Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member tem

Abstract: A block copolymer composition containing at least one type of block copolymer component obtained by using a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene, wherein the block copolymer composition satisfies the conditions (1) to (3) indicated below. (1) The weight-average molecular weight is at least 100000 and at most 300000, and the conjugated diene content is at least 18 mass % and at most 35 mass %. (2) The vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon block percentage is at least 80% and at most 100% relative to the total amount of the vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon. (3) At least 30 mass % and at most 60 mass % of block copolymer components having a conjugated diene content of at least 30 mass % are included.

Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an obtainer which obtains, from an imaging device provided in a vehicle so as to be oriented to capture an image of an area behind the vehicle, an image captured by the imaging device; a position detector which detects a face position of a driver; and an image processor which performs image processing to clip, according to the face position detected by the position detector, an image having a range corresponding to the face position, out of a combined image including the image, and superimpose a position image indicating a position in the vehicle, on the image at a position corresponding to the face position, and outputs an image resulting from the image processing.

Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an obtainer which obtains, from an imaging device provided in a vehicle so as to be oriented to capture an image of an area behind the vehicle, an image captured by the imaging device; a position detector which detects a face position of a driver; and an image processor which performs image processing to clip, according to the face position detected by the position detector, an image having a range corresponding to the face position, out of a combined image including the image, and superimpose a position image indicating a position in the vehicle, on the image at a position corresponding to the face position, and outputs an image resulting from the image processing.

Abstract: An inkjet recording medium, comprising an ink-receiving layer containing an inorganic pigment, a binder, an inkjet ink-fixing agent comprising a cationic compound, and organic spherical particles disposed on at least one surface of a base paper, wherein the ink-receiving layer further contains a water-soluble metal salt and 5 parts by weight or more to 15 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (A) with a polymerization degree of 700 or less and 20 parts by weight or more to 40 parts by weight or less of polyvinyl alcohol (B) with a polymerization degree of 1200 or more as the binder with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ink-receiving layer; and a volume 50% average particle diameter (D50) as measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method of the organic spherical particles is 15.0 ?m or more.

Abstract: An assembled cell is formed by laminating a plurality of rectangular secondary batteries in a thickness direction and interposing a spacer between the rectangular secondary batteries. The rectangular secondary battery includes an electrode group in which positive and negative electrodes are wound, and the electrode group is housed in the battery container formed in a flat box shape. The spacer includes a contact part which contacts with a width direction end region of a wide side surface of the battery container, a facing part which faces a width direction intermediate region of the wide side surface, and an inclined surface which is adjacent to both ends of the facing part in a width direction of the wide side surface. The inclined surface is inclined such that a thickness of the spacer becomes asymptotically smaller in a direction toward the width direction intermediate region from the width direction end region.

Abstract: A state observation device (30) uses an ADC (37) to digitize a detection signal from a gap sensor (21) at a low-speed sampling period and uses a separation unit (38) to separate the digitized detection signal into vane detection signals considered to be for the detection of a vane of a compressor impeller and non-vane detection signals considered not to be for the detection of a vane. Further, the determination unit (39) extracts a vane peak detection signal considered to be for a vane peak by comparing a vane detection signal with vane detection signals corresponding to other vanes and non-vane detection signals, and a shaft vibration and tip clearance are determined as states of the compressor impeller on the basis of the extracted vane peak detection signal. Thus, the state observation device (30) is capable of observing the state of a rotary machine without carrying out high-speed sampling.

Abstract: A contact vibration detection device 100 for detecting contact vibration due to contact between a rotational shaft 12 and a stationary part 13 includes: a rotation waveform determination unit 101 configured to determine a rotation waveform of the rotational shaft 12 based on displacement of the rotational shaft 12 during rotation; a parameter change detection unit 102 configured to detect a change in a parameter of at least one of an effective value of the rotation waveform or a phase angle of the rotation waveform; and a contact vibration determination unit 103 configured to determine whether the contact vibration occurs based on presence or absence of the change in the parameter.

Abstract: The three-dimensional object building apparatus includes a powder delivering unit that delivers a powder on an object building area, a powder flattening device that flattens the powder delivered from the powder delivering unit to form a powder layer, and a light beam radiating unit that is disposed above the object building area and radiates a light beam on the powder layer to sinter or melt solidify the powder for building an object. The three-dimensional object building apparatus also includes a transferring mechanism that moves the light beam radiating unit in three-dimensional directions, and a shroud that moves integrally with the light beam radiating unit and surrounds a space above an area of the powder layer that is smaller than the object building area around a radiation of the light beam. The powder delivering unit and the powder flattening device move integrally with the light beam radiating unit.

Abstract: A method of suppressing shaft vibration of a turbocharger capable of being driven by a motor includes: a specific-vibration-state determination step of determining whether a rotor shaft of the turbocharger is in a specific vibration state in which a magnitude of shaft vibration of the rotor shaft is, or is likely to be, greater than a predetermined magnitude; an excited state determination step of determining whether the motor is in an excited state in which an exciting voltage is applied to the motor; and a vibration suppression execution step of applying the exciting voltage to the motor if it is determined that the rotor shaft is in the specific vibration state in the specific-vibration-state determination step and it is determined that the motor is not in the excited state in the excited state determination step.

Abstract: A method of suppressing shaft vibration of a turbocharger capable of being driven by a motor includes: a specific-vibration-state determination step of determining whether a rotor shaft of the turbocharger is in a specific vibration state in which a magnitude of shaft vibration of the rotor shaft is, or is likely to be, greater than a predetermined magnitude; an excited state determination step of determining whether the motor is in an excited state in which an exciting voltage is applied to the motor; and a vibration suppression execution step of applying the exciting voltage to the motor if it is determined that the rotor shaft is in the specific vibration state in the specific-vibration-state determination step and it is determined that the motor is not in the excited state in the excited state determination step.

Abstract: A state observation device (30) uses an ADC (37) to digitize a detection signal from a gap sensor (21) at a low-speed sampling period and uses a separation unit (38) to separate the digitized detection signal into vane detection signals considered to be for the detection of a vane of a compressor impeller and non-vane detection signals considered not to be for the detection of a vane. Further, the determination unit (39) extracts a vane peak detection signal considered to be for a vane peak by comparing a vane detection signal with vane detection signals corresponding to other vanes and non-vane detection signals, and a shaft vibration and tip clearance are determined as states of the compressor impeller on the basis of the extracted vane peak detection signal. Thus, the state observation device (30) is capable of observing the state of a rotary machine without carrying out high-speed sampling.

Abstract: The three-dimensional object building apparatus includes a powder delivering unit that delivers a powder on an object building area, a powder flattening device that flattens the powder delivered from the powder delivering unit to form a powder layer, and a light beam radiating unit that is disposed above the object building area and radiates a light beam on the powder layer to sinter or melt solidify the powder for building an object. The three-dimensional object building apparatus also includes a transferring mechanism that moves the light beam radiating unit in three-dimensional directions, and a shroud that moves integrally with the light beam radiating unit and surrounds a space above an area of the powder layer that is smaller than the object building area around a radiation of the light beam. The powder delivering unit and the powder flattening device move integrally with the light beam radiating unit.

Abstract: The three-dimensional object building apparatus includes a powder delivering unit that delivers a powder on an object building area, a powder flattening device that flattens the powder delivered from the powder delivering unit to form a powder layer, and a light beam radiating unit that is disposed above the object building area and radiates a light beam on the powder layer to sinter or melt solidify the powder for building an object. The three-dimensional object building apparatus also includes a transferring mechanism that moves the light beam radiating unit in three-dimensional directions, and a shroud that moves integrally with the light beam radiating unit and surrounds a space above an area of the powder layer that is smaller than the object building area around a radiation of the light beam. The powder delivering unit and the powder flattening device move integrally with the light beam radiating unit.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a pixel shader for deciding a color of each of a plurality of pixels forming a diagram that is defined by three or more first coordinate system vertices on a two-dimensional picture, and a determinator for determining whether or not shading processing on a per block basis is able to be performed, for a block including some of the plurality of pixels. The pixel shader decides, in a case where the determinator determines that the shading processing on a per block basis is able to be performed, a representative color of the block by performing the shading processing on a per block basis on the block, and decides, in a case where the determinator determines that the shading processing on a per block basis is not able to be performed, a color of each of the plurality of pixels by performing shading processing on a per pixel basis on the each of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: An assembled cell is formed by laminating a plurality of rectangular secondary batteries in a thickness direction and interposing a spacer between the rectangular secondary batteries. The rectangular secondary battery includes an electrode group in which positive and negative electrodes are wound, and the electrode group is housed in the battery container formed in a flat box shape. The spacer includes a contact part which contacts with a width direction end region of a wide side surface of the battery container, a facing part which faces a width direction intermediate region of the wide side surface, and an inclined surface which is adjacent to both ends of the facing part in a width direction of the wide side surface. The inclined surface is inclined such that a thickness of the spacer becomes asymptotically smaller in a direction toward the width direction intermediate region from the width direction end region.

Abstract: An electrical storage apparatus 1 includes a plurality of battery modules 10 and cooling passages A, B for cooling each of the battery modules 10. The cooling passage A is configured so as to cool all battery modules 10 mounted in the electrical storage apparatus 1 at all times during charging. The cooling passage B is configured so as to cool only a new battery module 10a as a replacement during charging. This enables the battery module 10a having a temperature during charging higher than that of a battery module 10 yet to be replaced to be subject to forced cooling, thereby preventing performance of the battery module 10a from being degraded.

Abstract: An inkjet recording medium, comprising an ink-receiving layer containing a pigment, a binder and an inkjet ink-fixing agent comprising a cationic compound disposed on at least one surface of a base paper, wherein 50% or more by weight of calcium carbonate is contained in terms of a solid content based on a total amount of the pigment contained in the ink-receiving layer; 75 to 90 parts by weight of the pigment, 1 to 10 parts by weight of the binder and 5 to 20 parts by weight of the inkjet ink-fixing agent are contained based on 100 parts by weight of the ink-receiving layer; the drop water absorbency of the ink-receiving layer (according to the drop water absorbency defined in Japan Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, J. TAPPI, No. 32-2:2000 except that a drop water amount is 0.001 ml) is 200 seconds or less; and a Stockigt sizing degree according to JIS-P-8122 for the inkjet recording medium is 5 seconds or less.