Abstract: A circuit apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit, an error detection circuit, and a search circuit. The error detection circuit determines an indicator representing the degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image and a background image out of a display image based on the result of correlation operation and performs error detection on the display image based on the indicator. The search circuit searches the display image for the display position of the foreground image based on the reference image, which serves as a reference for the foreground image. The error detection circuit performs the error detection based on the display position searched for by the search circuit.

Abstract: The steel material consists of, in mass %, C: 0.25% to 0.35%, Si: 0.05 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.85 to 1.20%, P: 0.080% or less, S: 0.030 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.10% or less, Ti: 0.050% or less, Al: 0.050% or less, N: 0.005 to 0.024%, and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and Fn1 defined in the specification is 1.00 to 2.05, and Fn2 defined in the specification is 0.42 to 0.60. A surface number density of MnS single inclusions and MnS composite inclusions having an equivalent circular diameter of 5.0 ?m or more is 20/mm2 or more. A ratio of the total number of MnS single inclusions and MnS composite inclusions with respect to the total number of inclusions is 70% or more. A ratio of the number of MnS composite oxides with respect to the total number of oxides is 30% or more.

Abstract: A method of treating a battery having a laminated electrode that includes a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, the battery being either a lithium ion battery or a solid-state battery, includes: an immersion step of immersing the laminated electrode in water after lithium is deactivated; and a separation step of separating the laminated electrode by applying an electrical pulse to the laminated electrode.

Abstract: A method for treating a secondary battery that can recover materials constituting the secondary battery safely and efficiently and contributes to energy efficiency. The method for treating a secondary battery containing metallic lithium in a negative electrode includes bringing water vapor at 40° C. to 175° C. into contact with a battery cell.

Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring apparatus includes a projection unit that projects a pattern onto a subject, a plurality of image capturing units that capture images of the subject from mutually different points of view, and a processing unit that calculates a distance value to the subject by performing association using image groups captured of the subject by the plurality of image capturing units, wherein the processing unit integrates information based on a first image group that was captured by projecting the pattern onto the subject, and information based on a second image group that was captured without projecting the pattern onto the subject, into integrated images or evaluation values to be used during the association such that features of the images from both the first image group and the second image group remain, and calculates the distance value using the integrated images that have been integrated or the evaluation values.

Abstract: To adsorb an adsorbate rapidly on a heat storage material with good energy efficiency. A chemical heat storage device includes an adsorbate, a heat storage material, and a sprayer. The adsorbate is in a liquid state at normal temperature. The heat storage material releases heat of adsorption in response to adsorption of the adsorbate on the heat storage material and stores the heat of adsorption in response to desorption of the adsorbate from the heat storage material. The sprayer sprays the adsorbate on the heat storage material in a heat release period of causing the heat storage material to release the heat of adsorption. With the above-described configuration, it is possible to increase a speed of diffusion of the adsorbate in the heat storage material through spraying of the adsorbate on the heat storage material.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to inhibit the phase separation of a salt hydrate used as a main component of a heat storage material. The inventors have made the present invention based on findings that when added to a heat storage material including a salt hydrate and a supercooling inhibitor, graphene oxide can inhibit the phase separation of the salt hydrate. The present invention is directed to a heat storage material including: a salt hydrate as a main component; a supercooling inhibitor that promotes solidification of the salt hydrate; and graphene oxide. The technical features help to inhibit the phase separation of salt hydrates.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to sinter a MOF sufficiently firmly at a low temperature while ensuring the MOF sufficient adsorption performance. The present inventors have found that if a binder having a hydroxy group is mixed with a MOF having a terephthalic acid-based ligand, a sufficiently firm MOF can be obtained by sintering at a low temperature while ensuring sufficient adsorption performance, and thus the present invention has been completed. The MOF sintered body of the present invention contains a MOF having a terephthalic acid-based ligand and a binder having a hydroxy group OH. According to the present aspect, the sufficiently firm MOF can be obtained by sintering at a low temperature while ensuring sufficient adsorption performance.

Abstract: An object is to sufficiently lower the melting point of a heat storage material that includes sodium acetate trihydrate as a main component and to sufficiently narrow the range of a melting peak while ensuring a sufficient heat storage density. A heat storage material contains sodium acetate trihydrate that serves as a main component 21 and a melting point adjuster that is any one of potassium nitrate, potassium chloride or sodium nitrate. The content of the melting point adjuster in the heat storage material is equal to or greater than 10% by weight. The present inventors have confirmed that by setting the content of the melting point adjuster to be equal to or greater than 10% by weight, the range of a melting peak serving as a melting temperature range can be sufficiently narrowed.

Abstract: The image processing circuit includes a gamma correction circuit configured to perform a gamma correction on input image data using a look-up table, and then output output image data, an output image histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate an output image histogram, an input image histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate an input image histogram, a reference histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate a reference histogram from the input image histogram based on the look-up table, and a histogram comparison circuit configured to perform a comparison between the output image histogram and the reference histogram.

Abstract: A circuit device 100 includes a light source driving value output unit 150 and a pixel value output unit 190. The light source driving value output unit 150 obtains a corrected intensity image Lled by correcting an intensity image Lint of an input image RGBin in a target display zone based on the light intensity distribution of a light source corresponding to the target display zone, and obtains a light source driving value Ldrv based on the largest corrected intensity value in the corrected intensity image Lled. The pixel value output unit 190 corrects pixel values of the input image RGBin based on the light source driving value Ldrv, and outputs the corrected pixel values as pixel values of an output image RGBout.

Abstract: The image processing circuit includes a gamma correction circuit configured to perform a gamma correction on input image data using a look-up table, and then output output image data, an output image histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate an output image histogram, an input image histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate an input image histogram, a reference histogram calculation circuit configured to calculate a reference histogram from the input image histogram based on the look-up table, and a histogram comparison circuit configured to perform a comparison between the output image histogram and the reference histogram.

Abstract: A circuit device includes an image processing circuit, a CRC calculation circuit, and a determination circuit. Processing target image data obtained by adding known image data to effective image data is input to the image processing circuit, and the image processing circuit executes image processing on the processing target image data. The image processing circuit outputs processed effective image data which is the effective image data subjected to the image processing and processed known image data which is the known image data subjected to the image processing. The CRC calculation circuit obtains a CRC value based on the processed known image data. The determination circuit determines correctness of the image processing by comparing the CRC value with a CRC expected value of the processed known image data.

Abstract: A circuit apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit, an error detection circuit, and a search circuit. The error detection circuit determines an indicator representing the degree of dissimilarity between a foreground image and a background image out of a display image based on the result of correlation operation and performs error detection on the display image based on the indicator. The search circuit searches the display image for the display position of the foreground image based on the reference image, which serves as a reference for the foreground image. The error detection circuit performs the error detection based on the display position searched for by the search circuit.

Abstract: A circuit device 100 includes a light source driving value output unit 150 and a pixel value output unit 190. The light source driving value output unit 150 obtains a corrected intensity image Lled by correcting an intensity image Lint of an input image RGBin in a target display zone based on the light intensity distribution of a light source corresponding to the target display zone, and obtains a light source driving value Ldry based on the largest corrected intensity value in the corrected intensity image Lled. The pixel value output unit 190 corrects pixel values of the input image RGBin based on the light source driving value Ldrv, and outputs the corrected pixel values as pixel values of an output image RGBout.

Abstract: Provided is a coating composition capable of forming a coating film which exhibits excellent durability and is suitable for repair. It is a coating composition containing a resin component and a pigment, in which a linear expansion coefficient at a temperature equal to or less than a glass transition temperature of a nonvolatile component is 3.2×10?5/K or less.

Abstract: A membrane element includes a central pipe having, in its outer periphery, holes; a membrane wound body in which a membrane member is wound on the central pipe; end members arranged, respectively, at both ends of the membrane wound body; and an exterior member fitted to at least an outer periphery of the membrane wound body. In this element, the exterior member includes a fiber reinforced resin having a reinforcing fiber wound on the outer periphery of the membrane wound body; the end members each includes flexible portions extended from a main body toward the membrane wound body; and the reinforcing fiber is wound also onto an outer periphery of the flexible portions in a state that the flexible portions are deformed toward an outer peripheral surface of the membrane wound body.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a cooling apparatus for a steel material in which one portion in a longitudinal direction of an elongated steel material (10) is heated while the steel material is fed in the longitudinal direction in a state where one end portion of the steel material is gripped, and the one end portion is moved in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional direction so as to form the steel material into a predetermined shape including a bent portion and thereafter to cool a heated portion including the bent portion. The cooling apparatus includes a first cooling apparatus (22) that ejects a first cooling medium to the heated portion, and a second cooling apparatus (23) that is disposed on a downstream side from the first cooling apparatus when viewed along a feeding direction of the steel material, and that ejects a second cooling medium to the heated portion.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of achieving excellent finished appearance and excellent corrosion resistance without affecting electrodeposition coatability even when a part or all of the water-washing step is omitted after chemical conversion treatment, and to provide a coated article.

Abstract: A rolled steel material for fracture splitting connecting rods consists of, C: 0.30 to 0.40%, Si: 0.60 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.00%, P: 0.04 to 0.07%, S: 0.04 to 0.13%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.30%, V: 0.05 to 0.14%, Ti: more than 0.15% to 0.20% or less, N: 0.002 to 0.020%, and optionally may contain Cu, Ni, Mo, Pb, Te, Ca, and Bi, with the balance being Fe and impurities. fn1, defined by Formula (1), ranges from 0.65 to 0.80. Relative to the V content in the steel material, a V content in coarse precipitates having a particle size of 200 nm or more is 70% or less, and relative to the Ti content in the steel material, a Ti content in the coarse precipitates is 50% or more.