Abstract: A coating liquid includes emulsion particles containing a binder resin, aerogel particles, a water-soluble polymer having a hydrophobic group, and a liquid medium, wherein the binder resin contains a structural unit derived from a first monomer having a homopolymer Tg of lower than 0° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a switching valve having a small contact resistance when a valve body moves along a seating surface of a housing. In a switching valve which includes a valve body, coming into contact with a seating surface of a housing having a plurality of ports and selectively communicating at least two ports of the plurality of ports, and applies a fluid pressure to a back surface of the valve body, the switching valve includes a biasing member configured for biasing the valve body in a direction in which the valve body is moved away from the seating surface of the housing.

Abstract: A coating liquid includes emulsion particles containing a binder resin and a nonionic emulsifier, aerogel particles, a water-soluble polymer having a hydrophobic group, and a liquid medium.

Abstract: A coating liquid includes emulsion particles containing a binder resin, aerogel particles, and a liquid medium, wherein a content of chloride ions is 50 ppm by mass or less, and a content of sulfate ions is 50 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application is an information processing device including a model generation unit that generates a generative adversarial network including a discriminator and a generator. The model generation unit separates the discriminator into a feature extraction network that generates, from data input to the discriminator, feature vectors of the data and a last layer in which the feature vectors distributed in a feature vector space are applied to a one-dimensional space, and trains each of the feature extraction network and the last layer, and thereby generates a metrizable discriminator that is a discriminator capable of evaluating a distance between a probability distribution of generated feature vectors that are feature vectors of generated data generated by the generator and a probability distribution of real feature vectors that are feature vectors of real data included in a data set for training.

Abstract: A method of releasing an output-suppressed control state in an air conditioning system that includes a control device to control one or more air conditioners, and a management device to be connected to the control device via a network to transmit, to the control device, a command to control output suppression of an air conditioner to cause the air conditioner to be in the output-suppressed control state, includes confirming whether communication between the control device and the management device is disconnected; and if the communication between the control device and the management device is not disconnected, prohibiting transmission of a command to release the output-suppressed control state to the control device without intervention of the management device, and if the communication is disconnected, allowing transmission of the command to release the output-suppressed control state to the control device without intervention of the management device.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a linkage database in which a person is linked with a property; a person database in which the person is associated with a role of the person and one or more functions that can be used by the person; a property database in which the property is associated with one or more functions used in the property; a first permission management unit configured to manage one or more functions that can be used by the person in the property, by using the person database and the property database; and a second permission management unit configured to manage one or more properties whose information can be accessed by the person, by using the linkage database.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a separation system and a separation method that can separate deuterium from a fluid containing light hydrogen and deuterium with high separation efficiency while suppressing equipment deterioration.

Abstract: Disclosed is a switching valve having a small contact resistance when a valve body moves along a seating surface of a housing. In a switching valve which includes a valve body, coming into contact with a seating surface of a housing having a plurality of ports and selectively communicating at least two ports of the plurality of ports, and applies a fluid pressure to a back surface of the valve body, the switching valve includes a biasing member configured for biasing the valve body in a direction in which the valve body is moved away from the seating surface of the housing.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a speaker array that includes a plurality of speakers, and performs wavefront synthesis by using an output of the plurality of speakers; and a presentation unit that presents visual information indicating a state of waves on a wavefront formed in the wavefront synthesis, or presents visual information based on positional information of a virtual sound image that has been formed in a position that is different from a vicinity of the speaker array in the wavefront synthesis.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a linkage database in which a person is linked with a property; a person database in which the person is associated with a role of the person and one or more functions that can be used by the person; a property database in which the property is associated with one or more functions used in the property; a first permission management unit configured to manage one or more functions that can be used by the person in the property, by using the person database and the property database; and a second permission management unit configured to manage one or more properties whose information can be accessed by the person, by using the linkage database.

Abstract: A method of releasing an output-suppressed control state in an air conditioning system that includes a control device configured to control one or more air conditioners, and a management device configured to be connected to the control device via a network to transmit, to the control device, a command to control output suppression of an air conditioner from among the one or more air conditioners to cause the air conditioner to be in the output-suppressed control state, includes a confirmation step of confirming whether communication between the control device and the management device is disconnected; and a transmission control step of, in a case where the communication between the control device and the management device is not disconnected, prohibiting transmission of a command to release the output-suppressed control state to the control device without intervention of the management device, and in a case where the communication between the control device and the management device is disconnected, allowing

Abstract: An expansion valve includes: a main body portion having a valve chamber and a valve seat; a case fixed to the main body portion; and a screw shaft that is driven by driving force of rotation obtained by reducing a rotational movement of a rotor due to the excitation of an excitation portion by a speed reduction mechanism to move a valve body forward and backward. A bellows configured to seal a gap between the inside of the case and the valve chamber is arranged in the valve chamber to be externally fitted onto the valve body, and the rotation of the valve body relative to the main body portion is restricted by a rotation restrictor.

Abstract: The present technology relates to signal processing device and method, and a program for enabling spatial noise cancelling with a saved space and a small computation amount. The signal processing device includes a control section that, on the basis of a first microphone signal obtained by sound collection at a first microphone array, a speaker drive signal of an output sound for cancelling a sound which is propagated from an outside of a predetermined region to the predetermined region and is collected by the first microphone array, and that outputs the output sound from a speaker array on the basis of the speaker drive signal. The first microphone array includes a plurality of microphones. The speaker array includes at least one high-order speaker. The present technology is applicable to a signal processing device.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a speaker array that includes a plurality of speakers, and performs wavefront synthesis by using an output of the plurality of speakers; and a presentation unit that presents visual information indicating a state of waves on a wavefront formed in the wavefront synthesis, or presents visual information based on positional information of a virtual sound image that has been formed in a position that is different from a vicinity of the speaker array in the wavefront synthesis.

Abstract: Provided are a polyurethane and a curable composition capable of obtaining an overcoat film for a flexible wiring board that is excellent in low-warpage properties, flexibility, long-term insulation reliability, and wiring disconnection preventing properties. The polyurethane has: a structural unit of formula (1) (in formula (1), an n-number of R1 each independently represents a 1,2-phenylene group or a 1,2-phenylene group having a substituent, an (n+1)-number of R2 each independently represents a hydrocarbon group having 3-9 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer from 1 to 50); a structural unit of formula (2) (in formula (2). R3 represents a divalent organic group having 6-14 carbon atoms); and a structural unit of formula (3) (in formula (3), R3 represents a divalent organic group having 6-14 carbon atoms, and R4 represents a methyl or ethyl group).

Abstract: A curable composition for forming an overcoat film for flexible wiring boards, the curable composition being effective in improving adhesion to substrates, low warpage, flexibility, the property of inhibiting wire breakage, and long-term reliability. The curable composition according to the present invention comprises a polyurethane (component a) having carboxyl groups and an aromatic-ring concentration of 0.1-6.5 mmol/g and containing an organic residue derived from a polyisocyanate, a solvent (component b), and a compound (component c) having two or more epoxy groups in the molecule.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a conductive polymer-containing dispersion, including: a polymerization step of polymerizing a monomer for obtaining a conjugated conductive polymer in a dispersion medium including the monomer and seed particles converted into a colloid protected by a polyanion.

Abstract: A long-length film including a plurality of knurl portions shaped by continuous linear concavo-convex portions on at least one surface thereof, wherein the plurality of knurl portions are aligned in a lengthwise direction of the long-length film, a planar shape of the knurl portion seen from a thickness direction of the long-length film includes: 10 or more corners having a curvature radius of 0.3 mm or less and an angle of 100° or less or a curvature radius of 0.2 mm or less and an angle of 120° or less, per one planar shape of the knurl portion; and 18 or more straight portions having a straight shape, per one planar shape of the knurl portion.

Abstract: An oil-repellent composition is provided containing an aqueous emulsion in which a copolymer (A) containing a constituent unit based on an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester monomer (A1) and a constituent unit based on an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (A2) is dispersed in an aqueous medium (B), and polyether-modified polydimethyl siloxane (C).