Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, and a stirring/conveying member. The developer container stores developer containing toner. The developer carrier carries on its surface the toner in the developer container. The stirring/conveying member includes a rotary shaft rotatably supported on the developer container and a stirring blade formed around the outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft and stirs and conveys the developer in the developer container. The stirring/conveying member to be used can be selected from a plurality of types of stirring/conveying members with rotary shafts with different shaft diameters.

Abstract: A walking training system includes: a treadmill on which a walking trainee walks; a walking assistance apparatus that is mounted on a leg part of the walking trainee and assists walking of the walking trainee; and control means for controlling an operation of the walking assistance apparatus. The control means controls the operation of the walking assistance apparatus so as to cause the walking trainee to approach a reference position when the trainee is spaced apart from the reference position of the treadmill by a predetermined distance or more in a walking front/back direction while the walking trainee is walking on the treadmill, and increases the predetermined distance when at least one of a walking training amount of the walking trainee, a walking training level of the walking trainee set in the walking training system, and the speed of the treadmill is larger/higher/greater than a predetermined amount, level, and speed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery coolant for an electric vehicle that has a low conductivity, a low ion elution performance, a low viscosity at a very low temperature, and a cooling performance equivalent to that of an aqueous coolant composition in a driving temperature range. The present disclosure relates to a battery coolant for an electric vehicle containing at least one kind of carbonates selected from the group consisting of propylene carbonate and butylene carbonate in an amount of 90 mass % or more with respect to a total mass of the coolant and water in an amount of 3 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the coolant.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray CT apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire set tube current waveform, and specify, based on the set tube current waveform, a period of a first tube current and a period of a second tube current lower than the first tube current. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a waveform of a grid voltage such that a first grid voltage is applied during a period corresponding to the period of the first tube current and a second grid voltage, which is higher than the first grid voltage, is applied during a period corresponding to the period of the second tube current.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, and a stirring/conveying member. The developer container stores developer containing toner. The developer carrier carries on its surface the toner in the developer container. The stirring/conveying member includes a rotary shaft rotatably supported on the developer container and a stirring blade formed around the outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft and stirs and conveys the developer in the developer container. The stirring/conveying member to be used can be selected from a plurality of types of stirring/conveying members with rotary shafts with different shaft diameters.

Abstract: A deposition apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a processing chamber and a rotary table provided in the processing chamber. Above the rotary table, a raw material gas supply section, auxiliary gas supply sections, and a gas exhaust section are provided. The raw material gas supply section extends in a radial direction of the rotary table. The auxiliary gas supply sections are provided on a downstream side of a rotational direction of the rotary table with respect to the raw material gas supply section, and are arranged in the radial direction of the rotary table. The gas exhaust section is provided on the downstream side of the rotational direction of the rotary table with respect to the auxiliary gas supply sections, and extends in the radial direction of the rotary table.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a first stirring member and a second stirring member, and a developing roller. The developing container includes a first stirring chamber, a second stirring chamber, and a communication portion. The first stirring member includes a reverse spiral vane that conveys a developer in a direction reverse to a circulation direction. An air discharge duct is formed on a wall portion of the first stirring chamber opposed to the reverse spiral vane and in an area excluding the communication portion and discharges air from the first stirring chamber to an outside of the developing container via an air discharge port at a distal end of the air discharge duct. A filtration portion is disposed in the air discharge duct adjacently to the air discharge port and restricts leakage of the developer through the air discharge port.

Abstract: A first exemplary aspect is a walking training apparatus including: an walking assistance apparatus attached to a lower limb of a trainee; at least one wire connected to the lower limb directly or through the walking assistance apparatus; a first wire winding mechanism configured to wind the wire for applying a pull-up force to the wire; a sensor for detecting displacement information according to a displacement of a position connected to the wire in a lateral direction; and a controller configured to control the first wire winding mechanism based on the displacement information.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes an inverter comprising switching elements, current detection means for detecting a phase current value output from the inverter to each phase of a three-phase AC motor, conversion means for converting the phase current value into a digital AD conversion value, and modulation means for comparing a phase voltage command value based on the AD conversion value from the conversion means with a PWM counter value generated using a timer operating at predetermined cycles to generate a PWM signal and outputting the generated PWM signal to the inverter to thereby switch the switching elements of the inverter and control the three-phase AC motor. The conversion means outputs the AD conversion value acquired by converting the phase current value at a timing when a rectangular width of a rectangular wave of a phase voltage value corresponding to the PWM counter value is long.

Abstract: A display device is used in combination with a light-emitting device that emits first signal light. The display device has: a user interface unit that receives input operations using an indicator upon a display screen; and an imaging unit that captures images of the display screen and the first signal light. On the basis of captured images supplied from the imaging unit, the user interface unit takes a region of the display screen that is within a distance range that is determined in advance from the detected position of the first signal light as a valid operation region in which input operations using the indicator are valid.

Abstract: An image display method includes: obtaining a composite image that was displayed immediately prior to when a video signal is lost, the composite image being an image in which a first image of an on-screen display (OSD) menu is combined with a display image that is based on the video signal before lost; after the video signal is lost, combining a second image of the OSD menu with the composite image to obtain a combined composite image; and displaying the combined composite image.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes an inverter comprising switching elements, current detection means for detecting a phase current value, conversion means for converting the phase current value into a digital AD conversion value, and current control means for controlling a three-phase AC motor by switching the switching elements using a current command value based on the AD conversion value. When the conversion means determines that an amplitude of the current command value is greater than or equal to a threshold, it acquires the phase current value at timings of at least one of t=?/8, 3?/8 and t=5?/8, 7?/8 converts the acquired phase current value into the AD conversion value. When the conversion means determines that the amplitude of the current command value is smaller than the threshold, it acquires the phase current value at a timing of t=?/2, converts the acquired phase current value into the AD conversion value.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle body structure member molded by a die. The vehicle body structure member includes a general portion constituting a main part of the vehicle body structure member, ribs provided in a standing manner from the general portion, and thickened portions provided in a standing manner from the general portion, each of the thickened portions being thicker than each of the ribs.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle body structure member molded by a die. The vehicle body structure member includes a general portion constituting a main part of the vehicle body structure member, and ribs provided in a standing manner from the general portion and extended along the input direction of a collision load.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a current estimation unit configured to output a detected current value corresponding to each of the three-phase AC currents based on the measured current value and rotor rotation angle information of the motor. The current estimation unit defines a phase whose duty ratio of a driving pulse supplied to an inverter circuit, which generates the three-phase AC currents, becomes more than or equal to an operation switching threshold as an estimation target phase, calculates, for the estimation target phase, an estimated current value based on a coefficient value, which is calculated from the measured current value by the current measurement unit in a period in which the duty ratio of the driving pulse is lower than the operation switching threshold, and the rotor rotation angle information, and outputs the calculated estimated current value as the detected current value of the estimation target phase.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer information acquisition unit. The developer information acquisition unit performs a developer deterioration information acquisition operation. In the developer deterioration information acquisition operation, the developer information acquisition unit acquires a tilt of a measurement straight line representing the relationship between the change amount of the frequency in a first measurement toner image forming operation and the density change amount of the measurement toner image based on the change amount of the frequency in the first measurement toner image forming operation and a result of detecting density of the measurement toner image in a density detecting unit, and acquires a toner charging amount based on the acquired tilt of the measurement straight line and the reference information in the storage unit so as to acquire information relating to deterioration of developer based on the acquired toner charging amount.

Abstract: Provided is a balance training apparatus operating in conjunction with an inverted pendulum moving apparatus on which a trainee rides and performs a moving operation. The balance training apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a position of the moving apparatus, and a controller configured to set a task for the trainee to travel back and forth from an initial position to a target position within a predetermined time and configured to superimpose a character representing the trainee at a position corresponding to a position of the moving apparatus on a video indicating progress of the task and display it on a display. The controller corrects the initial position in a task to be executed next to a position of the moving apparatus at the end of a task that has been executed last and corrects the target position according to the correction of the initial position.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery coolant for an electric vehicle that has a low conductivity, a low ion elution performance, a low viscosity at a very low temperature, and a cooling performance equivalent to that of an aqueous coolant composition in a driving temperature range. The present disclosure relates to a battery coolant for an electric vehicle containing at least one kind of carbonates selected from the group consisting of propylene carbonate and butylene carbonate in an amount of 90 mass % or more with respect to a total mass of the coolant and water in an amount of 3 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the coolant.

Abstract: An image display method includes: obtaining a composite image that was displayed immediately prior to when a video signal is lost, the composite image being an image in which a first image of an on-screen display (OSD) menu is combined with a display image that is based on the video signal before lost; after the video signal is lost, combining a second image of the OSD menu with the composite image to obtain a combined composite image; and displaying the combined composite image.

Abstract: A display device is used in combination with a light-emitting device that emits first signal light. The display device has: a user interface unit that receives input operations using an indicator upon a display screen; and an imaging unit that captures images of the display screen and the first signal light. On the basis of captured images supplied from the imaging unit, the user interface unit takes a region of the display screen that is within a distance range that is determined in advance from the detected position of the first signal light as a valid operation region in which input operations using the indicator are valid.