Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a first outlet and a second outlet, a first channel communicating with the first outlet, a second channel communicating with the second outlet, a tank unit configured to hold water for cooling first air and second air, the first air flowing through the first channel, the second air flowing through the second channel, a cooling unit configured to cool the first air by heat of vaporization of water held in the tank unit, a water supply channel for supplying water held in the tank unit to the cooling unit, and a water recovery channel for collecting water remaining in the cooling unit to the tank unit.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires XYZ values being values corresponding to a recognition target region as an image region in an image obtained by photographing an object under first illumination and being values represented in an XYZ color model, a spectral distribution, spectral reflectance in a case of a perfect reflecting diffuser, and a determination table indicating a correspondence relationship between Lab values being values in an L*a*b* color space and a color, a calculation unit that calculates Lab values as values corresponding to the recognition target region in the L*a*b* color space by using the XYZ values, the spectral distribution and the spectral reflectance, and a determination unit that determines color of the recognition target region by using the calculated Lab values and the determination table.

Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus includes a processor, in which the processor is configured to: acquire a position of an ultrasound probe that emits an ultrasound beam toward a breast of an examinee, which is in a compressed state via a compression plate; and in a case in which the position of the ultrasound probe in a direction orthogonal to a side surface of the compression plate on a chest wall side is equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance from the side surface and a predetermined switching condition is satisfied, perform control of switching to a steer mode or a trapezoidal mode in which an emission direction of the ultrasound beam is directed toward the chest wall side.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and a light-shielding member placed in the display panel, the light-shielding member being configured to block the emitted light heading toward the drive circuit.

Abstract: A processor of a control device of a vehicle performs control to set a first switch to an on state such that power generated by a solar photovoltaic power generation device is supplied to a high-voltage battery while the vehicle is in a ready-to-travel state; in response to a transition from the ready-to-travel state to a parked state, derives a predicted idle time indicating a predicted value of a time for which the vehicle is left idle; determines whether the predicted idle time is longer than a specific time including a polarization elimination time for eliminating polarization of the high-voltage battery; and when it is determined that the predicted idle time is longer than the specific time, performs control to set the first switch to an off state and a second switch to an on state such that the power is supplied to the low-voltage battery.

Abstract: A first display unit that is provided at a position of an arm part in front of an examinee, and a second display unit that is provided at a side surface of the arm part are provided. Then, control of switching between the display units that display an ultrasound image is performed according to a rotational position of the arm part.

Abstract: A pixel layout is optimized. An amplification unit generates a signal corresponding to a charge held in a charge holding unit and outputs the signal to a predetermined first output node. A first capacitive element has one end connected to the first output node and holds a reset level that is a level of the signal at the time of resetting. A second capacitive element has one end connected to the first output node and holds an image signal level that is a level of the signal when the charge is transferred to the charge holding unit. A readout circuit is connected to a second output node, reads each of the reset level held in the first capacitive element and the image signal level held in the second capacitive element, and outputs the reset level and the image signal level as a reset signal and an image signal, respectively.

Abstract: The invention reduces the stoppage of operation due to a sudden decrease in rotation speed. A motor device includes a motor that is rotationally driven; a drive signal generator that controls a duty ratio indicating a drive output of the motor so as not to exceed a duty ratio upper limit value, and generates a drive signal corresponding to the duty ratio; an inverter that outputs an output signal for rotationally driving the motor based on the drive signal; a rotation speed detector that detects a rotation speed of the motor; an acceleration detector that detects whether the motor is accelerating; and an upper limit value setting part that changes the duty ratio upper limit value to a second upper limit value higher than a preset first upper limit value in response to rotation of the motor being accelerating.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon nanotube production device and production method capable of realizing high-temperature heating of a catalyst raw material in a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method, and improving the quality and yield of carbon nanotubes synthesized. A carbon nanotube production device 1 includes a synthesis furnace 2 for synthesizing carbon nanotubes; a catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 for supplying a catalyst raw material used to synthesize carbon nanotubes to the synthesis furnace 2; and a nozzle temperature adjusting unit 6 capable of setting a temperature of an inner portion 4 of the catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 higher than a temperature of a reaction field 5 of the synthesis furnace 2.

Abstract: A gas barrier film includes a substrate containing polypropylene as a main component, a gas barrier layer on a first surface of the substrate, and a coating layer on the gas barrier layer. Infrared spectroscopy of the first surface indicates a peak intensity (I1) at 1360 to 1390 cm?1 and a peak intensity (I2) at 1440 to 1480 cm?1 in a ratio satisfying the formula: (I1)/I(2)?1.65.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion comprising circumferential grooves and land portions divided thereby. The land portions include a first shoulder land portion and a first middle land portion adjacent thereto. The first shoulder land portion is provided with first shoulder sipes. The middle land portion is provided with first middle sipes. Each of the first shoulder sipes and the first middle sipes comprises a main portion extending in the tire radial direction, and a widened portion having a width greater than the main portion and opened at the tread surface of the land portion. The opening width of the first shoulder sipe at the tread surface is larger than the opening width of the first middle sipe at the tread surface.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and a light-shielding member placed in the display panel, the light-shielding member being configured to block the emitted light heading toward the drive circuit.

Abstract: To provide an eyeglass-shaped frame that has both advantages of a temple with a rectangular cross section and advantages of a temple with a circular cross section. The eyeglass-shaped frame having a front part which holds lenses, a face shield, or the like, and temples which are attached to both ends of this front part and provided with an ear hook part, the eyeglass-shaped frame being configured such that: the eyeglass-shaped frame has a first elastic part arranged on a side near the front part F and a second elastic part arranged between the first elastic part and the ear hook part M; the first elastic part permits elastic deformation in a first direction and restricts elastic deformation in a direction different from the first direction; and the second elastic part permits elastic deformation in a second direction intersecting the first direction and restricts elastic deformation in a direction different from the second direction.

Abstract: A batting helmet system includes sockets facing the interior region of the helmet shell to receive clip elements for holding a chin strap or to receive plate elements for supporting a face protector. A clip element includes a base portion, a hook portion extending from the base portion, and a projection positioned on an end of the hook portion and extending toward the base portion. The base portion may include a strap retainer. When the clip element is installed, the clip element extends from the interior of the helmet to the exterior of the helmet through an opening in the helmet shell, so that the strap retainer is positioned outside the helmet shell. A face protector may include plate elements for positioning in one or more of the sockets. Plate elements and sockets may have corresponding geometries that limit rotation of the face protector relative to the helmet shell.

Abstract: A system for and a method of processing a waste lithium-ion battery make it possible to improve heat treatment efficiency and to heat-treat a large-sized waste lithium-ion battery without disassembling the battery. One example of the system for processing a waste lithium-ion battery includes a heater that heat-treats a waste lithium-ion battery at a heating temperature of lower than 400° C. to decompose and remove an electrolyte solution from the waste lithium-ion battery.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing negative electrode active material particles in which the negative electrode active material particles include particles of a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6), in which the negative electrode active material particles are at least partially coated with carbon material, the negative electrode active material particles contain Li in which content of the Li relative to the negative electrode active material particles is 9.7 mass % or more or less than 13.2 mass %, at least part of the Li is present as Li2SiO3, and when the negative electrode active material particles are measured by X-ray diffraction using Cu-K? rays, an intensity Ia of a peak around 2?=47.5° attributable to Si obtained by the X-ray diffraction and a peak intensity Tb of a peak around 2?=18.7° attributable to Li2SiO3 obtained by the X-ray diffraction satisfy 1?Ib/Ia?18.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing body (11) formed with a module accommodation chamber (15) and a routing space (12), a cover (30) for closing an opening (13) of the routing space in an outer surface of the housing body (11), a pressing member (40) mounted in the routing space (12), and a terminal module (60) including a terminal fitting (62) connected to a wire (71, 72, 76) and inserted into the module accommodation chamber (15). The wire (71, 72, 76) drawn out into the routing space (12) from the module accommodation chamber (15) is routed while being sandwiched and bent between the cover (30) and the pressing member (40). A mounting direction of the pressing member (40) is a direction approaching the module accommodation chamber (15).

Abstract: A work of incorporating a speed reduction mechanism including a scissors gear into a gear case is facilitated. In a state where the angular positions of gear teeth of a first gear and the angular positions of gear teeth of a scissors gear are made to coincide with each other against the elastic force of a torsion spring (19), these angular positions are fixed by a fixing member (position fixing step). The first gear, the scissors gear, and a second gear are housed in a gear case, and the gear teeth of the second gear are made to engage with the gear teeth of the first gear and the gear teeth of the scissors gear (gear incorporating step). The fixing of the angular position of the first gear and the angular position of the scissors gear by the fixing member is released through an opening formed in the gear case.

Abstract: A first acquisition processing unit acquires tag status information including information indicating whether a transport target is present at a position corresponding to a tag and information indicating whether an automatic traveling device is present at the position corresponding to the tag. A second acquisition processing unit acquires AGV status information indicating whether the automatic traveling device is transporting the transport target. A determination processing unit determines whether the automatic traveling device is capable of traveling through the position corresponding to the tag on the basis of the tag status information and the AGV status information. A generation processing unit generates a travel route of the automatic traveling device on the basis of a determination result of the determination processing unit.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a technique for dispensing cells as single cells. The above problem can be solved by an apparatus for dispensing particles comprising a transparent hollow pipette for dispensing sample liquid containing particles, and an image capturing means, wherein the devise has means for capturing two or more images of the dispensing liquid in the hollow pipette; means for comparing two or more shot images, distinguishing a moved particle-like substance from an unmoved particle-likesubstance in the image-captured particle-like substances, and identifying the moved particle-like substance as a suspended particle; and means for dispensing a sample liquid containing a target number of suspended particles.