Abstract: Extracts or beverages whose ratio between the content of 2,5-piperazinedione,3,6-bis(phenylmethyl)-,(3S,6S)-(unit: ?g/100 g) and Brix (Bx) is 6 (?g/100 g)/Bx or more are good in flavor and feeling on the tongue and further have a good appearance.

Abstract: A turbine is equipped with a turbine rotor (21), a turbine casing, a turbine blade (24), a turbine stator and a diffuser (4A). The diffuser (4A) is equipped with an inner cylinder (41) extending along an axis, an outer cylinder covering the inner cylinder (41) from an outer circumferential side and forming an exhaust flow path (C) between the inner cylinder (41) and the outer cylinder. The inner cylinder (41) is equipped with an inclined surface (51) extending from an inner side to an outer side in the radial direction centering on the axis as going from one side to the other side in the direction of the axis. The inclined surface (51) is disposed to intersect an extension (55) obtained by extending platforms (54) of a plurality of turbine blades (24) to the other side in the direction of the axis, in a cross sectional view including the axis.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of improving reliability in light transmission and convenience at the time of connecting a transmission device to a cable with a simple circuit configuration. A transmitting device is provided which includes a connector receptacle unit connected to an optical-electrical composite cable, in which the connector receptacle unit includes a first electrode group, a second electrode group provided at a position rotated from the first electrode group by 180 degrees about a center of a main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference, a first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals, and a second connection unit group for transmitting optical signals provided at a position rotated from the first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals by 180 degrees about the center of the main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference.

Abstract: A rotational speed control apparatus for an engine is provided. The engine configured to drive a compressor that compresses a cooling medium for air conditioning. The rotational speed control apparatus includes electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (a) correct a torque of the engine through feedback in accordance with a deviation between a rotational speed during idle operation and a target rotational speed; (b) (i) calculate a load torque of the compressor, and (ii) correct the calculated load torque through feedback in accordance with a deviation between the rotational speed of the engine and the target rotational speed and correct a required value of the torque of the engine in accordance with the corrected load torque, in a predetermined period from a start of a changeover between a driven state of the compressor and a stopped state of the compressor.

Abstract: An integrated circuit and a code generating method are described. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of field effect transistors, a plurality of sense-amplifiers, and a processing circuit. Each field effect transistor is configured to represent an address in a mapping table and includes a source, a drain, a channel and a gate. Each sense-amplifier is connected to the drain and configured to sense an electric current from the drain and identify a threshold voltage of the corresponding field effect transistor. The processing circuit is configured to categorize each of the threshold voltages identified by the corresponding sense-amplifiers into a first state and a second state and mark the state of each of the threshold voltages at the corresponding address in the mapping table.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of supporting reverse connection in which the front and back of a connector are reversed while expansion of circuit scale is suppressed. A reception control device is provided including: a polarity detection unit that detects, as a polarity determination result signal, at least one of a polarity of a first reception signal received by a first reception unit or a polarity of a polarity inversion result of a second reception signal received by a second reception unit; and a reception control unit that controls output destinations of a third reception signal received after the first reception signal by the first reception unit and a fourth reception signal received after the second reception signal by the second reception unit, on the basis of the polarity determination result signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image reading device, a storage device, and a control unit. The image reading device reads an image on a sheet. The storage device stores information. The control unit that determines a detection area of an encoded image based on a teacher image which is an image read from a predetermined teacher sheet by the image reading device, records information indicating the detection area in the storage device, detects an encoded image in the detection area among the images read from a sheet to be read after the teacher sheet, and decodes the detected encoded image.

Abstract: A vehicular display device, in execution of following cruise control with a preceding vehicle ahead of a host vehicle, causes a fixed indication to light up and displays a following mark in a superimposed manner with a following-target preceding vehicle. The fixed indication indicates that the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected. The vehicular display device includes a preceding vehicle detector that detects the following-target preceding vehicle, a display setter that sets the fixed indication to light up and sets the following mark to be displayed in a superimposed manner with the following-target preceding vehicle when the following-target preceding vehicle has been detected by the preceding vehicle detector, and a head-up display that displays images of the fixed indication and the following mark set by the display setter in a display region provided to be superimposed on a position of a windshield of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A front object determiner determines an object on a traveling road surface in front of a host vehicle based on an image of a forward view captured by a front camera. A display controller draws an overlapping portion where a guide route calculated by a navigation device and the object determined by the front object determiner overlap each other in a display region on a windshield and a non-overlapping portion where the guide route and the object do not overlap each other in the display region on the windshield such that the overlapping portion is to be presented in a mode different from a mode for the non-overlapping portion.

Abstract: Provided is a damper wherein viscous fluid which fills a circular cylinder chamber is more reliably prevented from leaking. A rotary damper (1) includes: a first seal ring (8a) of an elastic body, arranged between a through-hole (23) of a circular cylinder chamber (21) in a case (2) and a lower end of a rotor body of a rotor (3); and a second seal ring (8b) of an elastic body, arranged between a through-hole (60) in a lid (6) and an upper end of the rotor body.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor chip, with the semiconductor chip including a modular region and a test circuit. The modular region includes a plurality of modular areas each including a memory cell array with redundant bit lines and a peripheral memory area storing at least redundant addresses. The test circuit retrieves the redundant addresses intrinsic to the semiconductor chip. The distribution of the redundant addresses is randomly formed related to a part or an entirety of the modular area of the modular region. The distribution of the retrieved redundant addresses is irreversible, with a random number representing physical properties intrinsic to the semiconductor chip and providing copy protection. When another semiconductor chip uses the distribution of the retrieved redundant addresses the another semiconductor chip will malfunction.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including an electrode group and a nonaqueous electrolyte is provided. The electrode group is formed by winding a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The tension modulus of the separator in the winding direction is within a range of 200 (N/mm2) to 2,000 (N/mm2).

Abstract: A method of qubits, a room temperature quantum computing and a system including a controller, a readout, a resistor and a storage are disclosed. The shape and area of each qubits and the pattern of qubit array may be defined by a pattern on a mask simultaneously to control correlations among qubits. The configuration of qubit correlation may be designed three-dimensionally by stacking layers including arrays of qubits. The external generator may be included in another layer stacked with the layers including the arrays of qubits. The qubit may comprise a band structure having a spin-less ground state and a first excited state with spin. The first excited state may not be split for a retention time even under the external field which can influence a spin. The configuration of qubit correlations may be tuned by considering this retention time and an error correction code in quantum computation.

Abstract: A turbine includes a diffuser. This diffuser includes a combustor basket, an outer shell, a plurality of struts, and a protrusion. The protrusion is configured so that a front end thereof located on one side in the direction of the axis is disposed between a leading edge of the strut on the one side in the direction of the axis and a trailing edge of the strut on the other side in the direction of the axis, and a rear end thereof located on the other side in the direction of the axis is disposed farther along in the direction of the axis on the other side than the trailing edge.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes a display configured to display an image in a display area that overlaps a position of a windshield of a vehicle, a display processor configured to display a direction guide image in the display area in a manner superimposed on a road on which the vehicle is traveling, the direction guide image being an image showing a turn position where the vehicle is to make a turn on the road, and a display pattern determiner configured to determine a display pattern of the direction guide image based on a traveling speed of the vehicle. The display pattern determiner determines the display pattern such that, the higher the traveling speed is, the longer a length from a top end to a bottom end of the direction guide image is.

Abstract: A microscope device connected to a network includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives master setting information from a data processor by communicating with the data processor over the network, and the master setting information includes multiple pieces of customizing setting information that correspond to multiple types of microscopy. The control unit registers or updates own-device-setting information of the microscope device in accordance with the master setting information received by the communication unit.

Abstract: Cutting machining is performed on a workpiece by making a cutting tool travel relative to the workpiece while rotating the cutting tool such that a peripheral speed of the cutting tool becomes equal to or more than a cutting speed of the cutting tool, while an outer peripheral surface and an end surface of the cutting tool function as a rake surface and a relief surface, respectively.

Abstract: The safe operation assistance device 200 includes: a connecting destination detecting section 259 that detects and manages a connection state between the safe operation assistance device 200 and a connecting destination device; a unique information setting section 251 that sets unique information identifying a vehicle type of an own vehicle according to the connecting destination device; a positional information acquisition section 257 that acquires positional information of the own vehicle; an own vehicle information management section 252 that manages the positional information and the unique information of the own vehicle; an inter-vehicle communication section 255 that transmits the own vehicle information to other vehicle and acquires other vehicle information; and a risk determination section 254 that determines presence or absence of a collision risk between the own vehicle and the other vehicle using the own vehicle information and the other vehicle information.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a rotary damper wherein damping torque generated by rotation can be easily adjusted using a simple configuration. [Solution] A rotary damper 1 limits the movement of viscous fluid contained in a circular cylinder chamber 111, thereby generating damping torque against applied rotational force. This rotary damper 1 is configured such that: a lid 15 is screwed into a case 11; and the gap g1 between the lower surface 153 of the lid 15 and the upper surface 119 of a partition section 115 and the gap g2 between the lower surface 153 of the lid 15 and the upper surface 129 of a vane 122 can be adjusted by adjusting the amount of screwing of the lid 15 into the case 11. This means that adjusting the amount of movement of viscous fluid through the gaps g1, g2 can adjust damping torque generated by rotation.

Abstract: A cutting method for cutting a workpiece by using a cutting tool having a ring-shaped cutting edge, the workpiece containing alumina, the cutting method includes: cutting the workpiece with the cutting edge being coated with alumina contained in the workpiece, wherein an end surface of the cutting tool is set as a flank, and an outer circumferential surface of the cutting tool is set as a rake face.