Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of unit pixels that each have a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of column output lines arranged for each column of the unit pixels; and a switching unit configured to switch between a first read out mode where signals that have been accumulated in the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions of a unit pixel are read out from respectively different column output lines, and a second read out mode where signals that have been accumulated in the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions of a unit pixel are combined and then read out from a single column output line.

Abstract: A wireless access point terminal capable of reducing power consumption even if housed terminals are present is provided. The wireless access point terminal individually connects a plurality of housed terminals to a network using a wireless communications unit capable of individual wireless communications with the plurality of housed terminals. The wireless access point terminal has: a housed terminal management unit that determines whether or not to continue connection for each connected housed terminal; and a connection control unit that controls the wireless communications unit such that the wireless communication is disconnected for a housed terminal for which a determination has been made to not continue the connection.

Abstract: A means for increasing the amount of an effective component retained in a composition for a pump foamer is provided. The present invention provides a composition for external use containing: 1) an N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidone and/or a diester carbonate; and 2) a surfactant; which composition is in a foam state upon use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning device for electrical-discharge machining fluid that cleans electrical-discharge machining fluid of an electrical-discharge machining device including a machining tank that is filled with the oil-based electrical-discharge machining fluid and in which a workpiece is machined by applying a pulse voltage between the workpiece and a machining electrode and a machining-fluid storage tank storing the electrical-discharge machining fluid to be used in the machining tank, the cleaning device including a cleaning-material storage container, which stores a cleaning material made of a granular porous material having a specific gravity equal to or higher than that of the electrical-discharge machining fluid and a grain diameter between 0.01 millimeters and 10 millimeters, in a flow channel that causes the electrical-discharge machining fluid to flow between the machining tank and the machining-fluid storage tank.

Abstract: A coating device includes: a first roll including a roll surface on which an application liquid is deposited; a first scratch off member configured to scratch off the application liquid from the roll surface of the first roll; a second roll including a roll surface configured to contact with the roll surface of the first roll, wherein the second roll is configured to rotate in a rotation direction opposite to a rotation direction of the first roll, the application liquid is transferred from the roll surface of the first roll to the roll surface of the second roll, and the second roll is configured to transfer the transferred application liquid to a steel strip; and a second scratch off member configured to scratch off the application liquid from the roll surface of the second roll.

Abstract: A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, which includes hydrothermal treatment in the presence of an equivalent concentration of an acid equal to 30 to 1,000% of the equivalent concentration of cations in a plant-biomass hydrolysis reaction solution; and a method for producing glucose using the above method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass. The hydrothermal treatment is preferably conducted by using a solid catalyst comprising a carbon material and using inorganic acid as acid. The method eliminates reaction-inhibiting factors to thereby obtain a high glucose yield.

Abstract: A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, including hydrothermal treatment in which an equivalent concentration of an acid equal to the total of 30 to 1,000% of the equivalent concentration of cations and equivalent concentration of hydroxide ions in a plant-biomass hydrolysis reaction solution is added to the reaction solution; and a method for producing glucose using the above method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass. The hydrothermal treatment is desirably conducted using a solid catalyst including a carbon material and an inorganic acid. The method can eliminate reaction-inhibiting factors due to cations existing in the reaction system to thereby attain a high glucose yield.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning device for electrical-discharge machining fluid that cleans electrical-discharge machining fluid of an electrical-discharge machining device including a machining tank that is filled with the oil-based electrical-discharge machining fluid and in which a workpiece is machined by applying a pulse voltage between the workpiece and a machining electrode and a machining-fluid storage tank storing the electrical-discharge machining fluid to be used in the machining tank, the cleaning device including a cleaning-material storage container, which stores a cleaning material made of a granular porous material having a specific gravity equal to or higher than that of the electrical-discharge machining fluid and a grain diameter between 0.01 millimeters and 10 millimeters, in a flow channel that causes the electrical-discharge machining fluid to flow between the machining tank and the machining-fluid storage tank.

Abstract: A method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, which includes a first process of heating a mixture containing a plant biomass, a solid catalyst, acid and water, and a second process for heating the mixture containing a solid containing a plant biomass and a catalyst separated from the reaction solution after the first process, acid and water, wherein the highest heating temperature in the second process is higher than that in the first process; and a method for producing glucose and xylose using the above-mentioned hydrolyzing method. In the method, both of glucose and xylose can be obtained efficiently from an actual biomass.

Abstract: Provided is a means for stably storing a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) below and/or a salt thereof, and for providing the pharmaceutical composition to the market. A resin container colored with a color having a hue (H) within the range of 7.0Y to 9.99Y or 7.0YR to 9.99YR, value (V) within the range of 1.0 to 6.0, and chroma (C) within the range of 0.5 to 7.5, according to Munsell color coordinates, is filled with a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) and/or a salt thereof, to store the pharmaceutical composition.

Abstract: Disclosed are: a novel catalyst for the hydrolysis of cellulose, which does not require the use of a large quantity of sulfuric acid for the preparation thereof and from which sulfuric acid cannot be eluted; a novel catalyst for the hydrolysis of cellulose, which is not changed in structure even in hot water and therefore does not undergo the deterioration in activity; and a process for producing a cellulose hydrolysate, mainly including glucose, using any one of the aforementioned catalysts.

Abstract: In a photoelectric absolute encoder including a scale having a plurality of tracks with different pitch patterns, and a detector having a light source and light receiving elements including a plurality of light receiving element arrays corresponding to the plurality of tracks, a light receiving element array is additionally arranged at a position in the detector corresponding to a boundary between the track having a pattern with a wide pitch and the track having a pattern with a narrow pitch adjacent to each other in the scale, and displacement of the detector relative to the scale in a lateral direction is detected from a signal amplitude of the added light receiving element array. In this manner, displacement of the detector relative to the scale in the lateral direction can be detected.

Abstract: Means for controlling the formation amount of a formed amide form in relation to a pharmaceutical composition containing luliconazole is provided. Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition containing 1) luliconazole and 2) one component or two or more components selected from carboxylic acid and derivative thereof, ketone, phosphoric acid and derivative thereof, local anesthetic, antihistamine, and POE-based nonionic surfactant; wherein a content of an amide derivative of luliconazole is not more than 0.2% by mass with respect to a charged amount of luliconazole after storage at 60° C. for 3 weeks or at 40° C. for 6 months.

Abstract: A routing control apparatus that constructs a transmission path for transmitting communication data in a wireless mesh network includes: a previous hop state managing unit that receives a first control signal for constructing a portion of the transmission path, and manages first information indicating operability, which is availability of a previous hop apparatus in a future, the portion being from a source apparatus to the routing control apparatus; an operation state managing unit that manages second information indicating operability of the routing control apparatus; and a routing control processing unit that compares the first information and the second information, and, if the operability of the routing control apparatus is higher than or equal to the operability of the previous hop apparatus, transmits a second control signal for constructing a remaining portion of the transmission path other than the portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metal nanoparticle composite having a structure, in which metal nanoparticles are dispersed in an organic structure, the organic structure including: a structure of a porous coordination polymer (PCP) or metal-organic framework (MOF) containing a metal and a polyvalent ligand capable of reducing the metal; and carbon.

Abstract: A plant biomass; a solid catalyst which can catalyze the hydrolysis of the biomass; and a method for hydrolyzing a plant biomass, which is characterized by a step of heating a mixture containing an inorganic acid and water and which has high glucose yield and high glucose selectivity. As the inorganic acid, hydrochloric acid can be used. The pH value is adjusted to 1.0 to 4.0. As the solid catalyst, activated carbon or the like can be used.

Abstract: In a pharmaceutical composition for external use containing a compound such as luliconazole and/or a salt thereof, comprised are a higher alcohol which is in a liquid state at 1 atm and 25° C. and/or a diester of a dibasic acid, provided that a diester carbonate is excluded, and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether and/or a polyoxyethylene alkenyl ether. Provided is a preparation using a solvent other than crotamiton, propylene carbonate, and N-methyl-2-pyrroridone as a solvent for solubilization and steric stabilization and having the following properties: 1) when a compound represented by the general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof has a stereoisomer, the amount of the stereoisomer of the compound and/or a salt thereof produced under a preservation condition of 60 degrees C. for 3 weeks is 1% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the compound and/or a salt thereof at the beginning of preservation; 2) the preparation is in a clear liquid state when preserved at a constant temperature of 20° C.

Abstract: This electrical power-receiving apparatus makes it possible to suppress a decline in power supply efficiency in a variety of different circumstances while avoiding an increase in circuit scale. This apparatus comprises an impedance control unit (307) for sequentially switching through any one of a plurality of charging devices in a charging device group (310), as candidate charging devices for a supply destination to which electrical power is to be supplied. The impedance control unit (307) also selects from the candidates a charging device to which electrical power is actually supplied, on the basis of the difference between the impedance of the charging device group (310) for each candidate and the impedance of an electrical power receiving antenna unit (301), and causes electrical power to be supplied to the selected charging device.

Abstract: A control device for a rotating electrical machine, which is able to reduce a tracking delay of an actual output torque and actual currents with respect to a fluctuating torque command and fluctuating current commands and to reduce steady state deviations, is obtained. The control device includes a torque current computing unit; an actual current computing unit; a current feedback control unit; and a voltage control unit that controls voltages on the basis of the two-phase voltage commands. The torque command includes a fluctuation cancellation torque command for cancelling transmission torque fluctuations transmitted from the internal combustion engine, and the current feedback control unit includes a harmonic controller that calculates the two-phase voltage commands by using a characteristic of a transfer function corresponding to a periodic function of a frequency of the transmission torque fluctuations.

Abstract: Resources, product classes, processes, and product orders are registered in mutual association. From the information of product classes, processes, and resources, variables and constants used when formulating an objective function and a constraint expression are constructed. A constraint setting screen is displayed which includes contents of the constraint expression described by using the selection input field of identification information of the product classes, processes, and resources. Based on a result of selective input to this constraint setting screen, the contents of constraint are set. Further, an object setting screen is displayed which includes the contents of an object described using the product classes and processes and text information indicating the contents of the object, and a selection input field thereof. The contents of the object are registered based on a result of selective input to this object setting screen.