Abstract: An ethylene oxide gas removal method is a method for removing ethylene oxide gas emitted into a predetermined partition space). The method includes: a first step of suctioning EO-containing air that contains ethylene oxide emitted into the partition space and supplying the EO-containing air to a concentration device; a second step of removing a water content from the suctioned EO-containing air, and thereafter adsorbing and concentrating ethylene oxide by an adsorbing material, in the concentration device; a third step of desorbing the concentrated ethylene oxide from the adsorbing material and sending the ethylene oxide to a removal device; and a fourth step of decomposing and removing ethylene oxide gas by the removal device.

Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an optical system including an optical member configured to widen or narrow an in-focus range by moving the optical member, and a processor configured to determine a relationship between a moving direction of the optical member and widening or narrowing of the in-focus range, and to set information regarding a movement of the optical member using a determination result.

Abstract: A light scanning apparatus satisfies the following conditions: 0.60? (dYmax?/d?)/(dY0/d?)?0.98; and 0.50<Sk/ft<1.00, where, when a deflecting unit rotates at a constant angular velocity, ? represents a scanning angle between a principal ray of a light flux immediately after deflected by the deflecting unit and an optical axis of an imaging optical system, Y0 represents an on-axis image height, Ymax? represents a first outermost off-axis image height on a side opposite to a light source with respect to the optical axis of the imaging optical system in a main scanning cross section, ft represents a focal distance of the imaging optical system in the main scanning cross section, and Sk represents a distance between a rear-side principal plane of the imaging optical system and a scanned surface on an optical path of a principal ray of the light flux that travels to the on-axis image height.

Abstract: There is provided a hole machining method, using a tap tool which rotates about an axis of rotation and which includes a threaded part which has a blade for machining a threaded groove in a pilot hole, and a non-engaging part which forms a space between itself and the pilot hole in a cross-sectional view in which the axis of rotation and a center axis of the pilot hole are aligned, the method including the steps of machining a threaded groove by rotating the tap tool and advancing it toward a workpiece side in a first state in which the center axis and the axis of rotation are aligned, rotating the tap tool about the axis of rotation and moving the tap tool in an interior of the pilot hole toward the non-engaging part side in a direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation to transition the tap tool from the first state to a second state in which engagement between the threaded part and the threaded groove is released, and retracting the tap tool from the threaded hole.

Abstract: A fixing structure of a wiring member includes: a wiring member including at least one wire-like transmission member; a joint member including an adhesive layer, a heat generation layer, and a joint layer; and an adherend to which the wiring member is fixed, wherein the heat generation layer is a layer which can generate heat by induction heating and is provided between the adhesive layer and the joint layer, the joint layer is a layer having bond properties when heat is transmitted from the heat generation layer at a time of induction heating, the adhesive layer is fixed to one of the wiring member and the adherend, and the joint layer is fixed to another one of the wiring member and the adherend.

Abstract: Water softening device includes water softening tank, neutralization tank, and electrolytic tank. Electrolytic tank generates acidic electrolytic water for regenerating weakly acidic cation exchange resin and alkaline electrolytic water for regenerating weakly basic anion exchange resin. Then, water softening device includes an acidic electrolytic water circulation flow path that circulates the acidic electrolytic water through electrolytic tank, first discharge port, water softening tank, and first water intake port in the stated order, and an alkaline electrolytic water circulation flow path that circulates the alkaline electrolytic water through electrolytic tank, second discharge port, neutralization tank, and second water intake port in the stated order.

Abstract: A resist composition including a resin component having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (a0-1) and a compound represented by General Formula (d0-1). In General Formula (a0-1), R0 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, or a halogenated alkyl group; Vax0 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; Wa represents a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group; Va0 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group; na0 represents an integer of 0 to 2; and Ra00 represents an acid dissociable group.

Abstract: Provided is a lens apparatus including: an optical system including: an optical system including a plurality of lenses; a tilting unit configured to change an angle of an object plane to an optical axis about with respect to an axis of rotation as a center by displacing at least a part some of the plurality of lenses; an aperture stop having configured to change an aperture amount which is changeable; an aperture stop driving unit configured to drive the aperture stop to change the aperture amount by driving the aperture stop; an in-focus information obtaining unit configured to obtain a first in-focus information of a first object which is displaced from the axis of rotation; and a control unit configured to control the aperture stop driving unit based on the first in-focus information and a drive information of the tilting unit.

Abstract: An armrest structure easily adjustable in position with one hand includes an armrest portion attached to a fixed frame to be swingable horizontally, and the armrest portion includes a button member disposed to be push-operable, at a front end of the armrest portion, and an urging member configured to urge the button member. The fixed frame and the button member regulate swing of the armrest portion by causing a pin provided on one of the fixed frame and the button member to engage with an engagement groove provided on the other of the fixed frame and the button member. The urging member urges the button member in a direction in which the pin and the engagement groove engage with each other. When the button member is pushed in against urging force of the urging member, the pin disengages from the engagement groove to enable the armrest portion to swing.

Abstract: In a backup power supply system according to the present invention, in a non-defective state in which a main power supply is not defective, a controller turns on a first field-effect transistor and causes a third field-effect transistor to operate in an active region so as to charge the power storage device from the main power supply via a charging path through the first field-effect transistor, the second field-effect transistor, and the third field-effect transistor. In a defective state in which the main power supply is defective, the controller turns off the first field-effect transistor and turns on the second field-effect transistor and the third field-effect transistor so as to supply power from the power storage device to the load.

Abstract: A resist composition that contains a resin component having a constitutional unit containing an acid-dissociable group represented by General Formula (a01-r) below and contains an acid generator component containing a compound represented by General Formula (b0) below. In General Formula (a01-r), Ra01 and Ra02 represent a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, Ra01 and Ra02 may be bonded to each other to form an alicyclic group. Ra03 to Ra05 represent an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and two or more of Ra03 to Ra05 may be bonded to each other to form an alicyclic group.

Abstract: The inkjet printing apparatus is configured to be able to execute a batch adjustment process of performing a plurality of times of adjustment processes related to printing in succession based on one instruction from an outside. The conveyance control unit maintains the conveyance speed at a first speed in a period when a chart printing process is performed and a period when a chart imaging process is performed. The conveyance control unit decreases the conveyance speed from the first speed to the second speed after the end of the chart imaging process in an adjustment process except for an adjustment process that is performed last in the batch adjustment process, and increases the conveyance speed from the second speed to the first speed before the start of the chart printing process in an adjustment process that is performed next.

Abstract: A resin component (A1) and a compound (B0) represented by General Formula (b0) in which X0 represents a bromine atom or an iodine atom, Rm represents a hydroxy group, nb1 represents an integer of 1 to 5, and nb2 represents an integer of 0 to 4, 1?nb1+nb2?5 is satisfied, Yb0 represents a divalent linking group or a single bond, Vb0 represents a single bond, an alkylene group, or a fluorinated alkylene group, R0 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorinated alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or a fluorine atom, and Rb1 to Rb15 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least two of Rb1 to Rb5 represent a fluorine atom or at least one of Rb1 to Rb5 represents a perfluoroalkyl group

Abstract: There is provided a method of producing a polymerizable composition that includes a first polymerizable monomer; and a second polymerizable monomer, a polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or both, the second polymerizable monomer, the polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or the both being dispersed in the first polymerizable monomer, the method of producing a polymerizable composition includes dissolving the first polymerizable monomer; the second polymerizable monomer, the polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or the both in a solvent to obtain a solution in a first step; and evaporating the solvent from the solution in a second step, wherein the first polymerizable monomer is a liquid, and wherein the second polymerizable monomer is a solid.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sample measurement device comprising a first processing unit that performs a first measurement on a sample contained in a first container in a first cycle; a second processing unit that performs a second measurement on a sample contained in a second container in a second cycle different from the first cycle; and a relay section which is disposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit and in which the second container is positioned, wherein the first processing unit performs a transferring operation of transferring the second container to the relay section, and the second processing unit performs a receiving operation of receiving the second container that has been transferred to the relay section from the relay section.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to detect a plurality of feature points about an object from image data obtained by imaging, acquire information about distances to the plurality of feature points, and control driving of a movable lens so that a tilt amount of a focal plane in an optical system changes, according to a change in at least one of the information about the distances and a position of one of the plurality of feature points within an imaging area.

Abstract: A backup power supply system (1) includes a first terminal (T1), a second terminal (T2), a disconnect device (10), a current detector (20), a charge/discharge device (30), an auxiliary power supply (40), and a controller (50). The disconnect device (10) is connected between the first terminal (T1) configured to be connected to a main power supply (2) and the second terminal (T2) configured to be connected to a load (3). The charge/discharge device (30) is connected between the auxiliary power supply (40) and a node (P1) between the disconnect device (10) and the second terminal (T2). The charge/discharge device (30) is configured to receive power supplied from main power supply (2) to cause a charging current to flow to the auxiliary power supply (40) in a non-defective state in which the main power supply (2) is not defective.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus including: a deflecting unit configured to deflect a light flux from a light source to scan a scanned surface in a main scanning direction while rotating at a constant angular velocity; and an optical system configured to guide the deflected light flux onto the scanned surface, wherein, in a main scanning cross section including an optical axis of the optical system, a width of the light flux on a deflecting surface of the deflecting unit is larger than a width of the deflecting surface, wherein a scanning speed of the light flux on the scanned surface is highest at an on-axis image height, and wherein an absolute value of a scanning acceleration of the light flux on the scanned surface increases monotonically from the on-axis image height toward an outermost off-axis image height.