Abstract: An electrolytic solution generator includes an electrolyzing unit having a stacked structure in which a conductive film is interpose between a cathode and an anode, the electrolyzing unit electrolyzing a liquid, and a housing in which the electrolyzing unit is placed. A channel is disposed in the housing, and a groove is disposed in the electrolyzing unit, as a groove which is open to the channel and to which at least a part of an interface between the conductive film and the cathode and an interface between the conductive film and the anode is exposed. A space is disposed between at least either an outer periphery of the cathode or an outer periphery of the anode and an inner surface of the housing.

Abstract: Provided is a shock absorber in which a check valve seated on a seat portion (second seat portion) having an annular shape is quickly opened during a reverse stroke. As a result, a working fluid in a chamber on a downstream side can be quickly introduced into a back-pressure chamber. Hence, a delay in response of a damping force, which may be caused by sticking of the check valve to a relief valve, can be suppressed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes extended services that are an extended function service and a backend service, and an extended service manager that manages the extended function service and the backend service. Each extended service provides an extension application with a function other than standard functions of the image forming apparatus, without using a standard application that realizes the standard functions of the image forming apparatus. The extension application is an application that realizes the function other than the standard functions of the image forming apparatus. The standard application is a copy application, a printer application, a facsimile application, or a transmission application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a shock absorber capable of improving responsiveness during an extension stroke without leading to an increase in an axial length. A shock absorber includes a chamber provided on a one-side end of a pilot valve and disposed in communication with a cylinder upper chamber, a communication passage configured to establish communication between the chamber and a cylinder lower chamber via a compression-side passage, and a check valve configured to permit hydraulic fluid in the communication passage to flow into the cylinder lower chamber during an extension stroke.

Abstract: A damping force adjustable shock absorber includes an electromagnetic damping force adjustment device (17) having a damping force adjustment valve (18), and a solenoid (33) configured to variably adjust the damping force. The solenoid includes a coil (39) configured to generate a magnetic force by power supply, a movable iron core (43) located on an inner peripheral side of the coil, an anchor member (40) configured to attract the movable iron core. The movable iron core includes a thick cylindrical portion (43A) and a taper cylindrical portion (43B). The thick cylindrical portion includes a fixation hole (43A1) in which a shaft portion (44) is fixed. The taper cylindrical portion has an inner peripheral surface flaring so as to define a taper shape. A recessed portion (43A2) is formed around the fixation hole. The recessed portion allows hydraulic fluid to flow in an axial direction of the movable iron core.

Abstract: A calculation device includes a storing unit that records discoloration characteristics about a sensor which changes color according to a size of physical quantity and a time when the physical quantity lasts, as a discoloration map with the physical quantity and the time as axes, for every sensor, and a physical quantity converting unit that specifies an area within each discoloration map corresponding to the color information of each sensor measured from a display area including the plural sensors having mutually different discoloration characteristics, calculates an overlapping area when the discoloration maps overlap each other as for the specified areas within the discoloration maps, and specifies a combination of the corresponding physical quantity and time from the position of the overlapping area within the discoloration map.

Abstract: Provided is a shock absorber that is so designed that fail-down is prevented, which is caused when solenoid thrust is relatively small. The shock absorber comprises a chamber disposed on one side of a valve element and communicating with a cylinder's one side chamber and a cylinder's other side chamber, a first communication passage allowing the chamber and the cylinder's one side chamber to communicate with each other, and a second communication passage allowing the chamber and the cylinder's other side chamber to communicate with each other. The first communication passage includes a first orifice, and the second communication passage includes a second orifice.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a temperature detecting element including base materials provided with substrates and electrodes arranged on the substrates, and a temperature detector arranged to electrically contact the electrodes on the substrates, in which a change in an electromagnetic wave absorbing property (light-absorbing property) and a change in an electrical property (resistance value) corresponding to a temperature change of the temperature detector are reversible. The temperature detecting element is easily stored and managed before use, and a temperature change in a temperature management environment can be accurately detected.

Abstract: A relay apparatus for relaying data in a network comprises: a storage configured to store therein a whitelist in which normal information is registered, the normal information indicating that said data is normal based on a destination and source thereof; a receiver configured to receive first data; a determining part configured to determine whether normal information for the first data received is registered in the whitelist or not; a rewriting part configured to rewrite, when the determining part determines that the whitelist does not have normal information of the first data, a remaining lifespan required to reach the destination of the first data to a prescribed lifespan required to reach a specific communication apparatus that exists between the nearest communication apparatus and the furthest communication apparatus from the relay apparatus in the network; and a transmitter configured to transmit the first data that has gone through a rewriting process.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes extended services that are an extended function service and a backend service, and an extended service manager that manages the extended function service and the backend service. Each extended service provides an extension application with a function other than standard functions of the image forming apparatus, without using a standard application that realizes the standard functions of the image forming apparatus. The extension application is an application that realizes the function other than the standard functions of the image forming apparatus. The standard application is a copy application, a printer application, a facsimile application, or a transmission application.

Abstract: A transfer apparatus comprises: a first storage unit configured to store a whitelist for storing reliable information indicating that communication between a source address and a destination address is authorized; a second storage unit configured to store an addition list including a specific address not included in the reliable information and a valid period of the specific address; a receiving unit configured to receive data; a check unit configured to check whether either a destination address or a source address included in data within the valid period is the specific address; and a generation unit configured to generate specific reliable information indicating that communication between the destination address and the source address included in the data is authorized and register the generated specific reliable information to the whitelist in a case where the check unit confirms within the valid period that either address is the specific address.

Abstract: A calculation device comprises a color evaluation unit that acquires a sensor color and four or more reference colors from photography data from a measurement time when an indication object was photographed in a second photography environment; determines coefficients for color conversion between a first and the second photography environments based on the amount of change from color information for the reference colors in the first photography environment, which has been read from a calculation device storage unit, to color information for the reference colors in the second photography environment, which has been acquired from the photography data; and uses the sensor color acquired from the photography data from the measurement time and the color conversion coefficients to correct the sensor color to the color that would have been photographed in the first photography environment by solving a conversion formula including terms representing an affine transformation consisting of translation.

Abstract: An electrolyzed water generator includes anode, cathode, and cation exchange membrane provided between anode and cathode so as to be in contact with at least one of anode and cathode. Gaps in which a flow of water occurs are present between cation exchange membrane and at least one of anode and cathode.

Abstract: This marking system is provided with: a marking device which has a marking unit which gives a mark for managing the quality of a product, a housing part which houses one or more temperature indicating materials, and a providing unit which provides, to the marking unit, a temperature indicating material selected by the housing part; and a control device which has a storage unit that stores temperature-indicating material information on a developing temperature or/and a decoloring temperature of each of the temperature-indicating materials included in the housing part; and a processing unit that acquires, from a server or an input unit, an appropriate temperature of the product, selects, on the basis of the acquired appropriate temperature of the product and the temperature-indicating material information, a temperature-indicating material, and notifies the providing unit of details of providing the selected temperature-indicating material.

Abstract: In a shock absorber, an extension-side check valve permitting a flow of hydraulic fluid directed from a common passage to a compression-side passage side, and a compression-side orifice establishing communication between the compression-side passage and a compression-side back-pressure chamber are provided in an extension-side discharge passage. A compression-side check valve permitting a flow of hydraulic fluid directed from the common passage to an extension-side passage side, and an extension-side orifice establishing communication between the extension-side passage and an extension-side back-pressure chamber are provided in a compression-side discharge passage. A pilot valve includes a valve body slidably inserted in the common passage, and a valve spring biasing the valve body in a valve-opening direction.

Abstract: It is possible to provide a temperature detection ink, which allows color initialization by a simple method and discolors with addition of time and temperature at a reaction temperature or higher. To solve the problem, the temperature detection ink according to the present invention includes a temperature detection material and a solvent. The temperature detection material has a structure in which a thermosensitive material containing a leuco dye, a color-developing agent, and a decolorant is contained in a microcapsule, or a structure in which a phase containing the thermosensitive material is phase-separated from a matrix material. The thermosensitive material is solidified while being decolored by cooling from a molten state to a glass transition temperature or lower at a predetermined rate or higher. The thermosensitive material has a glass transition temperature of ?20 to 60° C., and a melting point that is 60 to 250° C. and lower than the boiling point of the solvent.

Abstract: An engine unit including a heater provided in a blow-by gas returning path for returning a blow-by gas that leaks out from a combustion chamber of an engine to an intake path. The heater is electrically connected to a controller of the engine through wiring harnesses. The controller is configured to, while controlling energization of the heater, perform an abnormality detection on the wiring harness based on a magnitude of current flowing to the wiring harness during energization of the heater, and perform an abnormality detection on the heater and the wiring harnesses based on a magnitude of voltage applied to the wiring harness located downstream from the heater during non-energization of the heater.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature sensing material that changes a color density continuously with the lapse of time at a temperature not lower or higher than a predetermined temperature and a temperature deviation time estimating system using it. In order to achieve the above object, the temperature sensing material according to the present invention is a temperature sensing material having a structure of dispersing a temperature indicating material that changes color by crystallization in a dispersion medium and is characterized in that an average particle size of the temperature indicating material is not larger than a resolution when observed and a volume fraction of the temperature indicating material to the temperature sensing material is not less than 5% to less than 90%.

Abstract: An electrolytic liquid generation device according to the present disclosure includes an electrolytic part and a housing in which the electrolytic part is disposed. The electrolytic part has a laminate including mutually adjacent electrodes and a conductive film interposed between the electrodes. The electrolytic part electrolyzes a liquid. The housing includes an electrode case having a recess with an opening to enable insertion of the electrolytic part through the opening and to contain the electrolytic part in the recess, and an electrode case lid to cover the opening of the electrode case. The electrolytic part is contained in the recess such that lamination direction Z of the laminate is substantially aligned with a direction in which the opening opens. This configuration provides an electrolytic liquid generation device that can be built with improved facility.

Abstract: A quality control system includes a control device, an output device, and an input device placed at at least an end point of a distribution channel of articles; the input device includes an input unit for receiving data on a changed environment portion and a communication unit that transmits the data, information about an input location, and an input time to the control device. The control device includes a storage unit for storing the mode of packing of the articles in the distribution channel, a reception unit for receiving the information from the input device, an arithmetic operation unit that calculates the number of articles deviating from the storage environment and estimates the stage of the distribution channel deviating from the storage environment, and a transmission unit for transmitting calculation result to the output device that is provided with a display unit.