Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member about a rotational axis extending in the axial direction, a charging member, an accommodating portion accommodating toner charged to a predetermined polarity; a developing member, a transfer portion, a static eliminating portion, and a collecting member. In the axial direction, when A is a eliminating width with which the eliminating portion discharges the surface of the image bearing member, B is an effective charging width with which the charging member charges the surface, and C is a collection contacting width with which the collecting member contacts the surface, the formula A<B<C is satisfied. In the axial direction, a surface potential of the surface in an area outside the effective charging width, inside the collection contacting width and in contact with the collecting member is a first potential larger than 0V in the same polarity direction as the predetermined polarity.

Abstract: A microorganism is cultivated in the presence of a carbon source. The microorganism is a transformed microorganism having an introduced fadH gene encoding 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase. That is, the transformed microorganism has an introduced foreign gene encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or an introduced foreign gene encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence that is at least 85% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. The carbon source contains an oil containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituents or free unsaturated fatty acids.

Abstract: An ion implanter includes an angle measurement apparatus that measures a first angle of an ion beam in a first direction and a second angle of the ion beam in a second direction, the first direction and the second direction being mutually orthogonal to a traveling direction of the ion beam, an angle corrector that is located in a beamline of the ion beam and corrects an angle of the ion beam in the first direction based on the first angle, a wafer holder that holds a wafer in a process chamber, a tilt device that is connected to the wafer holder and that rotates the wafer around a rotation axis parallel to the first direction, and a controller that controls the tilt device based on the second angle, crystal axis information of the wafer, and implantation recipe information.

Abstract: A telescope includes a light beam splitting device disposed on an optical axis of the telescope, the light beam splitting device including a plurality of mirror surfaces configured to split a beam of light incident on the telescope into a plurality of beams of light; and a mounting device configured to mount a plurality of optical detectors to the telescope such that the plurality of optical detectors respectively correspond to the plurality of beams of light split by the light beam splitting device.

Abstract: An image capturing terminal includes an image acquisition part that acquires an image obtained through image capturing by an image capturing part, a concealment degree calculation part that calculates a concealment degree of the image, a concealment degree determination part that determines whether the concealment degree is equal to or less than a threshold value, and an output part that outputs alert information to notify that the concealment degree is declining when the concealment degree is equal to or less than a threshold value.

Abstract: A method for producing an injection-molded body from a molding material containing a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) resin includes: melting the molding material by heating the molding material to a temperature between a melting point peak temperature and a melting point peak end temperature in differential scanning calorimetry analysis of the molding material, wherein the difference between the melting point peak temperature and the melting point peak end temperature of the molding material is from 10 to 70° C.; injecting the molten molding material into a mold having a temperature of 30 to 80° C.; and cooling the molding material in the mold to crystallize and solidify the molding material.

Abstract: An image identification system includes a first camera that includes a mask and an image sensor, the mask having a changeable mask pattern having a plurality of pinholes, and captures a computational image that is an image with blurring, an image identification unit that identifies the computational image using an identification model that uses the computational image captured by the first camera as input data and an identification result as output data, a mask identification unit that, after the mask pattern is changed, identifies the mask pattern that has been changed, and an identification model change unit that changes the identification model in accordance with the mask pattern identified by the mask identification unit.

Abstract: An image forming device is provided with a housing formed with an opening, a cover configured to move between a closing position and an opening position, and a plurality of process cartridges including a first process cartridge and a second process cartridge. The first and second process cartridges respectively include first and second photosensitive drums configured to rotate about first and second drum axes both extending in a first direction. The first and second developing devices are configured to supply toner to the first and second photosensitive drums, respectively. The first and second supplying devices are formed with first and second supply ports through which the toner to be supplied to the first and second developing devices are provided, respectively. Both the first and second supplying ports are opened to outside the housing.

Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of operating at high speed is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, image data obtained by an imaging operation is binarized in a pixel unit, and a product-sum operation is performed using the binarized data. A memory circuit is provided in the pixel unit and retains a weight coefficient used for the product-sum operation. Thus, an arithmetic operation can be performed without the weight coefficient read from the outside every time, whereby power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, a pixel circuit, a memory circuit, and the like and a product-sum operation circuit and the like are stacked, so that the lengths of wirings between the circuits can be reduced, and high-speed operation with low power consumption can be performed.

Abstract: A toner container includes a toner storage unit, a container base portion including a discharge port provided on an outer surface of the container base portion, the outer surface extending in a first direction, the discharge port communicating with the toner storage unit, and a container shutter configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a direction along the first direction between a shielding position and an open position. The container base portion includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion of the image forming apparatus so that rotation of the container base portion with respect to the image forming apparatus about the rotation axis is restricted. At least a part of the engaging portion of the container base portion is exposed from the container shutter in a case where the container shutter is in the shielding position.

Abstract: A system for generating guidance information for a driver includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores guidance history of the driver. The processor generates a feature value based on match/mismatch of guidance types abstracted from the guidance history. The processor determines a guidance type for the driver on the basis of the feature value. The processor generates information for issuing guidance of the determined guidance type to the driver according to driver monitoring information.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an AC-DC converter and a main board, and a sub board having a sub connector connectable with a main connector of the main board. When the sub board is not connected with the main board, a main DC-DC converter on the main board converts a DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a first DC voltage and output the first DC voltage to a circuit element for image formation. When the sub board is connected with the main board, the AC-DC converter outputs the DC voltage to a sub DC-DC converter on the sub board via the main connector and the sub connector, and the sub DC-DC converter converts the DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a second DC voltage and output the second DC voltage to the circuit element via the sub connector and the main connector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member about a rotational axis extending in the axial direction, a charging member, an accommodating portion accommodating toner charged to a predetermined polarity; a developing member, a transfer portion, a static eliminating portion, and a collecting member. In the axial direction, when A is a eliminating width with which the eliminating portion discharges the surface of the image bearing member, B is an effective charging width with which the charging member charges the surface, and C is a collection contacting width with which the collecting member contacts the surface, the formula A<B<C is satisfied. In the axial direction, a surface potential of the surface in an area outside the effective charging width, inside the collection contacting width and in contact with the collecting member is a first potential larger than 0V in the same polarity direction as the predetermined polarity.

Abstract: A third model training part trains a second neural network model by backpropagation using an error difference between: an identification result which a third neural network model including a trained first neural network model and the second neural network connected to each other outputs after receiving second sensing data and a first operation parameter, and correct identification information corresponding to the second sensing data. A second operation parameter acquisition part acquires a second operation parameter by updating the first operation parameter via the first neural network model by the backpropagation.

Abstract: The training system determines a plurality of sensor parameter candidates to be used for an operation of a sensor, generates a plurality of sensor data sets corresponding to each of the plurality of sensor parameter candidates and including sensor data to be obtained by the operation of the sensor and a plurality of pieces of correct answer identification information corresponding to each of the sensor data, generates a plurality of trained neural network model candidates corresponding to the plurality of sensor parameter candidates, calculates identification performance of the plurality of trained neural network model candidates, selects a pair of the trained neural network model candidate with the highest identification performance and the sensor parameter candidate corresponding to the trained neural network model candidate with the highest identification performance, and outputs the selected pair of the sensor parameter candidate and the trained neural network model candidate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing member, a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image, and a brush member configured to come into contact with a surface of the image bearing member in a contact portion. In a case where a ratio of an area in which the brush member is in contact with the image bearing member per unit area in the contact portion is defined as a contact area ratio, and a range in a rotation axis direction of the image bearing member in which the developing member is configured to supply toner to the developing portion is defined as an image area, the brush member includes a portion which is outside the image area in the rotation axis direction and in which the contact area ratio is higher than the contact area ratio in the image area.

Abstract: An operation management aid system can access a first group of associated data in which biological measurement data pertaining to a biology of a driver is associated with task state data pertaining to a task state of the driver, and a second group of danger determination results indicating a degree of danger of driving by the driver, and wherein a processor executes: acquiring, the associated data pertaining to a specific task state of the driver from the first group, and acquiring a specific danger determination result group in the specific task state of the driver from the second group; and using an associated data group pertaining to the specific task state and a specific danger determination result group for the specific task state, to generate, for each of the specific task states, an estimation model that estimates an accident risk of the driver during the specific task state.

Abstract: A communication device includes a storage unit that stores a conversion table; a receiving unit that receives a packet addressed to a user terminal from a server, and an address conversion unit that converts a destination address of the packet into a multicast address in accordance with the conversion table, adds, to the packet, an identification ID for identifying a group to which the user terminal belongs, and transmits the packet to which the identification ID is added.

Abstract: A toner container includes a toner storage unit, a container base portion including a discharge port provided on an outer surface of the container base portion, the outer surface extending in a first direction, the discharge port communicating with the toner storage unit, and a container shutter configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a direction along the first direction between a shielding position and an open position. The container base portion includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion of the image forming apparatus so that rotation of the container base portion with respect to the image forming apparatus about the rotation axis is restricted. At least a part of the engaging portion of the container base portion is exposed from the container shutter in a case where the container shutter is in the shielding position.

Abstract: A network management apparatus including a failure influence calculation unit that calculates, in a case where a communication failure occurs in a plurality of buildings in which communication facilities are accommodated and which correspond to upper layers of a network, an influence of the communication failure, the influence being an influence on other buildings corresponding to lower layers of the network by the occurred failure. Further, there is a priority calculation unit that calculates a priority of a possibility of the buildings in which the occurred failure is to be actually recovered among the buildings in which the failure occurs and which correspond to the upper layers, based on a degree of the communication failure continuously occurring in any building of the network under a condition in which the occurred failure and the influence calculated by the failure influence calculation unit are applied.