Abstract: A humidity control device includes a condenser and a water absorber-drainer. The condenser has a first region and a second region. The first region is a region having hydrophilicity and where moisture is condensed. The condensed moisture is moved by gravity to the water absorber-drainer via the second region. The water absorber-drainer includes a temperature control member and has a water absorption surface and a water drainage surface. When a temperature of the water absorber-drainer is in a first temperature region, the water absorber-drainer absorbs through the water absorption surface the moisture moved from the condenser. When the temperature of the water absorber-drainer is controlled to be in a second temperature region by an operation of the temperature control member, the water absorber-drainer drains the absorbed moisture through the water drainage surface.

Abstract: A communication system comprises a transmission apparatus configured to transmit data via a plurality of communication lines, and a reception apparatus configured to receive the data from the transmission apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate information regarding QoS of the plurality of communication lines. The processing circuitry is further configured to designate assignment of the data to communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of at least (i) the information regarding the QoS of the plurality of communication lines and (ii) assignment information indicating an assignment status of a data amount and a communication line transferred in the past. The transmission apparatus includes communication circuitry configured to allocate and transmit the data to the assigned communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of an instruction from the processing circuitry.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a first timbre and a sound of a second timbre, both corresponding to a pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the first timbre corresponding to the pitch data specified by the user performance and not instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the second timbre.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce automatic arpeggio playing sounds corresponding to pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a pitch data specified by the user performance without producing the automatic arpeggio playing sound.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cyclic peptide having any unit structure selected from the structures represented by the following formula (1): —X1—X2—X3—X4—X5—??(1) (in the formula (1), X1 is I, V or L, or an N-alkylamino acid thereof, X2 is S or T, or an N-alkylamino acid thereof, X3 is K or an N-alkylamino acid thereof, X4 is W or an N-alkylamino acid thereof, and X5 is W, Y, or H, or K or an N-alkylamino acid thereof), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the cyclic peptide.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a treatment block including treatment modules; and a relay block coupling the treatment block and an exposure apparatus in a width direction, and including a transfer-in/out mechanism for the exposure apparatus. In the treatment block being multilayered in an up-down direction, a transfer mechanism is provided in a transfer region extending in the width direction. In a layer, in the treatment block, at a position accessible from the transfer-in/out mechanism, a deliverer on which the substrate is mounted when the substrate is delivered between the blocks is provided at an end on the relay block side. Pre-exposure storages storing the substrate before the exposure are provided along the width direction in two regions between which the transfer region is interposed in a depth direction. A non-treatment unit is provided at a portion where the pre-exposure storages are not provided in the two regions.

Abstract: To provide a moving device that can be used as a mobility device to transport objects and can be improved in portability. The moving device that is movable with rotation of wheels includes a body unit inflated by injection of fluid and deflated by discharge of the fluid, a support body provided on a predetermined surface of the body unit, and the wheels provided in the support body, wherein the interior of a predetermined portion of the body unit that receives a load from an object contacting the body unit is formed with a drop-stitch structure, and the drop-stitch structure after injection of the fluid has tensile forces in directions approximately perpendicular to the direction of the load applied to the predetermined portion by the object.

Abstract: An effect adding apparatus includes: at least one first operation element on which a first user operation is performed; a plurality of second operation elements on which a second user operation is performed after the first user operation; and at least one processor, in which the at least one processor determines two or more effects including at least a first effect and a second effect, from a plurality of effects in which each of the effects is associated with a plurality of parameters, based on the first user operation on the at least one first operation element, and determines a parameter associated with each of the plurality of second operation elements, based on data indicating significance of each of a plurality of first parameters associated with the first effect determined and data indicating significance of each of a plurality of second parameters associated with the second effect determined.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an optical sensor configured to detect a pattern image formed on the image bearing member, and an attachment member to which the optical sensor is attached. The optical sensor includes a circuit board, a light emitting element and a light receiving element which are provided on a first side of the circuit board, and a connector provided on a second side opposite to the first side of the circuit board. The attachment member has a surface contacting the second side of the circuit board. In an insertion/removal direction of a cable to be connected to the connector, a first thickness, from the surface, of a part of a portion, contacting the second side, of the attachment member is smaller than a second thickness, from the surface, of a portion, not contacting the second side, of the attachment member.

Abstract: A silver ink including silver particles and a protective agent containing at least one amine compound dispersed in a dispersion medium containing, as a main solvent, a solvent having a vapor pressure at 20° C. of 40 mmHg or less and a vapor pressure at 70° C. of 0.09 mmHg or more, in an amount of 80% or more on a mass basis relative to the total dispersion medium. The amine compound has a mass average molecular weight of 115 or less, and the total amount of the amine compound is 1 part by weight or more and 14 parts by weight or less per 100 parts by weight of the silver particles. The silver ink has a moisture content of 500 ppm or more and 50,000 ppm or less and enables a practical metal film to be formed even through calcination at a low temperature of 70° C. or less.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material is a polycrystalline material composed of a plurality of crystal grains and has a composition represented by formula (I): Mg3+mSbaBi2?a?cAc. In the formula (I), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Se and Te, the value of m is greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.5, the value of a is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.0, and the value of c is greater than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 0.06. The thermoelectric conversion material has an Mg-rich region.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication system and a transmission apparatus that enable highly reliable streaming using a plurality of wireless communication lines. In a transmission apparatus, a QoS module generates information regarding QoS of a plurality of communication lines, a load balancer designates assignment of data to the communication lines on the basis at least of the information regarding QoS, and a caster allocates and transmits the data to the assigned communication lines on the basis of an instruction from the QoS module. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs streaming by UDP.

Abstract: A response generation apparatus ensures accurate output. A computer stores graph knowledge including a response generation module generating a response to an input document including a plurality of sentences, the graph knowledge database includes graph data that manages a structure of each type of graph knowledge, and the response generation module generates a first graph knowledge from each of the sentences; searches a second graph knowledge similar to each of the plurality of first graph knowledge while referring to the graph data on the basis of the plurality of first graph knowledge; identifies the plurality of second graph knowledge included in a dense location where a density of the second graph knowledge is high in a graph space; searches third graph knowledge for generating the response while referring to the graph data on the basis of the identified second graph knowledge; and generates the response using the third graph knowledge.

Abstract: A correction value setting method includes a recording step of recording on a recording medium a test pattern including a plurality of patches by a plurality of nozzles arrayed in a first direction, a reading step of reading a concentration value of the test pattern recorded on the recording medium, a calculating step of calculating a correction value of an ink amount for each of the plurality of nozzles, based on the concentration value, and a setting step of setting the correction value as a correction value that is used for real recording. The plurality of patches include a plurality of first patches in a first concentration range and a plurality of second patches in a second concentration range including concentration higher than that in the first concentration range, and the plurality of first patches and the plurality of second patches are arranged alternately in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a ceramic element, glass-containing Au layers formed on both surfaces of the ceramic element, and an Au—Sn alloy layer formed on at least one of the glass-containing Au layers; the electronic component further includes a pure-Au layer between the glass-containing Au layer and the Au—Sn alloy layer; furthermore, the Au—Sn alloy layer has an Au—Sn eutectic structure.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a treatment block; and a relay block including a first transfer-in/out module for an exposure apparatus. In the treatment block, a treatment module is provided in each layer, and a deliverer is provided at an end on the relay block side in the layer including a pre-exposure treatment module. In the relay block, a second transfer-in/out module for the deliverer and a post-exposure treatment module is provided in a region adjacent, in the width direction, to the deliverer, the first transfer-in/out module is provided in a relay side transfer region extending in a depth direction from a region overlapping with the second transfer-in/out module, the post-exposure treatment module is provided in a region adjacent, in an up-down direction, to the relay side transfer region and adjacent, in the depth direction, to the second transfer-in/out module, and a relay mechanism is provided.

Abstract: A recording head unit includes a first line head and a second line head in which nozzles are provided in an X-axis direction. The first line head is arranged on one side of the second line head in a Y-axis direction intersecting the X-axis direction. The first line head includes a first windbreak member. The second line head includes a second windbreak member. A length by which the first windbreak member protrudes is smaller than a length by which the second windbreak member protrudes.

Abstract: A reset device includes a power-on reset (POR) circuit configured to output a reset signal to reset a circuit part to an initial state when supply voltage is lower than a threshold level, a first switch provided in a path connecting a first line to supply the supply voltage to the circuit part and a second line to supply the supply voltage to the POR circuit, a second switch provided in a path connecting a signal line of the circuit part and the second line, and a control circuit configured to turn on the first switch and turn off the second switch in a normal mode, and to turn off the first switch and turn on the second switch in a test mode. The control circuit turns on the first switch and turns off the second switch in response to the reset signal being output from the POR circuit.

Abstract: An improved rotary type carburetor for a stratified scavenging engine designed to enable the easy adjustment of air and fuel flow at the time of initial configuration is disclosed. The improved rotary carburetor includes an air intake passage and an air-fuel mixture passage formed in a horizontal direction on a carburetor main body. The throttle valve of the improved rotary carburetor can be fitted into a cylindrical-throttle-valve hole formed orthogonal to a fuel and an air passage of the carburetor main body. The throttle valve has the air supply side valve hole formed on the air intake passage side and a fuel supply side valve hole formed on the air-fuel mixture passage side.

Abstract: A reset device includes a power-on reset (POR) circuit configured to output a reset signal to reset a circuit part to an initial state when supply voltage is lower than a threshold level, a first switch provided in a path connecting a first line to supply the supply voltage to the circuit part and a second line to supply the supply voltage to the POR circuit, a second switch provided in a path connecting a signal line of the circuit part and the second line, and a control circuit configured to turn on the first switch and turn off the second switch in a normal mode, and to turn off the first switch and turn on the second switch in a test mode. The control circuit turns on the first switch and turns off the second switch in response to the reset signal being output from the POR circuit.