Abstract: A time measurement apparatus includes: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: select, from among a plurality of anchors for each of which an own installation position is registered, a predetermined anchor for which an installation position that geographically corresponds to a declaration position declared by a terminal is registered; and specify, as round-trip communication delay time between the terminal and the predetermined anchor, time measured based on a reception time point of a first packet received by the predetermined anchor from the terminal and a reception time point of a second packet based on a response packet that responds to the first packet and is received by the predetermined anchor from the terminal.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes a ball screw configured to convert a rotational motion of a motor into a linear motion of a crosshead, a toggle mechanism including the crosshead and a pair of link groups that are bent and extended by the crosshead moving frontward and rearward, a toggle support including a pair of attachment portions to which the link groups of the pair of link groups are respectively attached, and a strain gauge configured to detect a strain of the toggle support. The toggle support includes a pair of guides configured to guide the crosshead, a pair of arms configured to support the pair of guides, and a platen having one surface on which the pair of attachment portions and the pair of arms are provided.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle comprises a binder resin and an aliphatic alcohol, the binder resin comprises a crystalline vinyl resin and an amorphous vinyl resin, the crystalline vinyl resin comprises a specific monomer unit (a), the amorphous vinyl resin comprises a specific monomer unit (b), the aliphatic alcohol is a specific compound, and the toner particle comprises 100 to 10,000 ppm of the aliphatic alcohol based on a mass of the binder resin.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a resin component, wherein the resin component comprises a crystalline vinyl resin, in differential scanning calorimetric measurement of the toner, in a heating process 1 in which a temperature is raised from 20° C. to 180° C. at a ramp rate of 10° C./min, there is one endothermic peak P1 derived from the crystalline vinyl resin, and following the heating process 1, in a heating process 2 in which a temperature is lowered from 180° C. to 20° C. at a ramp down rate of 10° C./min, and a temperature is raised again from 20° C. to 180° C. at a ramp rate of 10° C./min, there are two endothermic peaks P21 and P22 derived from the crystalline vinyl resin, an endothermic quantities of the endothermic peak P1, P21 and P22 satisfy a specific relationship.

Abstract: A system with high processing speed and low power consumption is provided. The system includes an imaging device and an arithmetic circuit. The imaging device includes an imaging portion, a first memory portion, and an arithmetic portion, and the arithmetic circuit includes a second memory portion. The imaging portion has a function of converting light reflected by an external subject into image data, and the first memory portion has a function of storing the image data and a first filter for performing first convolutional processing in a first layer of a neural network. The arithmetic portion has a function of performing the first convolutional processing using the image data and the first filter to generate first data. The second memory portion has a function of storing the first data and a plurality of filters for performing convolutional processing in and after a second layer of the neural network.

Abstract: Provided is a process cartridge that is excellent in initial charge rising performance, and in charge uniformity of a halftone image throughout a long period of time from the start of use until after endurance. Specifically, provided is a process cartridge including: an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a toner; and a developing unit, wherein the toner contains toner particles and an external additive A, the external additive A, and wherein the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes an electroconductive support, a photosensitive layer, and a surface protective layer, wherein the surface protective layer contains electroconductive particles.

Abstract: An authentication system for an electronic device with a high security level is provided. The authentication system includes a data retention means that accumulates first data related to a state of the electronic device being used by a first user registered in advance and generates a first data group, a first authentication means that authenticates a second user operating the electronic device as the first user and releases a locked state, a data acquisition means that acquires second data related to a state of the electronic device being used by the second user in a state where the locked state is released, and a second authentication means that authenticates the second user as the first user on the basis of the first data group and the second data and sets the electronic device to the locked state when the second user is not authenticated. The data retention means has a function of deleting the oldest first data of the plurality of pieces of the first data included in the first data group.

Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin, a pigment, and a pigment dispersant. The pigment dispersant comprises a structure represented by formula (1) and a structure represented by formula (2): where R1-R4, R6-R9, L1, X, Y, and Z are substitutents.

Abstract: A sensor device includes: a sensor that performs sensing, the sensor being disposed between a surface of a target object, which is a magnetic metal member serving as a sensing target, and a magnet, and being fixed to the surface of the target object by an adsorption force due to a magnetic force generated between the magnet and the target object; and a non-magnetic cover member that is fixed to the surface of the target object in a state where a plurality of members including at least the magnet and the sensor are stored inside the cover member as stored members.

Abstract: An external additive for a toner comprising a silica particle surface-treated with a polyhydric acid metal salt particle, wherein the polyhydric acid metal salt particle is particle of a salt of a polyhydric acid and a titanium compound, and a toner comprising a toner particle, and an external additive for a toner on the surface of the toner particle, wherein the external additive for a toner is the above external additive for a toner.

Abstract: A system with high processing speed and low power consumption is provided. The system includes an imaging device and an arithmetic circuit. The imaging device includes an imaging portion, a first memory portion, and an arithmetic portion, and the arithmetic circuit includes a second memory portion. The imaging portion has a function of converting light reflected by an external subject into image data, and the first memory portion has a function of storing the image data and a first filter for performing first convolutional processing in a first layer of a neural network. The arithmetic portion has a function of performing the first convolutional processing using the image data and the first filter to generate first data. The second memory portion has a function of storing the first data and a plurality of filters. The arithmetic circuit has a function of generating a depth map of the image data.

Abstract: An authentication system for an electronic device with a high security level is provided. The authentication system includes a data retention means that accumulates first data related to a state of the electronic device being used by a first user registered in advance and generates a first data group, a first authentication means that authenticates a second user operating the electronic device as the first user and releases a locked state, a data acquisition means that acquires second data related to a state of the electronic device being used by the second user in a state where the locked state is released, and a second authentication means that authenticates the second user as the first user on the basis of the first data group and the second data and sets the electronic device to the locked state when the second user is not authenticated. The data retention means has a function of deleting the oldest first data of the plurality of pieces of the first data included in the first data group.

Abstract: A process cartridge that is detachable from a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, in which a surface protective layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains an electroconductive particle; the content of the electroconductive particle is 20.0 to 70.0% by volume of the surface protective layer; the surface protective layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×109 to 1.0×1014 ?·cm; a toner particle has at least one multivalent metal element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, calcium, and iron; and a total content of the multivalent metal elements in the toner particle, as measured by coupled induction plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES), is 0.10 to 1.25 ?mol/g.

Abstract: A loop-type flash drying apparatus configured to dry an object to be treated with a gas by supplying the object into a gas stream circulating in a loop-type drying pipe, wherein the loop-type flash drying apparatus includes: (i) a loop-type drying pipe; (ii) a feeding port configured to feed an object to be treated into the drying pipe; (iii) a second blowing port configured to blow a gas into the drying pipe; (iv) a discharge port configured to discharge the object from the drying pipe; (v) a discharge region formed by the drying pipe and the discharge port; and (vi) a first blowing port through which a gas for accelerating a gas flowing in the discharge region is linearly blown toward the discharge region.

Abstract: A toner includes toner particles containing a resin component. The toner particles contain, as the resin component, a crystalline vinyl resin having a unit (a) represented by formula (1). The resin component contains the unit (a) in an amount of 15.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less based on the mass of the resin component. The content of the unit (a) in a component separated by gradient LC analysis of an acetonitrile/chloroform eluted component of chloroform soluble matter W of the toner particles and the storage elastic modulus at 100° C. have specific relationships.

Abstract: The driving assistance system includes an imaging device capable of capturing a first monochrome image in a vehicle traveling direction, a first neural network for segmentation processing, a second neural network for depth estimation processing, a determination portion determining a center of a portion cut off from the first monochrome image on the basis of the segmentation processing and the depth estimation processing, a third neural network for colorization processing of only a second cut-off monochrome image, and a display device for enlargement of the second monochrome image subjected to the colorization processing.

Abstract: A toner includes: a toner particle, in which the toner particle includes a toner base particle that contains a binder resin and a colorant, and a silicon-titanium polymer composite existing on a surface of the toner base particle, the silicon-titanium polymer composite contains a silicon polymer segment and a titanium chelate segment, the silicon-titanium polymer composite has a peak attributed to Ti—O—Si stretching vibration measured by infrared spectroscopy, and when the proportion of the number of atoms of titanium atoms obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis on the toner is taken as Ti-E, and the proportion of the number of atoms of silicon atoms is taken as Si-E, the Ti-E and the Si-E satisfy a specific relationship.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the toner particle comprises a toner base particle and a silicon polymer composite present at a surface of the toner base particle, the silicon polymer composite comprises a silicon polymer and a specific metal atom, and when, in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the toner, a ratio of the number of the specific metal atom is defined as ME and a ratio of the number of the silicon atom is defined as SiE, and when, in an EDS mapping image of constituent elements in a cross section of the toner, a ratio of the number of the specific metal atom to a sum of the number of the silicon atom and the specific metal atom in a region outside a contour of the toner base particle is defined as MX, ME, SiE, and MX satisfy a specific relationship.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle comprises a toner base particle comprising a binder resin, and an organosilicon polymer composite present at a surface of the toner base particle, the organosilicon polymer composite comprises (i) a condensation product of an organosilicon compound, and (ii) a metal compound comprising at least one metal atom selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zirconium and titanium, and the toner satisfies a specific relational equation for the domains of the constituent elements and metal compounds when the toner is analyzed.

Abstract: A time measurement apparatus includes: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: select, from among a plurality of anchors for each of which an own installation position is registered, a predetermined anchor for which an installation position that geographically corresponds to a declaration position declared by a terminal is registered; and specify, as round-trip communication delay time between the terminal and the predetermined anchor, time measured based on a reception time point of a first packet received by the predetermined anchor from the terminal and a reception time point of a second packet based on a response packet that responds to the first packet and is received by the predetermined anchor from the terminal.