Abstract: A laminate, including a fluororesin sheet; and a base material. The fluororesin sheet including a fluororesin composition containing: a melt moldable fluororesin; and a silica. The fluororesin is a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and/or a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer having 25 or more carbonyl group-containing functional groups per 106 main-chain carbon atoms; the silica is a spherical silica; a blending ratio of the spherical silica to a total amount of the fluororesin and the silica is 50% by mass or higher and 70% by mass or lower; the fluororesin composition has a linear expansion coefficient of 100 ppm/° C. or lower and a melt flow rate (MFR) of 1.0 g/10 min or higher and 30 g/10 min or lower. Also disclosed is a substrate for circuits including the fluororesin sheet used as a part in a multilayer structure.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a conveying unit, a heater unit, a casing, a lifting mechanism, and a closing member. The conveying unit supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The heater unit is disposed above the conveying unit, and blows a high temperature air to the conveyed recording medium. The casing houses the heater unit. The lifting mechanism is provided in the casing and supports the heater unit so as to be lifted and lowered. The closing member comes into contact with the heater unit when the heater unit is lowered, and separates a heating space below the heater unit from an internal space of the casing. The closing member is lifted and lowered within a predetermined range as the heater unit is lifted and lowered.

Abstract: A drying apparatus dries a recording medium on which an image is formed, under a high temperature atmosphere while conveying the recording medium, the drying apparatus includes an endless conveying belt, and a roller. The conveying belt supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The conveying belt is wound around the roller. The roller includes a cylindrical roller body, and flange bodies fitted into both ends of the roller body. In a fitting region between the roller body and the flange body, a thermal expansion coefficient of an inside fitted portion is higher than a thermal expansion coefficient of an outside fitted portion.

Abstract: An electrocaloric effect element includes a container having a first wall and a second wall, the second wall facing the first wall, ionic liquid accommodated in the container, a first electrode provided at an outer surface of the first wall, and a movable electrode provided in the ionic liquid such that the movable electrode is movable in the ionic liquid.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a plurality of sensitivity regions inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing probe light to be incident on the sensitivity regions in a direction intersecting the first direction, bias magnetic field coils applying a bias magnetic field to the inside of the cell and determining a resonance frequency of the electron spins, an electron spin tilting unit tilting a rotation axis direction of the electron spins in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, an optical sensor detecting the probe light; and a magnetic field measuring unit measuring magnetic field strengths related to the sensitivity regions, wherein the bias magnetic field coils respectively apply a plurality of the bias magnetic fields having strengths different from each other to the plurality of corresponding sensitivity regions.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell; a pump laser configured to emit pump light; a probe laser configured to emit probe light; an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region; a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and bias magnetic field gradient correction coils configured to correct a gradient of the bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal. At least one of the coil that applies a static magnetic field and the coil that applies a gradient magnetic field is configured by the same coil as the bias magnetic field coil or the bias magnetic field gradient correction coils.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus for displaying a state of a machine facility including a plurality of devices, on a display unit. An operation time for an operation of one predetermined device among the plurality of devices and signals relating to the operation are displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell, a pump laser configured to emit pump light, a probe laser configured to emit probe light to a sensitivity region intersecting the pump light in the cell, an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region, and a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency, and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by transmission of the RF pulse. The magnetoencephalograph module and the MRI module are surrounded by a magnetic shield including a soft magnetic material.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a sensitivity region inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing probe light for detecting change in electron spins to be incident on the sensitivity region in a direction intersecting the first direction, a bias magnetic field coil applying a bias magnetic field in the first direction to the inside of the cell and determining a resonance frequency of the electron spins, a gradient correction coil correcting a gradient of the bias magnetic field, an electron spin tilting unit tilting a rotation axis direction of the electron spins, an optical sensor detecting the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region, and a magnetic field measuring unit measuring a magnetic field strength related to the sensitivity region based on an output of the optical sensor.

Abstract: A drying device dries a recording medium on which an image is formed, while conveying the recording medium. The drying apparatus includes a conveying member and a heating device. The conveying member supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The heating device heats the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member under a high temperature environment. The heating device includes a heater, a reflector and a lifting mechanism. The heater emits infrared ray. The reflector reflects the infrared ray emitted from the heater toward the recording medium. The lifting mechanism lifts and lowers the reflector relative to the heater to change a number of reflections of the infrared ray.

Abstract: A drying apparatus dries a recording medium on which an image is formed, while conveying the recording medium. The drying apparatus includes a conveying member, a heating device, and a drying chamber, and a path. The conveying member supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The heating device heats the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member under a high-temperature environment. The drying chamber is arranged on an upstream side of the heating device in the conveyance direction of the recording medium and pre-dries the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member. The path communicates the heating device with the drying chamber.

Abstract: An electrode for an all-solid-state energy storage device, the electrode comprising an electrode composition comprising an electroactive material and an internal ionic binder in the form of at least one organic ionic plastic crystal (OIPC) and ion transport salt composite which supports comparable performance of the electrode to one using liquid electrolyte.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus for displaying a state of a machine facility including a plurality of devices, on a display unit. An operation time for an operation of one predetermined device among the plurality of devices and signals relating to the operation are displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a conveying device, a heating device, a conveying rollers pair, a driving roller rotation detection part, a driven roller rotation detection part, and a control part. The conveying device conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The heating device dries the ink of the medium under a high temperature environment. The conveying rollers pair is disposed on a downstream side of the heating device, and includes a driving roller and a driven roller. The driving roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driving roller. The driven roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driven roller. The control part stops the heating device when the rotating of the driving roller is detected by the driving roller rotation detection part and a rotation period obtained by a detection result of the driven roller rotation detection part is longer than a reference rotation period.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes an endless conveying belt, a conveying plate, and a suction device. The endless conveying belt has a number of through-holes, and supports the medium and conveys the medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The conveying plate has a number of through-holes and supports the conveying belt in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the conveying belt. The suction device sucks air through the through-holes of the conveying belt and the through-holes of the conveying plate to attract the medium to the conveying plate. The conveying plate is formed so as to be expandable and contractable in a direction parallel to the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A drying device according to the present disclosure includes a conveying device, an air blowing device, and an exhaust device. The conveying device conveys a medium on which an image is formed, along a predetermined conveyance direction. The air blowing device sends air toward the medium from above the medium conveyed by the conveying device to dry the medium. The exhaust device takes in air above the medium from both sides of the conveying device in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and exhausts the taken air to an outside.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, a pair of registration rollers, a recording portion, a plate portion, a suction roller, and an exhaust portion. The exhaust portion is disposed over an area from upstream of the recording portion to upstream of the pair of registration rollers with respect to the sheet conveyance direction and sucks air from above the conveyance belt and the plate portion in the direction away from the conveyance belt. The exhaust portion includes an exhaust hood and an exhaust fan. The exhaust fan guides the air in the exhaust hood through an air inlet into a recording portion housing and then passes the air through an exhaust outlet to discharge it via an air flow passage.

Abstract: The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a first conveyor belt, and an ink receiving part. The ink receiving part includes a discharge port, a liquid-absorptive rotator, and a counter member. The discharge port is placed at an end portion in a crossing direction crossing a recording-medium conveyance direction, and discharges ink received in flashing. The liquid-absorptive rotator is formed from a liquid-absorptive material and rotated around a rotating shaft extending in the crossing direction. The counter member, being in contact with the liquid-absorptive rotator, has a conveyance structure for conveying ink in the ink receiving part in a carry-out direction directed toward the discharge port along an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance belt, a recording head, a control portion, an interval detection sensor, a thickness detection reference member, and a storage portion. The control portion is capable of executing an interval detection mode, a thickness calculation mode, and a landing timing correction mode. In the landing timing correction mode, the control portion sets the landing timing to be equal to a reference landing timing when the thickness of the conveyance belt stored in the storage portion is equal to a predetermined reference thickness, sets the landing timing to be earlier than the reference landing timing when the thickness of the conveyance belt stored in the storage portion is larger than the reference thickness, and sets the landing timing to be later than the reference landing timing when the thickness of the conveyance belt stored in the storage portion is smaller than the reference thickness.

Abstract: The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyor belt, and an ink receiving part. The ink receiving part includes a discharge port and a conveyance rotator. The discharge port is placed at an end portion in a crossing direction crossing a sheet conveyance direction, and discharges ink received in flashing. The conveyance rotator is rotated around a rotating shaft extending in the crossing direction. The conveyance rotator has a conveyance structure for conveying ink in the ink receiving part in a carry-out direction directed toward the discharge port along an axial direction of the rotating shaft.