Abstract: A protruding portion protruding in a rotation axis direction of an image bearing member is provided at a position between the tip of a separation claw and an apex of the separation claw, when the apex of the separation claw is disposed at a position farthest from the surface of the image bearing member in a direction perpendicular to a straight line connecting the tip and the rotation center of a shaft portion of the separation claw.

Abstract: A management device estimates an air temperature inside a data collection apparatus as an estimated air temperature, based on operation data received from an air conditioner and meteorological data received from a server via a communication device. When the estimated air temperature is higher than an operable temperature of the communication device, the management device performs control to decrease the air temperature inside the data collection apparatus. When a ventilation-in-progress air temperature is higher than the operable temperature of the communication device, the management device transmits to a breaker device a command to stop the communication device, thereby decreasing the air temperature inside the data collection apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition, including a modified polypropylene-based resin (A) that contains at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group, and that contains a (meth)acryloyl group (a), in which the (meth)acryloyl group (a) is introduced by a modification reaction of at least one of an acidic group or an acid anhydride group of a polypropylene-based resin (h) that contains the at least one of the acidic group or the acid anhydride group.

Abstract: A microneedle array with a performance adequate to be used instead of a syringe has at a tip side of each microneedle 10 two puncture portions 14 and 15 disposed facing each other. The puncture portions 14 and 15 each have a part of a side surface of the microneedle 10 as outer surfaces 12 and 13, respectively, and one of the puncture portions 14 and 15 is shorter than the other. Surrounded by inner surfaces 16 and 17 of the puncture portions 14 and 15 facing each other, a housing section 19 capable of holding a drug is formed. The housing section 19 opens toward the tip side and both lateral directions along an axis core of the microneedle 10, and has a central bottom surface 18 at a bottom end.

Abstract: An air conditioning data communication device includes a data acquisition unit, a transmission schedule adjusting unit, and a data transmission unit. The data acquisition unit acquires data about an air conditioner. The transmission schedule adjusting unit creates a schedule for transmission of data acquired by the data acquisition unit to a server, and adjusts the schedule by changing a transmission time to allow the data to be transmittable to the server when the data is not all transmittable to the server within a billing cycle included in fee plan information. The data transmission unit transmits data to the server in accordance with the schedule created by the transmission schedule adjusting unit.

Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed two wires to be wound on an object to be bound, a wire guide configured to align the two wires in parallel, a binding unit having an engaging member in which the wires are to be engaged, and the binding unit configured to twist the wires which are wound on the object to be bound and which are engaged in the engaging member, a curl guide configured to curl the wires being fed by the wire feeding unit into a loop shape, an inductive guide configured to guide the wires curled by the curl guide toward the binding unit, and a parallel alignment regulation part configured to guide an alignment direction of the two wires to be engaged with the engaging member in a radial direction of the loop.

Abstract: An obtaining unit (120) obtains a ranking of a commercial product belonging to a category defined on an e-marketplace. A collecting unit (121) collects a term relevant to a commercial product at an upper position in the obtained ranking from a text contained in a sales page for selling the upper ranking position commercial product or a search query that triggers the sales page to be viewed. A calculating unit (122) calculates a score of each collected term based on at least a number of collections of the term. A presenting unit (123) presents, as a suggested keyword for search refinement of the commercial product belonging to the category, the term with the calculated score in an upper ranking position.

Abstract: A brake apparatus including a hydraulic brake mechanism, an electric brake mechanism, and first and second controllers. The hydraulic brake mechanism can apply a braking force by thrusting a braking member forward with use of hydraulic pressure to a wheel belonging to a first group among a plurality of wheels of the vehicle. The electric brake mechanism can apply a braking force by thrusting a braking member forward with use of an electric motor to a wheel belonging to a second group among the plurality of wheels. The first controller can control the hydraulic brake mechanism, and the second controller can control the electric brake mechanism. The first controller acquires or receives at least one of yaw rate information of the vehicle and acceleration information of the vehicle without intervention of the second controller. The second controller acquires or receives wheel speed information without intervention of the first controller.

Abstract: A mobile capsule device 10 comprises a long capsule body 11 having a permanent magnet 13 movable in the lengthwise direction with respect to the long capsule body and a coil for driving the permanent magnet 13, while a propulsion force is generated entirely by applying an alternate current to the coil and performing back and forth movements of the permanent magnet 13. The coil has first and second coil parts 15 and 16 arranged circumferentially in front and back of the permanent magnet 13, and a frequency of an alternate current applied to the first and second coil parts 15 and 16 is made to accord with a resonance frequency of the capsule device 10 generated by a back and forth vibration of the permanent magnet 13. Thereby, a self-propelled, mobile capsule device 10 which is downsized, compact and efficient and a control method thereof can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a small electronic device including an actuation component that operates using an electromagnetic force, a power storage device, and a case in which the actuation component and the power storage device are stored, in which the power storage device is formed of a non-magnetic body.

Abstract: Provided is a novel crystalline solid electrolyte which can be used as a dispersion medium when slurrying polar solvents such as NMP, acetone, and DMF, and for which a decrease in conductivity when the crystalline solid electrolyte is immersed in said solvents can be suppressed. Proposed is a crystalline solid electrolyte represented by Compositional Formula: LixSiyPzSaHaw (here, Ha includes one or two or more of Br, Cl, I, and F, and 2.4<(x?y)/(y+z)<3.3), in which the content of S is 55 to 73% by mass, the content of Si is 2 to 11% by mass, and the content of a Ha element is 0.02% by mass or more.

Abstract: An adhesive composition having high room-temperature peel strength, high hot peel strength, and excellent adhesion, as well as excellent electrolyte resistance even when used for packaging materials for lithium ion batteries is provided, which contains an organic solvent, a polyolefin (A) that has an acidic group and/or an acid anhydride group and is soluble in the organic solvent, and an isocyanate compound, wherein the isocyanate compound comprises (B) a diisocyanate compound having a C4-7 hydrocarbon group and/or a derivative thereof, and (C) a diisocyanate compound having a C8-14 hydrocarbon group and/or a derivative thereof; and a heat-fusible member using the adhesive composition is also provided.

Abstract: As a novel sulfide compound having a low elastic modulus while retaining the high ion conductivity, a sulfide compound for a solid electrolyte of a lithium secondary battery that includes a crystal phase of a cubic argyrodite type crystal structure, and is represented by the compositional formula: Li7?xPS6?xClyBrz, wherein x in the compositional formula satisfies x=y+z and 1.0<x?1.8, and a ratio (z/y) of the molar ratio of Br to the molar ratio of Cl is from 0.1 to 10.0 is proposed.

Abstract: A method of producing sizing agent-applied carbon fiber bundles includes a sizing agent application process of immersing a plurality of carbon fiber bundles running side by side in a sizing agent bath, followed by a dry process performed to obtain sizing agent-applied carbon fiber bundles and, to address issues of wrapping of a carbon fiber bundle caused by sticking of a sizing agent solution to a guide roller, the first guide roller for the carbon fiber bundles after being immersed in the sizing agent bath and coming out of a liquid surface of the sizing agent bath is set to have a surface adhesive force of 0.2 N/cm2 or less.

Abstract: Crystals of [8-chloro-3-(4-chlorobenzyl)-4-difluoromethoxy-2-ethylquinolin-5-yloxy]acetic acid L-lysine salt, i.e., a crystal A which has peaks at diffraction angles 2?=6.0°, 10.0°, 10.7°, 12.1°, 18.4°, 19.2° and 20.1° in powder X-ray diffraction spectra and a crystal B which has peaks at diffraction angles 2?=6.0°, 11.7°, 12.4°, 15.2°, 16.4°, 20.3° and 22.6° in powder X-ray diffraction spectra. These crystals are chemically stable and have excellent thermal stability and physical properties, and are therefore suitable as medicinal substances.

Abstract: An electrode chip including one auxiliary cell and a plurality of measurement cells on a substrate, where the auxiliary cell includes a reference electrode, a counter electrode, and an auxiliary cell-side working electrode, the measurement cell includes a driving electrode and a measurement cell-side working electrode, and the auxiliary cell-side working electrode and the measurement cell-side working electrode are electrically connected.

Abstract: A battery manufacturing apparatus includes two or more pressing portions that sandwich a flat battery therebetween and press the battery, a placing portion that is provided between the pressing portions and on which the battery is placed so that a main surface of the battery faces the pressing portion, and a driving unit that moves the pressing portions in directions toward or away from each other. The placing portion is configured to be capable of expanding and contracting as the pressing portion moves.

Abstract: An AD conversion apparatus includes an AD conversion unit; a reference voltage switching unit that is disposed between an output of a sensor and an analog input terminal of the AD conversion unit and is connectable to the output of the sensor and a plurality of reference voltage lines; and a control unit to control switching the reference voltage input to the AD conversion unit by connecting the reference voltage switching unit to one of the reference voltage lines and to the output of the sensor. An analog output value of the sensor is input to the analog input terminal of the AD conversion unit via the reference voltage switching unit and is converted into a digital value.

Abstract: An exhaust structure of a vehicle is provided that can ensure an arrangement space for a mounted component below a floor panel and prevent thermal damage to the mounted component by reducing sizes of an engine and an exhaust silencer. An exhaust structure of a vehicle includes: an engine disposed in an engine bay formed in a front part of a vehicle; a silencer that reduces noise of exhaust gas from the engine and discharges the exhaust gas outside; an exhaust pipe that couples the engine and the silencer; and a battery unit disposed behind the engine and below a floor panel, the silencer being disposed between the engine and the battery unit.

Abstract: Crystals of [8-chloro-3-(4-chlorobenzyl)-4-difluoromethoxy-2-ethylquinolin-5-yloxy]acetic acid L-lysine salt, i.e., a crystal A which has peaks at diffraction angles 2?=6.0°, 10.0°, 10.7°, 12.1°, 18.4°, 19.2° and 20.1° in powder X-ray diffraction spectra and a crystal B which has peaks at diffraction angles 2?=6.0°, 11.7°, 12.4°, 15.2°, 16.4°, 20.3° and 22.6° in powder X-ray diffraction spectra. These crystals are chemically stable and have excellent thermal stability and physical properties, and are therefore suitable as medicinal substances.