Abstract: A terminal including: a reception unit that receives a reference signal periodically transmitted from a network; a transmission unit that transmits a measurement result of the reference signal; and a control unit that determines whether or not to assume a reception of at least a part of the reference signal based on whether or not a specific condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A money handling device includes a feeding unit; a transport unit; a receiving unit; a recognition unit; and a mount to which a first board or a second board is detachably mounted, a memory configured to store information to be used in money handling and attached to the first board or the second board. The first board holds a first key which is an encryption and decryption key unique to the first board, the second board holds a second key, and the first board and the second board hold a third key which is a common key. In a management method, the first board encrypts the information using the first key and stores the encrypted information in the memory, and encrypts the first key using the third key and stores the encrypted first key in the memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to magnetoresistive (MR) devices. The MR device comprises a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer that increases stability to magnetic fields, and in turn, results in lower magnetic noise of the device. The MR device comprises a first ferromagnetic (FM1) layer and a second ferromagnetic (FM2) layer, in between which is an SAF spacer of RuAl alloy having a B2 crystalline structure with (001) texture, meaning that the (001) plane is parallel to the surface of MR device substrate. The first ferromagnetic (FM1) layer and a part of the second ferromagnetic (FM2) layer also have the (001) texture. An amorphous layer in a second ferromagnetic (FM2) layer can reset the growth texture of the MR device to a (111) texture in order to promote the growth of an antiferromagnetic (AF) pinning layer.

Abstract: A terminal comprises: a transmission unit that transmits a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a reception quality in a physical layer; and a control unit that assumes the measurement related to the reception quality in the physical layer is performed using the reference signal.

Abstract: A terminal comprises: a reception unit that receives a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a radio link management; and a control unit that performs the measurement related to the radio link management using the reference signal.

Abstract: An ion transport optical system includes N rod electrodes forming an N-pole arrangement externally tangent to a circle of diameter A1 at an ion-entrance end, where N is an even number not smaller than six. Four electrodes form a quadrupole arrangement externally tangent to a circle of diameter A2 at an ion-exit end, where A2<A1. At least two of them are arranged obliquely to the central axis of the N-pole or quadrupole arrangement. At least four of the N electrodes are shaped such that the cross-sectional radius of their arc-shaped portion facing the central axis at the ion-exit end is smaller than that at the ion-entrance end. A voltage generator applies a DC voltage to the four electrodes and another DC voltage, which differs from the first one, to the N?4 remaining electrodes, in addition to RF voltages of opposite phases alternately applied to the N electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit (620) searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) (630) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code.

Abstract: A disclosed apparatus may include (1) a power enclosure electrically coupled to a power supply module of a computing device, (2) a power connector that (A) is electrically coupled to a power cable that facilitates carrying electric current to the power supply module via the power enclosure and (B) is dimensioned to mate with the power enclosure, and (3) at least one power switch that (A) is electrically coupled to the power enclosure, (B) is configured to be engaged by at least one feature of the power connector while the power connector is fully mated with the power enclosure, and when engaged by the feature of the power connector, (C) enables electric current to flow from the power connector to the power supply module via the power enclosure. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A skin stimulation brush includes stimulation brush pins, each including a base bottom member made of a metal, which is connected to an electric circuit so as to allow conduction of electricity from the electric circuit; a body member being an elongated tubular body, which has a proximal end portion at which the base bottom member is disposed; an electrode member connected to an opening of the body member on a distal end side, and having a distal end being exposed; and a metal shaft inserted into a tubular inner portion of the body member with an air gap, which is configured to couple the base bottom member and the electrode member while being in a compressed state in a length direction of the body member. The metal shaft has pliability that allows bending in a radial direction. The body member has elasticity that allows bending in a radial direction.

Abstract: A composite sintered material includes: a plurality of diamond grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 10 ?m; a plurality of cubic boron nitride grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 2 ?m; and a plurality of aluminum oxide grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 0.5 ?m; and a remainder of a binder phase, wherein at least parts of adjacent diamond grains are bound to one another, the binder phase includes cobalt, in the composite sintered material, a content of the diamond grains is from 30 to 92 volume %, a content of the cubic boron nitride grains is from 3 to 40 volume %, a content of the aluminum oxide grains is from 2 to 15 volume %, and a content of the cobalt is from 3 to 30 volume %.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to spintronic devices, and more specifically to self-cooling spintronic devices. In an embodiment, a device is provided. The device includes a spintronic device having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first layer disposed on the first side, and a second layer disposed on the second side, the first layer having a Seebeck coefficient that is different from a Seebeck coefficient of the second layer.

Abstract: This information processing system includes: a controller including an operation element to be displaced from an initial position by user's operation, a restoring force imparting section applying a restoring force for returning the displaced operation element to the initial position, a resistance section using a magnetorheological fluid whose viscosity changes with a magnetic-field intensity and which becomes resistance when the operation element is displaced from/to the initial position, and a magnetic field generation section which provides the magnetic field to the magnetorheological fluid; and a circuit capable of controlling the magnetic field generation section. The circuit controls a magnetic-field intensity so that the viscosity of the magnetorheological fluid periodically changes at least between a first viscosity state and a second viscosity state in which the viscosity is lower than in the first viscosity state so that the operation element returns to the initial position by the restoring force.

Abstract: The present invention provides a (meth)acryloyl compound suitable to prepare a medical material having beneficial hydrophilicity and sufficient strength; and a method for preparing the compound. A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R3 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and, L is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms and optionally having an ether bond.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber; a substrate holder that is disposed in the processing chamber and holds a substrate; a processing liquid supply that supplies a processing liquid to the substrate held in the substrate holder; an infrared camera that acquires an infrared image of the processing chamber; and a controller that detects at least a state of the processing liquid based on the infrared image and monitors presence/absence of an abnormality.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid in an ejection direction; and a support unit having a support body that supports the liquid ejecting head and a base portion that supports the support body, and the support body is rotatable about a rotation shaft extending in a direction orthogonal to the ejection direction with respect to the base portion.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from another communication apparatus, a plurality of requests to transmit a signal in a resource autonomously selected by the another communication apparatus; a control unit configured to control the transmitting of a plurality of the signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of the requests, based on a condition; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the another communication apparatus, at least a predetermined number of signals among the plurality of signals.

Abstract: Provided is a method for displaying an image including: acquiring a to-be-displayed image; correcting the to-be-displayed image based on a target look-up table, wherein in the target look-up table, at least one of the original pixel values and a corresponding corrected pixel value satisfy: an absolute value of a difference between a first chroma and a second chroma is less than or equal to a chroma difference threshold, wherein the first chroma is a chroma of a first pixel, a pixel value of the first pixel being acquired by converting the original pixel value, and the second chroma is a chroma of a second pixel displayed by the display device, a pixel value of the second pixel being acquired by converting the corrected pixel value; and displaying a corrected to-be-displayed image.

Abstract: Battery cells may be heated safely and reliably. A power supply device includes a battery block (10) including battery cells including positive and negative electrodes at both ends, lead plate (2) connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the battery cells to electrically connect the battery cells, and a sheet heater (3) configured to heat the battery cells. The sheet heater (3) is thermally coupled and placed on one surface on the negative electrode of the battery cell via one of the lead plates (2).

Abstract: A travel control device for controlling traveling of a straddle-type vehicle includes a control device, a vehicle speed detector configured to detect a traveling speed of the vehicle, and a vibration detector configured to detect a detection target vibration which is a vibration in a yaw direction or roll direction of the vehicle and has a frequency within a reference frequency range. The control device includes a deceleration device configured to perform a deceleration control to decelerate the traveling speed if the traveling speed exceeds a control start reference speed and an amplitude of the detection target vibration exceeds a control start reference amplitude and a deceleration stop device configured to stop the deceleration control if the traveling speed becomes equal to or less than a target limited speed after the deceleration control is started by the deceleration device.