Abstract: A linear conveyance device includes a conveyance carrier and a stator-side platform. The conveyance carrier includes: a conveyance carrier main structure; a first roller and a second roller; a mover-side magnetic element that drives the conveyance carrier main structure with respect to the stator-side platform; and a mover-side counter moment generating element that generates a counter moment against overturning of the conveyance carrier between the mover-side counter moment generating element and the stator-side platform. The stator-side platform includes: a first rail that engages with the first roller; a second rail that engages with the second roller; a stator-side magnetic element paired with the mover-side magnetic element to generate a magnetic attraction force in a horizontal direction; and a stator-side counter moment generating element that generates the counter moment between the stator-side counter moment generating element and the mover-side counter moment generating element paired therewith.

Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.

Abstract: The taxi vehicles are electrified vehicle that can be charged from EVSE. When the pickup location for the taxi vehicle is a standby location where EVSE is installed, a discount amount A is set. When the drop-off location from the taxi vehicle is within the predetermined range from EVSE, the discount amount B is set. The discount amount A+B is set when the pickup location is a standby location where EVSE is installed and the drop-off location is within a predetermined range from EVSE. In order to obtain incentives, users are more likely to get in and out of EVSE, so that recharging times can be efficiently secured.

Abstract: The present application relates to an elastic wave device and a module using the elastic wave device. The elastic wave device comprises a supporting substrate; a dielectric layer formed on the supporting substrate; an insulating layer formed on the dielectric layer; a piezoelectric layer formed on the insulating layer; and a resonator including IDT electrodes formed on the piezoelectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a first strip-shaped acoustic impedance region with a long side direction and a short side direction; and a second strip-shaped acoustic impedance region arranged alternately with the first acoustic impedance region and having a different acoustic impedance from that of the first acoustic impedance region. The elastic wave device of this application provides good temperature characteristics and effectively suppresses spurious response.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes a controller that determines the start of loading work for a dump truck and the end of the loading work on the basis of the operation state of the hydraulic excavator at the time of sensing of a work instruction by a horn, integrates a work-target-object weight measured since the start of the loading work until the end of the loading work, and calculates a loaded amount of the dump truck.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a vibration device and a control substrate for outputting vibration. The control substrate controls the vibration device to vibrate during a period including a readout period of an image signal from an imaging device in an image capturing sequence. A vibration direction of the vibration device is arranged so as to be parallel with a direction of a readout wiring line (vertical signal line) of the imaging device.

Abstract: A parachute that can be deployed more quickly than before, a safety device provided with the parachute, and a flight vehicle provided with the safety device. An umbrella body of the parachute has a substantially hemispherical shape including a first impact buffer, a second impact buffer, and a shape holder, and includes a vent formed at a top portion and an umbrella edge portion constituting an opening. The first impact buffer and the second impact buffer are formed in a state where each of a plurality of base fabrics is disposed such that a center line L connecting a vertex P and a geometric center position of each of the base fabrics intersects an extending direction of a warp thread and a weft thread of the base fabric.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first semiconductor and a first insulator provided at a first position in a first direction intersecting a substrate; a first conductor extending in the first direction and having a first portion facing the first semiconductor without interposing the first insulator and a second portion facing the first insulator without interposing the first semiconductor; and a first charge storage film provided between the first portion and the first semiconductor and not provided between the second portion and the first insulator.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of a power source configured to identify electrical power allowed as electrical power to be used by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the power source.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes arranged side by side, and a tank connected to ends of the tubes. The heat exchanger performs heat exchange between a first fluid flowing inside the tubes and a second fluid flowing outside the tubes. The heat exchanger includes a closing member disposed inside the tank and partially closing an opening provided at an end of a predetermined tube that is at least one of the tubes. The predetermined tube has a protrusion formed at the end of the predetermined tube. The closing member has an avoiding structure that avoids interference between the protrusion and the closing member.

Abstract: To provide a metal plate which is elongated and has a high homogeneity in a wider range, a method for manufacturing the metal plate, a metal mask obtained from the metal plate, and a method for manufacturing the metal mask. Provided is a metal plate which is elongated and is to be used for manufacturing a metal mask, in which when a differential expansion rate En in a unit length L0 in a longitudinal direction for an arbitrary position n in a width direction of the metal plate is measured at each of an arbitrary plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction, a difference in the differential expansion rate En in a central portion in the width direction is 9.0×10?6 or less at a plurality of the positions, and the central portion is a portion that occupies 80% in the width direction of the metal plate excluding both side portions that occupy 10% in the width direction.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a compound suitable for preventing and/or treating inflammatory diseases and/or neurodegenerative disease. The present inventors have conducted intensive studies to find a compound having an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation and found that an annulated pyridazine compound has an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation, thus completing the present invention. The annulated pyridazine compound of the present invention is expected to serve as a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for inflammatory diseases and/or neurodegenerative diseases.

Abstract: Provided are a parachute that can be improved in strength as compared with a conventional parachute even though the number of panels is relatively small, and can be increased in size at low cost, a safety device and a flight vehicle provided with the parachute. A parachute 100 includes an umbrella body 11 including an umbrella top portion 14 and an umbrella edge portion 15, and a plurality of lines 12. A portion along a circumferential direction in a range from the umbrella edge portion 14 to a position on the way to the umbrella top portion 15 is folded in a triple fold in the circumferential direction of the umbrella body 11 and fixed by sewing or the like to form a fold portion 17, and one end of one line 12 is connected to the fold portion 17.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes, a tank, and a prevention plate arranged inside the tank and contacting end surfaces of the tubes to prevent heat medium from flowing into the tubes in a certain region. Flow paths are formed in each tube and arranged in a width direction of the tube. The prevention plate includes a deformable portion elastically deformable by contacting an edge of the opening at a time of inserting the prevention plate into the tank from the opening. The deformable portion of the prevention plate that has been inserted into the tank is restored and receives a reaction force from an inner surface of the tank such that the prevention plate is shifted along the width direction by the reaction force.

Abstract: A measuring device determines the outer circumferential length of a rod-like item at its wind-up section. The wind-up section includes a roll paper supply part that provides continuous roll paper to a constituent part of the rod-like item and a wind-up part that wraps the constituent part with the supplied roll paper to form the rod-like item. The roll paper supply part consists of a first measuring part that assesses the paper width in the width direction crossing the roll paper's longitudinal direction, a second measuring part that measures the overlap width of the part overlapped by the roll paper around the rod-like item, and a calculating part that computes the outer circumferential length based on the differential width obtained by subtracting the overlap width from the paper width.

Abstract: This measurement device calculates the outer circumferential length of a rod-shaped article in a transportation section using a camera and an image processing unit. The camera captures the end surface of the rod-shaped article, and the image processing unit processes the image to determine the length. The unit identifies the outer circumferential edge in the image, constructs an imaginary circle based on this edge, and draws straight lines through the circle's center. It identifies intersections where the lines meet the edge, measures distances between adjacent intersections, and sums these distances along the full circumference to calculate the outer circumferential length.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating executability of computation processing by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing configured to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the executability of the computation processing.