Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to an assembly for preventing condensation on a surface of an object. The assembly includes a condensation mitigation device, an ambient temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a processor. The processor determines dewpoint temperatures for different times, the determination being based on the ambient temperature and the humidity. The processor then determines a regression for the determined dewpoint temperatures. A control signal for activating the condensation mitigation device is transmitted based on the regression for the determined dewpoint temperatures.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting an abnormality of a manufacturing facility is disclosed. According to an example embodiment of the present disclosure, a learning model generating method for manufacturing facility abnormality detection may include receiving a measured value for a normal state of a manufacturing facility collected through a multi-sensor on a time-by-time basis, generating a learning model including a predetermined weight set and training the learning model using the measured value, and determining, using the learning model, a threshold corresponding to a boundary between the normal state and an abnormal state of the manufacturing facility and a criterion for determining the abnormal state in a local window representing a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A method and an assembly for testing a shipping package are described. The assembly includes a scuff test sub-assembly, a belt burn test sub-assembly, and multiple conveyors positioned between to the sub-assemblies to convey a shipping package through the assembly. The scuff test sub-assembly includes an inclined plane and multiple objects which extend outward from the inclined plane. The belt burn test sub-assembly includes a plate that moves over a portion of one of the conveyors. The plate moves between a first position which obstructs movement of the shipping package but permits movement of the one of the conveyors relative to the shipping package and a second position where movement of the shipping package along the conveyor is not obstructed. At least two of the conveyors meet at a junction to change an orientation of the shipping package as the shipping package is conveyed across the junction.

Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is d

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor module that includes a substrate having a top surface and a back surface, a sensor element mounted on the top surface of the substrate, an external terminal formed on the back surface of the substrate, and a case fixed to the substrate so as to cover the sensor element. The case has a top plate part having a plurality of through holes. The top plate part has a center area having no through holes and a through hole formation area having the plurality of through holes, the through hole formation area being positioned so as to surround the center area.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium delivered along a predetermined delivery path; a first hardware processor that judges whether or not the recording medium is an envelope; a second hardware processor that acquires a basis weight of the envelope; a third hardware processor that determines, in case the first hardware processor judges that the recording medium is the envelope, control for forming an image on the envelope by the image former on the basis of the basis weight of the envelope acquired by the second hardware processor.

Abstract: A light deflector includes a rotary polygon mirror and a motor to rotate the rotary polygon mirror. The rotary polygon mirror includes reflecting surfaces to reflect light emitted from a light source and a hole portion provided in a rotational axis direction. The motor includes a shaft portion in the hole portion and a support member supporting the rotary polygon mirror. The support member is fixed to, and coaxial with, the shaft portion, and includes an insertion portion in the hole portion. The rotary polygon mirror includes a protruded portion near the hole portion and protruding from at least one reflecting surface orthogonal to the rotational axis direction. The protruded portion includes a fitting portion fitted to the shaft portion or the support member and in which a portion continued from a hole portion surface is protruded toward the rotation center more than the surface forming the hole portion.

Abstract: A movable member includes a frame, a mounting portion, a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, and a cleaning member. The cleaning member includes a base portion including a first surface positioned on one side of the frame, a second surface positioned on the other side of the frame, and a third surface, and includes a projected portion. The projected portion includes a first side surface positioned on the aforementioned the other side and a second side surface positioned on the aforementioned one side. The first side surface is positioned between the first surface and the second surface. The first side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned the other side with respect to the axial direction, and the second side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned one side with respect to the axial direction.

Abstract: A decurling device includes: a rotary body; an endless correction belt configured to correct curl of a recording medium passing between the rotary body and the correction belt; and a pressure contact unit disposed inside the correction belt, an opposite surface of the pressure contact unit to the rotary body being supported by a support unit so as to be in pressure contact with the rotary body, in which a center portion, in an axial direction of the rotary body, of at least one of a contact portion of the pressure contact unit or a contact portion of the support unit further protrudes toward the other of the contact portion of the pressure contact unit and the contact portion of the support unit than both end portions thereof.

Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is d

Abstract: In a method and system for acquiring measurement data reference data for a phase correction of the measurement data, a RF excitation pulse is provided to excite spins in the object under examination, one or more RF refocusing pulses are provided to refocus the spins excited by the RF excitation pulse, measurement data is acquired by recording echo signals of refocused spins excited by the RF excitation pulse by switching readout gradients that alternate in their polarity, at least two echo signals are recorded while switching readout gradients with different polarity acquire reference data, chronologically between the providing of the RF excitation pulse and the acquisition of the measurement data, and correction data is determined for phase correction of phase errors contained in the measurement data based on the acquired reference data.

Abstract: A sensor mounting device and method to accurately mount a sensor to a test asset for data collection and component validation, the sensor mounting device including a leveling plate equipped with a level indicator, an alignment shelf adapted to constrain the movement of a sensor and hold the sensor level relative to the level indicator, and various protruding structures for aligning the mounting device with the test asset. The sensor mounting device may further include a base structure to support the leveling plate and allow a user to adjust the vertical position of the sensor to be mounted. The base structure may include a plurality of spanning members on which the leveling plate is mounted as to allow the leveling plate to be adjusted vertically.

Abstract: The magnetic detection system 100 is provided with a magnetic sensor 1, a storage unit 5, a first determination unit 42 for outputting whether or not the magnetic body 90 has passed as a first determination result 20, a second determination unit 43 for outputting whether or not the magnetic body has passed as a second determination result 21, a display unit 6 for displaying (notifying) the first determination result and the second determination result. The second determination unit is configured to have higher determination accuracy than the first determination unit.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured, on a basis of one or both of (A) a parameter related to applying one of inversion and flip pulses and (B) an intensity of a slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the one of the pulses in relation to selecting a slice to which the one of the pulses is applied, to determine one or both of (A) a parameter related to applying the other of the inversion and (B) flip pulses; and an intensity of the slice selecting gradient magnetic field applied together with the other of the pulses in relation to selecting a slice to which the other of the pulses is applied.

Abstract: Provided are a method for searching for a molecular stable structure, a program for searching for a molecular stable structure, and a device for searching for a molecular stable structure, which are capable of acquiring a stable structure and various locally stable structures from a structural formula of a compound in a short time and with high accuracy. A three-dimensional structure is generated from the structural formula of the compound, and a locally stable structure is obtained from the three-dimensional structure. A one-dimensional or multidimensional energy distribution function for one or a plurality of internal coordinates and a probability distribution function of increasing a probability of low-energy internal coordinates are calculated from internal coordinates and an energy value of the locally stable structure.

Abstract: Accelerometers are described herein that have RMS outputs. For instance, an example accelerometer may include a MEMS device and an ASIC. The MEMS device includes a structure having an attribute that changes in response to acceleration of an object. The ASIC determines acceleration of the object based at least in part on changes in the attribute. The ASIC includes analog circuitry, an ADC, and firmware. The analog circuitry measures the changes in the attribute and generates analog signals that represent the changes. The ADC converts the analog signals to digital signals. The firmware includes RMS firmware. The RMS firmware performs an RMS calculation on a representation of the digital signals to provide an RMS value that represents an amount of the acceleration of the object.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a device and a magnetic resonance system for concentrating a magnetic field of radio frequency signals, and methods for concentrating a magnetic field of as radio frequency signal in an object to be imaged.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a first g factor generated by using first magnetic resonance data acquired through a first parallel imaging process performed by using a plurality of reception coils and a second g factor generated by using second magnetic resonance data related to a second parallel imaging process performed by using the plurality of reception coils. The second parallel imaging process is different from the first parallel imaging process. The processing circuitry adjusts the first g factor so as to reduce a difference between the first g factor and the second g factor.

Abstract: A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt and configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip, an urging member configured to urge one of the rotator and the nip forming member towards the other in a particular direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, an upstream guide and a downstream guide. The upstream guide includes an upstream guide surface configured to guide an inner peripheral surface of the belt. The nip forming member includes a facing surface which faces the rotator. An upstream edge of the facing surface in the moving direction is located at a position farther from the rotation axis, in the particular direction, than a downstream edge of the upstream guide surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the locally resolved examination of objects by means of magnetic resonance (MR) and relates specifically to a less motion-artifact prone method for navigated multi-shot acquisition of diffusion-weighted image data using moment-nulled magnetic field gradients for diffusion encoding. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing the method.