Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a flow switching device, an indoor heat exchanger, a pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe, a flow control device provided to the bypass pipe and configured to adjust a flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe, an evaporating pressure sensor configured to measure an evaporating pressure of the refrigerant, and a controller. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured to operate in a normal heating operation mode and a heating-defrosting operation mode. When an operation associated with the normal heating operation mode is switched to an operation associated with the heating-defrosting operation mode, the controller adjusts an opening degree of the flow control device using the evaporating pressure in the parallel heat exchanger and a driving frequency of the compressor.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon production method includes: a hydrogen extraction step of extracting hydrogen from an organic hydride by a dehydrogenation reaction; and a hydrocarbon production step of producing a hydrocarbon by a reaction by a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process using the extracted hydrogen and carbon monoxide. In addition, in the hydrogen extraction step, reaction heat generated in the hydrocarbon production step is used.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for transmitting and receiving radio waves of a target frequency includes a ground plate having a rectangular shape, a zeroth-order resonant antenna element arranged at a position shifted from a center of the ground plate in a lengthwise direction of the ground plate, and a circuit module configured to transmit and receive signal via the zeroth-order resonant antenna element. The zeroth-order resonant antenna element includes a counter conductor plate arranged at a predetermined distance from the ground plate and having a feed point connected to a feedline, and a short circuit portion electrically connecting the counter conductor plate and the ground plate. The ground plate, the counter conductor plate and the short circuit portion are configured to cause parallel resonance at the target frequency and satisfy a condition that resonance caused by the ground plate is reduced.

Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the production amount of a tri- or higher galactooligosaccharide and the reaction rate by a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide characterized by allowing ?-galactosidase to react with a substrate in the presence of 5 to 60 mM sodium ions and 0.5 to 8 mM magnesium ions.

Abstract: A frame is divided, and is then transferred on a communication protocol having a different frame size. Provided is a vehicle control device configured to transfer data through a first communication path for transferring data having a low priority and a second communication path for transferring data having a high priority, the second communication path having a transfer speed different from that of the first communication path. First transfer data transferable on the first communication path has a data size different from that of second transfer data transferrable on the second communication path. The second communication path allows at least two types of transfer data to be transmitted and received thereon.

Abstract: A plurality of plate-like magnets are partially bonded at a predetermined interval to an inner circumferential surface of a rotor yoke with a first adhesive via a positioning member for positioning in a radial direction and in an axial direction, and a second adhesive is heat-cured in a state where the positioning member is removed, thus bonding and fixing the plurality of plate-like magnets at a predetermined interval and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An antenna mounting system includes an antenna device and a conductive base plate. The antenna device includes a ground plate, an opposing conductive plate, and a short-circuit pin. The short-circuit pin is positioned to cause a radio wave radiated from the antenna device in a direction perpendicular to the ground plate such that radio wave: has a polarization component that oscillates in a direction parallel to a main plane of polarization of a radio wave radiated from the conductive base plate in the direction perpendicular to the ground plate; and is shifted in phase from the radio wave radiated from the conductive base plate by a phase difference within a range from 90 degrees to 270 degrees.

Abstract: A plurality of plate-like magnets are positioned in a radial direction and an axial direction and are arranged at a predetermined interval to an inner circumferential surface of a rotor yoke, and a first adhesive is cured, thus forming each partition part that partitions the plate-like magnets from each other and partially bonding the plate-like magnets at a first bonding part, and a second adhesive is cured, thus bonding and fixing the plate-like magnets at a second bonding part while the plurality of plate-like magnets are partitioned from each other at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction by the partition part.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate and an antenna element. The ground plate is a conductor member with a flat rectangular shape. The antenna element is a conductor member having a feed point electrically connected to a feeder line. A length of the ground plate in a predetermined direction is shorter than a target wavelength that is a wavelength of a radio wave to be transmitted or received. The ground plate is connected to a grounding cable at a connection position on the ground plate. The connection position is shifted from an edge of the ground plate by an odd multiple of ¼ of the target wavelength.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: a first antenna having a directional gain at a low elevation angle higher than the directional gain at a high elevation angle; a second antenna having the directional gain at the high elevation angle higher than the first antenna, transmitting and receiving a radio wave having a vibration direction of an electric field intersecting with a radio wave transmitted and received by the first antenna; and a third antenna having the directional gain at the high elevation angle higher than the first antenna, and transmitting and receiving a radio wave having a vibration direction of an electric field intersecting with the radio wave transmitted and received by the second antenna.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate which is a flat plate-shaped conductor member, an opposing conductive plate which is a flat plate-shaped conductor member installed at a predetermined distance from the ground plate and is electrically connected to a power supply line, and a plurality of short-circuit pins for electrically connecting the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate. One end of a plurality of short-circuit pins extends to a conductive plate plane, which is a plane including the opposing conductive plate, and the other end of the plurality of short-circuit pins extends to the ground plate plane, which is a plane including the ground plate. One or more of the plurality of short-circuit pins connect the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate.

Abstract: Provided are: an oligosaccharide powder having high working properties, the oligosaccharide powder being characterized by containing a dextrin having a dextrose equivalent of 10 to 18 and an oligosaccharide; and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the production amount of a tri- or higher galactooligosaccharide and the reaction rate by a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide characterized by allowing ?-galactosidase to react with a substrate in the presence of 5 to 60 mM sodium ions and 0.5 to 8 mM magnesium ions.

Abstract: A grouping unit separates, into groups, reflection points included in plural sets of reflection-point information items based on positional parameters of the respective reflection points in a first direction. Each of the positional parameters of a corresponding one of the reflection points in the first direction represents a position of the corresponding one of the reflection points in the first direction. A measuring unit performs a two-dimensional trilateration localization for each of the groups based on at least one reflection point included in a corresponding one of the groups to thereby calculate a location of the at least one reflection point included in each of the groups in a second plane. The second plane is defined by the second direction and a group center direction of the corresponding one of the groups.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate that is a conductive member having a plate shape, a patch section that is a conductive member having a plate shape and is disposed in parallel with the ground plate with a predetermined interval so as to face the ground plate, a plurality of first short-circuit vias each having an axial center disposed on a circumference of a via arrangement circle located in a center portion of the patch section and each having a first end connected with the patch section and a second end connected with the ground plate, and at least one second short-circuit via having an axial center disposed at a position different from the circumference of the via arrangement circle and having a first end connected with the patch section and a second end connected with the ground plate.

Abstract: A positioning system executes wireless communication with a portable terminal by adopting a radio wave of 1 GHz or higher to determine a position of the portable terminal relative to a vehicle. The positioning system includes a vehicle exterior communication device and a positioning device. The vehicle exterior communication device is disposed at an outer surface portion at least one of a side surface portion or a rear side surface portion of the vehicle, and includes an antenna receiving a wireless signal transmitted from the portable terminal. The positioning device determines whether or not the portable terminal exists at an exterior operating area being a region outside a vehicle compartment within a predetermined operating distance from the vehicle, based on a reception status of the wireless signal received by the vehicle exterior communication device from the portable terminal. The antenna radiates a main polarized wave and a cross-polarized wave.

Abstract: A positioning system executes wireless communication with a portable terminal by adopting a radio wave of 1 GHz or higher to determine a position of the portable terminal relative to a vehicle. The positioning system includes a vehicle exterior communication device and a positioning device. The positioning device determines whether the portable terminal exists at an exterior operating area being a region outside a vehicle compartment within a predetermined operating distance from the vehicle, based on a reception status of the wireless signal received by the vehicle exterior communication device from the portable terminal in a first mode of the vehicle exterior communication device, and determines whether the portable terminal exists inside the vehicle compartment, based on the reception status of the wireless signal received by the vehicle exterior communication device from the portable terminal in a second mode of the vehicle exterior communication device.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: a ground plate made of a conductor with a flat plate shape; an opposing conductive plate made of another conductor with a flat plate shape, arranged to space apart from the ground plate by a predetermined distance, and having a power supply point electrically connected to a power supply line; a short-circuit portion electrically connecting the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate; and a radio wave shield body for shielding a propagation of an electric field, which is arranged on an upper side of the opposing conductive plate and is made of a conductor or a dielectric material. Parallel resonance at a predetermined target frequency is generated by an inductance provided in the short-circuit portion and a capacitance between the ground plate and the opposing conductive plate.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: a ground plate; an opposing conductive plate provided with a power supply point installed at a predetermined distance from the ground plate; and a short-circuit portion provided in a central region of the opposing conductive plate and electrically connecting the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate. A parallel resonance at a predetermined target frequency is generated by an inductance provided in the short-circuit portion and a capacitance between the ground plate and the opposing conductive plate; and the ground plate is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the opposing conductive plate.

Abstract: A method for producing a secreted ?-galactosidase, characterized by integrating a non-secreted ?-galactosidase gene derived from a basidiomycetous yeast into Aspergillus oryzae to produce a secreted ?-galactosidase, and a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide using a ?-galactosidase produced by the method facilitate the production of a galactooligosaccharide.