Abstract: A method for producing a product 1,3-butylene glycol, including a step of subjecting crude 1,3-butylene glycol to hydrogenation treatment using a Pd/C catalyst.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes: a belt-shaped first transporter configured to come into contact with one surface of a medium, and transport the medium; a belt-shaped second transporter configured to come into contact with the first transporter in an opposed manner, and transport the medium by nipping the medium in a contact area between the second transporter and the first transporter; a cooler provided in at least one of the first transporter or the second transporter, and configured to cool the medium in the contact area; and a static eliminator configured to eliminate static electricity of the medium which passes through the contact area, by applying a static elimination voltage to the first transporter or the second transporter.

Abstract: Provided are novel benzazepine compounds of Formula (1), or salts thereof, having vasopressin V1a and V2 antagonisms, and medical uses thereof, in the formula, R1 is optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, etc.; L is —C(?O)—NH—, etc.; Ring A1 is a hydrocarbon ring, etc.; Ring A2 is a hydrocarbon ring, etc.; and each of Rings A1 and A2 may have at least one substituent.

Abstract: A static elimination device includes static elimination rolls in a paired configuration that respectively have roll bodies continuously extending along an axial direction intersecting a moving direction of a medium and that eliminate static electricity by moving the medium in a nipped state, a static elimination power source that applies a static elimination voltage to at least one static elimination roll of the static elimination rolls in the paired configuration, and a regulating unit that passes through a non-contact portion formed at a part of a contact region of the static elimination rolls in the paired configuration in the axial direction and that extends to a front and a back in the moving direction of the medium to regulate the moving direction of the medium.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that also enables a target to acquire global positional coordinates of the target when the target fails to obtain the global positional coordinates by itself. [Solving Means] An information processing method according to the present technology includes calculating, by a position measurement apparatus, global positional coordinates of the position measurement apparatus; observing, by the position measurement apparatus, a target to calculate a relative position of the position measurement apparatus relative to the target; and calculating, by the position measurement apparatus, first global positional coordinates of the target on the basis of the global positional coordinates of the position measurement apparatus and the relative position.

Abstract: An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an estimation section and a determination section. The estimation section estimates adhesion between a contact surface of a base section and a contact target surface to which the base section is attached, on the basis of data that is obtained with use of a sensor and correlated with the adhesion. The determination section determines stability of the base section with respect to the contact target surface, on the basis of the adhesion estimated by the estimation section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a calculation unit. The calculation unit calculates a self-position of an own device that moves with a moving object, in accordance with a first movement state of a moving object and a second movement state of the own device, on a basis of first movement information relating to the moving object and second movement information relating to the own device. As a result, it is possible to improve detection accuracy. Further, it is possible to improve the accuracy and reliability of the self-position. Since no displacement of the self-position occurs even in a movement space, it is possible for a drone flying in the air to avoid collision with obstacles in the movement space.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit that controls automatic following with respect to a target in a shooting region for a visible image to cause the target located in a position corresponding to a characteristic temperature distribution included in thermographic image data to be included in the shooting region. The thermographic image data is data obtained by shooting an image in response to a command to start the automatic following.

Abstract: A static elimination device includes: a pair of static elimination rollers that performs static elimination by allowing passage of a sheet-like material to be sandwiched between the pair of static elimination rollers; and a power supply unit that supplies a voltage for static elimination to at least one static elimination roller of the pair of static elimination rollers, wherein the pair of static elimination rollers is a pair of static elimination rollers in which contact pressures at ends in an axial direction are lower than a contact pressure at a portion other than the ends.

Abstract: An information processor according to the present disclosure includes: a detection processor that detects, on the basis of output data from a first sensor, a first region within an object detection region detected by the first sensor, the first region being unsuitable for self-location estimation and environment map creation; and a data processor that performs the self-location estimation and the environment map creation on the basis of the output data corresponding to a second region excluding the first region within the object detection region.

Abstract: A charging device includes: a housing having a U-shaped cross-section, disposed such that an opening thereof faces a surface of a rotating image carrier, and extending in an axial direction of the image carrier; a discharge electrode configured to charge the surface, the discharge electrode being attached to the housing, inside the housing, and extending in the axial direction; and a cleaner having a protrusion that comes into contact with a bottom plate of the housing and configured to move in the axial direction to clean the discharge electrode in a state in which the protrusion is in contact with the bottom plate, regardless of whether the opening in the housing faces upward or downward.

Abstract: A transfer member includes: an inner layer; and an outer layer that is adhered to the inner layer and has a hardness lower than a hardness of the inner layer.

Abstract: A location estimation system includes at least four directional sensors that each acquire data used to estimate a location of a mobile object; a sensor assignment section that assigns one of the at least four sensors as a first sensor, and assigns, as a second sensor, one of the at least four sensors that is adjacent to the first sensor and situated on one of sides of the first sensor; an environment map generator that generates an environment map on the basis of first sensor data that is data acquired by the first sensor and on the basis of second sensor data that is data acquired by the second sensor; a first location estimator that estimates the location in the environment map on the basis of the first sensor data to generate a first sensor estimated location; a second location estimator that estimates the location in the environment map on the basis of the second sensor data to generate a second sensor estimated location; and a location integration section that integrates the first sensor estimated locati

Abstract: There are provided a device and a method that execute light output control that eliminates an occlusion region and does not disturb blinking pattern light of a mobile device. At least one of a light application region or a light output timing of output light of a light output unit is determined on the basis of a data analysis result based on sensor input information and reception information from another device, the light output unit is controlled according to the light application region or the light output timing that has been determined, and a light output process is executed. Specifically, for example, light output control is executed so as to eliminate an occlusion region which no light reaches due to a pillar or the like, and moreover, so as not to disturb blinking pattern light output from the mobile device.

Abstract: A product 1,3-butylene glycol, wherein, in an HPLC analysis under specific conditions after specific sample preparation, when a relative retention time of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine is regarded as 1.0, a sum area value of absorbance peaks that appear within a relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0 is 1000 or less, and wherein a dinitrophenylhydrazine derivative of a carbonyl compound having 4 to 6 carbon atoms is contained as a component that corresponds to the peaks that appear within the relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0.

Abstract: To enable appropriate imaging of both an object located at a short distance and an object located at a long distance by a stereo camera depending on the situation. A moving body includes: a stereo camera including a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit; a base length changing unit that moves at least one of the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit so as to change a base length between the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit; and a moving body control unit that controls the base length changing unit such that the base length is adjusted to a target base length according to a state variable indicating information of a variable imaging state of the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit.

Abstract: A product 1,3-butylene glycol, wherein, in an HPLC analysis under specific conditions after specific sample preparation, when a relative retention time of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine is regarded as 1.0, a sum area value of absorbance peaks that appear within a relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0 is 1000 or less, and wherein a dinitrophenylhydrazine derivative of a carbonyl compound having 4 to 6 carbon atoms is contained as a component that corresponds to the peaks that appear within the relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0.

Abstract: To provide a technology capable of realizing safety flight of a flying object without limiting a flight area for the flying object. An autonomous mobile apparatus according to the present technology includes a mobile unit, a bumper unit, and a control unit. The mobile unit moves an autonomous mobile apparatus by driving. The bumper unit capable of reducing a fall impact of a flying object. The control unit controls driving of the mobile unit on the basis of a position of the flying object.

Abstract: Provided are a dual-frequency power-supply apparatus, a high-frequency heating apparatus, and a high-frequency quenching apparatus having a high durability. A dual-frequency power-supply apparatus 1 includes a power supply 10 that alternately outputs a low-frequency current and a high-frequency current. The power supply 10 has an inverter 30 that converts a direct current into the low-frequency current and the high-frequency current and a controller 40 that controls the inverter 30. The controller 40 repeats, in this order, a first output period T11 in which the low-frequency current is output, a first intermission T12 in which output is stopped, a second output period T13 in which the high-frequency current is output, and a second intermission T14 in which output is stopped.

Abstract: A drum member includes: a substantially cylindrical drum body having a hollow part extending in an axial direction; a sheet member wound on the drum body; an adjusting mechanism configured to adjust tension in the sheet member, the adjusting mechanism including a moving member that holds an end of the sheet member in a circumferential direction and moves in a depth direction of the hollow part, and a fixing member that fixes the moving member to the drum body; and one or more positioning members that position the moving member such that the moving member does not move in the circumferential direction of the drum body when the moving member is fixed with the fixing member.