Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, and an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage, and provided downstream with respect to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage and rotates around an EGR valve axis to open and close the downstream passage.

Abstract: In coaching with the purpose of creating a document in mind, data containing question group related to components of the document, a question of details, and a question of another topic is included, an increase/decrease of information amount of the answers of the writer is estimated from a writer's past answers and a current answer, and a next question is selected based on the estimation result.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element, a resin member including, a front surface provided with a recess in which the at least one light emitting element is mounted, a back surface, a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first lateral surface, and a second lateral surface; a first lead including a first inner lead portion and a first outer lead portion; and a second lead including a second inner lead portion and a second outer lead portion. Each of the outer lead portions includes a first-outer-lead base portion along the bottom surface, and first and second bent portions which are extended toward the upper surface side. The resin member is not arranged in at least a portion of a region between the second bent portion of the first outer lead portion and the first bent portion of the second outer lead portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, a first guiding unit having a first surface forming a first feeding passage, and a second guiding unit forming a second feeding passage. The second guiding unit includes a first member made of metal and having a first guiding surface on which a leading end of a sheet is guided in a first section including an upstream end portion of the second feeding passage with respect to a sheet feeding direction, and includes a second member made of a resin material and having a second guiding surface on which the sheet is guided in a second section downstream of the first section in the second feeding passage with respect to the sheet feeding direction. The first guiding surface is spaced from a first phantom contact surface extending from an end portion of the first surface and contacting the second guiding surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles, a channel structure stacked on the nozzle surface in a stacking direction, and a supply channel structure formed of a material having a lower thermal conductivity than a material of the channel structure. The channel structure has a liquid ejection channel communicating with the nozzles. The supply channel structure has a supply channel communicating with the liquid ejection channel. The supply channel structure has a covering portion covering at least a portion of an end surface on a side of the channel structure in a width direction orthogonal to the stacking direction.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter that converts an inputted analog signal into a digital value is disclosed that may include unit circuits that each generate reference voltages comprising regular potential intervals by a series resistor circuit connected between a high potential side reference voltage and a low potential side reference voltage and convert the reference voltages into a digital value by comparing the reference voltages with the inputted analog signal, and an adder that adds the digital values converted by the unit circuits. Each unit circuit may include coupling switches that couple the series resistor circuit with the series resistor circuit of another one of the unit circuits and connect the series resistor circuits between the high potential side reference voltage and the low potential side reference voltage and a sharing switch that shares the inputted analog signal with the other unit circuit that is coupled with the series resistor circuit.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a supply channel structure and a heater. The supply channel structure has a supply channel configured to allow liquid to flow therefrom to ejection channels that are configured to lead liquid to nozzles aligned in a first direction. The heater is configured to heat liquid. Assuming that a side of the liquid ejection head, in which the nozzles are provided, is defined as a lower side of the liquid ejection head, the heater is disposed above the supply channel structure.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a flow channel structure, a supply channel structure, a piezoelectric element, a sealing substrate, and a heater. The flow channel structure defines an ejection channel including an individual channel and a manifold. The individual channel has a nozzle and a pressure chamber in which pressure is applied to liquid for causing the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle. The supply channel structure defines a supply channel configured to allow the liquid to flow therethrough to the ejection channel. The piezoelectric element is positioned on an upper surface of the flow channel structure and facing the pressure chamber via a vibration plate. The sealing substrate is made of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than the supply channel structure. The sealing substrate surrounds the piezoelectric element on the flow channel structure to seal the piezoelectric element. The heater is disposed at the sealing substrate.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of a successive approximation type analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog input into a digital conversion value and outputs the digital conversion value, may include: a capacitance DAC that generates a bit-by-bit potential based on an analog input; a comparator that compares the potential generated by the capacitance DAC, wherein the comparator is a memory cell rewriting type, the comparator includes a first stage current mirror type operational amplifier; and a second stage memory cell; a conversion data generator that generates conversion data of resolution bits based on a comparison result of the comparator; and a correction circuit that corrects an output error of the conversion data caused by an offset error of the comparator by adding or subtracting an offset correction value that is a fixed value, and outputs the conversion data as a digital conversion value.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter according to one or more embodiments is disclosed that converts an analog input to a digital converted value by repeating a conversion data generation operation by a conversion data generator, a potential generation operation by a capacitance DAC, and a comparison operation by a comparator for a resolution bit, the analog-to-digital converter. a comparator operation signal generation circuit predicts the time when a potential generated by the capacitance DAC becomes settled based on a charging or discharging time to a capacitance element whose characteristics are equal to those of the capacitance used in the capacitance DAC, and generates a comparator operation signal to allow the comparator to start the comparison operation.

Abstract: There is provided a printer including: a casing defining an internal space; a conveyor; a head; a tank, a first channel communicating the tank and the head with each other; a first pressure gauge; a first pump; a second channel communicating the tank and the head with each other; a second pressure gauge; and a second pump. The internal space includes a first space defined between a first virtual surface and a second virtual surface which are parallel to a conveyance direction and an up-down direction 7, and a second space which is different from the first space; the head is positioned in the first space; and the tank, the first pressure gauge, the first pump, the second pressure gauge, and the second pump are positioned in the second space.

Abstract: A polymerizable compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), one of eight hydrogen atoms is substituted by a (meth)acryloyloxy group, and the rest seven hydrogen atoms are independently non-substituted or substituted by a saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbons.

Abstract: An analog-digital conversion circuit is disclosed for comparing a comparison potential with a reference potential generated based on a reference power supply to convert a comparison potential to a digital value. An analog-to-digital converter generates the comparison potential based on a sampled and held input potential, the digital value, and the reference power supply. A current amount control unit controls current amount flowing to the current amount control element in each bit circuit. In response to second switches of the bit circuits being turned on in order from the upper bit in each bit circuit by the digital value, the current amount control unit applies a current control potential to the current amount control element in any of the bit circuits that the noise current is more than allowable value while the noise current proportional to the charge flowing from the capacitor is more than the allowable value.

Abstract: A construction machine is capable of reducing a decrease in work efficiency due to maintenance for capturing dust. The construction machine includes: an engine; a heat exchanger; a cooling fan that sucks air into an engine chamber to pass the air through the heat exchanger; an intake chamber independent of the engine chamber; an intake tube connected to the intake chamber; and a dust receiving part. The intake tube has a curved part, which has an outside inner wall surface allowing dust in the air to contact it. The dust receiving part is located downstream of the outside inner wall surface to be capable of receiving dust.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radio wave absorber that has excellent radio wave absorption against oblique incidence, particularly against oblique incidence of radio waves at around 60 GHz. The object can be achieved by a radio wave absorber that has an absorption range with absorption performance of 15 dB or more within the frequency band of 55 to 65 GHz of 4 GHz or more in a circular polarization measurement at 45° incidence.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radio wave absorber having excellent radio wave absorption against oblique incidence, particularly against oblique incidence of radio waves at around 79 GHz. The object can be achieved by a radio wave absorber having characteristic A: an absorption range with absorption performance of 15 dB or more within the frequency band of 75 to 85 GHz of 4 GHz or more in a TM polarization measurement at 45° incidence and/or characteristic B: an absorption range with absorption performance of 15 dB or more within the frequency band of 75 to 85 GHz of 4 GHz or more in a TB polarization measurement at 45° incidence.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element, a resin member including, a front surface provided with a recess in which the at least one light emitting element is mounted, a back surface, a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first lateral surface, and a second lateral surface; a first lead including a first inner lead portion and a first outer lead portion; and a second lead including a second inner lead portion and a second outer lead portion. Each of the outer lead portions includes a first-outer-lead base portion along the bottom surface, and first and second bent portions which are extended toward the upper surface side. The resin member is not arranged in at least a portion of a region between the second bent portion of the first outer lead portion and the first bent portion of the second outer lead portion.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: individual channel rows; a common channel; a supply port via which liquid is supplied to the common channel; and a discharge port via which the liquid is discharged from the common channel. Each of the individual channel rows is formed of individual channels aligned in a first direction, each of the individual channels includes a nozzle, and the individual channel rows are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. The common channel extends in the first direction, and extends in the second direction over an entire length of an area in which the individual channel rows are arranged. The common channel overlaps with the individual channel rows in a third direction orthogonal to both of the first and second directions, and communicates with the individual channels constructing each of the individual channel rows.