Abstract: To normally perform a preliminary ejection after a cleaning process. Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording head that includes an ejection component that ejects a liquid; a circulation unit configured to perform a circulation operation of circulating the liquid in a circulation route including the recording head; a cleaning mechanism that performs a cleaning process with respect to the recording head; and a preliminary ejection unit configured to perform a preliminary ejection operation of preliminarily ejecting the liquid from the ejection component. The cleaning mechanism performs the cleaning process in a state in which circulation of the liquid is stopped, and at least one of the circulation operation by the circulation unit and the preliminary ejection operation by the preliminary ejection unit is performed after the cleaning process.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conducting layers are stacked through a plurality of insulating layers in a first direction, a semiconductor layer penetrating the stacked body, extending in the first direction and including metal atoms, and a memory film including a first insulator, a charge storage layer and a second insulator that are provided between the stacked body and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer surrounds a third insulator penetrating the stacked body and extending in the first direction, and at least one crystal grain in the semiconductor layer has a shape surrounding the third insulator.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a tank that stores ink, a print head that performs print operation by ejecting ink supplied from the tank, a circulation unit that establishes a circulating state to circulate ink in a circulation path if print operation is performed and establishes a stopped state to stop circulation of ink if print operation is terminated, and a deaeration unit that performs deaeration operation to deaerate ink inside the circulation path. The apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates a dissolved gas amount in ink inside the circulation path based on dissolved gas amounts increased in the circulating state and in the stopped state, respectively, and a control unit that causes the deaeration unit to execute deaeration operation after completion of print operation if the dissolved gas amount estimated by the estimation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and a recovery method capable of suppressing ink thickening in the ejection openings in the suction process for the ejection openings. A vacuum wiper is moved being in contact with the ejection opening surface of the print head to perform a vacuum wiping process for the arrayed ejection openings sequentially. Ink is circulated in flow paths including the flow paths communicating with the ejection openings for which the vacuum wiping process has been finished.

Abstract: The braking device includes: a motor including a power terminal for power reception and being configured to adjust a braking force applied to a wheel in accordance with rotation of a rotary shaft; a substrate orthogonal to an extending direction of the power terminal and connected to the power terminal; and a housing provided at a position facing the substrate. The motor is provided between the housing and the substrate such that the power terminal faces the substrate, and is provided in the housing.

Abstract: A polishing system performs chemical-mechanical polishing of an object to be polished using an abrasive slurry. The polishing system includes a polishing amount calculator that measures an amount of free metal ions of a metallic element derived from the object to be polished in a processed slurry and calculates a polishing amount of the object to be polished from the amount of the free metal ions. The object to be polished is a glass containing the metallic element of Group 1 or Group 2 of a periodic table.

Abstract: A refrigerant distributer includes a plurality of plates. The refrigerant distributer is configured to divert, into a plurality of refrigerant flows, refrigerant flowing in from one or a plurality of inlet ports thereof and allow the refrigerant flows to be let out from a plurality of outlet ports thereof spaced from one another in a first direction. The plurality of plates include: an inflow plate having one of the plurality of inlet ports; a communication plate having a communication chamber communicating with the one of the plurality of inlet ports of the inflow plate; and a heat transfer tube insertion plate into which a heat transfer tube communicating with one of the plurality of outlet ports is inserted, the heat transfer tube insertion plate having heat transfer tube insertion space through which a plurality of the heat transfer tubes communicate with the communication chamber.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange portion in which a plurality of heat transfer tubes, in which refrigerant flows, are arranged in a height direction and grouped into, in order from an upper side in the height direction, a main, first auxiliary and second auxiliary heat exchange portion and configured to, when the heat exchanger serves as a condenser, allow the refrigerant to flow through the heat exchanger in order of the main heat exchange portion of the airflow downstream side row, the main heat exchange portion of the airflow upstream side row, the first auxiliary heat exchange portion of the airflow upstream side row, the first auxiliary heat exchange portion of the airflow downstream side row, the second auxiliary heat exchange portion of the airflow downstream side row, and the second auxiliary heat exchange portion of the airflow upstream side row, and flow out of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: Disclosed are a polyamideimide resin composition comprising (A) a polyamideimide resin, (B) a 3-alkoxy-N,N-dimethylpropanamide, and (C) water; and a fluorine-based coating material comprising the polyamideimide resin composition and a fluororesin.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first semiconductor layer; first and second insulating layers in contact with the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer in contact with the first insulating layer; a third semiconductor layer in contact with the second insulating layer; a first conductor; a third insulating layer in contact with the first conductor; a fourth insulating layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the third insulating layer; a first charge storage layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the fourth insulating layer; and a fifth insulating layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the first charge storage layer. The second semiconductor layer, the first conductor, the third to fifth insulating layers, and the first charge storage layer function as a first memory cell.

Abstract: Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and a recovery method capable of suppressing ink thickening in the ejection openings in the suction process for the ejection openings. A vacuum wiper is moved being in contact with the ejection opening surface of the print head to perform a vacuum wiping process for the arrayed ejection openings sequentially. Ink is circulated in flow paths including the flow paths communicating with the ejection openings for which the vacuum wiping process has been finished.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical device capable of easily making a sum of grating vectors of optical elements disposed on a light guide plate zero and realizing further improvement of optical characteristics, and a method for manufacturing the optical device.

Abstract: A sheet molding compound according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises: a thickened product of a resin composition comprising a vinyl ester resin, a thickener, a polymerization initiator, a polymerization inhibitor and isobornyl methacrylate; and a reinforcing fiber.

Abstract: Provided is a method for recycling a polishing agent slurry comprising: a first process including a slurry collecting process of collecting the used polishing agent slurry discharged from a polishing device; a desalting treatment process of reducing an ion concentration of the collected polishing agent slurry; and a dispersion treatment process of dispersing the polishing agent component and the constituent component of the object to be polished by adding a pH adjusting agent and a dispersing agent to the desalted polishing agent slurry; and after the first process, a second process of preparing a recycled polishing agent slurry from the polishing agent component by separating the polishing agent component and the constituent component of the object to be polished.

Abstract: A hydraulic brake system includes: a plurality of hydraulic brakes respectively provided for a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, each of which is configured to reduce rotation of a corresponding one of the wheels by a hydraulic pressure in a hydraulic-pressure chamber of a wheel cylinder; and a plurality of electric cylinder devices each of which is provided for one or more of the plurality of hydraulic brakes. Each electric cylinder device includes: a housing; a piston fluid-tightly and slidably disposed in the housing; an electric motor as a drive source; a rotation-linear motion converting mechanism configured to convert a rotational motion of the electric motor to a linear motion of the piston; and a volume change chamber disposed forward of the piston and connected to the hydraulic-pressure chamber of the wheel cylinder of each of the one or more of the plurality of hydraulic brakes.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer extending in a first direction, a first conductive layer extending in a second direction and opposed to the semiconductor layer, an electric charge accumulating layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer, and a first contact electrode extending in the first direction and connected to the first conductive layer. The first contact electrode has one end in the first direction farther from the substrate than the first conductive layer, the other end in the first direction closer to the substrate than the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first part opposed to the semiconductor layer and a second part connected to the first contact electrode. The second part has a thickness in the first direction larger than a thickness in the first direction of the first part.

Abstract: A power switching control system, includes a switching unit configured to switch connection and disconnection between loads set with operation priorities and powers supplying powers to the loads, the loads and the powers being connected to a power supply path; a power failure detection unit detecting a power failure caused by an abnormality on a power supply side or a load side; and a control unit controlling the switching unit. When the power failure detection unit detects the power failure, and remaining capacities, charging rates, or voltages of the plurality of powers are less than, or equal to or less than predetermined thresholds, the control unit disconnects the loads from the power supply path by the switching unit in an order from one of the loads with a lowest operation priority of the operation priorities to gradually decrease supply currents from the powers to the loads.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a print head comprising, for each of a plurality of types of inks, an ejection opening and pressure chamber, and configured to perform printing operation by ejecting the ink from the ejection opening; a circulation unit capable of circulating the ink of each ink type; a determination unit configured to determine an accumulated time for which a first type of ink is circulated by the circulation unit in the printing operation using the first type of ink and not using a second type of ink different from the first type of ink; and a control unit configured to perform control based on the determined accumulated time to cause the circulation unit to circulate at least the second type of ink among the plurality of types of inks in a case where the accumulated time is longer than a predetermined time.

Abstract: A polyamideimide resin composition containing a polyamideimide resin (A), 4-morpholine carbaldehyde (B), water (C), and a basic compound (D), wherein the change in viscosity of the composition from before storage to after storage at 60° C. for 7 days is within ?30%.

Abstract: A power supply switching control system switches a power supply for supplying power to a load between a first power supply and a second power supply in a power supply system. The power supply switching control system includes a first switch provided between the first power supply and the load in the power supply path and configured to cut off a current flowing from the second power supply to the first power supply in an off state of the first switch, a second switch provided between the second power supply and the load in the power supply path and configured to cut off a current flowing from the first power supply to the second power supply in an off state of the second switch, and a control unit configured to set the second switch in an on state when the second power supply is charged.