Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body to which a fixing device that thermally fixes a toner image on a sheet is detachably mounted; a controller that performs authentication of a user using the image forming apparatus, and controls the image forming apparatus; and a storage that stores user information indicating availability of replacement work of the fixing device by the user, wherein the controller determines availability of replacement work of the fixing device by the user, based on the user information at a time of usage by the authenticated user, and inquires the user whether to perform replacement of the fixing device according to a determination result.

Abstract: A light-emitting device in accordance with the present disclosure includes: a first semiconductor layer including a first light-emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer including a second light-emitting layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer has a first sidewall adjacent to a second sidewall of the second semiconductor layer over a gap, and a normal to the first sidewall is not parallel to a normal to the second sidewall (??0°).

Abstract: Provided is a system comprising a base station and a terminal apparatus that communicate with each other by selectively using plural radio resources, which is capable of supplying a power to the terminal apparatus using a communication-unused radio resource between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The base station generates a transmission signal including a dummy signal for wireless power transfer using a communication-unused radio resource that is not used for communication among plural radio resources, and transmits the generated transmission signal to the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus receives the transmission signal including the dummy signal transmitted from the base station, and outputs an electric power of the reception signal as a reception power. A battery may be charged using the reception power.

Abstract: Provided is a system comprising a base station and a terminal apparatus that communicate with each other by selectively using plural radio resources, which is capable of supplying a power to the terminal apparatus using a communication-unused radio resource between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The base station generates a transmission signal including a dummy signal for wireless power transfer using a communication-unused radio resource that is not used for communication among plural radio resources, and transmits the generated transmission signal to the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus receives the transmission signal including the dummy signal transmitted from the base station, and outputs an electric power of the reception signal as a reception power. A battery may be charged using the reception power.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a condensation determiner that determines whether there is a possibility of condensation occurring inside the image-forming apparatus using condensation determination information including a measured apparatus temperature inside the apparatus, a preparation processor that performs a preparation process for executing a print function, and a preparation waiting time setter that sets a preparation waiting time indicating a period of time for performing the preparation process. When the image-forming apparatus is powered and it is determined that there is a possibility of condensation occurring inside the image-forming apparatus, a preparation waiting time is set using the condensation determination information and the preparation process is started.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless-power transfer apparatus capable of efficiently supplying a predetermined power for each of plural terminal apparatuses. A wireless-power transfer apparatus comprises a radio processing section for transmitting a signal for wireless power transfer to each of the plural terminal apparatuses via plural beams, by a beamforming for forming the plural beams against the plural terminal apparatuses simultaneously or at staggered times, an information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information including location information of a current location of a terminal apparatus for each of plural terminal apparatuses, and a control section for controlling the beamforming so that a signal for wireless power transfer is received at a predetermined reception power in each of plural terminal apparatuses, based on terminal information of each of plural terminal apparatuses.

Abstract: A power management system manages an exchange of electric power between power storage devices of a plurality of electric vehicles which respectively transport a cargo at least in a facility, and a charging and discharging device connected to an electric power system of the facility. The power management system includes a vehicle management device. The vehicle management device is configured to select the electric vehicle with surplus capacity for a discharge from the power storage device based on SOC of the power storage device of each of the electric vehicles and the weight of the cargo of each of the electric vehicles when an electric power supply from at least one of the electric vehicles to the electric power system is requested. Further, the vehicle management device is configured to instruct the selected electric vehicle to discharge from the power storage device to the electric power system.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless-power transfer apparatus capable of efficiently supplying a predetermined power for each of plural terminal apparatuses. A wireless-power transfer apparatus comprises a radio processing section for transmitting a signal for wireless power transfer to each of the plural terminal apparatuses via plural beams, by a beamforming for forming the plural beams against the plural terminal apparatuses simultaneously or at staggered times, an information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information including location information of a current location of a terminal apparatus for each of plural terminal apparatuses, and a control section for controlling the beamforming so that a signal for wireless power transfer is received at a predetermined reception power in each of plural terminal apparatuses, based on terminal information of each of plural terminal apparatuses.

Abstract: The charging and discharging facility has a first level section where the first charging and discharging parking space is located, a second level section where the second charging and discharging parking space is located on the floor directly above the first level section, and a power converter device connected between the first level section and the second level section by an external power cable. In the first charging and discharging parking space, the first charging and discharging connection member is attached to the end of the first charging and discharging cable extending from the ceiling of the first level section, and in the second charging and discharging parking space, the second charging and discharging connection member is attached to the end of the second charging and discharging cable extending from the floor of the second level section.

Abstract: Mesoporous carbon has a connecting structure in which primary particles made of carbon particles having primary pores with a primary pore diameter of less than 20 nm are connected. In the mesoporous carbon, the pore capacity of secondary pores with secondary pore diameters within a range of 20 nm to 100 nm, which is measured by a mercury intrusion method, is 0.42 cm3/g or more and 1.34 cm3/g or less. In addition, the mesoporous carbon has a linearity of 2.2 or more and 2.6 or less. An electrode catalyst for a fuel cell includes the mesoporous carbon and catalyst particles supported in the primary pores in the mesoporous carbon. Furthermore, a catalyst layer includes the electrode catalyst for the fuel cell and a catalyst layer ionomer.

Abstract: A parking management system comprises a first information management section that manages first parking information related to parking in the first parking space and first vehicle information related to vehicles parked in the first parking space; a second information management section that manages second parking information related to parking in the second parking space and second vehicle information related to vehicles parked in the second parking space; a condition determination section that determines the existence of a space condition in which a parkable space exists in the second parking space based on the second parking information of the second information management section, and determines the existence of a movable condition where a movable vehicle exists in the second parking space based on the first vehicle information of the first parking management section.

Abstract: A parking management system equipped with a plurality of pallets that can be moved in a parking space with a vehicle mounted on them, a plurality of charging and discharging devices that are installed in chargeable and dischargeable parking spaces and capable of supplying power to a predetermined facility, a controller that is programmed to control the movement of the pallets and control the charging and discharging devices. The controller is programmed to move a pallet (a feedable pallet) carrying the electric vehicle capable of supplying power to the predetermined facility to the chargeable and dischargeable parking space.

Abstract: Mesoporous carbon has a beaded structure in which primary particles with mesopores are linked. In the mesoporous carbon, an average primary particle size is 7 nm or more and 300 nm or less, a pore diameter is 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less, an average thickness of pore walls is 3 nm or more and 15 nm or less, a pore volume is 0.2 mL/g or more and 3.0 mL/g or less, and a tap density is 0.03 g/cm3 or more and 0.3 g/cm3 or less. In a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, the mesoporous carbon is used as a catalyst carrier for at least an air electrode catalyst layer. The mesoporous carbon can be obtained by impregnating mesoporous silica satisfying a predetermined condition with a carbon source, performing polymerization and carbonization, and removing a template.

Abstract: The vehicle includes a power storage device, a temperature control device configured to be capable of regulating the temperature of the power storage device, and a processing device. When the vehicle is capable of supplying power to a predetermined facility and cooling or heating of the power storage device is required, the processing device is programmed to determine whether the power storage device is to be cooled or heated by supplying power from the power storage device to the temperature control device or by using energy from the predetermined facility.

Abstract: The parking reservation management device manages a parking lot having a chargeable parking space to which a charging device for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is attached and a chargeable and dischargeable parking space to which a charging and discharging device for charging and discharging the battery is attached. The parking reservation management device performs, when making a parking reservation, a confirmation process to confirm that the vehicle to be parked is chargeable and dischargeable of the battery by the charging and discharging device, and to confirm that the charging and discharging device may charge and discharge the battery while the vehicle is parked, and the parking reservation management device assigns a chargeable and dischargeable parking space preferentially to the vehicle that has been confirmed by the aforementioned confirmation process.

Abstract: The power supply controller controls the supply of electric power from a first power supply source to a predetermined facility having a first power supply destination and a second power supply destination, and also controls the supply of electric power to the predetermined facility from the second power supply source that is powered by a battery installed in a plurality of electric vehicles parked in a parking lot attached to the predetermined facility. The power supply controller prioritizes the first power supply source over the second power supply source when there is an abnormality in the first power supply source.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that is switchable between a normal mode and a silent mode; a mode setter that accepts a setting; a job-reservation registration acceptor that accepts reservation registration of the jobs; and a controller, wherein, when the job-reservation registration acceptor accepts a reservation of a job in the normal mode, the controller determines whether or not a job last accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor is a job in the silent mode, and when the job last accepted is a job in the silent mode, the controller causes the image former to pause the job being executed by the image former, changes all jobs accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor to jobs in the normal mode, and accepts registration of a job in the normal mode as a final job.

Abstract: The parking reservation management device manages parking reservation for the parking lot with chargeable and dischargeable parking space where the charging and discharging device that charges and discharges the battery installed in the vehicle is installed. The parking reservation management device sends a changing availability guide to the user to inform whether a user side information can be changed or not, when the deviation between a desired facility-side power adjustment period based on the power demand at predetermined facility and a vehicle-side power adjustment availability period obtained based on the user side information on the use of the parking lot input by the user is outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: Mesoporous carbon has a beaded structure in which primary particles with mesopores are linked. In the mesoporous carbon, an average primary particle size is 7 nm or more and 300 nm or less, a pore diameter is 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less, an average thickness of pore walls is 3 nm or more and 15 nm or less, a pore volume is 0.2 mL/g or more and 3.0 mL/g or less, and a tap density is 0.03 g/cm3 or more and 0.3 g/cm3 or less. In a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, the mesoporous carbon is used as a catalyst carrier for at least an air electrode catalyst layer. The mesoporous carbon can be obtained by impregnating mesoporous silica satisfying a predetermined condition with a carbon source, performing polymerization and carbonization, and removing a template.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that is switchable between a normal mode and a silent mode; a mode setter that accepts a setting; a job-reservation registration acceptor that accepts reservation registration of the jobs; and a controller, wherein, when the job-reservation registration acceptor accepts a reservation of a job in the normal mode, the controller determines whether or not a job last accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor is a job in the silent mode, and when the job last accepted is a job in the silent mode, the controller causes the image former to pause the job being executed by the image former, changes all jobs accepted by the job-reservation registration acceptor to jobs in the normal mode, and accepts registration of a job in the normal mode as a final job.