Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing device including a developing carrying member and configured to develop an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with developer, an electrostatic capacity detecting portion configured to detect information on electrostatic capacity between the developer carrying member and the image bearing member, and a toner content detecting portion configured to detect information on a toner content of the developer accommodated in a developing container. On the basis of the detected electrostatic capacity and the detected toner content, a controller controls a driving speed at which the developer carrying member is rotationally driven.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a winding, and a temperature sensor. In the stator core, a plurality of slots are formed in a circumferential direction of the stator. The winding is formed by a plurality of conductors which are housed in the slots and are electrically connected. The slots are formed such that a predetermined number of the conductors are housed and arrayed in a radial direction of the stator. The temperature sensor is located in at least one of the slots and detects temperature of the conductors.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes: a developer carrier configured to carry developer; a developer container having a first chamber and a second chamber; a first conveying member provided in the first chamber, and including a first conveying unit and, on a downstream side in a first direction, a reverse conveying unit; a second conveying member; a discharge unit configured to discharge the developer; a partition wall having a first communication port and a second communication port, and configured to partition the first chamber and the second chamber; and a plurality of protruding portions provided so as to oppose the first conveying member at a position above a region between the first conveying unit and the reverse conveying unit in a vertical direction, each of the protruding portions extending along the first direction, wherein the plurality of protruding portions are arranged in a row in a direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A robot calibrating apparatus calibrating a command value for a robot body 2 whose position and orientation is controlled based on the command value, includes an operating unit configured to calculate a calibrating function of calibrating the command value, based on the difference between an ideal position and orientation of the robot body 2 and an actual position and orientation of the robot body 2. The ideal position and orientation is operated based on a command value RHTcom for calibration used during calibration or on a control result value which is a result of control according to the command value. The actual position and orientation is operated based on a measurement value RHT?meas for calibration acquired by a camera 3 arranged at a prescribed relative position and orientation with respect to the robot body 2 during the robot body 2 being controlled according to the command value for calibration.

Abstract: The maintenance management device 3 includes an error status diagnosis unit 11, a grace period estimation unit 14, a maintenance cost estimation unit 15, and a screen display unit 17. When the error status diagnosis unit 11 has diagnosed the occurrence of an anomaly, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a first grace period leading up to the occurrence of a failure. The maintenance cost estimation unit 15 estimates the cost of corrective maintenance incurred when the failure occurs after the elapse of the first grace period. The screen display unit 17 displays a combination of the first grace period and the cost of corrective maintenance. Alternatively, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a second grace period over which preventive maintenance may be postponed without a failure.

Abstract: A chemical heat storage device includes a reactor which has a heat storage material which generates heat by a chemical reaction with a reactive medium and desorbs the reactive medium by heat absorption, and a receptacle which houses the heat storage material therein; a reservoir which stores the reactive medium; a connecting pipe through which the reactor and the reservoir communicate with each other and the reactive medium is allowed to flow between the reactor and the reservoir, wherein the reactive medium is ammonia, the receptacle is made of a metallic material (for example, stainless steel), and at least a portion of an inner surface of the receptacle which comes into contact with the ammonia is formed with a nickel layer containing 90% nickel by mass or more.

Abstract: The device for searching for similar breakdown cases according to the present invention includes: a first means that detects a signal abnormality from a repair target machine, calculates the correlations between the signal abnormality and past abnormality cases by means of quantification, and regards the past abnormality cases as similar abnormality cases; a second means that obtains the component repair histories of the repair target machine in the similar abnormality cases by means of quantification; and a third means that, in accordance with the quantified correlations and the quantified component repair histories, determines and provides the priority levels of the plural past similar abnormality cases.

Abstract: Disclosed is a molded article obtained by molding a thermoplastic resin composition, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin (A) and an inorganic filler (B); the content of the inorganic filler (B) is 60 to 150 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin (A); the content of a plate-shaped inorganic filler (b1) having an average thickness of 4.0 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 130 or more in the inorganic filler (B) is 35 to 100% by mass; and a thickness of the thinnest part thereof is 2.0 mm or less.

Abstract: The operation data collection device for work machines includes a plurality of sensors attached to a work machine to receive measurement data as operation data and record the operation data in an operation data storage section. The operation data collection device further includes: a communication processing section that transmits the operation data stored in the operation data storage section to an external server in response to a download request from the external server; an access history management section that manages a download status of the operation data recorded in the operation data storage section, through the download request from the external server and the transmission of the operation data to the external server; and a recorded data change processing section that changes a condition for recording the operation data in the operation data storage section in accordance with the download status of the operation data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units each having an image bearing member and an electrification portion. A developing bias application portion applies a common developing bias to first and second developer bearing members. A controller controls a second electrification bias application portion so as to have a voltage value of a second electrification bias applied to a second electrification portion in a first period different from that in a second period such that an absolute value of a potential difference between a surface potential of a second image bearing member and the common developing bias applied to the second developer bearing member in the first period is smaller than that in the second period.

Abstract: The present invention aims to present methods to detect nonalcoholic fatty liver disease including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis by using a protein or its partial peptide that differs in presence or absence, or in quantity between healthy human subjects and patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or between patients with fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and further aims to present biomarkers comprising said protein and said partial peptide to be used to detect nonalcoholic fatty liver disease including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Specifically, 35 kDa protein fragment consisting of amino acid sequence expressed by Sequence No. 2 and its partial peptide consisting of amino acid sequence expressed by Sequence No. 3 (including its glycated form) of inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain H4 precursor consisting of amino acid sequence expressed by Sequence No.

Abstract: Indicators are set on a marker positioned on a working stage in conformity with a target teaching point. A stereo camera images the indicator in a state of being positioned on a robot hand, and measures the three-dimensional position of the marker. In robot arm controlling, the robot hand is positioned at the correction teaching point for off-line that is offset from an off-line teaching point in the depth of field direction of the stereo camera. In imaging, while the robot hand is positioned at the correction teaching point for off-line, the indicators are imaged by the stereo camera. In correcting, based on an imaging result of the indicator, the on-line teaching point is corrected toward the target teaching point to obtain the on-line teaching point.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyamide resin composition not only having an appropriate melt viscosity despite addition of a conductive filler thereto but also having excellent moldability, conductivity, low-temperature impact resistance, and fuel barrier properties. The present invention is a polyamide resin composition containing specific amounts of a polyamide, a modified resin, and a conductive filler. The polyamide contains: dicarboxylic acid units containing 50 mol % or more of terephthalic acid units and/or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid units; and diamine units containing 60 mol % or more of aliphatic diamine units having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, and has terminal amino groups in an amount of 5 to 60 ?mol/g. The modified resin has been modified with an unsaturated compound having a carboxyl group and/or an acid anhydride group.

Abstract: In industrial machine abnormality diagnosis, if the machine is diagnosed to have abnormality, then sensor data from the machine needs to be sent to a management center for causal analysis. However, since machines operated at a remote site cannot always communicate with a management center, it has been found that, in some cases, sensor data that has failed to be sent from a machine remains in the memory of the machine, resulting in lack of available memory capacity. In view of this, the present invention determines beforehand whether the diagnosed machine will run out of available memory capacity before the completion of sending the amount of sensor data required for causal analysis for the machine, and instructs a maintenance person to recover memory.

Abstract: A single-wafer substrate processing device is provided which does not spill a processing liquid and the vapors thereof to an exterior when directly supplying the process liquid to a surface of a substrate to process the substrate and which prevents the process liquid and the vapors, etc., thereof to adhere a ceiling, etc., of a housing. The device includes a housing 1, holding means 4 that holds, in the housing 1, a substrate 3 subjected to an eliminating process of adhering materials on a processing surface with a processing surface 3a being directed to the bottom 1b of the housing, supply means that supplies a process liquid to the processing surface 3a of the substrate 3 held by the holding means 4, an inlet 1a for taking in a gaseous body in the housing 1, and an outlet 1c for evacuating from the housing the vapors of the process liquid in the housing 1 together with the gaseous body taken in from the inlet 1a.

Abstract: Sensor data immediately after the issuance of an alarm does not exhibit the peculiarity of a failure, with the result that the wrong component is sometimes erroneously identified as the failure component. A failure component identification unit provided in a maintenance device collects an alarm issued when a measurement value exceeds a range of a measurement threshold value in an apparatus being a maintenance target. The failure component identification unit identifies the failure component on the basis of the measurement value exhibiting a condition indicating a peculiarity of the failure. An identification reliability determination unit determines the reliability of the component identification result obtained by a failure component identification unit.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot, a vision sensor, a controller, and an input unit. The vision sensor configured to measure a feature point and obtain a measured coordinate value. The controller configured to control the robot. The input unit configured to receive an input from a user toward the controller. The controller obtains, via the input unit, setting information data on a determination point which is different from the feature point. The robot system uses a coordinate value of the determination point and the measured coordinate value, and determines whether the robot is taking a target position and orientation.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot, a vision sensor, and a controller. The vision sensor is configured to be detachably attached to the robot. The controller is configured to measure a reference object by using the vision sensor and calibrate a relative relationship between a sensor portion of the vision sensor and an engagement portion of the vision sensor, and teach the robot by referring to the relative relationship and by using the vision sensor, after the vision sensor is attached to the robot.

Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a peptide synthesis method using a carrier capable of reversibly repeating the dissolved state and the insolubilized state, wherein the problem of an amino acid active species existing in the reaction system in de-protection reaction can be easily solved. The present invention provides a peptide synthesis method comprising the following steps: a step of condensing an N-Fmoc protected amino acid with a peptide having a C-terminal protected with a carrier which is crystallized according to a change of a composition of a dissolving solvent, in the presence of a condensing agent, to obtain an N-Fmoc-C-carrier protected peptide, a step of adding an alkylamine having 1 to 14 carbon atoms or hydroxyl amine to the reaction system, a step of de-protecting the N-terminal, and a step of changing the composition of the solvent dissolving the C-carrier protected peptide, to crystallize and separate the peptide.

Abstract: A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a setting unit and a adjusting unit. The setting unit sets a set position of a preceding vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in a vehicle width direction as a control target point of follow-up traveling allowing for traveling while following the preceding vehicle. The control amount adjusting unit adjusts, on a basis of a first control adjustment value that is based on shape data of the preceding vehicle, a control amount that controls the own vehicle to the control target point.