Abstract: A cleaning device that can properly and efficiently clean a place such as a coke oven top part where an obstacle is present, can perform cleaning irrespective of whether or not a coal charging car is operating, and has a simple and compact structure and a method for cleaning an oven top of a coke oven. The cleaning device travels on a road surface and collects an accumulated substance accumulated on the road surface and includes a travelling trolley, a collector provided on a front face part of the travelling trolley that collects the accumulated substance accumulated on the road surface in front of the travelling trolley as the travelling trolley travels forward, and a sweeper provided on the travelling trolley and that sweeps the accumulated substance accumulated on the road surface beside the travelling trolley toward a position in front of the travelling trolley.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, image generating circuitry, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube emits X-rays. The X-ray detector detects X-rays emitted from the X-ray tube and transmitted through a subject. The processing circuitry receives a designating operation related a display mode for a target that is at least one of a region of the subject and an object inserted in the subject. In response to the designating operation, the processing circuitry changes the display mode of the target in an X-ray projection image that is based on a detection result of the X-ray detector, the display mode being changed based on three-dimensional medical image data related to the subject.

Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet which can be manufactured into a molded body exhibiting excellent appearance quality as well as exhibits both high moldability and strength and a manufacturing method of such a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet. The present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet which is a random laminated body of a tape-shaped unidirectional prepreg and contains spread reinforcement fibers and a polymer (a) and in which the polymer (a) is a polymer of at least a bisphenol A type epoxy compound represented by Formula (1): where n is an integer of 1 to 4 and a bisphenol compound selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, bisphenol S, bisphenol B, bisphenol E, and bisphenol P.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a molding base material (10) with which it is possible to prepare a vehicle exterior material such as an underbody shielding material. As a result of continued investigations, the applicant of the present application found that the objective of the present invention could be achieved by means of a “molding base material including a fiber base material layer (1) and a cover layer (3), wherein the fiber base material layer and the cover layer are integrally bonded to one another by means of a polypropylene-based resin layer (5) present at the interface between the fiber base material layer and the cover layer”, and wherein the fiber base material layer contains sheath-core type composite fibers of which the core portion is a polyester-based resin and the sheath portion is a polypropylene-based resin.

Abstract: [Object] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a layered composite that is high in both flexural modulus and moldability. [Solving Means] Provided is a layered composite including a carbon-fiber-reinforced resin in which a chopped strand prepreg obtained by impregnating fiber in resin is oriented in such a manner as to exhibit pseudo-isotropic properties, and a steel plate that is layered on at least one surface of the carbon-fiber-reinforced resin and has a tensile breakage elongation ? of equal to or more than 20%, the flexural modulus in a flat plate state obtained in compliance with ASTM D-790 being equal to or more than 30 GPa.

Abstract: A casing angle adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting the angle of a casing with respect to a mounting surface by a simple operation of a leg unit is provided. When an angle adjustment mechanism of a casing rotates a leg unit in one direction, moves a part of a stopper along a connection hole of the leg unit, and slides a slide plate, a side wall of the slide plate blocks openings of engagement holes of the leg unit, and a side wall of the leg unit blocks openings of engagement grooves of the slide plate, and when it rotates the leg unit in another direction, moves the part of the stopper along the connection hole of the leg unit, and slides the slide plate, engagement grooves of the slide plate and engagement holes of the leg unit are placed to overlap.

Abstract: A liquid jet device includes a head body configured to jet droplets from a nozzle, a frame at which the head body is positioned, a grounding portion configured to contact a first side surface of the head body in a removal direction from the frame to electrically couple the head body to the frame, and a first pin serving as a pin for positioning the head body with respect to the frame, wherein a contact position between the first side surface and the grounding portion and a position of the first pin overlap in a normal direction of the first side surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a detecting unit is configured to detect a characteristic value indicating a characteristic of a recording material fed from a sheet feeding unit. A determination unit is configured to determine a type of the recording material, based on the detected characteristic value and a determination rule for determining a type of a recording material. A control unit is configured to control an image forming condition for performing image formation onto the recording material in accordance with the determined type of the recording material. A collection unit is configured to collect an operation history of the image forming apparatus. An adjustment unit is configured to adjust the determination rule used by the determination unit based on the collected operation history.

Abstract: A moving inspection device inspecting an inspection target while realizing the simplification of the configuration and significant size reduction/weight reduction of the device, a moving inspection method, and a method for manufacturing a steel material. The device includes a moving inspection device body configured to inspect an inspection target for defects while moving over its surface. The moving inspection device body includes: a carriage that moves by at least two wheels that rotate forward and backward over the surface; and at least one inspection sensor on the front end side or the rear end side of the carriage. An inspection region of the inspection target is divided into two divided regions across a straight line, and the carriage is configured to move when the inspection sensor is directed to side edges sides of the divided regions facing the straight line in each of the two divided regions.

Abstract: A moving inspection device capable of realizing significant size reduction/weight reduction without affecting the inspection performance for an inspection target, a moving inspection method, and a method for manufacturing a steel material. A moving inspection device includes: a moving inspection device body configured to inspect an inspection target for defects while moving over a surface of the inspection target; and water supply devices separate from the body and configured to supply water required for the inspection onto the surface of the inspection target. The body is installed with a flow adjustment plate configured to push out the water supplied onto the surface of the inspection target from the water supply devices in the advancing direction and form streamlines for supplying the water between inspection sensors configured to inspect the inspection target for defects and the surface of the inspection target simultaneously with the movement of the body.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes at least one processing unit, a light guide optical system configured to focus projected light to a spatial image forming plane to form an image thereon, and a sensor configured to shine a laser beam over a set scanning range to detect an entry depth of a target object in a direction orthogonal to the spatial image forming plane and an entry position of the target object on the spatial image forming plane, and the processing unit executes an operation associated with the entry position when the entry depth of the target object reaches a set depth.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes at least one processing unit, a light guide optical system configured to cause projected light to focus on a spatial image forming plane to form an image thereon, and a camera configured to detect an entry depth of a target object in a direction orthogonal to the spatial image forming plane and an entry position of the target object on the spatial image forming plane based on an image captured in such a manner that the spatial image forming plane is included within an angle of view, and the processing unit executes an operation associated with the entry position when the entry depth of the target object reaches a set depth.

Abstract: A projector includes a projection unit configured to emit projected light, a first projection unit configured to form an image in an aerial projection region from a first part of the projected light, and a second projection unit configured to form an image on a real projection surface from a second part of the projected light, the second part being different from the first part.

Abstract: An image forming medium changing device includes a changing unit configured to change a characteristic of an image forming medium on which projected light is focused, wherein the projected light is refocused on an aerial space image forming section by a light guide optical system. A spatial projection apparatus including the image forming medium changing device includes multiple image forming media having different characteristics, and the changing unit is configured to be driven to dispose one image forming medium selected from the multiple image forming media on an image forming effective area interposed between a light source of the projected light and the light guide optical system.

Abstract: A projection processor includes a processing unit, and the processing unit obtains information concerning a first projected image which is projected by a projector to be formed on an image forming medium and corrects information concerning a second projected image which is formed on the image forming medium as projected light, which is to be refocused on an aerial space image forming section by a light guide optical system, based on the information concerning the first projected image obtained.

Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control device includes: a drive-side rotary body rotating synchronously with a crankshaft; a driven-side rotary body arranged coaxially with the drive-side rotary body and rotating integrally with a valve opening and closing camshaft; a fluid pressure chamber defined between the drive-side and driven-side rotary bodies; advance and retard chambers defined by partitioning the fluid pressure chamber; an intermediate lock mechanism selectively switches between a lock state and a lock release state; advance and retard flow paths allowing a flow of the working fluid to be supplied to and discharged from the advance and retard chambers; a control valve including a spool; and a phase control unit moving a position of the spool by controlling a power supply amount to the control valve to supply and discharge the working fluid to and from the advance and retard chambers to displace a relative rotation phase.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.

Abstract: A casing angle adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting the angle of a casing with respect to a mounting surface by a simple operation of a leg unit is provided. When an angle adjustment mechanism of a casing rotates a leg unit in one direction, moves a part of a stopper along a connection hole of the leg unit, and slides a slide plate, a side wall of the slide plate blocks openings of engagement holes of the leg unit, and a side wall of the leg unit blocks openings of engagement grooves of the slide plate, and when it rotates the leg unit in another direction, moves the part of the stopper along the connection hole of the leg unit, and slides the slide plate, engagement grooves of the slide plate and engagement holes of the leg unit are placed to overlap.