Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, a display apparatus, and a structure for manufacturing a display apparatus are provided. The method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes: forming a micro-light-emitting diode (LED) chip on a relay substrate such that a chip-side electrode is exposed; transferring the micro-LED chip from the relay substrate to a driving substrate including a driving substrate-side electrode; and bonding the chip-side electrode to the driving substrate-side electrode.

Abstract: A water treatment device includes a tubular member configured to allow water to flow between an inlet on one end side and an outlet on the other end side, and a filter member disposed in the tubular member between the inlet and the outlet. The filter member includes a conductive filter having permeable holes through which water can flow, a pair of electrodes configured to apply a voltage to the conductive filter, and an insulator disposed between the pair of electrodes and configured to insulate between the pair of electrodes.

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 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 biometric authentication device includes: a first memory; and a processor configured to: acquire an image that includes a face of one or more persons; specify a region that a face of a head person of a waiting line in which the one or more persons line up appears from the acquired image; extract feature of the face of the head person included in the specified region; select, by a first collation process of collating the extracted feature with feature indicating facial characteristics of persons and biometric information of each person, a group of persons similar to the head person among the persons; acquire the biometric information of the head person; and authenticate the head person by a second collation process of collating the biometric information of each person included in the group among the biometric information with the acquired biometric information of the head person.

Abstract: A work vehicle is disclosed that includes an elastic support mechanism for supporting an exhaust muffler. The elastic support mechanism includes a support platform member, elastic cylindrical members and a bar-shaped member. The support platform member is supported by a rear-linking frame bar to adjust a position of the support platform member along one of lateral and longitudinal directions of the body frame. An elastic cylindrical member is supported by one of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler. The elastic cylindrical member has an axis extending along the other of the lateral and longitudinal directions, and is supported at a single position, in a direction of the axis, of one of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler. A bar-shaped member supported by the other of the support platform member and the exhaust muffler is fitted into the elastic cylindrical member to be supported by the elastic cylindrical member.

Abstract: A cooling device includes an evaporator. The evaporator includes a housing having a reserver, a wick and a groove member having a plurality of vapor flow channels through which the working fluid changed in phase from the liquid phase to the vapor phase flows. The groove member is constituted by alternately stacking two or more first metal plates coupled to the wick and two or more second metal plates disposed at a larger distance from the wick than that of the first metal plate. One vapor flow channels is formed between the first metal plates adjacent to each other at the wick side of the groove member. A dimension along the first direction is larger than a dimension along the second direction in a cross-sectional surface of the vapor flow channel when viewing the groove member along a direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: A base-station apparatus includes: a communicator that performs wireless communication; and a controller. During communication with at least a first terminal apparatus, when a communication volume used for communication that is newly stated with a second terminal apparatus becomes smaller than or equal to an un-used communication volume, the controller transmits, to a target terminal apparatus that is one of the first and second terminal apparatuses, a communication instruction for communication with a second base-station apparatus having a coverage range in which the target terminal apparatus is located, and when a communication volume used for communication with the target terminal apparatus exceeds the un-used communication volume, the controller transmits a callback instruction for callback from the second base-station apparatus to the base-station apparatus to the target terminal apparatus or the second base-station apparatus.

Abstract: An in-vehicle controller includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry stops injection of fuel under a preset fuel cutoff condition including a lockup clutch being in an engagement state. A request for raising heating performance of a heater core is a heater actuation request, and an amount of particulate matter deposited on a filter is a deposition amount. The processing circuitry controls the lockup clutch in a disengagement state when a heater actuation request is generated and the deposition amount is less than a preset deposition amount threshold. The processing circuitry controls the lockup clutch in the engagement state when the heater actuation request is generated and the deposition amount is greater than or equal to the preset deposition amount threshold.

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: To enable exhaust gas analysis by taking into account the influence of particulates contained in air in a test chamber, an analysis system that analyzes exhaust gas discharged from a test piece that is provided in the test chamber and that includes an engine includes a sampling unit that samples the particulates contained in the air in the test chamber, a first analyzing unit that analyzes the particulates sampled by the sampling unit, and an analysis result output unit that outputs an analysis result of the first analyzing unit.

Abstract: An image-capturing device allowing skew reduction, and an image-capturing system allowing skew reduction are provided. An image-capturing device is provided, including a plurality of photoelectric converting units; and a plurality of light-receiving units that are arranged corresponding to a plurality of blocks each constituted by one or more photoelectric converting units, and receive drive light instructing driving of the photoelectric converting units to output a drive signal to a corresponding photoelectric converting unit among the photoelectric converting units. In addition, an image-capturing system is provided, including the image-capturing device; and a light-emitting unit that is spaced apart from the plurality of light-receiving units, and emits the drive light to the plurality of light-receiving units.

Abstract: An apparatus including a tendon-driven device such as an endoscope comprising a bendable body, a tendon attached to and extending a length of said body, and an actuator that will actuate said tendon based on a control signal from a controller. The controller is configured to send said control signal to said actuator and comprises a forward-kinematic-mapping unit that estimates an angular displacement, wherein the kinematic-mapping unit is configured for: providing a tension value of the tendon to obtain a desired angular displacement wherein the tension has a nonlinear relationship with the desired angular displacement based on information of friction where the tension is greater that would be calculated without including the effect of friction. The friction coefficient may be determined as it changes over time.

Abstract: A thermal barrier coating material contains a compound X that is a cation-deficient-type defective perovskite complex oxide. Unit cells of the compound X each include six oxygen atoms and has a structure in which two octahedrons sharing one oxygen atom are aligned. In the compound X, central axes of two octahedrons that belong to adjacent unit cells, respectively, and are adjacent to each other are inclined relative to each other. A plurality of sets of the two octahedrons that belong to the adjacent unit cells, respectively, and are adjacent to each other are arranged to form a periodic structure in which octahedrons having different inclinations are alternately arranged, and the compound X has a boundary surface at which a periodicity of the periodic structure changes, in a crystal structure thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a system for managing sharing of a straddle type vehicle, including a position locating unit provided on the straddle type vehicle and configured to locate a position of the straddle type vehicle, a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a peripheral vehicle from the peripheral vehicle present around the straddle type vehicle, and a determination unit configured to determine a parking position at which the straddle type vehicle is parked based on the position of the straddle type vehicle located by the position locating unit and the position of the peripheral vehicle acquired by the position acquisition unit when the straddle type vehicle is parked.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is provided with an indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected to each other via a refrigerant pipe through which refrigerant flows. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant detection unit configured to detect leakage of the refrigerant in the indoor unit, a notification unit configured to provide a notification of occurrence of leakage of the refrigerant, a communication unit capable of communicating with an external terminal device via a network, and a controller configured to control at least the notification unit and the communication unit. The notification unit includes at least one of a display unit and a speaker disposed on a surface of a casing of the indoor unit, and the external terminal device, in addition to a display unit disposed on a remote controller for operating the indoor unit.

Abstract: An ocular optical system (EL) comprises: a first Fresnel lens (first lens (L1)) having a first Fresnel surface (FSa) formed on the lens surface on the image display unit (11) side; and a second Fresnel lens (second lens (L2)) placed closer to the image display unit (11) than the first Fresnel lens and having a second Fresnel surface (FSb) formed on the lens surface on the image display unit (11) side. In a plurality of wall surfaces constituting the first Fresnel surface (FSa) and the second Fresnel surface (FSb) within the radii of at least 10 mm from the optical axes for the first Fresnel surface (FSa) and the second Fresnel surface (FSb), the tilt angle of a wall surface in the first Fresnel surface (FSa) relative to the optical axis for the wall surface is greater than the tilt angle of a wall surface in the second Fresnel surface (FSb) relative to the optical axis for the wall surface, for the wall surfaces that are in the same order from the optical axes for the first and the second Fresnel surfaces.

Abstract: To produce, from a composition containing 1-chloro-2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-1-pentene and a substance that may cause problems in reliability and performance, 1-chloro-2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-1-pentene in which the content of the substance has been reduced. This method for producing 1-chloro-2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-1-pentene comprises bringing a composition containing 1-chloro-2,3,3,4,4,5,5-heptafluoro-1-pentene and at least one substance selected from the group consisting of water, 3,3,4,4,5,5-hexafluoro-1-pentyne, 1-chloro-3,3,4,4,5,5-hexafluoro-1-pentyne and an oxide, into contact with a solid adsorbent, to remove the substance from the composition.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a connecting unit (connector) that connects with an external apparatus; a setting unit sets a connection mode to any of a plurality of connection modes, including a first connection mode in which an image having a gradation resolution which is not higher than a first gradation resolution is outputted, and a second connection mode in which an image having a gradation resolution which is higher than the first gradation resolution is outputted; and a control unit controls so that in a case where the connection is in the second connection mode and an instruction to switch a first screen including a captured image to a second screen not including a captured image is received, the set connection mode is switched from the second connection mode to the first connection mode, and the second screen is outputted from the connecting unit.

Abstract: A defoaming agent including a polymer, the polymer including: at least one first polymer chain including a polysiloxane structure represented by the following general formula (1); and at least one second polymer chain including a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (2) and bonded to the first polymer chain: wherein in the formula (1), repeating units may be in any order; each of R1 and R2 is independently a C1-18 organic group comprising no fluorine atom; at least one of R3 and R4 is the organic group comprising no less than 3 fluorine atoms; m is an integer of no less than 1; and n+m is 5 to 2000, wherein in the formula (2), X1 is a repeating unit obtainable by polymerization of an ethylenic unsaturated group; Y1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-40 hydrocarbyl group; and Z1 is a linking group linking X1 and Y1.