Abstract: A consortium operation apparatus retains a common database accessible by a terminal used by a business office and a rule for calculating a preferential treatment to be provided to the business office. The common database retains information registered from the terminal, acquires information from the common database in response to a request from the terminal, transmits the information to the terminal to present the information to the business office owning the terminal, aggregates a registration record of information into the common database and a presentation record of information registered in the common database for each terminal, and provides the preferential treatment to each business office based on the aggregated registration record, the aggregated presentation record, and the rule.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support, an undercoat layer formed directly on the support, and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer, wherein when an ionization potential of the undercoat layer is represented by IPu, the IPu is 6.0 eV or higher, when an ionization potential of the support is represented by IPs, the IPs is lower than the IPu, the undercoat layer contains a compound (?), when an ionization potential of the compound (?) is represented by IP?, the IP? is 5.0 eV or higher and 5.4 eV or lower, and the IPs and the IP? satisfy the following relational expression (1): IPs ? IP ? ? - 1. .

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a production method of a dicarboxylic acid compound and/or diamine compound, and optionally, dehydration condensates of the dicarboxylic acid compound and diamine compound (dehydration condensate of one molecule of the dicarboxylic acid compound and one molecule of the diamine compound and dehydration condensates of one molecule of one of these and two molecules of the other), from a polyamide as the raw material. It includes (i) a first hydrolysis step of hydrolyzing the polyamide in high-temperature water to obtain a first hydrolysate, and (ii) a second hydrolysis step of subjecting the first hydrolysate to enzymatic hydrolysis to obtain a second hydrolysate. The first hydrolysate contains a water-soluble polyamide that dissolves in water at 20° C., and the second hydrolysate contains the dicarboxylic acid compound and/or diamine compound, and optionally contains a dehydration condensate of the dicarboxylic acid compound and diamine compound.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a magnetic roller; a transfer belt; a drum cleaning roller for collecting toner on the photosensitive drum and discharging collected toner to the photosensitive drum; a belt cleaner; a waste toner accommodating unit; and a controller configured to perform a printing operation for forming an image on a sheet and a cleaning operation for cleaning the drum cleaning roller. The controller is configured to perform: when performing the printing operation, collecting toner on the photosensitive drum using the drum cleaning roller; and when performing the cleaning operation, discharging the toner on the drum cleaning roller collected in the collecting to the photosensitive drum; transferring the toner on the photosensitive drum onto the transfer belt; and collecting the toner on the transfer belt using the belt cleaner so that the collected toner is accommodated in the waste toner accommodating unit.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte may be able to adjust the morphology unavailable traditionally, or readily adjust so as to have a desired morphology. Such a sulfide solid electrolyte may include a substance including a lithium element, a sulfur element, and a phosphorus element; and an amine compound. The solid electrolyte may have a volume-based average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less, measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement, and/or a BET specific surface area of 40 m2/g or less.

Abstract: According to the present embodiment, a control device controlling a control target is provided which includes a first controller, a second controller, a detector, and a corrector. The first controller is configured to, by using a first measured value measured for the control target and a first command value that is a target value of the first measured value as inputs, generate a second command value. The second controller is configured to, by using a second measured value measured for the control target and the second command value as inputs, generate a target value supplied to the control target as a third command value. The detector is configured to detect a change in the second measured value and to change a control mode. The corrector is configured to generate a second correction value and correct the second controller in accordance with the control mode.

Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing method includes providing a liquid-gas polishing fluid mixture to a polishing pad, and polishing a surface of a work piece on the polishing pad using the liquid-gas polishing fluid mixture.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can suppress the surface direction unevenness of an output image throughout repeated image formation. The electrophotographic photosensitive member is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support having a cylindrical shape and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, wherein the support contains at least one of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and wherein when an area at the maximum frequency calculated from the area distribution curve of the aluminum crystal grains of the surface of the support is represented by A (?m2) and the half-width of the highest peak in the area distribution curve is represented by B (?m2), the support satisfies the following formula (1): B/A?1.0??(1).

Abstract: For example, in agricultural and horticultural crop production, pests, etc. still cause heavy damage, and there is a demand for the development of novel agricultural and horticultural insecticidal agents due to factors such as the emergence of pests resistant to existing drugs. The present invention has found that a compound represented by the general formula (1): wherein X and Y each represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Z represents a hydroxyl group or the like, R1 represents an alkoxycarbonyl group or the like, R2 represents a substituted phenyl group or the like, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R4 represents a substituted phenyl group or the like, or a salt thereof exhibits a high insecticidal effect on pests, etc. in the agricultural and horticultural field, and provides an agricultural and horticultural insecticidal agent comprising the same as an active ingredient and a method for using the same.

Abstract: A motor controller includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a determination circuit, and a command circuit. The first control circuit outputs a first control value based on a rule base from a command value of an angular velocity and a measured value of an angular velocity. The second control circuit outputs a second control value based on a learned model from the command value of the angular velocity and the measured value of the angular velocity. The determination circuit determines a state based on at least the second control value. The command circuit acquires and outputs a control command value from the first control value and the second control value based on a result determined by the determination circuit.

Abstract: An information terminal device includes a roll paper printer that pulls out paper from paper roll, performs printing, and cuts the paper, a paper guide that guides the paper, and an issue port through which the paper is discharged, wherein the paper guide includes a first guide for guiding a first surface of the paper, a roller for guiding a second surface of the paper being a surface opposite to the first surface at a position facing the first guide, and a support portion permitted to movably support a shaft of the roller.

Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern and toward a wall, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a terminal in the indoor space.

Abstract: A manifold includes: a valve configured to control a flow of fluid; and a housing having, in an internal space, a plurality of flow path chambers which is partitioned by a partition wall and through which the fluid flows. The housing includes a joining portion where an upper housing having a first opening opened downward and a lower housing having a second opening opened upward are joined by thermally welding the first opening and the second opening, and the joining portion is disposed above or below a center of the housing in an upper-lower direction.

Abstract: A roll paper printer includes: a cover configured to open and close a case; a platen roller configured to pull out paper from a roll paper stored in the case and convey the paper in a conveyance direction; a head configured to print on the paper at a position facing the platen roller; a cutter configured to cut the paper at a position downstream of the head in the conveyance direction; and a paper guide mounted on the cover, and the paper guide includes a first guide configured to guide a first surface of the paper, a roller configured to guide a second surface opposite to the first surface of the paper at a position facing the first guide, and a support portion configured to movably support a shaft of the roller.

Abstract: Provided is a joint assembly that selectively isolates an isolation target layer in an open hole drilled in the strata including a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir and the isolation target layer, and is a production well manufacturing method and gas production method using the joint assembly. The joint assembly includes a tubular body to be inserted into the open hole to be positioned to penetrate the isolation target layer; and a light source disposed over entire circumference of an outer periphery of the body and configured to emit light to cure uncured photo-curable resin that is introduced between the body and a borehole wall of the open hole.

Abstract: A roll paper printer includes a container that can accommodate a roll paper around which a recording paper sheet is wound with its first surface facing outward. A transport roller pulls the recording paper sheet from the roll paper and then transports the recording paper sheet in a transport direction. A guide can be in contact with a second surface of the recording paper sheet at a location upstream of the transport roller in the transport direction. A projection can be in contact with the first surface of the recording paper sheet at another location upstream of the transport roller in the transport direction and move toward the guide. A lever can be accommodated in the projection and move in contact with the first surface of the recording paper sheet. A sensor is accommodated in the projection and detects motion of the lever.

Abstract: A fryer includes: an oil tank; and a heater, the fryer being configured to heat a frying oil stored in the oil tank by the heater so as to fry a food material put into the oil tank, the oil tank including an upper oil tank in which the heater is arranged and the food material is to be fried, and a lower oil tank provided below the upper oil tank so as to be continuous with the upper oil tank, and configured to sink and collect moisture and fried scraps released from the food material into the upper oil tank, the heater including a side heater partitioning an inside of the upper oil tank into one or a plurality of cooking areas, and surrounding the one or the plurality of cooking areas, and a lower heater provided at a bottom of the one or the plurality of cooking areas.

Abstract: A lotion container has a lid such that a lid member reliably fits on a pump body and is held thereon when the lid is closed. The lid member is easily opened by lifting the lid relative to a container body during a lid opening operation, and the pump body and the lid member are prevented from rotating together even when the lid member is rotated relative to the container body. The pump body is provided with a cylindrical outer side wall surface having a spherical engaging protrusion configured to engage the lid member. The lid member is provided, at a cylindrical inner side wall surface, with a line of circumferential rib configured to intermittently extend along an inner circumference of the lid member and to engage with the engaging protrusion of the pump body and a generatrix direction rib provided with a raising part.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a rolled paper holder configured to accommodate rolled paper that is a roll of recording paper, a platen roller that feeds recording paper drawn from the rolled paper accommodated in the rolled paper holder toward an outlet, and a recess that extends in a second direction intersecting a first direction from the platen roller toward the outlet and provided between the platen roller and the outlet. The dimension of the recess in a third direction that is a depth direction of the recess is larger than the opening width of the recess in the first direction.

Abstract: An optical nonlinearity measurement method according to the present disclosure utilizes photon pair generation through a spontaneous four-wave mixing process, to observe photon pairs using an optical waveguide loaded with a two-dimensional material. Compared with the Z-scan method, the influence of free carriers on nonlinear refractive indexes is only indirect. With a parameter being the length of the attached two-dimensional material in the optical waveguide direction, a theoretical value of the coincidence rate of the photon pairs based on the coupled wave equation is fitted to a measured value of the coincidence rate of the photon pairs. For the coincidence rate of the photon pairs, the theoretical value based on the coupled wave equation is fitted to the measured value in a state reflecting the structure of the optical waveguide loaded with the two-dimensional material, and nonlinear coefficients ?1 and ?2 at that time are obtained.