Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, and a control unit configured to control ejection of liquid, the control unit is configured to cause the nozzle row to perform scan of ejecting the liquid while moving, and when recording a first pattern including a first overlapping region and a first normal region by controlling the first nozzle row and recording a second pattern including a second overlapping region and a second normal region by controlling the second nozzle row, the first overlapping region is formed at a position overlapping the second normal region as viewed in a longitudinal direction, the first overlapping region being an overlapping region where a raster line is formed by performing the scan m times, the first normal region being where the raster line is formed by performing the scan n times, n being smaller than m.

Abstract: A control device of an electric power steering device includes an arithmetic processing device having a comparison unit, a failure diagnosis unit, and a drive control unit. The comparison unit compares a difference between a first output signal output from a first sensor and a second output signal output from a second sensor with a first threshold value to determine a magnitude relationship, and compares a difference between the first output signal and a third output signal output from a third sensor with a second threshold value to determine a magnitude relationship. Based on a result of the comparison unit, the failure diagnosis unit identifies one abnormal sensor among the first, second and third sensor. Using output values from two normal sensors that are not identified as abnormal sensors among the first, second and third sensor, the drive control unit generates a drive control signal for driving an electric motor.

Abstract: Aspects and embodiments disclosed herein include a packaged acoustic wave component comprising a base layer, an acoustic wave filter disposed on an upper side of the base layer, a cap layer mounted to the upper side of the base layer such that a bottom side of the cap layer faces the upper side of the base layer, and an electrical shield layer disposed on the bottom side of the cap layer such that the electrical shield layer and the acoustic wave filter are positioned between the base layer and the cap layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first source region and a first drain region each formed from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate between the first source region and the first drain region via a first gate dielectric film, a first trench formed in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate between the first gate dielectric film and the first drain region in a gate length direction, a second trench formed in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate between the gate dielectric film and the first drain region in the gate length direction, the second trench being shallower than the first trench, and a first dielectric film embedded in the first trench and the second trench. The first trench and the second trench are in contact with each other in a gate width direction.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a vaccine effective for protection against infection by Streptococcus species that causes mastitis in livestock and other animals. Specifically, the present invention provides a vaccine comprising a non-encapsulated strain of Streptococcus species as an antigen, and in particular, a vaccine for preventing mastitis developed by infection by Streptococcus uberis.

Abstract: A physical foaming agent introduction filter includes a filter body and a plurality of fine holes provided in the filter body. Each of the fine holes includes a resin-contact-side hole that opens toward one surface side of the filter body and that is adapted to be in contact with molten resin, and a physical foaming agent introduction hole that opens toward the other surface side of the filter body and that communicates with the resin-contact-side hole to allow a physical foaming agent to be introduced into the physical foaming agent introduction hole. The resin-contact-side hole has a diameter that is equal to or smaller than a diameter of the physical foaming agent introduction hole, and that is 10 to 80 ?m.

Abstract: A laminated film which has a coating layer and inorganic thin-film layer on one surface of a base material film, and which is characterized by satisfying requirements (a) to (d): (a) The base material film contains a polyester resin that has been chemically recycled from PET bottles. (b) The surface hardness of the laminated film on the inorganic thin-film layer surface is 120 N/mm2 or less. (c) The coefficient of static friction us and the coefficient of dynamic friction ?d of the inorganic thin-film layer surface/opposite-side surface of the laminated film are both within the range of 0.20 to 0.40. (d) The arithmetic mean roughness Ra across a 2 ?m square on the laminated film is within the range of 2.0 to 6.0 nm.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that has a plurality of nozzles that eject liquid onto a medium and a control section that controls an ejection of liquid by the recording head, wherein the control section controls the recording head to record a plurality of first patterns having mutually different densities on the medium in a intersecting direction that intersects a nozzle alignment direction in which the nozzles are arranged, and to record a plurality of second patterns for identifying positions of the nozzles in the nozzle alignment direction on the medium in the intersecting direction such that each of the plurality of first patterns is adjacent to the second patterns on at least one of one end side and the other end side in the intersecting direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, a reading unit, and a storage unit, forms a test pattern for correcting a printing characteristic onto a medium, and corrects the printing characteristic based on a reading result of the test pattern by the reading unit. The reading unit reads a density of a printing surface on the medium in units of reading resolution in a first reading direction and a second reading direction intersecting the first reading direction. The storage unit stores an inclination angle ? (0°<?<90°) along the printing surface of a reading direction that serves as a reference of inclination from a scanning direction intersecting an alignment direction of a plurality of nozzles of the first reading direction and the second reading direction and the scanning direction. The control unit causes the reading unit to read the test pattern in a state where the reading direction is inclined by the inclination angle ? from the scanning direction.

Abstract: Described herein are a composition and its application in controlled living water-based emulsion polymerization. The composition includes at least one organic water-soluble iodine compound, optionally at least one organic-solvent-soluble iodide salt and/or optionally at least one water-soluble iodide salt. When applied in controlled living water-based emulsion polymerization, the resulting polymer shows low PDI and the polymer particle also has a low size PDI.

Abstract: Provided is a point cloud analysis device that curbs a decrease in model estimation accuracy due to a laser measurement point cloud. A clustering unit (30) clusters a point cloud representing a three-dimensional point on an object obtained by a measurement unit mounted on a moving body and performing measurement while scanning a measurement position, within a scan line, to obtain a point cloud cluster. A central axis direction estimation unit (32) estimates a central axis direction based on the point cloud cluster. A direction-dependent local effective length estimation unit (34) estimates a local effective length based on an estimated central axis direction and an interval of scan lines, the local effective length being a length when a length of projection of the point cloud cluster in a central axis direction for each of the point cloud clusters is interpolated by an amount of a loss part of the point cloud.

Abstract: A reaction force actuator applies, during normal operation, a steering reaction force, which rapidly increases upon approaching an upper limit of a virtual steering range, to a steering wheel. During rapid steering in which a turning angle velocity is greater than or equal to a predetermined value and a turning follow delay is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the reaction force actuator applies a steering reaction force to the steering wheel based on an upper limit corresponding to a narrower virtual steering range.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon production apparatus includes a synthesis gas production unit structured to produce a synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen by using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, a hydrocarbon production unit structured to produce a hydrocarbon by using the synthesis gas, and a first separator structured to separate a recycle gas containing a light hydrocarbon having 4 or less carbon atoms from an effluent from the hydrocarbon production unit. The synthesis gas production unit is structured to receive supply of the recycle gas and also use the recycle gas for production of the synthesis gas.

Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.

Abstract: A wireless communication device is presented. The wireless communication device includes: a high-frequency circuit; and an analog signal processing circuit that performs gain adjustment such that a gain for each of the plurality of antenna elements, in case of a signal transmission or in case of a signal reception, is a predetermined value being dependent on a position of the antenna element. The analog signal processing circuit includes a first splitter/combiner between the high-frequency circuit and the plurality of antenna elements. For each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, a second splitter/combiner is coupled to a particular antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements and, for each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, two or more phase shifters of a given M system are connected in parallel with each other and coupled between the first splitter/combiner and a corresponding second splitter/combiner.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, and a reading unit, and the printing apparatus forms a test pattern for correcting printing characteristics on the medium and corrects the printing characteristics based on a reading result of the test pattern obtained by the reading unit. The control unit acquires moire characteristics information for determining whether moire of a reading density due to an interference between an arrangement of a plurality of dots included in the test pattern and the reading resolution at the reading unit occurs. The control unit controls the ejection of the droplet such that when the moire characteristics information does not indicate occurrence of the moire, the test pattern is formed on the medium N1 times and when the moire characteristics information indicates occurrence of the moire, the test pattern is formed on the medium N2 times, N2 being an integer greater than N1.

Abstract: In an operating device, a brake setting unit sets a target braking torque based on a braking torque pattern, and a rotational torque setting unit sets a target rotational torque based on a rotational torque pattern in accordance with information detected by a rotation detecting portion at reference time intervals. A control unit includes a time change adjustment unit. For at least one of the braking torque and the rotational torque, the time change adjustment unit changes the braking torque so that a current braking torque reaches the target braking torque and/or changes the rotational torque so that a current rotational torque reaches the target rotational torque in a predetermined time period greater than the reference time interval.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticulate composition comprising nanoparticles formed from an amphipathic block copolymer comprising a hydrophilic block and a hydrophobic block, where the nanoparticles are provided in the form of micelles, cylindrical worm structures or vesicles and the size of the nanoparticles is from 25 to 500 nm, wherein: the composition is substantially free of heavy metals and compounds comprising sulfur. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming said nanoparticulate composition by polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) via non-transition-metal catalysed controlled radical polymerization (NTMC-CRP).

Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling ability-imparting agent that adheres well to a variety of water treatment membranes such as reverse osmosis membranes and imparts excellent antifouling ability to the water treatment membranes.

Abstract: An analyzing apparatus extracts, from a food image, food information relating to types and served states of foods included in the food image and an edible portion of each food, calculates an area ratio between the edible portion of the same kind of food extracted from a plurality of food images acquired at different timings, stores conversion information for converting the area ratio into a volume ratio corresponding to each type and served state of food, and converts the area ratio of each food into a volume ratio using the stored conversion information corresponding to the food whose area ratio is to be converted from among the stored conversion information based on the food information.