Abstract: A traveling vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left swing part, a right swing part, a holding body, and a suspension device. The left swing part rotatably supports a left front wheel. The right swing part rotatably supports a right front wheel. The left swing part and the right swing part are supported on the vehicle body. The holding body for supporting the suspension device is formed in a U-shape so as to sandwich the suspension device in a front-back direction. A support shaft provided in the suspension device is supported on the holding body on both sides in the front-back direction. The suspension device is rotatable about the support shaft. The suspension device is arranged at a position higher than the left swing part and the right swing part, and extends and contracts in conjunction with swings of the left swing part and the right swing part.

Abstract: A traveling vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left swing part, a right swing part, and an interlocking link mechanism. The left swing part and the right swing part are supported on the vehicle body so as to be swingable in the up-down direction, respectively. A left support part supporting a left front wheel is provided on a front part of the left swing part so as to be rotatable about a left steering shaft. A right support part supporting a right front wheel is provided at a front part of the right swing part so as to be rotatable about a right steering shaft. The interlocking link mechanism rotates one of the left support part and the right support part in conjunction with the other. The interlocking link mechanism is provided between the left support part and the right support part.

Abstract: A mobile image forming apparatus includes a body, a recording device supported by the body and configured to form an image on a recording medium, a roller provided to the body and configured to rotate on the recording medium while the body is moved in a scanning direction for image formation. The mobile image forming apparatus further includes a switching device configured to switch a state of the mobile image forming apparatus during image formation between a roller contact state in which the roller is in contact with the recording medium and a roller contactless state in which the roller is contactless with the recording medium.

Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a base member, an upper arm, a lower arm, a first support member, a second support member, a first wheel, a second wheel, and a steering operation member. The upper arm, the lower arm, the first support member, the second support member constitute a parallel link mechanism. The first wheel is movable integrally with the first support member in a turning direction of the base member. The second wheel is movable integrally with the second support member in the turning direction of the base member. According to turning of the base member by operating the steering operation member, all of the upper arm, the lower arm, the first support member, the second support member, the first wheel, and the second wheel turn around a turning center of the base member.

Abstract: An object may rest on top of a sensor structure. Multiple 3-axis load sensors may be embedded in the sensor structure, and may take measurements of a force created by a human user touching the object. The direction of the force may fluctuate slightly, due to tiny shaking movements of the user's hand or finger while the hand or finger touches the object. These tiny shaking movements may occur even in a normal, healthy person. Based on these measurements of fluctuating force that are taken by the load sensors, a computer may calculate three-dimensional spatial coordinates of a point at which the user is touching the object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing device, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a selection signal indicating which mode is selected from among options. The options include at least two modes, including a first mode in which an image is formed using a non-decolorable first toner, a second mode in which the image is formed using a decolorable second toner, and a third mode in which the image is erased by heating a sheet on which the image is formed by the second toner using the fixing device at a decolorizing temperature. The control circuit sets a different standby temperature in accordance with the mode indicated by the selection signal, and controls a temperature of the fixing device to be the standby temperature, in a standby state before an operation start reception.

Abstract: An electrowetting-on-dielectric actuator may include an array of electrodes and a dielectric layer. The actuator may modulate voltage of the electrodes in such a way that time-varying electric fields created by the electrodes cause droplets of liquid to move relative to the actuator. The electric fields may cause the droplets to press up against a bottom surface of the actuator while the droplets are under and touching the bottom surface. The droplets may then be released from the bottom surface and thereby deposited on an object being fabricated. The release of droplets may be repeated, one layer of droplets at a time, to fabricate the object. Multiple actuators may simultaneously organize droplets in layers. A robot may move the actuators, one at a time, into position for releasing the droplets.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on an image receiving medium to the image receiving medium includes a heating rotation member, a heating element that heats the heating rotation member, a pressure rotation member pressed to the heating rotation member and forming a nip therebetween through which the image receiving medium passes, a pressure control device that controls a pressure at which the pressure rotation member abuts against the heating rotation member. A control device controls the heating element and the pressure control device to alternately perform a process for heating the heating rotation member while the pressure rotation member abuts against the heating rotation member and a process for heating the heating rotation member while the pressure rotation member is separated from the heating rotation member.

Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptides for selectively inducing target antigen-specific CD8-positive T-cell responses. Since induction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific CD4-positive T-cell responses by vaccine could promote HIV infection, an HIV vaccine antigen that selectively induces HIV-specific CD8-positive T-cell responses would be useful if obtained. Thus, in the present invention, polypeptide antigens were designed in which 8- to 12-residue amino acid sequences divided from the amino acid sequence of a target antigen protein were connected in an order different from that of the original amino acid sequence. DNA and viral vector vaccines expressing these antigens were tested by inoculation into monkeys. As a result, they were shown to be able to efficiently induce antigen-specific CD8-positive T-cell responses in a selective manner. The instant antigens may be useful as vaccine antigens that induce CD8-positive T cells in a highly selective manner.

Abstract: A playback sound provision device includes: a surrounding information detection device configured to detect detection information including information on a three-dimensional object or a planar display around the vehicle; and a control device configured to determine a playback method for a playback sound based on a music piece based on the detection information when a predetermined target is included in the detection information, and provide the playback sound based on the playback method.

Abstract: A processing system for a straddle vehicle, comprises an input section which receives information relating to a reaction of a rider; a processor section which learns a reaction trend of the rider based on the information relating to the rider's reaction which is input from the input section, and generates information to be output, based on a learning content of the reaction trend of the rider; and an output section which transmits the information generated by the processor section.

Abstract: A playback sound provision device includes: a surrounding information detection device configured to detect detection information including information on a three-dimensional object or a planar display around the vehicle; and a control device configured to determine a playback method for a playback sound based on a music piece based on the detection information when a predetermined target is included in the detection information, and provide the playback sound based on the playback method.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a pressurizing member, a movable member, and a controller. The fixing member heats a sheet. The pressurizing member has first heat capacity and faces the fixing member. The movable member is provided to be movable between a contact position to contact with the pressurizing member and a separation position to be separated from the pressurizing member, and has second heat capacity smaller than the first heat capacity. The controller is configured to move the movable member to one of the contact position and the separation position based on a change of a control temperature of the fixing member or the pressurizing member.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a heating device, a cooling device, a temperature sensor, and a control device are provided. A heating device operates in a first operation mode in which a first toner transferred to a medium at a predetermined first temperature is heated, or in a second operation mode in which an image formed in the medium by the first toner is heated at a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The cooling device reduces the temperature of the heating device from an operation range in the second operation mode to an operation range in the first operation mode. The temperature sensor detects the temperature of the heating device. The control device controls the cooling device to reduce the temperature of the heating device.

Abstract: A mobile image forming apparatus includes a body; a recording device supported by the body and configured to form an image on a recording medium, and at least one roller provided to the body and configured to rotate on the recording medium while the body is moved in a scanning direction for image formation. The mobile image forming apparatus further includes at least one pressing member disposed in contact with the at least one roller and configured to press the at least one roller in a roller axial direction.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a front wheel, a front wheel mounting portion, a vehicle body, and a roll mechanism. The wheels are disposed in a pair of the left and right and rotatable about the steering shaft as a rotation center. The portion is disposed in a pair of left and right, and the wheel rotatably mounted and includes a suspension. The body includes a seat on which an occupant sits. The mechanism connects the body and the portion. In the upright state, the roll axis of the mechanism is located at a position higher than the vehicle center of gravity when the occupant is not riding. When the body receives a centrifugal force at the time of turning, only the body among the body and the wheel rolls around the roll axis as the rotation center, whereby the body is inclined inward in the turning direction.

Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and computing devices that execute a storage operation, without journaling the storage operation in a log, and withhold from a file system a list of freed inodes including an indication of an inode freed as a result of the execution of the storage operation. A consistency point operation is then initiated that retrieves storage operations logged as journal entries in the log and commits a result of each of the storage operations to data storage devices. A list of available inodes is updated based on the list of freed inodes, when the consistency point operation is determined to be complete. This technology reduces the number of storage operations that are required to be journaled to maintain consistency of a file system, thereby reducing the runtime resources required to facilitate the journaling and replay resource required to replay the storage operations following a recovery.

Abstract: A pseudo-emotion generating system configured to generate pseudo-emotions of a vehicle includes an emotion generating section that generates a pseudo-emotion of the vehicle based on external force information representing an external force applied to the vehicle from outside during travel of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle conversation information output device is included in a vehicle conversation information output system configured to output conversation information to a driver driving a vehicle, the conversation information being created according to a predefined personality, the device including: a receiving part that obtains usage information related to how the vehicle has been used by the driver; a modifying part that modifies the predefined personality based on the usage information obtained by the receiving part; a creating part that creates conversation information to be output to the driver based on the personality modified by the modifying part; and an outputting part that outputs the conversation information created by the creating part to the driver.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a pressurizing member, a movable member, and a controller. The fixing member heats a sheet. The pressurizing member has first heat capacity and faces the fixing member. The movable member is provided to be movable between a contact position to contact with the pressurizing member and a separation position to be separated from the pressurizing member, and has second heat capacity smaller than the first heat capacity. The controller is configured to move the movable member to one of the contact position and the separation position based on a change of a control temperature of the fixing member or the pressurizing member.