Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.

Abstract: A conversion device (10) analyzes an input packet and acquires header information included in the packet. Furthermore, the conversion device (10) classifies packets into one of a plurality of groups on the basis of the acquired header information and set grouping conditions. Subsequently, the conversion device (10) generates packets for analysis on the basis of the processing corresponding to the classified groups.

Abstract: A conversion device analyzes information of an input packet using hardware and determines whether to perform predetermined previous stage processing using the hardware. Furthermore, when it is determined to perform the previous stage processing, the conversion device uses the hardware to provide metadata including identification information indicating a group of packets to the packets on the basis of the fixed-length header information of the packets. In addition, the conversion device uses software to generate analysis packets corresponding to the group of packets using the provided metadata.

Abstract: An extraction unit extracts predetermined information from an outer header and an inner header of a tunneled packet passing through a network device in which congestion has occurred. An evaluation unit evaluates an order in which fine grain flows in a tunnel subdivided with reference to the extracted predetermined information are subject to TE, based on attribute information of the fine grain flows.

Abstract: A design apparatus optimizes, with a first granularity (for example, a real number solution), a traffic volume allocated to each of links between adjacent nodes included in a network. In addition, the design apparatus calculates an approximation solution obtained by approximating, with a second granularity (for example, an integer solution), the traffic volume having been optimized with the first granularity. Furthermore, the design apparatus maps logical paths to each of routes constituted by the links in accordance with the approximated traffic volume.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as chemical composition, C, Si, Mn, and sol.Al. In the hot-rolled steel sheet, an average of pole densities in crystal orientation group consisting of {110}<110> to {110}<001> in surface region is 0.5 to 3.0, a standard deviation of the pole densities in the crystal orientation group is 0.2 to 2.0, and the tensile strength is 780 to 1370 MPa.

Abstract: There is provided a steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.25%, Si: 0.2 to 2.0%, Mn: 1.2 to 3.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.050% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.55%, N: 0.0100% or less, and Ti: 0.010 to 0.250%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein a random intensity ratio of a texture in a near-surface portion of the steel sheet is 8.0 or less, and a minimum angle formed between a maximum strength orientation in a {110} pole figure of the texture and a normal direction of a rolled surface of the steel sheet is 10° or less.

Abstract: The laser module includes a QCL element and a light source. The QCL element includes a substrate, a lower clad layer provided on the substrate, an active layer that is provided on an opposite side of the lower clad layer from the substrate and generates a first terahertz wave, an upper clad layer provided on an opposite side of the active layer from the lower clad layer, and a first electrode provided on an opposite side of the upper clad layer from the active layer. The second terahertz wave from the light source enters the active layer through the substrate, is reflected by the first electrode, and is amplified or wavelength-converted. The third terahertz wave amplified or wavelength-converted in the active layer is emitted to the outside through the substrate.

Abstract: A terahertz wave lens includes a substrate having a surface provided with an uneven structure that changes a phase of the terahertz wave. The uneven structure includes a plurality of holes that are periodically arranged. The uneven structure includes a plurality of regions where the plurality of holes are arranged. A height of the hole in a thickness direction of the substrate and a width of the pillar differ for each of the regions. Outer end portions of the uneven structure in the thickness direction are located on the same plane.

Abstract: The laser module includes a QCL element and a support member. The QCL element has a first end surface located on a first side in a second direction orthogonal to a stacking direction and a second end surface located on a second side opposite to the first side in the second direction. The substrate has first to fourth substrate-surfaces. The support member has a first portion having a first surface facing at least a portion of the fourth substrate-surface, and a second portion having a second surface facing at least a portion of the first substrate-surface and a third surface located opposite to the second surface in the second direction. At least a part of the terahertz wave generated in the active layer is incident on the second surface of the support member through the substrate and is emitted from the third surface through the inside of the second portion.

Abstract: A terahertz wave lens includes a substrate having a surface provided with an uneven structure that changes a phase of the terahertz wave. The uneven structure includes a plurality of holes that are periodically arranged. The uneven structure includes a plurality of regions where the plurality of holes are arranged. A height of the hole in a thickness direction of the substrate and a width of the pillar differ for each of the regions. Outer end portions of the uneven structure in the thickness direction are located on the same plane.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a microorganism that efficiently produces EPA and a method for producing EPA using the microorganism. The present invention relates to a microorganism having an ability to produce docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), wherein the microorganism contains a protein composed of an amino acid sequence in which at least one of the amino acid residues at positions 6, 65, 230, 231, and 275 in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 has been substituted with another amino acid residue (mutated OrfB), and is capable of producing eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and the like.

Abstract: An image display system includes a display unit displaying an image, a projection unit projecting in a target space a virtual image corresponding to the image with an output light of the display unit, a body unit provided thereto the display unit and the projection unit, and an image producing unit including a first correction unit and a second correction unit. The first correction unit performs a first correction processing of correcting, based on a first orientation signal indicative of a first orientation change of the body unit, a display position of the virtual image in the target space. The second correction unit performs a second correction processing of correcting, based on a second orientation signal indicative of a second orientation change of the body unit which is faster than the first orientation change, the display position of the virtual image in the target space.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a microorganism that efficiently produces EPA and a method for producing EPA using the microorganism. The present invention relates to a microorganism having an ability to produce docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), wherein the microorganism contains a protein composed of an amino acid sequence in which at least one of the amino acid residues at positions 6, 65, 230, 231, and 275 in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 has been substituted with another amino acid residue (mutated OrfB), and is capable of producing eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and the like.

Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.

Abstract: A rendering system includes a rendering unit and a correction unit. The rendering unit renders, based on a result of detection by a detection system, a marker corresponding to a location of a target. The detection system is installed in a moving vehicle for the purpose of detecting the target. The correction unit corrects, based on correction data, the location of the target in accordance with the result of detection by the detection system and thereby determines a location of the marker to be rendered by the rendering unit. The correction data is obtained based on at least traveling information about a traveling condition of the moving vehicle.

Abstract: An image display system includes a body, a first correction unit, and a second correction unit. The body houses a display unit to display an image and projects a virtual image, corresponding to the image, onto a target space using outgoing light of the display unit. The first correction unit corrects for distortion of the image. The second correction unit corrects a display location of the image on the display unit in accordance with an orientation signal representing a change in orientation of the body. Each of divisional areas of a display screen of the display unit is assigned with a distortion correction parameter for correcting for the distortion of the virtual image. The first correction unit applies distortion correction to each of the image regions of the image on the display screen based on a distortion correction parameter assigned to a divisional area where the image region is displayed.

Abstract: A headrest sleeve for assembly to a bracket fixed to a stay for supporting a main body of a headrest. The headrest sleeve includes a sleeve body formed in a tubular shape, a collar-shaped flange extending from one end portion of the sleeve body and disposed so as to be capable of contacting the bracket, a bracket-fitting section extending from the flange toward an opposite side from the sleeve body and configured to be capable of being fitted into a fitting hole formed in the lower bracket, and an anchor clip provided at the bracket-fitting section and configured to undergo elastic deformation and elastic recovery during the fitting of the bracket-fitting section into the fitting hole so as to engage with the bracket from an opposite side from the flange.

Abstract: A quantum cascade laser includes a semiconductor substrate, an optical waveguide formed on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a temperature adjusting member. The optical waveguide includes a first region and a second region located on one side with respect to the first region in the optical waveguide direction of the optical waveguide. The first region generates a first light having a first wavelength, and the second region generates a second light having a second wavelength. The optical waveguide generates an output light having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first wavelength and the second wavelength by difference-frequency generation. A recess for suppressing heat transfer between the first region and the second region is formed at a second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The temperature adjusting member includes a first temperature adjusting member for adjusting the temperature of the second region.

Abstract: A laser module including a quantum cascade laser that includes a substrate having a main surface, a first clad layer provided on the main surface, an active layer provided on the first clad layer, and a second clad layer provided on the active layer, and a lens that has a lens plane disposed at a position facing the end surface of the active layer. An end surface of the active layer constitutes a resonator that causes light of a first frequency and light of a second frequency to oscillate, and the active layer is configured to generate a terahertz wave of a differential frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency. The substrate is in direct contact or indirect contact with the lens plane, and the end surface of the active layer is inclined with respect to a portion facing the end surface in the lens plane.