Abstract: In a solenoid valve, a bobbin and a solenoid coil are accommodated in a casing. A rod-shaped plunger is slidably inserted into the bobbin. A core provided with a flow port through which a fluid flows is disposed on one side of the casing. A valve body is attached to one end opposing the flow port of the plunger. In a non-operating period during which a solenoid coil is in a non-energized state, the valve body moves away from the flow port due to the biasing force applied by the biasing portion and another end of the plunger protrudes outward from the casing through the through hole, abuts against lock portions disposed outside of the casing, and is thereby locked. The lock portions can be elastically deformed by an external force such that separation of the plunger and the valve body from the casing is allowed.

Abstract: A CPU detects pulse waves in a pressure signal of a cuff detected during a period of reducing pressure applied by the cuff to a measurement site and acquires blood flow sound signals corresponding to blood flow sounds occurring in the pressure reduction period. Then, data for a pulse wave envelope that associates the amplitude values of the detected pulse waves with the pressurizing pressures at the pulse wave generation times, and data for a blood flow sound envelope that associates the amplitude values of the blood flow sound signals with the pressurizing pressures at the blood flow sound generation times are generated, and the data for the pulse wave envelope and the data for the blood flow sound envelope are used to determine whether or not there is periodic variation in the blood pressure during the pressure reduction period.

Abstract: A control method of a liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharge inspection step of inspecting discharge abnormality of a nozzle by a discharge inspection mechanism; a remaining oscillation inspection step of inspecting oscillation of the ink inside a pressure chamber by a oscillation inspection circuit when the discharge abnormality is detected; a first correction step of performing correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the pressure chamber with respect to the driving pulse when abnormality is detected in oscillation; a re-discharge inspection step of inspecting the discharge abnormality of the nozzle after the first correction step; and a second correction step of performing the correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the nozzle with respect to the driving pulse when the abnormality is not detected in the oscillation in the oscillation inspection step or when the discharge abnormality is detected in the re-discharge inspection step.

Abstract: In a light control system, a captured image of a cruising direction of a vehicle is acquired, and a light source is extracted from the captured image. A probability for estimating a light source to be a vehicle light source originating from a vehicle is calculated based on light source parameters for differentiating the light source. A dark section that is darker than the periphery and is present below the light source in the captured image is extracted. The probability is set to be higher for the light source of which the dark section is extracted. The light source having a probability that is a reference value set in advance or higher is estimated to be a light source of another vehicle. When the dark section that is detected as a shadow of a vehicle is detected, the probability of the light source being a vehicle light source is set to be high.

Abstract: The blood pressure measurement apparatus includes a pressure sensor that detects the pressure in a cuff and outputs a cuff pressure signal, and a pulse wave detection unit that detects a pulse wave in the cuff pressure signal. The pulse wave detection unit includes an analog HPF that extracts a high-frequency component from the cuff pressure signal, an A/D conversion unit, a signal storage unit that stores a signal obtained by performing A/D conversion on the cuff pressure signal detected at the time when the pressurizing pressure changes from increasing to decreasing, a subtraction unit that subtracts the signal stored by the signal storage unit from an output signal of the A/D conversion unit, and a digital HPF that extracts a high-frequency component from the output signal of the subtraction unit.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for fuel tanks, including: a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer on one surface or both surfaces of a steel sheet; and a trivalent chromate covering layer or a chromate-free covering layer on the Zn—Ni alloy plating layer. The steel sheet consists of, in mass %, C: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, Si: 0.01 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.70 to 2.00%, P: less than or equal to 0.060%, S: less than or equal to 0.010%, Al: 0.01 to 0.30%, N: 0.001 to 0.010%, Ti: 0.010 to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.040%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0030%, and the balance: Fe and unavoidable impurities. In a surface outermost layer of the trivalent chromate covering layer or the chromate-free covering layer, concavities, of which a depth from an arithmetic average height of a cross-sectional curve of the surface outermost layer is more than or equal to 0.1 ?m, exist in a proportion of 50 to 1000 concavities/mm2 and at an area ratio of 20 to 80% to a surface area of the steel sheet.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an image acquisition unit acquires an image. A correction unit corrects pixel values of pixels composed of the acquired image by using correction coefficients to produce a correct image. An object recognition unit recognizes an object in the corrected image. A storage unit stores in advance standard color characteristics of a predetermined object which is a recognition target. A color characteristics acquisition unit acquires color characteristics of the predetermined object if the predetermined object is recognized by the object recognition unit. A comparison unit compares the color characteristics of the acquired object with the standard color characteristics of the same predetermined object stored in advance in the storage unit. An updating unit updates the correction coefficients used in the correction unit based on a result of comparison so as to reduce a difference between the color characteristics and the standard color characteristics.

Abstract: In a light control system, a captured image of a cruising direction of a vehicle is acquired, and a light source is extracted from the captured image. A probability for estimating a light source to be a vehicle light source originating from a vehicle is calculated based on light source parameters for differentiating the light source. A dark section that is darker than the periphery and is present below the light source in the captured image is extracted. The probability is set to be higher for the light source of which the dark section is extracted. The light source having a probability that is a reference value set in advance or higher is estimated to be a light source of another vehicle. When the dark section that is detected as a shadow of a vehicle is detected, the probability of the light source being a vehicle light source is set to be high.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium in a first direction; a pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism which coats a pre-treatment liquid on the medium; a liquid ejecting unit which includes a plurality of ink nozzles which eject ink; and a control unit which controls the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism and the liquid ejecting unit, in which the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism includes a first mechanism which is disposed in a first region A and a second mechanism which is disposed in a second region B positioned on an upstream side of the first region A in the first direction, and the plurality of ink nozzles has a portion which overlaps with respect to the first mechanism in a second direction which intersects with the first direction and a portion which does not overlap with respect to the second mechanism in the second direction.

Abstract: A battery is provided including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte; wherein the electrolyte includes one or both of fluoro ethylene carbonate and difluoro ethylene carbonate in an amount of 0.5% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less, wherein the anode includes an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, and wherein a thickness of the anode active material layer, after charging the battery, is 58 um or more and 75 um or less.

Abstract: A CPU of a blood pressure measurement apparatus configured to be used while attached to a wrist of a measurement subject calculates an inclination angle formed by a forearm of the measurement subject with respect to a reference plane, and a rotation angle about an axis, where the forearm is used as the axis, of the blood pressure measurement device, based on information detected by an acceleration sensor, and uses the distance d between the radial artery and the ulnar artery that pass through the wrist, the inclination angle, and the rotation angle to determine the relative positional relationship between the radial artery and the ulnar artery. In accordance with the relative positional relationship, the CPU guides the measurement orientation of the measurement subject.

Abstract: A control method of a liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharge inspection step of inspecting discharge abnormality of a nozzle by a discharge inspection mechanism; a remaining oscillation inspection step of inspecting oscillation of the ink inside a pressure chamber by a oscillation inspection circuit when the discharge abnormality is detected; a first correction step of performing correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the pressure chamber with respect to the driving pulse when abnormality is detected in oscillation; a re-discharge inspection step of inspecting the discharge abnormality of the nozzle after the first correction step; and a second correction step of performing the correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the nozzle with respect to the driving pulse when the abnormality is not detected in the oscillation in the oscillation inspection step or when the discharge abnormality is detected in the re-discharge inspection step.

Abstract: A galvannealed steel sheet includes: a scale-removed rolled steel sheet; and a galvannealed layer arranged on the scale-removed rolled steel sheet. When ten measurement points of the galvannealed steel sheet are set in a transverse direction by equally dividing a line-segment having a reference length of 50 mm by 10, a minimum P content of the galvannealed layer in the ten measurement points is 50% or more as compared with a maximum P content therein.

Abstract: The present application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes, a cathode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, an anode capable of being electrochemically doped/dedoped with lithium, and an electrolyte placed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the electrolyte contains at least one of fluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (1) and difluoro ethylene carbonate represented by Chemical Formula (2) as a solvent and the ratio of a discharge capacity B during discharging at a 5C rate to a discharge capacity A during discharging at a 0.2C rate ((B/A)×100) is 80% or more.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a substrate layer and a surface layer formed on at least one principal plane of the substrate layer, the surface layer contains polyvinylidene fluoride and an inorganic material particle, and an amount of deformation against pressure of the surface layer is larger than that of the substrate layer.

Abstract: A steel sheet for electroplating includes, by mass %, C: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, Si: 0.20% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.40% to 2.5%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010% to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.040%, B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.30%, N: 0.0010% to 0.01%, and the balance including Fe and impurities, in which when Si content is represented by [Si] and Mn content is represented by [Mn], “[Mn]+5[Si]” is 2.0 to 7.0, and the steel sheet has surface property in which an average of displacements of a measurement point obtained based on a moving average of continuous 31 points in total including 15 front points and 15 back points in a cross-sectional profile of a surface obtained by measuring the average of displacements in an evaluation length of 10 ?m or more at an interval of 0.07 ?m, is 0.005 ?m to 0.10 ?m.

Abstract: A flow rate control apparatus includes a flow rate detection unit that detects the flow rate of a fluid flowing through a solenoid valve, a correlation storage unit that stores a correlation between a flow start point voltage at which the fluid starts to flow through a sample solenoid valve, which has substantially the same characteristic as the solenoid valve, and a limit voltage at which the sample solenoid valve is fully open, and a control unit that, when starting control of the flow rate of the fluid, changes the driving voltage of the solenoid valve, obtains the driving voltage at a time when the start of flowing of the fluid is detected as the flow start point voltage, and uses the correlation for the sample solenoid valve to set the driving voltage of the solenoid valve within a range between the flow start point voltage and the limit voltage.

Abstract: A first calculation unit receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency transform units, calculates a propagation time difference based on a phase difference between the two phase characteristics in a high-frequency component thereof, and calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing a difference in the distances of vascular pathways from the heart to respective measurement areas. Meanwhile, a second calculation unit calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing the stated difference in the distances by a appearance time difference at a predetermined position in respective pulse waveforms obtained by rendering the measurement signals Pa(t) and Pb(t) on a time axis. A comparison unit compares the pulse wave velocities, and in the case where the ratio thereof is outside a predetermined range, an evaluation result indicating that it is possible that a predetermined pathologic change is present in the vascular pathway is outputted to a display processing unit.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium in a first direction; a pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism which coats a pre-treatment liquid on the medium; a liquid ejecting unit which includes a plurality of ink nozzles which eject ink; and a control unit which controls the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism and the liquid ejecting unit, in which the pre-treatment liquid coating mechanism includes a first mechanism which is disposed in a first region A and a second mechanism which is disposed in a second region B positioned on an upstream side of the first region A in the first direction, and the plurality of ink nozzles has a portion which overlaps with respect to the first mechanism in a second direction which intersects with the first direction and a portion which does not overlap with respect to the second mechanism in the second direction.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes an anode; a cathode; a separator; an electrolytic solution including a solvent and an electrolyte salt; wherein the solvent includes a fluoro ethylene carbonate, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte battery has a discharge capacity ratio of a discharge capacity B when discharging at a 5 C rate to a discharge capacity A when discharging at a 0.2 C rate ((B/A)×100%), and wherein the discharge capacity ratio is 80% or more. An electrical apparatus including a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is also provided.