Abstract: A developer supply device for supplying developer contained in a developer container toward a developing device in an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus includes a conveyance passage, a developer receiving portion, a sub-hopper, and a conveying tube. The conveyance passage delivers the developer discharged from the developer container. The developer receiving portion is detachable and attachable with respect to the developer container. The sub-hopper is detachable and attachable with respect to the developing device and stores the developer discharged toward the developing device. The flexible conveying tube has a first end portion coupled to the developer receiving portion and a second end portion coupled to the sub-hopper, and conveys the developer from the developer receiving portion to the sub-hopper. The developer supply device is detachable from and attachable to the apparatus body with a connection among the developer receiving portion, the sub-hopper, and the conveying tube being maintained.

Abstract: A fixed outer circumferential wall of a fixed scroll, a movable scroll, and a plate define a suction pressure space configured such that fluid flows from a suction chamber into the suction pressure space. The movable scroll and an opposed wall define a first back-pressure space. The plate and a back-pressure-chamber-defining recess of the opposed wall define a second back-pressure space. A back-pressure supplying groove of the opposed wall is configured to connect the first back-pressure space to the second back-pressure space, thereby supplying the fluid from the first back-pressure space to the second back-pressure space. A discharge hole of the plate is configured to connect the second back-pressure space to the suction pressure space, thereby discharging the fluid from the second back-pressure space to the suction pressure space. At least part of the discharge hole is overlapped with the back-pressure supplying groove in an axial direction.

Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light.

Abstract: A low-profile antenna device includes a base plate, a top load element, and an antenna cover. The top load element has a ridge line part, a side surface part, and a slit. The ridge line part extends in the longitudinal direction of the top load element so as to be inclined with respect to the base plate. The slit extends from one side surface part to the middle of the other side surface part so as to pass through the ridge line part to divide the ridge line part into a front side part and a rear side part. The top load element is folded such that the ridge line part is changed in height at the slit so as to bring the ridge line part close to the topmost position inside the antenna cover.

Abstract: An attachment for an ultrasonic transducer can be used for changing the directivity characteristics of ultrasonic waves irradiated from a radiation surface depending on the situation, even if there is only one ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver. The attachment is adapted to be attached to the ultrasonic transducer and comprises a holding member, a buoyant body, and a directivity-characteristic changing member. The holding member has a holding concave portion that detachably holds the ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver. The buoyant body is provided so as to surround the holding member from the outer peripheral side, and is made of a material whose specific gravity is less than that of water and maintains the ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver horizontally by the buoyancy acting on itself.

Abstract: A power supply facility includes a wireless communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating with a plurality of electric vehicles traveling in line, a plurality of power supply coils installed at a predetermined interval, and an inter-vehicle calculation unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of information including power supply coil interval information indicating a distance of the predetermined interval, information on an entire length of a vehicle body of each of the plurality of electric vehicles, and information on a position of a power reception coil installed in each of the vehicle bodies, and calculate an inter-vehicle distance for leading each of the plurality of electric vehicles to be parked in accordance with the acquired plurality of pieces of information so as to align the plurality of power supply coils with the power reception coils to face each other.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, a signal processor, a quality determining unit, and a controller. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected. The signal processor calculates, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave, a distance between the electronic device and an object that reflects the transmission wave. The quality determining unit determines a quality of the reception signal. The controller performs control for transmitting the transmission wave in an operation mode corresponding to the distance between the electronic device and the object, based on the quality of the reception signal determined by the quality determining unit.

Abstract: A sheet characteristic detection system that detects a sheet characteristic, includes: a sheet characteristic detection device that includes a plurality of media sensors corresponding to a plurality of different sheet characteristics; and a hardware processor that is capable of changing a type of the sheet characteristic to be detected by the plurality of media sensors.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a discharge part including a nozzle configured to discharge a processing liquid onto a substrate; a liquid feeder configured to feed the processing liquid to the discharge part; a replenishment part configured to replenish the liquid feeder with the processing liquid to be fed to the discharge part; a connector including a switching valve configured to open/close a flow path between the replenishment part and the liquid feeder; a filter configured to remove foreign matters contained in the processing liquid; a replenishment preparation part configured to open the switching valve after reducing a pressure difference between the inside of the replenishment part and the liquid feeder; and a replenishment controller configured to start replenishment of the processing liquid from the replenishment part to the liquid feeder in a state in which the switching valve is opened by the replenishment preparation part.

Abstract: A power amplifier circuit includes a carrier amplifier, a peak amplifier, an external output terminal, a combiner that includes an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the power amplifier, an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the power amplifier, and an output terminal connected to the external output terminal, a bias circuit that supplies a DC bias current to the carrier amplifier, a bias circuit that supplies a DC bias current to the peak amplifier, and a current limit circuit that is connected between the power amplifier and the bias circuit and that is configured to change a magnitude of the DC bias current according to a magnitude of a power supply voltage applied to the power amplifier circuit.

Abstract: A fixed outer circumferential wall of a fixed scroll, a movable scroll, and a plate define a suction pressure space configured such that fluid flows from a suction chamber into the suction pressure space. The movable scroll and an opposed wall define a first back-pressure space. The plate and a back-pressure-chamber-defining recess of the opposed wall define a second back-pressure space. A back-pressure supplying groove of the opposed wall is configured to connect the first back-pressure space to the second back-pressure space, thereby supplying the fluid from the first back-pressure space to the second back-pressure space. A discharge hole of the plate is configured to connect the second back-pressure space to the suction pressure space, thereby discharging the fluid from the second back-pressure space to the suction pressure space. At least part of the discharge hole is overlapped with the back-pressure supplying groove in an axial direction.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a plurality of capturing sections, a combining section, a virtual viewpoint image generation section, a display section, a touch panel configured to receive input for changing a setting condition related to the virtual viewpoint on a virtual viewpoint image on the display section, and an image adjustment section configured to enable the virtual viewpoint to be set in the vehicle exterior or the vehicle interior and to move between the vehicle exterior and the vehicle interior, to adjust the virtual viewpoint image.

Abstract: An analysis result with high reproducibility can be obtained from multidimensional data by a particle analysis system including: a particle analysis apparatus including a light receiving unit that receives light emitted from a biologically derived particle; and an information processing apparatus including a dimensional compression unit that generates dimensionally compressed data by dimensionally compressing multidimensional data regarding the light output from the light receiving unit, and a learning unit that constructs a learning model by machine learning with a correspondence relationship between the dimensionally compressed data and the multidimensional data as a teacher.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave, which is the reflected transmission wave, a controller that controls a radiation pattern of the transmission wave, a signal processor that detects an object on the basis of a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The controller performs control such that, when the transmission wave is transmitted a plurality of times in certain units, a transmission wave with a varied radiation pattern is included at least once. The signal processor outputs a result of the detection of the object on the basis of a selected cluster, whose area of a range over which a point group spreads is the smallest among a plurality of clusters obtained by performing clustering on results of detection performed on the object the plurality of times.

Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus according to the present embodiment comprises a first imager configured to image a sample container in which a sample is contained and whose upper surface is sealed with a cap; and processing circuitry configured to acquire a liquid level height of the sample contained in the sample container based on first image data of the sample container imaged by the first imager; and determine, based on the liquid level height, a first parameter related to a descent operation of a piercing arm, and controls, based on the first parameter, the descent operation of the piercing arm, and the piercing arm holding a piercer needle for piercing the cap of the sample container.

Abstract: A compound having anticancer activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is provided. Used is a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (wherein, L1 and L2 are the same or different and each represents a group represented by one formula selected from the group consisting of formulas (A) to (F), and S represents a group represented by one formula selected from the group consisting of formulas (S1) to (S18)).

Abstract: A leading-edge high-lift device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a leading-edge high-lift device that is deployable and retractable from/into a fixed leading edge of a main wing of an aircraft and includes a slat main body and a buffering portion. The slat main body includes a leading edge portion, a trailing edge portion that forms a gap between a trailing edge portion and the main wing during deployment, a cusp portion formed at a lower edge of the leading edge portion, a cove portion formed between the cusp portion and the trailing edge portion, and an inboard end surface that is formed between the leading edge portion and the cove portion and is positioned on a fuselage side of the aircraft. The buffering portion is provided at an inboard end portion of the slat main body including the inboard end surface and an inboard-side surface of the cove portion and reduces pressure fluctuations in airflow on the inboard end surface or the inboard-side surface of the cove portion.

Abstract: A boron nitride particle having a long and thin shape, in which, when the boron nitride particle is subjected to a loading and unloading test comprising a loading step and unloading step in this order, at least a part of a length in the lateral direction of the boron nitride particle compressed in the loading step returns in the unloading step, in which the loading step includes gradually applying a load from 0.2 mN up to 20 mN at a loading rate of 0.27 mN/second in a lateral direction of the boron nitride particle to compress the boron nitride particle, and the unloading step includes gradually unloading the boron nitride particle to 0.2 mN at an unloading rate of 0.27 mN/second.

Abstract: A cooling device of a vehicle is provided, which includes a transmission, a first coolant circuit where a first coolant which cools the internal combustion engine circulates, a second coolant circuit independent from the first coolant circuit, where a second coolant which cools the electric drive system circulates, and a fluid circuit where fluid which lubricates and cools friction engagement elements in the transmission circulates. The fluid circuit includes a first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the first coolant, a second heat exchanger in-series with the first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the second coolant, a first adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the first heat exchanger, and a second adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A two-way communication device system includes: a first two-way communication device; and a second two-way communication device installed at a different location from the first two-way communication device and configured to communicate with the first two-way communication device The two-way communication device system creates an operator input operation history when an input operation is received for the first time, transmits an input signal to the second two-way communication device, creates an other-device input operation history when an input signal is received for the first time, maintains a first state when both the operator input operation history and the other-device input operation history do not exist, a second state when only one of the operator input operation history and the other-device input operation history exists, and a third state when both of the operator input operation history and the other-device input operation history exist, and deletes both the operator input operation history and the