Abstract: An optical network unit (ONU) includes a plurality of media access control (MAC) processing units and a storage unit which stores grouping information for grouping the plurality of MAC processing units.

Abstract: An OLT (10) is provided with a priority control bypass circuit (16) and an encryption/decryption bypass circuit (17), or an ONU (20) is provided with a priority control bypass circuit (26) and an encryption/decryption bypass circuit (27), and one or both of encryption/decryption processing and priority control processing are bypassed in accordance with a priority control bypass instruction (BP) and an encryption/decryption bypass instruction (BE), which are set in advance. This reduces a processing delay that occurs in the OLT or the ONU.

Abstract: A waterproof member includes a laminated body including a second silicon layer and a second silicon oxide layer, and a through hole that is provided in the laminated body, prevents passing of liquid, and allows passing of gas, the through hole includes a first through hole that passes through the second silicon layer, and a second through hole passing through the second silicon oxide layer and communicating with the first through hole, and a width of the second through hole is smaller than a width of the first through hole.

Abstract: A new method capable of evaluating wettability of a surface of a material is provided. The method includes the following: applying a gas jet to a surface of a material that is covered with a liquid so as to squeeze the liquid; imaging a surface of a liquid film formed on the surface of the material after squeezing the liquid; and evaluating wettability of the material based on the presence or absence of interference fringes on the surface of the liquid film.

Abstract: A communication system comprising: a control line transmitting a control signal for controlling charging of a battery mounted on a vehicle; a reference potential line connected to a reference potential of the vehicle serving as a reference for the control signal; a first PLC communication device connected to the control line and the reference potential line and superposing onto the control signal a differential signal having a higher frequency than the control signal so as to perform communication with an external power supply apparatus; and an inductive element which is provided at a point of connection between the reference potential line 1c and the reference potential or provided in the reference potential line and the inductive element having impedance for a noise having a higher frequency than the control signal is higher than the impedance for the control signal.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a hollow fiber membrane module (5) for removing gas from an objective liquid or supplying gas to the objective liquid, comprising: a hollow fiber membrane bundle (20); and a collecting member (51) configured to collect first ends (20a) of the hollow fiber membrane bundle (20) while maintaining openings of opened end portions (22a) of hollow fiber membranes (22) of the hollow fiber membrane bundle (20), wherein the collecting member (51) has a coupling portion configured to couple the collecting member (51) to an installation object in a detachable and liquid-tight manner.

Abstract: A cap is applied to a securing structure part for securing structure elements using a fastener passed through through-holes formed in the structure elements, and a collar fastened to the tip part of the fastener. A filler engaging part for engaging a cured filler, configured with a female thread that turns about a center axis, is formed on the inner peripheral surface of the cap. The filler engaging part includes a first helical engagement part formed in the region near the cap inner part of the inner peripheral surface in the center axis direction; and a second helical engagement part formed in the region near the cap opening-end part in the center axis direction, the inner diameter of the second helical engagement part being greater than that of the first helical engagement part, and having a helical direction that is opposite to that of the first helical engagement part.

Abstract: A method evaluates the mobility of a polymer composition in a high-temperature region of 150° C. or above. The method for evaluating a physical property of a polymer composition, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a thin film sample which is formed on a substrate and which comprises: a fluorescent probe including a fluorescent rare earth complex having a melting point of 200° C. or higher; and a target polymer composition; and obtaining a relationship between a temperature and a fluorescent characteristic of the thin film.

Abstract: A technique is provided to enable check of a calibrated condition of a total station (TS) having a laser scanner in a surveying site. The TS includes an optical system for sighting an object, a laser positioning part that irradiates the object with laser light via the optical system to position the object, and a plane crossing location identifying part that identifies a crossing location of multiple planes constituting a three-dimensional structure as a first location, on the basis of the positioning result from the laser positioning part. The TS also includes a laser scanner that performs laser scanning in an area containing the crossing location, a plane crossing location calculator that calculates the crossing location as a second location on the basis of laser scanning data from the laser scanner, and a comparing part that compares the first location and the second location with each other.

Abstract: An antenna device (100) according to the present invention includes a primary radiation means (10) for guiding and emitting radio waves at transmission, and guiding radio waves at reception, an antenna member (20) for reflecting radio waves emitted by the primary radiation means (10) and forming a transmission beam at transmission, and reflecting received waves on the primary radiation means (10) at reception, an angle adjustment means (40) for changing a relative angle between the primary radiation means (10) and the antenna member (20), an angle calculation means (81) for calculating the relative angle to be formed between the primary radiation means (10) and the antenna member (20) for displacement of an azimuth occurring in the primary radiation means (10), and a control means (82) for controlling the angle adjustment means based on the calculated relative angle.

Abstract: A selection and distribution circuit (13) is provided between N optical transceivers (11) and one PON control circuit (12). The selection and distribution circuit (13) selects the optical transceiver (11) corresponding to an upstream frame that time-divisionally arrives, thereby transferring the upstream frame opto-electrically converted by the transceiver (11) to the PON control circuit (12) and distributing a downstream frame from the PON control circuit (12) to each optical transceiver (11). A power supply control circuit (23) stops power supply to at least one of one of optical transceivers (11) that are not used to transfer the frame of the optical transceivers (11) and a circuit that is not used to transfer the frame in the selection and distribution circuit (13). This can reduce the system cost per ONU in the optical transmission system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (1), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R5a and R5b are as defined in the description, which has an autotaxin inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound as an active ingredient, and a method of prevention or treatment of a disease involving autotaxin, which is characterized by administering the compound.

Abstract: The rotary machine includes a rotor rotatably provided and a resin-molded stator. The stator includes a stator core, a coil, and a mold portion. A tooth portion in the stator core includes first and second facing portions. The first facing portion includes a first facing surface where an air gap with the rotor becomes a first distance. The second facing portion is integrated with the first facing portion in the circumferential direction centered at the rotation axis of the rotor, and includes a second facing surface where the air gap becomes a second distance wider than the first distance. The second facing portion includes a groove portion on the second facing surface. The mold portion includes a first mold portion. The first mold portion covers the second facing portion, is provided at the groove portion, and includes a third facing surface where the air gap becomes the first distance.

Abstract: A compound according to any one of formula (Ia) to (Ic), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4c, R5 are as defined in the description.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio (A/F) sensor control device includes: an impedance detector detecting an impedance of an A/F sensor; and a pump current controller performing a digital control on a supply of electric current to the A/F sensor. The pump current controller includes a PID calculator calculating an instruction current value according to a difference of two input values, i.e., the difference between a PID control target value and a detection value of an inter-terminal voltage of a Nernst cell; and a protection clamper limiting a supply of electric current to a pump cell based on the instruction current value and the impedance.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to Substituted Piperidin-4-amino-Type Compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof wherein R1, R2, R3, Q1, Q2, E1, E2, A, B, D, W, Z, a, b, n, and x are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Substituted Piperidin-4-amino-Type Compound, and methods to treat or prevent a condition, such as pain, comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a Substituted Piperidin-4-amino-Type Compound.

Abstract: Provided is a means for evaluating the wetting characteristic of an object such as a cell sheet and a culture dish in a non-contact fashion. The wetting characteristic of an object is evaluated by a method comprising the steps of: (1) removing a liquid by jetting a gas at a surface of the object covered with the liquid, (2) measuring a dimension of a region in which the liquid is removed after the completion of the gas jetting and (3) evaluating the wetting characteristic of the object using the measured dimension as an index.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound which is useful as an AMPK activator. A compound represented by formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R4 is hydrogen, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, R1, R2 and R3 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, carboxy, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like, with the proviso that R1, R2 and R3 are not simultaneously hydrogen, X is a single bond, —S—, —O—, —NR5—, —C(?O)— or the like, R5 is hydrogen, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, Y is substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl or the like.

Abstract: Provided is a printing plate, containing: a screen plate having an opening pattern; and, a frame body to which the screen plate is fixed, in which the screen plate includes at least one curved part and is relatively movably fixed to the frame body.

Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a substrate which has a diaphragm that is flexurally deformed by receiving a pressure, a side wall section which is placed on one surface side of the substrate and surrounds the diaphragm in a plan view, and a sealing layer which is placed so as to face the diaphragm through a space and seals the space, wherein the sealing layer includes a first silicon layer which has a through-hole facing the space, a silicon oxide layer which is located on the opposite side to the space with respect to the first silicon layer and seals the through-hole, and a second silicon layer which is located on the opposite side to the space with respect to the silicon oxide layer.