Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier a developing device that applies a developer to the image carrier, and a supplying device that supplies a developer to the developing device. The supplying device has a developer flow path along which a developer passes. The image forming apparatus has a gas flow path along which a gas discharged from the developing device passes. The gas flow path is connected to the supplying device, in which the gas flow path is connected to a non-flow-path section of the supplying device. The non-flow-path section is a section that is not the developer flow path.

Abstract: Centrifuge rotor comprising a rotor assembly adapted for centrifugal rotation around a rotation centre axis, with a plurality of centrifuge tube beds, each with a longitudinal axis, wherein each centrifuge tube bed comprises a tubular cavity which is defined by a cavity sidewall and a cavity bottom which together act as a bearing surface for the outer surface of a centrifuge tube when received in said centrifuge tube bed, wherein at least one of the plurality of cavity bottoms comprises at least one extraction aperture, which connects the tubular cavity to the exterior of the rotor assembly, preferably wherein at least one closure device is removably fastened to the rotor assembly to seal each of the at least one extraction apertures in an airtight manner.

Abstract: A pressure-measuring device according to the invention has a hydrophobic membrane, which is air permeable in the dry state and air impermeable in a moistened state, and a pressure sensor, which is in mechanical contact with the hydrophobic membrane and which is designed to follow a movement of the membrane. During the filling of a line system, air is separated via the hydrophobic membrane and, in the air-impermeable state, the pressure in the line system is measured by means of the moistened hydrophobic membrane.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a tubular film, a pressure roller, and a heater including a heating element. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to calculate an accumulated electrical energy supplied to a portion of the heating element. The portion of the heating element is located in an area corresponding to a second area of the nip portion. The second area is an area of the nip portion through which the recording material conveyed to the nip portion is not passed. The control unit is configured to determine an operation of heat leveling, which is performed for leveling a heat distribution in the nip portion after the recording material had passed the nip portion, based on the calculated accumulated electrical energy.

Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a fixed vehicle structure and a vehicle panel that is movable relative to the fixed vehicle structure between an open position and a closed position. The sensor assembly additionally includes a bracket mounted to the movable vehicle panel, a sensor mounted to the bracket, and a first pin that is actuatable to fix the bracket to the fixed vehicle structure when the movable vehicle panel is in the closed position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for dispensing a measured amount of a particulate material and a method.

Abstract: Provided is a monitoring device for the settlement of a transmission tower. The monitoring device includes a laser ranging sensor, an acceleration sensor, a central processing module, a battery, and a fixing plate. The laser ranging sensor is configured to measure the distance between the installation position of the monitoring device and the ground. The acceleration sensor is configured to measure the inclination angle of a tower leg. The central processing module is configured to process measurement data of the laser ranging sensor and the acceleration sensor. The battery is configured to supply power to the laser ranging sensor, the acceleration sensor, and the central processing module. The fixing plate is configured to fix the monitoring device to the tower leg of the transmission tower. A method for monitoring a settlement of a transmission tower is further provided.

Abstract: There is provided a method for testing a valve of a subsea tree. The method comprises: closing the valve to be tested; fluidly isolating an isolatable region of the subsea tree directly adjacent to the valve to be tested; after being isolated, depressurising the isolatable region to a pressure below an ambient, subsea pressure or pressurising the isolatable region using a pressure manipulation device positioned subsea; monitoring a pressure of the isolatable region after being depressurised; and determining whether the valve to be tested is operating correctly based on the monitoring.

Abstract: A two-wheeled vehicle is provided including a frame, front and rear ground-engaging members each supporting the frame, a straddle-type seat, a handlebar for steering the vehicle, at least one light device configured to operate in a hazard mode, an engine supported by the frame and operably coupled to the ground-engaging members, a tilt sensor, and a vehicle control unit in communication with the tilt sensor. The vehicle control unit is operative to detect a tilt angle of the vehicle based on output from the tilt sensor. The vehicle control unit is operative to determine a tip-over condition of the vehicle based on the detected tilt angle exceeding a threshold tilt angle. The vehicle control unit activates the hazard mode of the at least one light in response to the determination of the tip-over condition.

Abstract: A detector that is downsized by efficiently applying a high-period alternating magnetic field to a magnetic wire by use of a plurality of magnetic-field generation sources is provided. A detector 400 detects motion of a moving body 410 by use of a power generation sensor 420. The power generation sensor includes a magnetic wire 421 and a coil 422, and the moving body includes a soft magnetic body portion 411 and a plurality of magnetic-field generation sources 412. The power generation sensor is disposed in a vicinity of a trajectory drawn by the magnetic-field generation sources by the motion of the moving body.

Abstract: A powder collection container includes a powder collection port, a conveyor, and a swinging member. The powder collection port receives powder. The conveyor rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder and includes a shaft and a blade spirally wound around the shaft. The swinging member contacts the conveyor, is swingable, and has a plurality of overhang portions arranged in an axial direction of the swinging member. Each of the plurality of overhang portions having a bent portion bent toward the blade. The bent portion has a tip to contact the blade at least when the conveyor rotates in a direction opposite to the specified direction.

Abstract: A method of estimating the primary and secondary acoustic velocities, Vp and Vs, of formation surrounding a first wellbore includes obtaining well logging data for a multiplicity of other wellbores to collect, for each other wellbore a plurality of input data sets including at least a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance logging data set, and an element composition scanning data set. The operation further collects, for each other wellbore, at least one output data set including a primary and secondary velocity data set. The method incudes training or establishing at least one regression model using said input and output data sets, obtaining well logging data for said first wellbore to obtain a corresponding plurality of input data sets, and applying the obtained corresponding plurality of input data sets to the trained or established regression model to generate as an output of the regression model, an output data set for the first wellbore including a primary and secondary velocity data set.

Abstract: A centrifugally activated electronic device without an external switch. The electronic device includes an activation circuit, a power source, and electronic components sealed within a housing. The activation circuit includes a pair of centrifugal switches on opposite sides of the housing, which are closed by rapidly rotating the device housing, to complete the activation circuit and thereby turn on at least one of the electronic components. The electronic components include a power switch component that can be turned on by energizing the activation circuit and turned off manually via a powered, buttonless user interface, such as a graphical touch screen, and/or automatically when the electronic components detect a shutoff condition.

Abstract: A marker device embodiment may include separate concentrically-oriented receive and transmit antenna elements coupled to an ASIC which includes electronics to receive an input signal at a first frequency from a transmitter, convert the input signal to a power supply to power the electronic circuit, generate, in response to the input signal, an output signal at a second frequency different from the first frequency, and provide the output signal, via the transmit antenna element, to an above-ground receiver for assistance in determining the location of a buried utility.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for synthesizing sonic logs for downhole environments. Data associated with a wellbore in a formation is accessed. A model configured to identify one or more characteristics associated with sound traveling through one or more formation is accessed. The data is applied to the model to predict a characteristics of the formation that is identifiable through sonic logging.

Abstract: A processor for demixing a fluorescent-light input signal of a fluorescence microscope, the fluorescent-light input signal including at least two fluorescence emission responses that overlap in time, each of the at least two fluorescence emission responses being representative of an individual impulse response of a fluorophore to a fluorescence-triggering light pulse of a clocked time series of fluorescence-triggering light pulses, the processor: receiving a trigger signal comprising a time series of time markers, the trigger signal being representative of a clocking rate, at which the clocked time series of fluorescence-triggering light pulses is generated; and separating at least one fluorescence emission response from the fluorescent-light input signal.

Abstract: An adjustable archway system comprises a main frame defining an archway through which a vehicle may pass. An extension mechanism integrated within the main frame is configured to adjust a height and width of the main frame to a plurality of positions. A plurality of cameras are mounted the main frame for capturing images of the vehicle passing through the archway of the main frame. A controller is configured to operate the extension mechanism to move between the plurality of positions of the main frame.

Abstract: A photonics gyroscope comprises a laser and a common intensity modulation unit that outputs an intensity modulated beam, split into a CCW beam having a first power level and a CW beam having a second power level. A first phase modulator (PA) receives the CCW beam, and a second PA receives the CW beam. A variable optical attenuator (VOA) is coupled to the first or second PA. The CCW beam is coupled into a resonator and the CW beam is coupled into the resonator. A first detector receives the CCW beam and a second detector receives the CW beam from the resonator. A CCW control loop locks the CCW beam, and a CW control loop locks the CW beam, to resonance peaks. The VOA receives a feedback loop signal to aid in balancing power levels between CCW and CW beams to eliminate a rate signal at an intensity modulation frequency.

Abstract: A sensor unit for a vehicle includes an external sensor, a cleaning nozzle and a housing. The external sensor is configured to obtain information of an external environment, and to have a sensing area being set forward in a travel direction of the vehicle through an exposed surface exposed to the external environment. The cleaning nozzle has an injection port that is located in front of the exposed surface to inject a cleaning fluid to the exposed surface from above of the exposed surface in a yaw axis direction of the vehicle to clean the exposed surface. The housing is provided to hold the external sensor therein. The housing is configured to define a recess that is recessed toward a rearward in the travel direction from the exposed surface below the exposed surface in the yaw axis direction.

Abstract: A condensation particle counter includes: a saturator formed therein with a first flow path for supplying vapor to air introduced from an outside; a condenser formed therein with a second flow path in which the air and the vapor introduced from the first flow path are condensed; and a detector for detecting droplets condensed in the condenser, wherein the second flow path is provided with a guiding portion for guiding condensate flowing downward along an inner surface of the second flow path to flow into the saturator.