Abstract: Provided is a sensor member that can be easily manufactured even with different specifications. A sensor member includes a sensor, a wire member connected to the sensor, a fixing bracket, and a resin molded member molded as a single body with the fixing bracket and covering the sensor and a portion of the wire member drawn out from the sensor. The resin molded member includes a primary molded part covering the sensor and the portion of the wire member drawn out from the sensor, and a secondary molded part molded with the primary molded part and the fixing bracket as insert parts.

Abstract: A return area prediction device (10) includes a prediction unit (12) that acquires a regression result of prediction of a number of visitors in each return area for a target event from event information of the target event using a regularized regression method, specifies, based on the acquired regression result, a nearest-neighbor cluster closest to the regression result among event group clusters previously clustered, and predicts the number of visitors in each return area for the target event based on at least a position of a center of gravity of the nearest-neighbor cluster.

Abstract: A tungsten hexafluoride manufacturing method of the present invention includes a reaction step of reacting tungsten with a gas of a fluorine element-containing compound so as to obtain a mixture that contains tungsten hexafluoride and hydrogen fluoride-containing impurities, and a discharge step of performing distillation of the mixture while performing a discharge operation at least two or more times during the distillation so as to obtain tungsten hexafluoride, the discharge operation being an operation in which a storage operation and a purge operation are alternately performed.

Abstract: A cognitive function determination method includes applying a load including a sensory stimulus (5a) or tasks with different degrees of difficulty a plurality of times (S1), measuring a change in brain activity of a subject (P) when the load is applied and acquiring measurement data (S2), and determining a degree of cognitive function of the subject (P) (S3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fused ring compound having urea structure that exhibits excellent NAMPT activating effect, and a method using the same for treating/preventing metabolic disorder, cardiovascular and kidney disease, mitochondrial disease, neurodegenerative disease, ocular disease, and muscle wasting disorder. The present invention provides a compound represented by following formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt: wherein A, B, R1, R2 and R3 represent the same meanings as in the claims.

Abstract: A light guide member (300) includes a boundary surface (304) configured to reflect image light guided to the boundary surface (304) and emit the image light outside the light guide member (300), an opposing surface (306) parallel to the boundary surface (304), the opposing surface (306) facing the boundary surface (304), a first inclined surface (305) having an inclination in which a distance between the first inclined surface (305) and the boundary surface (304) decreases in a guiding direction of the image light, and a second inclined surface (307) between the opposing surface (306) and the first inclined surface (305), the second inclined surface (307) inclined at a different angle with the first inclined surface (305) in the guiding direction.

Abstract: Provided is a sausage sticking system capable of changing a position and an interval at which a chain of sausages is hung on a stably held stick according to a length of a casing. The sausage sticking system includes a hook conveying unit, a stick holding unit, and a pivoting imparting unit. A loop of a chain of sausages hooked on each of the pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit is configured to be dropped onto a stick passing through the loop by which pivoting hooks are pivoted. The stick holding unit holds both ends of the stick, and includes a fixed arm and a pair of actuating arms, wherein the pair of actuating arras alternately holds the stick and avoids the loop of the chain of sausages. The pivoting imparting unit sequentially pivots the plurality of pivoting hooks at a predetermined pivoting imparting position.

Abstract: A medical stapler is a medical stapler used together with an endoscope and includes a flexible elongated member extending in a length direction of the endoscope, a wire inserted inside the elongated member and movable forward and backward with respect to the elongated member, a suture assembly connected to a distal end of the wire and being able to suture a gripped treatment target with a staple, an operation unit connected to a rear end of the wire and ejecting the staple from the suture assembly by moving the wire forward and backward, and an ejection restriction structure restricting ejection of the staple when a tension applied to the wire is equal to or less than a first tension caused by a change in shape of the elongated member.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive composition excellent in adhesiveness to resin materials, and an article containing a cured product of the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition of the present invention includes a polyether polycarbonate diol that has a number average molecular weight of 500 to 10000, and has no specific reactive silicon group, or a polyether polycarbonate polymer (A) having the specific reactive silicon group.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of a power source configured to identify electrical power allowed as electrical power to be used by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the power source.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid member, a terminal member, and a resin member. The resin member includes a resin outer portion, a resin inner portion, and a resin inside-hole portion. The case lid member and the resin member are configured that, when the power storage device is placed under a temperature environment of ?40° C., the resin member forms an outward convex warp in a lid thickness direction with respect to a lid longitudinal direction so that a pair of longitudinal joint faces of the resin inner portion press the terminal member in the lid longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid with a terminal inserting hole, a current collecting terminal having a hole insertion portion inserted in the terminal inserting hole and an external connection portion placed on a front surface side of the case lid, and an insulating resin member integrally molded with the current collecting terminal and the case lid. The insulating resin member includes an outer-periphery-side insulating resin portion and a back-surface side insulating resin portion connecting the current collecting terminal and the case lid. The back-surface side insulating resin portion is formed with a hollow portion penetrating through a back surface of the back-surface side insulating resin portion to a back surface of the outer connecting portion. The back surface of the outer connecting portion is formed with an annular band-shaped sealing portion along the outer edge portion of the hollow portion.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a case lid with a terminal inserting hole, a current collecting terminal having a hole insertion portion inserted in the terminal inserting hole in a case front-back direction and an external connection portion continuous with the hole insertion portion and placed in parallel to the case lid on the case front-surface side, and an insulating resin member integrally molded with the current collecting terminal and the case lid to connect the hole insertion portion and the external connection portion to a hole outer edge portion and a hole surrounding portion. The insulating resin member includes a back-surface side insulating resin portion connecting a back surface of the external connection portion and the hole insertion portion to the hole outer edge portion and the hole surrounding portion. The back-surface side insulating resin portion is formed with a recessed portion opening on a case back-surface side.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a compound suitable for preventing and/or treating inflammatory diseases and/or neurodegenerative disease. The present inventors have conducted intensive studies to find a compound having an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation and found that an annulated pyridazine compound has an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation, thus completing the present invention. The annulated pyridazine compound of the present invention is expected to serve as a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for inflammatory diseases and/or neurodegenerative diseases.

Abstract: Provided are novel antibody-pyrrolodiazepine derivative and novel antibody-pyrrolodiazepine derivative conjugates, as well as methods of using the same, and a novel CLDN6 and/or CLDN9 antibody. The disclosed compounds are of the class of alkyl benzene sulfonyl ureas, useful as oral anti-diabetics, and include substituted benzo[e]pyrrolo[1,2-?][1,4]diazepine.

Abstract: A control method for an electric vehicle using a motor as a traveling drive source to decelerate by a regenerative braking force of the motor, including: obtaining an accelerator operation amount; estimating a disturbance torque acting on a vehicle body of the electric vehicle; obtaining an angular velocity of a rotating body that correlates to a rotation speed of a drive shaft which drives the electric vehicle; calculating a first torque command value based on the accelerator operation amount; setting the first torque command value to a torque command value; controlling a torque generated in the motor based on the torque command value; setting a target stop position at the time of stopping the electric vehicle; calculating a target angular velocity of the rotating body according to a distance from the electric vehicle to the target stop position; calculating a second torque command value for stopping the electric vehicle at the target stop position based on a difference between the target angular velocity an

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first processor mounted on a server connected to a local area network of an organization to which a user belongs, and a second processor mounted on an information processing apparatus provided outside the local area network, in which the first processor is configured to in a case of relaying process request information addressed to the information processing apparatus, the process request information including data which is a target of a process, and process information including identification information on the process, information specifying a request source of the process, and identification information on the information processing apparatus which is a request destination of the process, associate the identification information on the process with the identification information on the information processing apparatus included in the process request information to generate processing management information, and register the generated processing management inform

Abstract: In a battery, a lid member of a battery case is provided with a terminal part and a resin member. The terminal part has a terminal plate-shaped portion located inside the battery case, which extends wider than a through hole along an inner surface of the lid member. The resin member has an inner resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the lid member and the terminal plate-shaped portion. The lid member, on the inner surface side around the through hole, includes a protruding portion defined by a protruding inner surface joined to the inner resin plate-shaped portion and protruding toward the inside of the battery case relative to a non-protruding inner surface farther from the through hole than the protruding inner surface. Side surfaces of the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion do not project outward beyond a side surface of the inner resin plate-shaped portion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains image data that is defined as a first color gamut, transforms the image data into image data that is defined as a second color gamut, using color transformation information, and when, as a result of transformation, a first pair of color values included in the image data is transformed into a second pair of color values that have a color difference that is not perceived as different colors, generates second color transformation information such that the first pair of color values is transformed into a third pair of color values that have a color difference that is perceived as different colors as a result of transformation using the second color transformation information. A saturation difference of the third pair of color values is larger than a saturation difference of the second pair of color values.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip in a rectangular shape having longer sides extending in a first direction and shorter sides extending in a second direction. The semiconductor chip includes: a first vertical MOS transistor that includes a first gate pad and a plurality of first source pads, and a second vertical MOS transistor that includes a second gate pad and a plurality of second source pads. A plurality of first linear disposition regions in each of which source pads are linearly aligned in the first direction and a plurality of second linear disposition regions in each of which source pads are linearly aligned in the second direction are provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of ball-shaped bump electrodes connected to the first gate pad, the first source pads, the second gate pad, and the second source pads.