Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a fixing unit including a belt, and a heater configured to heat the belt and including a substrate and a heating layer that is formed on the substrate, and a controller configured to shut off the heater if no current flows through the belt.

Abstract: A heating device includes a rotatable film, a heater disposed inside the film and including a substrate that extends along a first direction and having two surfaces opposite to each other, and a heater element on one of the surfaces of the substrate, and a heat conductor including a first portion contacting the other surface of the substrate, and a second portion that is adjacent to the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and does not contact the other surface of the substrate. A width of the second portion is wider than the heater element in the second direction.

Abstract: A power conversion system includes: a self-excited converter connected between an AC power system, and a first DC main line and a DC return line; a separately-excited converter connected between the AC power system, and the DC return line and a second DC main line; and a control device. When activating the self-excited converter and the separately-excited converter, the control device activates the self-excited converter, and after completion of activation of the self-excited converter, activates the separately-excited converter. The self-excited converter can be activated first to take advantage of a function of the self-excited converter that is not included in the separately-excited converter.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of embodiments includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer between the electrodes; a gate electrode surrounding the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer and spaced from the first electrode; a first insulating layer between the first electrode and the gate electrode, the gate insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the oxide semiconductor layer; and an intermediate layer between the first electrode and the first insulating layer, including a first region and a second region between the first region and the first insulating layer. The first region contains a first metal element and oxygen, the second region contains a second metal element, and an oxygen concentration in the second region is lower than that in the first region.

Abstract: A moving object conference system is a system for a passenger to participate in an online conference via a communication network in an interior of a moving object, and includes a management unit managing conference information which is communication information of the online conference, for each of interior participants participating in the online conference from the interior of the moving object, and the management unit, for a common online conference that the plurality of interior participants participate in, displays shared information to be distributed to all the participants of the common online conference, of the conference information, on a shared display device shared in the interior of the moving object, and displays an individual operation screen to be individually operated by the participant of the common online conference on an individual touch panel which can be individually operated by the interior participant from a seated position.

Abstract: Provided is a control device for a display device installed on the moving object. The display device includes a first display mode in which content is displayed without dividing a display region, and a second display mode in which the display region is divided into a first display region for a first seat installed in the moving object and a second display region for a second seat within the moving object for displaying. The control device includes an obtaining module which obtains information indicating a display mode of the display device; and a control module which performs zoning of a space within the moving object to output audio, wherein the control module differentiates the zoning depending on whether the display mode of the display device is the first display mode or the second display mode.

Abstract: A control device includes: a phase generation unit to generate a phase of a voltage command for the power converter; a voltage control unit to generate a voltage value of the voltage command; and a command unit to output the voltage command having the phase and the voltage value to the power converter. The voltage control unit includes: a voltage compensator unit to compute a compensation voltage value, based on a voltage deviation of a point-of-interconnection voltage from a reference voltage; a droop calculator unit to compute a first droop value in accordance with a magnitude of a point-of-interconnection current, when the AC power system is an isolated system, the isolated system being the AC power system not connected to a generator; and a calculation unit to calculate the voltage value of the voltage command, based on a difference between the compensation voltage value and the first droop value.

Abstract: A control device includes: a phase error calculation unit to calculate a phase error between a phase of a voltage command for the power converter and a phase of a point-of-interconnection voltage; and an isolated system determination unit to determine whether the AC power system has shifted from an interconnected system to an isolated system, based on the phase error and a magnitude of the point-of-interconnection voltage, the interconnected system being the AC power system connected to a generator, the isolated system being the AC power system not connected to the generator. The isolated system determination unit determines that the AC power system has shifted from the interconnected system to the isolated system, when at least a first condition is met that the phase error is outside a reference range and the magnitude of the point-of-interconnection voltage is greater than a first voltage threshold.

Abstract: A heating device includes a rotatable film, a heater disposed inside the film and including a substrate that extends along a first direction and having two surfaces opposite to each other, and a heater element on one of the surfaces of the substrate, and a heat conductor including a first portion contacting the other surface of the substrate, and a second portion that is adjacent to the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and does not contact the other surface of the substrate. A width of the second portion is wider than the heater element in the second direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a novel method for lowering the concentrations of dimethylamine, diethylamine, ethylpropylamine, and ethylisopropylamine in a crude trialkylamine. The present disclosure relates to a method for purifying a trialkylamine, including contacting a crude trialkylamine containing at least one impurity selected from the group consisting of dimethylamine, diethylamine, ethylpropylamine, and ethylisopropylamine with a zeolite to lower a concentration of the at least one impurity selected from the group consisting of dimethylamine, diethylamine, ethylpropylamine, and ethylisopropylamine in the crude trialkylamine than the concentration before contacting with the zeolite.

Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. At least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode has a light-transmitting property. The photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound composed of a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, and a halogen anion. The electron transport layer contains a metal oxynitride having electron conductivity. The metal oxynitride has an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to 1×10?7 S/cm.

Abstract: A dielectric of the present disclosure includes a composite oxide having composition represented by LaxYyAl(1-x-y)Ok. In the composition, a requirement 0.1?x+y<0.50 is satisfied. The symbol k is a value for maintaining electroneutrality of the composite oxide.

Abstract: A dielectric of the present disclosure includes a composite oxide including at least two selected from the group consisting of Nb, Bi, and Ta, wherein the following requirement (I), (II), or (III) is satisfied: (I) the composite oxide includes Nb, Bi, and Ta; (II) the composite oxide includes Nb and Bi and is amorphous; and (III) the composite oxide includes Bi and Ta and is amorphous.

Abstract: A dielectric of the present disclosure includes a tantalum compound containing fluorine and oxygen and being amorphous, and is advantageous in terms of achieving a high dielectric constant.

Abstract: A dielectric includes a composite oxide. The composite oxide has composition represented by CexAl1-xOk and is amorphous. In the composition represented by CexAl1-xOk, a requirement 0.400?x<0.900 is satisfied. The symbol k is a value for maintaining electroneutrality of the composite oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising acquiring a value relating to VEGF-A of a subject, wherein the value is a measured value of total VEGF-A in a blood sample, or a value obtained by dividing a measured value of VEGF-A165b in the blood sample by a measured value of total VEGF-A in the blood sample (VEGF-A165b/total VEGF-A), and the value suggests prognosis of myocardial infarction of the subject or severity of coronary artery disease of the subject.

Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a semiconductor layer located between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, in which at least one selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode is translucent, and the semiconductor layer contains a compound containing Na, Zn, and O.

Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. At least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode has a light-transmitting property. The photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound composed of a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, and a halogen anion. The electron transport layer contains a metal oxynitride having electron conductivity. The metal oxynitride has an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to 1×10?7 S/cm.

Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a multi-junction light energy conversion element including a material having a band gap suitable for a light energy conversion layer located upstream in an incidence direction of light. The present disclosure provides a light energy conversion element, comprising a first light energy conversion layer containing SrZn2N2 and a second light energy conversion layer containing an light energy conversion material. The light energy conversion material has a narrower band gap than the SrZn2N2.

Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a semiconductor layer located between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, in which at least one selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode is translucent, and the semiconductor layer contains a compound containing Na, Zn, and O.