Abstract: A fuel-feeding device may include a fuel tank storing fuel therein, a fuel pump configured to feed the fuel in the fuel tank to an engine through a fuel-feeding conduit, an aspirator configured to generate a negative pressure therein using a flow of the fuel flowing through a branched conduit branched from the fuel-feeding conduit, a negative pressure sensor configured to detect the negative pressure generated by the aspirator, and a control device configured to control a revolution speed of the fuel pump. The control device is configured to determine a sign of vapor generation in the fuel stored in the fuel tank based on detection information of the negative pressure sensor.

Abstract: There is provided a judgment support apparatus 100 including: a disaster situation estimating unit 110 configured to estimate a disaster situation in an object region from disaster related information using a disaster situation estimation model; and a determining unit 120 configured to determine, based on at least an estimated disaster situation and a presentation destination of judgment support information for supporting judgment with respect to the disaster situation, the judgment support information to be presented to the presentation destination.

Abstract: A web processing system which includes two rollers configured to rotate at the same phase while being in contact with a web which continuously exists along a movement passage and a suppressing mechanism for suppressing a tension variation of the web between the two rollers.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive drum, a developing roller, a humidity sensor configured to detect a humidity, and a controller configured to execute a single-side printing, a first-double-side printing and a second double-side printing. The controller is configured to execute the first double-side printing in which images are printed at a first developing-bias voltage on both the first surface and the second surface of the sheet when the humidity detected by the humidity sensor is greater than a threshold value. The controller is configured to execute the second double-side printing in which an image is printed at a second developing-bias voltage, which is less than the first developing-bias voltage, on the second surface of the sheet when the humidity detected by the humidity sensor is equal to or less than the threshold value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a transfer unit, a voltage supply circuit, and a controller. The transfer unit is configured to transfer developer onto a printing medium from the photosensitive drum. The voltage supply circuit is configured to supply voltage to the transfer unit. The controller is electrically connected to the voltage supply circuit. The controller is configured to: calculate a cumulative voltage value, the cumulative voltage value being a total of supplied voltage to the transfer unit from the voltage supply circuit after using the transfer unit is started; and determine how long a lifetime of the transfer unit remains based on the calculated cumulative voltage value.

Abstract: A passage information providing device acquires information regarding movement of people on a road as people flow information. The passage information providing device estimates whether the road is passable by using the people flow information that has been acquired. The passage information providing device outputs passage availability information indicating the estimated state of whether the road is passable.

Abstract: The invention relates to an immunochromatography analysis device which enables simple and rapid diagnosis of dengue virus infection, and an object thereof is to provide an immunochromatography analysis device which can reduce a cross-reaction with a virus belonging to Flaviviridae other than dengue virus and which can specifically detect dengue virus. The invention relates to an immunochromatography analysis device for detecting dengue virus including a sample application part, a labeling substance-holding part, a chromatography medium part having a detection part and an absorption part, wherein the labeling substance-holding part contains a first antibody which recognizes the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 that is present in the whole amino acid sequence of dengue virus NS1 of SEQ ID NO: 1, and the detection part contains a second antibody which recognizes the three-dimensional structure of dengue virus NS1.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means capable of improving a residue removing effect and improving storage stability in a composition for surface treatment which is used for reducing residues on a surface of an object to be polished after being polished chemical mechanical polishing. The present invention relates to a composition for surface treatment, wherein the composition contains a solvent and a dissolved gas, a concentration of the dissolved gas is 0.01 mg/L or more and 10 mg/L or less with respect to a total volume of the composition and the composition is used for reducing residues on a surface of an object to be polished after being polished by chemical mechanical polishing.

Abstract: An airbag for a passenger seat is folded and stored in a storage so as to be deployed towards the passenger seat in such a manner as to enlarge towards the left and right when exiting the storage. The airbag includes a bag body that includes a mount-side portion to be mounted on the storage, and a cover panel that is made of a flexible sheet-shaped material and covers an outer circumference of the mount-side portion of the bag body. The cover panel is configured to cover an edge of a peripheral member of the storage at least in left and right sides of the storage at airbag deployment. The cover panel is joined to the bag body in such a manner that its edge portion is capable of slipping relative to the bag body at least in the left and right portions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a transfer unit, a voltage supply circuit, and a controller. The transfer unit is configured to transfer developer onto a printing medium from the photosensitive drum. The voltage supply circuit is configured to supply voltage to the transfer unit. The controller is electrically connected to the voltage supply circuit. The controller is configured to: calculate a cumulative voltage value, the cumulative voltage value being a total of supplied voltage to the transfer unit from the voltage supply circuit after using the transfer unit is started; and determine how long a lifetime of the transfer unit remains based on the calculated cumulative voltage value.

Abstract: A tissue collecting instrument which cuts and collects tissue includes a first member formed in a tubular shape and including an internal space and a side hole communicating with the internal space, a second member inserted into the internal space and configured to be movable relative to the first member, a first protruding portion provided on the first member and configured to protrude toward the inside of the side hole, and a second protruding portion provided on the second member and configured to protrude in a direction opposite to the first protruding portion, wherein the tissue is able to enter the internal space through the side hole when the first member and the second member are in a positional relationship in which the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion are spaced apart and facing each other.

Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag formed with a discharge portion. The discharge portion includes: an opening portion; a tack portion around the opening portion; and a regulating belt portion disposed on a peripheral edge of the opening portion to regulate opening and closing of the opening portion. When the inflation of the airbag is completed, the tack portion is maintained in a folded state by the regulating belt portion due to tension acting on the regulation belt portion, so that a closed state of the opening portion is capable of being maintained, and when the tension does not act on the regulating belt portion, the folded state is released and the opening portion is brought into an open state.

Abstract: An audio system construction method includes acquiring device information of a speaker by communication between an information control device and the speaker, setting a name of the speaker, and assigning, at the information control device, the speaker to a channel that plays a specific role related to the name of the speaker in an audio system that handles a plurality of channels.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a means for rapidly diagnosing infection with VZV. The present invention relates to an antibody against VZV gE or an antibody fragment thereof, and an immunological measurement method and an immunological measurement device using the antibody or the antibody fragment thereof, etc.

Abstract: In order to provide, to a roll-to-roll printing apparatus which seamlessly performs printing on a base material using a roll-to-roll method, performance for finely controlling the tension of the base material, the roll-to-roll printing apparatus includes a drive roll (74) that supplies a base material (B) to a plate cylinder, a drive roll actuator that rotates the drive roll (74), a dancer actuator (84) that changes a path line length of the base material (B) to vary the tension of the base material (B), a tension detection device (78) that detects the tension of the base material (B), and a tension control device (80) that controls the drive roll actuator and the dancer actuator (84) in accordance with a result of the detection by the tension detection device (78) to compensate for a variation in the tension of the base material (B).

Abstract: The front passenger seat airbag includes a main body inflation portion having a front end side attached to the storage portion when inflation is completed, and a protruding inflation portion having a portion protruding rearward from at least one end portion side in a right-left direction on a rear surface side of the main body inflation portion when inflation is completed, the protruding inflation portion protecting a head of the occupant moving obliquely forward during an oblique collision or an offset collision of a vehicle. A pinching portion is formed in a position continuous with a rear end side of the protruding inflation portion, and regulates an outer shape of the protruding inflation portion when inflation is completed, and the pinching portion is formed by joining to-be-joined portions separated from each other in a state in which a bag panel constituting the outer peripheral wall is flatly unfolded.

Abstract: An airbag having an exhaust hole and an opening/closing control device configured to control opening and closing of the exhaust hole are provided. The airbag includes a bag body, and a discharge portion having the exhaust hole, the discharge portion is configured to maintain a blocked state of the exhaust hole by being drawn into the bag body at the time of inflation of the bag body in a state where connection between a connection member and the opening/closing control device is maintained, and to be inflated by protruding from the bag body at the time of inflation of the bag body in a state where the connection between the connection member and the opening/closing control device is released to open the exhaust hole. A dummy inflation portion inflated to partially protrude from the bag body is formed at a position approximately symmetrical to the discharge portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coil sheath is provided which is formed by spirally winding a wire and having a plurality of unit loops arranged side by side in a direction of an axis, wherein each unit loop includes a plurality of non-circular loops each having a long axis portion and a short axis portion, a dimension of the long axis portion is longer than a short axis portion of the other loops, and, in front view seen in an axial direction, each unit loop includes a central space including the axis and a plurality of peripheral spaces located around the central space.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a web processing system that executes predetermined processing onto a web continuously existing along a movement passage, in which the web processing system includes a rotating body that rotates while being in contact with the web, and the control apparatus controls a rotation speed of the rotating body such that a circumferential speed of the rotating body at a contact surface with the web matches a transport speed of the web.

Abstract: A task support system and method improve an operator's handling of an unknown new event. The task support system and method handle an event that occurred in a management target, in relation to an unknown event, and one or more event types are evaluated as event type candidates. A first event type candidate group having a high confidence score among the evaluated event type candidates is extracted and a first candidate confidence score is calculated from each confidence score of each event type candidate of the first event type candidate group. A first candidate importance is calculated from first importance held by an event type corresponding to each event type candidate belonging to the first event type candidate group and information other than the first importance. A diagram corresponding to each event is represented in a coordinate space by using the first candidate confidence score and the first candidate importance.