Abstract: A measurement system includes a measurement device including a light source, and a first power meter, and one or a plurality of connection members each configured to optically connect a pair of optical fiber lines of the plurality of optical fiber lines. A first optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a first end and a second end, a second optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a third end and a fourth end, the one or plurality of connection members optically connect the second end to the fourth end, the light source causes testing light to be incident on the first end, and the first power meter measures first intensity of first output light output from the third end by causing the testing light to propagate through the pair of optical fiber lines.

Abstract: A composition includes a compound represented by Formula (1) and a pigment. In Formula (1), R1 represents an (m+n)-valent linking group, P1 represents a polymer chain which has a polyester repeating unit in a main chain, and of which a weight-average molecular weight is 1000 or more, P2 represents a polymer chain which is different from P1 and has a repeating unit derived from a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated bonding group in a main chain, m represents a number of 1 to 9, n represents a number of 1 to 9, and m+n satisfies 4 to 18.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a feed or food product in which an inner layer is encrusted with a gelled outer layer composition, the method including the steps of: preparing an outer layer composition feedstock by adding a secondary feedstock to a protein feedstock and/or a starch feedstock that forms a gel upon heating and then mixing by stirring, and preparing an inner layer composition that is encrusted with the outer layer composition; extrusion molding with an extruder provided with a double nozzle so as to cover a surface of the inner layer composition while simultaneously gelling the outer layer composition feedstock by heat treatment; and cutting a continuously extruded cylindrically shaped product to a fixed length with a shutter mechanism while simultaneously encrusting a cut surface with the gelled outer layer composition.

Abstract: A rotary operating device includes a case, a rotating shaft member, an operation member, and a sensor. The case has a cavity having an annular shape with an opening at a top. The rotating shaft member is rotatable with respect to the case. The operation member rotates together with the rotating shaft member. The sensor is disposed within the cavity to detect rotation of the rotating shaft member. The case has an inner peripheral wall. The operation member has an inner cylindrical portion. The rotating shaft member has a peripheral wall that extends downward and along an outer peripheral surface of the inner peripheral wall. A first gap between the inner peripheral wall of the case and the peripheral wall of the rotating shaft member is smaller than a second gap between an inner peripheral surface of the rotating shaft member and the inner cylindrical portion of the operation member.

Abstract: To provide a technology of optimizing a suction condition of a microparticle. The present technology provides an optimizing method of a suction condition of a microparticle including: a particle number counting step of detecting a time point when a microparticle passes through a predetermined position on a main flow path through which liquid containing the microparticle flows, sucking the microparticle from the main flow path to a microparticle suction flow path by the microparticle suction flow path with a predetermined suction force, and counting the number of microparticles sucked into the microparticle suction flow path; and a step of determining an elapsed time from passage through the predetermined position with which the suction by the microparticle suction flow path should be performed on the basis of a time from the time point when the microparticle passes through the predetermined position on the main flow path until the suction is performed and the number of counted microparticles.

Abstract: Provided are a curable composition including, a block copolymer including a block A which has a constitutional unit having an ethylenically unsaturated group in a side chain of a polymer compound, a pigment, and, a photopolymerization initiator, in which a content of a polymerizable compound is 15 mass % or less with respect to a total solid content of the curable composition; a cured product of the curable composition; a color filter including the cured product; and a solid-state imaging element or an image display device including the color filter.

Abstract: An electronic component according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an element body and a terminal electrode. The element body includes an outer surface provided with a depression. The terminal electrode is disposed on the element body. The terminal electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is disposed in the depression. The second electrode portion protrudes from the depression. The second electrode portion is thicker than the first electrode portion.

Abstract: It is possible to precisely manage a task in operation by precisely inferring the task with use of a trained model that is constructed by machine learning. A task management device (3) includes: a first outputting section (312) configured to output a detection class that is inferred to appear in a task at a time point at which a captured image is obtained, the detection class being inferred by inputting the captured image to an index inference model (321); and a task inferring section (314) configured to infer, on the basis of an output result from the first outputting section, the task being carried out at the time point at which the captured image is obtained.

Abstract: A pipe joint in which a seal body and a spacer are mounted from the insides of pipes, wherein: a spigot of one pipe is inserted into a socket of the other pipe; and an annular accommodation space is formed between the inner circumference of the socket and the outer circumference of the spigot. Inside the accommodation space are accommodated: a seal body for sealing the gap between the socket and the spigot; a push ring that presses the seal body to keep the seal body in a compressed state; and a spacer that maintains the interval between the push ring and the deep end of the socket in the pipe axial direction.

Abstract: A management system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, as information related to components of an analysis device analyzing a performance of a vehicle or a specimen which is a portion of the vehicle, at least one of warning information indicating an event leading to a failure of the component, information related to a sensitivity or performance of the component, and information related to a life limit of the component from the analysis device; and a determination unit that uses a trained model which has been trained so as to output an efficient maintenance schedule in response to an input of the information related to the components of the analysis device and inputs the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the trained model to determine the maintenance schedule of the analysis device.

Abstract: A pipe joint includes: a sealing member, having an annular shape, which is provided between the outer circumferential surface of a spigot and an inner circumferential surface of a socket; a pushing ring to push the sealing member into the socket, the pushing ring being fitted onto the spigot; and a separation preventive member configured to engage with the spigot protrusion part in a pipe-axial direction to prevent a separation of the spigot from the socket. The separation preventive member is provided between an inner circumferential surface of the pushing ring and the outer circumferential surface of the spigot. The sealing member is provided along an outer circumferential surface of the spigot protrusion part and includes a compression part. The compression part is compressed in a pipe-radial and is located, in the socket, upstream of the spigot protrusion part in an insertion direction in which the spigot is inserted.

Abstract: A pipe joining method includes a moving of a first transport trolley with a loaded first pipe and a second transport trolley with a loaded second pipe forward, a joining of one end of the first pipe to another end of a rearmost pipe of a pipeline, a lifting of another end of the first pipe, a moving of the first transport trolley and the second transport trolley backward, a drawing of the first transport trolley from beneath of the first pipe to the near side, a removing of a coupler to separate the first transport trolley and the second transport trolley, a moving of the first transport trolley backward, a drawing of the first transport trolley below the second pipe loaded on the second transport trolley, and a moving of the second transport trolley forward with the first transport trolley.

Abstract: This invention is to collectively manage the timing to replace the multiple gas cylinders, and is a cylinder management system that manages multiple gas cylinders that supply a utility gas of a calibration gas to multiple gas analysis device and that comprises multiple pressure sensors that that detect a pressure of each of the multiple gas cylinders, and a management device that calculates a cylinder gas residual quantity in each gas cylinder based on the pressure detected by each pressure sensor and manages the timing to replace each gas cylinder.

Abstract: A pipe joint in which a seal body and a spacer are mounted from the insides of pipes, wherein: a spigot of one pipe is inserted into a socket of the other pipe; and an annular accommodation space is formed between the inner circumference of the socket and the outer circumference of the spigot. Inside the accommodation space are accommodated: a seal body for sealing the gap between the socket and the spigot; a push ring that presses the seal body to keep the seal body in a compressed state; and a spacer that maintains the interval between the push ring and the deep end of the socket in the pipe axial direction.

Abstract: A method includes acquiring weather information relating to at least one of physical quantities including insolation, cloudiness, and humidity; performing a rating scale assessment of the weather information based on a predetermined threshold value; predicting an electrical output of a solar generator; performing a rating scale assessment of the electrical output of the solar generator based on a standard electrical output of the solar generator; and generating information indicating an assessment value obtained in the performing of the rating scale assessment of the weather information, and an assessment value obtained in the performing of the rating scale assessment of the electrical output.

Abstract: This invention is to collectively manage the timing to replace the multiple gas cylinders, and is a cylinder management system that manages multiple gas cylinders that supply a utility gas of a calibration gas to multiple gas analysis device and that comprises multiple pressure sensors that that detect a pressure of each of the multiple gas cylinders, and a management device that calculates a cylinder gas residual quantity in each gas cylinder based on the pressure detected by each pressure sensor and manages the timing to replace each gas cylinder.

Abstract: A pipe joint includes: a sealing member, having an annular shape, which is provided between the outer circumferential surface of a spigot and an inner circumferential surface of a socket; a pushing ring to push the sealing member into the socket, the pushing ring being fitted onto the spigot; and a separation preventive member configured to engage with the spigot protrusion part in a pipe-axial direction to prevent a separation of the spigot from the socket. The separation preventive member is provided between an inner circumferential surface of the pushing ring and the outer circumferential surface of the spigot. The sealing member is provided along an outer circumferential surface of the spigot protrusion part and includes a compression part. The compression part is compressed in a pipe-radial and is located, in the socket, upstream of the spigot protrusion part in an insertion direction in which the spigot is inserted.

Abstract: A first projection is formed on the outer periphery of a bulb part, a second projection is formed on the socket rear end of the bulb part, a tapered part is formed with a decreasing diameter from the inner periphery of a heel part to the inner periphery of the second projection, and a third projection is formed on the tapered part. A first dimension B from the first projection to the third projection in an inclination direction opposite to an inclination direction G of the tapered part is smaller than a second dimension C from the first projection to the second projection in a radial direction A.

Abstract: An organic EL luminescent device (1) includes: organic EL panels of no smaller than 2 (10, 11) including a light-transmitting organic EL panel (10, 11), the light-transmitting organic EL panel having a first electrode (32), formed on a transparent substrate (31), having optical transparency, an organic layer (33), formed on the first electrode (32), having a light emitting layer and a second electrode (35), formed on the organic layer (33), having optical transparency; and a support (21) to support the no-smaller-than-2 organic EL panels in a manner overlapping each other.

Abstract: A method of production of modified conjugated diene-based rubber comprising a steps of using, as a polymerization initiator, an alkali metalated aromatic compound which has three or more carbon atoms which are directly bonded to alkali metal atoms and aromatic rings in one molecule so as to polymerize a monomer which contains at least a conjugated diene compound and reacting a compound of the following general formula (I) with an active ends of the obtained polymer is provided. (In the general formula (I), any one of R1 and R10 to R18 is an atom or reactive group which can react with the active ends of said polymer or a hydrocarbon group which includes either of the same, the remaining among R1 and R10 to R18 and R2 to R9 are respectively independently a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, or aryl group, and “j”, “k”, “m”, and “n” are integers of 0 to 100.