Abstract: A partition system with a speaker includes a plurality of wall surfaces configuring an acoustic blocker that is partially open and partially blocked, in a plan view, and having a first wall surface and a second wall surface, and a directional speaker disposed on the first wall surface and having a sound emitting direction to the acoustic blocker. The directional speaker includes a speaker unit, an enclosure of the speaker unit, and an aperture configuring a Helmholtz resonator, wherein a resonance frequency Fr of a Helmholtz resonator is set to be equal to or higher than a reproducible lower limit frequency F min of the speaker unit.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus having a secure element mounted therein. The information processing apparatus in which a device that performs a transaction with an external device is mounted includes: a sensing unit that senses that a transaction has occurred between the device and the external device; an acquisition unit that acquires data from the device, in response to the sensing unit sensing the occurrence of the transaction; a determination unit that analyzes the data acquired by the acquisition unit, and determines applications as notification targets; a verification unit that verifies validity of the applications as the notification targets; and a notification unit that notifies a relevant application whose validity has been confirmed among the notification targets, of the data acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element including a thin film composed of a transition metal dichalcogenide and formed on a base material. In the present invention, a surface of the thin film composed of the transition metal dichalcogenide is modified with at least any nanorod particles of Au nanorod particles composed of Au and Ag nanorod particles composed of Ag. An average aspect ratio of the Au nanorod particles is 3.0 or more and 12.0 or less, and an average aspect ratio of the Ag nanorod particles is 3.0 or more and 13.0 or less. In the invention, the sensitivity to light having wavelengths in the near-infrared region improves by a sensitizing action attributed to localized surface plasmon resonance that is developed by the Au and Ag nanorod particles. The photoelectric conversion element exhibits sensitivity even to light having wavelengths in the near-infrared region near a wavelength range of 1600 nm.

Abstract: A sound emitting apparatus includes a speaker unit and an enclosure of the speaker unit having an aperture configuring a Helmholtz resonator. A resonance frequency Fr of the Helmholtz resonator is set to be equal to or higher than a reproducible lower limit frequency of the speaker unit.

Abstract: It is possible to perform prompt and accurate diagnosis of a pneumatic device while mitigating a burden on a user at the time of introduction. A flow sensor includes: a flow rate measuring element for measuring a flow rate of a working gas in a pipe; a pressure measuring element for measuring a pressure of the working gas in the pipe; and an evaluation unit that determines a characteristic amount indicating an operation of the pneumatic device based on a combination of the flow rate measured by the flow rate measuring element and the pressure measured by the pressure measuring element, and evaluates the operation of the pneumatic device based on the determined characteristic amount.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: an endless belt; a heater; a stay; a holder having a heater supporting surface and a contacting surface in contact with the stay; and a pressure roller having a diameter that becomes smaller from each end of the pressure roller in an axial direction toward a center of the pressure roller in the axial direction. In a state prior to assembling the holder with both the stay and the heater, a distance in an orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at a center of the holder in the axial direction is longer than a distance in the orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at each end of the holder in the axial direction. The orthogonal direction is orthogonal to the axial direction.

Abstract: A masking sound adjustment method includes obtaining, in each of a plurality of frequency bands, a volume adjustment amount of a masking sound with respect to a volume of a conversation sound to be masked, based on a threshold value corresponding to a target word intelligibility of the conversation sound to be masked; and adjusting a volume of the masking sound in each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the volume adjustment amount.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a high-voltage insulating structure capable of reducing an electric field around a conductor to which a high voltage is applied. In this high-voltage insulating structure, an electrically conductive part, to which a high voltage is applied and which extends in an axial direction, is surrounded by an insulator, wherein the insulator comprises a first insulator 105, a second insulator 203 positioned on the opposite side from the first insulator in the axial direction, and a third insulator 205 positioned between the first and second insulators. The electrical resistivity of the third insulator 205 is smaller than the electrical resistivities of the first and second insulators. As for the thickness of the third insulator 205 in the axial direction, a first thickness at the outer side farther from the electrically conductive part is less than a second thickness at the inner side closer to the electrically conductive part.

Abstract: A masking sound adjustment method includes obtaining, in each of a plurality of frequency bands, a volume adjustment amount of a masking sound with respect to a volume of a conversation sound to be masked, based on a threshold value corresponding to a target word intelligibility of the conversation sound to be masked; and adjusting a volume of the masking sound in each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the volume adjustment amount.

Abstract: A reinforcing material is disclosed that includes coated glass flakes and coated glass strands. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin and aminosilane contained in the coatings of the coated glass flakes corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the resin is 30% to 95% by mass. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin, aminosilane, and a urethane resin contained in the coatings of the coated glass strands corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the glycidyl group-including resin is 10% to 90% by mass, the amount of the aminosilane is 0.1% to 40% by mass, and the amount of the urethane resin is 1% to 50% by mass. Both the coated glass flakes and the coated glass strands have an ignition loss of 0.1% to 2.0% by mass measured pursuant to JIS R3420 (2013).

Abstract: A panel combination includes a panel, a directional speaker mounted to the panel, and a controller that receives a trigger signal and controls an output of the directional speaker according to the trigger signal.

Abstract: A method of forming a fiber body includes defibrating a raw material in air to provide fibers; depositing the fibers in air onto a belt; applying pressure to the deposited fibers to form a pressurized web; and applying a liquid containing an additive to two surfaces of the pressurized web.

Abstract: A reinforcing material is disclosed that includes coated glass flakes and coated glass strands. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin and aminosilane contained in the coatings of the coated glass flakes corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the resin is 30% to 95% by mass. When the total amount of a glycidyl group-including resin, aminosilane, and a urethane resin contained in the coatings of the coated glass strands corresponds to 100% by mass, the amount of the glycidyl group-including resin is 10% to 90% by mass, the amount of the aminosilane is 0.1% to 40% by mass, and the amount of the urethane resin is 1% to 50% by mass. Both the coated glass flakes and the coated glass strands have an ignition loss of 0.1% to 2.0% by mass measured pursuant to JIS R3420 (2013).

Abstract: A masking sound adjustment method includes obtaining, in each of a plurality of frequency bands, a volume adjustment amount of a masking sound with respect to a volume of a conversation sound to be masked, based on a threshold value corresponding to a target word intelligibility of the conversation sound to be masked; and adjusting a volume of the masking sound in each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the volume adjustment amount.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer to be treated is heated at a first preheating temperature ranging from 100 to 200° C. while a pressure in a chamber housing the semiconductor wafer is reduced to a pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure. After the semiconductor wafer is preheated to increase the temperature into a second preheating temperature ranging from 500 to 700° C. while the pressure in the chamber is restored to a pressure higher than the reduced pressure, a flash lamp emits a flashlight to a surface of the semiconductor wafer. Heating the semiconductor wafer at the first preheating temperature that is a relatively low temperature enables, for example, the moisture absorbed on the surface of the semiconductor wafer in trace amounts to be desorbed from the surface, and also enables the flash heating treatment to be performed with oxygen derived from such absorption removed as much as possible.

Abstract: A method for defibrating a fiber body includes: a supply step of supplying a liquid to a fiber body containing fibers; and a defibrating step of defibrating the fiber body to which the liquid is supplied, and in the supply step, the liquid is supplied to the fiber body so that a rate in tensile strength of the fiber body immediately before defibrated in the defibrating step to the fiber body before the liquid is supplied thereto is 60.0% or less.

Abstract: A glass filler of the present invention includes: a glass substrate; and a coating film including a surface treatment agent, the coating film covering at least a portion of a surface of the glass substrate. The glass substrate is a glass fiber having a flat cross-sectional shape. For the glass substrate, when a length corresponding to a minor axis of the flat cross-section of the glass fiber is represented by L1, a length corresponding to a major axis of the flat cross-section of the glass fiber is represented by L2, and a length corresponding to a fiber length of the glass fiber is represented by L3, a ratio of an average of L2 to an average of L1, (average of L2)/(average of L1), is 1.5 or more and 8 or less, the average of L1 is 1.0 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, an average of L3 is 3 ?m or more and less than 80 ?m, and an average of L3 is larger than the average of L2. The surface treatment agent includes a silane coupling agent. A proportion of the coating film in the glass filler is 0.

Abstract: A glass filler of the present invention includes: a glass substrate; and a coating film including a surface treatment agent, the coating film covering at least a portion of a surface of the glass substrate. The glass substrate is a glass fiber having a flat cross-sectional shape. For the glass substrate, when a length corresponding to a minor axis of the flat cross-section of the glass fiber is represented by L1, a length corresponding to a major axis of the flat cross-section of the glass fiber is represented by L2, and a length corresponding to a fiber length of the glass fiber is represented by L3, a ratio of an average of L2 to an average of L1, (average of L2)/(average of L1), is 1.5 or more and 8 or less, the average of L1 is 1.0 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, and an average of L3 is 80 ?m or more and 160 ?m or less. The surface treatment agent includes a silane coupling agent. A proportion of the coating film in the glass filler is 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less.

Abstract: Cooling member 142 for cooling linear motor 56 includes heat collector 150 provided inside movable element 102 for absorbing the heat of the movable element and heat dissipator 152 extending from heat collector 150 to the outside of the movable element and dissipating the heat absorbed by heat collector 150, wherein heat dissipator 152 of cooling member 142 protrudes from a portion of movable element 102 on the moving body 50 side, and extends to the back side of the pair of stators 100 through a space between one of the pair of stators 100, that is, stator 100a and moving body 50.