Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.

Abstract: A photonics-electronics convergence switch with which, even if an optical network system is built by combining a plurality of packet switches, the amount of processing in the packet switches does not increase, the optical network system operates with low electric power consumption, and this enables wide-range optical communication between the nodes of a communication origin and of a communication partner, includes a network processor that is an electronic circuit configured to control the functions of the packet switch, a plurality of optical transmitter-receivers having photoelectric conversion functions, and a plurality of optical switches.

Abstract: An obstacle data providing system includes a data processing apparatus that includes an electronic data providing unit that refers to an obstacle data storage unit that stores obstacle data generated by synthesizing a plurality of obstacle factors each of which becomes an obstacle in travelling of a low-speed vehicle, and sends, upon receiving a request for an electronic map from a terminal device, the obstacle data to the terminal device with an electronic map via a network; and the terminal device that includes a receiving unit that receives the electronic map and the obstacle data, and a display unit that displays the obstacle data with the electronic map, received by the receiving unit, on a display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer that includes at least one of a hindered phenol antioxidant and a benzophenone ultraviolet absorber, a charging device, an electrostatic latent image forming device, a developing device, and a transfer device that includes an intermediate transfer belt whose electric field dependence of a volume resistivity is 0.003 or less (log ?·cm)/V in a voltage range of from 500 V to 1,000 V, and transfers a toner image formed on a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor onto a recording medium through the intermediate transfer belt and erases charges from the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by applying current to the electrophotographic photoreceptor after the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor has been transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: An obstacle data providing system includes a data processing apparatus that includes an electronic data providing unit that refers to an obstacle data storage unit that stores obstacle data generated by synthesizing a plurality of obstacle factors each of which becomes an obstacle in travelling of a low-speed vehicle, and sends, upon receiving a request for an electronic map from a terminal device, the obstacle data to the terminal device with an electronic map via a network; and the terminal device that includes a receiving unit that receives the electronic map and the obstacle data, and a display unit that displays the obstacle data with the electronic map, received by the receiving unit, on a display.

Abstract: A powder coating apparatus includes an applying device that includes a charging and fluidizing unit charging and fluidizing a thermosetting powder coating material and applies the thermosetting powder coating material to a surface to be coated of an object to be coated while charging and fluidizing the powder coating material, a regulating device that regulates a thickness of a particle layer of the powder coating material applied to the surface to be coated of the object to be coated, and a heating device that heats the particle layer of the powder coating material to thermally cure the particle layer.

Abstract: An exhaust gas processing device preheats processing target exhaust gas in the presence of moisture with heat from at least either an electric heater or a heat exchanger and subsequently thermally decomposes the exhaust gas with an atmospheric pressure plasma. A device main body has a heating decomposition chamber therein. A plasma generator is installed at a top surface portion of the device main body. A reactor has a cylindrical shape and is installed within the device main body such that an upper end opening thereof is directed toward a plasma emission port of the plasma generator. A moisture supply unit is provided at an inlet side of the device main body. At least either the electric heater or the heat exchanger is disposed in a first space.

Abstract: Provided is a novel exhaust gas processing device which allows processing target exhaust gas having a large flow volume to be handled with a small-capacity plasma generator, by preheating a high-temperature decomposable gas component of the processing target exhaust gas. An exhaust gas processing device 10 preheats processing target exhaust gas F in the presence of moisture with heat from at least either an electric heater 15 or a heat exchanger 17 and subsequently thermally decomposes the exhaust gas with an atmospheric pressure plasma P. A device main body 11 has a heating decomposition chamber T therein. A plasma generator 14 is of a non-transferred type and is installed at a top surface portion 11a of the device main body 11. A reactor 12 has a cylindrical shape and is installed within the device main body 11 such that an upper end opening 12i thereof is directed toward a plasma emission port 14f of the plasma generator 14. A moisture supply unit 18 is provided at an inlet side of the device main body 11.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer that includes at least one of a hindered phenol antioxidant and a benzophenone ultraviolet absorber, a charging device, an electrostatic latent image forming device, a developing device, and a transfer device that includes an intermediate transfer belt whose electric field dependence of a volume resistivity is 0.003 or less (log ?·cm)/V in a voltage range of from 500 V to 1,000 V, and transfers a toner image formed on a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor onto a recording medium through the intermediate transfer belt and erases charges from the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by applying current to the electrophotographic photoreceptor after the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor has been transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: A powder coating apparatus includes an applying device that includes a charging and fluidizing unit charging and fluidizing a thermosetting powder coating material and applies the thermosetting powder coating material to a surface to be coated of an object to be coated while charging and fluidizing the powder coating material, a regulating device that regulates a thickness of a particle layer of the powder coating material applied to the surface to be coated of the object to be coated, and a heating device that heats the particle layer of the powder coating material to thermally cure the particle layer.

Abstract: A blower pipe includes an inlet port, an outlet port, a flow path that connects the inlet port and the outlet port to cause air to flow therethrough and that are divided by a partition wall, and plural flow control members that are respectively provided in different parts in an air flow direction in each of divided passage spaces that are divided by the partition wall and that control the flow of the air, wherein the inlet port and the outlet port are constituted by plural opening portions, respectively, the plural opening portions that constitute the outlet port have elongated opening shapes divided by the partition wall, and a flow control member of the plural flow control members closest to the inlet port is provided in the vicinity of the bent portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor control method for a dental handpiece provided with a motor that rotationally drives a cutting tool. The control method includes a step A of limiting the motor current to a first limit current I1 when the load torque applied to the cutting tool exceeds a preset limit torque value, and a step B of controlling the motor current to be equal to or lower than a second limit current, which is lower than the first limit current, when it is detected that the motor stops rotating.

Abstract: A blower pipe includes an inlet port, an outlet port, a flow path that connects the inlet port and the outlet port to cause air to flow therethrough and that are divided by a partition wall, and plural flow control members that are respectively provided in different parts in an air flow direction in each of divided passage spaces that are divided by the partition wall and that control the flow of the air, wherein the inlet port and the outlet port are constituted by plural opening portions, respectively, the plural opening portions that constitute the outlet port have elongated opening shapes divided by the partition wall, and a flow control member of the plural flow control members closest to the inlet port is provided in the vicinity of the bent portion.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive injection device for injecting an adhesive between the substrates of laminates which each comprise at least two substrates that face each other. The adhesive injection device is provided with: a cassette which holds multiple laminates aligned along the direction of lamination of the substrates; and an adhesive injector which injects adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held in the cassette, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically. Holding multiple laminates in the cassette makes it possible to treat the multiple laminates as a unit. By injecting adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically, the injection of adhesive into multiple laminates is simplified, and the time required for injection can be reduced.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer transport body having a rotating outer peripheral surface, a magnet member having a plurality of magnetic poles, a regulation member that regulates passage of the developer supplied on the outer peripheral surface, and an introduction member having an opposing face opposing the outer peripheral surface to form an introduction space. A regulation-assist magnetic pole, of the magnetic poles, is provided at a position shifted from a position opposing the regulation member toward an upstream side in a rotating direction of the developer transport body. At least an upstream end of the opposing face is located on a virtual line obtained by translating a tangent line to the developer transport body at a position opposing the regulation member to an end of the regulation member opposing the developer transport body or located closer to the outer peripheral surface than the virtual line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor control method for a dental handpiece provided with a motor that rotationally drives a cutting tool. The control method includes a step A of limiting the motor current to a first limit current I1 when the load torque applied to the cutting tool exceeds a preset limit torque value, and a step B of controlling the motor current to be equal to or lower than a second limit current, which is lower than the first limit current, when it is detected that the motor stops rotating.

Abstract: A particle behavior analysis system includes a calculation section that, regarding a decomposition portion decomposed in accordance with a decomposition method in a range to be analyzed, considers interaction force with another substance that acts on a particle and calculates behavior of the particle, while performing information communication with other devices; and an output processing section that switches output advisability of an analysis result obtained by the calculation section based on priority of the decomposition portion corresponding to the advisability of output processing of the analysis result.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a laminated glass which reduces light transmittance loss of a certain region thereof at a predetermined wavelength, particularly within a near-IR (750 to 1,000 nm) range and which facilitates provision of an optical instrument employing the near-IR light without partial substitution of an intermediate film.

Abstract: In a work-process tracking system, each of event-data collecting threads collects event data from each of work systems. A storing thread stores the event data collected in a database. When a termination instruction is received, a thread in operation is terminated. For example, when an instruction to start (or terminate) an event-data collecting process is received, a control unit initiates (or terminates) the event-data collecting thread. Similarly, when an instruction to start (or terminate) a storing process, the control unit initiates (or terminates) the storing thread.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive injection device for injecting an adhesive between the substrates of laminates which each comprise at least two substrates that face each other. The adhesive injection device is provided with: a cassette which holds multiple laminates aligned along the direction of lamination of the substrates; and an adhesive injector which injects adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held in the cassette, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically. Holding multiple laminates in the cassette makes it possible to treat the multiple laminates as a unit. By injecting adhesive into each inter-substrate space, as the laminates are being held, so that the actions of injecting the adhesive into each inter-substrate space overlap chronologically, the injection of adhesive into multiple laminates is simplified, and the time required for injection can be reduced.