Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a length of a patch pattern from a first patch to a last patch included in the patch pattern is longer than a circumferential length that is a length of an intermediate transfer belt in a conveyance direction, an engine control unit forms patches included in a range within the circumferential length in a first density (low density), forms patches included in ranges beyond the circumferential length in a second density (high density) darker than the first density, from among the patches included in the patch pattern, and executes image adjustment control.

Abstract: A coil device includes a wire, a core, and a terminal fitting. The wire includes a winding portion and a lead-out portion drawn out from the winding portion. The core includes a shaft and a flange at one end of the shaft. The shaft has the winding portion wound around. The terminal fitting includes a mounting portion connectable to a mounting substrate, a wire connecting portion connected to the lead-out portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the mounting portion and the wire connecting portion. The mounting portion and the wire connecting portion are disposed over a mounting surface of the flange. The intermediate portion has a route extending over an end surface of the flange and a side surface of the flange to connect the mounting portion and the wire connecting portion.

Abstract: To provide a technique for improving image quality. A light detection apparatus includes: a semiconductor layer including a first surface and a second surface mutually positioned on opposite sides in a thickness direction; a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions provided on the semiconductor layer so as to be adjacent to each other via a separation region that stretches in the thickness direction of the semiconductor layer; a transistor provided for each of the photoelectric conversion regions on the side of the first surface of the semiconductor layer; and a transparent electrode which is provided on the side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer and to which a potential is applied. In addition, the separation region includes a conductor which stretches in the thickness direction of the semiconductor layer and the conductor is electrically connected on the side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer to the transparent electrode.

Abstract: A service system includes a reservation section by which a reservation for a commodity or a service in a commercial facility can be made and specific information for an electric vehicle that visits the commercial facility can be set, a connection confirmation section that detects that an electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information set by the reservation section has been connected to a charge and discharge device of the commercial facility, and a notification section that notifies the commercial facility that connection of the electric vehicle corresponding to the specific information to the charge and discharge device has been detected by the connection confirmation section.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a conveying device configured to convey a workpiece; a robot configured to execute an operation on the workpiece; and circuitry configured to: identify a current position of the workpiece and an object area occupied by an object; identify an interlock area that moves with the current position of the workpiece being conveyed by the conveying device; check an overlap between the interlock area and the object area; and control the robot to execute the operation based on the current position of the workpiece in response to determining that the interlock area does not overlap the object area.

Abstract: A molded article with improved mechanical strength properties and thermal properties, and a method for producing the molded article. A composite molded article (C) comprising a cellulosic nanomaterial (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B), an area under a stress-strain curve of the composite molded article (C) (AUC1) being at least two times an area under a stress-strain curve of a melt-molded article (D) having the same composition as that of the composite molded article (C) (AUC2), wherein the stress-strain curve is a curve drawn with strain (unit: %) on the horizontal axis and stress (unit: MPa) on the vertical axis and obtained by subjecting the composite molded article (C) or the melt-molded article (D) to a tensile test, and the area is an area up to the horizontal axis from under a curved portion of the curve that is from the origin (stress: 0) of the stress-strain curve to a fracture of the composite molded article (C) or the melt-molded article (D).

Abstract: [Problem]To provide a robot control system that can easily obtain an appropriate moving part control law even when there are many combinations of arm states and moving part states to achieve a target motion. [Solution]A robot control system includes: a robot including an arm and a moving part; and a control device that controls the robot. The control device includes; a motion planning part that outputs a target motion associated with a motion of the arm and an allowable range for the motion of the moving part corresponding to the target motion; an arm control part that outputs an arm control instruction associated with the target motion and an arm state transition; and a movement control part that generates a movement control instruction associated with a motion of the moving part to fall within the allowable range using the arm state transition. The robot has the arm controlled by the arm control instruction and has the moving part controlled by the movement control instruction.

Abstract: A learning device comprises: a learning unit that, using a model read from a model definition unit in accordance with a desired action of a robot, learns measurement information, captured images, and instruction information; a weight storage unit that stores a weight for a model learned by the learning unit; and an inference unit that, when instruction information is newly input, gives a weight read from the weight storage unit to a model read from the model definition unit, predicts an intention of the instruction information by applying, to the model, newly measured measurement information, a newly captured image, and newly input instruction information to the robot, infers a desired action of the robot, and an object which is the target of the desired action, and predicts a drive command for causing the robot to perform the desired action according to the intention of the predicted instruction information.

Abstract: A sample analyzer includes a channel configured to introduce a sample liquid containing magnetic particles bound to a specific substance into a capturing region, a supply unit configured to supply the sample liquid to the channel, a capturing unit having a magnetic field structure for generating a magnetic field and configured to adsorb the magnetic particles to the capturing region by the magnetic field, a measurement unit configured to measure the specific substance captured to the capturing region, and a discharge unit configured to discharge the magnetic particles from the channel after measurement by the measurement unit. The magnetic field structure includes a plurality of magnets arranged outside the channel and having different magnetization directions, and the plurality of magnets are arranged so as to make the magnetic flux density on a channel side larger than that on a side facing the channel.

Abstract: A dispersant-containing liquid of the present disclosure includes an anionic resin containing a carboxyl group and/or a sulfo group and having an acid value of 50 mgKOH/g or greater and 300 mgKOH/g or less as an anionic functional group, linear monoalkylamine, and water, and the linear monoalkylamine is a compound represented by a predetermined chemical formula.

Abstract: As one aspect of this multicopter, the multicopter flies on the basis of information from a flight controller and is provided with the following: a main body section; a plurality of propulsion units having rotating rotary wing, the propulsion units being attached to the main body section; motors installed in the main body section or the propulsion units; at least one first detection unit that detects motor information; and a wireless transmission unit that wirelessly transmits, to the outside, the motor information detected by the first detection unit.

Abstract: A dispersant-containing liquid of the present disclosure contains anionic water-soluble polyester containing a carboxylate and/or a sulfonate, polyalkylene glycols, and water. When a content of the water-soluble polyester in the dispersant-containing liquid is defined as XPEs [mass %] and a content of the polyalkylene glycols in the dispersant-containing liquid is defined as XPAG [mass %], it is preferable that Expression (4) be satisfied. 0.01 ? XPAG / XPEs ? 2.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 includes a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 has a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. Glass transition temperature of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from ?55 degrees Celsius to ?45 degrees Celsius.

Abstract: Provided are a tread rubber composition and a pneumatic tire, which exhibit excellent wet grip performance when thermally damaged. A tread rubber composition having acetone extractable contents before and after heat aging (denoted by “AEf” and “AEo”, respectively) that satisfy the following relationships 1) and 2): 1) AEf?16.0%; 2) AEo/AEf×100?95%.

Abstract: A sliding member (10) includes a base material (12), a porous sintered layer (14) provided on the base material (12), and a resin layer (16) impregnated into the porous sintered layer (14) and provided on the porous sintered layer (14). In the porous sintered layer (14), a porosity decreases from a second surface (S2) opposite to a first surface (S1) closer to the base material, toward the first surface (S1), the first surface and the second surface each being one of end surfaces in the thickness direction, and a decrease rate of the porosity in the thickness direction (Z) in a first region (E1) occupying 50% or more of the thickness of the porous sintered layer (14) from the second surface (S2) toward the first surface (S1) is larger than a decrease rate of the porosity in the thickness direction (Z) in a second region (E2) other than the first region (E1) in the porous sintered layer (14).

Abstract: There is configured a work machine whose engine and fuel tank will not be damaged at time of a work even when the engine and the fuel tank are arranged with offset to one side in the left/right direction of the machine body. The work machine includes a machine body that can travel with left and right front wheels and left and right rear wheels and an implement supported to the machine body. An engine driving the front wheels, the rear wheels and the implement and a fuel tank are disposed between the front wheels and the rear wheels in a front/rear direction of the machine body and at positions offset to further outer side than the left/right center of the machine body. There is provided a protection member which protrudes to a further outer side than an outer end position of the fuel tank in an offset direction of the fuel tank.

Abstract: A dispersion liquid includes water, a coloring material, and a dispersion resin that disperses the coloring material, and the dispersion resin has a constituent unit A containing a hydrophobic monomer, a constituent unit B containing an unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid monomer, and a constituent unit C containing an acrylamide monomer having a sulfonic acid group. The weight-average molecular weight of the dispersion resin is from 10,000 to 100,000, the content of the constituent unit A is 40 mol % or more relative to the total amount of the dispersion resin, and the content of the constituent unit B is 4 mol % or more relative to the total amount of the dispersion resin.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first wiring line, a second wiring line, a memory cell connected between the first and second wiring lines, including a resistance change memory element having first and second resistance states, and a two-terminal switching element connected in series to the resistance change memory element, and a voltage application circuit which applies a write voltage signal having a first polarity and setting a desired resistance state to the resistance change memory element, to the memory cell, and applies, after the write voltage signal is applied to the memory cell, a second polarity voltage signal having a magnitude that prevents the two-terminal switching element from being set to the on-state, to the memory cell.

Abstract: A metal magnetic powder includes: metal nanoparticles having an average particle size (D50) is 1 nm to 100 nm, and a main phase of hcp-Co; and an additive elements ? including at least one of Fe, Ni, and Cu.

Abstract: The metal magnetic powder includes Co as a main component, and an average particle size (D50) of 1 nm to 100 nm. An X-ray diffraction chart of the metal magnetic powder has a first peak that appears in a range of a diffraction angle 2? of 41.6±0.3°, and a second peak that appears in a range of a diffraction angle 20? of 47.4±0.3°. When a full width at half maximum of the first peak is set as FW1, and a full width at half maximum of the second peak is set as FW2, a ratio (FW2/FW1) of FW2 to FW1 is 1 to 5.