Abstract: An electrochromic element including: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to face the first electrode with a gap between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first electrochromic layer disposed on or above the first electrode, including conductor or semiconductor nano-structures and an electrochromic compound; and an electrolyte layer including an electrolyte, disposed between the first electrochromic layer and the second electrode, wherein the electrochromic compound is a compound represented by General Formula 1, and an anion of the electrolyte is a monovalent anion having oxidation potential higher than reduction potential of a dication of General Formula 1 by 3.1 V or greater, where X? is a monovalent anion having oxidation potential higher than reduction potential of the dication of General Formula 1 by 3.

Abstract: A method for producing a titanium foil according to the present invention includes an electrodeposition step of performing electrolysis with electrodes including an anode and a cathode using a molten salt bath comprising titanium ions and having at least one molten chloride to deposit metal titanium onto an electrolytic surface of the cathode, wherein the electrodeposition step includes maintaining a ratio of a molar concentration of titanium ions to the total molar concentration of metal ions in the molten salt bath at 7% or more, and maintaining a temperature of the molten salt bath at 510° C. or less, and conducting a current to the electrodes under conditions where a continuous stop time of current conduction is less than 1.0 second, a current density is 0.10 A/cm2 or more and 1.0 A/cm2 or less, and a time for electrodepositing the metal titanium onto the electrolytic surface of the cathode is 120 minutes or less.

Abstract: A soy milk fermented substance is provided. The soy milk fermented substance has a taste and flavor or smooth physicality similar to that of yogurt obtained by fermenting milk with a lactic acid without applying processing treatment such as enzyme treatment or extraction treatment to soy milk which is a material and without adding a material such as a sugar source, even in a case where only Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus are employed as a lactic acid bacteria mixture starter at the time of making a fermented substance which employs soy milk as a material.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of a continuum robot may include a bendable body having linear members provided along a first pitch circle, and motors respectively having output shafts provided along a second pitch circle offset outside from the first pitch circle and being configured to respectively drive linear members to bend the bendable body; intermediate supporting shafts provided along a third pitch circle offset outside from the first pitch circle and offset inside from the second pitch circle; first connection members respectively connecting end portions of the linear members and the intermediate supporting shafts to each other; and second connection members respectively connecting the intermediate supporting shafts and the output shafts to each other and configured to convert rotation of each of the output shafts into rectilinear motion to cause each of the intermediate supporting shafts to rectilinearly move.

Abstract: A biological information measurement apparatus comprises: a spectrometer; a housing that contains the spectrometer and includes a surface on which a measurement target is to be placed, and an aperture portion through which light illuminating the measurement target placed on the surface and light reflected from the measurement target are to pass; and a shutter member that can move between a first position of opposing the aperture portion of the housing and a second position of retreating from the first position of opposing the aperture portion, the shutter member including a white reference surface. If the shutter member is at the first position, the spectrometer performs calibration using the white reference surface. If the shutter member is at the second position, the aperture portion and the measurement target oppose each other, and the spectrometer colorimetrically measures the measurement target.

Abstract: A copper alloy disclosed in the present description has a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100-(x+y)SnxMny (where 8?x?16 and 2?y?10 are satisfied), in which a main phase is a ?CuSn phase with Mn dissolved therein, and the ?CuSn phase undergoes martensitic transformation when heat-treated or worked.

Abstract: A member having a sliding contact surface that exerts a reduced frictional force when making sliding contact with a prescribed member and retains the lubricating oil more uniformly is provided. The sliding contact surface is a honed surface having flat plateau parts and groove parts. As calculated in regard to the sliding contact surface by using a mean line derived from a cross-sectional curve of the sliding contact surface in accordance with ISO 13565-1, a ten-point average roughness is 0.6-7.0 ?m, a load length ratio at a cut level of 20% is 60-98%, an effective load roughness is 0-1 ?m, and a mean value of intervals between the groove parts having a depth of 0.2 ?m or greater from the mean line is 79-280 ?m.

Abstract: Radio equipment includes a substrate on which a first antenna for near field communication is provided, a base portion on which the substrate is erected, and a cover portion configured to be attached to the base portion so as to cover the substrate. The cover portion includes an opposing portion configured to oppose the first antenna and a non-opposing portion disposed closer to the base portion than the opposing portion in a direction in which the substrate is erected. A distance from an outer surface of the cover portion to the substrate at the opposing portion is shorter than a distance from the outer surface of the cover portion to the substrate at the non-opposing portion.

Abstract: A member having a sliding contact surface that exerts a reduced frictional force when making sliding contact with a prescribed member and retains the lubricating oil more uniformly is provided. The sliding contact surface is a honed surface having flat plateau parts and groove parts. As calculated in regard to the sliding contact surface by using a mean line derived from a cross-sectional curve of the sliding contact surface in accordance with ISO 13565-1, a ten-point average roughness is 0.6-7.0 ?m, a load length ratio at a cut level of 20% is 60-98%, an effective load roughness is 0-1 ?m, and a mean value of intervals between the groove parts having a depth of 0.2 ?m or greater from the mean line is 79-280 ?m.

Abstract: A biological information measurement apparatus comprises: a spectrometer; a housing that contains the spectrometer and includes a surface on which a measurement target is to be placed, and an aperture portion through which light illuminating the measurement target placed on the surface and light reflected from the measurement target are to pass; and a shutter member that can move between a first position of opposing the aperture portion of the housing and a second position of retreating from the first position of opposing the aperture portion, the shutter member including a white reference surface. If the shutter member is at the first position, the spectrometer performs calibration using the white reference surface. If the shutter member is at the second position, the aperture portion and the measurement target oppose each other, and the spectrometer colorimetrically measures the measurement target.

Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus comprises: a light source; a guide unit that guides a luminous flux from the light source to a measurement target, which is part of a living body, and guides reflected light from the measurement target; a spectral unit that disperses the reflected light guided by the guide unit, with a predetermined resolution in a predetermined wavelength range; and an obtaining unit that sequentially obtains light intensities for a predetermined wavelength, which is part of light of a plurality of wavelengths obtained by the spectral unit.

Abstract: Radio equipment includes a substrate on which a first antenna for near field communication is provided, a base portion on which the substrate is erected, and a cover portion configured to be attached to the base portion so as to cover the substrate. The cover portion includes an opposing portion configured to oppose the first antenna and a non-opposing portion disposed closer to the base portion than the opposing portion in a direction in which the substrate is erected. A distance from an outer surface of the cover portion to the substrate at the opposing portion is shorter than a distance from the outer surface of the cover portion to the substrate at the non-opposing portion.

Abstract: A copper alloy disclosed in the present description has a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100-(x+y)SnxMny (where 8?x?16 and 2?y?10 are satisfied), in which a main phase is a ?CuSn phase with Mn dissolved therein, and the ?CuSn phase undergoes martensitic transformation when heat-treated or worked.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body having an opening, an image forming unit, storage portions, each to store a sheet inside the main body, and a moving unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The moving unit moves the sheet stored in each of the storage portions, and stop the sheet in an exposure state where a trailing edge of the sheet is inside the main body and a leading edge of the sheet is exposed outside the main body through the opening. The moving unit moves a first sheet stored in a first storage portion and a second sheet stored in a second storage portion, and stops the first sheet and the second sheet in the exposure state, wherein the leading edge of the first sheet and the leading edge of the second sheet are exposed outside the main body through the opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet storage device having a high sheet receiving performance and whose size is reduced. A point 272 of intersection of a first upper guide and a second upper guide is located upstream from a point 271 of intersection of a first lower guide and a second lower guide in a sheet conveyance direction. Thus, the size of the sheet storage device can be reduced while the sheet receiving performance remains unaffected.

Abstract: An inclined flange roller is located outward of an end portion of a tension roller in the belt width direction. The inclined flange roller includes a flange surface capable of being in contact with the edge portion of a belt in a region in which the belt is wound around the tension roller and a roller surface capable of being in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the belt between the flange surface and an end portion of the tension roller in the belt width direction.

Abstract: A structural member of a vehicle includes a metal body, a first resin layer and a second resin layer. The metal body is made of metal. The first resin layer is provided on the metal body in a layering direction and includes a first thermoplastic resin. The second resin layer is provided on the first resin layer in the layering direction and includes a second thermoplastic resin and carbon fiber.

Abstract: A forging process is conducted in a temperature range of 350-600° C. on at least a portion that is required to have a fatigue strength in an intermediate forged product having a ferrite and pearlite texture obtained by conducting a hot forging on a steel in which N is not greater than an amount at which N is unavoidably dissolved as a solid, thereby improving strength of the portion that is required to have a fatigue strength. With this, there is provided a forged product having a good strength and a low price.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body having an opening, an image forming unit, storage portions, each to store a sheet inside the main body, and a moving unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The moving unit moves the sheet stored in each of the storage portions, and stop the sheet in an exposure state where a trailing edge of the sheet is inside the main body and a leading edge of the sheet is exposed outside the main body through the opening. The moving unit moves a first sheet stored in a first storage portion and a second sheet stored in a second storage portion, and stops the first sheet and the second sheet in the exposure state, wherein the leading edge of the first sheet and the leading edge of the second sheet are exposed outside the main body through the opening.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the invention includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a plurality of storage portions each configured to store the sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming unit; an opening configured to expose the sheet stored in the storage portion to the outside; and a sheet moving unit configured to move the sheet until a leading edge of the sheet stored in the storage portion passes the opening and a portion of the sheet is exposed from the opening to the outside. The sheet moving unit exposes sheets stored in a plurality of the storage portions in a stacked manner from the opening.