Abstract: A bicycle component system includes an electric assist unit, an electric shift device, an operation device and a battery. The electric assist unit is configured to assist in rotation of a crank. The electric shift device is configured to move a bicycle chain between sprockets. The operation device is configured to perform wireless communication with the electric shift device. The operation device includes an inner cavity and a communication device located in the inner cavity. The battery is configured to supply power to a bicycle component.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin prepreg comprising a fiber-reinforced substrate and a thermoplastic resin composition partially or completely impregnated in the fiber-reinforced substrate, the thermoplastic resin prepreg being characterized in that the thermoplastic resin composition contains at least 50 [mass %] of polyether ether ketone among all the thermoplastic resins contained in the thermoplastic resin composition, and the sum of the crystallinity WC [%] of the thermoplastic resin composition and the rigid amorphous component proportion WRAP [%] in the thermoplastic resin composition is in the range of 51 to 100 [%].

Abstract: An in-vehicle equipment setup device includes: a storage configured to store user setting information including settings of in-vehicle equipment desired by a user; a setter configured to set a set value in the user setting information of a selected user for the corresponding in-vehicle equipment; a settings comparator configured to acquire a current set value from the in-vehicle equipment and to compare the acquired current set value with a user set value which is a set value in the setting information included in the user setting information of the selected user; and a notifier configured to notify the user. When there is non-set in-vehicle equipment which is in-vehicle equipment of which the user set value is different from the current set value according to a result of the comparison, the settings comparator causes the notifier to notify that there is non-set in-vehicle equipment on the basis of travel information including a traveling state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A mobile object setting system includes a setting device configured to perform a process of setting equipment provided in a mobile object and a plurality of terminal devices capable of communicating with the setting device. The setting device includes a storage device configured to store a program and setting information of the equipment and a hardware processor. The hardware processor manages the setting information in association with a user of the mobile object by executing the program stored in the storage device, identifies the user of the mobile object, detects a specific action to be performed when the user of the mobile object boards the mobile object, and acquires setting information of the equipment associated with the identified user from the storage device to set the equipment based on the acquired setting information. The hardware processor receives a selection manipulation of the user until a predetermined manipulation is performed after the specific action is detected.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing a compound represented by the following formula (1).

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning apparatus for a recording head that ejects ink onto a recording medium, the cleaning apparatus including: a liquid application head for applying liquid to a nozzle formation surface; and a liquid removal unit for removing the liquid, wherein the liquid application head has a liquid application member having flexibility and having three surfaces, the first surface and the second surface contacting the nozzle formation surface, the third surface and the nozzle formation surface having a gap therebetween, a liquid supply member having a supply flow path for supplying the liquid to the nozzle formation surface, and wherein a liquid application width is narrower than a width of the nozzle formation surface, and a liquid removal width is wider than the liquid application width of the liquid application head.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information provision system that provides information to a driver of a straddle type vehicle, the system comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a course of the straddle type vehicle; a specification unit configured to specify an attention portion to which attention of the driver should be paid in the course acquired by the acquisition unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the driver of the attention portion specified by the specification unit, wherein the specification unit is configured to specify the attention portion based on inclination information indicating an inclination on the course of a reference vehicle that has previously traveled on the course, and specify the attention portion based on a difference in a travel route on the course between the straddle type vehicle and a four-wheeled vehicle as the reference vehicles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermosetting resin composition characterized by comprising a bismaleimide compound and a triazine compound having a diaminotriazine structure.

Abstract: A wireless communication device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wireless communicator and a controller. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly communicate with an additional wireless communicator. The wireless communicator has a first mode in which the wireless communicator operates under a first power consumption and a second mode in which the wireless communicator operates under a second power consumption which is lower than the first power consumption. The controller is configured to detect a change in a state of at least one switch. The controller is configured to set the wireless communicator with the first mode if the controller detects the change in the state of the at least one switch as the wireless communicator is in the second mode.

Abstract: A quartz glass provides an opaque quartz glass having high light-shielding property, excellent mechanical strength and excellent cleaning resistance against hydrofluoric acid. By setting the maximum width of the amorphous bubbles existing in the opaque quartz glass to an average of 3 to 15 ?m and the density to 2.15 g/cm3 or more, the mechanical strength after baking and the cleaning resistance by hydrofluoric acid are improved. The opaque quartz glass has a whiteness at a thickness of 10 mm of 75 to 90%, the reflectance of light with a wavelength of 0.24 to 2.6 ?m at a thickness of 4 mm is 60 to 85%, and the bending strength after baking is 95 MPa. In addition, a foaming agent may be mixed in the opaque quartz glass. An opaque quartz glass having cleaning resistance against acid can be obtained.

Abstract: A quartz glass provides an opaque quartz glass having high light-shielding property, excellent mechanical strength and excellent cleaning resistance against hydrofluoric acid. By setting the maximum width of the amorphous bubbles existing in the opaque quartz glass to an average of 3 to 15 ?m and the density to 2.15 g/cm3 or more, the mechanical strength after baking and the cleaning resistance by hydrofluoric acid are improved. The opaque quartz glass has a whiteness at a thickness of 10 mm of 75 to 90%, the reflectance of light with a wavelength of 0.24 to 2.6 ?m at a thickness of 4 mm is 60 to 85%, and the bending strength after baking is 95 MPa. In addition, a foaming agent may be mixed in the opaque quartz glass. An opaque quartz glass having cleaning resistance against acid can be obtained.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon fiber which exhibits excellent strength development rate when used in a composite material. The present invention that solves the problems is a carbon fiber which simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (1) and (2): Lc/d?3??(1) TS×d×Lc>6.0×105??(2) wherein: Lc is an X-ray crystallite size (?), d is a filament diameter (?m), and TS is a strand tensile strength (MPa).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon fiber which exhibits excellent strength development rate when used in a composite material. The present invention that solves the problems is a carbon fiber which simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (1) and (2): Lc/d?3??(1) TS×d×Lc>6.0×105??(2) wherein: Lc is an X-ray crystallite size (?), d is a filament diameter (?m), and TS is a strand tensile strength (MPa).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon fiber which exhibits excellent strength development rate when used in a composite material. The present invention that solves the problems is a carbon fiber which simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (1) and (2): Lc/d?3??(1) TS×d×Lc>6.0×105??(2) wherein: Lc is an X-ray crystallite size (?), d is a filament diameter (?m), and TS is a strand tensile strength (MPa).

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a weed control method and a mixed agrochemical composition for soil treatment, which, in a soil treatment of farmland with pyroxasulfone, not only can inhibit or reduce crop injury caused by absorption into cultivated crops, without being influenced by heavy rainfall, soil type, seeding depth and the like, but also are effective against a wide range of weed species. The weed control method includes a soil treatment step of performing a soil treatment on farmland with an agrochemical composition for soil treatment, which contains pyroxasulfone, and with a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor, simultaneously or sequentially, the method being characterized in that the agrochemical composition for soil treatment further contains a masking substance that masks the pyroxasulfone, and the pyroxasulfone is microencapsulated in or coated with the masking substance.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing: an agrochemical composition for soil treatment which, in a soil treatment of farmland with pyroxasulfone, not only can inhibit or reduce crop injury caused by absorption into cultivated crops, without being influenced by heavy rainfall, soil type, seeding depth and the like, but also is highly safe and has a broad herbicidal spectrum; and a pest control method using the agrochemical composition. The agrochemical composition for soil treatment contains pyroxasulfone and a masking substance that masks the pyroxasulfone, in which the pyroxasulfone is microencapsulated in or coated with the masking substance.

Abstract: A circuit board being able to easily ensure flatness of solder placed on a substrate for bonding an electronic component and improve bonding reliability of the electronic component by the solder, includes: a substrate having a plurality of layers made of a conductive material; a land provided on a first layer arranged on one side of the substrate, to which the electronic component is soldered; a heat sink provided on a different layer arranged on the substrate; a via hole provided on the substrate from a part of the land over to a part of the heat sink and electrically connected to the land and the heat sink; and an insulating resist disposed on the land and surrounding the entire circumference of the via hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermosetting resin composition characterized by comprising a bismaleimide compound and a triazine compound having a diaminotriazine structure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a large sized opaque quartz glass ingot having excellent heat ray shielding and light blocking properties without using a foaming agent. The obtained opaque quartz glass has small diameter spherical bubbles and a preferable mechanical strength. Silica powder is dispersed in water to form a slurry having a silica powder concentration of 45 to 75 wt % and the average particle size of the silica powder is adjusted to 8 ?m or less and the standard deviation of the particle size is adjusted to 6 ?m or more by wet pulverization. The slurry is sprayed for forming granules of the silica powder. An opaque quartz glass ingot with a small bubble diameter and high mechanical strength is obtained by melting the granulated silica powder.

Abstract: A prepreg consisting cf a fiber reinforcement material and a resin composition containing a bismaleimide resin is molded through a first heating step in which the prepreg is held at a temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a temperature at which the resin composition exhibits a viscosity of 100 (Pa·s) and equal to or lower than a temperature at which the resin composition exhibits the minimum viscosity for 30 minutes or more, followed by being held at a temperature equal to or higher than a curing temperature of the bismaleimide resin.