Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a second conveying roller pair that receives and conveys a sheet conveyed by a first conveying roller pair; a first folding roller pair that forms a first fold on the sheet; and a first rotation unit capable of rotating the second conveying roller pair and the first folding roller pair. One roller of the second conveying roller pair and one roller of the first folding roller pair are a common roller shared therebetween. The second conveying roller pair causes the sheet to be deflected and guided to the first folding roller pair, and the first folding roller pair forms the first fold on the deflected sheet by rotating the first rotation unit in a certain direction in a state in which the sheet is held by the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises an insertion portion, a sensor, and a controller. The insertion portion is configured to be at least partly inserted in an external ear canal of a user. The sensor is configured to detect a signal relating to an organism of the user, in a state in which at least part of the insertion portion is inserted in the external ear canal of the user. The controller is configured to perform a predetermined process, based on a signal that satisfies a predetermined condition from among the signal relating to the organism of the user detected by the sensor.

Abstract: Provided are an injection mold and an injection molding method by which a boundary line between a first material and a second material curved so as to be sharply bent like a round chamfered shape can be formed reliably in a desired position, and a molded article molded using the injection mold and the injection molding method. The sum of a length w of an inclined-part forming part 51a and a length y of a thinned-part forming part 51b in a width direction of a linear part or a width direction of a curved part is at least equal to a prescribed value, and the thinned-part forming part 51b forming the curved part has a second length y longer than a first length in the width direction of the curved part.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a conveying unit, a presser, an end detector, and a setting unit. The conveying unit conveys a sheet having a crease formed therein. The presser presses the crease in the sheet. The end detector detects an end in a conveying direction of the sheet at a position upstream of the presser in the conveying direction. The setting unit sets a crease position where the crease is to be formed. Upon detection of the end in the conveying direction, the conveying unit conveys the sheet to a position where the crease faces the presser, on the basis of the crease position set by the setting unit. The presser presses the crease in the conveyed sheet.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a weather prediction apparatus includes a storage configured to store weather data of a rain cloud observed by a weather radar; and a processor configured to predict a torrential rain. The processor is configured to detect a core of the rain cloud, based on the weather data; to acquire position information of the core, based on a detection result of the core; to determine a movement direction of the core, based on the position information; and to calculate information for predicting, as an area of occurrence of the torrential rain, an area on a ground, the area on the ground corresponding to the movement direction of the core.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a fan chamber, a machine chamber, a partition plate, and an electrical component unit. The partition plate is provided, in its upper part, with a planar receiving surface portion for receiving a holder. The holder is provided with a positioning protrusion protruding downward. A cutout portion into which the positioning protrusion is inserted is formed in the receiving surface portion. At least one inclined surface portion that is inclined downward from the receiving surface portion and guides the positioning protrusion to the cutout portion is provided at an end portion of the receiving surface portion that leads to the cutout portion.

Abstract: An ink contains an organic solvent and a coloring material, wherein the ink has a droplet breakage time of 17.0 msec or less according to elongation viscosity measuring.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes: a conveying module that conveys a folded sheet; and a pressing module that presses a folded part of the folded sheet by rotating about a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction of the conveying module as a rotation axis. The pressing module includes a projecting part arranged in a certain range in a direction of the rotation axis along a circumferential surface about the rotation axis. The projecting part is formed to be symmetric with respect to a middle part of the rotation axis in the direction of the rotation axis, and the projecting part arranged on one side from the middle part along the direction of the rotation axis are formed such that a position of the projecting part in a rotational direction of the circumferential surface varies along the direction of the rotation axis.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a wireless communication device is wearable on a living body. The wireless communication device includes an antenna and an attachment. The antenna has a first conductor, a second conductor, at least one third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first conductor and the second conductor are opposed to each other in a first axis. The third conductor is positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor. The third conductor extends in the first axis. The fourth conductor extends in the first axis. The feeding line is electromagnetically connected to any one of at least one third conductor. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected to each other through the third conductor. The attachment allows the fourth conductor to be opposed to the living body.

Abstract: A vehicle front end assembly includes an engine cradle, a transverse link and a fastener. The engine cradle has an upper attachment portion and a lower attachment portion, both being rigidly attached to the engine cradle. The upper attachment portion has a recessed area that includes a first opening extending through the recessed area. The upper attachment portion has a first overall thickness with a portion of the recessed area surrounding the first opening having a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The lower attachment portion has a second opening below the first opening. The transverse link has an inboard portion with a third opening that extends through the inboard portion. The fastener passes through the first opening, the third opening and the second opening such that the fastener retains the transverse link to the upper attachment portion and the lower attachment portion of the engine cradle.

Abstract: A method for separating steviol glycoside, including: a separating step 55 of performing a continuous liquid chromatography for continuously separating at least one type of steviol glycoside by allowing a liquid to be separated containing plural types of steviol glycosides to pass through a separating agent in which polyethylene imine is immobilized to a carrier.

Abstract: An embodiment of this disclosure provides a folding apparatus configured to stack and fold a designated number of sheets at a time. The folding apparatus includes a conveyor configured to sequentially convey the designated number of sheets, a stacker configured to temporarily store a sheet conveyed by the conveyor to stack the designated number of sheets, a sheet folding device configured to fold the designated number of sheets at a time, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to cause the sheet folding device to fold the stored sheet in response to an occurrence of a sheet jam upstream from the stacker in a direction of sheet conveyance, in processing the designated number of sheets.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus includes a conveyance member to convey a sheet from an ejection member at a first speed lower than a conveyance speed by the ejection member or a second speed substantially same as or higher than the conveyance speed; a registration member; a pair of first and second rollers to rotate in forward and reverse directions; a plurality of folding rollers downstream from the second roller, to rotate in forward and reverse directions to fold the sheet; and circuitry to determine whether the sheet is equal to or smaller than a reference length from an exit position from the ejection member to a folding start position downstream from the pair of the first and second rollers. The circuitry performs first-speed folding when the sheet is equal to or smaller than the reference length and performs second-speed folding when the sheet is longer than the reference length.

Abstract: A sheet separation device separates a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are bonded together at a portion. The sheet separation device includes a rotator, a nipping member opposite the rotator, to nip the two-ply sheet with the rotator, a conveyor to convey the two-ply sheet between the rotator and the nipping member, a winding member adjacent to the rotator, to wind the two-ply sheet around the rotator, and control circuitry. In winding the two-ply sheet, the control circuitry rotates the rotator at a first speed faster than a second speed at which the two-ply sheet moves to the rotator via the conveyor, and creates a difference in winding circumferential length between the two sheets, thereby separating the two sheets. The conveyor conveys the two-ply sheet with a bonded portion of the two-ply sheet being an upstream end or a downstream end in a conveyance direction of the two-ply sheet.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a bottom plate having a drain hole formed therein to discharge drain water generated in a heat exchanger; a heater provided at an upper surface of the bottom plate; a heater fixing tool provided to fix the heater to the bottom plate, with the heater interposed between the heater fixing tool and the upper surface of the bottom plate; a screw fastened after inserted into a screw hole from above to fix the heater fixing tool to the bottom plate, the screw hole being provided in overlapping portions of the heater fixing tool and the bottom plate; and a protective cap configured to cover a tip of the screw from below, which projects downwards from a lower surface of the bottom plate. The screw hole is located in a surrounding area which surrounds the drain hole, and the heater fixing tool is fixed to the bottom plate in the surrounding area.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and a program that are capable of preventing output of data from being interrupted on a reception side, the data being wirelessly transmitted and received by the reception side. Control information for controlling a method of using data is generated by a reception side, the data being wirelessly transmitted and received by the reception side, and the control information is added to data to generate data-with-control-information. A method of using data is controlled on the basis of control information included in data-with-control-information for controlling the method of using data, the data-with-control-information being acquired by adding the control information to data, the data-with-control-information being wirelessly transmitted, and data whose use method is controlled is output on the basis of the control information.

Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a speaker capable of outputting a sound wave, a sensor capable of acquiring an optical signal related to blood flow at a measured part of a user, and a controller configured to measure blood flow information of the measured part based on the optical signal. The controller estimates a sleep state of the user based on the blood flow information and controls, based on the sleep state, a sound wave outputted from the speaker.

Abstract: A sheet separation device includes a rotator, a nipping member to nip the two-ply sheet with the rotator, a first conveyor to convey the two-ply sheet in a first direction toward the rotator and a second direction reverse thereto, a winding member to wind the two-ply sheet around the rotator, a second conveyor to convey a sheet medium in the second direction, a separation claw to move in a width direction; a sheet guide to guide the separated two sheets to different passages; and control circuitry. The first conveyor conveys the two-ply sheet to the rotator with a bonded portion at an upstream end. The control circuitry inserts the separation claw into a space between the two sheets, adjusts a projection amount of the two-ply sheet from a nip of the first conveyor in the second direction, and inserts the sheet medium in two-ply sheet adjusted in the projection amount.

Abstract: A sheet separation device configured to separate a two-ply sheet, in which two sheets are bonded together at a portion, includes a rotator, a nipping member disposed opposite the rotator and configured to nip the two-ply sheet with the rotator, a conveyor configured to convey the two-ply sheet between the rotator and the nipping member, and a winding member disposed adjacent to the rotator. The conveyor conveys the two-ply sheet with a bonded portion of the two-ply sheet being an upstream end or a downstream end of the two-ply sheet in a conveyance direction of the two-ply sheet. The winding member winds the two-ply sheet around the rotator, to create a difference in winding circumferential length between the two sheets and separate the two sheets. The sheet separation device further includes control circuitry configured to adjust a winding amount of the two-ply sheet around the rotator.

Abstract: Provided is a molded article comprising an aliphatic polyester. The aliphatic polyester is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyglycolic acid and a copolymer of a glycolic acid monomer and a monomer other than the glycolic acid monomer. The molded article has a uniaxial compressive strength at a temperature of 23° C. of greater than 250 MPa and not greater than 350 MPa.