Abstract: According to one embodiment, a supervisory circuit includes a trigger determination circuit and a trigger table. The trigger determination circuit receives signal processing signals outputted from a plurality of signal processing circuits as trigger signals, determines whether processing operations by the signal processing circuits are executed in a predetermined order, and outputs an interrupt signal when detecting a trigger signal out of setting. The trigger table is provided with trigger-specific tables corresponding to the respective signal processing circuits, reads a trigger setting to occur next based on a trigger determined as being correct by the trigger determination circuit, and outputs a table read signal to the trigger determination circuit.

Abstract: A switch IC includes first, second and third switch units, and an amplifier. The first switch unit and the third switch unit are adjacent to each other. The third switch unit and the amplifier are adjacent to each other. The amplifier and the second switch unit are adjacent to each other. The first, second and third switch units, and the amplifier are disposed on a straight line in an order in which a signal passes through the first switch unit, the second switch unit, the third switch unit, and the amplifier.

Abstract: A computing device includes a memory, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to store, in the memory, one or more logs that meet a predetermined condition, during operation of the computer device, detect establishment of a local wireless or wired connection to a mobile computing device, detect a triggering event to trigger an output of said one or more logs stored in the memory, and upon detection of the triggering event, control the communication interface to transmit said one or more logs stored in the memory to the mobile computing device.

Abstract: A delivery management system according to an embodiment includes at least one server. The server receives a retrieval request including a commodity code. The server acquires, for each commodity that corresponds to the commodity code: first information including location status information of the commodity detected by a first terminal and location information of the first terminal, and second information including environmental information at a storage location and location information of a second terminal. The server outputs display information to display a list of each commodity. The server receives a selection of one of the commodities, and outputs delivery route information of the selected commodity based on the first information. The server receives a second selection of a portion of the delivery route, and outputs environmental information to display the at least one environmental condition corresponding to the selected portion of the delivery route based on the second information.

Abstract: A module component includes a substrate; first, second, third and fourth main electrodes on or in a principal surface of the substrate; a sub-electrode located between two of the four main electrodes and connected to one of the four main electrodes by a solder; a first mount component mounted to the first and second main electrodes; and a second mount component mounted to the third and fourth main electrodes; wherein an area of the sub-electrode is smaller than an area of each of the first, second, third and fourth main electrodes.

Abstract: An advertisement distribution apparatus according to an embodiment includes a user information table, a determining unit, a request unit, and a distribution unit. The user information table stores user information about a user. When the advertisement distribution apparatus is accessed by a user terminal, the determining unit determines whether the user information of the user of the user terminal has been stored in the user information table. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the request unit requests an information provision apparatus to transmit the user information. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the distribution unit distributes advertisement content to the user terminal using the user information which is acquired from the information provision apparatus by the request unit.

Abstract: A novel agent which is effective in the prevention or treatment of a chronic respiratory disease such as COPD, interstitial pneumonia and asthma is provided. The therapeutic agent for a chronic respiratory disease comprises, as an active ingredient, a hydroquinone derivative represented by general formula (1) wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkylcarbonyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus comprises a commodity information storage module configured to store commodity information of a commodity to which a transaction processing is executed in a storage section; a first attribute storage module configured to store, if a face from which an attribute of a customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is detected from images captured by a camera, attribute information indicating the attribute determined according to face image information of the detected face in the storage section in association with the commodity information; a sending module configured to send the commodity information stored by the commodity information storage module to a server if the face from which the attribute of the customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is not detected according to the captured images; and a second attribute storage module configured to store the attribute information indicating the attribute which is determined according to the face image inform

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there are provided an estimation unit that estimates the number of customers to be processed during a predetermined period in the present or future as the number of expected customers based on the number of past customers recorded as a history; a storage unit that stores processing capability indicating the number of customers who may be processed per unit time in a cash register form in association with the cash register form realizable in a cash register installed in a store; a derivation unit that derives a form and the number of cash registers capable of processing the number of expected customers based on the processing capability of each cash register form stored in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs instruction information for instructing as many derived cash register forms of cash registers as the derived number of cash registers to be operated.

Abstract: A work assignment support server according to an embodiment includes a communication interface, a storage unit, and a processor. The server registers a work request, and transmits, to a plurality of terminal apparatuses, work request information corresponding to the registered work request. The server receives, from at least one of the terminal apparatuses, a response to the work request information. The server transmits, to a designated one of the terminal apparatuses from which a response to the work request information was received, an assignment information that assigns the work request to the designated terminal apparatus. The server transmits, to the plurality of terminal apparatuses other than the designated terminal apparatus, a cancellation notification that cancels the work request.

Abstract: A charging unit includes: a charging member that contacts with an image holding body holding an image and charges a surface of the image holding body; a support member that supports the charging member; and a pressing member that has plural springs that expand and contract in a direction from the support member to the image holding body, and pushes the support member toward the image holding body, and at least two of the plural springs of the pressing member are formed by a single metal wire.

Abstract: A computing device includes a memory, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to store, in the memory, one or more logs that meet a predetermined condition, during operation of the computer device, detect establishment of a local wireless or wired connection to a mobile computing device, detect a triggering event to trigger an output of said one or more logs stored in the memory, and upon detection of the triggering event, control the communication interface to transmit said one or more logs stored in the memory to the mobile computing device.

Abstract: A computing device includes memory, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to store, in the memory, one or more logs that meet a predetermined condition, store, in the memory, a device ID of a mobile router, in response to the communication interface receiving the device ID from a local device that is connected to the computing device through an intra network, control the communication interface to transmit a request for an intra network connection with the mobile router, in response to the computing device being within a communication range of the mobile router by the mobile router being moved and a device ID received from the mobile router matching the device ID received from the local device, and control the communication interface to transmit said one or more logs stored in the memory through an intra network to the mobile router.

Abstract: A charging unit includes: a charging member that contacts with an image holding body holding an image and charges a surface of the image holding body; a support member that supports the charging member; and a pressing member that has plural springs that expand and contract in a direction from the support member to the image holding body, and pushes the support member toward the image holding body, and at least two of the plural springs of the pressing member are formed by a single metal wire.

Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus comprises a commodity information storage module which stores commodity information of a commodity processed in a transaction; a first attribute storage module which stores, in a case in which a face by means of which an attribute of a customer who purchases the commodity can be determined can be detected according to images captured by a camera, attribute information indicating the attribute determined according to face image information of the detected face in association with the commodity information; a captured image storage module which stores the captured images; a sending module which sends the commodity information stored by the commodity information storage module and the captured images stored by the captured image storage module to a server in a case in which the face by means of which the attribute of the customer who purchases the commodity can be determined cannot be detected according to the captured images; and a second attribute storage module which stores t

Abstract: Generation of cavitation jet in air on a surface of a work roll provides a higher cleaning force than squirting of only high pressure fluid, so that sticking substances on the surface of the work roll are reliably removable. When a distance between a cleaning nozzle and the surface of the work roll and pressure of the high pressure fluid are controlled within a predetermined range, sticking substances are efficiently removable while roughness of the surface of the work roll is maintained.

Abstract: An object is to provide a pen nib that can be used, for example, for a touch panel with writing feeling comparable to a conventional pen. The pen nib has a pen nib body that is formed of a bundle of fibers and is coated with a conductive material and made conductive.

Abstract: A screw-drive conveying apparatus has on a conveying traveling body side, a first driven roller pair having a shorter distance between two driven front and rear rollers and a second driven roller pair having a longer distance between two driven front and rear rollers. A first screw shaft row with which the respective driven rollers of the first driven roller pair are engaged and a second screw shaft row with which the respective driven rollers of the second driven roller pair are engaged are provided on a traveling path side. The length of screw discontinued spaces between both screw shaft rows is equal to the distance between the driven rollers of the driven roller pair engaged with the screw shaft row on the upstream side.

Abstract: Provided is a MEMS module that includes a MEMS element having a first capacitor electrode that can be displaced, a second capacitor electrode that opposes the first capacitor electrode, and driving electrodes that cause the first capacitor electrode to be displaced. The driving electrodes are connected to a control unit that applies a driving voltage to the driving electrodes and monitor terminals for detecting power. Thus, an element for monitoring power is not needed and a MEMS module, a variable reactance circuit and an antenna device are provided that are capable of realizing smaller size and lower loss.

Abstract: A method for separating a multiple number of semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits from a wafer on which the multiple number of semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits are formed is provided. The method includes separating each of the semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits. Each of the separated semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits is non-rectangular shaped, and the step of separating each of the semiconductor devices or semiconductor integrated circuits is performed by dry etching.