Abstract: A developing cartridge may include a housing configured to hold toner. The cartridge may further include a developing roller including a developing roller shaft, a supply roller including a supply roller shaft, a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode and supply electrode may be configured to guide an electrical contact of an image forming apparatus in one or more directions. In some examples, the developing electrode and supply electrode may have angled surfaces that extend toward one another.

Abstract: A system for evaluating a treatment device capable of radiating ultrasound for cauterizing human tissue, the system including: simulated tissue having a property that hue changes according to temperature in a particular temperature-sensitive area and simulating temperature change of human tissue at time of the human tissue receiving the ultrasound from the treatment device, the simulated tissue having an insertion hole where the treatment device can be arranged; a light source radiating planar light from the whole circumference, the light source being arranged surrounding the simulated tissue; an image taking device taking cross-sectional color images of light irradiation surfaces of the simulated tissue; and movement mechanisms causing the light source and the image taking device to relatively move in a photographing axis direction of the image taking device relative to the simulated tissue; and a movement mechanism control/information processing unit controlling the movement mechanism.

Abstract: An article transport vehicle includes a body, a wheel held by the body, a motor that drives the wheel, and a driver unit that controls the motor. The driver unit is disposed to extend in a front-back direction of the body in an upright posture. The body is provided, in a bottom section thereof, with an air guide path configured to guide travel-generated wind to a cooling surface.

Abstract: An optical modulator includes a substrate, an optical waveguide layer having a Mach-Zehnder waveguide including first and second ridge waveguides propagating visible light, and made of lithium niobate, a buffer layer formed on the optical waveguide layer, a signal electrode formed on buffer layer, and first and second ground electrodes. The signal electrode and first ridge waveguide are arranged so that a distance in a horizontal direction between a center of the signal electrode in a width direction and a center of the first ridge waveguide in the width direction is 0.5 ?m or less. The second ground electrode and second ridge waveguide are arranged so that a distance in the horizontal direction between a side surface closer to the second ridge waveguide between two side surfaces of the second ground electrode and a center of the second ridge waveguide in the width direction is 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: An operation device includes a direction indication operation member that is subjected to a user depression operation toward any direction, and an operation member that is different in category from the direction indication operation member. The operation device generates operation data that includes operation information describing operations on the direction indication operation member and the operation member of the different category, and transmits the operation data to an information processing apparatus. In a case where a use request for an alternative input function of using the direction indication operation member as an alternative to the operation member of the different category is given, operation information describing an operation on the operation member of the different category to be included in the operation data is identified according to a user operation performed on the direction indication operation member.

Abstract: A dynamic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor, and an outputter. The hardware processor obtains a dynamic image of a chest portion obtained by dynamic imaging by radiation. The hardware processor performs a first generating process in which information regarding pleural adhesion is generated based on a motion amount in a region including at least a region adjacent to a rib cage in a lung region in the dynamic image. The outputter outputs the generated information regarding the pleural adhesion.

Abstract: A control method is provided for a booklet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures booklets by performing thermocompression bonding on a printing material with a bonding agent image formed at a predetermined site by a bonding agent with thermoplasticity. The method comprises performing thermocompression bonding of the predetermined site of the printing material placed in a stacking unit using a thermocompression bonding unit; and before the printing material is placed in the stacking unit, in a case where a predetermined condition of a temperature of a pressing member being equal to or less than a threshold is satisfied, performing control of the thermocompression bonding unit and performing preliminary heating on the pressing member.

Abstract: An automatic landing system for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes: a camera mounted on a vertical take-off and landing aircraft; a relative-position acquisition unit configured to perform image processing on an image captured by the camera, the image including a marker group provided at a target landing point, to acquire a relative position between the vertical take-off and landing aircraft and the target landing point; and a control unit configured to control the vertical take-off and landing aircraft such that the relative position becomes zero, in which the marker group includes a plurality of markers that are arranged side by side and that have different center positions from each other, the markers are larger as arranged farther away from the target landing point, and the relative-position acquisition unit acquires the relative position based on a distance between the marker recognized in the image and the target landing point.

Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N-based magnet powder that includes a Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder, wherein an average particle size of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder is not larger than 5 ?m, and a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (220) plane in an X-ray diffraction profile of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material powder is not larger than 0.0033 ?. Also disclosed is a Sm—Fe—N-based sintered magnet that includes a sintered body of a Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material, wherein an average grain size of crystal grains of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material is not larger than 5 ?m, and a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (220) plane in an X-ray diffraction profile of the Sm—Fe—N-based magnetic material is not larger than 0.0033 ?.

Abstract: An endoscope optical connector includes: a sleeve which houses an end portion of an optical fiber inside the sleeve; an inward flange provided on an inner circumference of the sleeve; a glass member arranged inside the sleeve so as to face an end surface of the optical fiber; a cap member which is attached to the sleeve and which fixes the glass member between the cap member and the inward flange; a first O-ring interposed between the cap member and the glass member; a second O-ring interposed between the glass member and the inward flange and having a glass transition point lower than a glass transition point of the first O-ring; and an inert gas filling the inside of the sleeve.

Abstract: A load lock device includes a load lock chamber including a first conveyance port connected to a transfer chamber connected to a reduced-pressure processing device, and a second conveyance port connected to a loader chamber; a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate in the load lock chamber; a driving mechanism arranged below the load lock chamber to move the substrate holder up and down and connected to the substrate holder via a connecting member; an extension chamber extended from a lower portion of the load lock chamber to a side; and a pump arranged below the extension chamber and configured to discharge a gas in the load lock chamber via the extension chamber. The extension chamber includes a bottom surface with an opening at a position deviated from a vertically lower position of the substrate holder, and the pump is connected to the opening.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst improved in structural stability. The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst including a substrate and a catalyst layer disposed on the substrate. The catalyst layer has a two-layer structure including a first coat layer formed on the substrate and a second coat layer formed on the first coat layer. The first coat layer contains alumina and an OSC material. The alumina has an average particle diameter of 6.0 ?m or more, and the OSC material has an average particle diameter of 6.0 ?m or more. The OSC material is a ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide without alumina.

Abstract: A vehicle according to one aspect includes processing circuitry configured to in a state where the vehicle is traveling with the main clutch in a disengaged state, determine whether or not a predetermined combustion required condition is satisfied, when the processing circuitry determines that the combustion required condition is satisfied, execute clutch control of controlling the clutch actuator such that the main clutch changes from the disengaged state to an engaged state, after the clutch control is started, determine whether or not a predetermined combustion permission condition is satisfied, the predetermined combustion permission condition being a condition regarding permission of the combustion of the internal combustion engine, and when the processing circuitry determines that the combustion permission condition is satisfied, execute combustion start control of starting the combustion of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A mixing device for mixing a puncture repair liquid and compressed air includes a mixing chamber, a first inlet for supplying the compressed air in a first flow direction to the mixing chamber, a second inlet for supplying the puncture repair liquid to the mixing chamber, and an outlet for discharging a mixture of the puncture repair liquid and the compressed air from the mixing chamber. The outlet discharges the mixture in a second flow direction at a position displaced from a virtual line extending from the first inlet in the first flow direction.

Abstract: An electric-power conversion apparatus includes a driving circuit that performs switching control of semiconductor switching devices, a short-circuit control means that performs short-circuit control of an electric-power conversion circuit, an excessive-current detection means that detects whether or not an abnormality caused by an excessive current exists in the semiconductor switching device, and a gate-drive-abnormality detection means that detects whether or not an abnormality exists in a gate voltage of the semiconductor switching device; based on a result of the abnormality detection by the excessive-current detection means and a result of the abnormality detection by the gate-drive-abnormality detection means, the short-circuit control means turns on all the semiconductor switching devices in any one of the upper arm and the lower arm so as to perform the short-circuit control.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power conversion apparatus includes: semiconductor elements mutually coupled in parallel; gate drivers which corresponds to the respective semiconductor elements and which supplies a drive voltage to the corresponding semiconductor elements; and a controller configured to supply to the respective gate drivers a gate command corresponding to the drive voltage in accordance with a carrier wave, wherein the semiconductor elements are set to a conductive state at different timings in an operation period of the semiconductor elements.

Abstract: A power conversion device including: a semiconductor device; a first water channel and a second water channel stacked in a predetermined stacking direction and installed with the semiconductor device interposed therebetween; and a connecting water channel connecting the first water channel and the second water channel, in which the connecting water channel is formed by joining and fixing a joint member joined to the first water channel and the second water channel and a cover member separate from the joint member to each other, the first water channel and the second water channel are joined to the joint member by a joint formed in a plane parallel to the stacking direction, and the cover member covers the joint and is joined and fixed to the joint member.

Abstract: An image determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an image acquisition means that acquires a dynamic image obtained by capturing a site including a diagnosis target region of a patient; a feature amount extraction means that extracts a feature amount through a first process based on the dynamic image; a determination means that makes a determination related to diagnosis through a second process based on a result of machine learning based on the feature amount; and an explanation data generation means that generates explanation data based on the feature amount and the determination related to the diagnosis; and an outputter or a communicator that outputs the explanation data to outside.

Abstract: An image determination apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an image acquisition means that acquires a dynamic image obtained by capturing a site including a diagnosis target region of a patient; a feature amount extraction means that extracts a feature amount through a first process based on the dynamic image; a determination means that makes a determination related to diagnosis through a second process based on a result of machine learning based on the dynamic image; and an explanation data generation means that generates explanation data based on the feature amount and the determination related to the diagnosis; and an outputter or a communicator that outputs the explanation data to outside.