Abstract: A program verification system includes a PLC that calculates control output data corresponding to control input data by using a control program for controlling an apparatus to be controlled, and outputs the control output data to an input/output device, and a collation unit that performs operation verification of the control program by collating test output data included in a test pattern, which is a combination of test input data and the test output data satisfying operation specifications of the apparatus to be controlled and indicates a temporal change, with the control output data calculated by the PLC, and the PLC includes a control unit that, when operation verification of the control program is performed, if there is an instruction to refer to the control input data in the control program, generates first time information in the PLC, extracts the test input data corresponding to the first time information from the test pattern, and calculates control output data by using the extracted test input data a

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a placing table having a placing surface on which a workpiece is placed to be subjected to a plasma processing; an elevator configured to raise and lower the workpiece with respect to the placing surface of the placing table; and an elevator controller configured to control the elevator, during a period until a transfer of the workpiece begins after a completion of the plasma processing on the workpiece, to hold the workpiece at a position where the placing surface of the placing table and the workpiece are spaced apart from each other by a distance that prevents an intrusion of a reaction product, and control the elevator, when the transfer of the workpiece begins, to raise the workpiece from the position where the workpiece is held.

Abstract: The presence or absence of touch is detected according to a difference of a capacitance caused by the presence or absence of a material that blocks the electric field formed between the detection electrode and the common electrode. The common electrode includes a plurality of divided electrode portions that is extended in a lateral direction and aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction. Each of the plurality of common lines is electrically connected to at least one of the divided electrode portions. The plurality of common lines is arranged in an area next to the common electrode in the lateral direction of the common electrode, arranged next to each other in a width direction orthogonal to a length thereof, is different in width from each other, and the width of the common lines is wider as the length is longer.

Abstract: A separator assembly for a fuel cell includes a first separator, a second separator, and a joined portion. In the joined portion, the first separator and the second separator are joined to each other through laser welding. The first separator includes a first surface that is intended to be opposed to the membrane electrode assembly. The first surface of the first separator includes an exposed portion where the base of the first separator is exposed. The second separator includes a second surface that is intended to be opposed to the membrane electrode assembly. A film including conductive particles is arranged on the entire second surface of the second separator. The joined portion is formed by irradiating the exposed portion of the first separator with laser.

Abstract: A plasma processing method includes: plasma-processing a substrate placed on a surface of a placement table while causing a coolant of 0° C. or lower to flow through a coolant flow path formed inside the table; placing a dummy substrate on the surface of the placement table in place of the substrate; and removing a reaction product generated due to the plasma processing of the substrate by the plasma of the processing gas from a peripheral edge portion of the surface of the placement table while heating the surface of placement table by the plasma of the processing gas via the dummy substrate in a state where the dummy substrate is placed on the surface of the placement table.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means for improving peeling durability of a tubular article to be produced and properties thereof at the time of use while having high productivity in a method for producing a tubular article. The present invention relates to the method for producing a tubular article including: continuously coating at least two coating solutions for forming a polyimide resin layer to form a stacked coating film, the two coating solutions each including a solvent-soluble polyimide; and a solvent having a vapor pressure at 25° C. of 10 kPa or more and 19 kPa or less.

Abstract: A speech processing device includes at least one memory configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: store one or more acoustic models; calculate an acoustic feature from a received speech signal, and by using the acoustic feature calculated and the acoustic model stored, calculate an acoustic diversity that is a vector representing a degree of variations of types of sounds; by using the calculated acoustic diversity and a selection coefficient, calculate a weighted acoustic diversity, and by using the weighted acoustic diversity calculated and the acoustic feature, calculate a recognition feature for recognizing identity of a speaker that concerns the speech signal; and calculate a feature vector by using the recognition feature calculated.

Abstract: A mounting structure is provided which includes: a holding member provided on a mounting surface on a side of a vehicle body; and a held member provided on a casing, at least partially configured of an elastic body, and configured to be held by the holding member. The held member is mounted in a state of pressing the elastic member due to elastic force (indicated by a dotted arrow) of the elastic body.

Abstract: A multi-display control apparatus includes a processor for an information handling device and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect a trigger event and, in response to detecting the trigger event, temporarily stopping display of content on a first display device in which the first display device is external to a second display device of a computing device storing the content.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a power supply; a first interface; a first controller configured to control communication with the external device via the first interface, the communication including communication relating to image data and communication relating to power exchange to and from the external device; a second controller configured to control power fed from the power supply to the external device connected to the first interface, based on information obtained by the communication relating to power exchange to and from the external device; and a first path switch configured to: form a first communication path connecting the first controller and the first interface in a first power mode; and form a second communication path connecting the second controller and the first interface without via the first controller in a second power mode.

Abstract: A computer system includes a plurality of processing nodes constituting a blockchain network and a connection apparatus connecting to the blockchain network. The processing node holds information. The connection apparatus includes a connection processing unit that transmits a transaction to the processing node. The connection processing unit includes an encryption processing unit that generates searchable ciphertext from a keyword based on a probabilistic encryption method. The encryption processing unit generates, from the keyword, the searchable ciphertext to be used as an address indicating a transmission source or a transmission destination of the transaction, and generates the transaction including the searchable ciphertext.

Abstract: A display device with a variant-shape display region other than the rectangular display region is configured to form a scanning line drive circuit, along the variant-shape display region. The scanning line drive circuit includes bus wiring group with clock wiring for supplying clocks with three or more phases and the power supply wring for supplying power, and the unit circuits for configuring the shift register including five or more transistors. The bus wiring and the unit circuits are formed on the different regions so as not to cross with one another.

Abstract: To enable size reduction of a display device having a touch sensor function in which a display area has a non-rectangular shape. In a display area, video lines and common electrodes extend in the first direction, and scan lines extend in the second direction. A video signal transmission circuit and a common driver are arranged along a first edge of the display area, with which the one ends of the video lines are aligned. A scan line driver is arranged along a second edge of the display area, with which the ends of the scan lines and the common electrodes are aligned. The display area has a shape including an overlapping part between the first edge and the second edge. In a frame area adjacent to the overlapping part, the scan line driver is arranged more outward than the video signal transmission circuit and switch circuits.

Abstract: A vacuum processing apparatus having a small installation area is provided. A lifting plate is arranges inside a vacuum chamber, and a substrate holding device is arranged on the lifting plate to be able to be lifted up and down. An upper side processing device and a lower side processing device are provided in a processing region located beside a lifting region where the lifting plate moves up and down. An upper side moving device and a lower side moving device make the substrate holding device pass through the processing region, and a transfer device transfers the substrate holding device between the upper side moving device or the lower side moving device and the lifting plate. Because vacuum processing can be performed on the upper side and the lower side, the installation area of the vacuum processing apparatus is small.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes, in a tread portion, a belt layer including a circumferential belt layer with a belt cord disposed along a circumferential direction; and belt plies having a larger lateral direction dimension than a lateral direction dimension of the circumferential belt layer. A gauge from a surface of the tread portion to the belt layer is equal on a vehicle outer side and a vehicle inner side where the circumferential belt layer is disposed. At positions located away from a tire equatorial plane toward the vehicle outer side and the vehicle inner side by 120% of half of the lateral direction dimension of the circumferential belt layer, a gauge H1out on the vehicle outer side and a gauge H1in on the vehicle inner side to a belt ply of the belt plies located outermost in a radial direction satisfy 1 mm?H1in?H1out?3 mm.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an intermediate transfer belt having at least a base layer and a surface layer formed in contact with a surface of the base layer, includes: irradiating a surface of the base layer with a laser such that Rz (in accordance with JIS-B0601-2001) is 0.2 ?m or more and equal to or less than a half of a film thickness of a surface layer to be formed; and forming a surface layer on the surface of the base layer irradiated with the laser.

Abstract: The presence or absence of touch is detected according to a difference of a capacitance caused by the presence or absence of a material that blocks the electric field formed between the detection electrode and the common electrode. The common electrode includes a plurality of divided electrode portions that is extended in a lateral direction and aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction. Each of the plurality of common lines is electrically connected to at least one of the divided electrode portions. The plurality of common lines is arranged in an area next to the common electrode in the lateral direction of the common electrode, arranged next to each other in a width direction orthogonal to a length thereof, is different in width from each other, and the width of the common lines is wider as the length is longer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having an outer shape of a display region formed other than a rectangle. A driver for supplying a video signal is disposed outside the display region. A selector with selector TFT is disposed between the display region and the driver. A video signal line is disposed between the driver and the selector, and a drain line is disposed between the selector and the display region. A scanning circuit for supplying a scanning signal to the scanning line is disposed outside the display region. The selector is disposed between the scanning line and the display region, and covered with ITO as the common electrode. The common bus wiring is disposed outside the selector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink that exhibits excellent ejection properties, and can be prevented from suffering from reduction in a dot size of the ink during a drying step thereof even when printed on a low-water absorbing recording medium, and is capable of obtaining printed characters or images having excellent uniformity, as well as an ink-jet printing method using the water-based ink. The water-based ink includes a pigment, a water-insoluble polymer, an acetylene glycol-based nonionic surfactant (A) having HLB of not less than 0 and not more than 5, a nonionic surfactant (B) having HLB of not less than 6 and not more than 20, a polyether-modified silicone (C) having a kinematic viscosity of not less than 30 mm2/s and not more than 190 mm2/s as measured at 25° C. and an organic solvent (D), in which a weighted mean value of a boiling point of the organic solvent (D) is not lower than 150° C. and not higher than 230° C.

Abstract: To enable size reduction of a display device having a touch sensor function in which a display area has a non-rectangular shape. In a display area, video lines and common electrodes extend in the first direction, and scan lines extend in the second direction. A video signal transmission circuit and a common driver are arranged along a first edge of the display area, with which the one ends of the video lines are aligned. A scan line driver is arranged along a second edge of the display area, with which the ends of the scan lines and the common electrodes are aligned. The display area has a shape including an overlapping part between the first edge and the second edge. In a frame area adjacent to the overlapping part, the scan line driver is arranged more outward than the video signal transmission circuit and switch circuits.