Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing a feeding direction of a recording material fed in a nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit to receive a job, heating and pressing rotary members to form a nip portion, and a spraying member having a nozzle and a cylinder. The nozzle discharges air to the heating rotary member and a recording material. During a period after the reception unit receives the job and before a leading edge of a first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion, the spraying member performs a spraying operation of spraying air in an amount greater than or equal to a predetermined amount. The air that the spraying member sprays on the first sheet of the recording material during the job is higher in temperature than the air that the spraying member sprays during the period after the reception unit receives the job and before the leading edge of the first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion extending along a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member perpendicular to a recording material feeding direction.

Abstract: Provided are a program, an information processing device, a method, and a system that allow properties of an organized party to be easily grasped. An information processing device 10 is an information processing device for executing a game and includes: a setting unit 231 for setting two or more game media on a deck with which indicator information is associated; an indicator-information-point calculation unit 232 for determining points for each item of the indicator information on the basis of predetermined data associated with the game media; and an indicator-information determination unit 233 for determining the indicator information to be displayed on a game screen on the basis of the points for each item of the indicator information obtained by the indicator-information-point calculation unit 232 and associating the determined indicator information with the deck.

Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes a rear frame and a beam member. The rear frame has: a first inner bead, a first outer bead, a second inner bead, and a second outer bead. The first inner bead and the first outer bead are formed on an inner wall and an outer wall, respectively, in a region close to the beam member. The second inner bead and the second outer bead are formed on the inner wall and the outer wall, respectively, in a region that is separated to a vehicle body frontward direction from the first beads. The first outer bead is formed to have a higher fragility than the first inner bead.

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: A branching device to be used for branching a power supply path connecting a first trunk station and a second trunk station to a branch station, the branching device including: a first power reception port being connected with a first power supply path connected to the first trunk station; a second power reception port being connected with a second power supply path connected to the second trunk station; a third power reception port being connected with a third power supply path connected to the branch station; and a power supply unit configured to supply, via the third power reception port, power to the third power supply path by power supply from at least either of the first power supply path and the second power supply path.

Abstract: To be able to check, from a remote location, a switching result of a power supply route, this communication system comprises: a plurality of terminal stations which each have a function of supplying power to a power supply path; a branching device which switches the power supply route, which includes a power supply path; and a monitoring device which, in response to one of the plurality of terminal stations transmitting to the branching device a switching signal specifying the power supply route, compares the voltages of the power supplied to the power supply paths respectively observed by the plurality of terminal stations, before and after transmission of the switching signal, and which, with the compared power supply voltages each having fluctuated by a first threshold or more, determines a switching result of the power supply route in the branching device.

Abstract: A disturbance suppression apparatus includes a timing prediction device. The timing prediction device includes a dead time acquisition unit, a disturbance start time acquisition unit, and a timing prediction unit. The dead time acquisition unit performs PID tuning to acquire a dead time. The disturbance start time acquisition unit acquires a disturbance start time representing a period from a time point at which a start signal is input to a time point at which a temperature starts to be affected by a disturbance. The timing prediction unit predicts a disturbance manipulated variable application timing on the basis of the dead time and the disturbance start time.

Abstract: A voltage source applies a voltage between two nodes of an object to be measured, the two nodes being insulated from each other. A current measuring device measures a capacitive leakage current between the two nodes of the object to be measured. A switch opens and closes a circuit between the object to be measured and the voltage source. A controller determines whether or not the switch normally operates, based on the measured capacitive leakage current.

Abstract: To generate, in an optical transmission device, a response signal corresponding to executed control even when said optical transmission device does not comprise one or both of a main signal photoelectric conversion function and a main signal optical amplification function, an optical transmission device comprises: an extraction unit that outputs, from a first optical signal including a main signal and a control signal, a signal including control information included in the control signal; a control unit that executes control on the basis of the control information; and a response signal output unit that outputs, according to the control, a response signal in a wavelength band different from the main signal.

Abstract: A resin composition for a printed wiring board, including: a phenolic compound (A); a maleimide compound (B); an epoxy compound (C); a cyclic carbodiimide compound (D); an inorganic filler (E); and a curing accelerator (F), wherein a content of the inorganic filler (E) is 100 to 250 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a resin solid content.

Abstract: A flat conductor electric connector mounted on a circuit board and electrically connected to a front end side portion of a band-shaped flat conductor extending in a front-back direction, comprising: multiple terminals in such a shape that metal plate members are bent in a plate thickness direction thereof; and a housing holding, by insert molding, the multiple terminals arrayed in a terminal array direction which is a band width direction, wherein each of the multiple terminals has, at least at one end portion in the front-back direction, a holding target portion held on the housing and an extending portion extending from the housing and formed with a mounting portion to be mounted on the circuit board by soldering, and the holding target portions adjacent to each other and the extending portions adjacent to each other are arrayed and positioned in the terminal array direction. The mounting portion includes an opening to receive a pin of a molding device.

Abstract: To be able to check, from a remote location, a switching result of a power supply route, this communication system comprises: a plurality of terminal stations which each have a function of supplying power to a power supply path; a branching device which switches the power supply route, which includes a power supply path; and a monitoring device which, in response to one of the plurality of terminal stations transmitting to the branching device a switching signal specifying the power supply route, compares the voltages of the power supplied to the power supply paths respectively observed by the plurality of terminal stations, before and after transmission of the switching signal, and which, with the compared power supply voltages each having fluctuated by a first threshold or more, determines a switching result of the power supply route in the branching device.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a first contact in a first relay connected to a circuit to be grounded; a resistor which is connected between the first contact and the earth, and which suppresses the flow of electric current to the first contact when the first contact is closed; a second contact in a second relay connected in parallel to the resistor; and an interlocking control means which inhibits opening of the first contact in a closed state when the second contact is opened, and which inhibits closing of the first contact in an open state when the second contact is closed.

Abstract: A flat conductor electric connector mounted on a circuit board and electrically connected to a front end side portion of a band-shaped flat conductor extending in a front-back direction, comprising: multiple terminals in such a shape that metal plate members are bent in a plate thickness direction thereof; and a housing holding, by insert molding, the multiple terminals arrayed in a terminal array direction which is a band width direction, wherein each of the multiple terminals has, at least at one end portion in the front-back direction, a holding target portion held on the housing and an extending portion extending from the housing and formed with a mounting portion to be mounted on the circuit board by soldering, and the holding target portions adjacent to each other and the extending portions adjacent to each other are arrayed and positioned in the terminal array direction.

Abstract: A disturbance suppression apparatus includes a timing prediction device. The timing prediction device includes a dead time acquisition unit, a disturbance start time acquisition unit, and a timing prediction unit. The dead time acquisition unit performs PID tuning to acquire a dead time. The disturbance start time acquisition unit acquires a disturbance start time representing a period from a time point at which a start signal is input to a time point at which a temperature starts to be affected by a disturbance. The timing prediction unit predicts a disturbance manipulated variable application timing on the basis of the dead time and the disturbance start time.

Abstract: To generate, in an optical transmission device, a response signal corresponding to executed control even when said optical transmission device does not comprise one or both of a main signal photoelectric conversion function and a main signal optical amplification function, an optical transmission device comprises: an extraction unit that outputs, from a first optical signal including a main signal and a control signal, a signal including control information included in the control signal; a control unit that executes control on the basis of the control information; and a response signal output unit that outputs, according to the control, a response signal in a wavelength band different from the main signal.

Abstract: A resin composition for a printed wiring board, including: a phenolic compound (A); a maleimide compound (B); an epoxy compound (C); a cyclic carbodiimide compound (D); an inorganic filler (E); and a curing accelerator (F), wherein a content of the inorganic filler (E) is 100 to 250 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a resin solid content.

Abstract: A thermosetting composition including at least a thermosetting compound, the thermosetting composition satisfying relationships represented by formulas (i) and (ii) below: 0.80?b/a?0.98??(i), and 0.05?c/a?0.30??(ii), wherein a, b, and c represent storage moduli (unit: GPa) at 30° C., 100° C., and 260° C., respectively, of a cured product formed by curing a prepreg obtained by impregnating or coating a base material with the thermosetting composition.