Abstract: A resistance welding device 1 includes a first electrode 2 and a second electrode 3, the first electrode has a first contact surface 21 in contact with a workpiece 100, the second electrode has a second contact surface 31 in contact with the workpiece, the first contact surface has at least one first overlapping portion 22 and at least one first non-overlapping portion 23, the second contact surface has a second overlapping portion 32 and at least one second non-overlapping portion 33, and the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion overlap with each other in the stacking direction, and the first non-overlapping portion and the second non-overlapping portion do not overlap with each other in the stacking direction.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input interface; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: selecting an instrument, a musical tone of which is to be digitally synthesized based on corresponding musical tone data, via the input interface; acquiring a parameter value that has been set for the selected instrument; generating a random number based on a random function; and changing a pitch of the musical tone of the selected instrument based on the generated random number and the acquired parameter values.

Abstract: An effect adding apparatus includes a plurality of first operation elements operable by a user to change parameters assigned to the respective first operation elements; and at least one processor configured to: select a parameter to be assigned to each of the first operation elements, from among a plurality of parameters corresponding to designated effects, the designated effects being effects designated from among plural selectable effects; when a plurality of the plural selectable effects including a first effect and other effects are to be used in combination as the designated effects, change the parameters to be assigned to the plurality of first operation elements from among the plurality of parameters corresponding to the first effect in response to a change in the other effects to be combined with the first effect; and add the designated effects to a musical sound generated by a sound source.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin material in which a bundle of reinforcing fibers (2) is impregnated with a resin material (3), comprising: a first step (S11) of forming a first fold line (11a, 11b) extending in a conveying direction on a first-form belt-shaped material (11) in which reinforcing fibers (2) are impregnated with a resin material (3); and a second step (S12) of pressing the first-form belt-shaped material (11) in a width direction; folding the first-form belt-shaped material (11) along the first fold line (11a, 11b); bringing surfaces of the first-form belt-shaped material (11) lying on each other into tight contact with each other; and thereby forming a second-form belt-shaped material (12).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive plate, and a method for collecting positive electrode materials included in the positive plate. The positive plate disclosed herein includes an electrode sheet and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material, in which a water-soluble adhesive layer containing a water-soluble binder and a conductive material is interposed between the electrode sheet and the positive electrode mixture layer.

Abstract: A resistance welding device welds a plurality of stacked welding target members of a workpiece by pressurizing the workpiece and supplying power to the workpiece. The resistance welding device includes at least one electrode that has a tip end surface configured to be in contact with the workpiece and that is configured to pressurize the workpiece and supply power to the workpiece. The electrode has, at an intermediate portion between the tip end surface and a base end of the electrode, at least one slit that opens to an outer circumferential surface of the electrode and that extends in a circumferential direction in a plane intersecting a central axis direction of the electrode.

Abstract: To provide an electric or electronic device having excellent heat resistance and moisture resistance. The electric or electronic device of the present disclosure having a configuration including a first electrode layer, a conductive material layer, and a second electrode layer that are layered in this order, the conductive material layer containing a conductive material having a configuration in which a conjugated macromolecular compound is doped with an anion selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen anion, a boron anion, a phosphorus anion, and an antimony anion. The anion is preferably an anion represented by Formula (a-1) or (a-2).

Abstract: Methods implemented in a system utilizing computing programs for a speaker and a listener in conversation are provided. Aspects include (i) a reminder provisioner for a speaker which is triggered according to speed, pitch or volume of the speaker's speech, (ii) a speech training provisioner for a speaker, and (iii) an application which records and plays back difficult conversation to understand.

Abstract: A fabrication method of a thermoelectric conversion element includes forming a first metal layer containing Cu on a first surface of a thermoelectric conversion layer, and forming a first electrode and a first intermediate layer from the first metal layer. The thermoelectric conversion layer is composed of a thermoelectric conversion material containing Mg and at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi, the first intermediate layer is provided between the thermoelectric conversion layer and the first electrode, the first intermediate layer is in contact with the thermoelectric conversion layer, the first electrode is in contact with the first intermediate layer, and a composition of the first intermediate layer is different from both a composition of the first electrode and a composition of the thermoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: Electric motor rotation speed control is executed such that when the rotation speed of the electric motor reaches a predetermined rotation speed or higher in the limp home mode in which a vehicle is travelling in a state in which the high-voltage battery is disconnected and the inverter that drives the electric motor is shut down, the automatic transmission device is controlled such that the gear stage of the automatic transmission device is upshifted, and the engine is controlled such that the torque output from the engine is increased when the torque output to the drive shaft is smaller than a target torque to be output to the drive shaft.

Abstract: An electronic instrument includes a plurality of music-playing operators which designates pitch data in accordance with a music-playing operation and at least one processor which instructs a sound source which generates music sounds to emit sounds, in which the at least one processor, in a case where the music-playing operation meets a first instruction condition, instructs the sound source to emit the sound in a first sound emission form which corresponds to pitch data which meets the first instruction condition which is designated in accordance with the music-playing operation, and in a case where the music-playing operation meets a second instruction condition which is different from the first instruction condition, instructs the sound source to emit a sound which is different from the sound which is emitted in the first sound-emission form, that is, in a second sound-emission form which corresponds to pitch data which meets the second instruction condition which is designated in accordance with the music-

Abstract: The semiconductor nanoparticle of the present invention is constituted of a compound containing Ag, Au, a chalcogen element essentially including Se, and a metal M, as essential constituent elements. The metal M is at least any one of Al, Ga, In, Tl, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Cu. The total content of Ag, Au, the chalcogen element essentially including Se, and the metal M in the compound constituting the semiconductor nanoparticle of the present invention is 95% by mass or more. The content of the metal M in the compound is preferably 1% by atom or more and 50% by atom or less. The semiconductor nanoparticle of the present invention can exhibit favorable light absorption and emission characteristics in a wavelength region including near infrared region and short-wave infrared region.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a bias power supply to supply a pulsed bias DC signal, a substrate support to support a substrate and an edge ring in the chamber, and an electrical path. The substrate support has an electrostatic chuck that includes a first region to hold the substrate and a second region provided around the first region and to hold the edge ring, and is formed from a dielectric, a first bias electrode inside the first region, a second bias electrode inside the second region, a base to support the electrostatic chuck, and a first impedance adjustment mechanism to have a first variable capacitor connected between the second bias electrode and the base.

Abstract: A negative electrode raw material may be suitable for a nonaqueous secondary battery, the negative electrode material including a graphite. The negative electrode material is configured such that, when a mercury intrusion volume and a mercury extrusion volume, determined by mercury intrusion, are defined as A and B, respectively, the value of formula (1) is 45% or higher: B / A = 100 ? ( % ) .

Abstract: Provided are a thermistor element including a conductive intermediate layer that can stably exist even at high temperature, and a method for manufacturing the same. The thermistor element includes: a thermistor element body 2 which contains an oxide thermistor material whose crystal structure is a perovskite-type; a conductive intermediate layer 3 formed on the thermistor element body; and an electrode layer 4 formed on the conductive intermediate layer, wherein the conductive intermediate layer is a composite oxide containing Mn. The method for manufacturing the thermistor element includes an intermediate layer forming step of forming a conductive intermediate layer of a composite oxide containing Mn on a thermistor element body, and an electrode layer forming step of forming an electrode layer on the conductive intermediate layer, wherein in the intermediate layer forming step, a Mn-containing dispersion is applied onto the thermistor element body, and dried to form a temporary intermediate layer.

Abstract: A computer is made to function as: a diagnostic-use image acquisition unit that acquires a diagnostic-use image of a site that is subject to diagnosis which has been captured with an endoscope device; a color tone correction unit that performs color tone correction on the diagnostic-use image in accordance with a reference color tone, which is a color tone of an image of a site subject to diagnosis having been captured in advance with the endoscope device; and a lesion presence/absence diagnosis unit that inputs the corrected diagnostic-use image into a trained model and that performs a process for diagnosing the presence or absence of a lesion from a result output by the trained model, said trained model having being generated by machine learning of a plurality of training images which have been subjected to color tone correction with the reference color tone.

Abstract: A fabrication method of a thermoelectric conversion element includes forming a first metal layer containing Cu on a first surface of a thermoelectric conversion layer, and forming a first electrode and a first intermediate layer from the first metal layer. The thermoelectric conversion layer is composed of a thermoelectric conversion material containing Mg and at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi, the first intermediate layer is provided between the thermoelectric conversion layer and the first electrode, the first intermediate layer is in contact with the thermoelectric conversion layer, the first electrode is in contact with the first intermediate layer, and a composition of the first intermediate layer is different from both a composition of the first electrode and a composition of the thermoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of acquiring image data generated by imaging by the imaging means arranged to have different line-of-sight directions, superimposing the image data while performing alignment in such a way as to eliminate absolute positional shift caused by the different line-of-sight directions in each piece of image data, selecting a transverse line that transverses an overlapping portion of the superimposed image data according to a direction in which ranges of each piece of image data in a superimposed state are shifted, generating epipolar plane image data by arranging each piece of image data of a portion where the selected transverse line and the overlapping portion overlap in an order determined by magnitudes of inclinations of the line-of-sight directions corresponding to each, and detecting a depth of a subject appearing in the image data from a streak pattern appearing in the generated epipolar plane image data.

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of a sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, and a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, wherein the pressing member is arranged by the moving unit at the first position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has not been conveyed to a measurement position of the measurement unit, wherein the moving unit is configured to move the pressing member from the first position to the second position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has been conveyed to the measurement position of the measurement unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal paste for forming a metal wiring containing a solid content of a silver particle and kneaded with a solvent. The solid content of the metal paste contains a silver particle having prescribed particle size distribution and average particle size, and using an amine compound as a protective agent. The solvent is a mixed solvent in which two organic solvents of a solvent A and a solvent B are mixed. The solvent A is dihydroterpineol or terpineol, and the solvent B is at least one organic solvent having a boiling point of 240° C. or more. The mixed solvent has a Hansen solubility parameter distance Ra from dihydroterpineol of 3.0 MPa1/2 or less. The metal paste further contains a high molecular weight ethyl cellulose as a first additive, and a polyvinyl acetal resin as a second additive.