Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronous memories and synchronous memory operation are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device is disclosed comprising memory circuitry having a memory output, the memory circuitry including a sense amplifier having a first output and a second output, a first data path coupled to the first output of the sense amplifier, the first data path including 2 latches/registers, and a second data path coupled to the second output of the sense amplifier, the second data path including a plurality latches/registers. In further implementations, various control circuitry, connections and control signals may be utilized to operate the latches/registers in the first and second data paths according to specified configurations, control, modes, latency and/or timing domain information, to achieve, for example, pipelined output latching and/or double data rate output.

Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to reliably conceal a label of a supervisory signal when support vector machine learning is performed. [Solution] An analysis executing apparatus that performs support vector machine learning, stores a set of learning data including a feature vector and a label encrypted using an additive homomorphic encryption scheme, which are subjected to the support vector machine learning, and performs update processing with a gradient method on the encrypted learning data using an additive homomorphic addition algorithm.

Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronous memories and synchronous memory operation are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device is disclosed comprising memory circuitry having a memory output, the memory circuitry including a sense amplifier having a first output and a second output, a first data path coupled to the first output of the sense amplifier, the first data path including 2 latches/registers, and a second data path coupled to the second output of the sense amplifier, the second data path including a plurality latches/registers. In further implementations, various control circuitry, connections and control signals may be utilized to operate the latches/registers in the first and second data paths according to specified configurations, control, modes, latency and/or timing domain information, to achieve, for example, pipelined output latching and/or double data rate output.

Abstract: A searchable encryption processing system includes a server including: a communication device to communicate with another device; a storage device configured to store as search target data, secret data obtained by concealing plaintext data, and a secret index obtained by concealing a plaintext index to classify the plaintext data; and an arithmetic device to execute a process including receiving, from a search client, a secret data query obtained by concealing a plaintext query, and a secret index query obtained by concealing a plaintext index, searching the storage device for a secret index matching the secret index query based on a predetermined searchable encryption technique, searching a secret data group classified by the matching secret index for secret data matching the secret data query, and returning the searched secret data to the search client.

Abstract: A blow molding machine is simply sterilized. The blow molding machine is sterilized by filling a preform (1) with a liquid sterilizer (P) containing an ethanol constituent or both an ethanol constituent and a hydrogen peroxide constituent, and blasting blow air into the preform (1) in a state where the liquid sterilizer (P) remains in the preform (1) to diffuse the liquid sterilizer (P).

Abstract: A control circuit of a DC/DC converter having a transformer, a switching transistor, and a detector includes: a feedback terminal receiving a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage of the DC/DC converter; a current detection terminal receiving a detection voltage generated in the detection resistor; a conversion circuit configured to amplify, attenuate and/or level-shift at least one of the feedback voltage and the detection voltage, wherein a gain and/or a shift of the conversion circuit are variable; and a gain controller configured to control the gain and/or the shift of the conversion circuit.

Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronous memories and synchronous memory operation are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device is disclosed comprising memory circuitry having a memory output, the memory circuitry including a sense amplifier having a first output and a second output, a first data path coupled to the first output of the sense amplifier, the first data path including 2 latches/registers, and a second data path coupled to the second output of the sense amplifier, the second data path including a plurality latches/registers. In further implementations, various control circuitry, connections and control signals may be utilized to operate the latches/registers in the first and second data paths according to specified configurations, control, modes, latency and/or timing domain information, to achieve, for example, pipelined output latching and/or double data rate output.

Abstract: A medium conveyance device including: a conveyance guide that defines a conveyance space through which a paper sheet shaped medium should pass when conveying the medium along a conveyance direction; and an outside region that is a region, out of a guide face forming a boundary face to the conveyance space in the conveyance guide, contacted by an end portion of the medium in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, and that guides the end portion of the medium to so as to be positioned inside the conveyance space.

Abstract: A nitrogen-containing carbon material to the present invention comprises a carbon material having a carbon skeleton formed of carbon atoms and nitrogen atoms introduced into the carbon material, wherein part of carbon atoms in the carbon skeleton are substituted with nitrogen atoms. The nitrogen-containing carbon material according to the present invention can be produced by a production method including the steps of bringing the carbon material into contact with a first treatment gas containing a fluorine-containing gas to subject a surface of the carbon material to a fluorination treatment; and bringing the carbon material after being subjected to the fluorination treatment into contact with a second treatment gas containing a nitrogen-containing gas with heating to perform a nitriding treatment.

Abstract: Systems and methods associated with control of clock signals are disclosed. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a delay-lock-loop (DLL) and/or a delay/phase detection circuit. Moreover, such circuit may comprise digital phase detection circuitry, digital delay control circuitry, analog phase detection circuitry, and analog delay control circuitry. Implementations may include configurations that prevent transition back to the unlocked state due to jitter or noise.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a printer configured to print the display image on a first surface of paper in a case of simplex printing; a curl suppression image determination section configured to determine, in simplex printing case, a printing position and a printing pattern of a curl suppression image for suppressing the curl of the paper caused by the display image based on an analysis result of a display image analysis section which analyzes the printing range and the density of the display image for each page; and a curl-preventive image addition setting section configured to set image information of the printing position and the printing pattern of the curl suppression image which is determined by the curl suppression image determination section and is supposed to be printed on a second surface of the paper with color erasable material by the printer section.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus for collecting data including personal information and distributing the data to a user terminal performs anonymization processing for converting data, which an individual who is an owner of personal information allows to use, into data with which the individual cannot be identified using multiple parameters, thus generating multiple anonymized data protecting the, privacy of the individual. Since each of the anonymized data is anonymized using a different parameter, the amount of information of each of the anonymized data is different. Then, when a request is received from a user terminal, anonymized data that can be provided to the user are identified from among multiple generated anonymized data on the basis of the reliability of the user who uses the user terminal.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a carbon material dispersion, including: a fluorinated carbon material having a fluorinated surface formed by bringing a treatment gas with a fluorine concentration of 0.01 to 100 vol % into contact with a carbon material under conditions at 150 to 600° C.; and a dispersion medium in which the fluorinated carbon material is dispersed.

Abstract: A flexible printed circuit assembly includes a flexible printed circuit board including a base portion and a relay portion extending from a first edge of the base portion and capable of being bent relative to the base portion, a first reinforcing member disposed at the relay portion, and a second reinforcing member attached to a first region of the base portion that includes a second edge opposite to the first edge and having an engaging portion. The first region of the base portion is capable of being folded back towards a second region of the base portion that includes the first edge, and the engaging portion of the second reinforcing member is capable of being engaged with the first reinforcing member.

Abstract: A switching power supply device includes a switching control circuit that generates a switching control signal such that a desired output voltage is generated from an input voltage, a drive circuit that turns on/off an output transistor in accordance with the switching control signal, and an on-pulse stop circuit that generates a pulse stop signal such that the number of ON pulses of the switching control signal is reduced in a state where a load is heavier than a first threshold but is lighter than a second threshold.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a printer configured to print the display image on a first surface of paper in a case of simplex printing; a curl suppression image determination section configured to determine, in simplex printing case, a printing position and a printing pattern of a curl suppression image for suppressing the curl of the paper caused by the display image based on an analysis result of a display image analysis section which analyzes the printing range and the density of the display image for each page; and a curl-preventive image addition setting section configured to set image information of the printing position and the printing pattern of the curl suppression image which is determined by the curl suppression image determination section and is supposed to be printed on a second surface of the paper with color erasable material by the printer section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel continuous polymerization apparatus which is able to efficiently produce a polymer composition suitable for obtaining a resin composition with high quality. In a continuous polymerization apparatus, at least, a first reactor of a complete mixing type and a second reactor of a complete mixing type (10, 20) are used. Each of the reactors (10, 20) is provided with a supply port (11a, 21a), an effluent port (11b, 21b), and a temperature detecting means (T) for detecting a temperature in the reactor, wherein the supply port (11a) of the first reactor (10) is connected to the supply sources (1, 3) of a raw material monomer and a polymerization initiator, and the effluent port (11b) of the first reactor is connected through a connection line (15) provided with a cooling means (16) to the supply port (21a) of the second reactor (20).

Abstract: A control circuit of a DC/DC converter includes: a pulse modulator configured to generate a pulse signal; and a driver configured to switch a switching transistor based on the pulse signal. The pulse modulator includes an on signal generator to generate an on signal. The on signal generator includes: a bottom detection comparator configured to compare a voltage of one end of an auxiliary winding with a predetermined threshold voltage and generate a bottom detection signal; a first time-out circuit configured to generate a first time-out signal asserted when the bottom detection signal is not asserted; a second time-out circuit configured to generate a second time-out signal asserted when the bottom detection signal is not asserted; and a logic part configured to generate the on signal based on the bottom detection signal, the first time-out signal and the second time-out signal.

Abstract: A compact, inexpensive, and low-power-consumption beer server that controls beer temperature at nearly 0° C. and prevents the beer from freezing. The beer server includes a beer tank 12, a primary cooling tank 16, and a secondary cooling tank 18. Beer in the beer tank 12 is cooled to 2 to 5° C. in the primary cooling tank 16. Thereafter, the beer is cooled to 0° C. in the secondary cooling tank 18. A control unit 50 controls agitation fins 22 so that a beer temperature T1 at an outlet of the primary cooling tank 16 is a predetermined temperature of 2 to 5° C. The secondary cooling unit 18 is composed of two heat exchangers 30a and 30b. The control unit 50 controls refrigerant supplied to heat exchangers 30a and 30b so that a beer temperature T2 at an outlet of the secondary cooling tank 18 is a predetermined temperature of nearly 0° C.

Abstract: The separator for a battery according to the present invention is a separator for a battery including an insulator layer containing a fibrous material having a heat resistant temperature of equal to or higher than 150° C., insulating inorganic fine particles and a binder, or a separator for a battery including a porous layer formed of a thermal melting resin and an insulator layer containing insulating inorganic fine particles and a binder, wherein water content per unit volume is equal to or smaller than 1 mg/cm3 when the separator is held for 24 hours in an atmosphere with a relative humidity of 60% at 20° C. The use of the separator for a battery according to the present invention makes it possible to provide a lithium secondary battery that has favorable reliability and safety and is excellent in storage characteristics and charge-discharge cycle characteristics.