Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an apparatus body, a drawer portion including a first contact portion, a feeding portion, and a pivot member configured to pivot between a first position and a second position, the pivot member constituting a part of a conveyance path at the first position, wherein the pivot member does not overlap a moving path of the drawer portion in a case where the pivot member is located at the first position, and overlaps the moving path in a case where the pivot member is located at the second position. The pivot member includes a second contact portion that pivots the pivot member from the second position toward the first position while being in sliding contact with the first contact portion in a case where the pivot member is located at the second position and the drawer portion is being inserted into the apparatus body.

Abstract: A double container includes: an outer layer body including an outer mouth portion and a barrel portion; an inner layer body including an inner mouth portion and a containing portion; an outside air introduction port for introducing outside air; and a plurality of vertical ribs arranged with spacing in a circumferential direction on an inner surface of the outer layer body or an outer surface of the inner layer body, and each extending over the outer mouth portion to the shoulder portion or extending over the inner mouth portion to the containing portion, wherein at least one of the plurality of vertical ribs faces the outside air introduction port.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer having antimicrobial and disinfecting properties against a wide range of kinds of germs. A polymer, including: a polymer chain having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1); and a partial structure (excluding the polymer chain) derived from a compound containing a group represented by —NH—. [In formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Z represents a group forming an organic ammonium salt, —NR5R6 (where R5 and R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group), or a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, and X represents a single bond, or a divalent linking group.

Abstract: An optical fiber has a structure uniform in a longitudinal direction. This optical fiber includes a core and a cladding that surrounds the core in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A refractive index of the cladding is lower than a refractive index of the core. The cladding has, in the cross-section, an inner cladding layer including an inner circumferential surface of the cladding, and an outer cladding layer including an outer circumferential surface of the cladding. The inner cladding layer contains fluorine. The inner and outer cladding layers have refractive indexes different from each other. The outer cladding layer includes a local maximum portion where a residual stress, which is a tensile stress, becomes local maximum. A radial distance between the local maximum portion and an inner circumferential surface of the outer cladding layer is 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: An image processing method is an image processing method of a recording device. The image processing method includes inputting the image data having a resolution in a sub scanning direction of X×N dpi, performing data processing on the image data for each N-unit region, performing resolution reduction processing of reducing, to 1/N, a resolution in the sub scanning direction, and generating a recording data based on the reduced image data. In the data processing step, when the N-unit region is formed of a pixel having a black gradation value and a pixel having a gradation value that is equal to or greater than a predetermined value when expressed by RGB, and the pixel having the black gradation value is consecutive from another N-unit region adjacent to the N-unit region, a black dot is generated in a pixel after the resolution reduction processing.

Abstract: [Problem] Providing a thick film resist composition capable of reducing environmental impact. [Means for Solution] A thick film resist composition comprising polymer (A), a deprotecting agent (B), a photoreaction quencher (C) composed of a certain cation and an anion, and a solvent (D).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.

Abstract: To provide a novel polymer capable of reducing sublimate during film formation and a composition comprising the same. The polymer (A) according to the present invention comprises at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of Unit (a), Unit (b), Unit (c) and Unit (d) having certain structures, wherein, na, nb, nc and nd, which are the numbers of repetition respectively of Units (a), (b), (c) and (d), satisfy the following formulae: na+nb>0, nc?0 and nd?0.

Abstract: A image processing method includes a shifting step for determining whether to shift an identical color pixel region, in which two to N pixels of an identical color are arranged consecutively in a first direction, in the first direction or a direction opposite to the first direction within the image data, provided that N is an integer of 2 or greater, and shifting the identical color pixel region in the first direction or the direction opposite to the first direction when the shifting is determined to be performed, and an averaging step, in which in the shifting step, the shifting is determined to be performed when the identical color pixel region exists across two of the unit regions, and the identical color pixel region spanning across the two of the unit regions is shifted so as to be included in any one of the unit regions.

Abstract: A work robot includes a multi-joint type robot arm and an actuator configured to drive each joint of the robot arm, and corrects a designated target position by a correction parameter to operate the robot arm. The correction of the target position is performed by setting multiple work points in a movable area of the robot, setting a correction parameter in which a spatial coordinate value and a correction value are associated with respect to the set multiple work points, and reflecting the set correction parameter on the target position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and a feeding unit that feeds an accommodated recording material, detects a fed recording material, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives measured time data from the image forming apparatus, classifies the received plurality of time data into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, selects a group for predicting a remaining life time of the feeding unit from the classified first group and second group, and predicts a remaining life time of the feeding unit using time data included in the selected group.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and has a regulating plate that regulates a trailing edge of the recording material in a feeding direction, detects a recording material fed from the accommodating unit, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives time data obtained by a measuring unit from the image forming apparatus, classifies a plurality of time data received from a reception unit into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, and determines using time data included in the first group and the time data included in the second group whether a position of the regulating plate is misaligned in relation to a reference position that corresponds to a size of the recording material accommodated on the accommodating unit.

Abstract: A motion detection system includes a first motion detection device that detects a motion of an object based on a reflected wave of a radio wave transmitted by a first radio wave sensor, the first motion detection device including the first radio wave sensor, and a second motion detection device that detects the motion based on a reflected wave of a radio wave transmitted by a second radio wave sensor, the second motion detection device including the second radio wave sensor, wherein one motion detection device among the first and second motion detection devices transmits a determination radio wave and another motion detection device among the first and second motion detection devices receives the determination radio wave, and wherein only the first motion detection device is used to detect the motion when received intensity of the received determination radio wave is smaller than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A three-wheeler including two front wheels and a rear wheel, left and right seats, a steering mechanism steering the front wheels, an electric motor generating a torque by electrical energy, a power transmission mechanism transmitting the torque to the front wheels, and a body frame. A center of gravity of the three-wheeler is more frontward than a front end of the two seats and than a middle point of the wheelbase, and is more rearward than a front end of the electric energy storage device. The seats is, in a top view, partially in a triangle area that has a center of each of the front wheels and the rear wheel as vertices. The electric energy storage device, in the top view, overlaps a foot-resting area and is partially in the triangle area. The electric energy storage device is between the two front wheels.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices includes: forming a plurality of semiconductor devices in a first region of a primary surface of a wafer; forming a plurality of cleave initiation portions in a second region of a primary surface different from the first region; and cleaving the wafer sequentially, using the plurality of cleave initiation portions as initiation points, starting from a cleave initiation portion that is relatively difficult to cleave among the plurality of cleave initiation portions. Forming the plurality of cleave initiation portions includes forming the plurality of first grooves by etching portions of the second region. Due to this, the yield and the manufacturing efficiency for semiconductor devices can be enhanced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an accommodating unit that accommodates recording materials and has a regulating plate that regulates a trailing edge of the recording material in a feeding direction, detects a recording material fed from the accommodating unit, and measures time from a predetermined timing until a recording material is detected. An information processing apparatus receives time data obtained by a measuring unit from the image forming apparatus, classifies a plurality of time data received from a reception unit into a first group and a second group in accordance with a length of time, and determines using time data included in the first group and the time data included in the second group whether a position of the regulating plate is misaligned in relation to a reference position that corresponds to a size of the recording material accommodated on the accommodating unit.

Abstract: The robot system for which the position of a camera attached to the arm is changeable to multiple positions. The robot system memorizes offset information between the arm and the camera for each of multiple positions. Further, the robot system moves the arm to the position offset by the offset information corresponding to the attachment position of the selected camera. As a result, even when the mounting position of the camera is changed, the robot system can move the camera to an appropriate position when imaging and perform imaging without requiring troublesome teaching.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a flag, a sensor, a loop controller, a detector, and an image controller. The flag is disposed between the first and second conveying units and moves when in contact with a recording material having a loop. A signal value output from the sensor varies per a flag position. The loop controller changes a recording material speed based on the signal value output. The detector detects the recording material or an image formed on the recording material and the image controller changes an image forming condition based on the detection. The detector includes first and second contacting members that move to nip the recording material. A position of the flag, for changing a signal value output from the sensor, is included in a range in which first and second contacting members are movable.

Abstract: An image processing method is an image processing method of a recording device. The image processing method includes inputting the image data having a resolution in a sub scanning direction of X×N dpi, performing data processing on the image data for each N-unit region, performing resolution reduction processing of reducing, to 1/N, a resolution in the sub scanning direction, and generating a recording data based on the reduced image data. In the data processing step, when the N-unit region is formed of a pixel having a black gradation value and a pixel having a gradation value that is equal to or greater than a predetermined value when expressed by RGB, and the pixel having the black gradation value is consecutive from another N-unit region adjacent to the N-unit region, a black dot is generated in a pixel after the resolution reduction processing.

Abstract: A certain amount of contents is easily sprayed by one pressing operation. A metered spray unit 10 being mounted on a stem 23 of a valve 22 that is provided on the upper portion of a container body 21, configured to spray a certain amount of contents in a container body 21, includes an outer cylinder 30 which is provided with a stem insertion hole 30a into which the tip of the stem 23 is inserted and the inner wall thereof is fixed to the stem, a metering chamber 35 connected to the stem insertion hole 30a, the metering chamber being an internal space having a predetermined capacity, connected to the stem insertion hole 30a, and an spray port 33 communicating with the metering chamber 35, a plug member 40 that is inserted from the inside of the metering chamber 35 into the spray port 33 for blocking the spray port 33, a push button 51, an elastic member 60 for supporting the push button 51 on the outer cylinder 30, and a shaft member 50 connected to the push button 51.