Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell system including: a fuel cell; a tank that stores a fuel gas; a supply passage through which the fuel gas is supplied from the tank to the fuel cell; a first valve and a second valve that open and close the supply passage and are provided in order of the first valve, the second valve in a direction from an upstream side toward a downstream side; a pressure sensor that detects a pressure in a detection target region that is a region of the supply passage between the first valve and the second valve; a heating unit that heats the pressure sensor; and a controller that makes the heating unit heat the pressure sensor in a state in which a detection value of the pressure sensor is not larger than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A vehicle including: a tank configured to be filled with fuel gas; a receptacle configured to be connected to a nozzle included in a fuel gas filling apparatus; a filling passage configured to provide communication between the receptacle and the tank; a heating unit configured to heat the receptacle; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a parameter value, correlated with a filling speed of the fuel gas filled into the tank from the fuel gas filling apparatus, indicates decrease in the filling speed during filling of the fuel gas into the tank; and a control unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the parameter value indicates decrease in the filling speed during filling of the fuel gas into the tank, to cause the heating unit to start heating of the receptacle during filling of the fuel gas into the tank.

Abstract: A shutoff valve, a first gas pressure sensor, a pressure reducing valve, a second gas pressure sensor, and a gas supply component are provided, sequentially from a gas tank side, in a gas supply flow channel that extends from the gas tank to a gas consuming component. Besides, a buffer tank is provided, via an on-off valve, in a branch flow channel that branches off from the gas supply flow channel between the pressure reducing valve and the gas supply component. This buffer tank is in a situation where the pressure of the buffer tank is not higher than a consumption prescribed gas pressure. In calibrating the first gas pressure sensor, with the shutoff valve closed and with the on-off valve open, a detection value of the first gas pressure sensor is calibrated through the use of a detection value of the second gas pressure sensor.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform: acquiring objective image data, the objective image data being generated by optically reading a manuscript and representing an objective image including a character image indicating a character; determining whether any condition, among conditions including first and second conditions, is satisfied; if the first condition is satisfied, transmitting, to a predetermined communication apparatus, first image data based on the objective image data, the first image data representing the objective image, receiving first processed data from the predetermined communication apparatus; and if the second condition is satisfied, executing, for the objective image data, a predetermined compression processing for reducing size of data representing the character image in the objective image data so as to generate second image data; transmitting the second image data to the predetermined communication apparatus; and receiving second processed data from

Abstract: There is provided a film forming apparatus for performing a film forming process on substrates by heating the substrates while the substrates are held in a shelf shape by a substrate holder in a vertical reaction container. The film forming apparatus includes: an exhaust part configured to evacuate the reaction container; a gas supply part configured to supply a film forming gas into the reaction container; a heat insulating member provided above or below an arrangement region of the substrates to overlap with the arrangement region and configured to thermally insulate the arrangement region from an upper region above the arrangement region or a lower region below the arrangement region; and a through-hole provided in the heat insulating member at a position overlapping with central portions of the substrates to adjust a temperature distribution in a plane of each substrate held near the heat insulating member.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to downsize the main body and achieve a good image quality at a low cost. A rotation shaft of a first discharge roller is tilted with respect to that of a second discharge roller. The center of oscillation C of a first discharge roller holding member is provided more upstream in the direction in which a sheet is discharged than a straight line made by the rotation center of the first discharge roller and the rotation center of the second discharge roller.

Abstract: When a calibration starting condition of a pressure sensor is satisfied while a fuel cell vehicle is traveling, the fuel cell vehicle starts to travel by using electric power supplied from a secondary battery. In the fuel cell vehicle, a pressure sensor is calibrated based on hydrogen pressure in a hydrogen gas flow channel downstream of a pressure reducing valve after a shut-off valve of a hydrogen tank is closed, and the hydrogen in a hydrogen gas flow channel is exhausted until hydrogen pressure upstream of the pressure reducing valve and hydrogen pressure downstream of the pressure reducing valve become substantially equal to each other. The fuel cell vehicle travels by using electric power supplied from the secondary battery while the pressure sensor is being calibrated, so that calibration processing of the pressure sensor can be performed without causing a noise.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including, monitoring an operation of a user for one or a plurality of display contents displayed on a screen, determining whether a result of the monitoring corresponds to at least one of a plurality of operation patterns stored in a memory, and outputting, on the screen, information corresponding to the one or the plurality of display contents when the result of the monitoring corresponds to the at least one of the plurality of operation patterns, the information being different in accordance with which operation pattern, included in the plurality of operation patterns, corresponds to the result of the monitoring.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A heater holder includes a restriction portion and a recessed portion. The restriction portion determines the position of a cable in the longitudinal direction of the heater. The recessed portion, against which a bare conductive portion of the cable is to be positioned, is provided at a position that is different from the position of the restriction portion as viewed in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction. A wire is joined to the bare conductive portion somewhere between the restriction portion and the recessed portion.

Abstract: Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured to less provide a feeling of insecurity to a user when a cleansing mode for moving a water splash point in at least two directions is used. The present invention provides a sanitary cleansing device (1) including a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, a nozzle drive device (12), an operation device (10) operated by a user to switch a cleansing mode, and a spray control device (20) configured to switchably execute, a fixed spot cleansing mode in which the spray port is stopped at a predetermined reference private area position and a wide movement cleansing mode for moving a water splash point in at least two directions. When the wide movement cleansing mode begins, the spray port is positioned at the reference private area position, and then, starts movement of the water splash point.

Abstract: Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured to provide a feeling of comfort and satisfaction to a user by simple operation. The sanitary cleansing device (1) includes a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, an operation device (10) operated by a user to start spraying of the cleansing water from the spray port, and a spray control device (20) configured to execute a fixed spot cleansing mode and a stop sequence based on operation of the operation device. The fixed spot cleansing mode is a cleansing mode for stopping the spray port at a reference private area position at which the cleansing water is splashed on a private area position of the human body, and the stop sequence is a sequence of stopping spraying of the cleansing water after execution of a series of cleansing modes set in advance.

Abstract: Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured so that user's defecation can be promoted with a comfortable feeling by spraying of cleansing water. The present invention provides a sanitary cleansing device (1) including a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, a nozzle drive device (12), an operation device (10) operated by a user, and a spray control device (20) configured to actuate the nozzle drive device to execute a massage cleansing mode. The massage cleansing mode is a cleansing mode for repeating a predetermined massage cleansing cycle including a turning movement pattern for turning a water splash point of the cleansing water sprayed from the spray port at the periphery of a private area position of a seated human body and a front-to-back movement pattern for moving the water splash point through the private area position in a substantially front-to-back direction of the human body.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform: acquiring objective image data, the objective image data being generated by optically reading a manuscript and representing an objective image including a character image indicating a character; determining whether any condition, among conditions including first and second conditions, is satisfied; if the first condition is satisfied, transmitting, to a predetermined communication apparatus, first image data based on the objective image data, the first image data representing the objective image, receiving first processed data from the predetermined communication apparatus; and if the second condition is satisfied, executing, for the objective image data, a predetermined compression processing for reducing size of data representing the character image in the objective image data so as to generate second image data; transmitting the second image data to the predetermined communication apparatus; and receiving second processed data from

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; an image forming portion for forming an image on the drum; a fixing portion for fixing an image on a sheet, while heating the sheet in a fixing nip, wherein the fixing portion is provided above the drum; the fixing portion including a first roller contactable to the image on the sheet, a second roller cooperative with the first roller to form the fixing nip, first and second covers for protecting the first and second rollers, respectively; and at least one opening for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the fixing portion, the opening being provided in the first cover at a position lower than a line connecting a rotation axis of the first roller and a rotation axis of the second roller, as seen along a rotational axis of the second roller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a separation pad holding unit, a separation pad fixing unit, and a compression unit while vibration damping unit(such as a sponge member and a Mylar member) that is attached to the compression unit does not contact the separation pad holding unit and the separation pad fixing unit.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to downsize the main body and achieve a good image quality at a low cost. A rotation shaft of a first discharge roller is tilted with respect to that of a second discharge roller. The center of oscillation C of a first discharge roller holding member is provided more upstream in the direction in which a sheet is discharged than a straight line made by the rotation center of the first discharge roller and the rotation center of the second discharge roller.

Abstract: Image fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image through a nip, the apparatus including a cylindrical film; a nip forming member contacting an inner surface of the film; a pressing rotatable member forming the nip in cooperation with the nip forming member with the film interposed therebetween; and a regulating member for regulating movement of the film in a direction of a generatrix of the film, wherein the regulating member has an opposing surface opposing an edge of an end portion of the film with respect to the direction of the generatrix, and the opposing surface has a regulation region for regulating the edge of the film when the film is driven and moves in the generatrix direction, wherein the regulation region is narrower in a downstream side of a center portion of the nip than in an upstream side thereof with respect to a sheet feeding direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a separation pad holding unit, a separation pad fixing unit, and a compression unit while vibration damping unit(such as a sponge member and a Mylar member) that is attached to the compression unit does not contact the separation pad holding unit and the separation pad fixing unit.

Abstract: A fixing device configured to heat a recording material bearing a toner image at a nip portion while conveying the recording material includes a tubular film, a nip portion forming member contacting an inner surface of the film, a pressure member forming the nip portion together with the nip portion forming member via the film, and a regulating member configured to regulate a movement of the film by contacting an end surface of the film. The regulating member includes, in a vicinity of the nip portion, a regulating surface inclined such that a distance from an imaginary plane including the end surface is gradually decreased as the regulating surface extends away from the nip portion to a circumferential direction of the film, and that the distance therefrom is gradually increased as the regulating surface extends in a radial direction of the film.