Abstract: A moisture content measurement method that calculates moisture content of dehydrated sludge using a calibration curve for calculating the moisture content of the dehydrated sludge, the calibration curve being obtained by performing multivariate regression analysis after first-order differential processing or an offset correction is performed on absorbance for reflected light or reflectance for infrared rays from dehydrated sludge, the absorbance or the reflectance being obtained by measuring the dehydrated sludge using an infrared measurement apparatus provided with a light-receiving unit that can receive at least infrared rays reflected from a target object to be measured and a light source that has a plurality of infrared LEDs that can emit infrared rays having respectively different wavelengths or a light source having an infrared-region tungsten lamp or halogen lamp.

Abstract: An inspection device and an inspection method are provided. The inspection device includes: a main body portion, configured to be held by an inspector; a camera portion, disposed on the main body portion and configured to capture an inspected portion of a vehicle; and a guiding portion, configured to guide a camera direction of the camera portion to the inspector, so that an image obtained through the camera portion becomes a prescribed image suitable for inspection.

Abstract: A toner set has a white toner and a color toner, in which in a case where Cw [mg/L] represents an amount of a cation on a surface of the white toner, measured by ion chromatography, and Cc [mg/L] represents an amount of a cation on a surface of the color toner, measured by ion chromatography, the toner set satisfies Conditions (1) and (2). 0.3 mg/L?Cc?1.2 mg/L??(1) (Cw/Cc)?0.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing white toner includes white toner particles including a binder resin and a white coloring agent; and an external additive including poly(meth)acrylate particles, wherein the white toner particles have a volume-average particle size D50W of 6.0 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, a ratio of the white toner particles having a particle size of 3.2 ?m or less relative to all the white toner particles is 0.5 vol % or more and 3 vol % or less, the white toner particles have a specific surface area Sw of 0.7 cm2/g or more and 1.2 cm2/g or less, and an external addition amount of the poly(meth)acrylate particles relative to the white toner particles is 0.1 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner set contains a white toner that contains white toner particles including a binder resin, a white colorant, and a release agent, and a non-white color toner that contains color toner particles including a binder resin, a color colorant, and a release agent, in which, in observation of cross sections of the white toner particles and the color toner particles, in a case where a proportion of an area of a domain of a release agent present in a surface layer region from a surface of the white toner particles to a depth of 1 ?m or less with respect to an area of all domains of the release agent present in a cross section of the white toner particles is represented by WW, and a case where a proportion of an area of a domain of a release agent present in a surface layer region from a surface of the color toner particles to a depth of 1 ?m or less with respect to an area of all domains of the release agent present in a cross section of the color toner particles is represe

Abstract: A medical braided tube assembly includes a braided tube including a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer, a braided wire including braided strands and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer provided to cover peripheries of the inner resin layer and the braided wire, and a connector provided at an end portion of the braided tube. The connector includes a tube housing section for accommodating the end portion of the braided tube. The braided tube accommodated in the tube housing section are adhesively fixed by an adhesive. The adhesive is provided to seal an entire periphery of the braided wire at an end face of the braided tube.

Abstract: A load drive system includes a communication bus; a controller; and a driver. The controller has a CAN transceiver and a CAN controller that transmit an instruction message instructing a drive state of a solenoid of an automatic transmission via the communication bus. The driver has (i) a CAN transceiver and a CAN controller that receive the instruction message via the communication bus, and (ii) a drive circuit that drives the solenoid according to the received instruction message. The controller transmits a first periodic message in a first cycle and a second periodic message in a second cycle, respectively as the instruction message.

Abstract: A braided tube includes a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer made of thermoplastic polyurethane resin, a braided wire including braided strands made of nylon and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer made of thermoplastic polyurethane resin and being provided to cover peripheries of the inner resin layer and the braided wire. A width of a void formed around the strand of the braided wire in a cross section perpendicular to a tube longitudinal direction is 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: A composite cable is provided with a coaxial wire and an insulated wire. The coaxial wire includes a center conductor, a first insulation covering the center conductor, and plural outer conductors arranged on an outer periphery of the first insulation, and a jacket covering the plural outer conductors. The insulated wire includes a stranded conductor including plural strands twisted together, and a second insulation covering the stranded conductor. The center conductor of the coaxial wire is a single wire. A conductor diameter of the center conductor is not more than a wire diameter of each of the plural strands of the insulated wire.

Abstract: A tube equipped electric wire, which is configured to be used in a catheter equipped with a catheter tube and be installed within the catheter tube, is composed of a tube including an outer surface, and one or more electric wires helically wound around the outer surface of the tube.

Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate having a first principal surface provided with a gate trench, and a second principal surface located on an opposite side from the first principal surface, the gate trench having an inner surface connecting to the first principal surface, a gate insulator provided on the inner surface of the gate trench, and a gate electrode provided on the gate insulator, wherein the gate electrode includes a base portion in contact with the gate insulator, and filling a portion of the gate trench, and a tapered portion provided on the base portion, having a width which continuously decreases in a direction further away from the base portion, in a cross sectional view viewed from a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the gate trench, and wherein a boundary between the base portion and the tapered portion is located at a position closer to a bottom of the gate trench than an upper end of the gate trench.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining, from each of one or more reproduction devices that have reproduced a content contained in a broadcast program, first information indicating a reproduction history of the content reproduced; obtaining second information indicating a display history of a web page displayed by each of one or more display devices; calculating an index indicating a relation between reproduction of the content by a first reproduction device among the one or more reproduction devices and display of the web page by a first display device that has a relation to the first reproduction device among the one or more display devices, based on the first information and the second information which are obtained; and outputting the index calculated in the calculating.

Abstract: An information management system includes: an attribute information DB that stores attribute information of a user as user information; a data obtainer that obtains, from at least one home appliance used by the user, first device data including an operating status of the at least one home appliance; and an updater that updates the user information stored in the attribute information DB, using first attribute information that is based on the first device data obtained. The updater compares the first attribute information and second attribute information stored in the attribute information DB as the user information to determine whether a difference is present between the first attribute information and the second attribute information, and updates the user information with the first attribute information when determining that the difference is present, and does not update the user information when determining that no difference is present.

Abstract: A resinous spring includes ring-shaped members disposed with gaps interposed therebetween in the direction of the spring axis and link members connecting adjacent ones of the ring-shaped members. Each ring-shaped member has vertex portions to each of which a first link member or a second link member is connectable, thin portions at which the ring-shaped member is reduced in thickness in the direction of the spring axis, and tapered portions at which the ring-shaped member is reduced in thickness in the direction of the spring axis gradually from the vertex portions to the thin portions.

Abstract: A drive device includes: a control storage unit of a current value of a control signal indicating a drive state of each of loads; a drive unit of the switches according to the current value; an acquisition unit of a current drive state of each load; a determination storage unit of a transition determination value; and a determination unit that compares a correlated drive state of each load correlated with the current value with the transition determination value, and determines that the current value is abnormal when the correlated drive state and the transition determination value satisfy a predetermined corresponding relationship.

Abstract: A drive device includes a driver, a determination storage, a comparator, and at least one of a control storage and a monitor storage. The control storage stores a control pattern that includes a signal instructing a conduction state of each of loads. The driver control semiconductor switches respectively corresponding to the loads according to the control pattern. The determination storage stores a determination pattern. The monitor storage stores a monitor pattern that is a result of monitoring the conduction state of each of the loads. The comparator compares the determination pattern with a comparison pattern that is at least one of the control pattern and the monitor pattern, and determine that an abnormality of the comparison pattern has occurred in response to that the determination pattern and the comparison pattern satisfy a predetermined correspondence relationship.

Abstract: A drive device includes: a receiving unit of a load control signal indicative of a drive state of each load; a control storage unit of the load control signal; a drive unit of the switches according to the load control signal; an acquisition unit of a current drive state of each load at a present time, or a current vehicle state; a determination storage unit of a transition determination value; and a determination unit that compares a correlated drive state of each load correlated with the load control signal with the transition determination value, and determines that the load control signal is abnormal when the correlated drive state and the transition determination value satisfy a predetermined corresponding relationship.

Abstract: A load drive system includes a communication bus; a controller; and a driver. The controller has a CAN transceiver and a CAN controller that transmit an instruction message instructing a drive state of a solenoid of an automatic transmission via the communication bus. The driver has (i) a CAN transceiver and a CAN controller that receive the instruction message via the communication bus, and (ii) a drive circuit that drives the solenoid according to the received instruction message. The controller transmits a first periodic message in a first cycle and a second periodic message in a second cycle, respectively as the instruction message.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining location information indicating an installation location of an appliance, and user information indicating a first user linked to the installation location; obtaining log information indicating an operation performed by the appliance, and receiver information indicating a second user that receives presentation information; determining, when detecting a change in a state of the first user by reference to the log information and determining that the first user does not match the second user, the presentation information to be presented to the second user in accordance with the change in the state; and outputting the presentation information determined.

Abstract: A tube equipped electric wire, which is configured to be used in a catheter equipped with a catheter tube and be installed within the catheter tube, is composed of a tube including an outer surface, and one or more electric wires helically wound around the outer surface of the tube.