Abstract: An armature includes an armature coil including a plurality of coil modules and a base member including a cylindrical back core. Each of the coil modules includes a corresponding partial winding of the armature coil and a back-yoke-side insulating wall formed on the back yoke side of the corresponding partial winding. The coil modules are arranged, on a radially inner side or a radially outer side of the base member, in alignment with each other in a circumferential direction. The base member has a plurality of first engaging portions formed therein and each of the coil modules has at least one second engaging portion formed in the back-yoke-side insulating wall thereof. The coil modules are fixed to the base member with each of the first engaging portions of the base member engaging with a corresponding one of the second engaging portions of the coil modules in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is a mobile body control system capable of improving both the comfort of passengers in each mobile body and the efficiency of cargo transport when a plurality of mobile bodies travel in a formation. A mobile body control system (1) causes a plurality of mobile bodies (21) to travel in a formation along a preset travel route, and comprises a preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit (S49) that calculates a preceding/succeeding acceleration of a preceding mobile body (21_n) and a succeeding mobile body (21_n+1) on the travel route. The preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit adjusts a gain E of an arithmetic expression used to calculate the preceding/succeeding acceleration on the basis of information about a transported object being transported by each mobile body (21).

Abstract: The safety is ensured in such a manner that with an abnormality detection system of a secondary battery, abnormality of a secondary battery is detected, for example, a phenomenon that lowers the safety of the secondary battery is detected early, and a user is warned or the use of the secondary battery is stopped. The abnormality detection system of the secondary battery determines whether the temperature of the secondary battery is within a temperature range in which normal operation can be performed on the basis of temperature data obtained with a temperature sensor. In the case where the temperature of the secondary battery is high, a cooling device is driven by a control signal from the abnormality detection system of the secondary battery. The abnormality detection system of the secondary battery includes at least a memory means. The memory means has a function of holding an analog signal and includes a transistor using an oxide semiconductor for a semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A system includes: a housing; a first tank; a second tank; a first reservoir configured to be connected to the first tank; a second reservoir configured to be connected to the second tank; and a liquid discharge head that ejects the liquid supplied from the first tank and the second tank. The housing includes: a front wall; a rear wall facing the front wall; and a housing side contact, the first reservoir and the second reservoir includes: a liquid flow hole; a first outer wall; and a second outer wall facing the first outer wall, the first tank includes a first flow pipe, and the second tank includes a second flow pipe. The system further includes a circuit board that is disposed on the second outer wall and has a reservoir side contact that contacts the housing side contact.

Abstract: A base member of the sensor includes a first projection part, a second projection part, and a third projection part, being columnar and projecting from a first placement surface. Tip ends of the first, second and third projection parts are formed on second placement surfaces. The first and second projection parts respectively include a fourth pin and a fifth pin inserted through a second rigid substrate and projecting from the second placement surface. Three ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fourth pin and disposed so that positions viewed from a center of the fourth pin respectively form angles less than 180 degrees. Two ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fifth pin, and project along a fourth line perpendicular to a third line connecting the fourth pin and the fifth pin.

Abstract: A medical observation system for observing a biological object includes a medical light source apparatus for illuminating the biological object. The medical light source apparatus includes a first, second and third laser light sources that emit respective first, second, and third laser light beams. First and second laser light beams have different wavelength bands. The medical light source apparatus also includes an optical assembly including a reflecting surface disposed to reflect the first laser light beam, cause the second laser light beam to be transmitted therethrough, and guide the first laser light beam and the second laser light beam in a same direction. The medical light source apparatus also includes a reflection mirror having a reflecting surface that is not parallel with the reflecting surface of the optical assembly. The system includes a medical observation device including a detector for detecting a light received from the biological object.

Abstract: An armature is provided with an armature winding, an armature core and a first and second insulation sheets. The first insulation sheet is arranged to sequentially pass through a field magnet side of a first phase conductor, a portion between the first phase conductor and a second phase conductor, an armature core side of the second phase conductor and a third phase conductor and a portion between the third phase conductor and the first phase conductor. The second insulation sheet is arranged to sequentially pass through a portion opposite to the first phase conductor with respect to the first insulation sheet, a field magnet side of the second conductor, a portion between the second phase conductor and the third phase conductor, a portion between the third phase conductor and the first insulation sheet and a portion between the third phase conductor and the first insulation sheet.

Abstract: A display device that achieves both high-accuracy sensing by a touch sensor unit and smooth input using the touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs touch sensing operation at a different timing from display image rewriting by the display unit, whereby the high-accuracy sensing can be achieved. The display unit has a function of rewriting a display image only in a region that needs to be rewritten. In the case where the entire display region is not necessarily rewritten, the time for the sensing operation by the touch sensor unit can be lengthened, whereby the smooth input can be achieved.

Abstract: Provided are a substrate processing method and a substrate processing apparatus for forming a low-resistance metal-containing nitride film. The substrate processing method includes: a step of providing a substrate in a processing container; a step of forming a metal-containing nitride film on the substrate by repeating supplying an organic metal-containing gas and a nitrogen-containing gas alternately for a first predetermined number of cycles; a step of modifying the metal-containing nitride film by generating plasma in the processing container; and a step of repeating the step of forming the metal-containing nitride film and the step of modifying the metal-containing nitride film for a second predetermined number of cycles.

Abstract: In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a positional deviation in a lamination direction between end portions in a width direction intersecting the lamination direction and a length direction, of two of internal electrode layers adjacent to each other in the lamination direction, is about 5 ?m or less. A connection ratio N1/N0 at the middle portion thereof, and a connection ratio N2/N0 at the end portion thereof are about 90% or more, respectively, and a difference between N1/N0 and N2/N0 is about 10% or less.

Abstract: A transistor whose characteristic degradation due to stray light is small is provided. The transistor includes a first insulator, a second insulator over the first insulator, a metal oxide over the second insulator, a first and a second conductor over the metal oxide, a third insulator over the first insulator, the second insulator, the metal oxide, the first conductor, and the second conductor, a fourth insulator over the metal oxide, a fifth insulator over the fourth insulator, and a third conductor over the fifth insulator. The third insulator has an opening to overlap with a region between the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth insulator, the fifth insulator, and the third conductor are positioned in the opening. The metal oxide has a bandgap greater than or equal to 3.3 eV. The transistor has Vsh higher than or equal to ?0.3 V.

Abstract: Signal transfer devices that relay base stations of service providers that perform communication with radio terminals and an aggregation station that controls the base stations, and a route control device that controls signal distribution to user network interfaces (UNIs) and network network interfaces (NNIs) of each of the signal transfer devices, are included.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a document tray, a linear conveyance path, a curved conveyance path, a document conveyance device, a scanning device, a length detecting device, an operation device, and a controller. A plurality of conveyance rollers are disposed at a predetermined first interval in the linear conveyance path. In the curved conveyance path, a plurality of conveyance rollers are disposed at a predetermined second interval longer than the first interval. When accepting through the operation device an instruction for conveying an original document through the curved conveyance path, the controller allows conveyance of the original document through the curved conveyance path when a length of the original document detected by the length detecting device is not shorter than the second interval or disallows conveyance of the original document through the curved conveyance path when the detected length of the original document is shorter than the second interval.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus replaces a first battery attached to a vehicle body of an electrically powered vehicle with a charged second battery. The battery replacement apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, based on a fact that a size of the second battery is specified, size information indicating the specified size; a mounting table that moves relative to the vehicle body, with the second battery mounted on the mounting table, for attaching the second battery of the specified size to the vehicle body; and an adjustment unit that adjusts, based on the size information, a mount position where the second battery is mounted on the mounting table.

Abstract: An absorbent product includes an adhesive portion provided on the surface of a back sheet on the opposite side to the wearer side. A pair of longitudinal-side boundary portions is a pair of boundary portions between first and second areas of an absorber, the second area being thinner than the first area. The adhesive portion includes adhesive elements arranged on the back sheet to avoid the longitudinal-side boundary portions. The adhesive elements include first adhesive elements and second adhesive elements. The first adhesive elements each extend in either of the longitudinal and width directions in the first area and are aligned in the other of the directions. The second adhesive elements each extend in either of the longitudinal and width directions in the second area and are arranged in the other of the directions.

Abstract: A powder beverage that includes at least one type of dark-green vegetable, wherein a dispersion time measured by the following procedure is 10 min or less: put 100 mL water in a container having a circular truncated cone shape, a bottom having an inner diameter of 55 mm, a top part having an inner diameter of 75 mm, and a height of 100 mm; inject the powder beverage from above 50 mm of the water surface at a rate of 1 g/sec; and measure the time (dispersion time) from when injection of the powder beverage is terminated to when the powder beverage floating on the liquid surface is submerged in the water.

Abstract: The present inventors made a keen study on foods having an effect of intestinal regulation, and/or effect of improving maintenance of immune function, and found out that young barley grass powder exerts an excellent effect of intestinal regulation, and/or effect of improving maintenance of immune function, and that by adjusting the particle diameter of young barley grass powder at a prescribed size, a further excellent effect of intestinal regulation, and/or effect of improving maintenance of immune function is exerted. Thus, the present invention has been completed. Further, the present inventors made a keen study on foods having an effect of intestinal regulation, and/or effect of improving maintenance of immune function, and found out that when the hemicellulose content in young barley grass powder is within a prescribed range, a further excellent effect of intestinal regulation, and/or effect of improving maintenance of immune function is exerted.

Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a rotating electric machine disposed on a first axis, an output gear mechanism and an output member disposed on a second axis, and a case that houses these elements. The second axis is disposed below the first axis, a suction port of an oil pump is disposed below the first axis and the second axis and between the first axis and the second axis in a width direction, an outermost gear is disposed so that a direction of rotation at a lower end portion of the outermost gear during forward movement of a vehicle points toward the suction port, and a part of a peripheral wall section of the case that faces a lower surface of the rotating electric machine is inclined downward toward the suction port.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a drive device (drive unit), a processor (controller) that controls the drive device, and a communication unit that acquires, through communication, information about an electric vehicle and a battery (first battery). The processor adjusts a position of the drive device based on the information that is acquired through the communication unit, and performs control of replacing the battery with a battery (second battery) by controlling the drive device whose position is adjusted.

Abstract: A development medium for flexographic heat development, the development medium having a porosity of 35% or more and 95% or less, and an elastic recovery rate of 40% or more and 99% or less.