Abstract: An oral tool is provided that includes a body, a measurement unit, and a flow stopper. The measurement unit is moveable relative to the body, and includes a sensor unit at an end opposite to an end where the body is disposed. The sensor unit is constructed to be insertable into a mouth. Moreover, the flow stopper is disposed between the measurement unit and the body, and has a surface with a curvature different from a curvature of a surface of the measurement unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to register a set of item names corresponding to an item name field associated with an item value field in a predetermined business form, and identify an association of an item name field with an item value field included in a business form to be processed based on the set of item names registered.

Abstract: A modularly attachable cabin for a tractor includes a cabin frame and an upper portion at or adjacent to a supporting structure including a base to connect with the cabin frame, and a slot onto which a heat exchanger is installed. The supporting structure extends laterally from the upper portion of the cabin frame. The heat exchanger is inclined at a predetermined angle relative to the base.

Abstract: An object is to provide intensity information and energy information while reducing processing load and power consumption. In a radiation detector, a radiation detection element, in which a plurality of pixels each configured to generate an electric charge corresponding to energy of X-rays penetrating a subject is two-dimensionally arranged, and a plurality of read circuits each configured to output an intensity signal of transmitted X-rays based on the electric charge generated by each of the plurality of pixels are stacked with each other, and some read circuits thinned out from a plurality of read circuits each generate a spectral signal related to a spectrum of a transmitted X-ray based on the electric charge and output the spectral signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a compound represented by formula (2), comprising at least a step of preparing a compound represented by formula (1) and a step of reacting the compound represented by formula (1) with a hydrogen source using a catalyst, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently an alkyl group.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a positional displacement amount calculation unit configured to, during printing processing, calculate a positional displacement amount of printing paper in a paper width direction based on colorimetric data obtained by colorimetry of a color chart by a colorimeter; a colorimeter movement mechanism configured to move the colorimeter; and a colorimeter movement control unit configured to control an operation of the colorimeter movement mechanism based on the positional displacement amount calculated by the positional displacement amount calculation unit.

Abstract: An optical modulator is a Mach-Zehnder-type optical modulator having a substrate and an optical waveguide layer including a lithium niobate film formed on the substrate. The optical waveguide layer includes a plurality of flat portions and n ridge portions arranged between the flat portions to be adjacent, where n is two or more. Each of the n ridge portions includes a main waveguide to which visible light is input, a first multimode interference waveguide through which the main waveguide is branched into a first and a second optical branch waveguide, and a second multimode interference waveguide through which the first and the second optical branch waveguide are coupled to form a coupling waveguide. Visible light beams having different wavelengths are input to the n ridge portions. The first multimode interference waveguide and the second multimode interference waveguide have shorter lengths when input light having a longer wavelength is transmitted.

Abstract: A Y-branch type optical coupler includes an optical coupling part to which a plurality of input-side optical waveguides through which the plurality of lights propagate, and one output-side optical waveguide are connected, wherein the optical coupling part has an isosceles trapezoid shape of which the width is narrowed in a taper shape at a first angle ? from the input side to the output side (a traveling direction of light) in a plan view, at least two input-side optical waveguides among the plurality of input-side optical waveguides are disposed symmetrically with respect to a symmetry axis of the isosceles trapezoid, are inclined at a second angle ? that is different from the first angle ?, and are connected to a lower bottom portion of the isosceles trapezoid, and the difference between the first angle and the second angle is 0.9° or more and 14.8° or less.

Abstract: In a printing device, a measurement position detection chart including a reference pattern and a detection pattern is printed on printing paper. A colorimeter performs color measurements on the chart. The reference pattern has a sufficient dimension in a paper width direction to cover the range of a color chart in the same direction. The detection pattern includes multiple rectangular patches arranged in a conveyance direction while deviating from one another in the paper width direction. The color measurements result in colorimetric data, containing detection pattern density values Dp1 to Dpn, which is used to identify, as a current measurement position qc, a position of a patch in the paper width direction corresponding to a density value Dpk generally equal to a reference density value Drf among the detection pattern density values Dp1 to Dpn.

Abstract: A wafer manufacturing method for obtaining a wafer from an ingot includes the following procedure, steps or processes. A surface of one end side of the ingot in a height direction thereof is irradiated with a laser beam to which the ingot has transparency, thereby forming a peeling layer at a depth position corresponding to a thickness of the wafer from the surface. At this moment, the laser beam is irradiated such that a frequency of irradiation in a facet region is higher than that in a non-facet region. A wafer precursor as a portion between the surface of the ingot and the peeling layer is peeled from the ingot at the peeling layer. A major surface of a peeling body having a plate like shape, the peeling body being obtained by the wafer peeling step, is planarized electrically, chemically and mechanically, thereby obtaining a wafer.

Abstract: A locking device includes a contact part that is located on a side opposite to a locking protrusion across a locking wire and that comes into contact with the locking wire in an insertion direction in a state where an insertion portion is inserted through a space, the locking protrusion being contactable with the locking wire in a direction opposite to the insertion direction by being displaced with respect to a pivot arm.

Abstract: A wheeled platform includes: a guide member that guides a striker to a locking device and includes a contact surface to be in contact with a wall-shaped portion in a state where the striker is engaged with the locking device, the guide member being displaceable in directions orthogonal to the contact surface; and a spring that applies an elastic force to the guide member against a pressing force acting on the contact surface.

Abstract: A continuous robot control system executes control which brings a continuous robot into a state where a most distal bending portion (leading bending portion) bends at a third bending angle between a bending angle b (second bending angle) and a bending angle e (first bending angle) with respect to a reference axis while a base is being located at a position between a position c (third position) and a position e (first position), when the distal bending portion is extracted from a tube by making the continuous robot move backward, after the distal bending portion is inserted into an inner portion of the tube by making the continuous robot move forward.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laminate for non-aqueous secondary battery that has excellent adhesiveness and can allow a non-aqueous secondary battery to exert excellent output characteristics. The laminate for non-aqueous secondary battery includes at least an electrode and an adhesive layer disposed on the electrode. The adhesive layer is a dried product of a composition for adhesive layer containing at least a particulate polymer A, and the composition for adhesive layer has a particle diameter (D10) at which a cumulative volume calculated from a small diameter end of a volume-basis particle diameter distribution reaches 10%, which is larger than a surface roughness (Sa) of the electrode.

Abstract: A surface of one end side of an ingot in a height direction thereof is irradiated with a laser beam having a permeability to the ingot, thereby forming a peeling layer at a depth position corresponding to a thickness of the wafer from the surface. A laser scanning irradiating the laser beam is performed for a plurality of times changing the irradiation position in a second direction while causing an irradiation position of the laser beam to move in a first direction. With a single laser scanning, a plurality of laser beams are irradiated in which irradiation positions are different in the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: A magnetic separation device includes: a magnet provided at a position adjacent to a tubular accommodation portion extending along a first axis and having magnetization for applying magnetic field to the accommodation portion; a base configured to support the magnet; and a drive unit configured to change, when an axis orthogonal to the first axis is a second axis and an axis orthogonal to the second axis in a plane including the second axis is a third axis, a posture of the magnet between a first posture in which a direction of the magnetization faces a direction closer to the second axis than the third axis and a second posture in which the direction of the magnetization faces a direction closer to the third axis than the second axis.

Abstract: This light-emitting element drive control device (100) comprises: a drive logic unit (113) which performs a drive control of a switch output stage (N1, D1, L1) for dropping an input voltage (VIN) to an output voltage (VOUT) and supplying a light-emitting element therewith; a charge-pump power supply unit (?) which generates a step-up voltage (CP) higher than the input voltage (VIN); and a current detecting comparator (114) which receives a supply of the step-up voltage (CP) and the output voltage (VOUT) as power supply voltages, and generates control signals (SET, RST) for the drive logic unit (113) by directly comparing a current detection signal (Vsns) corresponding to an inductor current (IL) of the switch output stage with a peak detection value (Vsns_pk) and a bottom detection value (Vsns_bt).

Abstract: A gas sensor (1) includes a gas measuring unit (40) including a light source (11) provided on a substrate, a detector (41) provided on the substrate and configured to detect a signal based on light emitted from the light source, and a gas detection space (42) provided with a hole for gas to pass through. The natural frequency of a resonance mode of the gas measuring unit is f, and the driving frequency of the light source is from 0.9f or more to 1.1f or less. A distribution of sound pressure is generated in the gas detection space by driving of the light source, and the light source and the detector are each arranged in a region that is 70% or more of the maximum absolute value of the sound pressure.

Abstract: This optical coupler includes a plurality of light input ports to which a plurality of visible light beams can be input, a light output port capable of coupling all of the plurality of visible light beams and outputting coupled light, an optical coupling portion to which a light-input-side optical waveguide and a light-output-side optical waveguide are connected, and at least one high-order mode removal portion provided to remove a high mode with respect to each of the plurality of visible light beams. The optical coupling portion and each high-order mode removal portion are arranged so that each of the plurality of visible light beams passes through only a high-order mode removal portion for visible light or passes through only the high-order mode removal portion for the visible light and a high-order mode removal portion for visible light having a shorter wavelength than the visible light.

Abstract: The optical coupler is a multimode interference type optical coupler that couples a plurality of laser lights of different wavelengths. The optical coupler includes an optical coupling main body, two input taper portions which are tapered input ports that are disposed on the input side of the optical coupling main body and of which the width of each becomes narrower as it is away from a connection end with the optical coupling main body, and one output taper portion which is a tapered output port that is disposed on the output side of the optical coupling main body and of which the width becomes narrower as it is away from a connection end with the optical coupling main body.