Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A container member includes a container body that contains a recording medium and that tilts such that a leading edge of the contained recording medium is higher than a trailing edge, and a leading edge restriction portion that comes into contact with a portion of the leading edge except for at least a first end portion and that restricts a position of the leading edge.

Abstract: A rubber composition for tires according to an embodiment includes a diene rubber, a filler, and a fatty acid ester of a polyoxyalkylene glyceryl ether, and 50 mass % or more of the filler is carbon black. A tire according to an embodiment includes the rubber composition for tires.

Abstract: To provide a rubber composition that suppresses shrinkage after molding of a rubber member disposed between an inner liner and a carcass ply of a pneumatic tire, thereby suppressing peeling between members in a green tire and obtaining a green tire having a stable shape, and a pneumatic tire using the rubber composition. Disclosed is a rubber composition for use in a rubber member disposed between an inner liner and a carcass ply of a pneumatic tire, the composition containing a diene-based rubber and a pyrolytic carbon black.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material is represented by the following compositional formula (1): Li3-3?-2aY1+?-aMaCl6-x-yBrxIy where, M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ta and Nb; and ?1<?<1, 0<a<1.2, 0<(3?3??2a), 0<(1+??a), 0?x?6, 0?y?6, and (x+y)?6 are satisfied.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material contains Li, Y, at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Sc, La, Sm, Bi, Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. An X-ray diffraction pattern of the solid electrolyte material obtained by using Cu-K? radiation as the X-ray source includes peaks within the range in which the diffraction angle 2? is 25° or more and 35° or less, and also includes at least one peak within the range in which the diffraction angle 2? is 43° or more and 51° or less.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material contains Li; Y; at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Zr, Nb, and Ta; and at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. An X-ray diffraction pattern of the solid electrolyte material obtained using Cu—K? radiation as an X-ray source includes peaks in a range of diffraction angles 2? of 30° or more and 33° or less, in a range of diffraction angles 2? of 39° or more and 43° or less, and in a range of diffraction angles 2? of 47° or more and 51° or less.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material includes a first crystal phase. The first crystal phase has a composition that is deficient in Li as compared with a composition represented by the following composition formula (1).

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte material comprising Li, Y, Br, and I, wherein in an X-ray diffraction pattern in which Cu-K? is used as a radiation source, peaks are present within all ranges of diffraction angles 2? of 12.5° to 14.0°, 25.0° to 27.8°, 29.2° to 32.3°, 41.9° to 46.2°, 49.5° to 54.7°, and 51.9° to 57.5°.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus with a blood circuit that allows a patient's blood to extracorporeally circulate and a blood purifier connected to the blood circuit and that purifies the blood in extracorporeal circulation are attachable, the blood purification apparatus including a dialysate introduction line through which dialysate is introduced into the blood purifier; a dialysate drain line through which waste dialysate resulting from blood purification performed by the blood purifier is drained from the blood purifier; and a concentration-detecting unit that detects a concentration of a predetermined substance in the waste dialysate flowing through the dialysate drain line.

Abstract: A transport device includes a transport roller, a nip section, and first and second transport path surfaces. The transport roller transports a transport target material sent from an accommodating unit. The nip section nips the transport target material with the transport roller, and prevents multi-feed of the transport target material. The first transport path surface is disposed upstream of the nip section in a transport direction to face a transport roller side of the nip section. The first transport path surface includes a top portion protruding toward the transport roller side beyond a nip line between the transport roller and the nip section. The second transport path surface is disposed downstream of the nip section in the transport direction to face the transport roller side of the nip section. The second transport path surface includes a top portion protruding toward the transport roller side beyond the nip line.

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte material represented by the following composition formula (1) Li3?3??aY1+??aMaCl6?x?yBrxIy??Formula (1) where M is one or more kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf, and Ti; ?1<?<2; 0<a<1.5; 0<(3?3??a); 0<(1+??a); 0?x?6; 0?y?6; and (x+y)?6.

Abstract: A design method for an energy conversion device, the method causing a design device to execute processing comprising: a step of creating an equation showing a thermal efficiency with respect to a predetermined variable including a flow path diameter (equivalent flow path diameter), a frequency, a temperature gradient, and specific acoustic impedance of a flow path in a regenerator performing energy conversion based on an equation of fluid related to the oscillating flow; a step of selecting any one input parameter of the flow path diameter (equivalent flow path diameter), the frequency, the temperature gradient, and the specific acoustic impedance; a step of creating an equation related to the selected parameter based on the equation showing the thermal efficiency and an equation showing a shape of the flow path of the regenerator; and a step of uniquely calculating a value of the selected parameter maximizing the thermal efficiency based on the equation related to the selected parameter by applying a plurali

Abstract: A blood purification device for blood purification therapy performed through a blood purifier, the blood purification device includes piping; a plurality of sensors of different detection types that are provided on the piping; and a liquid chemical identification unit that identifies a type of a cleaning/disinfection liquid chemical flowing through the piping by using the plurality of sensors. The liquid chemical identification unit is configured to be able to identify types of the liquid chemicals of at least not less than the number of the plurality of sensors by using the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is represented by the following Compositional Formula (1): Li6-3zYzX6 where, 0<z<2 is satisfied; and X represents Cl or Br.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus in which whether or not the connection of a communicating line is appropriate can be determined more accurately.