Abstract: In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.

Abstract: A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, fixing unit including a fixing film, a pressure roller, and a heating member that forms a fixing nip portion between itself and the pressure roller, and a driving source that transmits driving force to the developing roller and the pressure roller. Whether recording material is a normal-sized sheet or a small-sized sheet is determined, and in a case of the normal-sized sheet a first mode is executed in which a post-rotation operation is performed following the recording material passing the fixing nip portion, while in a case of the small-sized sheet a second mode is executed in which the post-rotation operation and processing to place in an image forming job-stop state are performed, the driving source is stopped, thereafter the driving source is driven, and thereafter the driving source is stopped.

Abstract: A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.

Abstract: Provided is a novel reverse transcriptase with excellent thermal stability. A reverse transcriptase comprising the following amino acid sequence: (a) an amino acid sequence having at least 75% identity with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3; or (b) an amino acid sequence having deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or 3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new separation functional layer suitable for separating an acid gas from a gas mixture containing the acid gas. A separation functional layer of the present invention includes polyimide. The polyimide includes a structural unit A1 derived from a tetracarboxylic dianhydride having a six-membered ring acid anhydride structure, and a structural unit B1 derived from diamine. At least one of the structural unit A1 and the structural unit B1 has at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, a thiol group, and metal salts of these groups.

Abstract: A drive unit rotates a propeller shaft and is accommodated in a housing. A mount is provided on the housing. A light unit is attached to the mount and includes light sources. A controller is connected to the light unit, and is configured or programmed to turn on the light sources in a lighting pattern depending on an operating state of the outboard motor.

Abstract: An imaging processing device includes a processor. The processor performs processing of acquiring a captured image which is captured in a state where a light source emits light, extracting an overexposed portion which occurs in the captured image due to the light emission of the light source and which has a predetermined pixel value or more, and setting a region located in an area, which does not overlap with the extracted overexposed portion in the captured image, as a region of a collation target to be collated with a predetermined reference image.

Abstract: A motor control device according to the present disclosure is a motor control device configured to control voltage signals of a plurality of phases, the voltage signals being applied to an alternating-current motor, the motor control device including: a differential-value calculation unit configured to calculate the time differential value of a virtual line connecting peak values of each of phase voltage signals that are the voltage signals of the respective phases, the voltage signals being input to the alternating-current motor; a wavelength calculation unit configured to calculate the wavelength of each phase voltage signal input to the alternating-current motor from the time differential value; and a switching-signal generation unit configured to generate, based on the calculated wavelength, a signal that switches the phase of the alternating-current motor to which alternating-current voltage is applied.

Abstract: An identification device configured to acquire a collation fixed image of a part of a region where a fixed pattern is formed, and a collation amorphous image of a part of a region where an amorphous pattern formed when the fixed pattern is formed on a region different from the region where the fixed pattern is formed, of a collation molded article; refer to a storage unit that stores, as a registered image in advance for a mold, a fixed image and an amorphous image pair of a part of a region where a fixed and an amorphous pattern are formed, of each of plural molded articles formed using the mold; specify a mold that forms the collation molded article using the registered fixed and collation fixed images, and identify whether the collation amorphous image matches the registered amorphous image of any of the registered images corresponding to the mold.

Abstract: An identification device configured to acquire a collation fixed image of a part of a region where a fixed pattern is formed, and a collation amorphous image of a part of a region where an amorphous pattern formed when the fixed pattern is formed on a region different from the region where the fixed pattern is formed, of a collation molded article; refer to a storage unit that stores, as a registered image in advance for a mold, a fixed image and an amorphous image pair of a part of a region where a fixed and an amorphous pattern are formed, of each of plural molded articles formed using the mold; specify a mold that forms the collation molded article using the registered fixed and collation fixed images, and identify whether the collation amorphous image matches the registered amorphous image of any of the registered images corresponding to the mold.

Abstract: An imaging processing device includes a processor. The processor performs processing of acquiring a captured image which is captured in a state where a light source emits light, extracting an overexposed portion which occurs in the captured image due to the light emission of the light source and which has a predetermined pixel value or more, and setting a region located in an area, which does not overlap with the extracted overexposed portion in the captured image, as a region of a collation target to be collated with a predetermined reference image.

Abstract: A method of producing a tablet in which an uncoated tablet is coated by a coating agent, the method including: a coating process of coating uncoated tablets with a coating agent by spray coating the coating agent onto tablets that are churned and tumbled inside a container, and drying the tablets inside the container by supplying drying air into the container and exhausting air from the container, wherein spray coating conditions, including air supply temperature, air supply rate, and spray speed, are controlled according to the weight of the coating agent with which the uncoated tablets are coated, such that the humidity of air exhausted during spray coating is within a range of from 14% RH to 30% RH.

Abstract: A drive unit rotates a propeller shaft and is accommodated in a housing. A mount is provided on the housing. A light unit is attached to the mount and includes light sources. A controller is connected to the light unit, and is configured or programmed to turn on the light sources in a lighting pattern depending on an operating state of the outboard motor.

Abstract: An absorbent article having a body contacting surface a garment contacting surface; and an absorbent core disposed therebetween is disclosed. The garment contacting surface has a garment contacting layer with a plurality of graphic elements. A circumferential edge of the article truncates a portion of the plurality of graphic elements.

Abstract: An absorbent article having a body contacting surface a garment contacting surface; and an absorbent core disposed therebetween is disclosed. The body contacting surface has first and second layers, with each layer having a pair of first longitudinal side edges and second longitudinal side edges, respectively. The garment contacting surface has a garment contacting layer with a plurality of graphic elements and a pair of garment layer longitudinal side edges. The absorbent core has a pair of core longitudinal side edges. Extending laterally outwardly from the article are a pair of flaps formed from a portion of the garment contacting layer and the second layer. A portion of a circumferential edge of the article is formed by each of the pair of second longitudinal side edges and the pair of garment layer longitudinal side edges.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section that stores device identification information of a terminal device authenticated to validate a printed matter, in advance, a receiving section that receives a random pattern acquired from a partial area of a surface of a printed matter intended to be validated, printed-matter identification information capable of individually identifying the printed matter, and device identification information of a terminal device that acquires the random pattern, a control section that, in a case where the device identification information received by the receiving section coincides with any piece of the device identification information stored in the storage section, controls the storage section to store the random pattern and the printed-matter identification information received by the receiving section in association with each other, and a validation section that validates the printed matter having the random pattern stored in the storage section, to be usab

Abstract: A data acquiring apparatus includes: an acquirer that acquires feature data, as registration data, from an image including an object to be registered, the feature data representing a feature that is distributed in a region of a predetermined size determined based on a position defined by an external shape of the object and a position of printing information that has been printed on the object; and a memory that stores the registration data acquired by the acquirer as data for determining identity of the object.

Abstract: An identification system includes a first imaging apparatus that captures a first image including an object to be identified, a second imaging apparatus that captures a second image finer than the first image and including an object to be identified, and an identification apparatus that identifies an object by use of the first image and the second image. The identification apparatus includes an acquirer and a storage controller. The acquirer acquires first identification data and second identification data. The first identification data is feature data acquired from the first image and representing a feature distributed on a surface of the object. The second identification data is feature data acquired from the second image and representing a feature distributed on a surface of the object. The storage controller causes the first identification data and the second identification data acquired by the acquirer to be stored in association with each other.

Abstract: A product manufacturing method includes acquiring a random pattern in one region on a surface of a first member by capturing an image of the first member; acquiring identification information, based on which a second member is individually identifiable, from the second member, the second member being combined with the first member to constitute a product; storing the acquired random pattern and the acquired identification information in association with each other; and forming the product by combining the first member and the second member.