Abstract: An electric discharge machining apparatus of the present invention includes a power supply, an electrode gap configured so as to be formed by an electrode and a workpiece, and an earth floating-capacitance current-suppressing coil configured to be inserted between the power supply and the electrode gap. Accordingly, the impedance in the charging path from the power supply to an interelectrode capacitance (an interelectrode parallel capacitor and an interelectrode parallel floating capacitance) can be decreased, and the impedance in the charging path to an earth floating capacitance can be increased, thereby enabling the electric current from the earth floating capacitance during discharge machining to be suppressed.

Abstract: The present invention in one preferred embodiment discloses a new design of HVPE reactor, which can grow gallium nitride for more than one day without interruption. To avoid clogging in the exhaust system, a second reactor chamber is added after a main reactor where GaN is produced. The second reactor chamber may be configured to enhance ammonium chloride formation, and the powder may be collected efficiently in it. To avoid ammonium chloride formation in the main reactor, the connection between the main reactor and the second reaction chamber can be maintained at elevated temperature. In addition, the second reactor chamber may have two or more exhaust lines. If one exhaust line becomes clogged with powder, the valve for an alternative exhaust line may open and the valve for the clogged line may be closed to avoid overpressuring the system. The quartz-made main reactor may have e.g. a pyrolytic boron nitride liner to collect polycrystalline gallium nitride efficiently.

Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic-image-developing toner containing: a toner particle which contains a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent, and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and in which the styrene (meth)acrylic resin forms a domain having a number average diameter of 300 nm to 800 nm in the toner particle; and an inorganic particle in which the number average diameter of the domain is from 1.5 times to 10 times the number average particle diameter of the inorganic particle.

Abstract: An LED unit which serves as an illumination light source includes: a light-emitting element; a circuit board provided in a drive circuit which drives the light-emitting element; a lead wire electrically connecting the light-emitting element and the drive circuit; and a case including a first opening which is an elongated opening into which the lead wire is inserted. The circuit board includes a second opening which is an elongated opening into which the lead wire is inserted, and the first opening and the second opening are disposed so that a straight line extending in a lengthwise direction of the first opening and a straight line extending in a lengthwise direction of the second opening three-dimensionally cross each other.

Abstract: A projector (1) includes a light source device (2), a light modulating device (5) configured to modulate a light beam emitted from the light source device, a projection optical device (7) configured to project the light beam modulated by the light modulating device, and a flexible printed circuit board (6), one end of which is connected to the light modulating device (5). The light source device (2) includes a light emitting device mounted on the flexible printed circuit board (6). The flexible printed circuit board is bent, whereby the light source device is disposed in an emission position where the light source device (2) emits the light beam to the light modulating device (5).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit; a printing unit; a power feed unit including a non-power saving mode and a power saving mode, the power feed unit configured to change the mode; an input unit configured to receive an input of a switching instruction; a switching unit configured to switch the mode from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode when a stop condition is satisfied, the switching unit configured to switch the mode when the switching instruction is input; and a change unit configured to change the stop condition to a second condition which is more likely not to be satisfied than a first condition, after the mode is changed from the non-power saving mode to the power saving mode and when the mode is switched from the power saving mode to the non-power saving mode by the switching instruction.

Abstract: A compact low-cost imaging lens which meets the demand for low-profileness, offers high brightness with an F-value of 2.5 or less and a wide field of view, and corrects aberrations properly. Its elements are arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a positive first lens having a convex object-side surface; a negative second lens having a concave image-side surface; a negative third lens; a negative fourth lens as a meniscus double-sided aspheric lens having a convex image-side surface; and a double-sided aspheric fifth lens having a concave image-side surface. The aspheric image-side surface of the fifth lens has a pole-change point off an optical axis, and the imaging lens satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2): TTL/2ih?0.8??(1) 20<?d1??d2<50??(2) where ?d1: Abbe number of the first lens at d-ray ?d2: Abbe number of the second lens at d-ray ih: maximum image height TTL: total track length.

Abstract: A vehicle control device is capable of switching a driving state of a host vehicle between manual driving and autonomous driving, and determines whether or not another vehicle exists in a driver's blind area set in advance diagonally behind the host vehicle in a case where the driving state of the host vehicle is autonomous driving and when the host vehicle reaches a check timing set in advance. In addition, the vehicle control device executes the control in a case where it is determined that the other vehicle exists in the driver's blind area and when the other vehicle exists, which can be removed from the driver's blind area by the control of at least one of a vehicle speed of the host vehicle and a lateral position of the host vehicle.

Abstract: When a powder material (5) is molded by introducing the material into a cavity (11) between a lower punch (2) and a die (1), compression molding the material between upper and lower punches (3 and 2) into a compact (51) of desired shape, and moving up the lower punch (2) to eject the compact (51), a lubricant is applied to the interior surface of the die (1) by fitting a pad (24) around the lower punch (2) and impregnating the pad with the lubricant. Since the lubricant is applied on every molding operation, molding operation can be continuously carried out.

Abstract: Provided is a nut (12) configured to engage with an end portion on a first side of each of bolts (11) that pass through a plurality of rotary members in an axial direction at a plurality of locations in a circumferential direction having an axis (A) as the center thereof, the plurality of rotary members being stacked along the axial direction in which the axis (A) extends, the nut (12) comprising a first cover surface (35), which is the surface opposite a surface that faces a second side opposite the first side of the bolts (11), wherein, among all surfaces of the nut, at least the first cover surface (35) cooperates with the first cover surface (35) of another nut (12) to form a continuous annular surface with the axis (A) as the center thereof.

Abstract: A parallel-computing system includes: computation nodes connected in a mesh or torus connection and configured to perform parallel-computation; and a job management node including a computer, being coupled to the computation nodes, and being configured to: manage a plurality of jobs, select a first job from the jobs being executed by any of the computation nodes, search for a second area adjoining a first area occupied by a first computation node of the computation nodes executing the first job, the second area being occupied by a free computation node not executing any job, determine a fourth area of a same size as the first area at a location contacting an end in a predetermined direction in a third area comprising the first area and the second area, determine a fifth area of a predetermined shape in a range not overlapping the fourth area in the third area.

Abstract: A bicycle electrical shifting apparatus is basically provided with a shift operating device that includes an operating member and a first controller. The first controller is programmed to output a first signal that starts a shifting operation in response to a single manual operation of the operating member and a second signal that ends the shifting operation in response to an end of the single manual operation of the operating member.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes an accelerator operation amount generator receiving an actual accelerator operation amount of an accelerator operator to generate a control accelerator operation amount; an engine controller controlling the engine according to the control accelerator operation amount; and a storage storing a table in which an increasing speed for the control accelerator operation amount is set, wherein the accelerator operation amount generator obtains a difference between a converted accelerator operation amount of the accelerator operator converted from a rotating speed of the engine in a current control cycle and a control accelerator operation amount obtained in the last control cycle, determines an increasing speed of the control accelerator operation amount from the difference by referring to the table, and changes the control accelerator operation amount to an actual operation amount in the current control cycle with the determined increasing speed.

Abstract: An engine electronic control unit of a hybrid vehicle is configured to execute in-abnormality starting control for starting an engine when the engine is cranked in a state where abnormality occurs to communication between the engine electronic control unit and a hybrid electronic control unit. The hybrid electronic control unit is configured to execute in-abnormality cranking control for controlling the first motor such that the engine is cranked when the abnormality occurs to the communication between the engine electronic control unit and the hybrid electronic control unit. In addition, the hybrid electronic control unit is configured to execute in-abnormality electric travel control for controlling the second motor such that the hybrid vehicle travels only by power from the second motor when the in-abnormality cranking control is executed but the engine is not started.

Abstract: A bicycle electric component setting system is basically provided a master unit and a plurality of slave bicycle electric components. The master unit is configured to be mounted to a bicycle. The master unit is configured to receive update information from an external terminal device. The slave bicycle electric components are configured to be mounted to the bicycle. The slave bicycle electric components are configured to receive the update information from the master unit to change a setting of at least one of the slave bicycle electric components.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, an armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, that is jointless and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions.

Abstract: An obstacle detection apparatus according to an embodiment includes an on-vehicle camera (image capturing unit), an estimation unit, and a determination unit. The on-vehicle camera is provided on a vehicle and captures an image of surroundings of the vehicle. The estimation unit estimates an existence region with an obstacle existing therein in an image captured by the image capturing unit. The determination unit determines presence or absence of the obstacle based on brightness of the existence region.

Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide a device capable of efficiently collecting contradictory expressions in units smaller than a sentence.

Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a machining unit that forms a product part by cutting off an outer frame portion from a workpiece and a control device that controls the machining unit. The machining unit machines a first boundary region in a boundary between a member to be the outer frame portion and a member to be the product part to leave an uncut portion, cuts off the product part from the outer frame portion by machining a second boundary region, which is the uncut portion, and repeats machining for the first/second boundary regions. The uncut portion has a side crossing a machining direction in machining the second boundary region, and when machining the second boundary region, the control device controls the machining unit to start the machining from the crossing side.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery includes: an electrode mixture layer that contains an electrode active material and an organic ferroelectric having a dielectric constant of 25 or higher; and an electrolytic solution that contains lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide and a nonaqueous solvent. A content of the organic ferroelectric is 0.5 parts by mass to 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the electrode active material. A proportion of a high-polarity solvent having a dielectric constant of 10 or higher in the nonaqueous solvent is 10 vol % or lower.