Abstract: According to an embodiment, a fuel cell includes: a cell staked body 10 including a plurality of single unit fuel cells stacked one on another; a collecting plate 20 located on the cell stacked body 10 in a stacking direction; an insulating plate 30 located on the collecting plate 20; and a tightening structure 40 located on the insulating plate 30 and configured to hold the collecting plate 20 and the insulating plate 30 on the cell stacked body 10 by being tightened toward the cell stacked body 10. The tightening structure 40 includes a first tightening plate 41 including a planar portion in surface contact with the insulating plate 30, and a second tightening plate 42 located on the first tightening plate 41 and configured to press the first tightening plate 41 against the insulating plate 30 by being tightened toward the cell stacked body 10.

Abstract: A dam region that blocks an outflow of a resin from a chip mounting region suppresses an influence of incident light. A solid-state imaging element is provided with a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, and a chip mounting region in which a chip is mounted. Furthermore, a dam region that blocks an outflow of a resin from the chip mounting region is arranged around the chip mounting region. Furthermore, the dam region has a saw-tooth shape toward an outer side at least partially. Furthermore, incident light is repeatedly reflected by the saw-tooth shape of the dam region to be absorbed and attenuated.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a feeding roller that feeds a recording medium, a transport roller that transports the recording medium toward a recording head, and a transport motor which is a common driving source for the feeding roller and the transport roller. The medium transport device includes a power transmission mechanism that transmits power of the transport motor to the feeding roller, and a control section that controls a current of the transport motor. The control section measures a current value flowing through the transport motor during driving as a measured current value, and adds a predetermined offset value to the measured current value to set a second limit value as a limit value of the current supplied to the transport motor.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: A device includes an elastic base, a device body provided on the base, a wiring line provided on the base, a coupling member coupled to the wiring line, and an electrically conductive adhesive layer provided between the wiring line and the coupling member. The wiring line extends from the electrically conductive adhesive layer to the device body. The wiring line has a wiring portion overlapping with the electrically conductive adhesive layer. The degree of polymerization of the electrically conductive adhesive layer decreases in the extending direction of the wiring portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a polytetrafluoroethylene powder, which includes applying an ultrasonic wave to a polytetrafluoroethylene aqueous dispersion containing polytetrafluoroethylene particles to coagulate the polytetrafluoroethylene particles.

Abstract: A method for producing low molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene having a melt viscosity at 380° C. of 1.0×102 to 7.0×105 Pa·s. The method includes: (1) irradiating high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene with radiation in the presence of a substance capable of generating a free hydrogen atom and decomposing the high molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene into a low molecular weight component; and (2) deactivating at least part of main-chain radicals and end radicals generated by the irradiation and providing the low molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene. Also disclosed is a composition containing the low molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene and a low molecular weight polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: There has been a problem that because in a section where a road forks from a main lane or merges the main lane, the number of lanes increases or decreases, breakage of a lane line and existence of other vehicles hinder the lane line from being read and hence generation of a target course becomes unstable. A course generation apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a prohibition-section determination unit that determines, in the case of forking from a main lane or merging with the main lane, that a present section is an environmental-information-course usage prohibition section, until a time when a vehicle position passes through a forking completion point or a merging completion point, and with a course selection unit that selects an environmental information course or a route-information course in a normal time and selects the route-information course in the environmental-information-course usage prohibition section.

Abstract: A detection unit executes correction control of an image formation condition on a basis of a detection result of reflected light when infrared light is radiated to a test patch, which is transferred from a photosensitive drum to an intermediate transfer belt, and the intermediate transfer belt, wherein the intermediate transfer belt has a base layer which is thickest among a plurality of layers forming the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt and to which an ion conductive agent is added, and an inner surface layer which has a light transmittance lower than that of the base layer.

Abstract: A filter element has a central channel, an inner core, an inner filter member, an outer core, and an outer filter member. The inner core has vent holes formed around a portion facing the central channel. The outer core has a perforated portion having vent holes formed therearound and a non-perforated portion having no vent hole. The region over which the non-perforated portion is formed along the central channel extends from a position above the central position of the central channel in the up-down direction to the upper end of the central channel. The region over which the perforated portion is formed along the central channel extends from the lower end of the non-perforated portion to the lower end of the central channel.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that generates an image to be displayed, based on shape data indicating a shape of an object and surface characteristics data indicating surface characteristics of the object includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the shape data with different resolutions and the surface characteristics data, a setting unit configured to set a display area including at least part of the object, and a generation unit configured to generate the image to be displayed, based on one of the plurality of pieces of shape data according to the display area and the surface characteristics data.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: Through hole filling pastes which include a magnetic powder (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a curing agent (C), in which the magnetic powder (A) is surface-treated with a surface treating agent containing at least one element selected from Si, Al, and Ti, are capable of achieving a cured product excellent in plating adhesion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft?Fdr1.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a feeding roller that feeds a recording medium, a transport roller that transports the recording medium toward a recording head, and a transport motor which is a common driving source for the feeding roller and the transport roller. The medium transport device includes a power transmission mechanism that transmits power of the transport motor to the feeding roller, and a control section that controls a current of the transport motor. The control section measures a current value flowing through the transport motor during driving as a measured current value, and adds a predetermined offset value to the measured current value to set a second limit value as a limit value of the current supplied to the transport motor.