Abstract: A post-processing device including a stapler includes a restraint mechanism that restrains the stapler so that the stapler does not deviate from an initial position when a covering part is opened and a restraint release mechanism that, when the covering part is closed, releases restraint of the stapler by the restraint mechanism.

Abstract: A post-processing device including a stapler includes a restraint mechanism that restrains the stapler so that the stapler does not deviate from an initial position when a covering part is opened and a restraint release mechanism that, when the covering part is closed, releases restraint of the stapler by the restraint mechanism.

Abstract: A document transport assistance member for an image processing device including a transport roller and a reading part provided upstream of the transport roller in a transport path, the document transport assistance member including a cover sheet, a support sheet, and a bonding part that serves as a bonding part where the cover sheet and the support sheet are bonded together, and bonds a first end portion at a first direction side along a first axis, wherein a length between a side end of the document transport assistance member at the first direction side and a rear end of the bonding part at the opposite side from the first direction is greater than a length between a reading position where the reading part can read the document and a position of a nipping part where the transport roller performs nip on the document transport assistance member in the transport path.

Abstract: A film-forming material of the present invention contains an oxyfluoride of yttrium represented by YOXFY (X and Y are numbers satisfying 0<X and X<Y) and YF3, wherein a ratio I2/I1 of a peak height I2 of the (020) plane of YF3 to a peak height I1 of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is from 0.005 to 100. It is preferable that a ratio I4/I1 of a peak height I4 of the main peak of Y2O3 to the peak height I1 of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is 0.01 or less.

Abstract: A document transport assistance member for an image processing device including a transport roller and a reading part provided upstream of the transport roller in a transport path, the document transport assistance member including a cover sheet, a support sheet, and a bonding part that serves as a bonding part where the cover sheet and the support sheet are bonded together, and bonds a first end portion at a first direction side along a first axis, wherein a length between a side end of the document transport assistance member at the first direction side and a rear end of the bonding part at the opposite side from the first direction is greater than a length between a reading position where the reading part can read the document and a position of a nipping part where the transport roller performs nip on the document transport assistance member in the transport path.

Abstract: A film-forming material of the present invention contains an oxyfluoride of yttrium represented by YOXFY (X and Y are numbers satisfying 0<X and X<Y) and YF3, wherein a ratio I2/I1 of a peak height I2 of the (020) plane of YF3 to a peak height I1 of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is from 0.005 to 100. It is preferable that a ratio I4/I1 of a peak height I4 of the main peak of Y2O3 to the peak height I1 of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is 0.01 or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates a coating powder comprising a rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) and having: an average particle size (D50) of 0.1 to 10 ?m, a pore volume of pores having a diameter of 10 ?m or smaller of 0.1 to 0.5 cm3/g as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, and a ratio of the maximum peak intensity (S0) assigned to a rare earth oxide (LnxOy) in the 2? angle range of from 20° to 40° to the maximum peak intensity (S1) assigned to the rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) in the same range, S0/S1, of 1.0 or smaller in powder X-ray diffractometry using Cu-K? rays or Cu-K?1 rays.

Abstract: A control method for a piezoelectric drive device includes a piezoelectric vibrator having a vibrating portion and a distal end portion coupled to the vibrating portion, in which the distal end portion makes elliptic motion by a stretching vibration and a flexural vibration of the vibrating portion, a driven member driven by the elliptic motion of the distal end portion, and a drive signal generation circuit outputting a stretching vibration drive signal that generates the stretching vibration and a flexural vibration drive signal that generates the flexural vibration in the piezoelectric vibrator, and the method includes, when the driven member is stopped, superimposing and outputting a modulation signal for amplitude modification on the stretching vibration drive signal by the drive signal generation circuit.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus which selects desired explanatory variables from a plurality of candidate explanatory variables in a statistical model that expresses, by a predetermined function, a relationship between a linear predictor and an expectation value of a response variable or a probability of the response variable having certain values, by using a variable selecting model that expresses the linear predictor as a sum of a constant and a linear combination of the candidate explanatory variables and their corresponding coefficients, the apparatus including a sign condition acquisition unit for acquiring sign conditions for at least one of the coefficients; an estimator for calculating an estimate of the respective coefficients and an estimate of the constant under the sign conditions, using plural data; and a selection unit for selecting, as the desired explanatory variable, the candidate explanatory variable corresponding to the coefficient of which the estimate is calculated to be non-zero.

Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a disk with a plurality of data storage tracks, a head that writes data to the plurality of data storage tracks and reads data from the plurality of data storage tracks, and a controller. The controller is configured to circumferentially divide each of the plurality of data storage tracks into multiple count areas, for each count area in each of the plurality of data storage tracks, track a number of adjacent write counts; determine that a first number of adjacent write counts for a first count area in a first data storage track causes a refresh threshold value for the first count area to be exceeded, and in response to determining the refresh threshold value has been exceeded, rewrite data stored in the first data storage track.

Abstract: A coating material containing an oxyfluoride of yttrium and having a Fisher diameter of 1.0 to 10 ?m and a tap density TD to apparent density AD ratio, TD/AD, of 1.6 to 3.5. The coating material preferably has a pore volume of pores with a diameter of 100 ?m or smaller of 1.0 cm3/g or less as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry. A coating containing an oxyfluoride of yttrium and having a Vickers hardness of 200 HV0.01 or higher. The coating preferably has a fracture toughness of 1.0×102 Pa·m1/2 or higher.

Abstract: Provided is a program causing a computer to execute: a response probability estimation data acquiring step (S201) for acquiring response probability estimation data that defines a relationship between the value of the original variable and a response probability that shows a probability of the response variable being a certain value; an original variable data acquiring step (S202) for acquiring original variable data including realization of the original variable; and an explanatory variable value calculating step (S203, S204) for calculating as an explanatory variable value, an original variable score obtained by calculating an estimated value of the response probability from the realization of the original variable by use of the realization of the original variable and the response probability estimation data, and substituting the estimated value to inverse function of distribution function of predetermined probability distribution.

Abstract: A film-forming material of the present invention contains an oxyfluoride of yttrium represented by YOXFY (X and Y are numbers satisfying 0 <X and X <Y) and YF3, wherein a ratio I2/I1 of a peak height I2 of the (020) plane of YF3 to a peak height Ii of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is from 0.005 to 100. It is preferable that a ratio I4/I1 of a peak height I4 of the main peak of Y2O3 to the peak height I1 of the main peak of YOXFY as analyzed by XRD is 0.01 or less.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus which selects desired explanatory variables from a plurality of candidate explanatory variables in a statistical model that expresses, by a predetermined function, a relationship between a linear predictor and an expectation value of a response variable or a probability of the response variable having certain values, by using a variable selecting model that expresses the linear predictor as a sum of a constant and a linear combination of the candidate explanatory variables and their corresponding coefficients, the apparatus including a sign condition acquisition unit for acquiring sign conditions for at least one of the coefficients; an estimator for calculating an estimate of the respective coefficients and an estimate of the constant under the sign conditions, using plural data; and a selection unit for selecting, as the desired explanatory variable, the candidate explanatory variable corresponding to the coefficient of which the estimate is calculated to be non-zero.

Abstract: A disk device includes a magnetic disk, a head configured to write data into the magnetic disk, a memory in which a write count and a offset amount of the head during a write operation are stored for each of a plurality of tracks of the magnetic disk, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine an inner offset and an outer offset of the head with respect to a target track of a write operation, and update the write count for an adjacent inner track of the target track based on the inner offset, and the write count for an adjacent outer track of the target track based on the outer offset.

Abstract: A post-processing device includes a processing stacking portion that allows media to be stacked thereon; a binding member that performs a binding process on the media; a medium ejection portion on which the media ejected from the processing stacking portion are stacked and which moves upward and downward; and a pressing member that presses an upper surface of the media on the medium ejection portion. When media that have not been subjected to the binding process are stacked on the medium ejection portion, the pressing member and the media are brought into contact with each other. When media that have been subjected to the binding process are stacked on the medium ejection portion, the pressing member and the media are disposed further away from each other than when media that have not been subjected to the binding process are stacked on the medium ejection portion.

Abstract: A coil spring modeling apparatus includes a first attachment member disposed on a lower spring seat, a second attachment member disposed on an upper spring seat, an actuator unit formed of a Stewart-platform-type parallel mechanism, a hydraulic pressure supply device, a torsion detection mechanism, and a controller. The torsion detection mechanism is constituted of displacement gauges such as a linear variable differential transformer. The displacement gauges are provided on hydraulic cylinders, and detect amounts of displacement relative to the reference lengths of the hydraulic cylinders, respectively. The controller calculates a relative torsional angle between the first attachment member and the second attachment member based on the detected displacement.

Abstract: The present invention relates a coating powder comprising a rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) and having: an average particle size (D50) of 0.1 to 10 ?m, a pore volume of pores having a diameter of 10 ?m or smaller of 0.1 to 0.5 cm3/g as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, and a ratio of the maximum peak intensity (S0) assigned to a rare earth oxide (LnxOy) in the 2? angle range of from 20° to 40° to the maximum peak intensity (S1) assigned to the rare earth oxyfluoride (Ln-O—F) in the same range, S0/S1, of 1.0 or smaller in powder X-ray diffractometry using Cu-K? rays or Cu-K?1 rays.

Abstract: A coil spring modeling apparatus includes a first attachment member disposed on a lower spring seat, a second attachment member disposed on an upper spring seat, an actuator unit formed of a Stewart-platform-type parallel mechanism, a spring height detection mechanism, and a controller. The spring height detection mechanism is constituted of displacement gauges such as a linear variable differential transformer. These gauges are provided on hydraulic cylinders, and detect amounts of displacement relative to the reference lengths of the hydraulic cylinders, respectively. A hydraulic pressure supply device is controlled by the controller and supplies fluid pressure according to the displacement detected by the gauges to the respective hydraulic cylinders.

Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a plurality of ultrasonic element arrays each of which is provided with a plurality of ultrasonic elements arranged in a first direction, in which the plurality of ultrasonic element arrays are disposed at positions which do not interfere with each other in the first direction, and are disposed at positions which are deviated relative to each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction.