Abstract: An optical analysis device that analyzes a sample by irradiating an optical cell containing the sample with light, and detecting light transmitted through the optical cell, the optical analysis device including: a first light source and a second light source each emitting light in a spectrum different from a spectrum of another; an optical element that reflects a part and transmits another part of incident light that has a first face on which the light from the first light source becomes incident and a second face on which the light from the second light source becomes incident; a first light output port provided on a light path of light emitted from the first light source and reflected on the first face, and light emitted from the second light source and transmitted through the second face; and a second light output port provided on a light path of light emitted from the first light source and transmitted through the first face.

Abstract: A substrate includes a plurality of protrusions containing a metal. A first metal portion containing a metal including at least one of gold, silver, platinum, copper, and palladium is provided on a first protrusion among the plurality of protrusions. A second metal portion containing a metal including at least one of gold, silver, platinum, copper, and palladium is provided on a second protrusion different from the first protrusion among the plurality of protrusions. A dielectric portion is provided between the first protrusion and the first metal portion, and between the second protrusion and the second metal portion. A gap is provided between the first and second metal portions, and the distance between them is 50 nm or less. The first and second metal portions include functional groups adsorbed or bonded thereto.

Abstract: An authentication system using an information encoding article that includes an information code, the authentication system includes a detection unit capable of reading the information code, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information regarding a concentration distribution in an encoding region before and after the application of an external stimulus, and an authentication unit configured to execute authentication by using at least both second information acquired prior to the first information and regarding the concentration distribution in the encoding region and the first information, wherein the information encoding article having the encoding region where the information code is formed, the concentration distribution in the encoding region, to be read by the detection unit, changing upon application of the external stimulus to the encoding region.

Abstract: A photodetector includes: a photoelectric conversion section; and an optical layer provided to cover the photoelectric conversion section, in which the optical layer includes: a plurality of pillars arranged side by side in a plane direction of a layer to guide at least light to be detected among incident light to the photoelectric conversion section; and a reflection suppressing film provided on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the pillar, and the reflection suppressing film has a non-flat portion including at least one of a recess and a protrusion.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a sensor that detects entry of a person into a room, and determines whether the person who enters the room is a care recipient as a user of the room or a caregiver who provides care for the user. The information processing system specifies a person who enters the room, and stores an entry detection result by the sensor, a determination result, and a specification result. The information processing system outputs first notification information indicating the entry detection result, second notification information indicating the determination result, and third notification information indicating the specification result to a notification destination.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion, a lifting unit, an air blowing unit, a sheet feeding belt, a detection unit, and a control unit. When a sheet is a double-sided processed sheet with both surfaces coated, the control unit stops the sheet supporting portion at a position at which a distance between the position of the uppermost sheet detected by the detection unit and the sheet feeding belt corresponds to a first distance, and when a sheet is a single-sided processed sheet with a first surface of the sheet coated and a second surface opposite to the first surface not coated, the control unit stops the sheet supporting portion at a position at which the distance between the position of the uppermost sheet detected by the detection unit and the sheet feeding belt corresponds to a second distance that is shorter than the first distance.

Abstract: A photodetector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens on which light is incident; a first photoelectric conversion section that photoelectrically converts light transmitted through the lens; a second photoelectric conversion section provided next to the first photoelectric conversion section and photoelectrically converting light transmitted through the lens; and a first light-guiding member provided above the first photoelectric conversion section and having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of an adjacent medium.

Abstract: A heat-shielding film having a transmittance of 50% or more for light having a wavelength of 300 nm or more and 800 nm or less includes (i) particles and (ii) a resin component, in which one or both of the particles and the resin component have a refractive index exhibiting anomalous dispersion for light having a wavelength of 500 nm or more and 1000 nm or less, and a difference in refractive index between the particles and the resin component for light having a wavelength of 500 nm is smaller than a difference in refractive index between the particles and the resin component for light having a wavelength of 1000 nm.

Abstract: A metal layer includes a protrusion-and-recess shaped object, in which the protrusion-and-recess shaped object is characterized in that a second protrusion-and-recess structure is disposed on a first protrusion-and-recess structure.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a color estimation method for estimating color of a dental prosthetic and a dental prosthetic manufacturing method for coloring the dental prosthetic based on the estimated color. A dental prosthetic color estimation method of the present invention includes acquiring color information about teeth, the color information being obtained by using an imaging unit, and estimating color of a surface of a dental prosthetic based on color information about at least one of a target tooth for the dental prosthetic to be disposed, a tooth near the target tooth, and a tooth corresponding to the target tooth.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film that achieves usually incompatible characteristics of absorbing visible light and near-infrared rays and emitting less far-infrared rays. The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film including: a metal layer including fine irregularities, wherein an average height of the fine irregularities is 100 nm or more and 1000 nm or less.

Abstract: There is provided a photodetector. The photodetector includes a light guide including a plurality of structures each having a size equal to or less than a wavelength of incident light, a first material, a second material, wherein a combination of the first material and the second material is provided above and/or between the plurality of structures and wherein the first material and the second material each has a refractive index different from a refractive index of the plurality of structures and a photoelectric converter that photoelectrically converts light incident via the light guide.

Abstract: An axial cylinder extending in an axial direction along a center axis and a writing member disposed inside the axial cylinder. The axial cylinder has fiber-like protrusions protruding toward an outside in a radial direction from an outer circumferential surface of the axial cylinder, the plurality of fiber-like protrusions are provided side by side on the outer circumferential surface, and each of the fiber-like protrusions has a plurality of rib parts which extend in predetermined directions when viewed from the outside in the radial direction and which are disposed side by side in a width direction orthogonal to the predetermined directions and a step part which is disposed between rib parts adjacent to each other in the width direction or disposed at an end portion in the width direction of the rib parts and extends in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a sensor that detects entry of a person into a room, and determines whether the person who enters the room is a care recipient as a user of the room or a caregiver who provides care for the user. The information processing system specifies a person who enters the room, and stores an entry detection result by the sensor, a determination result, and a specification result. The information processing system outputs first notification information indicating the entry detection result, second notification information indicating the determination result, and third notification information indicating the specification result to a notification destination.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film that achieves usually incompatible characteristics of absorbing visible light and near-infrared rays and emitting less far-infrared rays. The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film including: a metal layer including fine irregularities, wherein an average height of the fine irregularities is 100 nm or more and 1000 nm or less.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet stacking portion, a sheet feeding unit, and a sheet supporting portion disposed upstream of the sheet stacking portion in a sheet feeding direction and configured to support the sheet. The sheet supporting portion includes a sheet supporting surface disposed adjacent to a sheet stacking surface on which the sheet is stacked in the sheet stacking portion, the sheet supporting surface being configured to support the sheet in conjunction with the sheet stacking surface, and a rotary member disposed such that part of the rotary member projects upward from the sheet supporting surface and comes into contact with a lower surface of the sheet, the rotary member being configured to rotate in accordance with feeding of the sheet.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a first sheet feeding apparatus, a second sheet feeding apparatus disposed above the first sheet feeding apparatus and including a tray and a sheet feeding unit, and a sheet supporting apparatus. The sheet supporting apparatus includes a mounting portion configured to be mounted to a mounted portion disposed in the second sheet feeding apparatus, a sheet supporting portion configured to support an upstream side in a sheet conveyance direction of the sheet supported on the tray in a state in which the mounting portion is mounted to the mounted portion, and a first support leg configured to support the sheet supporting portion by coming into contact with a floor surface, on which the image forming apparatus is supported, in the state in which the mounting portion is mounted to the mounted portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a supporting unit, a feeding unit, a side regulating portion, an air nozzle, and an air supplying unit. The air nozzle is movably provided at the side regulating portion and blows air in the sheet width direction toward at least an uppermost sheet of a sheet bundle supported on a support surface. The air nozzle is positioned at a first nozzle position for blowing the air to a first blowing position when the uppermost sheet of the sheet bundle supported on the support surface is positioned at a first sheet position. The air nozzle is positioned at a second nozzle position for blowing the air to a second blowing position below the first blowing position when the uppermost sheet of the sheet bundle supported on the support surface is positioned at a second sheet position below the first sheet position.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a semi-hermetic compressor housing, an electrically-powerable dual-cylinder rolling piston rotary compressor assembly housed in the housing, electric motor driver electronics, and an auxiliary housing. The auxiliary housing defines a semi-hermetic refrigerant inlet compartment having a wall. The auxiliary housing also defines an electronics compartment sharing the wall with the inlet compartment but semi-hermetically separated from the inlet compartment. The compressor housing is semi-hermetically coupled to the inlet compartment and in fluid communication therewith. The electronics compartment houses the electronics.

Abstract: To achieve local melting of an inorganic material powder containing an inorganic material as a main component in an additive manufacturing technology, to thereby achieve high shaping accuracy. Provided is an inorganic material powder to be used in an additive manufacturing method involving performing shaping through irradiation with laser light, the inorganic material powder including: a base material that is an inorganic material; and an absorber, wherein the absorber has a higher light-absorbing ability than the base material for light having a wavelength included in the laser light, and contains any one of Ti2O3, TiO, SiO, ZnO, antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO), and indium-doped tin oxide (ITO), or contains any one of a transition metal carbide, a transition metal nitride, Si3N4, AlN, a boride, and a silicide.