Abstract: Provided is a finder device capable of preventing dust on a display surface of a display element and reducing an influence of heat which is generated from the display element on an optical system. An EVF 1 includes: an optical system 20 that includes a display element 10, a first lens group G1 disposed in order from the display element 10 side, and a second lens group G2; a first holding frame 30 that holds the display element 10 and the first lens group G1 to seal a space between the display element 10 and the first lens group G1; a second holding frame that holds the second lens group G2; and a diopter adjustment unit 50 that adjusts a diopter by integrally moving the display element 10 and the first lens group G1 relative to the second lens group G2.

Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.

Abstract: The invention suppresses hysteresis. A relief valve switching between whether to discharge oil through movement of a valve body includes: a first spacing part, in which the valve body moves; a second space part, connected with the first space part and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first space part; an elastic body, connected with the valve body; a seal part, disposed in a circumferential direction of the valve body; and a third space part, formed in the first space part.

Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.

Abstract: An imaging lens consists of a front group, an aperture stop, and a rear group, in order from an object side. The rear group includes at least one Lp lens that is made of a resin, has a positive refractive power, and is cemented to a lens. Assuming that an Abbe number and a refractive index of the Lp lens are respectively ?p and Np, the Lp lens satisfies Conditional Expression represented by 120<?p+94.24×Np<180. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.

Abstract: An illuminating apparatus includes an illuminance sensor mounted on a vehicle and configured to detect an illuminance outside the vehicle as a detected illuminance, a location sensor mounted on the vehicle and configured to detect a location of the vehicle as a detected location, and a controller configured to store one or more illuminance thresholds that are thresholds of the illuminance and monitor whether there is a crossover phenomenon that the detected illuminance crosses one of the one or more illuminance thresholds. The controller is configured to transmit crossing data, including information indicating the detected location when the crossover phenomenon occurs and information indicating the detected illuminance when the crossover phenomenon occurs, to a management apparatus outside the vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection device, including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire operation data of one or a plurality of extraction devices configured to extract water from a water circulation system in a boiler to an outside of the circulation system, and acquire an actually measured value of a makeup water amount supplied to the circulation system; a prediction unit configured to derive a predicted value of the makeup water amount based on the operation data acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a comparison unit configured to compare the actually measured value of the makeup water amount, which is acquired by the data acquisition unit, and the predicted value of the makeup water amount, which is derived by the prediction unit, with each other.

Abstract: An observation optical system includes a display element and an eyepiece lens disposed on an eyepoint side of the display element. The eyepiece lens includes a first lens having positive optical power, a second lens having negative optical power, and a third lens consecutively in order from closest to a display element side to the eyepoint side. In a case where a half value of a longest diameter of a display region in the display element is denoted by H, and a focal length of the eyepiece lens in a state where diopter is ?1 diopter is denoted by f, the observation optical system satisfies a conditional expression represented by 0.35<H/f<0.6.

Abstract: An observation optical system includes a display element and an eyepiece lens arranged on an eyepoint side of the display element. The eyepiece lens includes at least one negative lens. In a case where a half value of a longest diameter of a display region in the display element is denoted by H, and a focal length of the eyepiece lens is denoted by f, the observation optical system satisfies a conditional expression represented by 0.35<H/f<0.6.

Abstract: A piston ring includes a substrate, and a film covering at least a part of a surface of the substrate. The film includes Si and N. A Si content of the film is in a range of 1.1 to 7.5 at %, a crystallite size of the film is in a range of 10 to 30 nm, and a compressive residual stress of the film is 400 to 800 MPa.

Abstract: A zoom lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that has a negative refractive power; and a subsequent group that has a plurality of lens groups, wherein: the zoom lens includes an aperture stop at a position closer to the image side than a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens group, a lens group closest to the image side in the subsequent group includes at least one negative lens of which an object side lens surface is a concave surface being in contact with air, during zooming, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group changes, a spacing between the second lens group and the subsequent group changes, and spacings between all adjacent lens groups in the subsequent group change.

Abstract: A signal recognizing apparatus detects a target traffic light from an image showing surroundings of a host vehicle and generates traffic light detecting information including a traffic light image. The apparatus recognizes a lighting state of the target traffic light and specifies a positional relationship between the host vehicle and the target traffic light on the basis of position information of the host vehicle and the traffic light detecting information, and determines a center of a lighting area corresponding to a lighting portion of the target traffic light in the traffic light image, and performs a predetermined conversion process on the traffic light image on the basis of the positional relationship in order to compare with the lighting pattern information, and recognizes the lighting state by comparing the center of the lighting area in a traffic light image with the lighting pattern information.

Abstract: An imaging lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a front group; a stop; and a rear group that has a positive refractive power. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.

Abstract: A control device is provided with a flow rate derivation part for deriving a pressure-holding-valve flow rate on the basis of a pressure command value and a previous pressure command value; a differential pressure derivation part for deriving a differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value so that the differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value increases with an increase in the difference obtained by subtracting the pressure-holding-valve flow rate from a pump-discharge flow rate; and a pressure-holding-valve processing part for performing an aperture derivation process to derive a command aperture so that the command aperture decreases with an increase in the difference obtained by subtracting the pressure command value from the sum of an pressure value and the differential-pressure-valve differential pressure value, and driving a holding pressure valve at the command aperture.

Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a front group, an aperture stop, and a rear group. The front group includes a diffractive optical element having a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object side. A diffractive surface is provided between an object side surface of the positive lens and an image side surface of the negative lens. Assuming that a distance on an optical axis from the diffractive surface to the aperture stop in a state in which an object at infinity is in focus is Ddoe, and a focal length of the whole system in a state in which the object at infinity is in focus is f, the imaging lens satisfies Conditional Expression (1): 0.02<Ddoe/f<0.11.

Abstract: The controller is programmed to perform first control that controls a driving force distributor such as to decrease a distribution rate upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition that a frequency of at least one rotation fluctuation of an output member of the drive system, a main drive wheel and a sub drive wheel is within a predetermined area, compared with the distribution rate upon non-satisfaction of the predetermined condition.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to efficiently produce microglia from pluripotent stem cells. Provided is a method for producing microglia from pluripotent stem cells, comprising the following steps: (a) a step of co-culturing a pluripotent stem cell together with a feeder cell for 7 days or longer, and obtaining a blood progenitor cell; (b) a step of co-culturing the blood progenitor cell obtained in step (a) together with a feeder cell in the presence of IL-3 and/or GM-CSF, and obtaining an embryonic monocyte; and (c) a step of, in the presence of M-CSF, co-culturing the embryonic monocyte obtained in step (b) together with an astrocyte, or culturing the embryonic monocyte using an astrocyte supernatant.

Abstract: An illuminating apparatus includes an illuminance sensor mounted on a vehicle and configured to detect an illuminance outside the vehicle as a detected illuminance, a location sensor mounted on the vehicle and configured to detect a location of the vehicle as a detected location, and a controller configured to store one or more illuminance thresholds that are thresholds of the illuminance and monitor whether there is a crossover phenomenon that the detected illuminance crosses one of the one or more illuminance thresholds. The controller is configured to transmit crossing data, including information indicating the detected location when the crossover phenomenon occurs and information indicating the detected illuminance when the crossover phenomenon occurs, to a management apparatus outside the vehicle.

Abstract: There is provided a production method for a resist composition purified product, which includes a step (i) of filtering a resist composition with a filter having a porous structure in which adjacent spherical cells are connected to each other. The filter includes a porous membrane containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polyimide and polyamide imide. The resist composition contains a base material component (A) that exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under action of acid, an onium salt, and an organic solvent component (S), where the content of the organic solvent component (S) is 97% by mass or more.

Abstract: The control valve assembly is provided with a reinforcing portion straddling a drain port, the drain port allowing communication between an inside and an outside of the control valve assembly. The reinforcing portion is provided along a bore in which a spool of the control valve for control is housed. The control valve for control is a pressure regulator vale regulating a line pressure, the line pressure being a primary pressure of a hydraulic oil of the automatic transmission.