Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic electro-conductive member that can stably suppress an occurrence of fogging in an electrophotographic image. The member comprises a support having an electro-conductive outer surface, and an electro-conductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electro-conductive layer having a matrix including a cross-linked product of a first rubber, and domains dispersed in the matrix, the domains each includes a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electro-conductive particle, at least some of the domains is exposed to the outer surface of the electro-conductive member to constitute protrusions on an outer surface of the member, the outer surface of the electro-conductive member is constituted by the matrix and the domains exposed to the outer surface of the electrophotographic electro-conductive member, the electrophotographic electro-conductive member has an impedance of 1.0×103? or more and 1.0×108? or less, and some of the domains satisfy two specific requirements.

Abstract: A data processing method including: upon switching an object to a first group among groups of an Ising model when a search for a solution to a problem represented by the Ising model is performed by switching to each of the groups obtained by dividing the state variables, reading first weighting factors corresponding to pairs of the state variables whose values have changed and each first state variable belonging to the first group; updating a local field of the first state variable; executing the search on the first group by using second weighting factors and the local field of the first state variable; and after ending the search on the first group, updating the change information according to presence or absence of a change in the values for the first state variable by the search at a current time, to switch the object to be searched to a next group.

Abstract: A shock absorbing device according to one embodiment includes an elastic member and an attenuation device. The elastic member is compressed by a force transmitted from the exterior of a vehicle through a front grill which is a vehicle exterior component, and returns the front grill to the vehicle exterior by means of the restoration force against the compression. The attenuation device attenuates the speed of the front grill when the front grill is being returned by the restoration force of the elastic member.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser including: a stacked body in which a first cladding layer of a first conductivity type, a second cladding layer of a second conductivity type, and a light emission layer provided between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer are stacked on a semiconductor substrate; and a ridge part provided as a projection structure extending in one direction at a top surface in a stacking direction of the stacked body, in which the stacked body is provided to have both end surfaces in the extending direction of the ridge part that each have a shape including an arc in a plan view of the stacked body from the top surface.

Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first internal electrode which is provided inside an element body and is drawn on a first main surface corresponding to a mounting surface; a second internal electrode which is provided inside the element body, is provided at a position different from the first internal electrode when viewed from a third direction, and is drawn on the first main surface; a third internal electrode which is provided inside the element body, is provided at a position facing the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode in the third direction, and is drawn on the first main surface; wherein the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode face each other in the third direction to form a first capacitor portion, and wherein the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode face each other in the third direction to form a second capacitor portion.

Abstract: An object is to provide a novel organ-on-a-chip for forming a blood vessel model. An organ-on-a-chip 100 of the present invention is a chip for reproducing a biological process between a cell mass and a blood vessel. The organ-on-a-chip 100 includes a first channel 10, a second channel 20, and a third channel group. The first channel 10 is an introduction channel for introducing vascular endothelial cells for forming a blood vessel model on the inner wall of the first channel 10 through cell culture. The second channel 20 is an introduction channel for introducing a sample containing a cell mass from an upstream side toward a downstream side, and includes a trap portion 22 for trapping the cell mass and located between the upstream side and the downstream side inside the second channel 20. The third channel group includes a plurality of third channels 30, and the third channels 30 are channels that communicate between the first channel 10 and the second channel 20.

Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first internal electrode provided in an element body; a second internal electrode provided in the element body; a third internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a first side surface; and a fourth internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a second side surface. The third internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are electrically connected to each other through an external connection conductor formed on at least the first side surface and the second side surface. In a first direction, the first internal electrode faces the third internal electrode without facing the second internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode. In the first direction, the second internal electrode faces the fourth internal electrode without facing the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode.

Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a braided part having a tubular shape covering an insulated wire along a longitudinal direction of the braided part connection structure and a shield member having a tubular shape and electrically connected and fixed to the braided part. The shield member includes a braided part joining portion having a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the shield member in a portion of the shield member in the longitudinal direction, and a welding portion defined by two openings adjacent to each other of the plurality of openings. The braided part covers the braided part joining portion and is welded to the welding portion.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a liquid handling device that comprises a laminate of a first member and a second member. This liquid handling device is provided with a reservoir that is a space for pooling a liquid and disposed between the first and second members, and a plurality of wells that are plurality of first recesses disposed on the surface of the first member facing the second member. The first and/or second members have flexibility. The first and second members are not bonded between the reservoir and the plurality of wells. When a part of the first or second member, said part corresponding to the reservoir, is pressed in the state where a liquid is pooled in the reservoir, the liquid in the reservoir moves between the first and second members toward the plurality of wells.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having an element region and a termination region located around the element region. The termination region includes a first breakdown voltage holding structure disposed in a first depth range of the semiconductor layer, and a second breakdown voltage holding structure disposed in a second depth range different from the first depth range of the semiconductor layer and arranged so as to face the first breakdown voltage holding structure in a depth direction of the semiconductor layer. At least one of the first breakdown voltage holding structure or the second breakdown voltage holding structure includes a RESURF layer. An electric field intensity distribution of the first breakdown voltage holding structure and an electric field intensity distribution of the second breakdown voltage holding structure have an opposite relationship of height from an inner peripheral side toward an outer peripheral side of the termination region.

Abstract: In a system, a plurality of controlled devices, including a first controlled device and a second controlled device, and a main control device configured to control the plurality of controlled devices are connected via a network. The main control device includes a communicator configured to transmit and receive a data frame including a plurality of data areas via the network in a predetermined cycle, and a setter configured to set a structure of the data frame. The setter has a function of setting the same data area in the data frame as a data area in which the first controlled device should write data and a data area from which the second controlled device should read data.

Abstract: Provided is a breeding apparatus that can facilitate disposition and collection of a spawning bed. A breeding apparatus includes a breeding area forming member that forms breeding areas for organisms and is open at least at the bottoms of the breeding areas, and a spawning bed sheet that forms the bottom surfaces of the breeding areas, has a belt shape, and is provided so as to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the belt shape relative to the breeding area forming member.

Abstract: A vehicle lower part structure includes: center rail portions disposed at a central part in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; front rail portions disposed forward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear rail portions disposed rearward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; front connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the front rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the rear rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; first mount portions supporting a vehicle body constituting a cabin; and second mount portions supporting the vehicle body.

Abstract: An adapter main body is formed by an upper wall plate portion, and a plurality of side wall plate portions vertically placed between both ends of and between the upper wall plate portion. A lower end of each of the side wall plate portions in the adapter main body is fixed to an upper surface of a front end of a bottom plate in a case main body portion of the cassette case, thereby forming a multiple type adapter in which a plurality of adapter single bodies are continuously provided in the upper surface of the bottom plate, the adapter single body having an approximately quadrangular tubular shape in a front view, and a cable accommodating portion of an optical fiber is formed in the cassette case main body portion at the rear of the adapter main body. Therefore, the compact and lightweight adapter can be easily formed.

Abstract: A data receiving apparatus of the present disclosure includes a first phase adjustment circuit and a second phase adjustment circuit. The first phase adjustment circuit performs a phase adjustment between multiple data signals received via multiple data signal lines. The second phase adjustment circuit performs a phase adjustment of a clock signal received via a clock signal line with respect to the multiple data signals after the phase adjustment between the multiple data signals is performed by the first phase adjustment circuit.

Abstract: A placement holder 1 for an analysis according to the present invention includes a frame portion 10 for placing an analysis plate, and a coupling portion 11; wherein the analysis plate includes, respectively at opposite ends in a longitudinal direction thereof, protrusions protruding in the longitudinal direction; the frame portion 10 includes a pair of wall portions that are opposed to each other, and a space surrounded by the frame portion 10 has an area 12 in which the analysis plate is to be placed; the pair of wall portions have a pair of cavities 13 into which the protrusions of the analysis plate are to be inserted, and at least one of the pair of cavities 13 is a through hole; the wall portion having the through hole has, on an inner surface thereof, an inclined surface 14 formed such that an interval between inner surfaces of the pair of wall portions gradually decreases from an upper end side toward the through hole of the wall portion; and the coupling portion 11 is disposed below the pair of cavit

Abstract: Provided are a III-nitride semiconductor light-emitting device that can reduce change in the light output power with time and has more excellent light output power, and a method of producing the same. A III-nitride semiconductor light-emitting device 100 has an emission wavelength of 200 nm to 350 nm, and includes an n-type layer 30, a light emitting layer 40, an electron blocking layer 60, and a p-type contact layer 70 in this order. The electron blocking layer 60 has a co-doped region layer 60c, the p-type contact layer 60 is made of p-type AlxGa1-xN (0?x?0.1), and the p-type contact layer 60 has a thickness of 300 nm or more.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus configured to: search for a combination of values of a plurality of state variables that minimizes or maximizes a value of an Ising-type evaluation function that includes the plurality of state variables, repeat determining whether to permit a change in a value of a first state variable among the plurality of state variables based on the first local field, and when the change in the value of the first state variable is permitted, updating the first local field based on the first weight value, updating the second local field that corresponds to a constraint condition in which the second weight value with the first state variable is non-zero based on the second weight value, and updating the first local field based on the second local field before the updating and the second local field after the updating.

Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus for controlling a controlled apparatus connected via a network, including a generation unit configured to generate instruction data for controlling the controlled apparatus, a communication unit configured to transmit/receive, in every predetermined cycle, via the network, a data frame including one of the instruction data generated by the generation unit and response data from the controlled apparatus, and a processing unit configured to acquire, in a case where the response data indicates an abnormality of a unit controlled by the controlled apparatus, abnormality data that is divided and included in a plurality of data frames received by the communication unit and indicates information concerning the abnormality of the unit, and output the abnormality data.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer of searching for a solution for a combinatorial optimization problem represented by an energy function including state variables, to execute processing including: executing search processing of searching for the solution by performing determination whether or not to accept a change of each value of a plurality of first state variables, for the plurality of first state variables selected from among the state variables in parallel and executing processing of changing the value of one state variable of which the change of the value is determined to be accepted while changing the plurality of selected first state variables; and specifying the number of the plurality of selected first state variables, based on a search status of the search processing or search information that indicates a search record of another combinatorial optimization problem and repeating the search processing.