Abstract: Carbon fibers achieve a high elongation percentage and a high tensile modulus of resin-impregnated strands while being lightweight. The carbon fibers are configured such that: the void content in a cross section of the fibers in the axial direction, the cross section including the long axis of a cross section of the fibers in the radial direction, is at least 0.3% by area, but not more than 5.0% by area; the average aspect ratio of the voids is at least 2.0, but not more than 50; and the average width of the voids in the cross section of the fibers in the radial direction is at least 3 nm, but not more than 100 nm.

Abstract: A ship (100) including: an out-drive unit (20) that exerts a propulsion force on a ship hull (1) by power from an engine (10); a detection device (5) for detecting a current position, a bow direction, and a moving speed of the ship hull; a shift lever (41) that changes magnitude and direction of an output from the out-drive unit; a lever sensor (53) that detects a manipulation position of the shift lever; and a ship steering control device (30) that is connected to the out-drive unit, the detection device, and the lever sensor. The ship steering control device acquires the operating status of the out-drive unit and the detection results obtained by the detection device and the lever sensor and controls the out-drive unit based on the detection results. The ship steering control device performs a dynamic positioning control when the shift lever is in the positioning position.

Abstract: A droplet discharge apparatus to discharge droplets while moved by a user includes a head to discharge a droplet onto a recording medium, a sensor to detect a movement amount of the droplet discharge apparatus in a predetermined period, and a memory to store determination information indicating whether droplet discharging has been instructed for each pixel of the image data. The droplet discharge apparatus further includes a processor configured to accumulate the movement amount to calculate a total movement amount of the droplet discharge apparatus; instruct droplet discharging from the head based on the total movement amount and the image data; instruct droplet discharging only for an unprinted pixel for which the determination information indicates that droplet discharging has not been instructed; and rewrite the determination information of the unprinted pixel to indicate that droplet discharging has been instructed, based on a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin hollow body includes an axial-direction fiber layer containing reinforcing fibers aligned parallel to an axial direction of the hollow body, and a non-axial-direction fiber layer provided on top of at least one of an internal and an external side of the axial-direction fiber layer, and containing reinforcing fibers oriented in a direction different from a direction in which the reinforcing fibers contained in the axial-direction fiber layer are aligned. The non-axial-direction fiber layer has end portions in a peripheral direction of the hollow body, the end portions overlapping each other.

Abstract: With respect to educational assistance methods using user terminals such as tablets and the like, the invention assists users with learning and utilizing connections between a plurality of knowledge items. Disclosed is an assistance device for: storing knowledge items learnt by a user; determining whether there exist common characteristics between knowledge items learnt newly by the user and at least one of the knowledge items already learnt by the user; and responsive to the existence of common characteristics, causing the user's terminal to present the existence of the characteristics.

Abstract: A ship handling device (7) including a joystick lever (10) configured to be inclined in a desired direction at a desired angle, and a ship handling control device (15) configured to control driving of a forward-backward propeller (4) generating a thrust in a front-and-rear direction of a ship body (1) and a thruster (6) generating a thrust in a left-and-right direction of the ship body (1). The ship handling control device has a normal mode in which driving of the forward-backward propeller and the thruster is controlled according to an input signal from the joystick lever, and a thruster single-driven mode in which driving of only the thruster is controlled according to an input signal from the joystick lever, and the ship handling control device is connected to a mode changing switch (20) with which a switchover between the normal mode and the thruster single-driven mode is performed.

Abstract: A microlens array includes N lenses ranging from a 1st lens to an Nth lens and a lens arrangement area. N is a positive integer. The lens arrangement area has the N lenses arranged in array. The lens arrangement area receives light emitted from a light source. An ith (i being 1st to Nth) lens satisfies a conditional expression below: ?20°???20° where ? denotes an angle formed by a main-axis orientation of double refraction and a reference orientation.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle, having a carcass constituted of plies as radially-disposed cords and toroidally provided across a pair of bead portions, and including: a belt constituted of one or more belt layers; and a tread, which are disposed in this order on the outside in the radial direction of the carcass, in which: a section width SW and an outer diameter OD of the tire have a ratio of SW/OD?0.26 when SW<165 (mm), and SW and OD satisfy a relationship formula OD?2.035×SW+282.

Abstract: A screen member irradiated with image display light is provided. The screen member includes an optical element having an optical surface configured to reflect or refract light, wherein an absolute value of a local curvature of the optical surface changes in one direction of a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical element, and becomes a local minimum at at least one position.

Abstract: Provided is a binder composition for negative electrode that has good binding property with an active material and a metal foil and is superior in reduction resistance. A binder composition for negative electrode comprising a graft copolymer obtained by graft copolymerizing, with polyvinyl alcohol, a monomer containing (meth)acrylonitrile as a main component, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol has an average degree of polymerization of 300 to 3000; the polyvinyl alcohol has a saponification degree of 70 to 100 mol %; the graft copolymer has a polyvinyl alcohol amount of 10 to 90 mass %; and the graft copolymer has a poly(meth)acrylonitrile amount of 90 to 10 mass %.

Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of switching between a wide viewing angle and a narrow viewing angle with a simple configuration and simple control. The problem is solved by providing a display element and an optical switching element which is disposed on a visible side of the display element, in which the optical switching element has a light guiding plate and a light source for causing light to be incident on an end surface of the light guiding plate, and 80% or more of the light emitted from the light guiding plate when the light source is turned on is emitted to a region at an angle of 30° or more with respect to a normal line of the light guiding plate on a surface on the opposite side of the display element.

Abstract: A computer program for an information processing device communicating with a droplet discharging device is provided. The droplet discharging device is configured to form rendering data on a printing medium by being moved by a user on the printing medium, and includes a position calculation unit for calculating a position of the droplet discharging device, and a droplet discharging unit for discharging a droplet in accordance with the rendering data and location information. The computer program is configured to cause the information processing device to function as a scanning direction output unit for outputting a scanning direction of the droplet discharging device.

Abstract: A binder composition for positive electrode with superior oxidation resistance is provided. A slurry for positive electrode, a positive electrode, and a lithium ion secondary battery manufactured by using the binder composition is provided. A binder composition for positive electrode including a graft copolymer in which a monomer containing acrylonitrile as a main component is graft copolymerized with polyvinyl alcohol having an average degree of polymerization of 300 to 3000 and a saponification degree of 70 to 100 mol %, is provided. Further, a slurry for positive electrode includes the binder composition for positive electrode, a positive electrode active material, and a conductive assistant. In addition, a lithium ion secondary battery is manufactured using a positive electrode made with the slurry for positive electrode and a positive electrode.

Abstract: There is provided a plasma processing apparatus including a focus ring capable of preventing a part of a heat transfer sheet from adhering to and remaining on a mounting table. The plasma processing apparatus comprises: a chamber for performing a plasma process on a target object; a mounting table configured to mount thereon the target object; and a focus ring configured to surround the target object, the focus ring being in contact with the mounting table via a flexible heat transfer sheet. Further, the heat transfer sheet has a contact surface in contact with the mounting table and an anti-adhesion layer formed on the contact surface, and the anti-adhesion layer is located between said contact surface of the heat transfer sheet and a mounting surface of the mounting table. Furthermore, the anti-adhesion layer contains heat conductive particulates, and the heat transfer sheet is formed in an annular shape.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a particular chemical structure or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof which has an excellent inhibitory effect on EZH1 and/or EZH2 activity. The present invention provides a compound having a 1,3-benzodioxole structure represented by the general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and V in the formula (I) are each as defined in the present specification).

Abstract: [Object] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charge control agent for polymerized toners and particularly for color toners, which has a large charge amount and environmentally stable charging characteristics. [Solving Means] Since a charge control agent including a pyrazolone derivative represented by a general formula (1) or a salt of the derivative as an active ingredient has a large charge amount and excellent environmental stability of charging, it has an excellent charge-imparting effect for use in polymerized toners and particularly in color toners. (in the formula, R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 linear or branched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group.

Abstract: A ship handling device may be provided with which a ship moves and turns in a target orientation toward target coordinates without monitoring the behavior of the ship against disturbance or the characteristics of the ship. The ship handling device moves the ship toward the target coordinates and in the target orientation from a GPS device and a signal from an orientation sensor, wherein the target coordinates and the target orientation are calculated from operation of a joystick lever, and a thrust is generated by a propulsion device so as to move the ship to the target coordinates and the target orientation after a signal finalizing the target coordinates and the target orientation has been acquired.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a main frame having a plurality of members; and a reinforcing member that is made of a reinforced resin and that is disposed at a junction where three members out of the plurality of members intersect a point from three directions, or at a junction where one or two members intersect a point from any of three directions.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a white balance correction unit configured to perform a white balance correction by amplifying at least one color signal in relation to mosaic image data; a compression unit configured to compress the mosaic image data; and a control unit configured to control at least the white balance correction unit and the compression unit, wherein the control unit in a case where compression by the compression unit is set to be off, controls the white balance correction to be substantially invalid, and outputs the mosaic image data, and in a case where compression by the compression unit is set to be on, controls the white balance correction to be valid, and outputs the mosaic image data after the white balance correction.

Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge a liquid droplet onto a medium and a liquid droplet discharging controller to receive image data. The liquid droplet discharging controller controls each of the nozzles to discharge the liquid droplet in an amount defined by the image data onto a target discharging position on the medium, which corresponds to a pixel position defined by the image data. The liquid droplet discharging controller controls at least one of the nozzles to discharge the liquid droplet for a controlled number of times smaller than a number of times N representing an integer not smaller than 2 in an amount greater than the amount defined by the image data onto the target discharging position on the medium. A frequency recorder records the controlled number of times of discharging for each of the at least one of the nozzles.