Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.

Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: A vehicle control device including a motion condition detector detecting motion conditions including a rotational motion and a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle on which a load is to be loaded, a wheel load acquisition unit acquiring wheel loads of wheels, a loading state acquisition unit acquiring a loading state of the load loaded on the vehicle, an inertia value calculator calculating an inertia value including principal axes of inertia about a center of gravity of the vehicle with the load included, based on the acquired loading state, and a controller performing overturning prevention control that suppresses an increase in difference between the wheel loads of front and rear wheels of the vehicle, using the acquired wheel loads of the wheels, the inertia value, and detection values of the motion conditions.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a wiring board, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a semiconductor device. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are stacked to each other on the wiring board. The semiconductor device is mounted on the wiring board. The first capacitor is provided between the second capacitor and the wiring board. A second capacitance of the second capacitor is larger than a first capacitance of the first capacitor.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: An electronic module includes a plurality of loads, a first wiring portion, a second wiring portion, a power source unit, and a feedback portion. The first wiring portion includes a plurality of first portions to which the plurality of loads are respectively connected, and a plurality of second portions each closest to a corresponding one of the plurality of first portions. The second wiring portion is connected to the plurality of second portions. The power source unit includes a feedback terminal, an output terminal, and a power source circuit. In the first wiring portion, a minimum path length from each of the plurality of second portions to the corresponding one of the plurality of first portions is smaller than 1/2 of a minimum path length from a part of the first wiring portion connected to the output terminal to the corresponding one of the plurality of first portions.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive electrode active material having a spinel-type crystal structure that can reduce an increase in resistance and a decrease in capacity retention rate due to repeated charging and discharging of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode active material disclosed herein is configured of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure, wherein the lithium manganese composite oxide includes secondary particles in which a plurality of primary particles are aggregated, an average particle diameter of the secondary particles based on a SEM image is 10 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, an average particle diameter of the primary particles based on a SEM image is 4 ?m or more and 8 ?m or less, and nickel atoms are provided in the surface layer portion of the secondary particles.

Abstract: A method of producing a lithium-ion secondary battery includes the following (?) and (?): (?) preparing a lithium-ion secondary battery, the lithium-ion secondary battery including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution; and (?) adding a zwitterionic compound to the electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes at least a negative electrode active material and a film. The film is formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material. The film contains a lithium compound. The zwitterionic compound contains a phosphonium cation or an ammonium cation and a carboxylate anion in one molecule.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: A DC/DC converter includes: multiple channels each including a switching circuit and an inductor; an output line having one end connected to the other end of the inductors of the multiple channels and the other end connected to a load; and a controller. The multiple channels include first to third channels, and the inductors of the first and second channels have a larger inductance value than the inductor of the third channel. When current flowing in the load is first current, the controller controls the switching circuits so that only the first channel is activated; and when the current flowing in the load is second current that is larger than the first current, the controller controls the switching circuits so that the first and second channels are operated in-phase and the third channel is operated in a phase different from the phase of the first and second channels.

Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an insertion device. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a transport device, and a control device. The control device acts as a controller and an executer. The controller causes the image forming device to execute a printing job, and causes the insertion device to insert the interleaving paper in a printed material at an insertion start timing designated by the printing job. The executer executes calibration at an execution start timing set in advance, and sets a time point that a predetermined time has elapsed after a previous calibration to the execution start timing in advance. The executer starts to execute the calibration at the insertion start timing, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A wireless tag reading device includes a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive one or more pieces of type information, each indicating a type of an article as a search target; read, from a wireless tag storing a piece of type information, the piece of type information; display a position of the wireless tag when the piece of type information read is identical to any of the one or more pieces of type information received; and exclude the wireless tag whose position has been displayed from a display target.

Abstract: An image formation system includes an image forming apparatus and an inserter. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a conveyance device, and a control device. The control device functions as a controller and an executor. The controller allows the inserter to insert an interleaving paper between sheets of printed material at an insertion start timing specified by a print job. When the plurality of calibrations include a second calibration capable of being completed within an interleaving paper insertion time required to insert the interleaving paper or a third calibration capable of being completed within a total time of the interleaving paper insertion time and a predetermined additional time, the executor executes the second calibration or the third calibration in time with the insertion start timing.

Abstract: The present invention provides, in order to prepare matured hepatocytes analogous in various points to primary hepatocytes, a method for preparing hepatocytes or cells that can be differentiated into hepatocytes from pluripotent stem cells, comprising the steps of: (1) culturing the pluripotent stem cells in a medium containing an activator of an activin receptor-like kinase-4,7; (2) culturing the cells obtained in the step (1) in a medium containing a bone morphogenetic factor and a fibroblast growth factor; (3) culturing the cells obtained in the step (2) in a medium containing an activator of a hepatocyte growth factor receptor and an activator of an oncostatin M receptor; and (4) culturing the cells obtained in the step (3) to obtain hepatocytes or cells that can be differentiated into hepatocytes, wherein in at least one of the steps (2), (3) and (4), cells are cultured on a high-density collagen gel membrane.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an insertion device. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a transport device, and a control device. The control device acts as a controller and an executer. The controller causes the image forming device to execute a printing job, and causes the insertion device to insert the interleaving paper in a printed material at an insertion start timing designated by the printing job. The executer executes calibration at an execution start timing set in advance, and sets a time point that a predetermined time has elapsed after a previous calibration to the execution start timing in advance. The executer starts to execute the calibration at the insertion start timing, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An image formation system includes an image forming apparatus and an inserter. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a conveyance device, and a control device. The control device functions as a controller and an executor. The controller allows the inserter to insert an interleaving paper between sheets of printed material at an insertion start timing specified by a print job. When the plurality of calibrations include a second calibration capable of being completed within an interleaving paper insertion time required to insert the interleaving paper or a third calibration capable of being completed within a total time of the interleaving paper insertion time and a predetermined additional time, the executor executes the second calibration or the third calibration in time with the insertion start timing.