Abstract: An IC card according to an embodiment includes a contact communication interface, a non-contact communication interface, and a processor. A contact communication means is configured to perform contact communication with a reader/writer. A non-contact communication means is configured to perform non-contact communication with the reader/writer. The processor is configured to set an Answer To Reset (ATR) in the contact communication and an Answer To Select (ATS) in the non-contact communication based on a predetermined command including historical bytes.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a housing, a cleaning blade, a toner conveyance path, a conveyance screw, a first flicker, and a second flicker. The conveyance screw includes a rotary shaft and a helical vane. The first flicker includes a first base portion and a plurality of first contact pieces. The second flicker includes a second base portion and a plurality of second contact pieces. An inclination angle ?1 has a value between an inclination angle ?2 and an inclination angle ?3.

Abstract: A process can be used to prepare alkenes by catalytic conversion of synthesis gas to a first mixture comprising alkenes and alcohols. The alcohols present in the first mixture are converted to the corresponding alkenes by dehydration in a subsequent step. At least one alkene having two to four carbon atoms is obtained as isolated product from a product mixture by processing thereof and/or separation steps. In the catalytic conversion, a catalyst is preferably used that comprises grains of non-graphitic carbon having cobalt nanoparticles dispersed therein. The cobalt nanoparticles have an average diameter dp of 1-20 nm. An average distance D between individual cobalt nanoparticles in the grains is 2-150 nm. A combined total mass fraction ? of metal in the grains is from 30%-70% by weight of a total mass of the grains such that 4.5 dp/?>D?0.25 dp/?.

Abstract: The aspects of the disclosed embodiments relates to an optoelectronic device including a substrate layer having a first surface plane and a second surface plane opposite and parallel to the first surface plane. The device also includes a mesa structure arranged on the first surface plane of the substrate layer. The mesa structure includes at least one layer of material; and a first surface arranged at an angle ? with respect to the first surface plane of the substrate layer, wherein the angle ? is different from 0° and 180°. The device still further includes a first terminating oxide layer of a first type arranged on the first surface of the mesa structure and the first surface of the mesa structure has been cleaned by removing at least 75% of native oxides on the first surface of the mesa structure before arranging the first terminating oxide layer of a first type thereon.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device, a detection device, and a control device that acts as a controller. The controller displays a predetermined image on the display device, calculates, upon detecting a loop and a user's eye inside the loop through the detection device, a relative size of the user's eye with respect to the loop, as a reference size, causes the display device, upon detecting through the detection device that the relative size has changed to a size larger than the reference size, to enlarge the predetermined image, in proportion to a difference between the relative size and the reference size, and causes the display device, upon detecting through the detection device that the relative size has changed to a size smaller than the reference size, to reduce the predetermined image, in proportion to a difference between the relative size and the reference size.

Abstract: In an image processing system, an interactive message is transmitted and received between an information processing apparatus and a chatbot server, job setting information is generated, image data and the job setting information are stored in a storage on a network in association with job identification information, a QR code generated from the job identification information is displayed on a screen of the information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus is caused to read the QR code and to convert the QR code to job identification information, and the image data and the job setting information associated with the job identification information are transmitted from the storage to the image forming apparatus via the management server.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus, in particular for use in a Low Throughput Network, comprises an FEC encoder configured to encode payload data into FEC code words each having a predetermined code word length, and a frame forming section configured to form a frame having a predetermined frame length. A frame comprises a first frame portion having a first predetermined length of an integer multiple of the predetermined code word length and a second frame portion having a second predetermined length shorter than the predetermined code word length. The frame forming section is configured to include an FEC code word and a predetermined number of repetitions of said FEC code word into the first frame portion of a frame and to include a selected number of bits of said FEC code word into the second frame portion of said frame.

Abstract: A head cap covers an inkjet type recording head. The head cap includes a cap housing and a cap cover. The cap housing has a liquid storage space opened upward. The cap cover is provided along an open end of the cap housing. The cap cover has an opening through which the recording head enters and leaves.

Abstract: A system and method for construction of a framed structure which permits on-site storage and relocation of construction materials using trolleys and cranes supported by the framed structure. The system provides a runway surface for removable attachment of trolleys, crane bridges, and platforms by offsetting the first longitudinal beam and a second longitudinal beam from a cross beam and where the first longitudinal beam, second longitudinal beam, and cross beam of the system provide components for the framed structure.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance part, an image forming part, and a sheet reading unit. The sheet reading unit includes a line sensor. The line sensor includes split line sensors. The line sensor reads a conveyed sheet. The line sensor includes a plurality of split line sensors. The split line sensors are placed at non-stretching positions, respectively. Each non-stretching position is such a position that as in the main scanning direction, a main-scanning-direction distance from a gap between one split line sensor and another split line sensor to an ideal edge position of every usable regular size exceeds a permissible value.

Abstract: Disclosed are a pouch-shaped battery case including an upper case and a lower case sealed to one another, the upper case and the lower case made of a laminate sheet comprising a metal layer and a resin layer, at least one of the upper case and the lower case having a concave unit for receiving an electrode assembly, the upper case and the lower case being sealed at all corners thereof located along the outer edge of the concave unit, a middle of a first side surface of each of the upper case and the lower case having a non-sealed portion for gas discharge, the first side surface being adjacent to a second side surface of each of the upper case and the lower case through which an electrode terminal extends, a method of manufacturing the pouch-shaped battery case, and a sealing block for manufacturing the pouch-shaped battery case.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution and a lithium secondary batter including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a first additive including a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein R1, and R2 are each independently hydrogen; or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A system and method for generating computerized floor plans is provided. The system comprises a mobile computing device, such as a smart cellular telephone, a tablet computer, etc. having an internal digital gyroscope and camera, and an interior modeling software engine interacts with the gyroscope and camera to allow a user to quickly and conveniently take measurements of interior building features, and to create computerized floor plans of such features from any location within a space, without requiring the user to stay in a single location while taking the measurements. The system presents the user with a graphical user interface that allows a user to quickly and conveniently delineate wall corner features using a reticle displayed within the user interface. As corners are identified, the system processes the corner information and information from the gyroscope to calculate wall features and creates a floor plan of the space with high accuracy.

Abstract: A carrier roller for a conveyor belt may be configured to be rotatable about an axis of rotation and may include a roll element with a rolling support region that is configured to provide rolling support for the conveyor belt. The rolling support region is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the axis of rotation of the carrier roller and has different diameters along its axial extension, including a maximum diameter and a minimum diameter. The minimum diameter of the rolling support region is at least 95% and at most 99.8% of the maximum diameter of the rolling support region. Carrier roller stations and belt conveyor systems may employ such carrier rollers.

Abstract: Disclosed are means, methods and compositions of matter useful for induction of immunological responses towards tumor endothelial cells. In one embodiment the invention teaches fusion of dendritic cells and cells resembling tumor endothelial cells and administration of such chimeric cells as an immunotherapy for stimulation of tumor endothelial cell destruction. In other embodiments pluripotent stem cells are utilized to generate dendritic cells, wherein said dendritic cells are fused with pluripotent stem cell derived endothelial cells created in a manner to resemble tumor endothelial cells.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a development device, a toner storage part, a drive unit, a control unit, and an image carrying member. The development device includes a development casing, a developer carrying member, a first stirring transport member, a second stirring transport member, a discharge impeller, and a reverse transport impeller. The development casing includes a first partition wall, a communication part, a developer replenishment port, and a developer discharge part. The first stirring transport member includes a first rotation shaft and a first transport impeller. The second stirring transport member includes a second rotation shaft and a second transport impeller. The control unit can perform a developer discharge mode, in which the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft are rotated reversely during a non image formation period, so that the developer around the reverse transport impeller is discharged through the developer discharge part.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control device, acting as a controller that analyzes a source image acquired through a reading operation by the document reading device, detects a response input field included in the source image and a question item corresponding to the response input field, on a basis of predetermined format information, extracts a character string representing the response written in the response input field, and additionally writes the extracted character string, in the character string file already stored in the character string file storage device and designated by the user through the operation device, in association with the character string representing the question item, recorded in the character string file.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a housing, a cleaning blade, a toner conveyance path, a conveyance screw, and a first flicker. The conveyance screw includes a rotary shaft and a helical vane. The first flicker includes a first base portion and first contact pieces and uses the first contact pieces to press the conveyance screw in a first direction away from a bottom part of the toner conveyance path. The first base portion includes a secured portion and a blade opposed portion. A reinforcement member is stacked on the blade opposed portion.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a control device functions as a controller and a user presence/absence determiner. When accepting an instruction to execute a print job through a touch panel, the controller controls operations of a sheet feed device, a conveyance device, and an image forming device to allow a document image represented by image data generated by a document reading device to be formed on a sheet to make a printed matter and allow the printed matter to be discharged to a sheet output tray. When the user presence/absence determiner determines that a user is present, the controller controls, before printing for at least a last sheet in the print job, the operations of the sheet feed device and the conveyance device to allow a sheet to be discharged to the sheet output tray without allowing the image forming device to form the document image on the sheet.

Abstract: A process can treat a gaseous material mixture obtained by catalytic conversion of synthesis gas that contains at least alkenes, possibly alcohols and possibly alkanes, and also possibly nitrogen as inert gas and unconverted components of the synthesis gas, comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide. After catalytic conversion of synthesis gas, separation of the product mixture obtained in this reaction into a gas phase and a liquid phase is performed by at least partial absorption of the alkenes, possibly of the alcohols and possibly of the alkanes, in a high boiling point hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture as an absorption medium, separation as the gas phase of the gases not absorbed into the absorption medium, separating an aqueous phase from the organic phase of the absorption medium, preferably by decanting, and desorption of the alkenes, possibly of the alcohols and possibly of the alkanes, from the absorption medium.