Abstract: A conversation support system is provided at an utterance place where utterance is delivered to a plurality of persons. The persons are each an utterer having a possibility of uttering and/or a performer having a possibility of marking. The conversation support system includes a hardware processor and a marking motion catcher. The hardware processor obtains voice data of an utterance made by an utterer and received by a voice receiver, and manages the voice data on a voice timeline. The marking motion catcher catches a marking motion by which a marker is given to the utterance. The hardware processor manages the marking motion on a marking and links the marking motion with the utterance on a same timeline.

Abstract: An input character into a search keyword input column provided in a web page is received each time a character is inputted. A suggest word that matches the received input character is extracted from suggest word management information in which a plurality of suggest words are stored. Then, for at least one suggest word among the extracted suggest words, a shop associated with a keyword obtained from the suggest word is extracted based on keyword-shop correspondence information in which a keyword and a shop are corresponded to each other. Further, a control is performed to display the extracted suggest word and to display information concerning the extracted shop as a search button for instructing execution of a search that is based on the keyword and targets the shop as a search domain.

Abstract: A photocoupler of an embodiment includes a packaging member, a first and a second MOSFET, a semiconductor light receiving element, a semiconductor light emitting element, a first wiring part, and a sealing resin layer. The input terminal includes a first and a second lead. The output terminal includes a third and a fourth lead. The first conductive region includes a signal input part and a bend part. The fourth conductive region includes a signal input part and a bend part. The semiconductor light receiving element is joined to the first and second MOSFETs astride a gap part. The semiconductor light emitting element is joined onto a light receiving region. The first wiring part connects the source electrode of the first MOSFET and the source electrode of the second MOSFET.

Abstract: A fixed scroll member includes a fixed base and a spiral fixed tooth member mounted to the fixed base. An orbiting scroll member is made of a resin material and includes an orbiting base arranged to face the fixed base; and a spiral orbiting tooth member. A housing is configured to house the fixed scroll member and the orbiting scroll member with the fixed scroll member being fixed thereto. An orbiting slide surface is located to be radially outside of the orbiting base of the orbiting scroll member, and a housing slide surface is formed on a portion of the housing. The portion is made of a metal material and is arranged to face the orbiting slide surface. The orbiting slide surface is in slidable contact with the housing slide surface. The portion of the housing has an outer wall exposed to atmospheric air.

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present invention, a guide vane of a water turbine rotatable about an axis, including a guide vane for directing supplied flowing water toward the downstream side. The guide vane has a downstream end edge having an upper end portion and a lower end portion. The lower end portion of the downstream end edge is displaced in the direction orthogonal to an axis with respect to the upper end portion of the downstream end edge when viewed from the downstream side.

Abstract: An on-vehicle sensor cleaning device includes a cleaning actuator that cleans a cleaning object surface an on-vehicle sensor, the cleaning object surface being cleaned by operating the actuator; and a controller that drives the cleaning actuator when fouling degree information of the cleaning object surface reaches a fouling threshold. The controller is configured to change the fouling threshold depending on a vehicle speed information.

Abstract: An onboard optical sensor cleaning device ejects fluid against a sensing surface of an onboard optical sensor installed in a vehicle and removes foreign matter from the sensing surface. The onboard optical sensor cleaning device includes a cleaning liquid ejection port that ejects supplied cleaning liquid and an air ejection port that ejects supplied air. The cleaning liquid ejection port and the air ejection port are independent from each other, an air ejection axis of the air ejection port is set so that the ejected air mixes with the cleaning liquid ejected from the cleaning liquid ejection port and to be directed toward the sensing surface.

Abstract: An on-board sensor cleaning device is provided for an on-board sensor including a sensing surface. The on-board sensor cleaning device includes an ejection port that ejects fluid toward the sensing surface when the ejection port is disposed outside a sensing range of the on-board sensor. The on-board sensor cleaning device further includes a movable nozzle configured to move the ejection port so that a position of an ejection axis of the ejection port changes.

Abstract: An on-board sensor cleaning device includes a nozzle including one or more ejection ports that eject a fluid onto a sensing surface of an on-board sensor; wherein an ejection duration or an ejection frequency of the fluid, which is ejected onto the sensing surface, differs in accordance with a position on the sensing surface.

Abstract: A photocoupler of an embodiment includes a packaging member, a first and a second MOSFET, a semiconductor light receiving element, a semiconductor light emitting element, a first wiring part, and a sealing resin layer. The input terminal includes a first and a second lead. The output terminal includes a third and a fourth lead. The first conductive region includes a signal input part and a bend part. The fourth conductive region includes a signal input part and a bend part. The semiconductor light receiving element is joined to the first and second MOSFETs astride a gap part. The semiconductor light emitting element is joined onto a light receiving region. The first wiring part connects the source electrode of the first MOSFET and the source electrode of the second MOSFET.

Abstract: An in-vehicle sensor cleaning device ejects fluid toward a sensing surface of an in-vehicle sensor to clean the sensing surface. The in-vehicle sensor is arranged at a front side of a vehicle, a rear side of the vehicle, or one of lateral sides of the vehicle. The in-vehicle sensor cleaning device includes a first ejection port and a second ejection port configured to eject fluid toward the sensing surface of the in-vehicle sensor and a motor-driven pump that supplies fluid to the first ejection port and the second ejection port. The fluid ejected from the first ejection port is set to have a greater flow rate per unit time than the fluid ejected from the second ejection port.

Abstract: An electric pump device includes a single motor, a pump that discharges fluid from a discharge port with driving force of the motor, and a flow passage switch that includes outlets configured to be in communication with the discharge port and switches an outlet of the outlets that is in communication with the discharge port with driving force of the motor.

Abstract: A conductive pattern formation method includes: a step of patterning a base member with an ink in which conductive particulates are distributed to form a pattern; a step of making a conductive developer act on the pattern; and a pressurization step of pressurizing the pattern.

Abstract: The on-vehicle optical sensor cleaning system includes a washer pump that feeds a cleaning liquid, an air pump, a nozzle member, and a controller. The air pump includes a discharge valve and discharges air through the discharge valve. The discharge valve opens when air is compressed in the air pump. The nozzle member includes an ejection port that ejects a gas-liquid mixture toward a sensing surface of an on-vehicle optical sensor to remove foreign matter from the sensing surface. The cleaning liquid from the washer pump and the air from the air pump are mixed in the gas-liquid mixture. The controller controls the washer pump and the air pump. The controller is configured so that the gas-liquid mixture is ejected by storing the cleaning liquid in the nozzle member to cover the ejection port and then feeding the air to the nozzle member.

Abstract: An onboard optical sensor cleaning device ejects fluid against a sensing surface of an onboard optical sensor installed in a vehicle and removes foreign matter from the sensing surface. The onboard optical sensor cleaning device includes a cleaning liquid ejection port that ejects supplied cleaning liquid and an air ejection port that ejects supplied air. The cleaning liquid ejection port and the air ejection port are independent from each other, an air ejection axis of the air ejection port is set so that the ejected air mixes with the cleaning liquid ejected from the cleaning liquid ejection port and to be directed toward the sensing surface.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: a fixing belt wound on a plurality of support rollers including a first pressure applying roller; a second pressure applying roller applying a pressure to the first pressure applying roller and thus forming a nip portion N; a tension modifying mechanism adjusting a tension; a contact area adjustment mechanism adjusting a downstream contact area, which is a contact area of the fixing belt in contact with the first pressure applying roller that is located downstream of the nip portion N; a sheet information obtainer; and a controller controlling an operation of the tension modifying mechanism and an operation of the contact area adjustment mechanism. When sheet information indicates embossed paper, the controller adjusts the operation of the tension modifying mechanism and the operation of the contact area adjustment mechanism to reduce a tension exerted to the fixing belt and also reduce the downstream contact area.

Abstract: There is provided a burning method of burning, on a base member, a precursor in which conductive particles are dispersed in a dispersion medium, and the burning method includes: a first pressurization step of pressurizing the precursor heated to a burning temperature or above; and a second pressurization step of pressurizing, after the first pressurization step, the precursor with a pressurization force higher than a pressurization force in the first pressurization step.

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present invention, a guide vane of a water turbine rotatable about an axis, including a guide vane for directing supplied flowing water toward the downstream side. The guide vane has a downstream end edge having an upper end portion and a lower end portion. The lower end portion of the downstream end edge is displaced in the direction orthogonal to an axis with respect to the upper end portion of the downstream end edge when viewed from the downstream side.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a pattern substrate in which a pattern is formed on the surface of the substrate. The manufacturing method includes a step of preparing the substrate and a step of arranging a liquid-repellent or lyophilic material on the surface of the substrate so as to form the pattern on the surface of the substrate in which the surface of the substrate has a liquid-repellent region and a lyophilic region, the pattern is formed by one of the liquid-repellent region and the lyophilic region and the pattern is used to locate a component by the surface tension of a liquid member.

Abstract: A conductive pattern production device includes: a patterning unit that forms a pattern of a composite ink on a base member; and a burning unit that burns the pattern by high-frequency heating. The composite ink is obtained by mixing a particle material that is a material having a relative permeability of 200 or above or a carbon micro-coil and a conductive ink that has, after the burning, a resistivity of 1 to 2000 ??·cm.