Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a defibrator that generates a defibrated material, a accumulating portion that forms a web by accumulating the defibrated material, and a sheet shaping portion that includes a first roller and a second roller, and forms a strip-shaped sheet by pressing the web. The sheet shaping portion includes a first roller retention unit at which the first roller is installed, a drive motor, a gear to which rotation of the drive motor is transmitted so as to rotate the second roller, a first transmission gear to which rotation of the gear is transmitted, a one-way clutch gear installed at the same rotating shaft as the first transmission gear, a gear to which rotation of the one-way clutch gear is transmitted, a cam installed coaxially with the gear, and a pin that is fixed to the first roller retention unit and performs positioning of the first roller retention unit by coming into contact with the cam.

Abstract: A method of controlling a sheet manufacturing apparatus is applied to a sheet manufacturing apparatus including a defibrating portion, an accumulating portion that forms web, a second transporting portion that includes a transporting belt to transport the web, and a pressing portion that includes a pair of pressing rollers formed from a first roller and a second roller and forms a strip-shaped sheet by pressing the web. The method includes a first step of transporting the web with the transporting belt, a second step of peeling a tip end of the web off the transporting belt, a third step of bending the tip end of the web by rotating the first roller in a first direction, and a fourth step of folding the tip end of the web by rotating the first roller in a second direction and passing the web between the pair of pressing rollers.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating rotary body, a pressing unit that presses a recording medium against the heating rotary body at a fixation region, a backward rotation unit that rotates the heating rotary body in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation at a time of fixation in a case where the recording medium is wound around the heating rotary body, and a peeling unit that is brought relatively close to an outer peripheral surface of the heating rotary body at a position upstream of the fixation region in a transport direction of the recording medium and that peels off the recording medium wound around the heating rotary body at a time of backward rotation of the heating rotary body.

Abstract: An ocular fundus image processing device acquires a first image generated by irradiating an ocular fundus of a subject with excitation light of a blue wavelength and a second image generated by irradiating the ocular fundus with excitation light of a green wavelength, generates three trained models for predicting a correction factor for calculating a quantity of macular pigment of the subject from input images including the first image and the second image through training using three different initial values, predicts three correction factors by inputting the input images including the first image and the second image to the three trained models, calculates a statistical value of the three correction factors and derives the statistical value as the correction factor of the subject, and calculates a quantity of macular pigment of the subject on the basis of the first image and the correction factor of the subject.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member including a document placing surface on which a document is placed, a document pressing portion that presses the document placed on the transparent member against the transparent member, a pivot supporting portion that pivotably supports the document pressing portion so as to be pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to a casing of the image reading apparatus, an image reading unit, an abutment portion against which an edge portion of the document placed on the document placing surface is abutted in order to position the document at a reference position, and an inclined surface. The abutment portion is provided at one portion of a front end on a side far from the pivot supporting portion. The inclined surface is provided at another portion of the front end and inclined upward toward the side far from the pivot supporting portion.

Abstract: For establishing cooperation among an external device 30, a video display device and a remote control terminal and to achieve cooperative operation among these devices that affords a high level of operability to a user with less burden, the video display device to which an external device and a remote control terminal that remotely operates the external device can be connected, comprising: a connection detection section configured to detect a connection of the external device to the video display device; a cooperation establishment section configured to generate a start signal for initiate an application software accepting an operation instruction to the external device on the remote control terminal when the connection detection section detects the connection of the external device; and a communication interface configured to transmit the start signal to the remote control terminal.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Abstract: An imaging method is provided that includes: taking an image of an object to generate an image signal of the object; generating a taken image of the object on a basis of the image signal; detecting motion information of the object on the basis of the image signal; taking an image of the object on a basis of the motion information multiple times so as to differentiate an exposure amount thereof; and generating an HDR synthetic image of the object on the basis of a plurality of image signals whose exposure amounts are different from each other.

Abstract: A control device controls an electric drive system mounted on an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a rotor, and including a drive motor that turns the rotor. The control device controls the electric drive system to operate selectively in any one operation mode of at least two operation modes: a normal mode and a functional test mode. In the normal mode, the control device controls the drive motor in accordance with a command from a body control device that controls the flight of the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. In the functional test mode, the control device controls the drive motor in accordance with a command sent from outside according to a functional test program, or in accordance with the functional test program preset in the control device.

Abstract: In a partitioning member that is accommodated in a battery assembly to partition single cells and in which a liquid is sealed, an opening position of the partitioning member that opens upon receiving heat generated from the single cells is defined at a specific spot at a peripheral edge portion or a surface of the partitioning member. A partitioning member 1 includes a sealing portion 32 formed by sealing edge portions of multilayer sheets 31, 31 each including a resin layer and a metal layer in a band-like manner, a liquid and a heat insulation material 2 are sealed in an internal space surrounded by the sealing portion 32, and a weak seal strength portion 4A protruding from a side facing the internal space to an edge portion side of the sealing portion 32 is provided in the sealing portion 32.

Abstract: The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a deposition portion configured to deposit a material containing a fiber to form a web, a web transport portion including a transport belt configured to hold and transport the web, a humidifier provided to face the transport belt and configured to apply moisture to the web, a sheet forming portion configured to perform at least one of heating and pressing on the web to which the moisture was applied, and a controller. The humidifier includes at least a first mist generation element and a second mist generation element, and the controller is configured to individually control the first mist generation element and the second mist generation element.

Abstract: Rollers that transport a sheet while heating the sheet, and a separating unit that includes a separating plate and a supporting portion are included. The separating plate has a leading end portion that comes into contact with a second roller of the rollers. The supporting portion supports the separating plate. The separating plate is provided with a slit that absorbs bending due to a thermal expansion difference between the separating plate and the supporting portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor control device that realizes a drive signal for each phase in a three-phase modulation control system with an analog circuit. The motor control device includes a generator, a modulation unit and inverting unit. The generator is configured to receive an input voltage and generate an analog voltage having a crest value corresponding to the input voltage and having a reference potential or higher. The modulation unit is configured to generate a PWM voltage based on the analog voltage output from the generation unit. The inverting unit is configured to invert a duty in a predetermined period of the PWM voltage.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that transports the web in a first direction; a humidification section that humidifies the web; and a pressurization section that pressurizes the web humidified by the humidification section and compresses the web into a sheet shape, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, and an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, and a position of the exhaust port is shifted in the first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to a position of the tank.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that performs transport; a humidification section that performs humidification; and a pressurization section that performs pressurization and compression into a sheet shape, with respect to the formed web, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, an air duct which is provided between the intake port and the tank and through which the air passes, and a duct which is provided between the tank and the exhaust port and through which the mist and the air pass, the duct includes a first duct provided above the tank, a second duct coupled to the first duct, and a third duct provided between the second duct and the exhaust port, and a first top surfa

Abstract: There is provided a fiber body manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulating section that forms a web by accumulating a material containing fibers on a first transport belt by a dry method; a transport section that transports the web by peeling off a first surface of the web from the first transport belt, and by bringing a second surface of the web, which is a surface opposite to the first surface peeled off from the first transport belt, into contact with a second transport belt; a water-applying section that applies water toward the first surface of the web in a state where the web is in contact with the second transport belt; and a pressurizing section that pressurizes the web to which the water is applied and which is peeled off from the second transport belt.

Abstract: To make it possible to appropriately provide content information to a user terminal by using position information of the user terminal. An information providing apparatus (10a, 10) includes a storage unit (102a) configured to store position information associated with a position on a map, content information associated with the position information, and an attribute corresponding to the content information, and a control unit (101a) configured to output first content information to a user terminal based on position information acquired from the user terminal, and then output second content information associated with an attribute of the first content information to the user terminal.

Abstract: To make it possible to set an appropriate advertisement spot in accordance with a content service. An information providing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store position information associated with a position on a route, and content information associated with the position information, and a control unit configured to provide first content information associated with first position information acquired from a user terminal based on the first position information. The control unit sets an advertisement spot having an attribute associated with an attribute of the first content information provided at a first position at a second position on the route, the second position being a predetermined distance apart from the first position.

Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.