Abstract: A cartridge includes a housing that has an opening and a conveyance member disposed near a bottom surface of the housing. The conveyance member is configured to convey developer along a first direction from a deep side to an opening side of the housing, or a second direction from the opening side to the deep side. The cartridge also includes a driving member connected to one end of the conveyance member, with the driving member being configured to reciprocate the conveyance member along a surface direction of the conveyance member in a manner such that a maximum acceleration of the conveyance member in the first direction and a maximum acceleration in the second direction are different from each other. The housing includes a regulation member that regulates movement of the conveyance member in a direction in which the conveyance member moves away from the bottom surface of the housing.

Abstract: A developing device includes a rotatable developer carrying member, a frame, a partition wall partitioning an inside of the frame into a developing chamber and a developer accommodating portion and provided with an opening, and a feeding member. The feeding member includes a flexible sheet member and a driving member. Maximum acceleration of the sheet member driven by the driving member in a first direction in which the developer in the developer accommodating chamber is moved toward the opening is smaller than maximum acceleration in a second direction opposite to the first direction. When the sheet member is reciprocated in a surface direction by the driving member, the sheet member is deformable so as to follow a shape of an inner wall surface of the developer accommodating chamber.

Abstract: Provided are a cleaning member that removes a developer from the surface of an image bearing member that is attached to an opening of a frame; a transport member that transports developer removed from the surface of the photosensitive member drum by the cleaning member, from an opening side of the frame towards an opposing deep side; and a driving unit for driving the transport member such that the transport member moves relatively to the cleaning member. The transport member is driven by the driving unit such that an absolute value of maximum acceleration at the time of movement of the transport member in a direction from the opening side of the frame towards the deep side is smaller than an absolute value of maximum acceleration at the time of movement in a direction from the deep side towards the opening side.

Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a housing having an opening portion, a cleaning member configured to remove developer from the image bearing member, a conveying member configured such that the developer removed by the cleaning member is conveyed from the opening portion side to a deep side of the housing, and a driving unit connected to the conveying member and configured to cause the conveying member to reciprocate such that maximum acceleration of movement of the conveying member in a direction from the opening portion side to the deep side is smaller than that in a direction from the deep side to the opening portion side. The conveying member includes a separation portion that separates the developer and a foreign substance from each other.

Abstract: A commodity information inspection system includes: a storage unit; an identification information specification unit; an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire image information related to the commodity label; a first extraction unit configured to extract, as text information from the storage unit, a predetermined commodity item to be a comparison target in the commodity information that is stored in association with the identification information that is specified by the identification information specification unit; a second extraction unit configured to extract, as text information, information of characters included in the image information acquired by the image information acquisition unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the commodity label and/or the wrapping material is correct based on a comparison between a character string as text information extracted by the first extraction unit and a character string as text information extracted by the second extractio

Abstract: A first light guide lens includes a first entering section and a first emitting section located on opposite side to the first entering section, the first emitting section has a shape inclined or curved so that an outer side thereof retreats further than an inner side thereof, a plurality of light emitting elements include a first light emitting element disposed at a position overlapping the first entering section at the inner side when seen in a front view, and a second light emitting element disposed at a position that does not overlap the first entering section at the outer side when seen in the front view, and a light guide section that guides light emitted from the second light emitting element to a position corresponding to the outer side of the first entering section is provided between the second light emitting element and the first entering section.

Abstract: A component discrimination apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image-pickup data obtained by taking an image of a component using a camera; a dividing unit configured to divide the image-pickup data into first image-pickup data and second image-pickup data so that they respectively include at least one characteristic part of the component; a specification identifying unit configured to identify a specification of the characteristic part in the first image-pickup data using the first image-pickup data, thereby identifying a type of the component; and a specification correctness determination unit configured to perform, using the second image-pickup data, correctness determination of whether or not a specification of the characteristic part in the second image-pickup data is the same as a specification of the component of the type identified by the specification identifying unit.

Abstract: A flaw handling system includes an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot and a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot can be updated using update-software. The off-line management server installs the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluates the update-software, and transmits a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server. When the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, the data analysis server transmits a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.

Abstract: An automatic updating system includes an off-line management server, an in-line management server, a production management server configured to calculate a non-operating time in each time period, and a data analysis server. The off-line management server installs update-software transmitted from a manufacturer server in a corresponding off-line robot based on the transmitted update-software, evaluates the installed update-software, and determines whether or not it is possible to update the in-line robot by the update-software based on the evaluation. The data analysis server schedules the timing of the update of the software so that the update by the update-software, which has been determined to be updatable, is carried out within the non-operating time of the in-line robot. The in-line management server updates the software of the in-line robot at the timing scheduled by the data analysis server.

Abstract: At least a (Al1-a-b-cCraSibCuc)N (where 0.15?a?0.40, 0.05?b?0.20, and 0.005?c?0.05) layer is provided on a surface of a tool body, a Cr concentration or a Cu concentration periodically changes in a layer thickness direction, a concentration Crmax in a highest content point of Cr is in a range of a<Crmax?1.3a, a concentration Crmin in a lowest content point of Cr is in a range of 0.50a?Crmin<a, and optionally in a case where a Cu composition at one point z along the layer thickness direction is represented by cz and a Cr composition at the point z is represented by az, (cz/az)/(c/a) is 0.7 to 1.5 over the layer thickness direction entirely.

Abstract: A braking force controller causes a first actuator unit to generate a target jerk when the target jerk is equal to or larger than a first jerk, causes the first actuator unit to generate the first jerk and a second actuator unit to generate a jerk obtained by subtracting the first jerk from the target jerk as an additional jerk when the target jerk is smaller than the first jerk and equal to or larger than the sum of the first jerk and a second jerk, and causes the first actuator unit to generate the first jerk and the second actuator unit to generate the second jerk as the additional jerk when the target jerk is smaller than the sum of the first jerk and the second jerk.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a surface-coated cubic boron nitride sintered material tool including a cBN substrate and a hard coating layer formed on a surface of the cBN substrate and having an alternate laminated structure of A layer and B layer. A peak of the grain size distribution of cBN grains in the cBN sintered material is present within a range of a grain size from 0.50 to 1.00 ?m. The A layer has a composition of (Ti1-xAlx)N (0.4?x?0.7 in an atomic ratio). The B layer has a composition of (Cr1-y-zAlyMz)N (0.03?y?0.6 and 0?z?0.05 in an atomic ratio). An X-ray diffraction peak of a (200) plane is present at a position of a diffraction angle of 43.6 plus or minus 0.1 degrees, and a plastic deformation work ratio of the B layer is 0.35 to 0.50.

Abstract: An equipment inspection system capable of creating an inspection plan for inspecting a component part of an equipment at an appropriate timing is provided. An equipment inspection system includes an index acquisition unit, an importance level judgement unit, and an inspection time determination unit. The index acquisition unit acquires at least one influence index. The importance level judgement unit judges an importance level of an inspection on a component part based on the influence index. The inspection time determination unit determines the inspection time of the component part according to the importance level.

Abstract: A rubber composition includes a diene rubber (A), a silica (B), a silane coupling agent (C), and an acid-modified polyolefin (D); the diene rubber (A) containing not less than 30 mass % of an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer rubber; the acid-modified polyolefin (D) having at least one type of repeating unit selected from the group consisting of propylene, 1-butene, and 1-octene; a content of the silica (B) being from 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber (A); and a total content of the silane coupling agent (C) and the acid-modified polyolefin being from 5 to 30 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber (A). Such rubber composition is capable of achieving both excellent vulcanization properties and low heat build-up. A pneumatic tire includes such rubber composition.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. The control section is configured to select one drive pattern of the plurality of drive patterns based on machine learning, and execute the selected drive pattern. In a case in which a predetermined condition is fulfilled, the control section executes a predetermined drive pattern of the plurality of drive patterns without selecting and executing the drive pattern based on the machine learning.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a shifting delay control portion configured to delay a moment of generation of a shift-down command to implement a power-on shift-down action of the step-variable transmission, with respect to a moment of determination to implement the power-on shift-down action, for thereby reducing a shifting shock of the step-variable transmission in the process of the power-on shift-down action. The shifting delay control portion adjusts a delay time from the moment of determination to implement the power-on shift-down action to the moment of generation of the shift-down command, on the basis of at least one of an output state of the drive power source; an inertia power required in the process of the power-on shift-down action; a consumption power to be consumed by the coupling devices; and a state of a battery to and from which an electric power is respectively supplied from and to the motor/generator.

Abstract: A shift control device for a vehicle, includes: a minimum vehicle speed calculator that, when it is determined that a vehicle on traveling needs to decelerate before the vehicle arrives at a forward predetermined point, calculates a minimum vehicle speed using the periphery information; a shift position determination unit that determines a target shift position; and a downshift controller that, when the minimum vehicle speed is calculated, commences a downshift from a current shift position to the target shift position. Further, the downshift controller implements first control of performing multiple downshifts from the current shift position to the target shift position such that shift timing is provided at regular intervals, or second control of performing multiple downshifts such that rotational speeds of the engine after the respective downshifts become equal to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a workpiece having high versatility that can address a plurality of types of workpieces is achieved. An apparatus for supporting a workpiece according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a resin part configured to support the workpiece, the resin part being softened when it is heated to a predetermined first temperature or higher in an initial shape, cured when it is cooled down to a temperature lower than a predetermined second temperature from the state in which it is softened, and softened while it is restored to the initial shape when it is heated again to the first temperature or higher; a temperature adjustment part configured to adjust the temperature of the resin part; and a controller configured to control the temperature adjustment part.