveling state and perform regenerative power generation according to satisfaction of predetermined regenerative power generation implementation conditions during the inertial traveling, and a required power calculation unit configured to calculate required power of the vehicle; and the traveling control unit selectively performs the inertial traveling or the regenerative power generation an ISG based on the required power calculated in a state in which the inertial traveling implementation conditions are satisfied.

Abstract: MPO1 and MPO2 can be regulated for either decreasing or increasing alkaloid levels in plants, in particular in Nicotiana plants. In particular, suppressing or overexpressing one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used to decrease or increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Suppression or overexpression of one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used in combination with modification of expression of other genes encoding enzymes on the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway such as A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT.