Abstract: A server includes a control unit configured to extract from a plurality of items of the maintenance check those item(s) that can be performed within a reservation period reserved by a user of an electrified vehicle for power control including either or both of charging and discharging of a battery of the electrified vehicle, based on a length of the reservation period. The server further includes a communication unit configured to send information on the extracted item(s) to at least one device out of the electrified vehicle and a first information device of the user.

Abstract: A server includes a control unit configured to extract, among facilities different from a power controller configured to execute power control including at least one of charging and discharging of an electrified vehicle, the facility that is available, during a reservation period for use of the power controller, to a user who uses the power controller during the reservation period and a communication unit configured to transmit information on the extracted facility to at least one of the electrified vehicle and an information device that are associated with the user.

Abstract: A method of managing electric power supply and demand with a computer includes sending, from the computer, a message for making a request of an electrified vehicle with a driver and a passenger to participate in a demand response for adjusting supply or demand of electric power in a power grid, acquiring, by the computer, passenger information on at least one of an attribute and a preference of the passenger, and setting, by the computer, a first incentive for prompting the passenger to participate in the demand response based on the passenger information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing a feeding direction of a recording material fed in a nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit to receive a job, heating and pressing rotary members to form a nip portion, and a spraying member having a nozzle and a cylinder. The nozzle discharges air to the heating rotary member and a recording material. During a period after the reception unit receives the job and before a leading edge of a first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion, the spraying member performs a spraying operation of spraying air in an amount greater than or equal to a predetermined amount. The air that the spraying member sprays on the first sheet of the recording material during the job is higher in temperature than the air that the spraying member sprays during the period after the reception unit receives the job and before the leading edge of the first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion extending along a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member perpendicular to a recording material feeding direction.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a processor that varies a phase difference between a first signal transmitted from the first antenna and a second signal transmitted from the second antenna, measures a received power pattern of a synthesized signal of the first signal and the second signal that is received by the third antenna, and adjusts a phase shift of a signal that is transmitted from the first antenna or the second antenna, based on a difference between the measured received power pattern and a received power pattern obtained by calculation.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a processor that varies a phase difference between a first signal transmitted from the first antenna and a second signal transmitted from the second antenna, measures a received power pattern of a synthesized signal of the first signal and the second signal that is received by the third antenna, and adjusts a phase shift of a signal that is transmitted from the first antenna or the second antenna, based on a difference between the measured received power pattern and a received power pattern obtained by calculation.

Abstract: A stacked-waveguide substrate includes: a body configured to include a first dielectric-substrate, a second dielectric-substrate, and a third dielectric-substrate which are stacked in this order; a first conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a bottom surface of the first dielectric-substrate; a second conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a top surface of the third dielectric-substrate in a position corresponding to the first conductor-pattern; a first conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the first dielectric-substrate and the second dielectric-substrate, and to have a first opening which faces the first conductor-pattern; a second conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the second dielectric-substrate and the third dielectric-substrate, and to have a second opening which faces the second conductor-pattern; a first wiring line configured to cross the first opening to the first conductor-pattern; and a second wiring line configured to cross the s

Abstract: A wireless communication module includes an antenna on a first conductive wall among the conductive walls enclosing a closed space; a tag reader connected with the antenna to read an RFID tag in the closed space; and a reflective part having a thin film or plate shape between the first and second conductive walls facing each other. The reflective part partitions the closed space into first and second spaces. The antenna radiates a radio wave that is reflected by the reflective part to become a first reflected wave in the first space. The radio wave also transmits through the reflective part, reflected by the second conductive wall, and transmits through the reflective part to become a second reflected wave in the first space. The position of the reflective part is determined so that the first and second reflected waves are canceled by each other.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a first metal plate including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first through hole penetrating from the first surface to the second surface, the first metal plate; a first board being disposed on the first surface side of the first metal plate, the first board including a first patch antenna positioned inside the first through hole; and a second board being disposed on the second surface side of the first metal plate, the second board including a second patch antenna positioned inside the first through hole and opposed to the first patch antenna, wherein an interval between the first patch antenna and the second patch antenna is set in accordance with a distance for wireless communicating between the first patch antenna and the second patch antenna in a near field.

Abstract: A laminated waveguide includes: a dielectric layer, a first and a second patch antennae formed on a first face of the dielectric layer, a third and a fourth patch antennae formed on a second face of the dielectric layer, the first face being opposite to the second surface, a first and a second transmission lines formed on the dielectric layer and connected to the first and the second patch antennae, respectively, a third and a fourth transmission lines formed on the dielectric layer and connected to the third and the fourth patch antennae, respectively, wherein a pair of the first and the third patch antennae and another pair of the second and the fourth patch antennae are arranged to form an angle between the pair and the another pair so as to suppress interference between the pair and the another pair.

Abstract: A stacked-waveguide substrate includes: a body configured to include a first dielectric-substrate, a second dielectric-substrate, and a third dielectric-substrate which are stacked in this order; a first conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a bottom surface of the first dielectric-substrate; a second conductor-pattern configured to be formed on a top surface of the third dielectric-substrate in a position corresponding to the first conductor-pattern; a first conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the first dielectric-substrate and the second dielectric-substrate, and to have a first opening which faces the first conductor-pattern; a second conductor-film configured to be located at an interface between the second dielectric-substrate and the third dielectric-substrate, and to have a second opening which faces the second conductor-pattern; a first wiring line configured to cross the first opening to the first conductor-pattern; and a second wiring line configured to cross the s

Abstract: A wireless communication module includes an antenna on a first conductive wall among the conductive walls enclosing a closed space; a tag reader connected with the antenna to read an RFID tag in the closed space; and a reflective part having a thin film or plate shape between the first and second conductive walls facing each other. The reflective part partitions the closed space into first and second spaces. The antenna radiates a radio wave that is reflected by the reflective part to become a first reflected wave in the first space. The radio wave also transmits through the reflective part, reflected by the second conductive wall, and transmits through the reflective part to become a second reflected wave in the first space. The position of the reflective part is determined so that the first and second reflected waves are canceled by each other.

Abstract: The invention provides a pipe expanding apparatus of a thin wall stainless steel pipe in which a strain is not generated in a flange and a yoke, even when a pipe expanding rubber swells. The invention includes a flange which forms one inclined surface of a chevron shaped projection portion by internally fitting a thin wall stainless steel pipe, a yoke which forms the other inclined surface of the chevron shaped projection portion by being coupled at its one end side to the flange, and is coupled to a cylinder at its other end side, a guide rod which is coupled to a piston of the cylinder, and a pipe expanding rubber which is pinched between a step portion of the guide rod and a backup ring and expands the thin wall stainless steel pipe.

Abstract: A connection structure includes a thin wall stainless steel pipe with a swelling portion, a sandwiching portion forming an inclined pressing surface capable of pressing an inclined surface of the swelling portion, a joint spacer forming a first retention portion pinching a first gasket with respect to the swelling portion as well as having a fitting portion fitted to an outer periphery of an end portion of the thin wall stainless steel pipe, and forming a gasket receiving portion in an outer peripheral side thereof, and a joint having a second retention portion sandwiching and pressing a second gasket to an inner peripheral side facing the gasket receiving portion.

Abstract: A connection structure includes a thin wall stainless steel pipe in which a swelling portion, a sandwiching portion forming an inclined pressing surface capable of pressing one inclined surface of the swelling portion, a joint spacer forming a first retention portion pinching a first gasket with respect to the swelling portion as well as having a fitting portion fitted to an outer periphery of the end portion of the thin wall stainless steel pipe, and forming a gasket receiving portion in an outer peripheral side thereof, a joint having a second retention portion sandwiching and pressing a second gasket to an inner peripheral side facing the gasket receiving portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a pipe expanding apparatus of a thin wall stainless steel pipe in which a strain is not generated in a flange and a yoke, even when a pipe expanding rubber swells. The invention includes a flange which forms one inclined surface of a chevron shaped projection portion by internally fitting a thin wall stainless steel pipe, a yoke which forms the other inclined surface of the chevron shaped projection portion by being coupled at its one end side to the flange, and is coupled to a cylinder at its other end side, a guide rod which is coupled to a piston of the cylinder, and a pipe expanding rubber which is pinched between a step portion of the guide rod and a backup ring and expands the thin wall stainless steel pipe.

Abstract: A magnetic wire unit for storing information thereon includes a magnetic wire containing a material having an axis of easy magnetization, and extending in a first direction, the axis being switchable between the first direction and the second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the magnetic wire being capable of holding a plurality of magnetic domains representing information. The magnetic wire unit includes a current supply unit for applying an electric current to the magnetic wire so as to move magnetic domain walls defining the magnetic domains in the magnetic wire.

Abstract: A magnetic thin line includes a first magnetic film having in-plane magnetic anisotropy and a second magnetic film that is magnetically coupled to the first magnetic film and has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. With the coupling of the first magnetic film and the second magnetic film, magnetic wall width of the first magnetic film is lower than a case where the first magnetic film is not magnetically coupled to the second magnetic film.