Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.

Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus that inserts an enclosure into an envelope includes an envelope conveyor, a flap opener, an enclosure pusher, and circuitry. The envelope conveyor extends in a vertical direction and conveys the envelope to an enclosing position via an envelope conveyance passage as a passage in which the envelope is conveyed. The flap opener opens a flap of the envelope. The enclosure pusher pushes the enclosure toward an opening of a body of the envelope conveyed to the enclosing position with the flap open. The circuitry changes a pushing amount of the enclosure into the envelope and adjusts the pushing amount based on the opening of the body of the envelope within a specified range from an inside to an outside of the body of the envelope.

Abstract: A heat transport device comprises first flow passages through which a first fluid flows, and second flow passages through which a second fluid flows, wherein a cross-section A satisfying the following Requirement 1 to Requirement 3 can be achieved. Requirement 1 is that the cross-section A is a cross-section perpendicular to the second flow passages. Requirement 2 is that in the cross-section A, the holes of second flow passages are separated by meandering partition plates and are disposed in a layered manner. Two adjacent partition plates are a partition plate B and a partition plate C, and when comparing a point ?, which is the top point of a mountain in the partition plate B closest to the partition plate C, and a point ?, which is the bottom point of a valley in the partition plate C closest to the partition plate B, the point ? is closer to the partition plate C side than the point ?. Requirement 3 is that the first flow passages are present inside the partition plates.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a feeding roller pair, a detecting portion, a first changing portion, a second changing portion, and a controller for controlling the first changing portion and the second changing portion. The controller starts a first feeding operation for feeding a sheet toward the obliquely feeding roller pair in a nipping state of the feeding roller pair and then starts a second feeding operation for feeding the sheet for abutting a side end of the sheet against the reference member in the nipping state of the obliquely feeding roller pair. The controller changes, after the first feeding operation is started and before the second feeding operation is started, a start timing of the second feeding operation on the basis of a detection result of a position of the side end of the sheet detected by the detecting portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer coil component includes forming, on a main face of a substrate, a first coil conductor extending along the main face having conductivity, forming a second coil conductor and a third coil conductor apart from each other in a direction in which the first coil conductor extends and each extending from the first coil conductor in a first direction orthogonal to the main face, and forming a fourth coil conductor electrically connected to an end of the second coil conductor opposite to the first coil conductor and extending along the main face. The forming the first coil conductor includes forming, on the main face, a first insulator layer provided with a first penetration portion having a shape corresponding to the first coil conductor and exposing a part of the main face, and forming, by plating, the first coil conductor in the first penetration portion.

Abstract: A multilayer heat sink including a heat-receiving layer, a channel layer including cooling micropaths extending and directing a fluid in a direction orthogonal to a stacking direction, an orifice layer including jet orifices configured to jet the fluid into the cooling micropaths, and drain orifices configured to drain the fluid from the cooling micropaths, a header layer including a peripheral wall and a baffle, and a bottom layer, wherein the baffle includes parallel plates disposed parallel to each other, and end plates configured to alternately close an opening at an end and an opening at an opposite end of the parallel plates, and the orifice layer, the bottom layer, the baffle, and the peripheral wall define a supply channel to guide the fluid from a fluid inlet to the jet orifices and a drain channel to guide the fluid from the drain orifices to a fluid outlet.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium, a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism, a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method, a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method, a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus, and a notification section that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method.

Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conveyor to convey the enclosure to the enclosing position to insert the enclosure into the envelope; a sensor to acquire, as an image, a structure of the envelope during conveyance, and acquire transparent-portion information indicating a position of a transparent portion in the envelope; an envelope holder to hold the envelope in a state in which the enclosure is insertable; and control circuitry to output position adjustment information for adjusting a position of the envelope in a width direction of the envelope at the enclosing position or a position of the specific information in a conveyance direction of the envelope, based on relative positions between the formation position of the specific information and the position of the transparent portion.

Abstract: An enclosing-sealing apparatus includes a flap opener that opens a flap of an envelope while the envelope is conveyed to an enclosing position. A first envelope detector is disposed upstream from the flap opener in an envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction. A second envelope detector is disposed downstream from the flap opener in the envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction in an open state in which the flap opens. A controller determines the open state of the flap based on a first detection result sent from the first envelope detector and a second detection result sent from the second envelope detector. The controller performs troubleshooting for enclosing the enclosure into the envelope if the controller determines that the open state of the flap is faulty.

Abstract: A laser scanning microscope includes a scanner that scans a sample with laser light; a detector having a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM); and a processor that executes image processing of removing dark count noise based on an appearance frequency of the dark count noise in the SiPM on a scanned image.

Abstract: An in-vehicle antenna device is installed in a vehicle, and includes: an antenna substrate; a plurality of TEL antennas; and a GNSS antenna. In the TEL antenna, an antenna unit is a plate-like antenna which is electrically connected to the antenna substrate via a feeding unit and a GND ground unit. In the TEL antenna, the antenna unit is installed at a position separated by a predetermined length in a first direction that is a direction perpendicular to a substrate plane of the antenna substrate, in such a way as to be parallel to the substrate plane of the antenna substrate. The GNSS antenna is installed on the antenna substrate such that a distance between an upper surface of the GNSS antenna and the antenna substrate is shorter than the predetermined length in the first direction.

Abstract: A power management device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not an execution condition for executing cell balancing for equalizing states of charge of a plurality of battery cells included in a storage battery connected to a direct current (DC) bus via a converter is satisfied; and a control unit that performs cell balancing execution control for causing a battery management device managing the storage battery to execute the cell balancing when the execution condition is satisfied. The control unit changes a target voltage of the converter so that a state of charge of the storage battery becomes a state in which the battery management device starts the cell balancing in the cell balancing execution control.

Abstract: A power management device includes a control unit that controls a converter capable of bidirectionally converting between an external bus voltage and an internal bus voltage in a first power feeding system. When an amount of stored electric power of the first power feeding system is less than a first storage threshold value, the control unit sets a target value of the external bus voltage to a first power reception target value corresponding to a first transmission power value in a first power transmission request transmitted to an upper power management device. When the amount of stored electric power exceeds a second storage threshold value, the control unit sets the target value of the external bus voltage to a first power transmission target value corresponding to a second transmission power value in a second power transmission request received from a second power feeding system.

Abstract: An upper power management device includes: an update unit that updates a target value of interest based on a received power value of electric power received by a first power feeding system that is making a power transmission request, and a transmitted power value of electric power transmitted by a second power feeding system that is responding to the power transmission request, the target value of interest including at least one of a power reception target value of an external bus voltage in a first converter of the first power feeding system, and a power transmission target value of the external bus voltage in a second converter of the second power feeding system; and an output unit that outputs a first setting command for setting the power reception target value in the first converter and a second setting command for setting the power transmission target value in the second converter.

Abstract: A power management device includes a control unit that switches an operation mode of a power feeding system by controlling a converter capable of bidirectionally converting between an internal bus voltage and an external bus voltage. The control unit sets the power feeding system to a power reception mode by setting a target value of the external bus voltage in the converter to a first target value when the amount of stored electric power is less than a first storage threshold value. The control unit sets the power feeding system to a power transmission mode by setting the target value to a second target value that is larger than the first target value when the amount of stored electric power exceeds a second storage threshold value that is larger than the first storage threshold value and a measured value of the external bus voltage exceeds a transmission threshold value.

Abstract: A gas barrier polymer is formed by heat-curing a mixture including polycarboxylic acid and a polyamine compound, in which, in an infrared absorption spectrum, when a straight line connecting a measurement point at 1493 cm?1 and a measurement point at 1780 cm?1 is set as a baseline, an absorption intensity at 1660 cm?1 is set as I(1660), and an absorption intensity at 1625 cm?1 is set as I(1625), R represented by Equation (1) is greater than 1. R=I(1660)/I(1625)?{?0.65×(total amine/COOH)+0.

Abstract: A power feeding system includes a direct current (DC) bus for supplying DC power, a renewable energy power generation device connected to the DC bus, a first converter connected to the DC bus and converting a bus voltage supplied to the DC bus into a load voltage supplied to a load device, a storage battery, a second converter provided between the storage battery and the DC bus and capable of bidirectionally converting the bus voltage and a battery voltage of the storage battery, and a power management device controlling the second converter to charge and discharge the storage battery. The power management device controls the second converter to change the bus voltage based on difference power obtained by subtracting load power supplied to the load device from supply power supplied to the DC bus, the supply power including generated power generated by the renewable energy power generation device.

Abstract: A DC power supply system includes: a DC bus serving as a bus bar for DC power supply; a natural energy power generator 30 that supplies generated power to the DC bus; a plurality of storage batteries that store the generated power from the natural energy power generator; a plurality of bidirectional DC-DC converters that connect the plurality of corresponding storage batteries to the DC bus; a power management apparatus that manages operations of the plurality of bidirectional DC-DC converters; and a target voltage corrector that calculates a correction value of a target value for the output voltage by using an average value of a plurality of actual measurement values of each output voltage of the bidirectional DC-DC converters. The power management apparatus individually controls the each output voltage of the bidirectional DC-DC converters by using each target value of the output voltages corrected based on the correction value.

Abstract: Fluctuations in the battery life of a plurality of storage batteries are reduced. A DC power supplying system includes power conditioners that supply generated power of power generators to a DC bus, converters that perform voltage conversion on a bus voltage and supply load power to load appliances, bidirectional converters that execute charging operations that charge storage batteries and discharging operations that discharge the storage batteries, and an energy management system that causes the converters to execute a charging operation when the generated power exceeds the load power and to execute a discharging operation when the generated power is below the load power. During a charging operation, the energy management system applies a first voltage-current characteristic that linearly increases the charging current in keeping with an increase in the bus voltage to each bidirectional DC/DC converter with a slope in keeping with the SOC of a storage battery.