Abstract: A collapsible container includes a lower frame, an upper frame, a pair of flip-up lateral plates, a pair of divided lateral plates, and a pair of lid plates. Each of the pair of divided lateral plates includes an upper lateral plate, a lower lateral plate, and a hinge. On outer lateral surfaces of the upper lateral plate and the lower lateral plate, a plurality of upper reinforcement ribs and a plurality of lower reinforcement ribs are formed, respectively, astride the hinge. Convexities are formed on one of the upper reinforcement ribs and the lower reinforcement ribs. When the divided lateral plates are in a bent state, the upper reinforcement ribs are opposed to upper parts of the lower reinforcement ribs, and the convexities contact the other of the upper reinforcement ribs and the lower reinforcement ribs.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet feeding device including: a cassette housing section; a sheet storage cassette; and a sheet feeding unit. The sheet storage cassette includes a cassette base which is configured to store recording media that have a sheet form, and can be inserted into and removed from the cassette housing section. The sheet feeding unit is provided in the cassette housing section, and is configured to feed the recording media to be stored in the sheet storage cassette. A pair of fixed-side rails that are made of metal and are attached to the cassette housing section. The cassette base is made of a resin. A pair of inner rails that are coupled to the pair of fixed-side rails so that the pair of inner rails are slidable are formed integrally with side surfaces of the cassette base.

Abstract: A product cutting system includes a cutting device disposed at a cutting station for cutting a product and a conveying device transporting the product to be cut to the cutting station. The cutting device is separate from the conveying device and can cooperate with a plurality of different conveying devices to cut a plurality of different products.

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 transport apparatus includes a transport device, an abutment member, and a displacement device. The transport device transports a sheet in a first direction, corresponding to a sheet transport direction. The abutment member is located on one side of the transport device, in a second direction intersecting the first direction, to be abutted against a side of the sheet on the one side in the second direction. The displacement device displaces the sheet toward the one side in the second direction, in contact with the sheet.

Abstract: A thread-splicing device for a workstation of a textile machine that produces cross-wound bobbins and has a splicing prism with a splicing channel to which pneumatic pressure can be applied, as well as thread-guiding plates arranged on both sides of the splicing channel, and which is equipped with thread-locking means. At least one interfering element is positioned on both sides of the splicing prism in a region between the thread-guiding plates and a thread-locking means in such a way that the thread ends to be spliced contact the interfering element during the splicing process.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes electrodes and a first separator sheet in which the electrodes and first separator sheet portions of the first separator sheet are alternately stacked. The electrode comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. The first separator sheet has a zigzag shape formed by being folded at least twice. A length of the second electrode is shorter than a length of the first electrode. the electrode assembly includes a molding member located between a first section of the first separator sheet wrapping the second electrode and a first outer side surface of the electrode assembly and between the second electrode and a second outer side surface of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A manifold for deflecting the flow of a medium flowing through the manifold from an inlet side of the manifold to an outlet side of the manifold includes: the inlet side; and a wall at least partially defining and thereby restricting a flow volume of the manifold, the wall including an inside wall section that is curved and an outside wall section that is curved, the inside wall section including a first radius of curvature, the outside wall section including a second radius of curvature that is larger than the first radius of curvature, the inside wall section including a formed-in section which is formed into the flow volume and which is drawn in a direction of flow of the medium and thus towards the outlet side.

Abstract: A container housing device includes a device main body, a plurality of container housing portions, and a plurality of cover members. The plurality of container housing portions have openings adjacently juxtaposed in an up-down direction along a side surface of the device main body and each house an ink container filled with ink. The plurality of cover members are mounted to the device main body so as to be able to open and close the openings. Each of the cover members includes an inclined part inclined, in a downward direction toward a lower end thereof, from an outer side toward an inner side of a corresponding one of the container housing portions.

Abstract: An electronic device which comprises circuitry configured to set, for sub-integration cycles within an integration cycle of a pixel of a time-of-flight imaging sensor, a non-constant length of an overflow gate time during which an overflow gate of the pixel is active.

Abstract: The input means 81 accepts input of multiple images captured of a target object that is the type of object to be collated. The object detection means 82 detects the target object from the images. The execution instruction means 83 transmits to a quantum computer performing the minimum-maximal matching, information of the first node representing a location of the detected target object, information of the second node representing a location of the target object predicted based on a past collation result, and a degree of similarity between the location of the first node and the location of the second node, and causes the quantum computer to execute collation process between the past collation result and the target object detected in the images, and determines the first node corresponding to the second node.

Abstract: The optical scanning device includes a light source unit. The light source unit has a plurality of light-emitting modules for each emitting a laser beam. The light-emitting modules are placed in array in an up/down direction between neighboring ones of protruding portions. An outermost diameter of a bracket in a region interposed between the protruding portions of the light-emitting modules placed on an upper side is larger than an outermost diameter of the bracket in a region interposed between the protruding portions of the light-emitting modules placed on a lower side. A width between the protruding portions in a region where the light-emitting modules placed on the upper side are interposed therebetween is larger than a width between the protruding portions in a region where the light-emitting modules placed on the lower side are interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A system that analyzes alarms from patient monitoring devices that trigger after a configurable delay time, and that calculates modified delay times that reduce the number of alarms to a desired level. This capability addresses the common problem of alarm overload and fatigue, where alarms occur so frequently that clinicians cannot respond effectively. The system supports highly efficient calculation of changes in alarm frequency, by storing summaries of alarm data that record alarm durations and first values during the alarm. New delays may be selected manually or automatically and may be transmitted directly to the patient monitoring devices as updates to their alarm delay times. The system may also estimate a current delay time when devices do not provide this data. The system may also estimate the number of additional alarms that would occur if an alarm delay were reduced.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a low moisture texturised plant protein. The method comprises the steps of a) grinding of brewer's spent grain, BSG, b) providing ingredients for obtaining a mixture, the ingredients comprising 25% to 60% by weight of the ground BSG and at least a plant protein, c) processing the mixture in an extruder, wherein a homogenous fibrous structure is generated in the extruder to obtain a texturised plant protein, d) cutting the texturized plant protein, and e) drying the texturized vegetable protein after cutting.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and a method of manufacturing an electrode assembly, wherein the electrode assembly according to one example of the present invention comprises an electrode stack part, in which a basic unit cell obtained by sequentially laminating a separator, a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode is laminated numerously in two or more layers, and an electrode fixing part, by which the electrode stack part is surrounded and fixed, having a plurality of through-holes.

Abstract: A privacy screen with rapid deploy, mount, and storage features. The privacy screen comprises a semi-rigid frame supporting a cover. The privacy screen is held in place with tension or friction against bed side rails. The privacy screen is portable, provides privacy to a patient, and allows patient access by a health care professional.

Abstract: Solid-state imaging devices are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging device includes an AD converter that obtains an electric signal from a pixel and performs AD conversion on the electric signal. The electric signal is compared with a reference signal that has a voltage changing with the lapse of time. The reference signal is generated by a reference signal generator with a first current circuit that causes a first current to flow, an output circuit including a first input unit connected to the first current circuit, a second input unit that receives a reference voltage for determining an initial value of the reference signal, and an output unit that outputs the reference signal on the basis of voltages of the first input unit and the second input unit. A first capacitive element changes the reference signal by accumulating or discharging the first current.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising transmitting, by an apparatus, to a distributed unit, information indicating one or more capabilities of the apparatus, wherein the one or more capabilities comprise at least a capability for mitigating an overload of a control plane processing capacity of the apparatus in a slot; and receiving, by the apparatus, from the distributed unit, based on transmitting the information, one or more messages comprising a plurality of control plane sections to be processed in one or more slots.

Abstract: A conductive material dispersion includes a carbon-based conductive material, a main dispersant, an auxiliary dispersant, and a dispersion medium, wherein the main dispersant is a nitrile-based copolymer and the auxiliary dispersant is a copolymer including an oxyalkylene unit and at least one selected from the group consisting of a styrene unit and an alkylene unit.

Abstract: A complex Si—C cathode base units includes a first order Si—C nanoparticle including a plurality of graphene pieces, and a plurality of complex monomers formed by nanometer scale silicide, and first high molecular material. The first high molecular material is used as viscosity for combining the plurality of graphene pieces and the plurality of complex monomers, a plurality of buffer spaces are formed between the plurality of graphene pieces, the complex monomers and the first high molecular material. A second high molecular material layer enclosing the first order SiC nanoparticle, the second high molecular material layer is calcined in a calcination process, so that the carbohydrate therein is carbonized. A plurality of nanometer carbon tubes tightly encloses the second high molecular material layer so that the first order Si—C nanoparticle is difficult to expand. The nanometer carbon tubes have lengths between 15˜25 ?m and are arranged as an array.