Abstract: A capacitive element includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first electrode finger extending towards a positive side in a first direction, and a second electrode finger disposed facing and spaced apart from the first electrode finger in a second direction intersecting the first direction, extending towards a negative side in the first direction, and connected to a different potential from the first electrode finger. The first electrode finger includes a first portion extending in the first direction and a second portion extending from the first portion, through a first step portion, and at a different position in the second direction from the first portion. The second electrode finger includes a third portion disposed facing the second portion and extending in the first direction, and a fourth portion extending from the third portion through a second step portion, extending from the second portion in the first direction, and facing the first portion.

Abstract: An object is to provide a drug which is useful in treating a nervous system disease. A drug containing vitamin B12 as an active ingredient according to the present invention has an M2 macrophage/microglia induction promoting effect, an M1 macrophage/microglia induction inhibiting effect, a nerve regeneration promoting effect, and the like and is very useful as a therapeutic agent for a nervous system disease, and particularly useful as a therapeutic agent for a central nervous system disease such as cerebral infarction, dementia, or spinal cord injury.

Abstract: To provide an electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which retains the shape while retaining a discharge capacity at a high rate. An electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a current collector and an electrode active material layer arranged on a surface of the current collector, and is used for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a liquid volume coefficient of 1.4 to 2.0, in which the electrode active material layer includes an electrode active material and a binder including polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF), and the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF) is in a non-crystallized state and is included in the range of 0.5 to 3.3% by volume with respect to the total volume of the electrode in the electrode active material layer.

Abstract: An accommodating device includes a device body, an accommodating unit that is movable to a supply position where a user is able to supply a medium by being pulled out from the device body in a pulling direction and of which a centroid position is located on one side surface side with respect to a center in an intersecting direction with the pulling direction, a first expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be able to be pulled out and is fixed to one side surface of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction, and a second expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be able to be pulled out and is fixed at a position higher than the first expanding and contracting member on the other side surface of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction.

Abstract: A TOF sensor 20 comprises an emission unit 21, an imaging element 23, a distance information acquisition unit 11, an angle information acquisition unit 12, and an attachment orientation sensing unit 14. The emission unit 21 irradiates the floor surface FL with light. The imaging element 23 senses the light emitted from the emission unit 21. The distance information acquisition unit 11 acquires information about the distance to reference points P1 and P2 on the floor surface FL according to the phase difference between the received light wave and the emitted light wave sensed by the imaging element 23. The angle information acquisition unit 12 acquires information about the angle to the reference points P1 and P2. The attachment orientation sensing unit 14 senses the attachment orientation with respect to the floor surface FL on the basis of the distance information and the angle information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit 11 and the angle information acquisition unit 12.

Abstract: An attachment orientation sensing device 10 comprises a distance information acquisition unit 11, an angle information acquisition unit 12, and an attachment orientation sensing unit 14. The distance information acquisition unit 11 acquires information about the distance to reference points P1 and P2 on a floor surface FL according to the phase difference between the received light wave and the emitted light wave of the light emitted from the emission unit 21 included in a TOF sensor 20 with respect toward the floor surface FL. The angle information acquisition unit 12 acquires information about the angle to the reference points P1 and P2. The attachment orientation sensing unit 14 senses the attachment orientation of the TOF sensor 20 with respect to the floor surface FL on the basis of the distance information and the angle information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit 11 and the angle information acquisition unit 12.

Abstract: A conveyance system 50 includes a main body unit 31, a TOF sensor 20, and a attachment orientation sensing device 10. The TOF sensor 20 has an emission unit 21 that emits light toward a floor surface FL, an imaging element 23 that detects the light emitted from the emission unit 21, a distance information acquisition unit 11 that acquires the information about the distance to reference points P1 and P2 on the floor surface FL according to the phase difference between received light wave and an emitted light wave detected by the imaging element 23, and an angle information acquisition unit 12 that acquires information about the angle up to the reference points P1 and P2, wherein the conveyance system is attached to the main body unit 31.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressed component including forming a metal sheet into a pressed component shape having: a cross section having a top sheet portion and a side wall portion continuous to at least one side in the width direction of the top sheet portion via a first bent portion; and having one or two or more curved portions in which the top sheet portion is curved to project or to be recessed in a side view along the longitudinal direction in the direction intersecting the cross section, the method which includes: a first preliminary forming step having a step of forming, to the metal sheet, first beads extending along the longitudinal direction at a position where the first bent portion is formed; and a first component forming step of forming the metal sheet after the first preliminary forming step into the pressed component shape.

Abstract: A conveyance device includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a material to be conveyed; a guide unit that guides the material to be conveyed, the guide unit being movable between a first position at which a first conveyance path is formed and a second position at which a second conveyance path is formed; a driving unit that drives the conveyance unit and the guide unit; a restriction unit that comes into contact with the guide unit moving in a moving direction from the second position to the first position at the first position by a driving force of the driving unit to restrict the movement of the guide unit in the moving direction; and a blocking unit that blocks transmission of the driving force of the driving unit to the guide unit when a moving load greater than or equal to a predetermined load acts on the guide unit moving in the moving direction.

Abstract: A rotating device includes: a first rotating body capable of forward rotation; a second rotating body capable of forward rotation and reverse rotation; a drive unit outputting drive forces in a forward rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction; and a transmission mechanism transmitting the drive force in the forward rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the forward direction and transmitting the drive force in the reverse rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body in the forward direction and rotate the second rotating body in the reverse direction.

Abstract: A rotating device includes: an opening-closing portion supported so as to be openable and closable with respect to a support body; a drive unit provided on the support body; a first rotating body provided on the support body and rotated by a drive force of the drive unit; a driven portion provided in the opening-closing portion; a second rotating body provided in the opening-closing portion, rotated by a transmitted rotational force, and transmitting the rotational force to the driven portion; and an annular body formed in an annular shape, wound around the first rotating body and the second rotating body, maintaining the winding state in both an open state and a closed state of the opening-closing portion, and transmitting the rotational force of the first rotating body to the second rotating body.

Abstract: A low-refractive-index film 10 includes a first layer 11 and a second layer 12. The first layer 11 is adjacent to a substrate 20. The low-refractive-index film 10 has a refractive index of greater than or equal to 1.01 and less than or equal to 1.30. The first layer 11 and the second layer 12 each include hollow particles 13 and a binder 14. The first layer 11 satisfies, for example, at least one selected from a group of conditions (I) and (II) described below. (I) A number density ?v1 of voids 15 each having a cross-sectional area of greater than or equal to 1000 nm2 is greater than or equal to 5/?m2 and less than or equal to 100/?m2 on a cross-section of the first layer 11. (II) A ratio of a cross-sectional area of the voids 15 on the cross-section to a total area of the cross-section of the first layer 11 is greater than or equal to 5% and less than or equal to 70%.

Abstract: According to the present invention, options for materials for organic devices such as materials for organic EL elements are increased by addition of a cycloalkane, by condensation, to a polycyclic aromatic compound in which a plurality of aromatic rings are linked together by boron atoms, oxygen atoms, and the like. By using a novel cycloalkane-condensed polycyclic aromatic compound as a material for an organic EL element, for example, an organic EL element having excellent emission efficiency and element life is provided.

Abstract: An accommodating device includes a device body, an accommodating unit that accommodates a medium in the device body, and an expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be pulled out and has a part fixed to the accommodating unit on an inner side with respect to a side surface of the accommodating unit in an intersecting direction with a pulling direction of the accommodating unit and on a lower side of the accommodating unit in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A recording method includes: discharging a water-based recording ink onto a recording medium to record an image, determining whether the recording medium is a coated paper or a non-coated paper; heating the recording medium or the water-based recording ink adhered to the recording medium with a cumulative heating amount Q1 when the recording medium is determined to be a coated paper; and with a cumulative heating amount Q2 smaller than the cumulative heating amount Q1 when the recording medium is determined to be a non-coated paper. The water-based recording ink includes: a resin dispersion pigment; a fine resin particle; a water-soluble organic compound; and water. A melting point of the water-soluble organic compound is within a range of 20 to 55° C. A viscosity of a 50 mass % aqueous solution of the water-soluble organic compound is 8.5 mPa·s or more at 20° C. and 90 mPa·s or less at 50° C.

Abstract: A recording method includes: recording a first image on a recording medium; reading the first image to determine whether the first image is correctly recorded; and when the first image is determined as not being correctly recorded, recording a second image over the first image. The water-based recording ink includes a water-soluble organic solvent which is at least one selected from the group consisting of a glycol ether and a diol compound having six to eight carbon atoms and two hydroxyl groups, at least one of the two hydroxyl groups not being bonded to a terminal of a carbon chain of the diol compound. A content of substances having a vapor pressure of 0.03 hPa or less at 20° C. in the water-based recording ink is 10 mass % or less and a surface tension of the water-based recording ink is 30 mN/m or less.

Abstract: A connector includes a terminal, an electric wire, and a housing having a tubular portion that accommodates the terminal and the electric wire therein. An electric wire connection portion and a terminal connection portion are provided on both end sides of the terminal. The electric wire connection portion is connected to the electric wire. A joining portion between an end surface of the electric wire connection portion and an end surface of the electric wire includes a protruding piece protruding in a radial direction of the electric wire connection portion. A first retaining piece and a second retaining piece configured to be locked to the protruding piece are provided on an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion. The second retaining piece is disposed at a position shifted from the first retaining piece in both a circumferential direction and an axial direction of the tubular portion.

Abstract: An optical member includes a base material containing aluminum or aluminum alloy, a first layer including black porous aluminum oxide provided on the base material, and a second layer including aluminum oxide having a plurality of projection portions provided on the first layer.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, computer-readable medium, and associated methods to monitor, analyze, and adjust at least one of 1) additive machine health and configuration or 2) build health and configuration are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an analytics processor, separate from and in a trusted relationship with an additive manufacturing machine building a part, to process, based on a trigger, data from monitoring of the additive manufacturing machine and the build of the part, the analytics processor including a hybrid model fusing additive process physics and data science to process the data to identify an abnormality in at least one of the build or the additive manufacturing machine and to adjust a configuration of the additive manufacturing machine during the build to address the abnormality.

Abstract: A container member includes a container body that contains a recording medium and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a position of a leading edge and a position of a trailing edge of the contained recording medium in a vertical direction differ from each other, and a curving unit that curves the recording medium that is contained in the container body when viewed in a front-rear direction of the recording medium.