Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening, a door on the body, a unit detachably attached to the body from the opening, a cover inside the door, a spring, and a lock. The door covers the opening at a first closed position. The unit is disposed at a mounting position inside the body. The cover is rotatable between a second closed position and an opening position in an opening direction. At the second closed position, the cover covers the unit at the mounting position. At the opening position, the cover forms an angle of 90 degrees or more with the body. The spring applies a force to the cover in the opening direction. The lock locks the cover at the second closed position. The cover displaced from the second closed position in the opening direction restricts a movement of the door to the first closed position.

Abstract: An imaging support apparatus that supports imaging by a radiation imaging apparatus which obtains a plurality of frame images by successively performing a plurality of radiation imaging operations to a subject. The imaging support apparatus includes a hardware processor that determines a number of the frame images to be obtained by the radiation imaging apparatus by analyzing one or more initial frame images, each of the initial frame images being an initial frame image obtained early in the radiation imaging operations by the radiation imaging apparatus.

Abstract: A control system for a continuum robot including at least one curvable unit driven by a wire and configured to be curvable, and a driving unit driving the wire includes: a position control unit performing control so that an error between a target displacement of push-pull driving of the wire by the driving unit and a displacement of a wire holding mechanism holding the wire obtained from a continuum robot is compensated; a force control unit performing control so that an error between a target generated force corresponding to a target tension of the wire output from the position control unit and a generated force corresponding to a tension of the wire obtained from the continuum robot is compensated; and wherein a first loop control system including the force control unit and a second loop control system including the position control unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a nucleic acid molecule or a viral virion containing the nucleic acid molecule, the nucleic acid molecule having integrated therein a gene encoding a fusion protein of an anti-transferrin receptor antibody and a physiologically active protein, the fusion protein having an adjusted binding activity to TfR, and being capable of reducing a side reaction such as an anemia symptom caused by binding of the anti-TfR antibody to the transferrin receptor, for example, when the gene encoding the fusion protein of the anti-TfR antibody and the physiologically active protein is used in gene therapy.

Abstract: A supported catalyst particles include oxide carrier particles and noble metal particles supported on the oxide carrier particles, wherein the mass of the noble metal particles is less than or equal to 5 mass % based on the mass of the oxide carrier particles, and the average particle size of the noble metal particles measured by transmission electron microscopy is 1.0-2.0 nm, with the standard deviation ? less than or equal to 0.8 nm.

Abstract: A measuring device includes a light source that emits light; an interference optical system that separates the light that is emitted from the light source into reference light and irradiation light for irradiating an object, the interference optical system causing reflecting light that is produced by reflection of the irradiation light by the object and the reference light to interfere with each other to thereby produce interference light; an output fiber that is connected to the interference optical system and that guides the irradiation light; an optical element that is connected to the output fiber and that emits the irradiation light; a first housing that accommodates the light source and the interference optical system; and a second housing that accommodates the first housing, wherein the output fiber is directly extended from the first housing.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator includes heating a sheet, pressing the sheet using a first die, thereby forming the sheet so as to have a predetermined thickness, cooling, together with the first die, the sheet that has been formed so as to have the predetermined thickness, and pressing the sheet that has undergone the cooling using a second die, thereby forming a gas passage in the sheet. In the sheet, a content of a thermoplastic resin is greater than or equal to 20 weight percent and less than or equal to 30 weight percent and a content of the carbon material particles is greater than or equal to 70 weight percent and less than or equal to 80 weight percent. The heating the sheet includes heating the sheet to a temperature that is higher than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: An annular body includes a base portion and a resistance wire located in the base portion and including first and second resistance wire portions. The first resistance wire portion includes first regions arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction and each including a region in which a first portion extending in a direction including components in both the radial direction and the circumferential direction is repeatedly provided in the circumferential direction. The second resistance wire portion includes the second regions arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction and each including a region in which a second portion extending in a direction including components in both the radial direction and the circumferential direction is repeatedly arranged in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing fermentation products from starch-containing material, wherein a thermostable alpha-amylase and optionally a thermostable protease are present and/or added during liquefaction. The invention also relates to a composition suitable for use in a process of the invention.

Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transferor and primary transfer sections. The primary transfer sections each includes a primary transferor. The primary transfer sections include a most-upstream primary transfer section and a most-downstream primary transfer section. One of the primary transfer sections is a special-color primary transfer section switchable between the most-upstream primary transfer section and the most-downstream primary transfer section. The primary transferor of each of the most-upstream primary transfer section and the most-downstream primary transfer section is switchable between a contact position at which the primary transferor contacts the latent image bearer and a separation position at which the primary transferor is separated from the latent image bearer.

Abstract: A control device acquire person information that is information unique to person, specify ability information that is information indicating ability of the person indicated by the acquired person information, and output the specified ability information to a predetermined output device.

Abstract: Provided is a humanized antibody that, through IGF-I receptor, increases muscle mass but does not lower the blood glucose level. This humanized antibody: is an anti-IGF-I receptor humanized antibody, a fragment thereof, or a derivative thereof; has a specific amino acid sequence such as SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 6 serving as a CDR sequence; and specifically binds to IGF-I receptor extracellular domain.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive source, driving wheels driven by a driving force output from the drive source, and a clutch disposed between the drive source and the driving wheels. The clutch is switchable to an arbitrary fastening position between a connection state enabling transmission of the driving force between the drive source and the driving wheels, and a disconnection state disconnecting the transmission. A clutch actuator applies a fastening load to the clutch and provides a torque transmission capacity corresponding to the fastening load to the clutch. A controller controls operation of the drive source and operation of the clutch actuator. The controller includes a clutch temperature estimation circuit estimating the temperature of the clutch, and a driving force adjustment circuit performing driving force adjustment control to adjust the driving force transmitted to the downstream side of the clutch based on the estimated temperature of the clutch.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes a terminal communicator configured to perform radio communication with a base station, and a terminal controller configured to control the terminal communicator. The terminal controller causes the terminal communicator to transmit a first message of the radio communication to the base station without including, in the first message, specific terminal information indicating that the communication terminal is a specific communication terminal use of which is possibly restricted by the base station, receives a second message as a response to the first message from the base station via the terminal communicator, includes the specific terminal information in a subsequent message that is a third message or is a message subsequent to the third message as a response to the second message, and causes the terminal communicator to transmit the subsequent message to the base station.

Abstract: An outer wall of a building includes a plurality of spaced apart vertical frames, an outer board provided on the outer surfaces of the plurality of vertical frames, an outer insulating material provided on the outer surface of the outer board, and outer wall panels provided on the vertical frames with at least one support member therebetween. The support member is fixed to the vertical frames via the outer board. The outer wall panels are fixed to the support member via support metal fixtures.

Abstract: Provided is a management apparatus including: a storage that stores quality control information, which is information on an imaging capability of a radiography apparatus; and a hardware processor that determines whether dynamic imaging by the radiography apparatus is possible in response to a dynamic imaging request, based on the quality control information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a visible image and a bonding pattern on a sheet, and a bonding unit configured to heat a plurality of sheets in a stacked state, to bond the plurality of sheets together via the bonding pattern. The bonding pattern includes a first side portion, a second side portion, a third side portion, a first corner portion, a second corner portion, and a third corner portion. The second corner portion and the third corner portion are curved such that a minimum value of a radius of curvature of the second corner portion and a minimum value of a radius of curvature of the third corner portion are greater than a minimum value of a radius of curvature of the first corner portion.

Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, a reducer to decelerate rotational motion output from the motor, and a target object operable by rotational motion output from the reducer. A controller is configured or programmed to control the motor based on a detection value of a sensor mounted on the reducer.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a thermally expandable adhesive sheet which is tack-free in the state prior to use and exhibits high workability using a different means than that of related art. [Solution] The present invention provides a thermally expandable adhesive sheet (1) including: a substrate (3); two thermally expandable adhesive layers (5) each provided on either side of the substrate; and two adhesive permeable layers (7) each provided on a surface of the two adhesive layers, the adhesive permeable layers being permeable to the adhesive at the time of the thermal expansion of the adhesive. By heating the adhesive sheet, it is possible to expand the adhesive sheet while simultaneously allowing the adhesive to emerge on the outermost surface of the adhesive sheet.

Abstract: In a preparation step, raw material milk is prepared. In a lactose degradation step, at least part of lactose included in the prepared raw material milk is degraded using a lactose-degrading enzyme. The lactose concentration in the raw material milk in which lactose is degraded is not more than 2.5% by mass with respect to a total amount of the raw material milk. A lactic acid bacterium is added to the raw material milk in which at least part of lactose is degraded, and the raw material milk to which the lactic acid bacterium is added is fermented.