Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a drive unit provided on the base and located on one side of the pump as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; an on-off valve provided on another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; a pressure sensor provided on said another side of the pump as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and packing provided between the on-off valve and the pressure sensor and the base.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes an outer case; a base; a pump provided on a surface of the base such that the pump is shifted from a center of the outer case and located on one side as viewed in a circumferential direction of a living body; a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor that are provided such that the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction and located on one side as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction; and a first on-off valve and a second on-off valve that are provided such that the first on-off valve and the second on-off valve are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction with reference to the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a heat source side unit, a relay unit, and a plurality of load side units, the heat source side unit and the relay unit are connected by using a low-pressure pipe and a high-pressure pipe, and the relay unit and each of the plurality of load side units are connected by using a corresponding liquid branch pipe and a corresponding gas branch pipe. The heat source side unit includes a compressor configured to compress refrigerant, at least one flow switching valve configured to change a passage of refrigerant based on an operation mode, and at least one heat source side heat exchanger, and the relay unit includes six-way valves or pairs of four-way valves.

Abstract: Provided is a curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation, the curable composition capable of forming a cured product layer having a high aspect ratio and capable of enhancing adhesiveness and sealability. A curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation according to the present invention contains a photocurable compound having a (meth)acryloyl group or a vinyl group and having no cyclic ether group, and a thermosetting compound having no (meth)acryloyl group and having a cyclic ether group, in which a content of the thermosetting compound in 100 wt % of the curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation is 5 wt % or more, and when a B-staged product is obtained by irradiating the curable composition for inkjet and air cavity formation with light having a wavelength of 365 nm at an illuminance of 2000 mW/cm2, a viscosity at 40° C. of the B-staged product is 2.5×102 Pa·s or more and 3.0×10? Pa·s or less.

Abstract: A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment port to which a developer supply bottle containing a developer stored therein is detachably attachable is disposed in an interior of an image forming apparatus. The developer supply bottle can be attached when the cover is in an open state. According to this image forming apparatus, when the developer supply bottle is attached to the attachment port, the developer inside the developer supply bottle moves into a developer housing chamber by its own weight.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial 5 authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial 10 authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a bonus applying unit that causes a bonus to be applied to a settlement process of the user at the second store based on a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration, if the user has been authenticated successfully in the second facial authentication.

Abstract: A lighting system includes a plurality of lighting devices and a control device. The plurality of lighting devices are installed in a facility. The control device controls the plurality of lighting devices. The control device controls lighting light projected by at least one lighting device, belonging to the plurality of lighting devices, into colored lighting light, of which a color is different from a color white, to give, upon acquiring information about an event in question, a sign depending on the event in question.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a bonus applying unit that causes a bonus to be applied to a settlement process of the user at the second store based on a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration, if the user has been authenticated successfully in the second facial authentication.

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 seamless steel pipe heat-treatment-finishing-treatment continuous facility includes: a heat treatment apparatus; a steel pipe inspection apparatus which performs a test for a surface defect and/or an inner defect of the seamless steel pipe, the steel pipe inspection apparatus being disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; a main transfer mechanism which forms a main transfer path MT for transferring the seamless steel pipe, discharged from the heat treatment apparatus, to the steel pipe inspection apparatus disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; and a first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus which forcibly reduces a temperature of the seamless steel pipe on the main transfer path MT, the first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus being disposed on the main transfer path MT at a position downstream of the heat treatment apparatus and upstream of the steel pipe inspection apparatus.

Abstract: An endoscope system is provided in which a scope and a control unit are communicably connected, wherein the control unit includes a reference clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock, and a superimposed signal generation circuit configured to generate a transmission signal in which data is multiplexed by changing a duty ratio of the reference clock, and the scope includes a high-speed clock generation circuit configured to generate a high-speed clock having a higher frequency from the transmission signal, a counter circuit configured to determine the duty ratio of the transmission signal in synchronization with the high-speed clock, and a data determination circuit configured to demodulate the data based on the duty ratio determined by the counter circuit.

Abstract: In an imaging system, an image transmission circuit is configured to output image data to a signal line in a first mode. A signal reception circuit is configured to receive a clock control signal for adjusting a frequency of a camera clock from an image reception unit in a second mode. A signal output circuit is configured to output a first electric potential and the clock control signal to the signal line. The first electric potential corresponds to a signal level that is not included in a range of a signal level of the image data output to the signal line. A communication control circuit is configured to switch communication modes from the first mode to the second mode when the communication control circuit detects the first electric potential in the first mode.

Abstract: In a phase adjustment circuit, a binary circuit is configured to output a binary signal on the basis of an edge of a video signal. A phase-delayed clock signal generation circuit is configured to generate a phase-delayed clock signal having a later phase than a phase of a clock signal by a first delay amount. A delay time control circuit is configured to cause a phase of the binary signal and the phase of the phase-delayed clock signal to match each other by adjusting the first delay amount. A sampling signal generation circuit is configured to generate a sampling signal having a later phase than the phase of the clock signal by a second delay amount. The second delay amount is in accordance with both a phase shift amount, which is based on the clock signal, and the first delay amount.

Abstract: A silicon carbide layer has an active region and an outer peripheral region arranged along an outer periphery of the active region in an in-plane direction. First well regions are arranged in the active region. A second well region is arranged in the outer peripheral region. Ohmic electrodes are arranged on a second surface of the silicon carbide layer, are connected to a source electrode, are electrically and ohmically connected to the first well regions, and have surface regions ohmically contacting a part forming the second surface of the silicon carbide layer and having a second conductivity type. The active region includes a standard region part and a thinned region part between the standard region part and the outer peripheral region. The surface regions are arranged at surface density lower in the thinned region part than in the standard region part in a plan view.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a semiconductor device using a super junction structure, and includes: a semiconductor base body of a first conductivity type; a pillar part including a plurality of first pillars of a first conductivity type and a plurality of second pillars of a second conductivity type provided on the semiconductor base body to protrude in a thickness direction of the semiconductor base body; a pillar surrounding part of a first conductivity type or a second conductivity type provided around the pillar part; and a semiconductor element in which the pillar part is provided as an active region, wherein the plurality of first and second pillars have a striped shape in a plan view, and are alternately arranged in parallel to each other in a pillar width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of each of the pillars.

Abstract: Fluctuations in device characteristics are suppressed by suppressing local occurrences of a large current through a body diode of a field-effect transistor. A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the upper surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, and a backside electrode formed on the lower surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. A region in which electric resistivity takes a first value is regarded as a first resistance region, and a region where the electric resistivity takes a second value greater than the first value is regarded as a second resistance region. The second resistance region extends across a region boundary, i.e., the boundary between the active region and the termination region, in plan view.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a bonus applying unit that causes a bonus to be applied to a settlement process of the user at the second store based on a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration, if the user has been authenticated successfully in the second facial authentication.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first authentication controlling unit that causes an authentication device to execute first facial authentication or facial registration of a first photographed image capturing a user at a first store, a presenting unit that presents recommendation information related to a second store to the user in response to a success of the first facial authentication or in response to the facial registration, a second authentication controlling unit that causes the authentication device to execute second facial authentication of a second photographed image capturing the user at the second store, and a calculating unit that calculates a fee that the second store is to pay for having the recommendation information presented to the user, based on a result of the second facial authentication and a history of the first facial authentication or the facial registration.

Abstract: The signal generating device includes a signal generator that generates a signal of a predetermined frequency, a high-pass filter bank that removes a signal of a frequency lower than or equal to a first frequency lower than a predetermined frequency from the signal generated by the signal generator, a YTF that removes a signal outside a predetermined frequency band from the signal output by the high-pass filter bank, a splitter that distributes the signal output by the YTF into a plurality of signals, two amplifiers that adjust levels of the signals distributed by the splitter, respectively, and two low-pass filter banks that remove signals of frequencies equal to or higher than a second frequency which is higher than the predetermined frequency from each of the signals output by the amplifiers.

Abstract: A ball bearing includes an inner ring having a raceway surface, an outer ring having a raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements rollably disposed between the raceway surface of the inner ring and the raceway surfaces of the outer ring, and a resin cage configured to retain the plurality of rolling elements between the inner ring and the outer ring. The cage is a crown type cage having an annular base portion and a plurality of pockets formed in an axial end face of the annular base portion, in which the pockets retain the rolling elements. An axial distance between an axial position of a center of gravity of the cage and a curvature center of a spherical or cylindrical inner surface of each of the pockets is 0.6 or more times a radius of curvature of the inner surface. A hybrid vehicle transmission has this ball bearing.