Abstract: A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having handrail for grasping by an occupant. The handrail disinfection system includes a tank to store disinfectant solution, an exudation part provided on the handrail, an actuator for exuding the disinfectant solution stored in the tank from the exudation part, and a controller for controlling the actuator. At least one processor included in the controller executes upon execution of at least one program, performing a disinfecting process in which the actuator is controlled to exude the disinfectant solution from the exudation part to a surface of the handrail when a predetermined execution condition is satisfied.

Abstract: In a negative electrode (12) for a secondary battery which is one example of an embodiment of the present invention, a negative electrode active substance layer (41) has a first active substance layer (41A) and a second active substance layer (41B). A tortuosity ?2 of the second active substance layer (41B) is smaller than a tortuosity ?1 of the first active substance layer (41A), and the B value calculated using equation 2 is equal to 1.7 to 1 divided by the A value.

Abstract: A laminated film including a barrier layer and at least one adjacent layer that is adjacent to the barrier layer, in which the barrier layer has a barrier base material and a coat layer that is provided on one surface of the barrier base material so as to face the adjacent layer, the coat layer is composed of an aluminum particle layer composed of aluminum particles and a resin composition that is loaded into gaps in the aluminum particle layer, and the barrier base material and the adjacent layer include the same resin.

Abstract: An electronic component includes: a substrate; a plurality of multilayer capacitors mounted on a first main surface of the substrate; and a sealing part formed of a resin and sealing the plurality of multilayer capacitors. A first external electrode and a second external electrode of the multilayer capacitor are mounted on the substrate by solder. At least a part of adjacent multilayer capacitors overlaps each other when viewed from a direction in which a pair of side surfaces of an element body are opposed to each other, the direction being along the first main surface of the substrate. In the adjacent multilayer capacitors, stacking directions of a plurality of internal electrodes are the same, and a distance between the adjacent multilayer capacitors is ½ or less of a height of the multilayer capacitor mounted on the substrate.

Abstract: A simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation method including: using a circulation system in which three or more unit packed columns each filled with an adsorbent are connected in series, dividing the circulation system into at least three-sections annularly continuous from an upstream side to a downstream side so that each section has at least one of the unit packed columns, and separating, by using an eluent, a weakly, a strongly, and an intermediately adsorptive component having adsorption performance on the adsorbent, which performance is intermediate between the previous two components, the weakly, strongly, and intermediately adsorptive components being included in a feed solution, wherein positions of supplying the feed solution, extracting the weakly adsorptive fraction, extracting the intermediately adsorptive fraction, and extracting the strongly adsorptive fraction have a specific relationship. A chromatographic separation system carries out the chromatographic separation method.

Abstract: Provided is a curable resin composition being excellent in normal-temperature stability for obtaining cured product having high heat resistance, cured product thereof, methods of producing the composition and the product, and a semiconductor device using the product as sealant. Further provided is a resin composition, cured product thereof, and methods of producing the composition and the product, wherein the composition includes: (A) multifunctional benzoxazine compound having at least two benzoxazine rings, (B) epoxy compound containing at least one epoxy compound having at least one norbornane structure and at least two epoxy groups, (C) curing agent; wherein composition consisting of (A), (B), and (C) has weight-average molecular weight of 350 or more and 650 or less in terms of polystyrene.

Abstract: An equivalent circuit includes a first capacitor having a first capacitance, a circuit part configured to include an inductor component, a capacitor component, and a resistor connected in series with one another, the circuit part being connected in parallel with the first capacitor, and a second capacitor provided between the first capacitor and the circuit part and having a second capacitance. The first capacitance of the first capacitor changes in accordance with a voltage value of a direct current voltage applied to the first capacitor. The second capacitor has the positive second capacitance that changes in accordance with the voltage value of the direct current voltage applied to the first capacitor and that is N times (N>0) the first capacitance of the first capacitor.

Abstract: A flexible wiring board unit includes a first flexible wiring board extending in a first direction, and a second flexible wiring board extending in a second direction. The second flexible wiring board is electrically connected to the first flexible wiring board on a first side of the second flexible wiring board in the second direction, the first direction and the second direction mutually intersecting, the first flexible wiring board includes a first bonding terminal and a second bonding terminal formed in the first direction and connected to a power supply target, and the second flexible wiring board includes a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal formed on a second side opposite to the first side in the second direction and connected to an external power supply.

Abstract: In a multilayer coil component, a coil is configured by electrically connecting coil conductors respectively provided in magnetic body layers constituting an element body and metal magnetic particles have a normal particle having an ellipsoidal shape and flat particles having an ellipsoidal shape flatter in a thickness direction than the normal particle. A plurality of the normal particles and at least one of the flat particles disposed such that a surface (reference surface) including a major axis direction orthogonal to the thickness direction and a minor axis direction is along the forming surface of the coil conductor in the magnetic body layer are arranged in the lamination direction of the magnetic body layers between the coil conductors.

Abstract: A masterbatch, which includes a polyester resin (A) containing a structural unit derived from terephthalic acid (A-1) and a structural unit derived from an aliphatic diol (A-2); and a polyester resin (B) containing a structural unit derived from 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (B-1) and a structural unit derived from 1,2-ethanediol (B-2). A proportion of the polyester resin (B) relative to a total mass of the polyester resin (A) and the polyester resin (B) is 45 mass % to 90 wt %. An intrinsic viscosity of the masterbatch is 0.50 dl/g to 1.20 dl/g.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main-body housing, a drum unit, and a toner cartridge. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a drum frame, a developing roller, a toner-inlet shutter to open and close a toner-inlet opening, a cleaning member, and a collected-toner outlet shutter to open and close a collected-toner outlet opening. The toner cartridge includes a toner casing having a toner container and a collected-toner container, and a shutter-driving member having a transmission device and an operable device. The transmission device is movable by the operable device between a first position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to close the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening, and a second position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to open the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a connection unit that connects to a power supply device, and a control unit that controls an operation of the electronic apparatus by power received from the power supply device. When the power supplied from the power supply device is changed based on power consumption of the electronic apparatus, the control unit notifies user for a period until the power supplied from the power supply device is changed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main-body housing, a drum unit, and a toner cartridge. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a drum frame, a developing roller, a toner-inlet shutter to open and close a toner-inlet opening, a cleaning member, and a collected-toner outlet shutter to open and close a collected-toner outlet opening. The toner cartridge includes a toner casing having a toner container and a collected-toner container, and a shutter-driving member having a transmission device and an operable device. The transmission device is movable by the operable device between a first position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to close the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening, and a second position, at which the toner-inlet shutter and the collected-toner outlet shutter are located at positions to open the toner-inlet opening and the collected-toner outlet opening.

Abstract: A detector is configured to coherently receive a polarization-multiplexed optical signal transmitted from a transmitter via a transmission line. A digital signal processing circuit is configured to perform equalization signal processing on the reception signal coherently received. A carrier phase compensation filter is configured to compensate for a carrier phase in the reception signal. A 4×2 WL filter is disposed after the carrier phase compensation filter and configured to compensate for distortion included in the polarization-multiplexed optical signal. A filter coefficient updating unit is configured to update a filter coefficient of the carrier phase compensation filter and a filter coefficient of the 4×2 WL filter by use of an output of the 4×2 WL filter.

Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between an upstream side end portion of a first rib and an upstream side end portion of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a downstream side end portion of the first rib and a downstream side end portion of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the upstream side end portion of the second rib and an upstream side end portion of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the downstream side end portion of the second rib and a downstream side end portion of the third rib in the second direction.

Abstract: A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between a base end of a first rib and a base end of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a protruding end of the first rib and a protruding end of the second rib in the second direction, and a distance between the base end of the second rib and a base end of a third rib in the second direction is smaller than a distance between the protruding end of the second rib and a protruding end of the third rib in the second direction.

Abstract: A housing includes an inner tube component having a tubular shape and capable of accommodating therein a heating element, a cooler having a tubular shape and defining a coolant passage for causing a coolant to flow along an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube component, and an outer tube component having a tubular shape and accommodating therein the inner tube component and the cooler.

Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine unit, and at least one front wheel. The engine unit includes a turbocharger, and an engine body including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover is fixed to a first surface of the cylinder head. The turbocharger is fixed to a second surface of the cylinder head, a surface of the turbocharger through which the turbocharger is fixed to the cylinder head being a third surface. When the vehicle body frame is in an upright state, a turbocharger rotation axis, the second and third surfaces are positioned above a first horizontal plane in which the front axle lies, above a second horizontal plane in which the crankshaft axis lies, and below a third horizontal plane in which a front end of the first surface lies, in the upward-downward direction of the straddled vehicle.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining travel information on travel of mobile bodies capable of autonomous travel and remote operation and/or monitoring; predicting, based on the travel information and location information on a first area in which the remote operation and/or monitoring is required, a first mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area and being to enter the first area; identifying, based on the travel information and the location information, a second mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area; determining whether the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body before the first mobile body enters the first area; and outputting instruction information for causing the second mobile body to perform following control to follow the first mobile body, when the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body.