Abstract: Analytical methods and systems applied to sequential event data are disclosed. An exemplary system and method analyzes datasets containing events in a plurality of journeys. The methods and systems described analyze and quantify the relative importance of events and sequences leading to outcomes where the data is complex and interconnected. In some embodiments, a graphical user interface illustrates the quantification of these datasets. In some embodiments, the graphical user interface maps the journey paths to show the relative importance of each journey path. In some embodiments, the maps of journey paths are interactive, allowing selection of paths of interest for detailed analysis. In some embodiments, the methods and systems calculate paths similar to a journey path of interest. An exemplary method and system also provides detailed recommendations for changing events within a sequence to either increase or decrease the likelihood of achieving a selected outcome.

Abstract: A terminal includes a first conductive member formed of a first metal and a second conductive member formed of a second metal that is different from the first metal. The second conductive member includes a flange portion and a shaft portion provided on one surface of the flange portion. The second conductive member includes a first metal joining portion metallically joined to the first conductive member on an upper surface of the flange portion. The second conductive member includes a protrusion at a side closer to an outer periphery than the first metal joining portion. The first conductive member includes a first recessed portion that is fitted to the protrusion. The second conductive member includes a second metal joining portion where the first conductive member and the second conductive member are metallically joined to each other at the first recessed portion and the protrusion.

Abstract: A document processing system includes a storage device, and a control device. The storage device contains a document processing program. The control device includes a processor, and executes, when the processor executes the document processing program, an operation including extracting, through OCR, a plurality of values from a document having a form of electronic data, containing the plurality of values with respect to a specific item, reproducing a same number of the documents as a number of pieces of the values extracted, and assigning a file name including the value, to each of the values, as the file name of each of the documents generated through the reproduction.

Abstract: A modular arrangement is provided for housing electronic equipment and associated cooling structure in a data center environment. The modular units provide cooling air on an as—needed basis to individual pieces of equipment by way of individual plenums and associated valves. The units can be interconnected by vertical stacking, in side-to-side arrangements, and back-to-back arrangements. A number of units can be interconnected to form a cell. The cells can be interconnected to form larger units. In this manner, data centers can be configured in any desired arrangement without requiring complicated cooling design.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device, a charging voltage power supply, an exposure device, a development device, a development voltage power supply, an intermediate transfer member, a primary transfer member, a secondary transfer member, a transfer voltage power supply and a control unit. The development device includes a developer carrying member which carries a developer containing a toner. The development voltage power supply applies, to the developer carrying member, a development voltage in which an alternating-current voltage is superimposed on a direct-current voltage. The transfer voltage power supply applies a transfer voltage to the primary transfer member and the secondary transfer member.

Abstract: A pay sheet planning system includes a first information management unit that stores and manages, as a database, resolution information, on the basis of a resolution information input signal input through an input device of the manager computer; and a second information management unit that stores and manages, as a database, slip information, on the basis of resolution information, corresponding to a slip registration target selection signal input through the input device of the manager computer, in the resolution information that is generated, stored and managed through the first information management unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device having a digital front end (DFE). The DFE includes printing device configuration settings. The DFE determines an output parameter applicable to the printing device. The DFE stores an output setting related to the output parameter in a device capabilities file. The output parameter includes a capability and a constraint. A print job is assigned to the printing device to use the capability. A conflicts engine evaluates a job setting for the print job and the device capabilities file to determine a conflict. The conflict has a level of severity that is displayed. Printing operations may proceed depending on the level of severity.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an optical line terminal, OLT, is configured to communicate in a passive optical network with optical network units, ONUs, that respectively comprise one or more transmission queues; wherein the OLT includes a dynamic bandwidth allocation, DBA, engine configured to allocate recurrent transmission opportunities to the respective transmission queues for transmitting packets from the respective transmission queues to the OLT; wherein at least one of the ONUs includes a L4S transmission queue for transmitting L4S packets with at most a service latency and at least a service bandwidth; and wherein the DBA engine is further configured to perform, identifying a L4S transmission queue based on a L4S traffic descriptor parameter provisioned within the DBA engine.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an ink head unit, a precoating head unit, and a control part. The ink head unit ejects ink to a printing base material conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction. The precoating liquid head unit is disposed on an upstream side of the ink head unit in the conveying direction and ejects precoating liquid to the printing base material. The control part controls the precoating liquid head unit so as to eject the precoating liquid. When a surface tension of the recording base material is smaller than a predetermined value, the control part controls the precoating liquid head unit to eject a predetermined amount of the precoating liquid.

Abstract: At least one of a first bus bar module and a second bus bar module has a positioning mechanism that is inserted between a first stack and a second stack and that positions the first bus bar module or the second bus bar module in a direction (second direction) orthogonal to a stacking direction (first direction) of battery cells.

Abstract: An umbrella includes a pole and upper pulley assembly, a lower hub assembly, and a rope. The pole has a base portion and a top end portion. The top end portion defines a through passage that extends entirely through the top end portion. The upper pulley assembly is disposed substantially within the through passage. The lower hub assembly is slidingly disposed about the pole such that the lower hub assembly has a first position in which the umbrella is in a closed configuration and a second position in which the umbrella is in an open configuration. The second position is above the first position. The rope extends through a lower pulley assembly and the upper pulley assembly. The rope is configured to translate the lower hub assembly from the first position to the second position and to maintain the lower hub assembly in the second position.

Abstract: A correction mechanism of the belt conveyor device, including a pair of inclined bearings and a pair of main-body guides, corrects meanders of a belt. The pair of inclined bearings include a pair of bearing portions, respectively, and a pair of inclined portions, respectively, that are inclined symmetrically with respect to an axial direction of the rollers. The pair of main-body guides are put into contact with the pair of inclined portions, respectively, and make an end side of the rollers in the axial direction moved in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction, together with the pair of inclined bearings during meandering of the belt. Either one of the pair of inclined portions or the pair of main-body guides have contact regions each formed from a curved surface convex toward the other being in contact with the one, as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.

Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a transport device, a detention device, a reversing device, and a switching device. The transport device sequentially transports sheets, each having an image formed on an upper face thereof, from an image forming apparatus in a predetermined direction. The detention device accommodates therein the sheet delivered from the transport device. The reversing device reverses upper and lower faces of the sheet delivered from the transport device. The switching device switches a destination of the sheet from the transport device, between the detention device and the reversing device. The reversing device includes a reversed sheet supply route through which the reversed sheet is supplied to the image forming apparatus, and a delivery route through which the reversed sheet is discharged.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance member, a control unit, an ink collection unit, an ink passage and a suction unit. In the conveyance member, an opening through which an ink passes is formed. When the conveyance speed of the conveyance member is Vp [mm/s], the air speed of suction air generated in the ink passage is Vh [m/s], the discharge speed of the ink in a position in which the ink passes through the conveyance member is Vi [m/s], a distance from the conveyance member to the reception surface of an ink reception portion is Ld [mm] and a distance from a position in which the last ink droplet passing through the opening passes through the opening to an upstream end portion of the opening is Ls [mm], {(Vh+Vi)/1000}×(Ls/Vp)?Ld is satisfied.

Abstract: A battery module having a cooling function includes a plurality of battery cells, a cell frame, and a cooling member. The cell frame includes a plurality of side plates and a bottom plate connecting lower edges of the side plates to each other, a space portion to receive the battery cells, and a cooling member located in the space portion. The cooling member encloses a part of an outer surface of each of the battery cells and includes a first member located in a longitudinal direction of the battery cell and a second member connected to one end of the first member A part of the second member is recessed in the bottom plate. A method of manufacturing the battery module and a battery pack including the same are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for providing one or more performance characteristics of a physical layer for Discrete Multi-Tone, DMT, based communication. The apparatus comprises means for receiving one or more first inputs, each first input indicative of a parameter associated with the physical layer. The apparatus comprises means for receiving one or more second inputs, each second input indicative of a performance characteristic of the physical layer, to be output. The apparatus comprises means for selecting, based on the one or more second inputs, one or more processing modules of a digital twin of the physical layer carrier data. The apparatus comprises means for determining, using the selected one or more processing modules and the one or more first inputs, the one or more performance characteristics. The apparatus comprises means for providing the one or more performance characteristics as output. A method and computer program are also disclosed.

Abstract: A waste ink container includes: a plurality of receiving openings; an absorbing member that absorbs ink; a merging chamber defined by space in a reservoir region where the absorbing member is absent, and located at a position spaced at an interval from each of the plurality of receiving openings; a suction opening forming communication between the merging chamber and the outside of the reservoir region; a plurality of suction air passages defined by space in the reservoir region where the absorbing member is absent, merging with each other in the merging chamber, and forming communication between each of the plurality of receiving openings and the suction opening; and a cover located in the reservoir region and having lower gas permeability than the absorbing member. The cover covers the merging chamber from a direction perpendicular to a certain direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a transfer portion, a cleaning blade, and a control section. The control section detects a charging current amount of the image carrier and, when an integrated current amount obtained by integrating values of the charging current amount in a prescribed length of time is lower than a prescribed threshold value, performs an aging process in which the image carrier is driven to rotate in a charged state.

Abstract: The belt conveyor device includes an endless belt, a pair of biasing members, a pair of tension arms, and a correction mechanism. The pair of biasing members bias a tension roller in such a direction as to heighten tension of the belt. The pair of tension arms retain the tension roller and the pair of biasing members, and are swingably supported by a pair of arm support portions of the casing. The pair of biasing members bias a shaft portion of the tension roller in such a direction as to make the shaft portion farther from the pair of arm support portions. The arm support portions are placed above the shaft portion of the tension roller.

Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of filter structure, and in particular to a filter and an air purifier. The filter is for installation in a mounting frame. The filter includes a filter body. A positioning groove is provided on a side of the filter body facing toward the mounting frame. A positioning protrusion is provided in the mounting frame. The positioning protrusion and the positioning groove are configured to correspond to each other and cooperate with each other. When the filter body is installed in the mounting frame, the positioning protrusion enters the positioning groove.