Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a consumable accommodates printing material and is mounted in a main casing. The consumable includes a consumable memory. A controller performs a restriction process to rewrite the first status information to indicate the used product to prohibit the consumable from being used in other image forming apparatuses in a case where first status information stored in the one of the consumable memory and a main memory indicates the new product. The controller performs an updating process to update the second status information so that the second status information indicates that the consumable can be temporarily used in the another image forming apparatus in a case where the controller receives a contract cancellation instruction. The contract cancellation instruction instructs to cancel an agreement concluded for the image forming apparatus.

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: An organic device comprising a pixel region in which pixels are arranged, a peripheral region including a pad electrode, and a sealing layer arranged to cover the pixel and peripheral regions, is provided. In the peripheral region, an opening of the sealing layer is formed. The opening comprises a first portion extending from a plane defined by an upper surface of the sealing layer towards the pad electrode, and a second portion which has an outer edge inside outer edges of the first portion and the pad electrode and opens from a lower end of the first portion to the pad electrode. A conductive particle for electrical connection to an electrode is arranged on the pad electrode, and a diameter of the conductive particle is larger than a height of the second portion.

Abstract: An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter transmit an optical signal; an optical receiver to extract a monitoring control signal from an optical signal, the monitoring control signal including first and second frames having the respective headers, and being separated in time; and a processing part to generate a bit stream from the monitoring control signal; generate a first byte stream from the bit stream; extract monitoring control data from a byte stream subsequent to the first byte stream, if the first byte stream is equal to the first header; generate a second byte stream from the bit stream if the first byte stream is different from the first header, the second byte stream having the same length as the second header; and extract the monitoring control data from a byte stream subsequent to the second byte stream if the second byte stream is equal to the second header.

Abstract: A substrate transport device includes an arm, an end effector coupled to the arm, a driver configured to lift the arm so that the end effector receives a substrate, and a controller configured to control an output of the driver to set a lifting speed of the arm. A difference in height between the end effector and the arm is a position difference. A period from when the end effector contacts the substrate until the end effector completes reception of the substrate is a transition period. The controller sets an upper limit value of the lifting speed that decreases an amplitude of one of acceleration or jerk of the position difference in the transition period as compared to before the transition period to an upper limit value of the lifting speed for the transition period.

Abstract: Provided is a battery module that prevents a new current path that may be formed due to molten metal resulting from a molten and cut fuse, and has better safety than conventional battery modules. A battery module includes: module terminals; a battery cell group including a plurality of battery cells; and a plurality of bus bars connecting the plurality of battery cells of this battery cell group and connecting this battery cell group with the module terminals. At least one of the plurality of bus bars has a fuse. The battery module has a space that is located below the fuse and that allows the molten fuse to fall.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of circumferential main grooves, a plurality of center lug grooves, and center blocks. The pair of circumferential main grooves are disposed on both sides of a tire equatorial plane in a tire lateral direction. The tire equatorial plane is interposed between the pair of circumferential main grooves. The pair of circumferential main grooves extend in a tire circumferential direction and oscillate in the tire lateral direction. The plurality of center lug grooves have both ends connected to the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center blocks are defined by the center lug grooves and the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center lug grooves have bent portions at two or more positions. The center blocks include center narrow grooves having both ends connected to the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center narrow groove has bent portions at two or more positions.

Abstract: There is provided an image reading device in which a controller is configured to perform detecting, by executing an edge detection process, edge pixels from image data scanned by a reading device and stored in a storage, the edge pixels being pixels obtained by reading an edge of an original document. Then, it is determined whether a sequence of the detected edge pixels in a particular direction is interrupted. When interrupted, an expansion process is executed to increase the edge pixels in a particular range in a neighborhood of the detected edge pixels of the image data. Then, a particular process is performed on the image data using the edge pixels detected from the image data after the edge pixels are increased.

Abstract: In order to continuously acquire positional information of a moving body without losing sight of a target provided to the moving body, a moving body control system 1 a includes a moving body 100a with a target 100a, a positional information transmission apparatus 200 transmitting positional information of the target 100a on the basis of tracking the target 100a, a collimation possibility determining unit 109 determining, on the basis of an inclination of the moving body 100 predicted depending on a movement control instruction for moving the moving body 100, whether or not an incident angle at which a straight line connecting the positional information transmission apparatus 200 and the target 100a enters the target 100a falls within a prescribed range, and a control instruction changing unit 111 changing the movement control instruction based on the result of the determination.

Abstract: A video acquisition unit acquires a video from an imaging unit provided in a vehicle to capture a scene around the vehicle. A display unit is provided in the vehicle to display the video captured by the imaging unit. A control unit switches, when it is predicted that a passenger of the vehicle will leave the vehicle, a mode of the display system to a mode in which visibility for the passenger is improved.

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: A steering system includes a steered shaft, a ball screw nut, balls, a housing, a rolling bearing, and a snap ring configured to prevent the rolling bearing from detaching from the ball screw nut. The rolling bearing includes double-row rolling element arrays, an outer ring, a first inner ring, and a second inner ring. The ball screw nut has a receiving portion. The snap ring contacts a side face of the second inner ring to push the second inner ring toward the receiving portion via the first inner ring. A resistance force received from the second outer peripheral fitting surface when the second inner ring moves in the axial direction in a state in which detachment of the rolling bearing is not prevented by the snap ring is smaller than a pushing force with which the snap ring pushes the second inner ring.

Abstract: A wire harness support member supports a wire harness including a plurality of electrical wires on an attaching target member. The wire harness support member includes: a base attached to the attaching target member while surrounding at least a part of a periphery of the attaching target member; and at least one electrical wire holding member which can be position-adjustably fixed to the base around the attaching target member while holding at least some of the plurality of electrical wires.

Abstract: The wire harness protector includes: electrical wiring insertion parts in which electrical wirings constituting a wire harness are divided and housed, wherein electrical wiring insertion parts are arranged in parallel, at least one side of an arrangement direction of electrical wiring insertion parts is a branch direction of the electrical wirings, at least one branch electrical wiring window is provided in each of the electrical wiring insertion parts except for one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction to extending in a longitudinal direction and be opened in both side surfaces, into which branch electrical wirings made up of a part of the electrical wirings can be inserted, and the branch electrical wiring insertion window is provided in at least a side surface on a side of the branch direction of one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction.

Abstract: An apparatus to be controlled (40) is remotely controlled by a remote-control apparatus (10) through a wirelessly-connected communication network (20). The apparatuses (40) includes a delay measurement unit (403) configured to measure a communication delay, a logarithmic conversion unit (406A) configured to logarithmically convert the communication delay, a smoothing unit (406B) configured to smooth the communication delay, a radio-wave index value measurement unit (404) configured to measure a radio-wave index value, a model learning unit (406C) configured to generate a learning model, a communication delay estimation unit (407) configured to calculate an estimated communication delay value by using the learning model and the radio-wave index value, and a speed determination unit (408A) configured to calculate a second operation amount to be input to a drive unit (408B), based on the estimated communication delay value and a first operation amount input from the remote control apparatus (10).

Abstract: A separator includes a base including projections. The base is made of a metal plate. The separator includes a conductive layer arranged on a top surface of each of the projections of the base. The conductive layer includes conductive carbon materials, conductive particles, and a thermosetting resin. The conductive carbon materials and the conductive particles are dispersed in the resin and are in contact with each other over an entirety of the conductive layer in a thickness direction of the conductive layer.

Abstract: There is provided a transport control method including receiving, from a control apparatus, first control information for transporting an object; and transmitting, from a first transport apparatus to a second transport apparatus, second control information for the first transport apparatus and the second transport apparatus to cooperate to transport the object according to the first control information.

Abstract: A state detection apparatus includes a communication circuit that transmits information to an external apparatus, a control circuit that operates the communication circuit at a first timing, a battery that supplies electric power to the communication and control circuits, and a first explosion-proof barrier connected between a contact circuit and the control circuit. The control circuit applies a test signal, generated based on voltage from the battery, to the contact circuit at a second timing arriving at shorter intervals than the first timing, acquires a detection signal indicating current flow in the contact circuit due to test signal application, and regardless of the first timing, operates the communication circuit when the detection signal is acquired to transmit to the external apparatus that the state of a device connected to the contact circuit is abnormal.

Abstract: A photodetector includes: an upper case including a light receiving portion on an upper surface and a side portion extending downward from the light receiving portion; a printed circuit board facing the light receiving portion; and a lower case including a support portion configured to support the printed circuit board, an opening on one side surface and configured to allow a connector to be inserted therethrough, and a hook on another side surface. The lower case is fitted to the upper case such that at least the printed circuit board and the support portion are surrounded. The upper case has a cut portion configured to prevent interference with the hook when being attached. At least part of the side portion adjacent to the cut portion and on a side of the opening extends up to a lower side of the opening.

Abstract: A photodetector including: a case including a light receiving surface provided on an upper surface and having a first region that transmits visible light and a second region that transmits less visible light than the first region; a printed circuit board provided to face the light receiving surface; and a plurality of electronic components provided on a light receiving surface side of the printed circuit board and including a first light receiving element configured to detect visible light. The first light receiving element is disposed at a first position of the printed circuit board exposed to the visible light transmitted through the first region. The number of mounted electronic components disposed at the first position is smaller than the number of mounted electronic components disposed at a second position of the printed circuit board other than the first position.