Abstract: The present invention provides a cereal flour composition containing a cereal-derived powder, and an enzyme belonging to the tannase family, wherein the tannase activity per 1 g of the cereal-derived powder is from 0.1 to 60 kU/g. Preferably, the content of the enzyme in terms of mass is from 10 to 10000 ppm with respect to the total amount of the cereal-derived powder. Preferably, the cereal-derived powder includes at least one type selected from wholemeal flour, bran, and other cereal flour having an ash content of 0.7 mass % or greater. Preferably, the cereal-derived powder has an ash content of 0.5 mass % or greater.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a control unit configured to perform first control of, while performing printing by a printing unit in a state in which a trailing end portion of a preceding print medium overlaps a leading end portion of a succeeding print medium, controlling a conveying unit to separate the preceding print medium and the succeeding print medium from each other and, in the first control, adjusts a conveyance amount by the conveying unit to allow a conveying speed by the conveying unit to meet a criterion and adjusts a driving range of a nozzle based on the adjusted conveyance amount.

Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The element body includes a principal surface that is a mounting surface, and an end surface positioned adjacent to the principal surface and extending in a direction crossing to the principal surface. The external electrode includes an underlying metal layer and a conductive resin layer. The underlying metal layer is formed on the principal surface and the end surface. The conductive resin layer is formed to cover the underlying metal layer. A thickness of the conductive resin layer at an end positioned above the principal surface of the underlying metal layer is equal to or greater than 50% of a maximum thickness of a portion positioned above the principal surface of the conductive resin layer.

Abstract: An operation device includes a lever configured to be tiltable; a substrate; a first resistor disposed on the substrate to extend in a first direction; a first actuator configured to rotate in accordance with tilting of the lever; and a first holder configured to hold a first slider and cause the first slider to slide on the first resistor by moving in the first direction via a first drive transmission part in accordance with rotation of the first actuator. The first drive transmission part includes a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction, and a first engagement portion integrated with the first actuator and including a pair of holding pieces configured to hold the first protrusion from both sides in the first direction. A first holding piece of the holding pieces is more elastic than a second holding piece of the holding pieces.

Abstract: A target tracker according to the present disclosure technology includes a feature amount corrector including a dynamic background generator, a background feature amount vector calculator, a complementary space projection matrix calculator, and a projection vector calculator, in which the dynamic background generator generates a moving image of a background by partially adding a background image of a place where a target is not shown in a past image to the moving image in a region of the bounding box in which movement of the target is shown, the background feature amount vector calculator calculates a background feature amount vector on the basis of an image of the background, and the complementary space projection matrix calculator calculates a projection matrix of the background feature amount vector to a complementary space, and the projection vector calculator multiplies a feature amount vector of the target by the projection matrix.

Abstract: A cooling drum for freezing granules has an inlet for receiving the granules and an outlet located opposite to the inlet for discharging the granules. The cooling drum for freezing granules includes: a first cylinder part having a first inner surface formed of a first material; and a second cylinder part located closer to the outlet than the first cylinder part and having a second inner surface formed of a second material. The first material has a lower thermal conductivity than that of the second material.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, a control method for the printing apparatus, and a storage medium that can eliminate an overlapping state and suppress deterioration of alignment performance for discharged sheets are to be provided. Therefore, the appropriate distance at the completion of separating is set, and, in the separating operation, based on the distance, the overlapping state of the printing medium and the printing medium is eliminated by adjusting the conveyance speed of the downstream roller conveying the preceding printing medium and the conveyance speed of the upstream roller conveying the following printing media. Thereafter, the conveyance speed of the downstream roller is decelerated.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a belt, a tensioner, and a control unit. The belt transmits a driving force of a drive unit to the conveyance unit. The tensioner is displaceable and makes pressure contact with the belt to generate tension. The control unit controls driving of the drive unit in a state where the tensioner is in pressure contact with the belt. The control unit performs first control in which the drive unit is driven with a first control value, which is not based on a driving amount detected by a detection unit. Where the detection unit detects the driving amount, the control unit subsequently performs second control in which the drive unit is driven with a second control value, which is based on the driving amount detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: In a brake pedal device, a brake pedal is connected to a casing with a posture changeable by a brake operation of a driver, and includes an operation unit that is pressed by a driver. A reaction force generating unit is provided inside the casing, and the reaction force generating unit is configured to generate a reaction force with respect to the brake pedal in accordance with an amount of change in the posture of the brake pedal during the brake operation, and to cause the brake pedal to return to a reference position when the brake operation is released. A sensor unit is provided outside the casing, to detect an amount of change in the posture of the brake pedal, and a sensor protector is provided at the casing in a position away from the brake pedal, to cover at least a part of the sensor unit.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic analyzer including: an operation terminal; an analyzer having an active examination function of executing, in parallel with an initial examination, a re-examination possibly required after the initial examination on the same specimen; and a computer configured to communicate with the analyzer, in which the computer executes determination processing as to whether an analysis time is shorter when the active examination function is enabled than when the active examination function is disabled based on performance data of an examination executed in the past, and outputs determination data of the determination processing to the operation terminal or the analyzer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, first and second conveyance units conveying a print medium, and a control unit performing reduction control to reduce an overlap amount between a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium by using a speed difference. In a first case in which a trailing end of the preceding print medium and a leading end of the succeeding print medium are positioned in an interval between the first and second conveyance units, a conveying speed of the preceding print medium is set to a first speed. In a second case which is different from the first case and in which the trailing end and the leading end are positioned in the interval between the first and second conveyance units, the conveying speed of the preceding print medium is set to a second speed different from the first speed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pellicle that includes: a pellicle frame; a pellicle film supported at one end surface of the pellicle frame; and an adhesive layer provided at another end surface of the pellicle frame, and satisfies the following Equation (1): [A60° C.]?4.0 gf/mm2 (1). In Equation (1), [A60° C.] represents a first peel strength when the pellicle is used in a test laminated body. The test laminated body is obtained by placing the pellicle on a quartz glass substrate such that the adhesive layer is in contact with a surface of the quartz glass substrate, and maintaining a load on the pellicle under prescribed conditions. The first peel strength represents a load per unit adhesion area, which load is required for peeling the pellicle included in the test laminated body from the quartz glass substrate using a standard universal tester under prescribed conditions.

Abstract: The present invention suppresses wear of a rod or a component with which the rod is in contact. An electromagnetic suction valve mechanism (electromagnetic valve mechanism) includes a suction valve (valve body), a rod engaged with the suction valve, and a magnetic attraction force generation unit that generates a magnetic attraction force for moving the rod in an axial direction. The rod is provided with a low friction portion. The low friction portion is set to a friction coefficient such that a frictional force generated between the rod and the rod contact component with which the rod is in contact is smaller than a rotational propulsive force of the rod.

Abstract: Grid computing processing is managed considering rate of amount of renewable energy-derived electric power in amount of electric power used for computation by computing device of vehicles, thereby contributing to utilization of renewable energy. Management server manages grid computing processing of causing computing devices mounted on a plurality of vehicles to process job data provided from client server. Controller of the management server acquires overall renewable energy rate information indicative of the rate of the amount of renewable energy-derived electric power in the amount of electric power consumption used for computation of the job data by all computing devices assigned to the job data, based on the amount of computations for a part of the job data to be processed by each of the computing devices and renewable energy rate information of each of the computing devices, and transmits the overall renewable energy rate information to the client server.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a printing unit, a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit at downstream side in a conveying direction of the first conveying unit, and a control unit for executing a first control such that a leading end portion of a second print medium succeeding a first print medium overlaps a trailing end portion of the first print medium and a second control such that the first and second print mediums are separated, wherein, in the second control, conveyance of the second print medium is suppressed while the printing unit is located in a region other than the to-be-printed region.

Abstract: An all solid battery includes a solid electrolyte layer of a phosphate-based material having a NASICON structure, a positive electrode layer that includes a Co-containing phosphate-based positive electrode active material and a Co-containing phosphate-based solid electrolyte, and a negative electrode layer that includes a negative electrode active material and a solid electrolyte not containing Co.

Abstract: A management device is used in a grid computing system, wherein a computational job constitutes a part of a project to be implemented by a client. The management device is configured to: store the content of the project, and a compensation rate set for the computational job of the project; acquire a computational amount of computational processing executed for the computational job by a computing device; calculate a first compensation value of a first compensation to be given to the user, according to the computational amount by the computing device; and acquire the degree of progress of the project, and when it is determined, based on the acquired degree of progress, that the project has been completed, calculate a second compensation value of a second compensation to be given to the user, according to the compensation rate.

Abstract: A management device used in a grid computing system is configured to execute compensation calculation processing of calculating a first compensation and a second compensation with respect to execution of a computational job by a computing device of a user, and stores evaluation values each set for a respective one of a plurality of computational jobs, wherein the compensation calculation processing includes: a first processing of calculating a first compensation value of the first compensation according to a computational amount of computational processing; and second processing of calculating and storing a second compensation value of the second compensation according to a relevant one of the evaluation values, wherein management device is configured to, in the first processing, calculate the first compensation value to have a larger value, as a cumulative value of the second compensation values which have been previously stored has a larger value.

Abstract: The electric motor speed control apparatus in an embodiment comprises a rotation speed estimation unit and a control unit. The rotation speed estimation unit generates an estimated value of a rotation speed of an electric motor by using a result of FFT analysis of a speed detection signal ?FBK, which is based on a detection result from a resolver for detecting the rotation speed of the electric motor, and the speed detection signal ?FBK. The control unit implements speed control so as to reduce deviation between the estimated value of the rotation speed and a speed command value for speed control of the electric motor.

Abstract: An all solid battery includes a multilayer structure in which solid electrolyte layers and internal electrodes are alternately stacked, the plurality of internal electrodes including an electrode active material and a carbon material, the multilayer structure having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, the plurality of internal electrodes being alternately exposed to two different faces of the multilayer structure, a first cover layer provided on an upper face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction, and a second cover layer provided on a lower face of the multilayer structure in the stacking direction. Each thickness of the plurality of internal electrodes is equal to or more than each thickness of the plurality of solid electrolyte layers. Vickers hardness of the plurality of solid electrolyte layers and Vickers hardness of the first and second cover layers are larger than Vickers hardness of the plurality of internal electrodes.