Abstract: A battery state detection device including a battery post terminal, a case accommodating a circuit board including a current sensing circuit that senses a current by being electrically connected to the battery post terminal, and a harness connection part provided on the case, the harness connection part being capable of having a harness connected thereto, in which the battery post terminal includes a holding part held on one of faces of the case, and an insert part provided in a region from the holding part along a face adjacent to the one of the faces of the case, the battery post terminal contacts the case via at least two faces, the two faces including the one of the faces and the face adjacent to the one of the faces, and the case includes a fitting part, the fitting part being adapted to fit around the insert part by accommodating the insert part.

Abstract: A congestion prediction device, a congestion prediction method, and a storage medium are provided. A mapping outputs an output variable when input variables are input to the mapping. The output variable indicates a degree of congestion in a predetermined specific area. The mapping is learned in advance by machine learning. The input variables include congestion variables. Each of the congestion variables indicates a degree of congestion in the specific area at regular time intervals within a specific period. The output variable indicates a degree of congestion after a lapse of the regular time interval from an end time of the specific period.

Abstract: A material sheet is provided having antenna patterns that include first and second coupling portions that are transported toward a mounting position, and an adhesive member that is disposed on the material sheet before reaching the mounting position. At a pickup position, a mounting device picks up an RFIC module including an RFIC chip and first and second terminal electrodes connected to the RFIC chip. At the mounting position, the mounting device mounts the picked-up RFIC module onto the adhesive member on the material sheet so that the first coupling portion and the first terminal electrode face each other and so that the second coupling portion and the second terminal electrode face each other.

Abstract: A power supply control device is to be installed in a vehicle. The power supply control device controls power supply via a semiconductor switch and a fuse by turning the semiconductor switch ON or OFF. The semiconductor switch and the fuse are mounted on a circuit board. In the fuse, two long plate-shaped terminals are arranged in a row. The fusing portion and a part of the two terminals are covered with a housing having heat resistance. The two terminals are disposed in a current path of a current flowing through the semiconductor switch. The current flows through the fusing portion. If the temperature of the fusing portion exceeds a predetermined temperature, the fusing portion is fused.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a communication device performs data communication with an external user terminal apparatus, and a job managing unit receives a print job request from the user terminal apparatus using the communication device. Further, when receiving the print job request from the user terminal apparatus, the job managing unit determines whether there is a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus or not, if there is not a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus, allows the print job request and if there is a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus, determines whether the print job request should be refused or not, and if the print job request should not be refused, allows the print job request and if the print job request should be refused, refuses the print job request.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing sulfated polysaccharides by reacting a PAPS production/regeneration system utilizing the metabolic activity of a microorganism or a treated matter thereof with a microorganism expressing a sulfation enzyme or a treated matter or extract thereof upon mixing of inexpensive raw materials such as magnesium sulfate. The invention also provides a method for producing PAPS from inexpensive raw materials. The methods involve preparing a transformant (a) of a bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, which contains a gene encoding an ATP sulfurylase and a gene encoding an APS kinase, which are expressible, and in which a cell plasma membrane of the transformant (a) is substance-permeable, or a treated matter of the transformant (a), and conducting a reaction for producing PAPS by using a reaction solution containing ATP or an ATP source, a sulfate ion source, and the transformant (a) or the treated matter thereof.

Abstract: Provided are a photosensitive coloring composition including a pigment and a diketopyrrolopyrrole compound A represented by Formula 1, in which, in a case where molar contents of the diketopyrrolopyrrole compound A and a diketopyrrolopyrrole compound B represented by Formula 1 are each denoted by mA and mB, a value of mA/(mA+mB) is 10 mol % to 100 mol %, and a content of the pigment is 35% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content of the photosensitive coloring composition; a cured substance of the photosensitive coloring composition, a color filter including the cured substance, a solid-state imaging element or an image display device, and a novel asymmetric diketopyrrolopyrrole compound. Diketopyrrolopyrrole compound A: A1 represents a monovalent organic group having an acidic or a basic functional group, and B1 represents a monovalent organic group not having an acidic or a basic functional group.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a communication device performs data communication with an external user terminal apparatus, and a job managing unit receives a print job request from the user terminal apparatus using the communication device. Further, when receiving the print job request from the user terminal apparatus, the job managing unit determines whether there is a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus or not, if there is not a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus, allows the print job request and if there is a user who is physically directly using the image forming apparatus, determines whether the print job request should be refused or not, and if the print job request should not be refused, allows the print job request and if the print job request should be refused, refuses the print job request.

Abstract: A dispersion liquid contains modified silica particles that are obtained by reacting silica particles which are surface-treated with a compound A represented by Formula Si(RA)4-n(XA)n, which has a reactive group, with a compound B which has a functional group reacting with the reactive group to form a bond and has an organic group, an organic solvent, and water, in which a content of water is 0.1 to 20.0 mass % with respect to a total mass of the modified silica particles. In Formula A, RA represents a monovalent organic group including the reactive group, XA represents a hydroxyl group or a monovalent hydrolyzable group, and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.

Abstract: A dispersion liquid contains an inorganic oxide particle surface-treated with at least one of a compound represented by Formula Si(RA1)(XA1)3 or a compound represented by Formula Si(RA2)(RA20)(XA2)2, polysiloxane having at least one of a T unit represented by Formula [RB1SiO3/2] or a D unit represented by Formula [RB2RB20SiO], and an organic solvent, where a content of the polysiloxane is 0.5% to 39% by mass with respect to a total amount of the inorganic oxide particle and the polysiloxane, in which in the formula, RA1, RA2, RB1, and RB2 represent a functional group, XA1 and XA2 represent a hydroxyl group or a hydrolyzable group, and RA20 and RB20 represent an alkyl group or an aryl group.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for a fuel pump diagnoses the state of a fuel pump based on: a correlation between a pump rotational speed that is a rotational speed of the motor and fuel pressure that is pressure of the fuel discharged from the fuel pump; and an initial correlation that is the correlation in an initial actuation period from when the fuel pump is energized for the first time to when a specified period has elapsed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition having excellent development residue suppressibility. Moreover, also provided are a cured film, a color filter, a light shielding film, an optical element, a solid-state imaging element, a headlight unit, modified silica particles, and a method for producing modified silica particles. The composition according to the embodiment of the present invention contains modified silica particles and a polymerizable compound, in which the modified silica particles each contain a silica particle and a coating layer coating the silica particle, and the coating layer contains a polymer containing a repeating unit represented by General Formula (1).

Abstract: A composition includes: a compound represented by the following Formula (1); a pigment; and a solvent. In a case where a film having a thickness of 4.0 m is formed using the composition, a maximum value of a light transmittance of the film in a thickness direction in a wavelength range of 360 nm to 700 nm is lower than 40%. In Formula (1), Z1 represents an (m+n)-valent linking group, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a single bond or a linking group, A represents a group including a pigment adsorption portion, P1 represents a polymer chain, n represents 1 to 20, m represents 1 to 20, and m+n represents 3 to 21, at least one of Z1, A1, or P1 includes a photocurable group.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a filtering processing unit that executes a filtering process to suppress background noise of input image data; a threshold setting unit that sets a binarization threshold for the input image data; a background noise determination threshold setting unit that determines that a tone value at which the number of pixels of background noise of the input image data reaches a peak is a background peak tone value and that sets, as a background noise determination threshold, a tone value having a density higher than a density of the background peak tone value and having a number of pixels within a specific range of percentages, of the number of pixels at the peak; a background noise reduction processing unit that executes a background noise reduction process on the input image data and a binarization processing unit that executes a binarization process on the input image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a filtering processing unit that executes a filtering process to suppress background noise of input image data; a threshold setting unit that sets a binarization threshold for the input image data; a background noise determination threshold setting unit that determines that a tone value at which the number of pixels of background noise of the input image data reaches a peak is a background peak tone value and that sets, as a background noise determination threshold, a tone value having a density higher than a density of the background peak tone value and having a number of pixels within a specific range of percentages, of the number of pixels at the peak; a background noise reduction processing unit that executes a background noise reduction process on the input image data and a binarization processing unit that executes a binarization process on the input image data.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for a fuel pump diagnoses the state of a fuel pump based on: a correlation between a pump rotational speed that is a rotational speed of the motor and fuel pressure that is pressure of the fuel discharged from the fuel pump; and an initial correlation that is the correlation in an initial actuation period from when the fuel pump is energized for the first time to when a specified period has elapsed.

Abstract: A composition includes: a compound represented by the following Formula (1); a pigment; and a solvent. In a case where a film having a thickness of 4.0 m is formed using the composition, a maximum value of a light transmittance of the film in a thickness direction in a wavelength range of 360 nm to 700 nm is lower than 40%. In Formula (1), Z1 represents an (m+n)-valent linking group, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a single bond or a linking group, A represents a group including a pigment adsorption portion, P1 represents a polymer chain, n represents 1 to 20, m represents 1 to 20, and m+n represents 3 to 21, at least one of Z1, A1, or P1 includes a photocurable group.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a float glass includes a step of melting a glass raw material, a step of forming the glass melted in the melting step into a glass ribbon while floating the glass on a molten metal, and a step of annealing the glass ribbon. In the forming step, a gas or a liquid containing a molecule having a fluorine atom present therein is blown to the glass ribbon having a viscosity of from 1.0×104 to 2.5×1010 Pa·s.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass sheet having a fluorine concentration at one surface larger than a fluorine concentration at the other surface, the surfaces being opposite to each other in a thickness direction, in which the following Formula (1) is satisfied and the amount of fluorine contained in the glass is more than 0.23 mol %·?m and 21 mol %·?m or less on a depth-direction profile by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) in which a horizontal axis expresses depth and a vertical axis expresses fluorine concentration (mol %). The fluorine concentration is an average fluorine concentration (mol %) by SIMS in the depth of from 1 to 24 ?m. 0.1??F/?H2O??(1) (?F and ?H2O are described in the specification).

Abstract: The present invention prevents erroneous operation of an operation screen by a user when an interruption notification screen is displayed on the operation screen.