Abstract: An optical system (LS) includes lenses (L22,L23) satisfying the following conditional expressions, ndLZ+(0.01425×?dLZ)<2.12, and ?dLZ<35.0, where ndLZ: a refractive index of the lens with reference to d-line, and ?dLZ: Abbe number of the lens with reference to d-line.

Abstract: In a glass sheet 12 for chemical strengthening having a thickness of 0.1 mm or less, the glass sheet 12 has a warped shape as a whole or includes a warped part in a portion thereof. When the glass sheet 12 is placed on a horizontal surface with one main surface 12a facing upward, a first peak position D1 is present in a part inside a peripheral edge portion 12e of the glass sheet 12, where the first peak position D1 is a position having the highest height from the horizontal surface in the glass sheet 12, and the peripheral edge portion 12e is a part having a width of 10 mm along a peripheral edge of the glass sheet 12.

Abstract: A sheet transport roller having a high friction coefficient and a rubber composition for forming a roller main body thereof. The rubber composition of the present disclosure, which is a rubber composition for forming the roller main body of the sheet transport roller, contains a rubber component containing an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer and a rosin component.

Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a container configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a discharge unit, a first cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where an inlet portion in the container is covered and an opening position, a second cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where the first cover portion is covered and an opening position where the first cover portion is exposed so as to be opened/closed, and a valve which opens/closes a passage communicating with an inside of the container. The valve closes the passage interworking with a movement of the first cover portion to the opening position, and opens the passage interworking with a movement of the second cover portion to the closing position.

Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including a glass component, a main component of the solid electrolyte layer being phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte; and electrode layers that are provided on both main faces of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the electrode layers include a carbon material having an average particle diameter of 40 nm or more and 120 nm or less, wherein a DBP oil absorption of the carbon material is 200 mL/100 g or less.

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 communication system according an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors calculate indicators used to detect presence of abnormality caused by a situation in which a size of a message is larger than a maximum allowable size of a queue, the indicators being calculated based on gate control information including a plurality of entries each of which indicates gate states corresponding to a plurality of queues.

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: According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a plurality of communication processors, and one or more processors. Each of the communication processors is configured to generate an encryption key by quantum key distribution with an external communication device, encrypt data by using the generated encryption key, and transmit the data to the external communication device. The one or more processors are configured to: divide data requested to be transmitted by an application into a plurality of pieces of transmission data; and determine, from among the plurality of communication processors, one or more communication processors to be used for transmission of the divided plurality of pieces of the transmission data.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium in a conveyance direction, a second conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium printed by the printing unit, on a downstream side in the conveyance direction of the first conveyance unit, and a control unit configured to perform reduction control of reducing an overlap amount of a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium, from an overlap state in which the succeeding print medium overlaps a trailing edge of the preceding print medium. The reduction control includes control of conveying the preceding print medium conveyed by the second conveyance unit faster than the succeeding print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit, in a state in which the first conveyance unit is capable of conveying the succeeding print medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a supply unit configured to supply a print medium, a first roller configured to transport the print medium, a printing unit configured to print onto the print medium, and a control unit capable of controlling the supply unit and the first roller to create a state of overlap in which a leading end part of a following print medium overlaps a following end part of a preceding print medium on an upstream side of the first roller in the transport direction of the print medium. The control unit adjusts an overlap amount in the state of overlap on the upstream side of the first roller in the transport direction of the print medium based on print data for the preceding print medium and print data for the following print medium.

Abstract: An operation device includes a tiltable lever, a driving body coupled to the lever and configured to apply a return force to the lever when the lever is tilted, a metal plate provided to oppose a contact part provided and having an upper surface on which the contact part slides while making elastic contact when the lever is tilted, and a flexible substrate provided on the upper surface of the metal plate in an overlapping manner. The metal plate includes a control part having a groove shape and provided in the upper surface of the metal plate outside a region where the contact part slides, and configured to control bleeding of grease, and a convex part famed on a back surface of the metal plate, opposite to the upper surface, at a position corresponding to the control part. The flexible substrate covers an upper surface of the control part.

Abstract: Provided a semiconductor light detection element including: a semiconductor portion having a front surface including a light reception region that receives incident light and photoelectrically converting the incident light incident on the light reception region; a metal portion provided on the front surface; and a carbon nanotube film provided on the light reception region and formed by depositing a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube film extends over an upper surface of the metal portion from an upper surface of the light reception region.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a writing unit, a transfer control unit, a descriptor receiving unit, and a reading unit. The writing unit writes a frame in a first virtual storage area. The transfer control unit controls a timing for transferring a descriptor of the frame based on schedule information. The descriptor receiving unit receives the descriptor. The reading unit that reads the frame from a second virtual storage area specified based on the descriptor when the descriptor is received by the descriptor receiving unit.

Abstract: An operation device includes a lever operable to tilt and an actuator having an opening through which the lever is disposed and including a rotation shaft, the actuator being configured to rotate in accordance with the tilting of the lever, such that the rotation shaft of the actuator is rotatably supported within a shaft-receiving hole. The operation device includes a biasing unit configured to bias the lever upward. The lever includes a push-up portion configured to force a portion of the actuator upward in accordance with a biasing force from the biasing unit, the portion of the actuator being disposed around the opening of the actuator.

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 light module includes an optical element and a base on which the optical element is mounted. The optical element has an optical portion which has an optical surface; an elastic portion which is provided around the optical portion such that an annular region is formed; and a pair of support portions which is provided such that the optical portion is sandwiched in a first direction along the optical surface and in which an elastic force is applied and a distance therebetween is able to be changed in accordance with elastic deformation of the elastic portion. The base has a main surface, and a mounting region in which an opening communicating with the main surface is provided. The support portions are inserted into the opening in a state where an elastic force of the elastic portion is applied.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a container configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a discharge unit, a first cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where an inlet portion in the container is covered and an opening position, a second cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where the first cover portion is covered and an opening position where the first cover portion is exposed so as to be opened/closed, and a valve which opens/closes a passage communicating with an inside of the container. The valve closes the passage interworking with a movement of the first cover portion to the opening position, and opens the passage interworking with a movement of the second cover portion to the closing position.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a plurality of virtual machines, a storage unit, a transfer unit, and a descriptor output unit. The storage unit includes a multicast storage area specified for each multicast group and storing a multicast frame addressed to virtual machines belonging to a multicast group. The transfer unit writes the multicast frame into a multicast transfer virtual storage area mapped to the multicast storage area. The descriptor output unit outputs a descriptor of the multicast frame to the virtual machines belonging to the multicast group. The virtual machine includes a descriptor receiving unit and a reading unit. The descriptor receiving unit receives the descriptor. When the descriptor is received by the descriptor receiving unit, the reading unit reads the multicast frame from the multicast storage area specified based on the descriptor.