Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes: a first tank defining a first storage chamber; a second tank defining a second storage chamber; a conveying mechanism for conveying sheets along a conveying path extending in a depthwise direction and a widthwise direction perpendicular to a vertical direction and the depthwise direction; and a recording head including a nozzle. Liquid in the first storage chamber is supplied through a communication port to the second storage chamber and then to the recording head through a liquid outlet port. The second storage chamber is positioned further in a first depthwise direction relative to the nozzle and further in a first widthwise direction relative to the conveying path. A volume of a prescribed space above a liquid level equal to a height of the communication port in the second storage chamber is greater than that of a liquid channel between the liquid outlet port and the nozzle.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes: a sensor (camera) configured to detect an object in front of a host vehicle; and a controller. The controller sets a detection range of the sensor (camera), and when the host vehicle is stopped, the controller extends the detection range in a vehicle width direction as compared with when the host vehicle is traveling following the preceding vehicle.

Abstract: A turning behavior control device for a vehicle includes a yaw rate detector, a front wheel suspension, a rear wheel suspension, a brake device, a hydraulic pressure supplier, and a travel controller. The left and right front wheels of the vehicle are steered wheels and drive wheels. The travel controller includes a deviation value calculator configured to calculate a deviation between a standard yaw rate for determining a degree of understeer during turning of the vehicle and a yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detector, and a braking force controller configured to output, to the hydraulic pressure supplier, a first signal for applying braking forces to left and right front wheels in addition to a turning inner rear wheel when it is determined that the deviation calculated by the deviation value calculator exceeds a predetermined deviation reference value.

Abstract: When accelerating a vehicle toward a set speed after the vehicle travels on a curved road at a vehicle speed equal to or lower than a speed limit based on the curved road, a driving support method and a driving support device accelerate the vehicle by a first acceleration in a case of acquiring a curve information related to the curved road, and accelerate the vehicle by a second acceleration smaller than the first acceleration in a case of not acquiring the curve information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resist material and a pattern forming method with which the edge roughness and dimension variation become small, superior resolution can be obtained, pattern shape becomes preferable after exposure, and further preferable storage stability can be obtained.

Abstract: A torque measuring device includes a bridge circuit in which four detection coils arranged around a magnetostrictive effect section of a rotating shaft are arranged on four sides; and the bridge circuit includes a resistance element connected to at least one of the four sides for adjusting a resistance value of the side.

Abstract: The manufacturing method includes: performing testing of samples having the same configuration as the torque measuring device to be manufactured to find a coil balance Cb that is a ratio (R1×R3)/(R2×R4) of a product R1×R3 of resistance values R1 and R3 of one pair of opposite sides of the four sides of a bridge circuit 8, and a product R2×R4 of resistance values R2 and R4 of another pair of opposite sides of the four sides, and a temperature change rate VT of output voltage Vo of a sensor portion 4, and acquiring a relationship X between the coil balance Cb and the temperature change rate VT from the test results; and measuring the resistance values R1, R2, R3, R4 of the four sides to find the coil balance Cb to find the temperature change rate VT from the relationship X for the torque measuring device to be manufactured.

Abstract: Group-III element nitride semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface that are easy to visually distinguish from each other. An end portion is easily detected with an optical sensor, a large effective area (area that can be used in device production) can be secured, and warping of the entirety of the substrate is reduced. A Group-III element nitride semiconductor substrate includes a first surface; and a second surface, wherein the first surface is a mirror surface, the second surface has a second-surface central region and a second-surface outer peripheral region, the second-surface central region is a mirror surface, and the second-surface outer peripheral region is a non-mirror surface.

Abstract: A torque measuring device includes: a coil unit having a detection coil configured to change a voltage in response to a change in magnetic permeability of a magnetostrictive effect section of a rotating shaft; a back yoke arranged coaxially around the coil unit; a holder configured to hold the coil unit and the back yoke; and an electronic circuit including the detection coil and configured to generate an output voltage according to a voltage of the detection coil, a clearance in a radial direction is provided between an outer peripheral surface of the coil unit and an inner peripheral surface of the back yoke, and a range of change in the clearance that accompanies temperature change during use is regulated to a range in which a change in the output voltage is linear with respect to the change in the clearance.

Abstract: The torque measuring device includes: a casing made of a magnetic metal; a rotating shaft rotatably arranged inside the casing and having a magnetostrictive effect section whose magnetic permeability changes according to torque to be transmitted; and a torque sensor arranged around the magnetostrictive effect section and supported by the casing, the torque sensor including a coil unit formed in a cylindrical shape using a flexible substrate having a detection coil that changes voltage in response to changes in the magnetic permeability of the magnetostrictive effect section, and a holder made of rubber or synthetic resin, covering an outer peripheral surface of the coil unit, and having a portion that protrudes from the coil unit on both sides in an axial direction; and the torque sensor supported by the casing with an outer peripheral surface of the holder fitted into an inner peripheral surface of the casing.

Abstract: Provided is a technology for generating an elimination filter coefficient for suppressing degradation of noise elimination performance.

Abstract: A geared compressor includes a drive gear, a first intermediate gear, a second intermediate gear, a first impeller and a second impeller connected to a first driven gear, and a third impeller and a fourth impeller connected to a second driven gear. When viewed from an axial direction, a drive axis of the drive gear is disposed below a first intermediate axis of the first intermediate gear, a second intermediate axis of the second intermediate gear, a first driven axis of the first driven gear, and a second driven axis of the second driven gear in a vertical direction. The first impeller has a larger outer diameter than the second impeller, the third impeller, and the fourth impeller.

Abstract: An expansion joint of the present disclosure includes: a first flange disposed outside a pipe; a second flange disposed outside the pipe and is disposed away from the first flange in an axial direction of the joint; a main bellows connected to the first and second flanges and in which a flow passage of a fluid is formed; and a balancing device connected to the first and second flanges outside the main bellows and applies a thrust force opposite to a thrust force, applied to the first and second flanges in the axial direction by the main bellows, to the first and second flanges, wherein the balancing device includes a fluid supply unit, an elastic portion connected to the fluid supply unit and is allowed to expand and contract in the axial direction, and a connection portion connecting the elastic portion to the first and second flanges.

Abstract: An image capturing and display apparatus comprises a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for converting incident light from the outside of the image capturing and display apparatus to electrical charge signals, and a plurality of light-emitting elements for emitting light of an intensity corresponding to the electrical charge signals acquired by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A pixel region is defined as a region in which the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in an array. Signal paths for transmitting signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to the plurality of light-emitting elements lie within the pixel region.

Abstract: Provided are: an infrared ray-absorbing ultraviolet-ray curable ink which has infrared ray-absorbing ability and from which it is possible to provide printed matter having excellent resistance to bases, particularly resistance to washing; and an infrared ray-absorbing printed matter. According to the present invention, an ink composition is obtained by using an ultraviolet-ray curable urethane acrylate resin together with a tungsten-based infrared ray-absorbing pigment. More specifically, this infrared ray-absorbing ultraviolet-ray curable ink contains a tungsten-based infrared ray-absorbing pigment, an ultraviolet-ray curable urethane acrylate resin, and an ultraviolet-ray curable acrylic resin not including a urethane bond.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer, a resist composition, and a pattern forming method with high sensitivity, high resolution, and high contrast, and that can form a pattern with small variation in pattern width (LWR), and small in-plane uniformity of the pattern (CDU) with high energy ray. A polymer to generate an acid by light exposure and to change in solubility in a developing liquid with an action of the acid, the polymer including: a repeating unit represented by the following formula (A-1); and a repeating unit represented by any one or more of the following formulae (B-1) to (B-4), wherein, M? represents a non-nucleophilic counterion, A+ represents an onium cation, n1 represents an integer of 1 or 2, n2 represents an integer of 0 to 2, n3 represents an integer of 0 to 5, n4 represents an integer of 0 to 2, and “c” represents an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: Provided is an endoscope system including an endoscope that images living tissue to be treated by at least one instrument; and a control device that includes a processor configured to derive at least one of the following information: grasp assistance information on a grasping operation to grasp the living tissue by the at least one instrument, and traction assistance information on a traction operation for traction of the living tissue by the at least one instrument, based on an endoscopic image acquired by the endoscope.

Abstract: An inventive solid-state imaging apparatus is provided which can improve the efficiency of the electric carrier transfer from a photoelectric conversion portion to an electric-carrier accumulation portion. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes an active region having the photoelectric conversion portion, the electric-carrier accumulation portion, and a floating diffusion, and an element isolation region having an insulator defining the active region. In planer view, the width of the active region in the electric-carrier accumulation portion under a gate of the first transfer transistor is larger than the width of the active region in the photoelectric conversion portion under the gate of the first transfer transistor.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for selecting a cancellation filter coefficient that can stably cancel noise for a user using a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like. A cancellation filter coefficient selection apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to record cancellation filter coefficients; a seat position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a seat used by a user; and a cancellation filter coefficient selection unit configured to, from among the cancellation filter coefficients recorded in the recording unit, select a cancellation filter coefficient corresponding to the position of the seat as a cancellation filter coefficient to be used in filtering for generating a cancellation signal for cancelling noise at a position where quiet is desired, based on a reference signal output by a reference microphone configured to collect noise in a predetermined space.

Abstract: This power storage module includes power storage devices (100), and a device holder (200) in which the power storage devices (100) are held. The device holder (200) includes accommodation parts (210) in which the power storage devices (100) are accommodated. Each accommodation part (210) includes a semicircular arc face (212) to which a peripheral face of the power storage device (100) is opposed, and linear faces (213) respectively continuous with both ends of the semicircular arc face (212) and each extending to an opening end of the accommodation part (210). Further, the power storage module includes an elastic adhesive (250) filled, in each accommodation part (210), between the peripheral face of the power storage device (100) and each linear face (213), and adhered to the peripheral face of the power storage device (100) and the linear face (213).