Abstract: An attachment structure for installing a lighting device on an attachment target, includes a hole formed in a bottom surface of the attachment structure for letting light from the lighting device pass through the hole, and a plurality of ribs formed around the hole. The plurality of ribs are substantially flush with each other in a lighting device placement area configured to receive a bottom surface of the lighting device, so that the lighting device is positioned with respect to the bottom surface of the attachment structure in a height direction of the lighting device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an analysis method for analyzing an analyte in a specimen, the analysis method including: obtaining first data corresponding to an optical signal obtained from the analyte; inputting set data composed of a plurality of pieces of the first data, to an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of calculating a relevance degree between the pieces of the first data; and determining a type of the analyte by using the relevance degree.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and method, and a program that allow self-sovereign user authentication to be implemented in a simpler manner.

Abstract: Provided is a breather chamber structure for an internal combustion engine that is capable of increasing a passage length inside a breather chamber with a simple structure. A breather chamber structure for an internal combustion engine that is applicable to a breather chamber for temporarily storing, inside an internal combustion engine, blowby gas generated during operation of the internal combustion engine and to be recirculated to an intake passage, includes, in the breather chamber, a two-stage section formed by a first plate and a second plate that are attached to a rear surface side of a cylinder head cover attached to a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine and that are parallel with and spaced apart from each other, the two-stage section, and including a first chamber and a second chamber that are partitioned by the first plate.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of windings and a plurality of insulators. The stator core is constituted of a plurality of core constituent parts each of which includes a yoke constituent part and a tooth protruding from the yoke constituent part. Each of the windings has a plurality of winding sections each of which is wound around a corresponding one of the teeth of the stator core. Each of the insulators has a plurality of insulating parts, each of which is mounted to a corresponding one of the core constituent parts to insulate the tooth included in the corresponding core constituent part and the winding section wound around the tooth from each other, and a connecting ring that connects the insulating parts. Each of the connecting rings of the insulators has an inner diameter set to be greater than an outer diameter of a rotor.

Abstract: Provided is an optical resin composition for lenses that contains a resin having a structural unit represented by formula (1), and a binaphthalene compound and/or a binaphthalene compound oligomer having a structural unit represented by formula (2). A, p, K1, K2, Z, and q in formula (1) are as described in the present specification. R1-R10, a, and b in formula (2) are as described in the present specification.

Abstract: A camera and a system capable of detecting an object for any portion of an image taken and generated. The system includes: a surveillance camera; and an information terminal that is communicable with the surveillance camera. The information terminal includes a designation unit that is configured to designate a detection area, in which a person is to be detected, for the surveillance camera in an imaging-area image acquired from the surveillance camera. The surveillance camera includes a detection unit configured to detect an object in the detection area in a generated image and a transmission unit configured to transmit a notification indicating a detection of the object to another device.

Abstract: A method for producing an synthetic graphite material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrodes, including a step of performing a coking treatment on a raw material oil composition by carrying out a delayed coking process to generate a raw coke composition, a step of performing a heat treatment on the raw coke composition to obtain a heat-treated raw coke composition, a step of crushing the heat-treated raw coke composition to obtain heat-treated raw coke powder, a step of coating the heat-treated raw coke powder with a coating material to obtain coated heat-treated raw coke powder, and a step of graphitizing the coated heat-treated raw coke powder to obtain an synthetic graphite material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrodes, in which a specific surface area of the heat-treated raw coke powder is 10.5 m2/g or greater.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to be able to convey a roll sheet that is wound in a rolled shape and a cut sheet that is not wound in a rolled shape to a printing unit configured to print an image, a receiving unit detachably attached to the apparatus, the receiving unit being configured to receive the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit; a detection unit configured to detect whether the receiving unit is attached to the apparatus; and a holding unit configured to, in a case where the detection unit detects that the receiving unit is not attached to the apparatus, nip to hold the cut sheet onto which printing has been performed by the printing unit.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus comprises a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet. The printing apparatus performs: supplying the sheet by rotating the roll sheet held by the holding unit; nipping and conveying the supplied sheet; performing printing on the conveyed sheet; detecting occurrence of a print medium jam of the sheet; and, if the printing apparatus has detected a print medium jam of the sheet, performing a control process of supplying the sheet in a state in which the conveying is stopped.

Abstract: A communication system includes a communication terminal, base stations performing radio communication with the communication terminal, and a host device of the base stations. A serving base station of the communication terminal or the host device selects, from among the base stations, a positioning base station transmitting a positioning signal for measuring a position of the communication terminal. The positioning base station transmits the positioning signal, and the communication terminal receives the positioning signal.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first processor that performs processing for transmitting a signal to and receiving a signal from a communication destination device and a second processor that performs processing of an additional function. The second processor includes a decoding unit that decodes a transmission signal encoded by the first processor or a reception signal encoded by the communication destination device, an information acquiring unit that acquires information from the transmission signal or the reception signal decoded by the decoding unit, an additional function executing unit that performs the processing of the additional function using the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, and an encoding unit that performs processing for encoding the decoded transmission signal and outputting a resulting signal to the communication destination device or processing for encoding the decoded reception signal and outputting a resulting signal to the first processor.

Abstract: A synthetic graphite material, in which a size L (112) of a crystallite in a c-axis direction as calculated from a (112) diffraction line obtained by an X-ray wide angle diffraction method is in a range of 4 to 30 nm, a surface area based on a volume as calculated by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution measuring device is in a range of 0.22 to 1.70 m2/cm3, an oil absorption is in a range of 67 to 147 mL/100 g, a spectrum derived from carbon appearing in an electron spin resonance method as measured using an X band is in a range of 3200 to 3410 gauss, and ?Hpp, which is a line width of the spectrum as calculated from a first derivative spectrum of the spectrum at a temperature of 4.8K, is in a range of 41 to 69 gauss.

Abstract: A position detection system flexibly adaptable to various services and systems includes a plurality of imaging units, a detection unit that detects a position of an object in images generated by the plurality of imaging units, a specifying unit that specifies information on the object in an area where fields of view of the imaging units are integrated, based on the position of the detected object, and a transmission unit that transmits the identified information on the object to a host system.

Abstract: A reader that reduces the impacts of radio waves while keeping the convenience during reading, and such an information providing system. The reader reads information from a RF tag attached to a product. The reader has an opening, and includes a shield that accommodates the product placed through the opening, and an antenna that radiates radio waves for communicating with the RF tag attached to the accommodated product. The reader reads information from the RF tag while keeping the shield open.

Abstract: An intake system of an internal combustion engine, in which a phase angle between throttle valves is provided in order to perform combustion appropriate for each cylinder so as to stabilize a number of revolutions and thereby suppress generation of unburned gas, is provided. The intake system is provided to intake passages of an internal combustion engine with parallel cylinders. The intake system includes a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit power from a power source to throttle shafts so as to synchronize and simultaneously turn a plurality of throttle valves and thereby open and close the intake passages. At least one of the throttle valves is an angled throttle valve having a phase angle at an open position relative to the other throttle valve.

Abstract: An output system includes a terminal device, an image-forming apparatus, and a server device. The terminal device includes an acquirer that acquires content from the server device, a generator that generates job data including a setting for outputting the content based on the acquired content, a transmitter that transmits the job data to the image-forming apparatus, and a reception slip outputter that outputs a reception slip including a reception number corresponding to the generated job data. The image-forming apparatus includes a receiver that receives the job data from the terminal device, and an outputter that outputs the content after executing a job based on the job data corresponding to the reception number when the reception number is input.

Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide an anti-loosening metallic male screw that can exhibit a sufficient anti-loosening effect by forming a flat part and a short slope in a part of the thread bottom of the male screw and thus ensuring pressure contact between a thread peak of a female screw and the slope at the thread bottom of the male screw.

Abstract: An intake system of an internal combustion engine, in which a phase angle between throttle valves is provided in order to perform combustion appropriate for each cylinder so as to stabilize a number of revolutions and thereby suppress generation of unburned gas, is provided. The intake system is provided to intake passages of an internal combustion engine with parallel cylinders. The intake system includes a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit power from a power source to throttle shafts so as to synchronize and simultaneously turn a plurality of throttle valves and thereby open and close the intake passages. At least one of the throttle valves is an angled throttle valve having a phase angle at an open position relative to the other throttle valve.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a slot insulation member arranged in a slot between adjacent ones of coils in a circumferential direction of a yoke. The slot insulation member is a wedge-shaped spacer and includes a main body and projections. The projections are arranged in the slot and projected from the main body. The coil includes a main coil portion, a coil end, and a bent coil portion. The main coil portion is arranged in the slot and sandwiched between a corresponding one of the projections and a corresponding tooth. The coil end is arranged outside the slot and contacts the main body. The coil end is wider than the main coil portion. The bent coil portion connects the main coil portion and the coil end.