Abstract: To provide an inorganic solid material that has a hydrogen sulfide sustained releasability at ordinary temperature in the air atmosphere and is capable of being handled safely and a method for producing the same, and a method for generating hydrogen sulfide using the material. A layered double hydroxide having HS? and/or Sk2? (wherein k represents a positive integer) intercalated among layers (sulfide ion-containing LDH) is produced, and the sulfide ion-containing LDH is hermetically housed in a packaging material to provide a package. In generating hydrogen sulfide, the packaging material of the package is opened, and the sulfide ion-containing LDH is exposed to the air atmosphere to sustainably release hydrogen sulfide.

Abstract: A plurality of heat dissipation substrates stacked on each other, intermediate sheets disposed under a lowermost heat dissipation substrate, on an uppermost heat dissipation substrate, and between heat dissipation substrates adjacent to each other, a drying agent disposed over or under the plurality of heat dissipation substrates, and a bag that seals the plurality of heat dissipation substrates, the plurality of intermediate sheets, and the drying agent.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a placing portion onto which a recording medium having an image formed is to be placed, and an opening-closing member that covers an opening provided at least at one side face of the placing portion and automatically opens the opening with a predetermined timing.

Abstract: A rotation transmission structure includes: a first member that is provided on a rotating body and includes a plural straight teeth extending in an axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in a circumferential direction; a second member that is provided on a moving body moving in the axial direction of the rotating body, includes a plural straight teeth extending in the axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in the circumferential direction, and is fitted to the first member to transmit rotation of the rotating body to the moving body in a case where the moving body approaches the rotating body; a biasing member that biases the first member toward the moving body; and a rotation mechanism that is provided between the first member and the rotating body and rotates the first member in a case where the first member is moved toward the rotating body.

Abstract: A rotation transmission structure includes: a first member that is provided on a rotating body and includes a plural straight teeth extending in an axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in a circumferential direction; a second member that is provided on a moving body moving in the axial direction of the rotating body, includes a plural straight teeth extending in the axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in the circumferential direction, and is fitted to the first member to transmit rotation of the rotating body to the moving body in a case where the moving body approaches the rotating body; a biasing member that biases the first member toward the moving body; and a rotation mechanism that is provided between the first member and the rotating body and rotates the first member in a case where the first member is moved toward the rotating body.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a medium discharge portion onto which a medium to be taken out by a person with the person standing is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the medium discharge portion, an object in color that is represented by using a Y-value closer than a value that represents black color to a value that represents white color where the color is represented by using a Y-value that represents luminance in a YCbCr method being placed on the placement portion, an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a placing portion onto which a recording medium having an image formed is to be placed, and an opening-closing member that covers an opening provided at least at one side face of the placing portion and automatically opens the opening with a predetermined timing.

Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading member that reads an image of a document that is transported, a discharge portion onto which the document that is read by the reading member is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the discharge portion, an object being placed on the placement portion such that at least a part of an upper surface of the reading member is covered, and an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A container apparatus includes a first container unit that is movable from a first position at which a recording medium having a first size is to be supplied into an apparatus body to a second position at which a user is to supply the recording medium and that includes an upstream end portion and a downstream end portion in a direction in which the recording medium is to be supplied into the apparatus body with the first container unit positioned at the first position. The upstream end portion and the downstream end portion of the first container unit are located at different heights with the first container unit positioned at the second position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A state of a cognitive function can be determined by using biological information measured as part of daily healthcare management. A biological information acquisition device includes a cognitive function test unit for testing a cognitive function, a biological information acquisition unit for performing biological information acquisition processing for acquiring biological information of a user, and a cognitive function determination unit for determining a state of the cognitive function, wherein the cognitive function determination unit determines the state of the cognitive function based on a result of the cognitive function test and the biological information acquired from the user.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of prompting execution of highly useful blood pressure measurement. That is, the blood pressure measuring apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a blood pressure measuring apparatus for performing blood pressure measurement, the blood pressure measuring apparatus including a notification unit that performs a notification to prompt a user to perform the blood pressure measurement, a time setting unit capable of setting a blood pressure measurement time by an instruction from the user, a storage unit that stores a recommended time period of the blood pressure measurement, and a control unit that performs control to cause the notification unit to start the notification based the blood pressure measurement time set by the time setting unit, and cause the notification unit to stop the notification when the recommend time period passes.

Abstract: Provided is a technology that enables information display to be easily understandable to a user. A measurement device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of biological information, a first display unit configured to display a result of the measurement performed by the measurement unit, an installation unit configured to install an information terminal on the installation unit, the information terminal including a second display unit configured to display the result of the measurement, a communication unit configured to directly communicate with the information terminal installed on the installation unit, and a control unit configured to, while the information terminal is installed on the installation unit, cause the result of the measurement to be transmitted from the communication unit to the information terminal to cause the second display unit to display the result of the measurement.

Abstract: A biological information acquisition device is provided that enables a cognitive function test to be received as part of routine healthcare management. Cognitive function test information is provided. Subsequently, biological information is acquired as an interference task. After acquiring the biological information, answers from the user to the previously provided cognitive function test information are checked.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a corrector, and a controller. The image forming device is configured to form an image on a sheet using a rotating body under a predetermined image forming condition. The corrector is configured to correct the image forming condition to adjust image density unevenness corresponding to a rotation cycle of the rotating body. The controller is configured to control the image forming device to form on at least one sheet (i) plural test images that are different in correction amount for the image forming condition and (ii) pointing portions indicating intervals corresponding to the rotation cycle of the rotating body, in a state where the rotating body is continuously rotated.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form an image on a sheet using a rotating body under a predetermined image forming condition, a corrector configured to determine a correction amount for the image forming condition to adjust image density unevenness corresponding to a rotation cycle of the rotating body, and a controller configured to control the image forming device to form, on a single sheet, plural test images that are different in the correction amount.