Abstract: A mobile body system for managing a mobile body that moves within a predetermined area includes a mobile body associated with a guest group including one or more guests, and a managing apparatus configured to manage an outer appearance of the mobile body. The managing apparatus includes an activity collector configured to collect activity information indicative of an activity of the guest within the predetermined area, and an outer appearance manager configured to change the outer appearance of the mobile body viewed by the guest based on the activity information collected by the activity collector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a controller, and a correction processor. The controller determines a nozzle corresponding to an image to be printed, and causes the recording head to eject ink from the nozzle. The correction processor detects an abnormally ejecting nozzle out of the nozzles in the recording head, and designates the abnormally ejecting nozzle as a target nozzle, and performs correction processing based on a status of the target nozzle, to the image. The correction processor also adds the detected abnormally ejecting nozzle to history data, each time a detecting operation is performed, and selects a nozzle included in the history data as an additional target nozzle, out of the nozzles that have not been detected as the abnormally ejecting nozzle, through the current detecting operation, and adds the selected nozzle to the target nozzle.

Abstract: An abnormal ejection detection portion detects an abnormal ejection nozzle in a print head based on a read test image read from a sheet with a test pattern formed thereon. When a plurality of abnormal ejection nozzles are detected and the plurality of abnormal ejection nozzles include two consecutive abnormal nozzles corresponding to two consecutive pixels in the read test image, a correction processing portion performs increase correction on an ink ejection amount of consecutive adjacent nozzles adjacent to the two consecutive abnormal nozzles and performs decrease correction on an ink ejection amount of secondary adjacent nozzles adjacent to the consecutive adjacent nozzles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cell potential detection apparatus that can prevent a culture solution from being contaminated by a component harmful to cells, a method for manufacturing the cell potential detection apparatus, and an information processing system. The cell potential detection apparatus includes a cell potential detection chip including an electrode section configured to detect a potential of a cell, a member included in a liquid storage section configured to store a culture solution for the cell, and a film covering a liquid contact surface of the member and being harmless to the cell, the liquid contact surface being configured to contact the culture solution. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a semiconductor module in which a chip for detecting a potential at an action potential generation point generated due to a chemical change in a cell is packaged.

Abstract: Display devices, display modules, and methods of manufacture are disclosed. In one example, a display device includes a pixel region in which pixels for displaying an image are arranged, on an upper surface of a substrate. A device-side signal electrode for exchanging a signal related to the pixels with an outside is disposed on a side surface of the substrate. A module casing is configured to store the display device and to have a casing-side signal electrode electrically connected to the device-side signal electrode in a spot facing the device-side signal electrode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cell potential detection apparatus that can prevent a culture solution from being contaminated by a component harmful to cells, a method for manufacturing the cell potential detection apparatus, and an information processing system. The cell potential detection apparatus includes a cell potential detection chip including an electrode section configured to detect a potential of a cell, a member included in a liquid storage section configured to store a culture solution for the cell, and a film covering a liquid contact surface of the member and being harmless to the cell, the liquid contact surface being configured to contact the culture solution. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a semiconductor module in which a chip for detecting a potential at an action potential generation point generated due to a chemical change in a cell is packaged.

Abstract: [Object] To enable further reducing a chip area. [Solution] Provided is a display module including: a display device configured such that a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels for displaying an image are arranged is formed on an upper surface of a substrate, and a device-side signal electrode for exchanging a signal related to the pixels with an outside is disposed on a side surface of the substrate; and a module casing configured to store the display device and have a casing-side signal electrode electrically connected to the device-side signal electrode in a spot facing the device-side signal electrode.

Abstract: Heterocyclic compounds represented by the formula I and anti-malignant-tumor agents containing the heterocyclic compounds as effective components: wherein X represents nitrogen atom or CH; Y represents C1-C6 alkyl; R1 represents morpholino (which may be substituted with one to four C1-C6 alkyl); and R2 and R3 each represent hydrogen atom or C1-C6 alkyl.

Abstract: Heterocyclic compounds represented by the formula I and anti-malignant-tumor agents containing the heterocyclic compounds as effective components: wherein X represents nitrogen atom or CH; Y represents C1-C6 alkyl; R1 represents morpholino (which may be substituted with one to four C1-C6 alkyl); and R2 and R3 each represent hydrogen atom or C1-C6 alkyl.

Abstract: In order to obtain a 3D circuit board manufacturing method capable of improving productivity and accuracy of circuit formation, the metal hoop material 1 provided with the positioning pilot holes 2 is employed. Since the 3D structures 3 are formed on the hoop material 1 with a preset interval maintained therebetween in a lengthwise direction of the hoop material 1, the series of processes can be conducted on a roll 1A (winding of the hoop material 1) basis, which results that handling between the individual processes can be done more easily while increase of troubles and manufacturing costs can be prevented. Further, since the positioning pilot holes 2 serve to facilitate accurate positioning, plating and/or laser processing can be conducted continuously with high precision while a tact time for the positioning work can be reduced.

Abstract: In a connector for memory card, it is objected to stabilize contact of detection switch for detecting insertion of a memory card, and to prevent breakage of the memory card due to bounce-out when it is taken out. The detection switch is held on a contact block with contacts which are to be contacted with terminals of the memory card, and comprised of a fixed contact plate and a movable spring piece. A groove having substantially V-shape is formed on a contacting portion of the movable spring piece so as to contact with the fixed contact plate at two points. Furthermore, elastic protrusions that can fit to recessed portions for locking formed on the memory card just before the slider holding the memory card reaches to an initial position is formed on a top plate of the housing, so that the bounce-out of the memory card is prevented.

Abstract: In a connector for memory card, it is objected to stabilize contact of detection switch for detecting insertion of a memory card, and to prevent breakage of the memory card due to bounce-out when it is taken out. The detection switch is held on a contact block with contacts which are to be contacted with terminals of the memory card, and comprised of a fixed contact plate and a movable spring piece. A groove having substantially V-shape is formed on a contacting portion of the movable spring piece so as to contact with the fixed contact plate at two points. Furthermore, elastic protrusions that can fit to recessed portions for locking formed on the memory card just before the slider holding the memory card reaches to an initial position is formed on a top plate of the housing, so that the bounce-out of the memory card is prevented.

Abstract: A continuous feed printer prints images on a continuous paper sheet with conveyance holes perforated at regular intervals along the edges thereof and conveyed by a pinless transportation mechanism. The continuous feed printer includes: a conveyance hole detecting device that detects the conveyance holes on the sheet; a comparison device that compares a measured conveyance length of the sheet, which is a length of the sheet conveyed from the time when the conveyance hole detection has been started to the time when a predetermined number of conveyance holes has been detected, with a calculated conveyance length that is calculated from a number of the detected conveyance holes and the intervals between the conveyance holes; and an adjusting device that adjusts a conveyance velocity of the sheet based on the result of comparison of the measured conveyance length with the calculated conveyance length to make them equal to each other.

Abstract: In a connector used for recording and reproducing apparatus of a memory card, it is aimed to prevent an instantaneous make break phenomenon, in which a contact portion of a contact and a terminal of a memory card is instantaneously opened and suppliance of electric power to the memory card is instantaneously stopped when an impact is applied to the connector, and a deformation of the contact due to the impact. Three plate spring portions arranged in parallel with each other and three contact portions respectively provided in the vicinities of front ends of the plate spring portions are formed in the vicinity of a front end of the contact. Two plate spring portions among three plate spring portions, for example, the plate spring portions disposed at both sides are integrally combined at the front end portions of them. A length of another plate spring portion, for example disposed at the center is made shorter than the lengths of the others.

Abstract: A method of producing plural device chips from a thin plate of a pyroelectric material comprises the following steps. First, plural device-forming regions each having an electrode and a circuit pattern for electrically connecting the electrodes are formed on each of front and rear surfaces of the thin plate to obtain a device substrate. By making an electrical connection between the circuit patterns, and grounding it, all of the device-forming regions on the device substrate are at the same potential. Next, a blast treatment is performed to the device substrate to remove a required region of the pyroelectric material, while leaving a bridge portion extending between adjacent device-forming regions and having the circuit patterns thereon, so that a device-chip aggregate is formed, in which adjacent device chips are coupled through the bridge portion. Subsequently, by removing the bridge portion, the device chip is separated from the device-chip aggregate.

Abstract: A method of producing plural device chips from a thin plate of a pyroelectric material comprises the following steps. First, plural device-forming regions each having an electrode and a circuit pattern for electrically connecting the electrodes are formed on each of front and rear surfaces of the thin plate to obtain a device substrate. By making an electrical connection between the circuit patterns, and grounding it, all of the device-forming regions on the device substrate are at the same potential. Next, a blast treatment is performed to the device substrate to remove a required region of the pyroelectric material, while leaving a bridge portion extending between adjacent device-forming regions and having the circuit patterns thereon, so that a device-chip aggregate is formed, in which adjacent device chips are coupled through the bridge portion. Subsequently, by removing the bridge portion, the device chip is separated from the device-chip aggregate.

Abstract: An infrared ray receiving element includes a substrate made of a pyroelectric material and having at least one cantilever portion surrounded by a slit, in which at least a part of the cantilever portion in the substrate is uniformly polarized in the same direction and the remainder in the substrate includes a portion polarized at random. At least a pair of electrodes are respectively provided on a top surface and a bottom surface of the cantilever portion.

Abstract: An infrared ray receiving element includes a substrate made of a pyroelectric material and having at least one cantilever portion surrounded by a slit, in which at least a part of the cantilever portion in the substrate is uniformly polarized in the same direction and the remainder in the substrate includes a portion polarized at random. At least a pair of electrodes are respectively provided on a top surface and a bottom surface of the cantilever portion.

Abstract: An image forming device that can surely prevent a flutter of a sheet-like medium in the feeding portion even when there is a difference in velocity between the conveying belt and the front conveying system at the time of feeding a sheet-like medium onto the conveying belt, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. The image forming device includes a pressure roller mounted in an idle mode on the conveying belt and near to the portion where the transfer paper is fed from the conveying system, the transfer paper being transferred from the conveying system onto the conveying belt while being sandwiched between the pressure roller and the conveying belt. The image forming device is applicable to printers of electro-photographic system, electro-static recording system, or the like.

Abstract: A color image forming device in which an operator with no special trained experience can easily replace photosensitive bodies one by one without inviting deterioration in print quality due to shear in printing. The color image forming device has photosensitive bodies having rotational shafts parallelized nearly, the photosensitive bodies being driven respectively and rotatably in a box. The color image forming device forms a color image on a transfer paper sheet by transferring sequentially color manifest images developed on the photosensitive bodies on the transfer paper sheets. The color image forming device includes a positioning and fixing implement coupled axially and removably to the front end of the rotational shaft of each of the photosensitive bodies, for positioning and fixing to the box while the end of the rotational shaft is supported rotatably; and a coupling for coupling axially and detachably the rotational shaft on the base side of the photosensitive body with a drive system fixed on the box.