Abstract: A plastic optical fiber suitable for reducing interfacial delamination between a clad and a coating layer. The plastic optical fiber includes: a core; a clad disposed on an outer circumference of the core and including a fluorine-containing resin; and a coating layer disposed on an outer circumference of the clad, the coating layer consisting of a material. The material has an elongation, as measured by a given test, of 0.05% or less.

Abstract: An article conveyance apparatus conveys containers with carriers moved by a linear driving apparatus. The article conveyance apparatus includes a first upper side linear conveyance rail, a second lower side linear conveyance rail, a first delivery unit that is inverted while holding the carriers to deliver the carriers from a downstream end of the first conveyance rail to an upstream end of the second conveyance rail. A second delivery unit that is inverted while holding the plurality of carriers, delivers the carriers from a downstream end of the second conveyance rail to an upstream end of the first conveyance rail. An interval between the first conveyance rail (forward path) and the second conveyance rail (return path) is reduced as compared with an existing article conveyance apparatus.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.

Abstract: An opening-closing member including an outer panel that faces an outside of a vehicle body, and opening and closing a rear opening of the vehicle body in response to operation of an operation part arranged at a rear end part, the opening-closing member including a bracket member in the operation part, the bracket member including a bracket member body extending along a vehicle body front-rear direction, and a vertical wall extending in a vehicle body vertical direction from at least one end part of the bracket member body in the vehicle body front-rear direction, the vertical wall being fixed to an inner side of the outer panel.

Abstract: A plastic optical fiber of the present disclosure includes: a core including a first region having a refractive index decreasing in a direction from a center of the core toward an outer edge of the core; and a trench disposed on an outer circumference of the core. When a refractive index difference between a refractive index n1 at the outer edge of the core and a refractive index n2 of the trench is defined as ?n and a thickness of the trench is defined as d (?m), a value of ?n×d is 0.010 or more and 0.06 or less.

Abstract: A solid state battery includes an electrode laminate including a first solid electrolyte layer, a positive electrode, and a second solid electrolyte layer sequentially laminated on a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode tab extending therefrom. One of the first solid electrolyte layer or the second solid electrolyte layer includes a porous substrate. One other of the first solid electrolyte layer or the second solid electrolyte layer does not include a porous substrate. When the electrode laminate is viewed from above, outer peripheral ends of the first solid electrolyte layer and the second solid electrolyte layer are located outside an outer peripheral end of the positive electrode, and the first solid electrolyte layer and the second solid electrolyte layer are bonded to each other in a region not opposed to the positive electrode and the positive electrode tab.

Abstract: A stator sub-assembly with a connector includes a stator sub-assembly including a stator core and a rigid wiring board, and a connector fixed to a connector mounting part of the rigid wiring board in such a way that it is opposed to the stator core in the radial direction of the frame. A groove part that extends in the axial direction from an opening in the axial direction and accommodates the connector and the connector mounting part is formed in an inner peripheral surface of the frame. A window part for an opponent connector to mate with the connector accommodated in the groove part is formed in the frame. The window part opens in an outer surface of the frame and an inner surface of the groove part, and has an unbroken inner peripheral surface.

Abstract: There is provided a motor armature winding structure that includes a filleted portion including a curved surface, the filleted portion is formed on at least one of corner portions at four corners of a bobbin side wall surface where a wire is wound, and the curved surface has a curvature radius that decreases from a winding start position toward a winding end position in a first layer of the wires wound on the bobbin side wall surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.

Abstract: A challenge is to provide an art to identify mice as individuals from captured images of one or more mice that are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit, a part extraction unit, and an individual identification unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured video of a state in which one or more animals are doing activity in a predetermined activity range. The part extraction unit extracts multiple parts of the body of each of the one or more animals from each of unit images included in the video. The individual identification unit analyzes the parts extracted from the unit images by the part extraction unit in a time-series manner and identifies the one or more animals as individuals in each of the unit images on the basis of the analysis results. Thus, the challenge is solved.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a heat storage power generation system includes a heater to heat first fluid, and a heat storage to be heated by the first fluid, and heat second fluid with heat stored in the heat storage. The system further includes a generator to generate electric power by using the second fluid, and one or more first path switchers provided on a first path through which the first fluid is circulated between the heater and heat storage. The system further includes one or more second path switchers provided on a second path through which the second fluid is circulated between the heat storage and generator, one or more third path switchers provided on a third path through which at least one of the first and second fluids is circulated between the heater and generator, and a switching controller to control the first, second and third path switchers.

Abstract: A developing device may include an auger or an agitator that is capable of supplying toner in a toner accommodation chamber to a developing chamber and is rotatable about an auger axis extending in an axial direction, a transporting gear that is rotatable together with the auger or the agitator, and a moving gear that is in mesh with a coupling gear and is rotatable both counterclockwise and clockwise. The moving gear is movable while being in mesh with the coupling gear between a first position where the moving gear is in mesh with the transporting gear and a second position where the moving gear is out of mesh with the transporting gear. The moving gear moves to the first position when the coupling gear rotates counterclockwise and to the second position when the coupling gear rotates clockwise.

Abstract: A plastic optical fiber includes a core and a clad disposed on an outer circumference of the core. The core includes a first resin, and the clad includes a second resin. The first resin has a first glass transition temperature Tg1 of 120° C. or higher. The second resin has a second glass transition temperature Tg2 of 120° C. or higher. When the plastic optical fiber bent once 180 degrees at 25° C. has a curvature radius R and a minimum of the curvature radius R is defined as a curvature radius at which a crack does not occur in a bent portion of the plastic optical fiber, the minimum is 5 mm or less.

Abstract: An estimation device is a device that estimates a charge state of an energy storage device including a negative electrode having a negative active material that contains Si. The estimation device includes a control unit that determines based on a charge-discharge history of the energy storage device whether or not to perform a first estimation method of estimating a charge state of the energy storage device by using a relationship between the charge state and a voltage of the energy storage device.

Abstract: A wiring board includes: a glass substrate serving as a substrate, which includes a first surface, a second surface which is opposite to the first surface, and a side surface; an input electrode serving an electrode, which is located close to a side of the first surface; an insulating layer disposed on the glass substrate; and a side wiring disposed so as to extend from the input electrode via the side surface to the second surface. An end of the insulating layer located close to the side is provided with a cutaway portion extending in an inward direction of the insulating layer, the input electrode is disposed in an entrance-side part of the cutaway portion, and the cutaway portion includes a bottom-side part constituting an inward area which is free of the input electrode.

Abstract: A communication control apparatus that implements at least some functions in flow control of a software defined network (SDN) by hardware, the communication control apparatus includes a processor. The configured to set, when a packet of a flow that is not registered in transfer control information is detected when a plurality of packets that constitutes a flow is transferred, a destination resolution standby state for the flow in the transfer control information, store, into an evaluation queue, at least some of packets received in the destination resolution standby state, stop a pipeline that processes a packet to be transferred after destination resolution for the flow, output a packet that belongs to the flow and is stored in the evacuation queue, and operate the pipeline after the output of the packet stored in the evacuation queue is completed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.

Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.

Abstract: A process for producing acetic acid by: a reaction step for continuously allowing methanol to react with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a metal catalyst, an ionic iodide, and methyl iodide in a carbonylation reactor, a flash distillation step for continuously feeding a flasher with a reaction mixture from the reactor and evaporating a volatile component at least containing product acetic acid, methyl acetate, and methyl iodide by flash distillation to separate the volatile component and a liquid catalyst mixture at least containing the metal catalyst and the ionic iodide, and an acetic acid collection step for separating a stream containing acetic acid from the volatile component to collect acetic acid; wherein, in the flash distillation step, the flash distillation is conducted under the condition that the concentration of methyl acetate in the liquid catalyst mixture is not less than 0.6% by weight.