Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus connected with an operation apparatus including a first operation member whose input operation by a user is detected as information on a two-dimensional plane and a second operation member different from the first operation member. The information processing apparatus includes a determining section that determines a positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member according to input operation on the operation apparatus in a predetermined mode, and a setting information registering section that causes the operation apparatus to store setting information including information regarding the positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus connected with an operation apparatus including multiple buttons. The information processing apparatus includes a screen display section that causes an edit screen to be displayed in an edit mode, the edit screen allowing a freely-selected button of the operation apparatus to be set to a special mode in which an input state of the button continues. On a screen after termination of the edit mode, the screen display section causes information regarding the continuation of the input state of the button set to the special mode to be displayed.

Abstract: A measurement condition that enables accurate shape measurement can be set easily. An image analysis device includes an image analyzer 83 configured to detect, in a case of capturing an image of light projected onto an object to be measured, an improper image for shape measurement of the object to be measured, on the basis of design information on the object to be measured, and a measurement condition, and an output unit 88 configured to output detection result information that is information based on a detection result of the image analyzer 83.

Abstract: A thread battery that includes: a thread-like solid electrolyte that extends in a longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end that face each other in the longitudinal direction; a first electrode on a first part of an outer peripheral surface of the solid electrolyte along the longitudinal direction; a second electrode on a second part of the outer peripheral surface of the solid electrolyte along the longitudinal direction, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode do not contact each other; a first current collector on an outer peripheral surface of the first electrode along the longitudinal direction; and a second current collector on an outer peripheral surface of the second electrode along the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the present invention provides a rotating-machine casing support structure including: a casing; a built-in component that is disposed inside an interior space of the casing at a lateral side of a rotor and that is supported by the casing; a protruding part that is provided so as to protrude laterally outside of the casing from a side of the casing; and a support part that supports the protruding part laterally outside of the casing.

Abstract: This scroll compressor comprises: a shaft that is capable of rotating about an axis; a motor that rotatably drives the shaft; a compressor body that is driven by the rotation of the shaft; a housing that covers the motor and the compressor body and that has a bottom surface facing the motor from the axial direction; an intake port that guides a refrigerant into the housing; and heat-dissipating fins that are formed on the bottom surface, that extend in the direction in which the refrigerant flows, and that are divided in the flow direction.

Abstract: An object is to provide a pharmaceutical or the like that can prevent or treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pain associated with inactivity, or acute pancreatitis. [Solving Means] When silicon small particles are orally administered or placed on a skin or a mucous membrane, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pain associated with inactivity, and acute pancreatitis can be prevented or treated. The silicon small particles are particles each of which generates hydrogen when brought into contact with an aqueous solution having a pH of 7 or more. Provided is a preventive or therapeutic agent, pharmaceutical composition, medical device, food, or beverage comprising the silicon small particles for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pain associated with inactivity, or acute pancreatitis. The silicon small particles are suitably silicon fine particles and/or aggregates of the silicon fine particles.

Abstract: A gas composition adjustment apparatus includes an adsorber, a supply pump, and a discharge pump. The gas composition adjustment apparatus performs a pressurization operation in which the supply pump supplies a gas to the adsorber; and a depressurization operation in which the discharge pump discharges a gas from the adsorber. Each of the supply pump and the discharge pump is a positive displacement pump and includes a sealing member. The sealing member of the discharge pump contains a fluororesin and a fibrous carbon material as main components.

Abstract: A monitoring device for a rotary machine is a monitoring device for monitoring a clearance of a rotary machine including a casing for housing a rotating part and a stationary part, including: at least one position sensor disposed outside the casing and configured to detect a relative position of the casing to the rotating part in a radial direction; and an estimation unit configured to obtain an estimated value of an internal clearance between the rotating part and the stationary part in the casing, based on a measured value detected by the at least one position sensor.

Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with: a steam turbine rotor which extends in an axial direction; a pair of bearings which support the steam turbine rotor in such a way as to be capable of rotating about the axial direction; a steam turbine casing which encloses the steam turbine rotor between the pair of bearings; a casing support unit which supports the steam turbine casing from below; and a first heating unit which is provided on the casing support unit and which is capable of heating the casing support unit.

Abstract: A function execution system includes a function execution device configured to execute a plurality of functions, a storage device, an image acquisition device, and a reader device. The function execution device switches between first to fourth functions to be executed depending on whether code information, which is read by the reader device based on an image representing an information code included in a captured image acquired by the image acquisition device from the image capturing unit, is first code information or second code information and whether user information stored in the storage device is first user information or second user information.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a chondrocyte cell sheet comprising one or more layers of confluent cells comprising chondrocytes and chondroprogenitor cells. Methods of generating cartilage tissue in a subject are also provided. The disclosure also provides a method for producing chondrocyte cell sheets comprising culturing chondrocytes and chondroprogenitor cells in culture solution on a temperature-responsive polymer which has been coated onto a substrate surface of a cell culture support, wherein the temperature-responsive polymer has a lower critical solution temperature in water of 0-80° C.; adjusting the temperature of the culture solution to below the lower critical solution temperature, whereby the substrate surface is made hydrophilic and adhesion of the cell sheet to the surface is weakened; and detaching the cell sheet from the culture support.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first printer driver, and a second printer driver. The first printer driver includes prohibition information specific to a device that is to be controlled. The second printer driver includes an association establishing unit and a receiving unit. The association establishing unit establishes an association with the first printer driver. The receiving unit receives print settings. The second printer driver transmits, to the device that is to be controlled, print data based on print settings that have been obtained through conversion performed on the basis of the prohibition information included in the first printer driver. The association establishing unit establishes the association with the first printer driver.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle seat locking device including: a single latch having an engaging groove and first through third arm portions; a ratchet having a restraining portion engaging the first and second arm portions, restraining the latch in first and second latching positions respectively; and an engagement auxiliary lever having a first auxiliary arm portion abutting with a leg portion of a striker and a second auxiliary arm portion pivoting by this abutment. The latch pivots from an unlatching position to the first latching position by engaging its engaging groove with the leg portion entered a striker entering groove of a baseplate, and pivots to a second latching position by the pivot of the second auxiliary arm portion. The leg portion exits the engaging groove by the pivot of the latch to the second latching position to be clamped between the engagement auxiliary lever and the third arm portion.

Abstract: A function execution system includes a function execution device configured to execute a plurality of functions, a storage device, an image acquisition device, and a reader device. The function execution device switches between first to fourth functions to be executed depending on whether code information, which is read by the reader device based on an image representing an information code included in a captured image acquired by the image acquisition device from the image capturing unit, is first code information or second code information and whether user information stored in the storage device is first user information or second user information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drug for preventing or treating chronic pain and a method for preventing or treating chronic pain. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a serotonin-3 receptor agonist such as a compound represented by the following formula (I): [wherein: m is an integer of 1 to 4; and R1 is each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methyl group optionally substituted with 1 to 3 halogen atom(s), a methoxy group optionally substituted with 1 to 3 halogen atom(s), and a methylthio group optionally substituted with 1 to 3 halogen atom(s)] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is useful for preventing or treating chronic pain. The above pharmaceutical composition is also useful for preventing or treating acute pain. Further, the present invention provides a method for screening a compound for preventing or treating chronic pain, the method comprising measuring a serotonin-3 receptor agonist activity.

Abstract: A vehicle door hinge that has a desorption function while enabling weight reduction and increasing production efficiency. The vehicle door hinge comprises a base member (2U) fixed to the door-side of the vehicle, a base member (3U) fixed to the vehicle body side; a hinge shaft (4U) rotatably connects the base members (2U, 3U) to each other; a screwed body (5U) that is detachably screwed in the axial direction to the hinge shaft (4U) so that the base member (3U) and the hinge shaft (4U) rotate integrally; bushes (6U, 7U) fitted into a shaft holes (22U) of the base member (2U) so that the base member (2U) and the hinge shaft can rotate relative to each other; and a retaining portion (8U) for preventing the hinge shaft (4U) from coming off from the shaft hole (22U) of the base member. The base members (2U, 3U) are cast from aluminum alloy.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method of producing a cell population containing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-expressing immune cells, comprising co-culturing CAR-expressing immune cells and cells expressing a target antigen of the CAR, wherein the CAR-expressing immune cells are cells into which a CAR gene has been introduced and the target antigen-expressing cells are normal blood cells that have been engineered to express the target antigen.

Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with: a steam turbine rotor which extends in an axial direction; a pair of bearings which support the steam turbine rotor in such a way as to be capable of rotating about the axial direction; a steam turbine casing which encloses the steam turbine rotor between the pair of bearings; a casing support unit which supports the steam turbine casing from below; and a first heating unit: which is provided on the casing support unit and which is capable of heating the casing support unit.

Abstract: A door lock device including: a latch; a ratchet; an output shaft configured to rotate by a motor; an output lever configured to move the latch from a half latch position to a full latch position when the output shaft is rotated in a normal direction, and to release an engagement of the ratchet to the latch when the output shaft is rotated in a reverse direction; a first metal bracket including a first shaft support hole configured to rotatably support the output shaft; and a second metal bracket including a second shaft support hole configured to rotatably support the output shaft at a location different from that of the first shaft support hole, wherein the first metal bracket and the second metal bracket are fixed to each other by two or more screw holes of the first metal bracket and two or more holes of the second metal bracket.