Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.23%, Si: 0.10% to 3.00%, Mn: 0.5% to 3.5%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, and Al: 1.5% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the total area fraction of martensite and bainite is 80% to 100%, the maximum orientation density of grains is less than 2.5 in a region extending from a position of 5 ?m to a position of 10 ?m from a surface in the thickness direction, and the maximum orientation density of grains is 2.5 or more in a region extending from a position of 50 ?m to a position of 100 ?m from the surface in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.10% or less, Si: 2.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 1.5% or less, and O: 0.0025% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which a main phase is ferrite, and a maximum orientation density of grains is 2.1 or less.

Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and has a microstructure containing a specific microstructure in a surface layer region and in an inner region. The surface layer region has an average grain size of 6 ?m or less. A difference between a hardness of the surface layer region extending from the surface of the steel sheet to the position of one-tenth of the thickness of the steel sheet and a hardness of the inner region is 5% or more and 15% or less of [0.3×tensile strength (MPa)], and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 6% or more, and a ratio of a critical bending radius to a thickness of 1.5 or less.

Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition with MSC value in the range of 2.7% to 3.8% by mass defined by a specific formula, wherein the high-strength steel sheet has a microstructure including specific microstructures in a surface layer region extending from the surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 100 ?m and in an inner region other than the surface layer region. The high-strength steel sheet has the maximum height of the surface roughness of 30 ?m or less, a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 6% or more, and a ratio of 107-cycle plane bending fatigue strength to tensile strength (fatigue limit ratio) of 0.45 or more.

Abstract: A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a receiving member provided on the feeder main body and formed with a receiving region configured to receive a component discharged from a component case accommodating multiple components, a track member provided to be vibratable with respect to the feeder main body and formed with a conveyance path through which the multiple components are conveyed and a supply region that communicates with the conveyance path and opens upward to collect the multiple components, an excitation device configured to apply vibration to the track member so that the multiple components are conveyed along the conveyance path, and a connection member having flexibility and configured to connect between the receiving region and the conveyance path so that the multiple components flows through.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for improving spatial resolution contrast of an ultrasonic tomogram compared with a method based on a coherence between echo signals. The present invention provides an ultrasonic tomogram generation method including: an estimation step SA100 of estimating noise in echo signals of M channels output from an ultrasonic probe, which receives echoes of ultrasonic waves emitted from M (being a natural number of 2 or more) ultrasonic transducers and outputs an echo signal, and calculating a weight coefficient for emphasizing an echo from a reception focus according to a signal-to-noise ratio in the echo signals of the M channels; and a generation step SA110 of generating a beamformer representing an ultrasonic tomogram from the echo signals of the M channels, using the weight coefficient calculated in the estimation step SA100.

Abstract: A printer includes a carriage including a main plate, which vertically sandwiches a guide rail and is in a fixed relative vertical positional relationship with the guide rail, and a head plate provided with an ink head, the ink head including a nozzle surface, a cap attachable to and detachable from the ink head and defining a sealed space between the cap and the nozzle surface, and a shifter causing the cap to shift between a capping position and a separated spaced position. When the cap is at the capping position, the cap pushes the ink head upward to a maintenance position.

Abstract: A printer includes a first ink head that ejects a first ink, a second ink head that ejects a second ink, a first dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected first ink, and a second dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected second ink. The second ink is ejected over the first ink on a recording medium, and the second ink is caused to have a dot size that is larger than a dot size of the first ink.

Abstract: In a printer, when a pressed member that is movable together with a movable table pressed by an ink head causes a movement mechanism to move the movable table and the pressed member slides on the ink head, caps are moved from a separate position to a cap position by changing relative positions of nozzle surfaces and the caps in a vertical direction without changing the relative positions of the nozzle surfaces and the caps in a main scanning direction.

Abstract: The charging and discharging control apparatus is an apparatus that controls charging and discharging of a power storage apparatus. The power storage apparatus is connected to an AC power line and is connectable to a specific load without involving the AC power line. The AC power line is connected to a power system, is connected to a direct-current power line through a DC/AC conversion apparatus (PV-PCS), and is connectable to a general load. The charging and discharging control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires information on a direction of a current in the AC power line, and a control unit that supplies electric power to the power storage apparatus when a current is flowing from the AC power line to the power system.

Abstract: The charging and discharging control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires at least one of a direction and magnitude of electric power flowing between an AC power line and power system, and a control unit that controls charging of the power storage apparatus based on a change in at least one of the direction and magnitude of electric power flowing between the AC power line and power system when a charging amount to the power storage apparatus is increased by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an ejection head that ejects an ink onto a recording medium, a passage in which an ink mist generated by the ejection head flows, a gas-liquid separator that is located in a portion of the passage and separates ink and air from the ink mist, and a blower that is located in the passage and causes the ink mist to be moved away from the ejection head to the gas-liquid separator. A downstream side of the gas-liquid separator is above an upstream side of the gas-liquid separator in a gravitational direction.

Abstract: A printer includes a carriage including a main plate, which vertically sandwiches a guide rail and is in a fixed relative vertical positional relationship with the guide rail, and a head plate provided with an ink head, the ink head including a nozzle surface, a cap attachable to and detachable from the ink head and defining a sealed space between the cap and the nozzle surface, and a shifter causing the cap to shift between a capping position and a separated spaced position. When the cap is at the capping position, the cap pushes the ink head upward to a maintenance position.

Abstract: In a printer, when a pressed member that is movable together with a movable table pressed by an ink head causes a movement mechanism to move the movable table and the pressed member slides on the ink head, caps are moved from a separate position to a cap position by changing relative positions of nozzle surfaces and the caps in a vertical direction without changing the relative positions of the nozzle surfaces and the caps in a main scanning direction.

Abstract: A printer includes a first ink head that ejects a first ink, a second ink head that ejects a second ink, a first dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected first ink, and a second dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected second ink.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an ink tank in which an ink is stored, an ink head that ejects the ink onto a recording medium, an ink supply passage connected to the ink tank and the ink head, a light emitter that irradiates the ink ejected onto the recording medium with ultraviolet radiation, and a heat relay connected to the light emitter to transfer heat emitted by the light emitter to at least one of the ink supply passage and the ink head.

Abstract: A printer includes an ink head, a first heater, a second heater, and a controller. The ink head includes first and second ink heads arrayed along a main scanning direction. The first heater is upstream of the platen in a sub-scanning direction, and heats the recording medium. The second heater is below the platen, and heats the recording medium placed on the platen. The controller includes a heater controller that controls the first and second heaters so that the surface temperature of a first region in which a first ink ejected from a first upstream nozzle array lands becomes higher than the surface temperature of a second region in which a second ink ejected from the second downstream nozzle array lands.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an ejection head that ejects an ink onto a recording medium, a passage in which an ink mist generated by the ejection head flows, a gas-liquid separator that is located in a portion of the passage and separates ink and air from the ink mist, and a blower that is located in the passage and causes the ink mist to be moved away from the ejection head to the gas-liquid separator. A downstream side of the gas-liquid separator is above an upstream side of the gas-liquid separator in a gravitational direction.

Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring device including: an ultrasonic transducer device; an emission unit for emitting an ultrasonic beam; a reception unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo reflected by a test subject; and a processing unit for processing reception, wherein the processing unit identifies a transfer function with respect to the ultrasonic transducer device and the test subject based on a first reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a first area in the test subject, a second reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a second area in the test subject, and a third reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a third area located between the first area and the second area in the test subject, and performs ultrasonic image generation processing including filter processing using a deconvolution filter including the transfer function performed on the reception signals.

Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring device including: an ultrasonic transducer device; an emission unit for emitting an ultrasonic beam; a reception unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo reflected by a test subject; and a processing unit for processing reception, wherein the processing unit identifies a transfer function with respect to the ultrasonic transducer device and the test subject based on a first reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a first area in the test subject, a second reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a second area in the test subject, and a third reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a third area located between the first area and the second area in the test subject, and performs ultrasonic image generation processing including filter processing using a deconvolution filter including the transfer function performed on the reception signals.