Abstract: An electric connector includes: a housing having a plate-shaped body; multiple terminals held on the plate-shaped body; and a metal shell surrounding the plate-shaped body and the terminals and having a tubular shape, the shell has: a fitting port in which a partner connector is to be fitted; two or more side walls provided along a partner connector fitting direction; a coupling portion coupling adjacent ones of the two or more side walls; and a first branched band-shaped piece provided closer to a fitting port side than the coupling portion is to the fitting port side, the first branched band-shaped piece is bent about an axis along the fitting direction from one of the adjacent ones of the two or more side walls, and extends toward another one of the adjacent ones of the two or more side walls, and an edge of the first branched band-shaped piece opposite to the coupling portion forms part of the fitting port.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a scope including an imaging unit provided at a distal end of an insertion section to be inserted into an observation object, and a main body including a light source unit configured to emit illumination light that illuminates the observation object through the scope. The light source unit is configured to emit first narrow band light selected based on an absorption spectrum of a first characteristic substance, and second narrow band light selected based on an absorption spectrum of a second characteristic substance. The main body includes an image processing circuit configured to process image information acquired by the imaging unit. The endoscope apparatus also includes a display configured to display image information processed by the image processing circuit.

Abstract: Provided is at least one of a zirconia sintered body and a method for producing the same. The zirconia sintered body can be used in a wide range of applications compared with ceramic joined bodies of the related art that include transparent zirconia. A zirconia sintered body includes a transparent zirconia portion and an opaque zirconia portion, wherein the zirconia sintered body has a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to 300 MPa.

Abstract: A system includes: a piping with a working gas encapsulated therein and a prime mover and load incorporated in the piping. The prime mover includes a prime mover-side heat accumulator and heat exchangers connected to opposite end portions of the heat accumulator. The load includes a load-side heat accumulator and heat exchangers connected to opposite end portions of the heat accumulator. The piping includes a looped piping portion having a looped shape and a branch piping portion branching from a branching point p in the looped piping portion, and the prime mover is incorporated in the branch piping portion and load is incorporated in the looped piping portion. A blocking film is inserted at a position in a vicinity of the branching point p. Consequently, a thermoacoustic temperature control system that enables enhancement in durability of a blocking film inserted in a part of a looped piping portion is provided.

Abstract: A control system includes an outboard motor, a sway sensor, and a controller. The outboard motor includes a power source and a propeller shaft. The power source includes a rotating shaft. The propeller shaft is connected to the rotating shaft. The sway sensor outputs a signal indicative of the sway of the boat. The controller is communicatively connected to the sway sensor. The controller receives the signal indicative of the sway of the boat. The controller controls at least one of a moment of inertia of the rotating shaft around the rotating shaft, a rotation speed of the rotating shaft, or a tilt angle of the rotating shaft according to the sway of the boat to generate an inertial force against the sway of the boat.

Abstract: Provided is a radiation sterilization resistant adhesive agent layer capable of reducing or preventing a decrease in wettability of an adhesive after radiation sterilization treatment. The adhesive can be used with a medical implement, for example medical implements that are sterilized. The adhesive agent layer includes a (meth)acrylic polymer and a wettability stabilizer, and the wettability stabilizer is at least one selected from a rosin ester resin, a terpene phenol resin, and hydrides thereof.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet conveying device includes a placement tray, a presence detection sensor, and a control unit. The placement tray places a sheet thereon. The presence detection sensor detects the presence or absence of the sheet on the placement tray. The control unit delays a determination timing of the presence or absence of the sheet placed on the placement tray to a predetermined timing when a condition indicating that the remaining sheets placed on the placement tray are only a few is satisfied.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism, a scanner, a buffer memory, a passage sensor, and a controller. The conveyance mechanism conveys a document along a conveyance path. The scanner reads an image on the document at a reading position along the conveyance path and generates image signals corresponding to the image that is read. The buffer memory stores image data corresponding to the image signals. The passage sensor is on the conveyance path upstream of the reading position. The controller determines whether to output the image data from the buffer memory after a sheet passage prediction time elapses based on the length of time required during a normal operation for the trailing edge of the document to reach the reading position.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes an electrode group comprising a separator, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, and the positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material including a base particle comprising a nickel hydroxide particle containing Mn in solid solution and a conductive layer comprising a Co compound and covering the surface of the base particle, wherein the X-ray absorption edge energy of Mn detected within 6500 to 6600 eV by measurement with an XAFS method is 6548 eV or higher.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a transfer region communicating with a process chamber where substrates are processed; a first shelf region installed above the transfer region and having a first shelf storing transfer vessels accommodating the substrates; a second shelf region installed below a stage part where the vessels to be transferred to and from an external device are loaded, and having a second shelf stacking and storing the transfer vessels; and a transfer vessel transfer robot installed inside a housing accommodating the transfer region, the first shelf region and the second shelf region and transferring the vessels to and from the stage part, the first shelf, the second shelf, and the transfer region. The transfer vessel transfer robot includes: a main body base part; a first table part; a first driving part; a second table part; a second driving part; and a vessel support part.

Abstract: The safe operation assistance device 200 includes: a connecting destination detecting section 259 that detects and manages a connection state between the safe operation assistance device 200 and a connecting destination device; a unique information setting section 251 that sets unique information identifying a vehicle type of an own vehicle according to the connecting destination device; a positional information acquisition section 257 that acquires positional information of the own vehicle; an own vehicle information management section 252 that manages the positional information and the unique information of the own vehicle; an inter-vehicle communication section 255 that transmits the own vehicle information to other vehicle and acquires other vehicle information; and a risk determination section 254 that determines presence or absence of a collision risk between the own vehicle and the other vehicle using the own vehicle information and the other vehicle information.

Abstract: A film for a microfluidic device is capable of bonding to a polydimethylsiloxane substrate having flow channels formed in a surface thereof, and also exhibiting stable hydrophilicity even under high temperature and high humidity conditions and having scratch resistance. When the film can be used as a microfluidic device, the film is bonded to a polydimethylsiloxane substrate having flow channels formed in a surface thereof to form a liquid-tight flow channels. The film including a base material and a hydrophilic coating, wherein the hydrophilic coating includes a (meth)acrylic resin and from 65 to 95 mass % of unmodified nanosilica particles based on a total mass of the hydrophilic coating.

Abstract: A position detecting device includes an IC package, a first terminal line, a ground terminal line, a power supply terminal line, a second terminal line, a bypass terminal line, motor terminal lines, and a connector portion. A bypass terminal line is positioned on an opposite side of the ground terminal line across the first terminal line or the second terminal line and is connected to a bypass portion of the ground terminal line which connects to the ground connection portion. In the connector portion, the motor terminal line, the bypass terminal line, the second terminal line, the power supply terminal line, and the first terminal line are placed in this order.

Abstract: A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.

Abstract: A sintered body includes a solid solution containing cobalt and iron, with the balance being zirconia. The total content of cobalt in terms of CoO and iron in terms of Fe2O3 is more than 0.1 wt % and less than 3.0 wt %, and the proportion of cobalt regions larger than 5.5 ?m2 in an elemental map obtained using an electron probe microanalyzer is 25% or less.

Abstract: An endoscope light source device includes a light source device and a light source controller. A first light and a second light are narrow band light in a blue region. A third light is in a green region. A fourth light is in a red region. A first light amount ratio is a ratio of a sum of the light amounts of the first light and the second light, the light amount of the third light, and the light amount of the fourth light. A second light amount ratio is a light amount ratio of the first light and the second light. The light source controller adjusts the light amount ratio of the first light and the second light to achieve the second light amount ratio so as to adjust the color representation from a yellow region to a red region in an image of an object.

Abstract: An endoscope illumination light switching device includes a rotation body in which a plurality of holes including a first hole are formed in a circumferential direction and that switches a hole on an irradiation optical path through rotation, a drive device configured to rotationally drive the rotation body, a sensor, and a processor configured to control a stop position of the rotation body based on a detection signal from the sensor. The rotation body includes a first detection target shape portion corresponding to the first hole, and another detection target shape portion. The sensor outputs a detection signal in response to detection of each shape portion when the rotation body rotates.

Abstract: A light source device includes a semiconductor light source that radiates light at a light quantity according to an applied current, a circuit that determines a current instruction value based on control information, first and second drive units, each of the units that is connected to the semiconductor light source and the circuit, and is capable of outputting, to the semiconductor light source, a current having magnitude corresponding to the current instruction value. The control information is set based on brightness of an image captured by an imaging element. When one of the first and second drive units is switched to the other, the circuit causes the other to start the current output after an elapse of a predetermined stop time period having a length at a predetermined ratio or less to a frame rate on the imaging element since a stop of the current output from the one.

Abstract: A rotation angle sensor includes a sensor integrated circuit attached to an attachment member. The attachment member includes a connecting terminal protruding upward from an attachment surface and a guide protruding upward from the attachment surface and positions, together with the connecting terminal, the sensor integrated circuit at an attachment position. The sensor integrated circuit includes a lead frame on which an electronic circuit is mounted and an exterior covering the electronic circuit. The lead frame includes a lead and an extending portion located in an outer periphery of the exterior. At least one of the lead and the extending portion has an elastic structure. The sensor integrated circuit is attached to the attachment member by an elastic force of the elastic structure that biases the extending portion against the guide and that joins the lead to the connecting terminal.

Abstract: A steering control apparatus for a marine vessel that is able to automatically reduce chine walk includes a processor to obtain behavior information on a hull, including one or more of a behavior relating to a shift of the hull in a roll direction, a shift of the hull in a yaw direction, a shift of the hull in crosswise direction, a steering load, and a helm operation load. When judging that one or more conditions to change a steering mode to a counter steering mode are satisfied, the processor changes the steering mode to the counter steering mode. In the counter steering mode, the processor controls steering of the marine vessel by performing counter steering so as to reduce at least some of one or more of the behaviors of the hull based on the obtained behavior information.