Abstract: A packaging tray including a folded body formed of paper board having an exterior top surface having one or more apertures each configured to accommodate and retain a container therein. The folded body having at least one structural tube. Each structural tube includes a plurality of interior surfaces forming the structural tube and the structural tube includes a stability panel formed in a folding surface. The folding surface being one of the plurality of interior surfaces forming the structural tube. The stability panel including a plurality of sides. One of the plurality of sides being a fold line and the other of the plurality of sides being cut through the folding surface such that the stability panel is configured to be folded into an interior of the structural tube into a predetermined position to prevent the structural tube from changing a predetermined cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A drill head is rotated about a center axis. The drill head includes: a mounting surface that is an end face in a direction of the center axis; a tip surface that is an opposite surface to the mounting surface in the direction of the center axis; an outer peripheral surface continuous to the mounting surface and the tip surface; a cutting edge extending from the outer peripheral surface toward the center axis in the tip surface; a flute that is formed on the outer peripheral surface and extends spirally around the center axis from the tip surface to the mounting surface; and a thinning surface continuous to the tip surface and the flute. The tip surface includes: a first flank surface continuous to the cutting edge; and a second flank surface located on a side opposite to the first flank surface with the flute interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A pistol with buffer has a frame defining an upper horizontal slide plane, having a forward muzzle end, and defining a receptacle, a slide rail module removably received in a rear portion of the frame receptacle and having a front face, a cross pin engaging the slide rail module to the frame, a buffer received in the frame receptacle and having a rear face abutting the front face of the slide rail module, and a retention portion of the slide rail module configured to contact the buffer to prevent extraction of the buffer when the slide rail module is received in the frame receptacle. The retention portion may be positioned above a selected portion of the buffer to prevent removal of the buffer from the frame when the slide rail module is engaged to the frame by the cross pin. The slide rail module may define a vertical front surface.

Abstract: Spectral imaging systems are used to gather spectral image data on earthen material moving within an earthen material processing system, such as a mineral processing system or cement plant. Machine learning models such as 3D convolutional neural networks may be utilized to process the spectral image data to determine or classify one or more characteristics of the earthen material, such as ore grade, mineral alteration(s), moisture content, lithology and/or mineralogy. Such earthen material characteristics, or classifications thereof, may then be utilized to automatically control one or more operational characteristics of the earthen material processing system, such as rotational speed of milling equipment or flow rates of water or chemicals added to milling equipment or mineral concentration systems.

Abstract: A recording medium processing device includes: a movable body including a to-be-pressed section which is to be pressed against one end of a recording medium bundle on which a folding process is performed, the to-be-pressed section being configured to be movable relative to the movable body; and a to-be-operated section which is provided at a position different from a position of the movable body, as well as provided in conjunction with the to-be pressed section, and is operated by an operator when the to-be pressed section is moved relative to the movable body.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner has first aggregation of aggregating resin particles for a core in a raw material dispersion B for a core at an aggregation temperature equal to or lower than a glass transition temperature Tg of the resin particles for a core to form aggregated core particles, the raw material dispersion B for a core being obtained by adding an ionic compound having a monovalent cation to a raw material dispersion A for a core, that contains the resin particles for a core having a glass transition temperature lower than 40° C.

Abstract: A charging device includes: a housing having a U-shaped cross-section, disposed such that an opening thereof faces a surface of a rotating image carrier, and extending in an axial direction of the image carrier; a discharge electrode configured to charge the surface, the discharge electrode being attached to the housing, inside the housing, and extending in the axial direction; and a cleaner having a protrusion that comes into contact with a bottom plate of the housing and configured to move in the axial direction to clean the discharge electrode in a state in which the protrusion is in contact with the bottom plate, regardless of whether the opening in the housing faces upward or downward.

Abstract: An apparatus having a plurality of multifiber connector interfaces, where some of these multifiber connector interfaces can connect to network equipment in a network using multifiber cables, has an internal mesh implemented in two tiers. The first is configured to rearrange and the second is configured to recombine individual fiber of the different fiber groups. The light path of each transmitter and receiver is matched in order to provide proper optical connections from transmitting to receiving fibers and complex arbitrary network topologies can be implemented with at least 1/N less point to point interconnections, where N=number of channels per multifiber connector interface.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes at least one metal gate structure and a device to be tested. The metal gate structure is disposed on a substrate. The device to be tested is disposed on the metal gate structure and electrically separated from the metal gate structure. The device to be tested is heated by a heat generated when the metal gate structure is applied with a voltage.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transporter including a gripper to grip a recording medium; an image former that forms a developer image on a transfer body; a transferrer that transfers the developer image to the recording medium by bringing the transfer body with the developer image formed into contact with a transfer cylinder having space to store the gripper; and a processor configured to: correct a density of the developer image formed in the image former, using information related to speed variation of the transfer body when the developer image is transferred to the recording medium, so that density unevenness in an image formed on the recording medium is reduced.

Abstract: A data storage method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes: receiving at least one write command instructing to store target data from a host system; encoding the target data to generate parity data; and respectively storing the target data and the parity data in a first physical management unit and a second physical management unit, and each of the first physical management unit and the second physical management unit crosses multiple chip enabled (CE) regions. In addition, in the first physical management unit, first data is stored in a first chip enabled region among the chip enabled regions. In the second physical management unit, first parity data for protecting the first data is stored in a second chip enabled region among the chip enabled regions, and the first chip enabled region is different from the second chip enabled region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plural image forming units configured to form respective toner images in different colors; an endless-shaped intermediate transfer member that is rotatable in a peripheral direction of the intermediate transfer member and to which the toner images are to be sequentially transferred from the plural image forming units; a moment-of-inertia-increasing structure provided to one of rotatable image carriers that are included in the respective image forming units, the moment-of-inertia-increasing structure increasing a moment of inertia of the one image carrier relative to moments of inertia of other ones of the image carriers, the one image carrier being included in one of the image forming units that is located at a downstreammost position in a direction of rotation of the intermediate transfer member, the image carriers being in contact with the intermediate transfer member and configured to carry the respective toner images; a plural first-transfer units provided at positio

Abstract: A fault-tolerant quantum computer using topological codes such as surface codes can have an architecture that reduces the amount of idle volume generated. The architecture can include qubit modules that generate surface code patches for different qubits and a network of interconnections between different qubit modules. The interconnections can include “port” connections that selectably enable coupling of boundaries of surface code patches generated in different qubit modules and/or “quickswap” connections that selectably enable transferring the state of a surface code patch from one qubit module to another. Port and/or quickswap connections can be made between a subset of qubit modules. For instance port connections can connect a given qubit module to other qubit modules within a fixed range. Quickswap connections can provide a log-tree network of direct connections between qubit modules.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units configured to form respective toner images in different colors; an endless-shaped intermediate transfer member that is to move in a peripheral direction of the intermediate transfer member and to which the toner images are to be sequentially transferred from the plural image forming units; plural first-transfer units provided across from the respective image forming units and configured to transfer the toner images formed by the image forming units to the intermediate transfer member; a second-transfer unit provided on a downstream side relative to the plural first-transfer units in a direction of movement of the intermediate transfer member and configured to transfer the toner images on the intermediate transfer member to a medium; and a holding unit provided, in the direction of movement of the intermediate transfer member, between a downstreammost one of the first-transfer units and the second-transfer unit, the holding unit being configured to

Abstract: The instant disclosure seeks to a wearable communications and ballistics protection system that includes a carrier, communications hub, and antenna element(s). The hub is affixed to the carrier and includes an antenna port(s). The antenna element(s) is affixed to the carrier. Each antenna port conductively couples to an antenna element as well as demountably and conductively couples to a portable radio. The carrier holds ballistic plates and is configured to be worn on the user's torso and provide ballistic protection thereto. Antenna elements are formed using a graphene-polymer conductive composition. The carrier includes first and second panels that hold ballistic plates and are pivotably coupled together at a top end. The first and second panels are also laterally held together via demountable fasteners. The antenna elements and/or the panels include EM shielding material to shield the user from EM that emanates from antenna elements.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a heating unit that is disposed on a path for transporting a recording medium by using a transport device for transporting the recording medium and that heats a front surface of the recording medium in a contactless manner; an air-sending device that faces the heating unit and that sends air to a back surface of the recording medium; and a controller that includes a detection unit for detecting an operational state of the air-sending device and that causes the heating unit to operate in a case where the detection unit detects an operation of the air-sending device.

Abstract: A developing device includes: a development roller that has a circumferential surface on which a developer layer is formed at a portion facing an image carrier; a first seal portion that covers an outer side, in a radial direction, of an axial end portion of the development roller where the developer layer is not formed at the portion facing the image carrier; and a second seal portion that extends inward in an axial direction from the first seal portion, and that covers an outer side, in the radial direction, of an axial end portion of the developer layer.

Abstract: An image inspection device includes: an illumination part extending in a width direction of a medium, which intersects a medium transport direction, so as to face a medium transport path, and configured to radiate light on an image formed on a surface of the medium; a reading part configured to read reflected light from the image as image inspection information; and a cooling part configured to cool an entire area of the illumination part in the width direction of the medium.

Abstract: A rotation device includes: a first rotator that includes a recessed portion formed on an outer circumferential surface and that is rotatable in a predetermined rotation direction; a second rotator that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface in a range from an upstream end to a downstream end of the recessed portion in the rotation direction and that is separated from the first rotator outward in a radial direction of the first rotator when the first rotator is in a position of rotation such that the recessed portion faces the second rotator; a first drive mechanism that rotates the first rotator or the second rotator and that causes the other of the first rotator or the second rotator to rotate in conjunction in a contact state in which the first rotator and the second rotator are in contact with each other; and a second drive mechanism that rotates the other in a separation state in which the first rotator and the second rotator are separated from each other.

Abstract: A rotation device includes a rotator that includes a recessed portion formed on an outer circumferential surface and that rotates in a predetermined rotation direction; a contact unit that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface in a range from an upstream end to a downstream end of the recessed portion in the rotation direction at a predetermined engagement depth; and a contact surface that is formed at an upstream end portion in the range in the rotation direction and that comes into contact with the contact unit at a second engagement depth less than a first engagement depth at a portion downstream of the upstream end portion.