Abstract: A consortium operation apparatus retains a common database accessible by a terminal used by a business office and a rule for calculating a preferential treatment to be provided to the business office. The common database retains information registered from the terminal, acquires information from the common database in response to a request from the terminal, transmits the information to the terminal to present the information to the business office owning the terminal, aggregates a registration record of information into the common database and a presentation record of information registered in the common database for each terminal, and provides the preferential treatment to each business office based on the aggregated registration record, the aggregated presentation record, and the rule.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device includes a noise cancelling section that is provided for each of multiple microphones and that generates a signal for canceling noise according to a sound signal inputted from the corresponding microphone, and a digital filter that processes an external input signal.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel IL-2 variant which has improved selectivity for IL-2R??? and selectively activates Tregs. The present invention relates to an IL-2 variant, a method for producing the IL-2 variant, a composition and a therapeutic agent for an immune disease, comprising the IL-2 variant, a method for increasing selectivity of IL-2 for IL-2R???, a method for improving an affinity of IL-2 for an IL-2R? subunit, a method of reducing an affinity of IL-2 for at least one of an IL-2R? subunit and an IL-2R? subunit, and a method for selectively activating regulatory T cells.

Abstract: A method for facilitating supervised generative optimization for synthetic data generation is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via an application programming interface, inputs that include input data and parameters; partitioning the input data to generate data sets, the data sets including training data sets, validation data sets, and test data sets; tuning hyperparameters of synthesizers by using the data sets and supervised optimization that is based on downstream performance metrics; determining a mixture distribution from among the tuned synthesizers; training machine learning models based on the mixture distribution; and generating, by using the trained machine learning models, sets of synthetic data based on the input data.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a terminal device and a vehicle. The terminal device includes a first verification unit that verifies whether the terminal devices matches the vehicle through wireless communication when the terminal device enters an area in which wireless communication between the terminal device and the vehicle is available, and an operation instruction unit that receives an instruction to execute a predetermined operation of the vehicle from the user and the first verification unit has verified that the terminal device matches the vehicle, and transmits a signal according to the instruction to the vehicle, and the vehicle includes a second verification unit that communicates with the first identification unit and verify whether with the vehicle matches the terminal device, and an operation controller that receives the signal from the operation instruction unit and executes the predetermined operation according to the signal.

Abstract: A tilting pad bearing includes a plurality of pads slidably supporting an outside surface of a rotor shaft, a housing covering the plurality of pads, a support portion swingably supporting the pad with respect to the housing, and a fluid supply unit configured to supply a fluid to a pad surface. The support portion includes a pivot having a pad support surface in contact with a pad outside surface and a pivot curved surface facing and protruding toward a side opposite to the pad support surface, a liner having a first liner surface in contact with the pivot curved surface, and a biasing member biasing the liner toward the pivot with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A electromagnetic wave attenuation film includes a substrate provided with a dielectric substrate having a front surface and a back surface, and thin film conductive layers arranged on both the front surface and the back surface of the electromagnetic wave attenuation substrate; a support layer arranged on the back surface of the electromagnetic wave attenuation substrate; and a flat plate inductor arranged on the back surface of the support layer; wherein the thin film conductive layers include a plurality of conductive elements. Furthermore, the conductive elements are arranged periodically, and when a distance in a plane direction between a center of gravity of the conductive elements on the front surface and the back surface is 1, and a shortest distance from the center of gravity of the conductive elements to a plate end portion is a, equation (1) below may be satisfied. I?5.2a . . .

Abstract: A press die assembly includes a lower die, an upper die, a stripper plate provided between the lower die and the upper die, and a coupling member that couples the upper die and the stripper plate to each other such that the upper die and the stripper plate are movable relative to each other. The upper die includes a punch, an upper die main body, and an elastic member. The punch includes a first large-diameter portion and a second large-diameter portion. The upper die main body includes a restricting portion that restricts downward movement of the punch by contacting the second large-diameter portion. The elastic member is configured to urge the punch toward the restricting portion and to allow the upper die main body to approach the punch by being compressively deformed in a state in which the first large-diameter portion is in contact with the stripper plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a radome 1 for vehicle-mounted radar devices including a base body 2 having an electromagnetic wave permeable substrate 3 and a heater wire 41 laminated on an inner surface side of the substrate 3 and wired in a surface direction of the substrate 3, in which linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 are arranged side by side at intervals in the surface direction of the substrate 3 in an electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3, and a surface occupancy ratio of the linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 in the electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3 is set to 1% or more and 24% or less. It is possible to exhibit a practical snow-melting function as a radome for vehicle-mounted radar devices while suppressing attenuation of electromagnetic waves irradiated by a vehicle-mounted radar device within an allowable range.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a curved shape in section along one axis, the display panel including a display screen that includes a concave surface, wherein a radius of curvature (R) of the curved shape of the display screen is larger than 2000 mm.

Abstract: A terminal device separate from a vehicle includes a receiver that receives a notification signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is in a first state different from a second state, a notification unit that notifies a user of the terminal device of the first state based on the notification signal, an input unit that receives, from the user of the terminal device, an input commanding the first state to be maintained, and a transmitter that transmits a signal to the vehicle based on the input received by the input unit. The vehicle includes a control unit that performs control that maintains the first state after lapse of a predetermined time from a time that the notification unit of the terminal device notifies of the first state of the vehicle when a reception unit of the vehicle receives the signal transmitted from the transmitter within the predetermined time.

Abstract: The present invention aims to manufacture a microneedle device capable of carrying and administering a larger amount of biologically active substance per one microneedle. One aspect of the present invention is a method of manufacturing a microneedle device comprising coating microneedles with a coating liquid, wherein the coating liquid comprises a biologically active substance and a sulfated polysaccharide. The microneedle device manufactured by such a method comprises a substrate, microneedles disposed on the substrate, and a coating formed on the microneedles, wherein the coating comprises a biologically active substance and a sulfated polysaccharide.

Abstract: A novel means for improving sleep quality etc. is provided. Provided is a composition for sleep quality improvement that contains kaempferol and/or a glycoside thereof.

Abstract: An operation device includes an operation unit, a power generation element that generates power according to an operation of the operation unit, a battery that supplies power, and a communication unit that transmits an operation signal corresponding to the operation unit that has been operated. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power supplied from the battery, in a case where a residual quantity of the battery is a predetermined residual quantity or larger. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power generated by the power generation element, in a case where the residual quantity of the battery is smaller than the predetermined residual quantity.

Abstract: A correction method for a dental cutting machine includes inputting a machining program of a correction piece to the dental cutting machine, mounting a material for the correction piece to the dental cutting machine to which the machining program has been input, machining the correction piece from the material using the dental cutting machine executing the machining program, measuring a dimension of a predetermined portion of the correction piece machined in the machining, calculating a correction value based on the dimension measured in the measuring, and inputting to the dental cutting machine the correction value calculated in the calculating.

Abstract: A computer is caused to execute: acquiring the log; generating a natural sentence based on the acquired log; and generating story content to be appreciated by a user by arranging the generated natural sentence and one or a plurality of game-related contents that are related to the log.

Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a plurality of disk-shaped magnetic disks, a spacer, a hub, and a clamp. Each of the magnetic disks includes a through-hole in a center section thereof. The spacer is disposed among the magnetic disks, and includes a through-hole in a center section thereof. The hub is inserted into the through-holes of the magnetic disks and the spacers. The clamp presses and holds the magnetic disks and the spacer. At surfaces where the magnetic disks and the spacer or the clamp contact, a flat surface height of an upper surface of at least one magnetic disk that contacts an outer circumference of the spacer or the clamp is lower than a flat surface height of the upper surface of at least one magnetic disk of the magnetic disks that contacts an inner circumference of the spacer or the clamp.

Abstract: A sensor unit according to the present disclosure includes: a sensor element; a pair of conductive members that extend in parallel with each other from the sensor element; and a resin-molded portion that covers part of the pair of conductive members. The pair of conductive members each includes: a base end portion connected to the sensor element; a tip end portion on an opposite side to the base end portion; and an intermediate portion that is a part between the base end portion and the tip end portion, the intermediate portion including a through-hole. The resin-molded portion covers the base end portion and the intermediate portion while the tip portion is exposed.

Abstract: An acoustic processing device includes a first signal processing unit that generates a positive signal to be supplied to a positive electrode terminal of a first speaker and a positive electrode terminal of a second speaker, by using input audio signals from a first group of microphones, and a second signal processing unit that generates a negative signal to be supplied to a negative electrode terminal of the first speaker and a negative electrode terminal of the second speaker, by using input audio signals from a second group of microphones.

Abstract: A light-emitting device, a lighting device, a display device, or the like in which the state of a back surface side can be observed when light is not emitted is provided. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting portions and a region transmitting visible light in a region other than the light-emitting portions. Alternatively, the light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-transmitting portions transmitting visible light and a light-emitting portion that can emit light in a region other than the light-transmitting portions. When light is not emitted, the state of a back surface side of the light-emitting device is visible through the region transmitting visible light. When light is emitted, the state of the back surface side of the light-emitting device can be made less visible by diffusion of light emitted from the light-emitting portion.