Abstract: A control device including a control unit configured to control a fan system including a fan and a motor for driving the fan is disclosed. The control unit includes a fan characteristic storage unit configured to store correlated information correlated to a fan characteristic, the fan characteristic being a characteristic of the fan. The control unit controls the fan system based on the correlated information. The control unit includes a correction unit configured to correct the correlated information to correspond to changes in the fan characteristic occurring as a function of deformation over time of the fan.

Abstract: A sintered body contains a fluorescent material being at least one selected from the group consisting of a nitride fluorescent material having a composition of formula (I) and an ?-SiAlON fluorescent material having a composition of formula (II), and emits light having a color tone in an area A1 surrounded by lines connecting a point 1a (x=0.549, y=0.425), a point 2a (x=0.562, y=0.438), a point 3a (x=0.589, y=0.411), and a point 4a (x=0.576, y=0.407) in the chromaticity diagram of the CIE 1931 color system upon irradiation with excitation light, wherein, upon irradiation with excitation light, the light emitted from the sintered body has an emission spectrum in which an integral value ratio Z2/Z1 as described in the disclosure is 0.005 or more.

Abstract: A contactless power feeding apparatus includes a plurality of primary coils mounted on a road and a power feed controller which uses a portion of the primary coils as a power transmitting coil to achieve delivery of electrical power from the power transmitting coil to a secondary coil mounted in a vehicle. The power feed controller uses a selected primary coil that is one of the primary coils other than the power transmitting coil to decrease a leakage of magnetic flux arising from excitation of the power transmitting coil. Instead of the selected primary coil, the secondary coil may be used to reduce the leakage of magnetic flux.

Abstract: A NOx removal device includes: an ammonia injection part configured to inject ammonia to the flue gas flowing through a duct; a mixer configured to mix the flue gas and ammonia; and a NOx removal catalyst configured to provide a resistance against a flow of a mixture fluid in which the flue gas and the reducing agent are mixed. The ammonia injection part has an ammonia pipe and injecting nozzles provided in the ammonia pipe and configured to inject ammonia into the duct. The distance A from the ammonia injection part to the mixer is 10 times or greater and 30 times or less the outer diameter d of the ammonia pipe. The distance B from the mixer to the NOx removal catalyst is longer than the distance A from the ammonia injection part to the mixer.

Abstract: A solar cell comprising a semiconductor substrate, first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layers, a band-like first base electrode stacked on the first semiconductor layer, a band-like second base electrode stacked on the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode insulation stacked on the first base electrodes, a second electrode insulation stacked on the second base electrodes, an intermediate insulation stacked on a region of the first semiconductor layer in which the first base electrode is not stacked, and a region of the second semiconductor layer in which the second base electrode is not stacked, a first current collector stacked to span the second electrode insulation and the intermediate insulation, and a second current collector stacked to span the first electrode insulation and the intermediate insulation.

Abstract: Electromagnetic wave detector includes semiconductor layer, first insulating film, two-dimensional material layer, first electrode, second electrode, second insulating film, and control electrode. First insulating film is arranged on semiconductor layer. First insulating film is provided with opening. Two-dimensional material layer is electrically connected to semiconductor layer in opening. Two-dimensional material layer extends from above opening to first insulating film. Second insulating film is in contact with two-dimensional material layer. Control electrode is connected to two-dimensional material layer with second insulating film interposed therebetween.

Abstract: An object is to provide a small directional antenna. A radio wave deflection element is formed as a plate-like member including a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, having a principal surface perpendicular to a first direction, and having a longitudinal direction in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a radio wave source is disposed so as to be separated from the radio wave deflection element in the first direction and offset from a center of the radio wave deflection element by a predetermined distance in the first direction, and configured to emit a radio wave to the radio wave deflection element. Dielectric constants of the plurality of dielectric layers decrease in a stepwise manner as a distance from the center of the radio wave deflection element increases in the first direction.

Abstract: A vehicle braking control apparatus includes a controller and a determiner. The controller is configured to switch between a braking-force generating control and a braking-force release control. The controller causes a braking device mounted on a vehicle to generate a braking force in the braking-force generating control and causes the braking device to release the generated braking force in the braking-force release control. The determiner is configured to determine whether an unstable-behavior with rotation around a rotation axis along a vertical direction occurs or not in the vehicle based on a determination-value determined by a state occurred in the vehicle and a state of a road surface with which wheels of the vehicle are in contact. The controller causes the braking device to generate the braking force by executing the braking-force generating control when the determiner determines that the unstable-behavior occurs.

Abstract: A fluid transfer apparatus includes a control device configured to determine whether or not a structure is in a clogged state, using a physical quantity obtained from a motor and correlated with a pressure loss in a fluid passage, At least one of a transfer section or the fluid passage is configured to make a proportion of a disturbance to the physical quantity small.

Abstract: The money handling system includes: a money handling device that is installed in a property accommodating first and second financial institutions and that is configured to perform a first money handling process for a transaction of the first financial institution and a second money handling process for a transaction of the second financial institution; and a computer configured to manage information about the money stored in the money handling device, and configured to distinguish, as the management, between money belonging to the first financial institution and money belonging to the second financial institution, wherein the computer updates the information about the money of the first financial institution in a case where the money handling device performs the first money handling process, and updates the information about the money of the second financial institution in a case where the money handling device performs the second money handling process.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles and silica particles that are added to an exterior of the toner particles and contain a nitrogen element-containing compound containing a molybdenum element, in which in the silica particles, a ratio (Mo/Si) of Net intensity of the molybdenum element to Net intensity of a silicon element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.035 or more and 0.35 or less.

Abstract: An oil structure of an internal combustion engine includes a main oil pump configured to suck lubricating oil stored in a crankcase and feed the lubricating oil to respective engine parts and a scavenge pump configured to recover the lubricating oil from any lubricated engine part and return the lubricating oil into the crankcase. The scavenge pump has: an oil suction passage extending from the lubricated engine part to a suction side of the scavenge pump; and an air introduction passage for negative pressure control connected to the oil suction passage. An air introduction port of the air introduction passage is open to the inside of the crankcase and is set to a height position such that, when a level of the lubricating oil in the crankcase is inclined, the lubricating oil flows in from the air introduction port and returns from the scavenge pump into the crankcase.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus suppressing the occurrence of an ejection failure without increasing the size of the apparatus are provided. To this end, between a circulation unit and a supply flow path communicating with a pressure chamber, a flow path is provided, having a vertical cross-sectional area in a liquid circulation direction, which is double or more a vertical cross-sectional area in a liquid circulation direction in the supply flow path and having a flow path inner wall inclined with respect to the gravitational direction and whose component force of a normal vector has a component in the gravitational direction.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a resin package comprising a first lead, a second lead, and a resin part; and a light emitting element disposed on the first lead. The resin package has a rectangular shape in top view and comprises a first outer lateral surface, a second outer lateral surface on a side opposite the first outer lateral surface, a third outer lateral surface, and a fourth outer lateral surface on a side opposite the third outer lateral surface. At the first outer lateral surface, the first lead is exposed from the resin part, and the first lead and a portion of the resin part located at a lateral edge of the first lead are substantially coplanar with each other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor treatment liquid which has excellent anticorrosion properties against at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Cu and Co in a case of being brought into contact with an object containing the metal, and also has excellent cleanability for organic residues on a surface of the object to be treated; and to provide a treatment method for an object to be treated and a manufacturing method of an electronic device. The treatment liquid of the present invention contains a purine compound and an amine compound, in which the purine compound includes at least one selected from the group consisting of purine and a purine derivative, the amine compound includes at least two of one amine compound A and one or two or more amine compounds B different from the amine compound A, the amine compound A is a tertiary amine compound, and a mass ratio of a content of the purine compound to a content of the amine compound is 0.0001 to 0.1.

Abstract: A money processing system includes first and second money processing devices and a computer that executes notification management based on the inventory amount of the first money processing device and the inventory amount of the second money processing device. The computer refrains from issuing a notification of prompting execution of first processing in the second money processing device in a case where a notification of prompting execution of the first processing in the first money processing device is issued, and refrains from issuing a notification of prompting execution of second processing in the second money processing device in a case where a notification of prompting execution of the second processing in the first money processing device is issued.

Abstract: A computer is caused to function as a condition storage unit configured to store one or more conditions represented by coordinates in a multi-dimensional space, a candidate condition generating unit configured to generate a plurality of candidate conditions represented by coordinates in the multi-dimensional space, a candidate condition selecting unit configured to calculate, for a coordinate position of each of the candidate conditions, a shortest distance to coordinate positions of the one or more conditions, and to select, as a coordinate position of a new condition, a coordinate position of one of the candidate conditions for which the shortest distance is longest, and a new condition adding unit configured to add the selected coordinate position of the new condition to the coordinate positions of the one or more conditions, wherein the candidate condition selecting unit repeats, until a termination condition is satisfied, a process of calculating, for a coordinate position of each of the candidate condit

Abstract: There is provided an optical laminate having an excellent light extraction function. The optical laminate includes: a light extraction layer having a first main surface and a second main surface, and having a light extraction mechanism including a recessed portion arranged on any one of the first main surface or the second main surface; a first cover sheet laminated via a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a main surface side of the light extraction layer on which the light extraction mechanism is arranged; and a second cover sheet laminated via a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a main surface side of the light extraction layer on which the light extraction mechanism is prevented from being arranged. The optical laminate has a region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer or the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on any one of a first main surface side or a second main surface side of the light extraction layer.

Abstract: A deblocking filter device according to a first feature includes: a deblocking filter configured to perform a filter process on a boundary between a first reconstructed block and a second reconstructed block adjacent to the first reconstructed block; and a filter controller configured to control boundary filtering strength of the deblocking filter based on whether or not at least one of the first reconstructed block and the second reconstructed block is encoded using JCCR (Joint coding of chroma residual) in which one joint prediction residual is generated from prediction residuals of a Cb chrominance component and a Cr chrominance component.

Abstract: A pyrazolopyrimidine compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and their medical use, etc., are provided. A compound of Formula [IA]: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein each symbol in the formula is defined in the specification.