Abstract: The method includes in order: forming an intermediate image by applying the aqueous ink to a transfer body; transferring the intermediate image by bringing the intermediate image into contact with the recording medium; and cleaning the transfer body by applying an aqueous cleaning liquid to the transfer body, and if necessary, further includes applying an aqueous reaction liquid containing a reactant which reacts with the aqueous ink to the transfer body, wherein at least one of the aqueous ink and the reaction liquid contains a resin particle (however, when not including the applying of the reaction liquid, the aqueous ink contains the resin particle), and the cleaning liquid contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having an SP value [unit: (J/cm3)1/2] of 17.0 or more to 29.0 or less.

Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains resin particles and a polyimide precursor. The resin particles in the polyimide precursor solution have a volume particle size distribution with one or more peaks. The volume frequency of a peak having the highest volume frequency of the one or more peaks accounts for 90% to 100% of the total volume frequency of all peaks of the volume particle size distribution.

Abstract: A hybrid power conditioning system manages, as a control target, a plurality of electric power units having different response speeds of charge or discharge, and respectively controls a charge or a discharge of the control target and an input/output of power, to and from a system, based on the charge or the discharge of the control target. A server apparatus generates a control order related to a demand response to the hybrid power conditioning system and calculates an allocation amount of each of the users according to at least an amount of power to be procured. The control order includes the calculated allocation amount and a control mode prescribing a discharge source or a charge destination when a triggering condition is satisfied. Upon receiving the control order, each of the hybrid power conditioning systems activates the control targets in order from the control target having a fastest response speed.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method capable of suppressing movement of a coloring material and adhesion thereof to a porous layer even after repeated contact of the porous layer with a first image. This method of recording an image on a recording medium by using an aqueous reaction liquid and a water-based ink containing a first ink includes applying a reaction liquid containing a reactant and resin particles to the entirety of a first recording medium; applying a coloring material-containing first ink to the first recording medium to form a first image; and bringing a porous layer of a liquid absorption member into contact with the first image to absorb a liquid component from a first-image-including portion on the first recording medium. The volume-based cumulative pore size (?m) at 10% of the porous layer is greater than the volume-based cumulative particle size (?m) at 90% of the resin particles.

Abstract: An image recording method includes a first intermediate image forming step of applying an ink onto an intermediate transfer member to form a first intermediate image, a second intermediate image forming step of applying a transfer assisting liquid containing thermoplastic resin particles and rosin-based resin particles to the first intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member to form a second intermediate image, and a transfer step of bringing the second intermediate image formed on the intermediate transfer member into contact with a recording medium, peeling off the second intermediate image from the intermediate transfer member while the contact state with the recording medium is maintained, and transferring the second intermediate image to the recording medium. In the transfer step, the second intermediate image brought into contact with the recording medium has a temperature not less than the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin particles.

Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording method which records an image on a recording medium using aqueous ink. The ink jet recording method includes an intermediate image forming step of forming an intermediate image by applying aqueous ink to a transfer body and then applying an aqueous transfer promotion liquid to a region of the transfer body in which the aqueous ink is applied; and a transferring step of transferring the intermediate image by bring the intermediate image into contact with the recording medium in this order. The transfer promotion liquid contains a rosin particle formed by containing a rosin ester resin, an anionic emulsifier and a nonionic emulsifier, and the content of an alkali metal ion in the transfer promotion liquid is more than that of an alkali metal ion in the ink.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes: a die; a core disposed at the inner side of the die; a slider housed in a die recess provided in the die; a rod having a leading end portion housed in a slider recess formed in a face of the slider, the leading end portion of the rod being unconnected with the slider; and a movement mechanism, the die including a wall portion that forms part of an inner wall of the die recess, and the slider recess having a shape that widens on progression toward an outer side in a radial direction of the die or that runs along a radial direction of the die.

Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer further includes a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain. The composition for a magnetic recording medium includes: ferromagnetic powder; and a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain.

Abstract: A method of producing a foil formed member, includes: preparing a formed member on which a plastic toner image having plasticity is formed; and pressing foil against the formed member at a temperature of 70° C. or lower to form a foil image on the plastic toner image of the formed member, and a method of producing a wiring substrate, includes: preparing a substrate on which a toner image of a toner, in which a volume fraction of particles having a particle diameter of 16 ?m or more is less than 1%, is formed; and forming a foil image on the toner image of the substrate.

Abstract: In an aggregation system comprising a control apparatus which is provided for each consumer and a server apparatus, the server apparatus calculates, for each of the consumers and as an allocation amount of the consumer, an upper limit value for the power which the consumer inputs from the system or a lower limit value for the power which the consumer is to output to the system, according to a requested power provision amount, and sends the respective control instructions designating the calculated allocation amount of each consumer to the control apparatus of the consumer, and the control apparatuses each control the charging and discharging of the corresponding power apparatus so that the power input from the system is equal to or smaller than the allocation amount designated in the control instruction or so that power equal to or larger than the allocation amount is output to the system.

Abstract: An electric power converter includes a first capacitor being located between an input terminal and an output terminal, and that connects a first terminal being located between the input terminal and a ground, a reactor that connects through electric contact between the first terminal and the output terminal, a switching element that connects through electric contact between the input terminal and the output terminal, and a control unit that executes a first PWM control process controlling a pulse width of the PWM waveform by on and off of the switching device according to the fluctuation of the output voltage, and that executes a second PWM control process widening a pulse width of the PWM and a duty cycle of a PWM than those of the previous cycle when a pulse width becomes a lower limit.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes: a die provided with a die recessed portion; a core being relatively movable toward a first side and a second side in an axial direction of the die, and forming a flow passage for molten resin between the core and the die; a slider housed in the die recessed portion, having a gap in the die radial direction between the slider and the die recessed portion, the slider being slidable in the die axial direction; and a wall portion forming part of an inner wall in the die radial direction of the die recessed portion, positioned to oppose the core, and extending in such a way that a thickness of the wall portion gradually decreases heading from the first side toward the second side; wherein the wall portion is elastically flexible outward in the die radial direction in a case in which the wall portion is pushed by the molten resin.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing device including a first memory and a first processor, and a second information processing device including a second memory and a second processor, wherein the first processor is configured to acquire a first frequency at which first data stored in the first memory has been updated, acquire a second frequency at which the first data stored in the first memory has been updated due to an update of second data stored in the second memory, determine whether a notification indicating that the first data stored in the first memory has been updated is to be transmitted to the second information processing device, based on the first frequency information, the second frequency information, and a state of a communication between the first information processing device and the second information processing device, and transmit the notification.

Abstract: An image recording method including the steps of applying an ink containing a coloring material and anionic resin particles to a recording medium, and applying a liquid composition to the recording medium so as to at least partly overlap with an area where the ink is applied, the liquid composition destabilizing a dispersion state of the coloring material or of the anionic resin particles in the ink. The ink contains a trihydric or higher polyhydric alcohol compound having a group formed by substituting a hydrogen atom of a hydroxyl group by a structure represented by —Rn—H, where R is an alkyleneoxy group including an ethyleneoxy group, and the number of Rs per molecule is 40 or more and 120 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a trihydric alcohol and is 12 or more and 400 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a tetrahydric or higher polyhydric alcohol.

Abstract: Provided is a flow rate adjustment device including: a valve body portion configured to be movable along an axis line; a body portion having a valve bore and an upstream-side fluid chamber formed therein, the valve body portion being inserted into the valve bore, the upstream-side fluid chamber being configured to circulate a fluid; and a thin film-like first diaphragm portion which is coupled to the valve body portion and configured to isolate the upstream-side fluid chamber from a spring accommodation chamber adjacent to the upstream-side fluid chamber. The first diaphragm portion is formed of a conductive fluororesin material including a fluororesin material and carbon nanotubes dispersed in the fluororesin material, and the conductive fluororesin material has a volume resistivity of more than 1.0×103 ?·cm and less than 1.0×104 ?·cm.

Abstract: To improve connectivity with tubes to be connected to an inlet and an outlet of a flow passage, while increasing the rapidity of an operation of changing a fluid to be passed through the flow passage and also increasing the safety. Provided is a pressure detecting device including a pressure detecting unit detecting a pressure transmitted to a diaphragm, a flow passage unit having a diaphragm for transmitting a pressure of a fluid flowing through the flow passage to the diaphragm, and a nut for removably mounting the flow passage unit onto the pressure detecting unit. The nut mounts the flow passage unit onto the pressure detecting unit when a position of a positioning groove of the pressure detecting unit about an axis coincides with a position of a positioning projection of the flow passage unit about an axis.

Abstract: An interaction control method performed by a computer includes: executing a selection process that includes selecting any of one or more of interaction blocks generated by decomposing content into interaction units, and outputting the selected interaction block; executing a determination process that includes determining a reaction of a user to the outputted interaction block; and executing a response process that includes selecting a next action of the determined reaction based on a result of the determination process.

Abstract: An apparatus generates property data with a first context relation set between text display areas contained in a display image of a first webpage, and generates, based on the property data, dialog control data with a second context relation set between pieces of text extracted from structural elements of text display areas contained in a second webpage.

Abstract: A dialogue control system includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to select, from a supplementary information candidate, supplementary information related to at least one of a past context of an interaction including an input from a user and a predetermined output of the dialogue control system with respect to the input from the user, an input of the user expected in future in association with the output of the dialogue control system, and an output of the dialogue control system scheduled in the future, and insert the selected supplementary information into the interaction and present the inserted supplementary information to the user.