Abstract: Provided is an imaging device capable of further suppressing color mixing between pixels. The imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion unit for each of pixels two-dimensionally arranged; a color filter provided for each of the pixels on the semiconductor substrate; an intermediate layer provided between the semiconductor substrate and the color filter; and a low refraction region provided between the pixels by separating at least the color filter and the intermediate layer for each of the pixels, the low refraction region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the color filter.

Abstract: An input device includes a housing; an invertible spring provided inside the housing; a load sensor arranged alongside the invertible spring inside the housing; a stem extending across a top portion of the invertible spring and the load sensor, and configured to push both the top portion of the invertible spring and the load sensor in response to an operating load applied to the stem; and a first fixed contact provided inside the housing, wherein the stem is a conductive member, and in response to the operating load applied to the stem, the stem pushes both the top portion of the invertible spring and the load sensor, and also comes into contact with the first fixed contact so that the first fixed contact is energized via the stem.

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 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: 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: A method and apparatus for producing AlN whiskers includes reduced incorporation of metal particles, an AlN whisker body, AlN whiskers, a resin molded body, and a method for producing the resin molded body. The method for producing AlN whiskers includes heating an Al-containing material in a material accommodation unit to thereby generate Al gas; and introducing the Al gas into a reaction chamber through a communication portion while introducing nitrogen gas into the reaction chamber through a gas inlet port, to thereby grow AlN whiskers on the surface of an Al2O3 substrate placed in the reaction chamber.

Abstract: An anchoring device includes a barrel member which is composed of resin or mortar and has a through hole in a tapered shape, multiple wedge members which each have an outer peripheral surface having a tapered shape and slidably contacting an inner peripheral surface of the through hole and which cooperate with each other to grip a wire, and fibers as a reinforcement member extending in a circumferential direction of the barrel member to suppress the diameter expansion deformation of the barrel member.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a vehicle equipped with a battery, a power supply device, and a control device that controls power supply from the power supply device to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an engine and a motor that receives the power supplied from the battery to generate traveling drive force. When the power supply by the power supply device is requested from the vehicle, the control device (a) acquires a remaining amount of fuel for the engine from the vehicle, (b) outputs an instruction to urge the vehicle to shorten a charging time when the remaining amount of fuel is larger than a reference value, and (c) sets at least one of a unit price for charging power or a unit price for fuel lower when a response to accept the instruction is received from the vehicle compared with when the instruction is not accepted.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a reproduction system, a display apparatus, and a reproduction apparatus for providing higher acoustic performance. There is provided a reproduction system including a display apparatus including a display section configured to display an image of content, and a first sound output section configured to output a sound of the content in a manner localizing a sound image on a screen of the display section, and a reproduction apparatus including a processing section configured to process an audio signal of the content, and a second sound output section configured to output the sound of the content, in which the first sound output section and the second sound output section output the sound simultaneously on the basis of an audio signal of a center channel of the content. This disclosure may be applied to an AV system formed by a television receiver and audio equipment, for example.

Abstract: An information processing system comprises a control unit configured to execute each of the following steps. A reading step reads reference information on a reference maneuver that is a medical maneuver to be referred to by a user. The reference information includes a three-dimensional position of a track point in the reference maneuver. A first reception step receives a captured image of an external world as viewed by the user. A generation step generates, based on the three-dimensional position of the track point and the captured image, display information for presenting augmented reality regarding the reference maneuver to the user. The augmented reality three-dimensionally reproduces an aspect of a medical instrument used in the reference maneuver or a hand manipulating the medical instrument.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes providing the light-emitting element that includes a light-emitting layer with an emission wavelength of not more than 306 nm and a p-type layer including AlGaInN including Mg as an acceptor, and removing hydrogen in the p-type layer from the light-emitting element by irradiating the light-emitting element with ultraviolet light at a wavelength of not more than 306 nm from outside and treating the light-emitting element with heat in a state in which a reverse voltage, or a forward voltage lower than a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element, or no voltage is applied to the light-emitting element. The removing of hydrogen in the p-type layer from the light-emitting element is performed in a N2 atmosphere at not less than 650° C. or in a N2+O2 atmosphere at not less than 500° C.

Abstract: An article including an inorganic compound according to the present invention includes a porous part and a no-porous frame body surrounding the porous part in a plane direction, and includes a stress relaxation part between the porous part and the frame body.

Abstract: A disinfectant visualization sheet includes a base and a color developing portion disposed on the base, wherein the color developing portion contains a visualization agent of which color developing state changes with application of a disinfectant.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a color estimation method for estimating color of a dental prosthetic and a dental prosthetic manufacturing method for coloring the dental prosthetic based on the estimated color. A dental prosthetic color estimation method of the present invention includes acquiring color information about teeth, the color information being obtained by using an imaging unit, and estimating color of a surface of a dental prosthetic based on color information about at least one of a target tooth for the dental prosthetic to be disposed, a tooth near the target tooth, and a tooth corresponding to the target tooth.

Abstract: Toner comprising toner particles, wherein the toner contains gold nanorods, and wherein in a case where an aspect ratio distribution of the gold nanorods contained in the toner is measured, an average value ? in the aspect ratio distribution is in a range of 6.0 to 13.0 and a standard deviation ? in the aspect ratio distribution is in a range of 0.5 to 4.5.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a tray configured to support a sheet, a lifting unit configured to raise and lower the tray, an air blowing unit configured to blow air to a side edge of the sheet supported by the tray to float the sheet, an attraction and conveyance unit configured to execute a feeding operation of attracting and feeding the floated sheet, an upper surface detection unit configured to detect a lower state where an upper surface of the sheet is below a detection position, and a control unit configured to control the lifting unit and the attraction and conveyance unit. The control unit is configured to execute a mode in which the tray is raised by the lifting unit for a second time longer than a first time in which the lower state is detected.

Abstract: A fluid machine includes a thrust bearing support supporting a dynamic thrust bearing that includes a first dynamic thrust bearing and a second dynamic thrust bearing and including a first bearing base and a second bearing base fixed to each other via a spacer member. The fluid machine includes a main passage through which fluid flows from a motor chamber toward an operation chamber, and a space between an inner side of the spacer member and an outer side of the first dynamic thrust bearing and the second dynamic thrust bearing in a radial direction of a rotary shaft. The space communicates with a first through hole of the first bearing base communicating with the motor chamber and a second through hole of the second bearing base communicating with the main passage. The thrust bearing support includes a connecting passage interconnecting the space and the main passage.

Abstract: A fluid machine includes a projection, projecting from one surface toward the other surface, is provided in at least one gap among a gap between an outer peripheral surface of a rotary shaft and an inner peripheral surface of a through hole, a gap between a rear surface of a first impeller and a first facing surface of a partition wall, and a gap between a rear surface of a second impeller and a second facing surface of the partition wall. The projection cooperates with the other surface to form therebetween a clearance smaller than a first tip clearance between the first impeller and a first shroud surface of a housing and a second tip clearance between the second impeller and a second shroud surface of the housing. The projection has a collision surface that collides with the other surface when the first impeller and the second impeller vibrate.

Abstract: A scintillator unit that can reduce crosstalk when the scintillator unit includes a plurality of scintillators and a radiation detector are provided. More specifically, a scintillator unit includes a reflective layer between a plurality of scintillators and the plurality of scintillators, wherein an adhesive layer and a low-refractive-index layer with a lower refractive index than the adhesive layer are located in this order on the scintillators between the scintillators and the reflective layer.

Abstract: An information acquisition system of acquiring information regarding disinfection includes a detection unit configured to detect a variable information code in which a pattern before application of a disinfectant represents a first information code and a pattern after the application of the disinfectant represents a second information code different from the first information code, one or more memories, and one or more processors in communication with the detection unit and with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors and the one or more memories are configured to acquire information regarding the disinfection in response to detection of at least the second information code by the detection unit.