Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second processor cores configured to perform a lock step operation and including first and second scan chains. The semiconductor device further includes a scan test control unit that controls a scan test of the first and second processor cores using the first and second scan chains, and a start-up control unit that outputs a reset signal for bringing the first and second processor cores into a reset state. The start-up control unit outputs an initialization scan request before the start of a lock step operation, and the scan test control unit performs an initialization scan test operation on the first and second processor cores by using an initialization pattern.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.

Abstract: An air conditioning device (10) is an air conditioning device (10) for a reclining seat (10) comprising a seat part (1b) and a backrest part (1a), the air conditioning device (10) comprising a ventilator and a controller (11). The ventilator is provided to at least one of the seat part (1b) and the backrest part (1a), and includes a first air flow path (A1, A2) formed inside the seat part (1b) or the backrest part (1a). The controller (11) determines a reclining state of the backrest part (1a) with respect to the seat part (1b), and controls air in the first air flow path (A1, A2) in accordance with the determined reclining state.

Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.

Abstract: A display device includes an organic EL element layer, a liquid crystal element layer disposed on top of the organic EL element layer, and a polarizing plate disposed at a side of the liquid crystal element layer that faces an observer. The liquid crystal element layer includes two transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two transparent substrates. The liquid crystal element layer is configured to be able to, by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, cause a substantially quarter-wavelength retardation in light passing through the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A conveyance apparatus configured to convey a substrate (100) in order to irradiate the substrate (100) with laser light for forming a line-shaped irradiation area (15a) according to an embodiment includes a levitation unit (10) configured to levitate the substrate (100) over its top surface, a holding mechanism (12) configured to hold the substrate (100), and a moving mechanism (13) configured to move the holding mechanism (12) in a direction inclined from a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the line-shaped laser light in a plan view so as to change an irradiation place of the laser light in the substrate (100).

Abstract: A recycle information management system includes a communication device and a management device. The communication device transmits recycle information acquired from a recycle system via a network. The recycle system includes at least a recycling device that removes at least oil from the collected refrigerant to recycle the refrigerant. The management device includes a storage unit that stores the recycle information in association with a recycle system ID usable to identify the recycle system.

Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.

Abstract: A transmission system includes a calculation unit 251 that calculates a jitter pattern sequence of a plurality of packets transmitted by a transmission device 1 via a network using a transmission interval of the plurality of packets and a difference between arrival times at which the packets arrive at a reception device 2, a generation unit 252 that inputs the jitter pattern sequence to a first learning model 254 to generate a state index indicating a state of the network, and a buffer estimation unit 26 that determines a buffer size of a reception buffer 23 of the reception device 2 based on the state index.

Abstract: A field effect transistor comprising: a non-doped diamond layer which has a hydrogen-terminated surface; first and second p+diamond layers which are formed on the non-doped diamond layer and sandwich a hydrogen-terminated region; a source electrode which is formed on the first p+diamond layer and is made of metal; a drain electrode which is formed on the second p+diamond layer and is made of metal; an insulating layer which is formed on the hydrogen-terminated region of the non-doped diamond layer; and a gate electrode which is formed on the insulating layer, a mutual conductance being equal to or higher than 0.5 mS/mm at room temperatures, after an X-ray is applied for an amount of 5 Mgy.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire a limit position determination angle corresponding to an absolute steering angle when it is determined that movement of a turning shaft is limited, to compare a first stroke width which is a sum of an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a right side and an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a left side with a stroke threshold value corresponding to an entire stroke range of the turning shaft when the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides are acquired, and to set end-position-corresponding angles on the right and left sides based on the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides when the first stroke width is greater than the stroke threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is a soft candy having excellent shape retention and detachability, wherein the soft candy is made from a base composition containing a sugar, a glucide that inhibits crystallization of the sugar, and a thickener, wherein the base composition has a specific gravity of 1.00 to 1.25 g/cm3; and a ratio of the sugar to a total mass of the sugar and the glucide that inhibits crystallization of the sugar in the base composition is from 50 to 75 mass %, or among bubbles present in a cross section of a soft candy produced by shaping the base composition, a total area of bubbles having an area of 0.05 mm2 or greater is 80% or less relative to a total area of the bubbles.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform end contact relaxation control for correcting a current command value such that a decrease of an end separation angle indicating a distance of an absolute steering angle from an end-position-corresponding angle is limited when the end separation angle is equal to or less than a predetermined angle and to perform partial release control for decreasing a correction value of the current command value due to execution of the end contact relaxation control based on a steering torque which is input to a steering system when a vehicle is intended to travel while turning at the time of execution of the end contact relaxation control.

Abstract: The present disclosure has an object of proposing a method and a device for estimating the state of a transmission path or an optical transmitter capable of mechanically estimating a factor causing an error with a small amount of constellation data and a low computing amount.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes: a compressor unit including a housing accommodating a refrigerant compressor; a high-pressure gas refrigerant pipe connected to a discharge side of the refrigerant compressor; a low-pressure gas refrigerant pipe connected to a suction side of the refrigerant compressor; and air-conditioners. The air-conditioners each include: a return-air inlet and a supply-air outlet each communicating with a predetermined space that is to be air-conditioned; a first heat exchanger configured to cause heat-exchange between refrigerant flowing in the first heat exchanger and air passing through the first heat exchanger; an exhaust-air outlet and an outside-air inlet each communicating with an outside of the predetermined space; and a second heat exchanger configured to cause heat-exchange between refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanger and air passing through the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A bus bar includes members made from a conductive material and consecutively arranged to form a plate shape defining a wiring pathway. The members adjacent to each other have connection surfaces at which the members adjacent to each other are connected to each other by laser joining. The members adjacent to each other include at least one tolerance buffer between the members adjacent to each other. In the at least one tolerance buffer, the connection surfaces of the members adjacent to each other have different widths.

Abstract: A triple containment tank includes: a tank foundation; a triple shell including an outer tank, an intermediate tank, and an inner tank; a first anchor strap extending through a first inter-tank region and a second inter-tank region and coupling an inner tank side plate and the tank foundation; and a second anchor strap extending through the second inter-tank region and coupling an intermediate tank side plate and the tank foundation. The first anchor strap includes: a first end portion coupled to the inner tank side plate; a second end portion coupled to the tank foundation; a first intermediate portion located between the first end portion and the second end portion and coupled to an inner wall-side portion of the intermediate tank; and a second intermediate portion located between the first end portion and the second end portion and coupled to an outer wall-side portion of the intermediate tank.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotational holding member that rotates a substrate around a predetermined rotational axis while holding the substrate, a liquid supply member that supplies a liquid to the substrate held by the rotational holding member, and a resin-made tubular guard that surrounds the substrate held by the rotational holding member. The tubular guard has an inner peripheral surface and an uneven portion disposed at the inner peripheral surface. The uneven portion has a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of protruding portions placed between the recessed portions adjacent to each other. The recessed portion has a width smaller than a diameter of a liquid droplet scattering from the substrate held by the rotational holding member and a depth in which the liquid droplet does not come into contact with a bottom portion of the recessed portion in a state in which the liquid droplet is in contact with the protruding portions.

Abstract: When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.