Abstract: A shielding foil 10 includes a metal foil 12 with a thickness of 5 ?m or more and 12 ?m or less made of a non-magnetic metal, and a magnetic layer 13 with a thickness of 0.05 ?m or more and 6 ?m or less made of an oxide magnetic substance, the metal foil 12 and the magnetic layer 13 being integrally laminated. A communication cable includes a conductor, an insulating layer covering the outer circumference of the conductor, and the shielding foil 10 that surrounds the outside of the insulating layer.

Abstract: A block partitioner includes a quad splitter structured to partition a target block obtained by recursive partitioning in half in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks, and a binary/ternary splitter structured to partition the target block obtained by recursive partitioning into two or three in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction to generate two or three blocks, and the binary/ternary splitter disallows partitioning of the target block in the horizontal direction when partitioning of the target block in the horizontal direction causes the target block obtained by partitioning to be located beyond a right side of a picture boundary, and disallows partitioning of the target block in the vertical direction when partitioning of the target block in the vertical direction causes the target block obtained by partitioning to be located beyond a lower side of the picture boundary.

Abstract: The flow rate control device 10 includes a control valve 11, a restriction part 12 provided downstream of the control valve 11, an upstream pressure sensor 13 for measuring a pressure P1 between the control valve 11 and the restriction part 12, a differential pressure sensor 20 for measuring a differential pressure ?P between the upstream and the downstream of the restriction part 12, and an arithmetic control circuit 16 connected to the control valve 11, the upstream pressure sensor 13, and the differential pressure sensor 20.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, the positive electrode having improved adhesion, while suppressing variation in battery characteristics. A positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode mixture layer that is formed on the surface of the positive electrode collector; the positive electrode mixture layer contains a positive electrode active material, a conductive agent and a binder; the weight average molecular weight of the binder is 1,300,000 or more; and D10 and D90 in the particle size distribution of the binder satisfy (D90-D10)?100 ?m.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes a vibration-driven energy harvesting element as a vibration-driven energy harvesting unit that performs power generation in response to a sound or a vibration being occurred by a monitoring target and having a predetermined frequency, and a notification unit that notifies a state change of the monitoring target based on a magnitude relationship between a predetermined threshold value and a voltage value of the power generation by the vibration-driven energy harvesting element. The notification unit is configured to notify the state change when the vibration-driven energy harvesting element performs the power generation. Therefore, the vibration-driven energy harvesting element, which functions as a sensor unit, requires no power supply.

Abstract: Provided is a surgical robot that is applied to ophthalmic surgery and achieves minimally invasive surgery by reducing a load applied to a portion of insertion by a surgical tool. The surgical robot is configured by a plurality of links, at least some links connecting between links are formed by a flexible joint having flexibility, and a surgical tool is mounted at a distal end. The flexible joint that is a passive joint has a spring element made by, for example, polyimide, CFRP, GFRP, or polyester, in a rotation direction. Furthermore, the flexible joint that is an active joint is connected to a flexible structure that is serially fixed to an output shaft of a driving motor.

Abstract: A sheet characteristic detection device includes: a detector that is disposed on a sheet ejection path through which a sheet is ejected and that detects an electrical resistance value of the sheet; and a charge neutralizer that is disposed on a downstream side of the detector on the sheet ejection path and that neutralizes electric charge on the sheet.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical sensor-equipped liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a driver IC. The display panel includes a display area including pixels, a surrounding area surrounding the display area, peripheral circuits provided in the surrounding area, and an optical sensor outputting a detection signal in response to incident light. The peripheral circuit includes a shift register, and a gate switch group connected to the shift register and including a first gate switch and a second gate switch. The first gate switch is connected to a switching element for driving the pixel via a scanning line. The second gate switch is connected to a switching element included in a sensor circuit for driving the optical sensor via a scanning line for sensor.

Abstract: There is provided an LED chuck comprising: a top plate on which an object to be inspected is mounted; an LED array substrate disposed to face the object to be inspected, and provided with a plurality of LEDs for heating the object to be inspected that is mounted on the top plate; a cooling plate disposed on a back side of the LED array substrate; an LED control substrate disposed on a back side of the cooling plate and controlling the plurality of LEDs; and a base plate disposed to surround the LED control substrate. A surface of the cooling plate facing the LED control substrate and a surface of the base plate facing the LED control substrate are formed of a magnetic material.

Abstract: A light flux incident on the light guide body is replicated in a first direction or a second direction by a diffraction structure of an expansion region. When a normal direction with respect to the light guide body of the expansion region is defined as a Z-axis direction, and a tangential plane is defined as an XY plane, the diffraction structure of the expansion region is configured such that a light flux duplicated when the light flux incident on the expansion region is transmitted through the XY plane of the expansion region from a positive direction of the Z axis and a light flux duplicated when the light flux is transmitted through the XY plane of the expansion region from a negative direction of the Z axis are accommodated within a viewing angle at which the image is visually recognizable.

Abstract: An optical system includes a display that emits a light flux visually recognized by an observer as an image, and a light guide body that replicates the light flux. The light flux is emitted from the emission surface after being expanded by being replicated in a first direction corresponding to a horizontal direction of the image visually recognized by the observer due to diffraction by a diffraction structure of an expansion region in the light guide body, a second direction corresponding to a vertical direction of the image, or both the directions. A coherence length of the light flux diffracted and emitted in the expansion region in the light guide body is smaller than twice a shorter interval between the diffraction structure and each of a front surface and a back surface of the light guide body.

Abstract: A molding device that heats a metal material and performs quenching and that molds a plurality of components having shapes different from each other in one time of molding with respect to one metal material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane wherein a spinning stock solution containing 10 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less of a polysulfone-based resin, 1 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less of polyvinylpyrrolidone, and 1 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less of N,N-dimethylformamide is discharged together with a core liquid from a double-ring nozzle to produce a hollow fiber membrane by dry-wet spinning, and then the hollow fiber membrane is subjected to a dry heat treatment at a temperature of 80° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower for 48 hours or longer and 168 hours or shorter.

Abstract: A development apparatus to and from which a toner container is attachable and detachable includes a developing roller, a storage unit configured to store toner to be carried by the developing roller, an attachment unit to and from which the toner container is attachable and detachable and provided with a reception port for receiving toner from the toner container to the storage unit, an opening through which an inside of the storage unit and an outside of the storage unit communicate with each other, a filter configured to cover the opening, permit a passage of air and disturb a passage of toner, and a main unit shutter movable between a non-communication position and a communication position and configured to shield the opening when the main unit shutter is located at the non-communication position and open the opening when the main unit shutter is located at the communication position.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining a distance between a distal end of an endoscope and a target during an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. A surgical laser feedback control system comprises a feedback analyzer and a controller. The feedback analyzer can receive at least two reflected signals from a target in response to electromagnetic radiation directed at the target. The at least two reflected signals correspond to respective different distances between a distal end of a device of a surgical laser system and the target. The feedback analyzer can determine a distance between the distal end of the device of the surgical laser system and the target based on the at least two reflected signals. The controller can generate a control signal to the surgical laser system to perform a predetermined operation based on the determined distance.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a shaft, whereby a hollow shaft in which linking members are joined at both ends of a cylindrical member (a pipe member) can be manufactured more efficiently. A method for manufacturing a shaft in which linking members are provided to end parts of a cylindrical member, wherein the method comprises: a preparation step for preparing the cylindrical member, in which male threaded portions are formed at the end parts; a screwing step in which the linking members, which have female threaded portions to be screwed onto the male threaded portions, are screwed onto the male threaded portions; and a diffusion-joining step in which opposing end surfaces of the linking members and the cylindrical member are heated in a state of being pressed against each other by the tightening produced by the screwed-on linking members, and the opposing end surfaces are diffusion-joined.

Abstract: A travel vehicle to which a standard HST 7 or a high-specification HST 8 are capable of being selectively mounted includes a body frame structure to which a transmission 6 is fixed and the standard HST 7 or the high-specification HST 8 is fixable rearward of the transmission 6. The transmission 6 includes a rear surface provided with a common connected section 60 connectable to a standard connection section 70 provided on a front surface of the standard HST 7 and a high-specification connection section 80 provided on a front surface of the high-specification HST 8.

Abstract: A die 6 includes a central member 6a, an injection hole formed from a surface of the central member 6a to an inside, a plurality of nozzles formed from an opposite surface of the central member 6a to the inside and connected to the injection hole, a heat source provided inside the central member 6a, and a plurality of heat insulating portions 31a provided inside the central member 6a. The plurality of heat insulating portions 31a extend from an outer peripheral side of the central member 6a toward an inner side of the central member 6a in plan view.

Abstract: A tractor includes a hydraulic lifting and lowering driver to lift and lower a three-point linkage, a load detector to swing according to a traction load of an implement, and a mechanical linkage to transmit a swing amount of the load detector to the lifting and lowering driver. The mechanical linkage includes a first linkage on one side in a right-left direction of a vehicle body frame and interlockingly linked with the load detector, a second linkage on the other side in the right-left direction of the vehicle body frame and interlockingly linked with the lifting and lowering driver, and an operation cable interlockingly linking the first linkage and the second linkage.

Abstract: A silicon dioxide powder has a uranium content of 0.8 ppb by mass or less and a sphericity of 0.80 or more. The silicon dioxide powder has a low uranium content and a high sphericity.