Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a planarized layer having insulating properties, the planarized layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a plurality of semiconductor elements formed on the first surface of the planarized layer; and a groove provided in the second surface of the planarized layer. The groove is formed in a region outside the plurality of semiconductor elements as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first surface.

Abstract: A development device may include: a development device body; a developer cartridge detachably attached to the development device body; first and second levers provided to the development device body, the first lever including an operation part and a first engagement portion and the second lever including a second engagement portion; first and second engaged portions provided to the developer cartridge, the first engaged portion being configured to form a first engagement with the first engagement portion and the second engaged portion being configured to form a second engagement with the second engagement portion; and a first biasing member biasing the first engagement portion to the first engaged portion. When the operation part is operated with a first pressing force, the first engagement is released, and when the operation part is operated with a second pressing force greater than the first pressing force, the first and second engagements are released.

Abstract: An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a first, second and third conveyance path, a classification section, a first, second and third switching unit, a first, second and third storage box and a controller. Each of the first, second and third conveyance paths has two ends. One end of the first conveyance path is connected to one end of the third conveyance path. One end of the second conveyance path is connected to the other end of the third conveyance path at a second side of the classification section opposite to the first side. The other end of the first conveyance path is connected to the other end of the second conveyance path. The controller controls the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path so that the first and second conveyance paths are driven independently from each other.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an image formation section to form an image with a developer; an entire area printing rate calculator configured to calculate an entire area printing rate, which is, a printing rate of an entirety of an image formation area; a divided area printing rate calculator configured to calculate each divided area printing rate, which is, a printing rate of each of plural divided areas, divided in a main scanning direction, of the image formation area; and a deteriorated developer discarding operation execution section configured, when the entire area printing rate is equal to or lower than an entire area printing rate threshold, to perform a deteriorated developer discarding operation to discard the developer in any one of the divided areas in which the divided area printing rate is equal to or lower than a divided area printing rate threshold thereof.

Abstract: To perform an efficient and stable area sound pick-up process. The present invention relates to a sound pick-up apparatus.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an annular belt having an outer circumferential surface, and a facing member that faces the outer circumferential surface of the annular belt to form a nip region. The annular belt is configured so that in measurement of a hardness of the outer circumferential surface using a hardness tester, a ratio (A/B) of a first hardness value (A) to a second hardness value (B) is 0.738 or more and 0.837 or less. The first hardness value (A) represents a measured value at a time when a measurement time corresponding to a time required for a predetermined point on the outer circumferential surface to pass through the nip region has elapsed after start of the hardness measurement. The second hardness value (B) represents a measured value at a time when the measured value by the hardness tester is saturated.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: an apparatus main body that includes an image formation section configured to form an image on a medium; a fixation device that includes a fixation member configured to heat the medium and is attachable to the apparatus main body in a first direction; and a temperature detector including a lens, provided in the apparatus main body, and configured to detect a temperature of the fixation member through the lens. An optical axis of the lens is inclined with respect to the first direction.

Abstract: While a bill controller is moving a bill press and a pool guide from accumulation positions to delivery positions, a time period from a time point to a time point for moving both the bill press and the pool guide and a time period from the time point to a time point for moving only the pool guide are given.

Abstract: To uniquely determine a Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) even if a relation between phase and intensity of an intensity signal corresponding to a phase difference between the two optical paths in an interferometer varies.

Abstract: A piezoelectric-body film joint substrate includes a substrate, a first electrode provided on the substrate, a first piezoelectric-body film stuck on the first electrode and including a first piezoelectric film and a first upper electrode film formed on the first piezoelectric film, a second electrode provided on the substrate, and a second piezoelectric-body film stuck on the second electrode and including a second piezoelectric film different from the first piezoelectric film and a second upper electrode film formed on the second piezoelectric film, wherein a height from an upper surface of the substrate, on which the first electrode and the second electrode are formed, to a top of the first upper electrode film and a height from the upper surface of the substrate to a top of the second upper electrode film differ from each other.

Abstract: A piezoelectric film integrated device includes a substrate; an electrode provided on the substrate; a first piezoelectric element that is provided on the electrode and includes a first monocrystalline piezoelectric film and a first electrode film superimposed on the first monocrystalline piezoelectric film; and a second piezoelectric element that is provided on the first piezoelectric element and includes a second monocrystalline piezoelectric film and a second electrode film superimposed on the second monocrystalline piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A piezoelectric film integrated device include a substrate; a first electrode provided on the substrate; a second electrode provided on the substrate; a first monocrystalline piezoelectric film provided on the first electrode; a second monocrystalline piezoelectric film provided on the second electrode and having a crystal structure different from a crystal structure of the first monocrystalline piezoelectric film; a third electrode provided on the first monocrystalline piezoelectric film; and a fourth electrode provided on the second monocrystalline piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A piezoelectric-body film joint substrate includes a substrate, a substrate electrode provided on the substrate, a first piezoelectric-body film stuck on the substrate electrode and including a first piezoelectric film and a first upper electrode film formed on the first piezoelectric film, and a second piezoelectric-body film stuck on the first upper electrode film and including a second piezoelectric film different from the first piezoelectric film and a second upper electrode film formed on the second piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an annular belt having an outer circumferential surface, and a facing member that faces the outer circumferential surface of the annular belt to form a nip region. The annular belt is configured so that in measurement of a hardness of the outer circumferential surface using a hardness tester, a ratio (A/B) of a first hardness value (A) to a second hardness value (B) is 0.738 or more and 0.837 or less. The first hardness value (A) represents a measured value at a time when a measurement time corresponding to a time required for a predetermined point on the outer circumferential surface to pass through the nip region has elapsed after start of the hardness measurement. The second hardness value (B) represents a measured value at a time when the measured value by the hardness tester is saturated.

Abstract: A fixation device according to an embodiment may include: an annular belt, and includes an elastic layer with a thickness of more than 300 ?m; and a counter member opposed to the outer peripheral surface of the annular belt to form a nip region with the annular belt. A difference between a local maximum and a local minimum in a film thickness profile of the annular belt along a circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface at a first location in a width direction of the annular belt is less than 101 ?m.

Abstract: A developer container includes: a container body that stores developer; an agitating member that is rotatably disposed in the container body and rotates to agitate the developer; a first swing member that includes a first fixed end, a first free end, a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface, and that is swung by the agitating member coming into contact with the first surface when the agitating member rotates; and a projecting support that is disposed to face the second surface and project from a wall surface formed in the container body, and that abuts the second surface.

Abstract: A fixation device according to an embodiment may include: an annular belt including an elastic layer with a thickness of more than 300 ?m; and a counter member opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the annular belt to form a nip region with the annular belt. A ratio (A/B) of a first hardness value (A) to a second hardness value (B) of the outer peripheral surface of the annular belt is 0.566 or more, where the first hardness value is measured, in hardness measurement using a hardness meter, at a time when a passage time, which is a time it takes for a certain point of the outer peripheral surface to pass through the nip region, has just passed from the start of the hardness measurement, and the second hardness value is measured at a time when the measured value of the hardness meter has just been saturated.

Abstract: To uniquely determine a Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) even if a relation between phase and intensity of an intensity signal corresponding to a phase difference between the two optical paths in an interferometer varies.