Abstract: A guide position adjustment device includes upstream side guide members and downstream side guide members arranged in order starting from the upstream side in the sheet traveling direction. Each of the upstream side guide members and each of the downstream side guide members are mounted in pairs on the right and left sides of a folder gluer. The guide position adjustment device includes an outlet side guide moving mechanism, which is mounted on a folding guide device provided with a frame moving mechanism for translating, by a first actuator, a supporting frame that supports the upstream side guide members and the downstream side guide members, in the device width direction perpendicular to the sheet traveling direction. The outlet side guide moving mechanism moves, by a second actuator, an outlet side tip end regulation part of the upstream side guide members relative to the supporting frame in the device width direction.

Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to one aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet, a plating layer formed on either surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet and having an Al content of 60 mass % or more, and a surface film layer formed on the plating layer. A thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m. An average crystal grain diameter of the plating layer in a thickness range from an interface between the plating layer and the surface film layer to a position at ? of the thickness t is 2t/3 or less and 15.0 ?m or less. A surface film layer contains particles containing one or more elements selected from A group elements consisting of Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Nb, Mo, and W. A total content of the A group elements is 0.01 to 10.0 g/m2. An average grain diameter of the particles containing the A group elements is 0.05 to 3.0 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixing apparatus. A production unit produces a working fluid that is in a supercritical state or a subcritical state. A storage unit stores a material. A dissolving unit dissolves the material in the working fluid. A mixer mixes the material together in the presence of the working fluid. A material feed valve opens or closes a flow passage through which the material is to pass to be fed from the storage unit into the dissolving unit. A working fluid inflow valve opens or closes a flow passage through which the working fluid is to pass to flow into the dissolving unit from the production unit. A mixer inflow valve opens or closes a flow passage through which the working fluid and the material are to pass to flow into the mixer from the dissolving unit.

Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.

Abstract: A control system is designed to control an interrupter. The interrupter is started by a startup current to interrupt a main electric circuit. The startup current flows through an auxiliary electric circuit and has a current valve equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The control system includes a driving unit and a driven unit. The driving unit includes an intermediate electrical path to be connected to the main electric circuit. The driven unit is to be connected to the auxiliary electric circuit. When an abnormal current having a current value equal to or greater than a prescribed value flows through the intermediate electrical path, the driving unit uses, as a drive source for driving the driven unit, the abnormal current flowing through the intermediate electrical path. The driven unit supplies the auxiliary electric circuit with the startup current by being driven by the driving unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image bearing body, a developing roller, a housing, and a gap adjusting member. The image bearing body includes a first rotating shaft and includes a first surface on which a latent image is formed. The developing roller includes a second rotating shaft, includes a second surface, includes a bearing, and supplies a developer to the latent image and develops the latent image. The housing rotatably supports the second rotating shaft. The gap adjusting member includes a shaft hole for rotatably receiving one end of the first rotating shaft and includes a cam surface. The gap adjusting member is turned around the first rotating shaft and is fixed to the housing in a turning position where a gap is uniform in a direction of the second rotating shaft of the developing roller.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a first connection member. The semiconductor element includes a substrate and an electrode pad. The substrate includes a transistor formation region, in which a transistor is formed and which is shaped to be non-quadrangular. The electrode pad is located on the transistor formation region. The first connection member is connected to the electrode pad at one location. The electrode pad is arranged to cover a center of gravity of the transistor formation region in a plan view of the electrode pad. In the plan view, a connection region in which the first connection member is connected to the electrode pad includes a center of gravity position of the transistor formation region.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a carbon material, including a carbon generation step of causing carbon dioxide to react with a reducing agent to generate carbon, in which, as the reducing agent, an oxygen-deficient iron oxide represented by Fe3O4-? (where ? is 1 or more and less than 4), which is obtained by reducing magnetite while maintaining a crystal structure, or an oxygen-completely deficient iron (?=4) which is obtained by completely reducing magnetite is used.

Abstract: An interrupter includes a gas producer, an actuator pin, and an electrical conductor. The electrical conductor includes a first terminal portion, a first separable portion, a second terminal portion, and a second separable portion. The second separable portion is electrically connected to the first separable portion in parallel. A first timing when the first separable portion starts to be cut off from the first terminal portion is earlier than a second timing when the second separable portion starts to be cut off from the second terminal portion.

Abstract: A vehicle position estimation device is configured to acquire a distance from a road edge to a subject vehicle using at least one of an imaging device or a distance measuring sensor, acquire position information of lane boundary lines detected by analyzing the images captured by the imaging device; acquire map information including a lane quantity of a traveling road of the subject vehicle from a map storage, calculate, as a roadside area width, a lateral direction distance between an outermost detection line, which is an outermost boundary line among the detected boundary lines, and the road edge, and specify a traveling lane of the subject vehicle based on (i) the distance from the road edge to the subject vehicle, (ii) the roadside area width, and (iii) the lane quantity included in the acquired map information.

Abstract: A non-volatile storage device includes a memory that stores data in a non-volatile manner, a power supply that generates an internal voltage to feed it to the memory, a controller that controls the memory and the power supply, an A/D converter that performs A/D conversion on the internal voltage, and a fault detector that detects a fault related to data written in the memory based on the output of the A/D converter.

Abstract: An in-vehicle seat includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and an anchor for fixing a child seat. The seat cushion has a seat cushion base, a seat cushion pad that is removable from the seat cushion, and a supporting panel. The supporting panel is provided between the seat cushion base and the seat cushion pad, and serves as a placement face for the child seat. The anchor is provided at a position at which the anchor is covered and hidden by the seat cushion pad, and at which the anchor is externally exposed when the seat cushion pad is removed from the seat cushion. A guide groove that guides a linking portion protruding from the child seat to the anchor is provided in the supporting panel.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a front pillar lower member configuring a portion, at a vehicle lower side, of a front pillar that configures a portion, at a vehicle front side, of a vehicle body, a cross-section of the front pillar lower member seen from a vehicle up-down direction having a closed cross-section; a front pillar upper member disposed at a vehicle upper side of the front pillar lower member, and the front pillar upper member configuring a portion at a vehicle upper side of the front pillar; and a pillar reinforcing section provided with respect to the front pillar upper member, the pillar reinforcing section being partially insertable into the front pillar lower member, and the pillar reinforcing section being detachably attached to the front pillar lower member by an attachment member.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor element, a first object, a sealing resin and a covering part. The first semiconductor element includes a first electrode. The first object includes a first surface facing the first electrode. The sealing resin covers the first semiconductor element and the first object. The covering part is interposed between the first electrode and the first surface and contains a material having a higher thermal conductivity than the sealing resin.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a rocker configuring a portion at an outer side, in a vehicle width direction, of a vehicle body lower section, the rocker extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a metal center pillar, which is a separate component from the rocker, a lower section in a vehicle up-down direction of the center pillar being detachably attached to the rocker by an attachment member.

Abstract: A moving device includes a first linear guide, a second linear guide to extend in parallel with the first linear guide, a first structure movable along the first linear guide, a second structure movable along the second linear guide, a slide member of which a first end is fixed to the first structure and a second end is fixed to the second structure so that the slide member is bridged between the first structure and the second structure, a first linear motor having a first stator installed to extend along the first linear guide and a first movable element fixed to the first structure to face the first stator at a predetermined interval, and a second linear motor having a second stator installed to extend along the second linear guide and a second movable element fixed to the second structure to face the second stator at a predetermined interval.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a printing unit configured to form an image on the medium, and a reading unit extended in an extending direction intersecting the transport direction and configured to read the image formed on the medium, wherein the extending direction of the reading unit is inclined with respect to a width direction orthogonal to the transport direction. With the printing apparatus having such a configuration, it is possible to improve determination accuracy of an operation state of the printing unit.

Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element which emits excitation light having a peak wavelength in a range of 440 to 450 nm and a fluorescent body layer which is provided on the semiconductor light emitting element, is excited by the excitation light from the semiconductor light emitting element, and contains a first fluorescent body and a second fluorescent body which emit first fluorescent light and second fluorescent light. The first fluorescent light has a peak wavelength in a range of 540 to 575 nm, and the second fluorescent light has a peak wavelength in a range of 590 to 605 nm. In mixed color light of the radiation light, the intensity of the radiation light of the semiconductor light emitting element is 1/10 to 1/60 of the intensity of the combined light of the radiation light from the first fluorescent body and the second fluorescent body.

Abstract: A fluid sterilizing apparatus includes: a cylindrical inner pipe which has cutouts penetrating in a radial direction and an outlet pipe projecting in the radial direction; an outer pipe which has, between itself and the inner pipe, an annular space in communication with the cutouts and which houses the inner pipe; an inflow pipe which allows a fluid to flow into the outer pipe; an outflow pipe which is provided coaxially with the inflow pipe and which is connected with the outlet pipe to allow the fluid having passed through the annular space to flow out; and a light source which irradiates the fluid passing through the interior of the inner pipe with ultraviolet light via an ultraviolet light transmitting window.