Abstract: An electroconductive film for an actuator is formed from a gel composition including carbon nanofibers, an ionic liquid, and a polymer. The carbon nanofibers are produced with an aromatic mesophase pitch by melt spinning.

Abstract: A record playback apparatus of the present disclosure includes a plurality of optical pickups that records information on a recording medium or plays back information from the recording medium; a single transport mechanism that transports the plurality of optical pickups together; and a transport control circuit that drives the single transport mechanism so that, when the single transport mechanism is driven to transport the plurality of optical pickups to respective target positions on the recording medium, absolute value of a maximum value of transport errors of the plurality of optical pickups with respect to the respective target positions becomes substantially equal to absolute value of a minimum value of transport errors of the plurality of optical pickups with respect to the respective target positions.

Abstract: Provided is a component analysis device, which comprises an analysis unit for measuring a component fed to the plurality of containers and analyzing the component thus measured, wherein the plurality of containers are at least a first container and a second container, wherein the first container retains a first solution containing a substance that releases adhesion between multiple cells forming the liver cell tissue, and the second container retains a buffer solution, and wherein the analysis unit measures an amount of the component discharged from the liver cell tissue in the first container into the first solution and an amount of the component discharged from the liver cell tissue in the second container into the buffer solution in the second container, and analyzes an amount of the component to be discharged via a bile duct in the liver cell tissue.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition and a tire, which provides superior wear resistance and processability while maintaining the wet performance. The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tire including a rubber component including a modified diene rubber with carboxy group modification, silica and a predetermined polysiloxane; wherein the content of the silica is from 60 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, the content of the polysiloxane is from 1 to 20 mass % based on the content of the silica, and the content of the modified diene rubber is from 10 to 100 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. The present invention also provides a tire using the rubber composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy resin composition, which is improved in terms of storage stability without deteriorating the characteristics of a cured resin, and is also superior in handling property, by using a curing accelerator having higher latency. The epoxy resin composition of the present invention comprises an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and a curing accelerator, wherein the curing accelerator is a reaction product between a carbodiimide compound and an imidazole compound, and is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin.

Abstract: A connector has a plurality of terminals aligned in a left to right direction, and a housing that configures a space in which a flat cable can be inserted from a front side to a rear side and holds the plurality of terminals on an inside of the space. The housing has two locking convex portions positioned on the inside of the space and in the left to right direction of the plurality of terminals, protruding toward an upper side from a lower side, and that catch in notches or holes formed in the left side and the right side of the flat cable. Finally, the housing has a biasing member that is positioned on the inside of the space, formed on an upper side of the space, arranged closer to a center in the left to right direction than the two locking convex portions, and that biases the flat cable inserted in the space toward a lower side of the space.

Abstract: A power storage device has a power storage element and an electrolytic solution. The power storage element includes an anode body, a cathode body opposed to the anode body, and a separator interposed between the anode body and the cathode body. The separator includes a separator base material and a conductive polymer deposited on the separator base material. The power storage element is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The separator has a first surface layer, which includes a first surface opposed to the anode body, and a second surface layer, which includes a second surface opposed to the cathode body. An amount of the conductive polymer deposited in a first separator half body, which is a part from a center of the separator to the first surface, is greater than an amount of the conductive polymer deposited in a second separator half body, which is a part from the center of the separator to the second surface.

Abstract: [Object] The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method that enable more flexible operations to be performed. [Solving Means] A reception apparatus receives a content transmitted in an IP transmission system, acquires, based on first control information that is transmitted in a first layer in a protocol stack of the IP transmission system and includes information indicating whether second control information transmitted in a second layer higher than the first layer exists, the second control information, and controls operations of units that process the content based on the second control information. The present technology is applicable to television receivers supporting the IP transmission system.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic equipment assembly apparatus including: a cable mounting mechanism which holds a cable and installs the cable onto a connector; a lock operation mechanism which operates a lock mechanism provided in the connector; a locked-state checker which checks a state of the lock mechanism of the connector; and a controller which controls the cable mounting mechanism and the lock operation mechanism.

Abstract: CVT controller has rotation speed sensors detecting driving and driven wheel rotation speed; driving and driven wheel speed difference detection unit detecting wheel speed difference ?vfr; and bad road judgment unit judging that road is bad road when ?vfr is first value ?vfr_br or greater. CVT controller further has first belt clamping force increase unit increasing belt clamping force in case where road is judged to be bad road, as compared with case where road is not judged to be bad road; vibration detection unit detecting vehicle speed vibration fvsp; and second belt clamping force increase unit increasing belt clamping force when ?vfr is second value ?vfr_psec or greater or when fvsp is third value fvsp_psec or greater in case where road is not judged to be bad road, as compared with case where ?vfr is less than ?vfr_psec and case where fvsp is less than fvsp_psec.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a terminal device including a reception unit configured to receive a first set of information used for permitting simultaneous transmission of a CSI and a HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format (3), and receive a second set of information used for permitting simultaneous transmission of a CSI and a HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format (4). The terminal device may also include a transmission unit for transmitting a HARQ-ACK and/or a CSI. Based at least on whether the first set of information, the second set of information, and the HARQ-ACK correspond to a PDSCH transmission on a secondary cell with a cell index less than or equal to a first predetermined value or whether the HARQ-ACK corresponds to a PDSCH transmission on a secondary cell with a cell index greater than the first predetermined value, processing operations related to HARQ-ACK and/or CSI transmission may be executed.

Abstract: An image printing apparatus can print an image in which graininess is suppressed while using a color material of light blue. To achieve this, the color material of light blue satisfies the following condition. ?LB?(?LC??LB)>0 and ?LB?(?LM??LB)>0 Here, ?LC represents a difference in lightness between cyan ink and a blank area, ?LM represents a difference in lightness between magenta ink and the blank area, and ?LB represents a difference in lightness between light blue ink and the blank area. Further, the color material of light blue satisfies the following condition. hC+(h(C+M)?hC)/2?hB?hM?(hM?h(C+M))/2 Here, hC represents a hue of the cyan ink, hM represents a hue of the magenta ink, h(C+M) represents a hue of the image printed with the cyan ink and the magenta ink in the same amount, and hB represents a hue of the light blue ink.

Abstract: A molded product having an annular groove on an outer circumferential surface is molded by a mold. The mold includes three or more mold blocks. Each of the mold blocks includes a parting surface, a concave surface for molding a part of the outer circumferential surface, and a projection for molding a part of the annular groove. In each of the mold blocks, the parting surface extends in a direction of a normal line of the concave surface at a position where the parting surface and the concave surface intersect to each other.

Abstract: An optical-fiber-attached ferrule includes: an optical fiber hole into which an optical fiber is inserted; and a filling section filled with a liquid refractive index-matching material.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus and a data processing method that enable clock synchronization in a more suitable manner. The reception apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal of an IP transmission method that includes time information and a stream of content. The time information includes a seconds field and a nanoseconds field. The reception apparatus then generates a processing clock synchronized with the time information on the basis of the time information included in the digital broadcast signal, and processes the stream included in the digital broadcast signal on the basis of the processing clock. The present technology can be applied to, for example, television receivers conforming to the IP transmission method.

Abstract: An electronic equipment assembly apparatus installs a mounted portion of a cable onto a connector of electronic equipment, the cable including a belt-shaped cable main body portion in which the mounted portion is formed in one end portion, and a reinforcing plate bonded to the one end portion side on one surface of the cable main body portion. The electronic equipment assembly apparatus includes: a cable holding tool which nips and holds the reinforcing plate by a blade and a chuck block; and a robot portion which moves the cable holding tool.

Abstract: A ferrule holds end portions of optical fibers and includes: a plurality of optical fiber holes arranged in a predetermined direction, wherein the optical fibers are inserted into the plurality of optical fiber holes; and an adhesive-filling section that is filled with an adhesive and internally includes an opening surface of the plurality of optical fiber holes and an opposed surface opposed to the opening surface. The adhesive-filling section includes an upper side opening and a lower side opening, the upper side opening opens on a top surface that is a surface on a side from which the adhesive is filled, and the lower side opening opens on a lower surface that is a surface on a side opposite to the top surface.

Abstract: The system includes an ideal plan creation unit configured to create an ideal plan of the respective processes in a first process order based on a process knowledge information being a relationship between the product and an implementation time of the respective processes and on a predetermined indicator, a plan candidate planning unit configured to create a plurality of the plan candidates in the respective processes in an order opposite to the first process order based on a limitation condition being a limitation or condition which imposes on the respective processes, a plan candidate selection unit configured to calculate similarity between the ideal plan and each of the plurality of the plan candidates and to select the plan candidate having a high similarity to the ideal plan as an implementation plan, and a learning unit configured to reflect the selected implementation plan on the process knowledge information.

Abstract: A hollow stabilizer has a tubular shape and is provided with a torsion section that is provided to a vehicle and that extends in the vehicle width direction; an arm section that extends in the front-back direction of the vehicle; and bent sections that connect the torsion section and the arm section. The hardness of the outer surface of the bent inner sides of the bent sections of the hollow stabilizer is 70% or more with respect to the hardness of the outer surface of the arm section.

Abstract: A user apparatus configured to perform communication with a base station in a mobile communication system that supports downlink spatial multiplexing, including: transmission means configured to transmit capability information of the user apparatus to the base station; reception means configured to receive configuration information from the base station; bit width determination means configured, if a parameter indicating a transmission mode corresponding to the downlink spatial multiplexing and predetermined additional information are received as the configuration information, to determine a bit width of a rank indicator based on the predetermined additional information.