Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting section that detects a difference in degrees of involvement in communication in a community in which plural users participate or a product in the community, between users in the community, and a notification section that notifies, in a case where a predetermined event occurs in the future, based on the difference detected by the detecting section, a first user related to the event or a second user having the difference from the first user of an action request.

Abstract: A transmitter of an on-vehicle device transmits a request signal from a first antenna, and transmits first measurement signals at different timings from the first antenna and a second antenna. The receiver receives a first response signal including information on transmission intensities of a second measurement signals to be transmitted from the first and second antennas. The transmitter further transmits the second measurement signals at different timings from the first and second antennas. The second measurement signals have transmission intensities respectively set based on the information on transmission intensities included in the first response signal. The receiver receives a second response signal transmitted when a relationship between the reception intensities of the second measurement signals transmitted from the first and second antennas agrees with the information on the transmission intensities included in the first response signal.

Abstract: An actuator device comprises an actuator wire, a net-shaped heating element which covers a side surface of the actuator wire and comprises heating wires, and a controller for supplying electric power to the net-shaped heating element to heat the net-shaped heating element. The actuator wire is contracted by application of heat and restored by release of the heat. The side surface of the actuator wire is formed of a polymer. One end of the net-shaped heating element is connected to an end of the actuator wire. Another end of the net-shaped heating element is connected to another end of the actuator wire. Each of the heating wires comprises an insulative first elastic yarn and a metal wire. The metal wire are helically wound onto the first elastic yarn. When the net-shaped heating element is not heated, the net-shaped heating element is in contact with the side surface of the actuator wire.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: In a slide rail device for use in a vehicle, a lock control member comprises a pair of facing walls which face a pair of side walls of an upper rail and extend in upward and downward direction, and a pair of anti-rattle projections which project from the pair of facing walls toward the pair of side walls of the upper rail.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance portion including a rotary member, and a counter member, a first contact member, a second contact member, and a contacting and separating mechanism. The contacting and separating mechanism causes the second contact member to separate from the surface of a rotary member of a conveyance portion when the rotary member rotates in the first direction, and causes the second contact member to abut against the surface of the rotary member when the rotary member rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a disclosure unit that discloses information regarding a member candidate who wants to subscribe to a group of plural of persons as a new member, to existing members, an acceptance unit that accepts authorizable authority for the member candidate from the existing members viewing the disclosed information, and a determination unit that determines authority to be assigned to the member candidate according to the authorizable authority, in which the authority determined by the determination unit indicates authority of an operation in the group.

Abstract: A display control device includes: a display signal output unit configured so as to output a display image signal on a display unit so as to execute normal display, zoom-in display, scroll display, and zoom-out display regarding data to be displayed as display operation for data to be displayed; and a control unit configured to instruct the display signal output unit to perform, regarding data to be displayed, output of a display image signal for sequentially executing zoom-in display in a scroll start position from the normal display, scroll display from the scroll start position, and zoom-out display from a scroll end position to the normal display at a display unit.

Abstract: A seat track includes a stopper. The stopper includes a hole formed in a first rail and a stopper main body that projects in a direction of intersecting with a relative sliding direction of a second rail from an edge portion of the hole and is configured to restrict a move of a retainer. When a distance between centers of two steel balls disposed at both ends in the relative sliding direction of the second rail is L1 among steel balls and a distance between inner walls of the hole in the relative sliding direction of the second rail is L2, L1?L2.

Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes: a communication unit capable of executing communication using a first communication scheme; a transmitter that transmits a request signal and a measurement signal to a mobile device, using a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme of the communication unit; and a receiver that receives a response signal from the mobile device that has received the request signal and the measurement signal transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter changes a number of times of transmission of the measurement signal transmitted subsequently to the request signal based on whether or not the communication of the communication unit is in a connected state.

Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes: a transmitter that transmits a request signal and a first measurement signal to a mobile device; and a receiver that receives a first response signal including information related to transmission strength of a second measurement signal from the mobile device that has received the request signal and the first measurement signal transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter transmits to the mobile device the second measurement signal to which transmission strength has been set based on the information related to the transmission strength included in the first response signal received by the receiver. The receiver receives a second response signal. The second response signal is transmitted by the mobile device based on a result of determining the second measurement signal.

Abstract: A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes a drum unit including a photosensitive drum; a developing unit including a developing roller, a driving force receiving portion, and a development gear; a driving train for transmitting the driving force to the development gear. The developing roller is movable between a contact position and spacing position relative to the drum. The driving train includes a first driving portion connected with the driving force receiving portion and a second driving portion for transmitting the driving force toward the gear. When the developing unit is in the contact position, the first and second driving portions are connected with each other to transmit the driving force from the first driving portion to the second driving portion, and when the developing unit is in the spacing position, the first and the driving portion are not connected.

Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaning frame, a drum, a sheet member coming in contact with a surface of the drum, and an adhesive sealing member compressed between the cleaning frame, the drum, and the sheet member. The cleaning unit includes an end seal portion that is integrally molded with the cleaning frame by injection molding of a resin material, and the end seal portion is compressed and deformed between the cleaning frame and the adhesive sealing member and between the cleaning frame and the sheet member.

Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes a determination unit, an instruction unit, and a modification unit. The determination unit determines whether to unlock doors based on a rolling code from a portable device and a reference rolling code to be collated with the rolling code. When the determination unit determines to unlock the doors, the instruction unit instructs the portable device to increase a value of the rolling code. When the portable device accepts the instruction from the instruction unit, the modification unit increases a value of the reference rolling code to be used in the determination unit.

Abstract: A drip-proof structure of an electronic component includes a rotary body that includes a main body as an operating portion, a first case rotatably supporting the rotary body, a second case that supports the other side surface of the main body of the rotary body and houses, together with the first case, the rotary body, a sliding piece that changes its position to follow rotation of the rotary body, a circuit board that outputs an output signal corresponding to the rotational position of the rotary body, a cover that covers the first and second cases and the circuit board, and first and second drip-proof members arranged between the first case and the cover and between the second case and the cover, respectively.

Abstract: According to a method of manufacturing an image display device of the present invention, a photo-curable resin composition in a liquid state is applied to a surface of a light-transmitting cover member including a light-shielding layer or a surface of the image display member to a thickness greater than that of the light-shielding layer. Then, in this state, the photo-curable resin composition is irradiated with a UV ray to be pre-cured, thereby forming a pre-cured resin layer. Next, the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member are stacked via the pre-cured resin layer and thereafter, the pre-cured resin layer is irradiated with a UV ray to be completely cured, thereby forming a light-transmitting cured resin layer.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes LixAl2(OH)7-y.zH2O where 0.9<x<1.1, ?0.1<y<0.1, 0?z<2.1.

Abstract: Radiographic imaging system comprising an x-ray radiation source. Multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses, each including multiple radiation detecting elements, are arranged two-dimensionally, and configured to read charges generated in the radiation detecting elements as image data and transmit an image signal in response to a command. A console communicating with, controlling with a command the operation of, and receiving image signals from, the multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses and acquires multiple radiographing order information items indicating which of the multiple radiographic imaging apparatuses is to be used for conducting radiographing.

Abstract: There is provided an editing apparatus, including a route information generation section which generates route information from an imaging start point up to an imaging end point of a moving image, and a control information generation section which generates control information for controlling a reproduction speed of the moving image based on the route information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.