Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: An in-vehicle seat includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and an anchor for fixing a child seat. The seat cushion has a seat cushion base, a seat cushion pad that is removable from the seat cushion, and a supporting panel. The supporting panel is provided between the seat cushion base and the seat cushion pad, and serves as a placement face for the child seat. The anchor is provided at a position at which the anchor is covered and hidden by the seat cushion pad, and at which the anchor is externally exposed when the seat cushion pad is removed from the seat cushion. A guide groove that guides a linking portion protruding from the child seat to the anchor is provided in the supporting panel.

Abstract: An attention attracting system includes an attention attracting device that transmits, to a driver, a possibility of contact between a subject vehicle and an object and that includes a risk identification section identifying a risk position which is a position having a strong possibility of contact occurring between the subject vehicle and the object and a risk level which is a degree of the possibility of the contact occurring at the risk position, and a transmission section which transmits the risk position and the risk level to the driver, which provides a tactile stimulus or an auditory stimulus to the driver through a tactile HMI device or an auditory HMI device at a remarkableness level corresponding to height of the risk level, and which transmits, to the driver through a visual HMI device, visual information indicating a direction of the risk position viewed from the driver.

Abstract: [Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a foam including a thermoplastic resin and rubber as a main component, in which a micronized product of a cellulose fiber is uniformly dispersed, and uniformity and mechanical properties are excellent. [Solution] A foam includes a modified cellulose fiber (A) covalently bonded with a diene-based polymer, a thermoplastic resin and/or rubber (B), and a diene-based polymer (C) having a functional group capable of covalently bonding with a cellulose fiber, in which the fiber (A) is micronized, the fiber (A) has a content of 0.05 to 20% by mass, and the thermoplastic resin and/or rubber (B) has a glass transition point of ?130° C. to 120° C.

Abstract: A detection system includes an imaging unit configured to acquire in advance a first distance image indicating a background and acquire a second distance image including at least the background and a target object, and a processing unit configured to calculate a first virtual volume indicating the background from the first distance image, calculate a second virtual volume indicating the target object from the second distance image, and compare the first virtual volume with the second virtual volume to detect the target object.

Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.

Abstract: A detection system includes an imaging unit configured to acquire a distance image indicating a distance to a target object, and a processing unit configured to divide pixels included in the distance image into blocks according to a distance relationship, and detects a state of the target object by comparing ratios of pixels included in the respective blocks.

Abstract: An in-vehicle seat includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and an anchor for fixing a child seat. The seat cushion has a seat cushion base, a seat cushion pad that is removable from the seat cushion, and a supporting panel. The supporting panel is provided between the seat cushion base and the seat cushion pad, and serves as a placement face for the child seat. The anchor is provided at a position at which the anchor is covered and hidden by the seat cushion pad, and at which the anchor is externally exposed when the seat cushion pad is removed from the seat cushion. A guide groove that guides a linking portion protruding from the child seat to the anchor is provided in the supporting panel.

Abstract: An electrical condition data management apparatus includes a control unit, a storage unit, and a communication unit. The storage unit stores electrical condition data that changes a feeling of taste.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a wiring member, a sintered member between a first main electrode of the semiconductor element and the wiring member, and a sealing body. The wiring member includes a base material, a metal film on a face of the base material, and an uneven oxide film. The uneven oxide film includes a thick film portion and a thin film portion. An opposing face of the wiring member opposing the semiconductor element includes a mounting portion to which the first main electrode is bonded, an outer peripheral portion formed with the thick film portion and surrounding the semiconductor element, and an intermediate portion formed with the thin film portion between the mounting portion and the outer peripheral portion. The sintered member overlaps with the mounting portion and the intermediate portion in the plan view, and is in contact with the thin film portion.

Abstract: A circulation channel for circulating liquid, which is configured at least with an ejection unit, a first pressure adjusting unit, a second pressure adjusting unit, a pump, and a temperature adjusting unit, is included, and, in the circulation channel, liquid supplied from the outside flows into the first pressure adjusting unit and then is flowed out of the first pressure adjusting unit into the ejection unit and the second pressure adjusting unit, the liquid flowed out of the ejection unit and the liquid flowed out of the first pressure adjusting unit flow into the second pressure adjusting unit and then are flowed out of the second pressure adjusting unit into the pump, the pump sends the liquid flowed out of the second pressure adjusting unit to the first pressure adjusting unit, and the temperature of the circulating ink is adjusted by the temperature adjusting unit.

Abstract: A housing includes a body having an opening. The body includes a peripheral portion that abuts on the opening. A cover covers at least a part of the opening. A seal is sandwiched between the cover and the peripheral portion of the body. At least one of the cover and the peripheral portion of the body includes a corner portion and a linear portion. The corner portion has a first shape that defines one of a gap between the cover and the peripheral portion of the body and a width of the seal. The linear portion abuts on the corner portion. The linear portion has a second shape that defines the one of the gap between the cover and the peripheral portion of the body and the width of the seal. The second shape is different from the first shape of the corner portion.

Abstract: A printing element includes a substrate, an intermediate layer, and a channel forming member layered in this order. The substrate has a common liquid chamber. The channel forming member has a second surface that is a surface facing the substrate via the intermediate layer, and a first surface that is an opposite surface to the second surface. The first surface is formed with a plurality of ejection ports that eject liquid from the common liquid chamber. The second surface is formed with a plurality of channels that allow each of the plurality of ejection ports and the common liquid chamber to communicate with each other, and a plurality of substantially parallel beam structures, the plurality of beam structures forming a slit portion therebetween.

Abstract: A casing structure, an optical scanner, and an image forming apparatus. The casing structure includes a casing having an opening, a cover that covers the opening of the casing, and a seal disposed between the casing and the cover. In the casing structure, the cover is openable and closable with respect to the casing, and the seal contacting the casing and the cover when the cover is closed. In the casing structure, the casing or the cover including at least one portion contained in the seal in a cross section taken in a direction the cover is opened or closed. The optical scanner includes the casing structure. In the optical scanner, the casing stores a plurality of components to be applied to an image forming apparatus, and the cover has an optical element through which light passes. The image forming apparatus includes the optical scanner.

Abstract: A washing liquid distribution element attached to an upper portion of a rotor body includes an upper distribution element and a lower distribution element. A washing liquid is supplied from a washing liquid introduction port during rotation of a rotor and enters a recessed inner portion of the lower distribution element. The washing liquid entered in the inner portion moves from the vicinity of rotation center toward a radially outer side to climb an inclined part by centrifugal force. Washing liquid passages are formed in a radial pattern at a lower annular part at a tip of the inclined part, and the washing liquid is discharged radially outward from discharge ports of the washing liquid passages. Formation of the inclined part makes it possible to evenly distribute the washing liquid into test tubes.

Abstract: An information processing device for managing a vehicle including a toilet unit, a tank unit connected to the toilet unit for storing waste that flows from the toilet unit, and a traveling unit capable of moving the toilet unit and the tank unit. The information processing device performs control for disconnecting the traveling unit from the toilet unit and the tank unit when installing a toilet. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire a storage amount of waste in the tank unit and to generate commands to the traveling unit to cause the traveling unit to replace the tank unit when the storage amount of waste becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An optical scanning device includes light sources, a deflector, an optical element, and light blockers. The light blockers are spaced apart in a rotation direction of the deflector. An inequality ?1<?2 is satisfied, where when viewed from the rotation axis direction, ?1 is an angle formed by a line segment connecting the end portion of a light blocker disposed most downstream in the rotation direction to a rotation axis center of the deflector and a line segment connecting the end portion of a light blocker disposed most upstream in the rotation direction to the rotation axis center, and ?2 is an angle formed by a line segment connecting an upstream end portion of one mirror surface in the rotation direction to the rotation axis center and a line segment connecting a downstream end portion of the one mirror surface in the rotation direction to the rotation axis center.

Abstract: An antenna unit for inductively coupled plasma includes an antenna configured to generate an inductively coupled plasma used in processing a substrate within a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus, wherein the antenna includes planar sections which are formed to face the substrate and generate an induction electric field that contributes to generate the inductively coupled plasma, wherein a plurality of antenna segments having planar portions which form a portion of the planar sections are arranged to constitute the planar sections, wherein the antenna segments are constituted by winding an antenna line in a direction intersecting with the substrate in a longitudinal and spiral pattern.

Abstract: A liquid supply member includes a first member, a second member, and a damper member disposed between the first member and the second member, wherein the first member is a member configured to form a liquid chamber, wherein the damper member is a flexible member configured to form the liquid chamber together with the first member, wherein the second member is a member configured to form an atmosphere communication chamber communicating with an ambient atmosphere at a position between the damper member and the second member and opposing the liquid chamber with the damper member in between, and wherein a protrusion portion is formed on a surface of the second member facing the atmosphere communication chamber at a position corresponding to a central part of the damper member, the protrusion portion protruding toward the damper member beyond a connection surface between the damper member and the second member.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an element substrate including an energy generation element configured to generate energy for discharging liquid from a discharge port, and a supporting member which supports the element substrate and in which a liquid chamber configured to supply liquid to the discharge port is formed, wherein a recessed portion communicating with the liquid chamber is formed at a position above the liquid chamber in a vertical direction in an orientation of the liquid discharge head when used, and wherein at least one of surfaces forming the recessed portion is formed of a flexible member configured to absorb vibration of liquid in the liquid chamber.