Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt that rotates in a rotation direction and a heater that heats the belt. A conductive member contacts an inner face of the belt and pivots. The conductive member includes one end portion in the rotation direction of the belt, a contact portion that contacts the belt, and an outboard portion that is disposed outboard from the contact portion in the rotation direction of the belt. A holding portion holds the one end portion of the conductive member. A pivot restrictor contacts the outboard portion of the conductive member. The pivot restrictor restricts pivoting of the conductive member about the one end portion of the conductive member.

Abstract: A DC/DC converter includes a power conversion unit for converting input voltage to required voltage, a first control unit for driving the power conversion unit, a power supply device which supplies power to the first control unit and uses an output of the DC/DC converter or a battery as a power supply source, and a power supply function for controlling supply of power to the power supply device. The power supply function is controlled with respect to supply of power, by a second control unit of a power conversion device during a standby state of the DC/DC converter.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a compound having H-PGDS inhibitory activity. The present invention relates to a compound of the formula [I]: wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A concentration computation section is a concentration measurement section including a light-emitting element and a first sensor element. The concentration computation section includes a light-emitting element drive section that drives the light-emitting element; a signal acquisition section that acquires at least an output signal of the first sensor element, a first drive signal that is a first voltage value or a first current value of the light-emitting element, and a second drive signal that is a second voltage value or a second current value of the light-emitting element; and a computation section that computes a concentration based on signals acquired by the signal acquisition section. The computation section, based on the first drive signal and the second drive signal, corrects the output signal of the first sensor element and computes the concentration.

Abstract: An image processing device including at least one processor and/or a circuit to function as an acquisition unit to acquire an image captured by an imaging element and information related to a distance distribution in a depth direction corresponding to the captured image, and a control unit to control display of the captured image. The control unit performs control so a first subject region in the captured image corresponding to a subject within a distance range in which a distance is measurable with a measurement accuracy equal to or higher than a reference, and a second subject region in the captured image corresponding to a subject not within the distance range are displayed so as to be distinguished from each other, from a reference distance in the depth direction. A distance that is a target of the distance measurement is a distance corresponding to measurement points designated in the image.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for quantitatively evaluating a disentanglement state of fibrous carbon nanostructures in a composite material by a simple method. A method of evaluating a composite material containing a polymer and fibrous carbon nanostructures includes: a step (A) of heating the composite material in an inert gas atmosphere to remove a polymer component from the composite material and obtain a polymer-removed product; a step (B) of performing thermogravimetric analysis of the polymer-removed product in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to measure change over time of mass of the polymer-removed product; and a step (C) of evaluating a disentanglement state of the fibrous carbon nanostructures in the composite material from a relationship between mass change of the polymer-removed product and elapsed time obtained in the step (B).

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including: an ultrasonic probe that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image by using ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic probe; a simulated ultrasonic image generator that generates a simulated ultrasonic image simulating ultrasonic waves emitted from a different device different from the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus by using ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic probe and based on different-device information on ultrasonic irradiation of the different device; an image combiner that combines the ultrasonic image generated by the ultrasonic image generator and the simulated ultrasonic image generated by the simulated ultrasonic image generator; and a hardware processor that outputs a composite image obtained by combining by the image combiner.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit that stores data and a processor. The information processing device is capable of communicating with a first terminal. The storage unit stores specification data related to an operation of a machine device that operates based on an operation program of the machine device and an application for performing predetermined processing related to the operation of the machine device based on the specification data. And, the processor executes the application based on an operation from the first terminal to perform the predetermined processing related to the machine device selected based on the operation from the first terminal.

Abstract: A mode converter of an optical element includes a taper section having a length in a second direction increases from a first length, at which a first effective refractive index of a TM0 mode is higher than a second effective refractive index of a TE1 mode, to a second length, at which the first effective refractive index is lower than the second effective refractive index. Lengths of a first line section and a second line section in the second direction are set such that a magnitude relationship between the second effective refractive index in the first line section and a third effective refractive index of the TE0 mode in the second line section at a position is inverted to a magnitude relationship between the second effective refractive index in the first line section and the third effective refractive index in the second line section at a second incident end.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal matrix composite by compounding a matrix material and a reinforcing material. The metal matrix composite has a near-net shape with high dimensional accuracy and a high reinforcing material volume ratio (Vf %). The matrix material is a pure metal or an alloy, and the reinforcing material includes ceramic particles, graphite particles, and/or metal particles, and the reinforcing material is different from the matrix material. The method includes molding a reinforcing material-molded or filled body having a near-net shape and pores, in a metal mold having a cavity corresponding to the near-net shape, pre-heating the mold including the reinforcing material-molded or filled body, placing the mold in an outer shell metal mold, casting a molten matrix material into the pores of the reinforcing material-molded or filled body, thereby obtaining the metal matrix composite. The method uses the same mold throughout the entire process.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging unit, and image capturing information at the time of image capturing of the image, and a calculation unit configured to calculate an object side pixel dimension of a target subject in the image based on the image capturing information and a pixel dimension of the imaging unit, wherein the acquisition unit acquires in-focus information indicating an in-focus state of a subject in an image, as the image capturing information, and wherein the calculation unit calculates the object side pixel dimension based on the in-focus information.

Abstract: A radiation imaging device includes a radiation detector having an electric charge generation part configured to generate an electric charge corresponding to energy of incident radiation and a reading part configured to output a digital value based on the electric charge, and a circuit board in which a plurality of radiation detectors are disposed two-dimensionally. The reading part includes a lead-out substrate in which a plurality of signal processing parts are disposed two-dimensionally, and an intermediate substrate disposed between the electric charge generation part and the lead-out substrate. A plurality of first intermediate electrodes are disposed on an intermediate input surface. A plurality of second intermediate electrodes are disposed on an intermediate output surface. An arrangement interval of the second intermediate electrodes is different from an arrangement interval of the first intermediate electrodes.

Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a first hardware processor. The first hardware processor executes control such that before main imaging is executed at a main dose, pre-imaging is executed at a pre-dose that is lower than the main dose. The first hardware processor derives an imaging condition for the main imaging based on a pre-image acquired in the pre-imaging, switches a control mode to one of a pre-image checking mode and a short-time imaging mode, and notifies which control mode between the pre-image checking mode and the short-time imaging mode is used to execute the control. The pre-image checking mode being a mode in which the pre-image is displayed after executing the pre-imaging. The short-time imaging mode being a mode in which the pre-image is not displayed after executing the pre-imaging before the main imaging.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of pieces of first data satisfying a first condition, generates a plurality of first feature vectors by unsupervised learning of the plurality of pieces of first data, generates a first clustering result by clustering the plurality of first feature vectors, acquires a plurality of pieces of second data satisfying a second condition different from the first condition, generates a plurality of second feature vectors by unsupervised learning of at least some of the plurality of pieces of first data and the plurality of pieces of second data, generates a second clustering result by clustering the second feature vectors, and generates a comparison result regarding the plurality of pieces of first data and the plurality of pieces of second data by comparing the first clustering result with the second clustering result.

Abstract: A method to prepare a compound of formula (1), or a salt thereof is provided: wherein R1 to R4 are each independently an alkyl group.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head or apparatus includes a discharge unit configured to discharge liquid inside a pressure chamber; a supply flow path through which liquid to be supplied to the pressure chamber flows; a collection flow path that is connected to the supply flow path through the pressure chamber and through which liquid collected from the pressure chamber flows; a circulating pump capable of supplying liquid to the pressure chamber through the supply flow path, collecting liquid from the pressure chamber through the collection flow path, and recirculating collected liquid to the supply flow path; and a pump drive circuit configured to generate the pump drive signal by stepping up and converting to alternating current a direct-current reference voltage signal having voltage lower than the peak-to-peak voltage of the pump drive signal.

Abstract: A centrifugal air-sending device has blades that each have a vane length in a first region that is greater than a vane length in a second region, and are each formed such that a proportion for which a turbo vane portion accounts is higher in a radial direction than a proportion for which a sirocco vane portion accounts in the first region and the second region. The blades that are located closer to an outer circumference than is a blade inner diameter of inner circumferential ends of the blades at end portions of the blades that are close to a side plate in an axial direction are defined as a blade outer circumferential portion that is formed such that a vane thickness of each of the blades in decreased in the radial direction from an inner circumference toward the outer circumference.

Abstract: A ground control device includes a control unit that determines a control mode of operation control on a train in a communication area of a radio communication apparatus, based on information on a communication level indicating a communication state between the train and the radio communication apparatus determined in a predetermined period, and performs train operation control according to the determined control mode on a train entering or approaching the communication area after the control mode is determined, and a storage unit that stores one or more pieces of the information on the communication level on one or more of the radio communication apparatuses.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus, comprising: a projection apparatus configured to project a predetermined pattern on a subject; and an image capturing system configured to capture a group of images from at least two different viewpoints, wherein the distance between the viewpoints is shorter than the distances between the projection apparatus and the viewpoints, the measurement apparatus further comprising: relative position calculation means for obtaining a relative position of the projection apparatus relative to at least one of the viewpoints from pattern image positions on the group of images and a positional relationship between the viewpoints, wherein distance information regarding the subject is acquired from the relative position and a pattern image position on an image at the viewpoint.