Abstract: A medium processing apparatus for processing a medium ejected from an image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, a slit, a medium processing device, a stopper, and detectors. The conveyor conveys the medium ejected from the image forming apparatus. The slit communicates with an opening of a housing into which a medium is manually inserted from outside and includes a placement face on which the inserted medium is placed. The placement face has a first side and a second side orthogonal to the first side. The first and second sides are not parallel to a direction in which a side face of the housing extends. The medium processing device processes the medium conveyed by the conveyor or the medium placed on the slit. The stopper regulates edges of the medium along the first and second sides of the placement face. The detectors are disposed on the stopper to detect the medium.

Abstract: A liquid application device for applying liquid to a plurality of media to be crimped by a crimping device includes a liquid applier and a liquid-applier moving mechanism. The liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media. The liquid-applier moving mechanism moves the liquid applier to a first position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to a medium on a conveyance path in the liquid application device and a second position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media inserted through a liquid application slit of the liquid application device.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a gas barrier paper packaging material which can impart sufficient gas barrier properties even when a barrier coating agent for forming a barrier layer is applied in a dry amount of 2 g/m2 or less. The method for producing a gas barrier paper packaging material at least includes: a barrier layer forming step of applying a barrier coating agent to one side of a sealant film to form a barrier layer; and a lamination step of laminating the barrier layer and a paper substrate layer via an adhesive layer.

Abstract: An in-seat experience system includes: a seat which includes a seat body, a sensor, and a seat controller allowed to acquire a measurement value from the sensor; an experience instruction device connected to the seat controller, configured to notify an occupant seated on the seat body a motion instruction and to store user identification information; and a server capable of communicating with the experience instruction device. The experience instruction device makes a determination based upon a measurement value of the sensor as to whether or not a first condition is satisfied, and to transmit a result of the determination to the server when at least the first condition is satisfied, and the server is allowed to increase a point score stored for the corresponding user identification information with a condition that the result of the determination that the first condition is satisfied is received from the experience instruction device.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an upstream device, a downstream device, and a controller as circuitry. The upstream device includes multiple rollers to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction and perform a sheet processing. The downstream device is downstream from the upstream device in the conveyance direction. The downstream device includes a sheet sensor to detect the sheet. The controller controls a timing to rotate the multiple rollers of the upstream device to perform the sheet processing in response to a detection of the sheet by the sheet sensor.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system, including a steering device including a dual-system steering motor including a main system and a sub system, wherein a power supply to the main system is conducted selectively by a main power source and a backup power source, and a power supply to the sub system is conducted by only the main power source, wherein, in a normal power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system and to the sub system is conducted by the main power source, a controller controls the sub system to operate in accordance with the main system, and wherein, in a backup power-supply situation in which the power supply to the main system is conducted by the backup power source, the controller controls the main system not to operate or to operate while limiting the power supply to the main system and controls the sub system independently.

Abstract: A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.

Abstract: A quantum cascade laser device includes a semiconductor substrate, an active layer provided on the semiconductor substrate, and an upper clad layer provided on a side of the active layer opposite to the semiconductor substrate side and having a doping concentration of impurities of less than 1×1017 cm?3. Unit laminates included in the active layer each include a first emission upper level, a second emission upper level, and at least one emission lower level in their subband level structure. The active layer is configured to generate light having a center wavelength of 10 ?m or more due to electron transition between at least two levels of the first emission upper level, the second emission upper level, and the at least one emission lower level in the light emission layer in each of the unit laminates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to monodisperse hydrogel particles containing a cross-linked product of a vinyl alcohol-based polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated group and an average degree of polymerization of 450 or more, the monodisperse hydrogel particles having an average particle size of 10 to 5,000 ?m, and a coefficient of variation of a particle size distribution of 10% or less.

Abstract: A management system that manages content data corresponding to a hash value registered in a block of a blockchain. Content data selected by a user from among pieces of content data that are management targets, is provided to a provision destination of the selected content data. Information on the provision destination of the selected content data is registered in a block of the blockchain in association with an identification number for identifying the selected content data. When the management system receives content data that is a target of authenticity determination, an identification number for identifying the content data, and user information of the content data, authenticity of the received content data is determined. In the determination of the authenticity of the received content data, the received user information is compared with the provision destination information registered in the blockchain.

Abstract: A position detection device includes: a first group including N (a multiple of 3) first magnetic sensors facing a magnet that rotates in synchronization with a rotation shaft of a motor and arranged at intervals along a rotation direction of the magnet, and a second group including N second magnetic sensors arranged opposite respectively to the N first magnetic sensors across the rotation shaft in a radial direction of the magnet; and a signal processing device processing output signals respectively output from the first and second magnetic sensors. The signal processing device executes averaging processing of generating N average signals by averaging an output signal of the first magnetic sensor and an output signal of the second magnetic sensor arranged at the position opposite to the first magnetic sensor across the rotation shaft, and estimation processing of estimating a rotational position of the motor based on the N average signals.

Abstract: A position detection device includes: a first group including N (a multiple of 3) first magnetic sensors facing a magnet that rotates in synchronization with a rotation shaft of a motor and arranged at intervals along a rotation direction of the magnet, and a second group including N second magnetic sensors arranged opposite respectively to the N first magnetic sensors across the rotation shaft in a radial direction of the magnet; and a signal processing device processing output signals respectively output from the first and second magnetic sensors. The signal processing device executes averaging processing of generating N average signals by averaging an output signal of the first magnetic sensor and an output signal of the second magnetic sensor arranged at the position opposite to the first magnetic sensor across the rotation shaft, and estimation processing of estimating a rotational position of the motor based on the N average signals.

Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of easily confirming content data, the information of which is registered in a blockchain, is provided. An image pickup apparatus generates an image file and then immediately calculates a hash value of the image file, and transmits image file information including the hash value to a management system. In response to receipt of a registration completion notification indicating that a process of registering the image file information in a blockchain is completed, the image pickup apparatus stores registration-completed information indicating that the image file information is registered in the blockchain, relating to the image file.

Abstract: One aspect of a position estimation method of the present invention includes: a learning step of acquiring learning data necessary for estimation of a rotational position of a rotor on the basis of an input sensor signal; and a position estimation step of estimating the rotational position of the rotor on the basis of the input sensor signal and the learning data. The learning step is performed, thereby acquiring, as the learning data, data indicating the correspondence relationship between a segment number associated with a section included in each of a plurality of quadrants and a pole pair number representing a pole pair position. The position estimation step is performed, thereby determining an initial position of the rotor on the basis of the input sensor signal and the learning data.

Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of guaranteeing that a provider of a content is a generator of the content is provided. The content generation apparatus that generates a content according to an instruction received from a user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric information of the user, a biometric authentication unit configured to perform biometric authentication of the user based on the biometric information of the user, a hash value generation unit configured to generate a hash value of the content in a case that the biometric authentication of the user has succeeded, and a communication unit configured to transmit the content and information of the content to a management server that registers the hash value and the information of the content in a blockchain. The information of the content includes result information indicating a result of the biometric authentication of the user.

Abstract: A content management system includes a memory device and at least one processor. The memory device stores a set of instructions. The at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to apply an edition process to a content in accordance with an instruction from an administrator of the content, generate a hash value of an edited content immediately after generating the edited content by the edition process, generate an identification number for identifying the edited content, register the hash value of the edited content and the identification number in a blockchain in association with each other, receive a content subjected to an authenticity determination and an identification number for identifying the content concerned, and determine the authenticity of the received content by comparing a hash value generated from the received content with the hash value registered in the blockchain and corresponding to the received identification number.

Abstract: A motor module includes: a motor; a driving unit; a control unit; a memory; and a communication unit. The control unit executes: receiving parameter information specialized for a vehicle-mounted device by the communication unit from a management module, and storing the parameter information in the memory; in a case where the parameter information is stored in the memory, driving the motor by the driving unit to operate the vehicle-mounted device so that the motor outputs a predetermined torque based on an operation signal input from an outside for operating the vehicle-mounted device and the parameter information; and in a case where the parameter information is not stored in the memory, driving the motor by the driving unit for a certain period of time and then stopping the motor to inch the vehicle-mounted device so that the motor outputs a maximum torque, based on the operation signal.

Abstract: A method of position estimation including: a signal detection step in which N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) sensors each detect a magnetic field which is in accordance with a position of a mover and output a detection signal as an electrical signal, the detection signals being displaced in phase by an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by N; a crossing detection step in which a crossing detection section sequentially detects a crossing at which each detection signal having been output through the signal detection step crosses another; a subdivision detection step in which a subdivision detection section detects a portion of the detection signal that connects from a crossing to another crossing which is adjacent to that crossing, as one or more subdivision signals; and a line segment joining step in which a line segment joining section sequentially joins the subdivision signals and estimates the position of the mover based on the plural subdivision signals having been joined, to generate an estimate

Abstract: A method of position estimation including: a signal detection step in which N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) sensors each detect a magnetic field which is in accordance with a position of a mover and output a detection signal as an electrical signal, the detection signals being displaced in phase by an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by N; a crossing detection step in which a crossing detection section sequentially detects a crossing at which each detection signal having been output through the signal detection step crosses another; a subdivision detection step in which a subdivision detection section detects a portion of the detection signal that connects from a crossing to another crossing which is adjacent to that crossing, as one or more subdivision signals; and a line segment joining step in which a line segment joining section sequentially joins the subdivision signals and estimates the position of the mover based on the plural subdivision signals having been joined, to generate an estimate

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a film formation apparatus and a film formation method that can form GaN film with high productivity are provided. The film formation apparatus includes: the chamber which an interior thereof can be made vacuum; the rotary table provided inside the chamber, holding a workpiece, and circulating and transporting the workpiece in a circular trajectory, a GaN film formation processing unit including a target formed of film formation material containing GaN and a plasma generator which turns sputtering gas introduced between the target and the rotary table into plasma, the GaN film formation processing unit depositing by sputtering particles of the film formation material containing GaN on the workpiece circulated and transported by the rotary table; and a nitriding processing unit nitriding particles of the film formation material deposited on the workpiece circulated and transported by the rotary table in the GaN film formation processing unit.