Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; an exposure portion configured to expose the photosensitive member to light depending on image information to form a latent image on the photosensitive member; a developing portion configured to develop the latent image into a toner image with toner; and a transfer portion configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a recording material. The image forming apparatus changes a surface movement speed of the photosensitive member at timing prior to predetermined timing, when a moving speed of a recording material at the transfer portion changes, by a predetermined time.

Abstract: An electronic component includes first and second inner electrode layers respectively including first and second facing portions and first and second extended portions coupling the first and second facing portions to an outer electrode, the first and second extended portions include a curved portion curving toward a center in a stacking direction with increasing proximity to an end surface from a first or second facing portion side, a solid solution layer includes a first metal component of the inner electrode layers and defines a solid solution with a second metal component at an interface between the curved portion and a dielectric layer, and a mole ratio of the second metal component in the solid solution is about 0.001 or more and about 0.1 or less relative to a total amount of moles of the first and second metal components.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a multilayer body in which a dielectric layer having a thickness of about 0.8 ?m or more and about 4.1 ?m or less and an inner electrode layer having a thickness of about 0.5 ?m or more and about 1.2 ?m or less are alternately stacked, the number of each of the dielectric layer and the inner electrode layer being 200 or more and 650 or less. A solid solution layer in which a first metal component defines a solid solution with a second metal component is at an interface between the inner electrode layer and the dielectric layer, and including a central solid solution layer located about 10 ?m or more from an end portion in a facing portion in a length direction and a width direction, where the adjacent inner electrode layers oppose each other.

Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to acquire user information of user terminals carried by users who use a store, and configured to perform payment processing, and to generate group information when payment processing is performed by using a first user terminal. The group information is user information of the first user terminal and a second user terminal. The processor is configured to generate, from information on the payment processing and the group information, consumption information associated with each of the user terminals in a group.

Abstract: In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a ceramic body including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes; a first external electrode on a first end surface of the ceramic body and electrically connected to a first set of the plurality of internal electrodes; and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the ceramic body and electrically connected to a second set of the plurality of internal electrodes. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains including Ca, Zr, Ti and a rare earth element, P is present between the plurality of dielectric grains, and where at least a portion of the rare earth element is in a solid solution in the dielectric grains.

Abstract: A vehicle sales management apparatus that manages a trade-in vehicle traded in at a first store and owned by the first store such that the trade-in vehicle can be sold at a second store different from the first store. The vehicle sales management apparatus includes a CPU and a memory. The CPU is configured to perform acquiring a trade-in price and a sales price of the trade-in vehicle, deciding a purchase price when the second store purchases the trade-in vehicle from the first store on the basis of the trade-in price and the sales price acquired in the acquiring, and transmitting the purchase price decided in the deciding and the sales price acquired in the acquiring to the second store.

Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to acquire user information of user terminals carried by users who use a store, and configured to perform payment processing, and to generate group information when payment processing is performed by using a first user terminal. The group information is user information of the first user terminal and a second user terminal. The processor is configured to generate, from information on the payment processing and the group information, consumption information associated with each of the user terminals in a group.

Abstract: A processor provided with hardware is provided. The processor acquires user information of a plurality of the user terminals output from a store terminal that is provided in a store and executes payment settlement processing, generates, when a predetermined user terminal among the user terminals executes the payment settlement processing, group consumption information based on group information containing the user information of the predetermined user terminal and the user information of the other user terminals and consumption information associated with each of the user terminals contained in the group information, and generates payment information containing an allotted amount of the predetermined user terminal with respect to a target user terminal based on the group consumption information. The payment information contains information on a user ID of the predetermined user terminal, user IDs of the other user terminals, and the allotted amount.

Abstract: A processor provided with hardware and a memory storing group consumption information containing group information containing a plurality of pieces of user information of a plurality of user terminals and consumption information associated with the group information are provided. The processor acquires notification information for performing notification about a store externally, retrieves the group consumption information based on the user information of the user terminals constituting a group, selects the notification information from the acquired notification information based on the retrieved group consumption information, and outputs the selected notification information.

Abstract: In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.

Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor provided with hardware. The processor acquires traffic information including a content related to a traffic condition in association with movement of a moving body that a user is on board from a traffic information server that provides the traffic information, weather information including a content related to weather in association with the movement of the moving body from a weather information server that provides the weather information, and payment settlement information including a content related to payment settlement of the user from a facility terminal installed in a facility, and calculates a reward for the user based on at least one of the payment settlement information, the traffic information, and the weather information.

Abstract: A wallet server includes a processor having hardware. The processor is configured to acquire additional information including content to be provided to a user from a plurality of settlement service provider servers configured to provide a plurality of different settlement methods, acquire user information regarding the user from a user terminal carried by the user, select at least one settlement method among the plurality of different settlement methods based on at least one kind of information of the additional information and the user information, and transmit the at least one selected settlement method to the user terminal.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a ceramic body including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes; a first external electrode on a first end surface of the ceramic body and electrically connected to a first set of the plurality of internal electrodes; and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the ceramic body and electrically connected to a second set of the plurality of internal electrodes. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains including Ca, Zr, Ti and a rare earth element, P is present between the plurality of dielectric grains, and where at least a portion of the rare earth element is in a solid solution in the dielectric grains.

Abstract: A roll-up type capacitor that includes a plurality of cylindrical parts arranged parallel to one another and which each are a rolled-up laminate; a first external electrode on respective first ends of the plurality of cylindrical parts; and a second external electrode on respective second ends of the plurality of cylindrical parts. When, prior to being rolled-up, a dimension of the laminate parallel to a rolling-up direction is a length L, and a dimension of the laminate perpendicular to laminating direction and the rolling-up direction is a width W, the roll-up type capacitor has two or more cylindrical parts when a ratio L/W is 4 or more; has three or more cylindrical parts when L/W is 3 to less than 4; has four or more cylindrical parts when L/W is 2 to less than 3; and has eight or more cylindrical parts when L/W is 1 to less than 2.

Abstract: A roll-up type capacitor includes a cylindrical part, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The cylindrical part is a rolled-up laminate in which a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer are laminated in this order. The first external electrode is electrically connected to the upper electrode layer, and the second external electrode is electrically connected to the lower electrode layer, and the first external electrode and the second external electrode are respectively located on opposed sides of the cylindrical part such that they face to each other.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor having inner electrodes with a Ni-Metal A alloy, the Metal A being selected from Fe, V, Y, and Cu and dissolved in the Ni to form a solid solution. The percentage of the Metal A with respect to the total amount of Metal A and Ni in near-surface regions located at a depth of 2 nm from a surface of the inner electrode in contact with an adjacent ceramic dielectric layer is 1.4 or more atom %, and XA?YA?1.0, where XA represents the atomic percentage of Metal A in the near-surface regions and YA represents the atomic percentage of Metal A in mid-thickness regions of the inner electrodes. A method for producing a multilayer ceramic capacitor includes annealing the ceramic multilayer body under specific conditions to thereby increase, in the inner electrodes, the percentage of Metal A in the near-surface regions.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor having inner electrodes containing at least one metal selected from Cu, Ag, Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, and Os in an amount of 0.1 atom % or more that is dissolved in Ni and Sn to form a solid solution. The percentage of Sn with respect to the total amount of Ni and Sn in near-surface regions each located at a depth of 2 nm from a surface of the inner electrode in contact with an adjacent ceramic dielectric layer is 1.4 or more atom %, and X?Y?1.0, where X represents the atomic percentage of Sn in the near-surface regions and Y represents the atomic percentage of Sn in mid-thickness regions of the inner electrodes. A method for producing a multilayer ceramic capacitor includes annealing the ceramic multilayer body to increase, in the inner electrodes, the percentage of Sn in the near-surface regions.

Abstract: A polymer film can be adjusted to movement or a fine uneven surface of a living body and has excellent ability to adhere to a biological tissue. The polymer film includes a block copolymer having a structure in which branched polyalkylene glycol and polyhydroxyalkanoic acid are bound to each other, wherein the polymer film has a film thickness of 10 to 1000 nm. The branched polyalkylene glycol has at least three terminal hydroxyl groups per molecule, the mass percentage of the branched polyalkylene glycol relative to the total mass of the block copolymer is 1% to 30%, and a value obtained by dividing the average molecular weight of polyhydroxyalkanoic acid in the block copolymer by X that is the number of terminal hydroxyl groups present per a single molecule of the branched polyalkylene glycol is 10000 to 30000.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic that contains an alkali niobate compound as its main ingredient. The alkali niobate compound has a perovskite crystal structure represented by AmBO3 and contains an alkali metal. There exists Sn in part of site A, and Zr in part of site B. A radial distribution function obtained from a K-edge X-ray absorption spectrum of Sn has a first peak intensity P1 at a first distance from a Sn atom and a second peak intensity P2 at a second distance from the Sn atom. The second distance is greater than the first distance, and the peak intensity ratio P1/P2 is 2.7 or less.