Abstract: An article management system includes an acquirer and a management unit. The acquirer is configured to acquire identification information and management information. The identification information is information read from an electronic tag by the reading device in each of a plurality of bases in a distribution channel for an article, the electronic tag being attached to the article and storing the identification information. The management information is information collected in association with the identification information in a corresponding one of the plurality of bases, the management information relating to management of the article. The management unit is configured to manage the article with reference to the identification information and the management information which are acquired by the acquirer in each of the plurality of bases.

Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.

Abstract: The mold release film has a multilayer structure in which a mold release layer, a first base material layer, and a second base material layer are laminated. The mold release layer constitutes a mold release surface, and the second base material layer constitutes a surface of the mold release film on an opposite side of the mold release surface. The mold release layer contains one or two or more selected from a silicone resin, a fluororesin, a melamine resin, an epoxy resin, and a phenolic resin. The first base material layer is formed by a stretched or un-stretched film containing one or two or more selected from a polyester resin, a polyolefin resin, and a polyamide resin. The second base material layer is formed by a stretched or un-stretched film containing one or two or more selected from a polyester resin, a polyolefin resin, and a polyamide resin.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes first and second series-arm resonators, each including an IDT electrode including electrode fingers and a busbar electrode connecting first ends of the electrode fingers to each other. A direction in which second ends of the electrode fingers are aligned with each other crosses a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. The electrode fingers of the IDT electrodes of the first and second series-arm resonators each include an electrode-finger central portion and a wide portion located at the second end and being wider than the electrode-finger central portion. The length of the wide portion of each of the electrode fingers in the first series-arm resonator is greater than the length of the wide portion of each of the electrode fingers in the second series-arm resonator.

Abstract: An elastic wave filter device includes a ladder filter that includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators. In one series arm resonator in which the acoustic velocity in a first and second edge area is lower than in a central area, each first electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the second edge area, and each second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the first edge area. In at least one of remaining series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators, each first and second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in both of the first and second edge areas.

Abstract: A power supply device (104-1) includes a substrate (20) on which an electric component (25) is mounted, a chassis (10) having a chassis surface (11) and a threaded part (10a), a chassis-side resin part (91) connected to a back surface (20a) and the chassis surface (11), a fixation screw (29), and an insulating member (60). The fixation screw (29) fixes both the electric component (25) and the substrate (20) to the chassis (10) by screw-coupling an end part (29c) of the fixation screw (29), exposed in a direction toward the chassis (10) from an open hole formed through the insulating member (60), to the threaded part (10a) of the chassis (10). In addition, the fixation screw (29) brings the electric component (25) and the chassis (10) into electrical noncontact with each other by being placed in an open hole of the insulating member (60).

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles, a stator including a multi-phase stator winding, a power line that supplies power to the stator winding, and a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of the rotor. The stator and the rotor face each other on the inner side and the outer side in the radial direction. The power line and a signal line that extends from the rotation sensor are provided so as to extend in the axial direction. Blocking portions that block an electromagnetic field generated by the power line are each interposed between the power line and the signal line.

Abstract: A personal protective equipment wearing detection apparatus is provided which can accurately detect the approach or contact of a person's head by use of a plurality of contact detection sensors. A personal protective equipment wearing detection apparatus 100 includes a headband contact detection sensor 110 and a chin strap contact detection sensor 120, which are mounted on a headband 92 and a chin strap 94 of a helmet 90, respectively. The headband contact detection sensor 110 and the chin strap contact detection sensor 120 are connected to a controller 103 of a detection apparatus body 101. While one of the two contact detection sensors, the headband contact detection sensor 110 and the chin strap contact detection sensor 120, outputs a contact detection signal to the controller 103, the controller 103 connects the other contact detection sensor to GND.

Abstract: An article management system includes an acquirer and a management unit. The acquirer is configured to acquire identification information and management information. The identification information is information read from an electronic tag by the reading device in each of a plurality of bases in a distribution channel for an article, the electronic tag being attached to the article and storing the identification information. The management information is information collected in association with the identification information in a corresponding one of the plurality of bases, the management information relating to management of the article. The management unit is configured to manage the article with reference to the identification information and the management information which are acquired by the acquirer in each of the plurality of bases.

Abstract: Provided is an electron beam irradiation apparatus including: an aligner configured to perform an alignment of an electron beam by deflecting the electron beam; a deflector having a plurality of electrodes and configured to deflect the electron beam after passing through the aligner; and an adjuster configured to adjust deflection caused by the aligner, wherein the adjuster is configured to perform, on each of the plurality of electrodes, detecting an image of the electron beam by applying a test voltage to one of the plurality of electrodes and applying a reference voltage to the other electrodes, determine a position shift of the electron beam based on each position of the image of the electron beam corresponding to each electrode, and adjust deflection of the aligner so as to cancel the position shift of the electron beam.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a first resonator, a second resonator, and a shared reflector. The second resonator is adjacent to the first resonator and has different frequency characteristics different than the first resonator. The first resonator includes a first interdigital transducer electrode. The second resonator includes a second interdigital transducer electrode. The shared reflector has frequency characteristics that are the same as both frequency characteristics of the first resonator and frequency characteristics of the second resonator or between the frequency characteristics of the first resonator and the frequency characteristics of the second resonator. a higher-order mode frequency of the first resonator and a higher-order mode frequency of the second resonator coincides.

Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.

Abstract: A charged particle multi-beam device includes a charged particle source, a collimator lens, a multi-light-source forming unit, and a reduction projection optical system. The multi-light-source forming unit has first to third porous electrodes disposed side by side in an optical axis direction. A plurality of holes for causing the multi-beams to pass is formed in each of the first to third porous electrodes. The first porous electrode and the third porous electrode have the same potential and the second porous electrode has potential different from the potential of the first porous electrode and the third porous electrode. A diameter of the holes on the second porous electrode is formed larger further away from an optical axis such that a surface on which the multi-light sources are located is formed in a shape convex to the charged particle source side.

Abstract: A wireless reading system includes a goods path and a reader device. The goods path allows one or more goods held by a customer passing through a customer path to be moved along. The reader device is configured to perform wireless communication, whose medium is radio waves, with one or more electronic tags attached to the one or more goods while the one or more goods are moved along the goods path, thereby reading one or more pieces of goods information on the one or more goods, respectively.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for producing an aqueous pigment dispersion that has certain dispersion stability with which the formation of coarse particles with time and the settling of a pigment and the like with time can be reduced and that can be used for producing an ink having excellent discharge stability. The present invention relates to a method for producing an aqueous pigment dispersion, the method including kneading a composition including a pigment including one or more materials selected from the group consisting of a violet pigment, a green pigment, and an orange pigment and a resin, the composition having a nonvolatile content of 50% by mass or more, under predetermined conditions and subsequently performing a centrifugation treatment.

Abstract: A personal protective equipment wearing detection apparatus is provided which can accurately detect the approach or contact of a person's head by use of a plurality of contact detection sensors. A personal protective equipment wearing detection apparatus 100 includes a headband contact detection sensor 110 and a chin strap contact detection sensor 120, which are mounted on a headband 92 and a chin strap 94 of a helmet 90, respectively. The headband contact detection sensor 110 and the chin strap contact detection sensor 120 are connected to a controller 103 of a detection apparatus body 101. While one of the two contact detection sensors, the headband contact detection sensor 110 and the chin strap contact detection sensor 120, outputs a contact detection signal to the controller 103, the controller 103 connects the other contact detection sensor to GND.

Abstract: A power supply device (100-1) includes: a substrate (20) on which an electric component (25) is mounted; a chassis (10) including a chassis surface (11) to be a surface facing one surface (20a) of the substrate (20); and cured insulating resin (27-1) to be placed between the one surface (20a) of the substrate (20) and the chassis surface (11) so as to be connected to the one surface (20a) and the chassis surface (11), the cured insulating resin (27-1) having a thermal conductivity between 1 W/mK and 10 W/mK inclusive.

Abstract: A Wien filter to be disposed inside a lens barrel made of a magnetic material includes: a plurality of electromagnetic poles disposed at equal angular intervals about a center axis of the lens barrel; a first magnetic shield disposed so as to cover the area around the plurality of electromagnetic poles; and a second magnetic shield disposed so as to cover the area around the first magnetic shield. The first magnetic shield is supported by a first support member made of a non-magnetic material provided at an inner surface of the second magnetic shield. The second magnetic shield is supported by a second support member made of a magnetic material provided at an inner surface of the lens barrel.

Abstract: A first driven lever of a vehicle wiper device has a proximal end pivotally connected to a distal end of a first driving lever. A second driven lever has a proximal end pivotally connected to a distal end of the first driven lever and a distal end pivotally connected to a distal end of a second driving lever. A first wiper arm operates integrally with the second driven lever and has a distal end to which a first wiper blade is connected. A swing transmission mechanism transmits a driving force to the first driving lever. The swing transmission mechanism includes a swing crank arm integrally rotatable with a rotation shaft of a single drive source. An extension-contraction transmission mechanism transmits a driving force to the second driving lever. The extension-contraction transmission mechanism includes an extension-contraction crank arm integrally rotatable with the rotation shaft of the drive source.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes first and second series-arm resonators, each including an IDT electrode including electrode fingers and a busbar electrode connecting first ends of the electrode fingers to each other. A direction in which second ends of the electrode fingers are aligned with each other crosses a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. The electrode fingers of the IDT electrodes of the first and second series-arm resonators each include an electrode-finger central portion and a wide portion located at the second end and being wider than the electrode-finger central portion. The length of the wide portion of each of the electrode fingers in the first series-arm resonator is greater than the length of the wide portion of each of the electrode fingers in the second series-arm resonator.