Abstract: Detection accuracy of a rotation angle of a sub-shaft is to be improved. In an absolute encoder according to an embodiment of the present invention, a second worm wheel part is a second driven gear, has a central axis orthogonal to a central axis of a first worm wheel part, and meshes with a second worm gear part. A support shaft rotatably supports the second worm wheel part. A magnet (Mq) rotates integrally with the support shaft. An angle sensor (Sq) is provided near the magnet (Mq) and detects a change in a magnetic flux generated from the magnet (Mq). A first bearing has an outer ring fixed at the second worm wheel part and an inner ring fixed at the support shaft. A second bearing has an inner ring fixed at the support shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission mechanism that enables a reduction in motion transmission error between an input-shaft side and an output-shaft side. A transmission mechanism is provided with a cam, a plurality of pins arranged along a side surface of the cam, guide plates in which a plurality of guide holes are provided, and gears capable of engaging the pins. In conjunction with rotation of the cam, each pin is guided by the corresponding guide hole and moves along the cam and the gears, thereby causing the guide plates or gears to rotate relative to the cam. The plurality of pins are divided into a plurality of groups, and the pins in each group are coupled in series, but are not coupled to the pins in the other groups.

Abstract: A cyclic wavelength band permutation device (31) includes as many wavelength band converters (32a to 32c) as the wavelength bands of optical signals (S1, C1, and L1), and the wavelength band converters are individually connected to the output terminals of corresponding optical amplifiers among a plurality of optical amplifiers (17a to 17c) connected to an optical fiber (16) in an inserted manner. When a wavelength-multiplexed signal beam obtained by multiplexing optical signals in different wavelength bands is multiband-transmitted through an optical fiber while being amplified by the plurality of optical amplifiers, each wavelength band converter performs a cyclic permutation process of transitioning or converting an optical signal allocated to the shorter wavelength band side in the bands of the optical fiber to the longer wavelength band side, and also transitioning or converting an optical signal allocated to the longest wavelength band to the shortest wavelength band.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission mechanism which is suited to miniaturization and can reduce motion transmission errors. This transmission mechanism includes: a cam; a plurality of pins arrayed along a side surface of the cam; guide plates provided with a plurality of guide holes; and a pair of gears disposed so as to sandwich the cam. Each pin contacts only one of the pair of gears, and is guided to the corresponding guide hole in conjunction with the rotation of the cam and moves along the cam and the corresponding gear, thereby causing the guide plates or the pair of gears to rotate with respect to the cam.

Abstract: The influence of a leakage magnetic flux from a magnet on a magnetic sensor configured to detect a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet is reduced. An absolute encoder includes a first magnet provided at a leading end side of a first worm gear part, a first angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the first worm gear part corresponding to a change in a magnetic flux generated from the first magnet, a second magnet provided at a leading end side of a second worm wheel part, a second angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the second worm wheel part corresponding to a change in a magnetic flux generated from the second magnet, and a gear base part configured to surround at least a part of a periphery of the first angle sensor and the second angle sensor.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image including at least one body hair; and an analyzing unit configured to analyze the image to output information indicating an orientation of the at least one body hair included in the image.

Abstract: A wavelength cross-connect device (20A) performs relay processing, the relay processing being such that wavelength multiplexed signal lights (1a to 1m), which are multiband transmitted from a plurality of routes M(1), are demultiplexed into different wavelength bands (S band, C band, and L band), and for each route, respective optical signals of the different wavelength bands (S band, C band, and L band) are amplified, then subject to rout change by WSSs and outputted to output side routes M(2). The device includes C-band WXC units 22 that are the same in total number as the wavelength bands of the optical signals of the respective wavelength bands and perform relay processing on optical signals of a specific wavelength band (C band) of the different wavelength bands.

Abstract: A conveyance robot system according to the present disclosure includes an intrusion detection sensor that detects an intrusion of an object into the arm opening, and a distance sensor that measures a clearance distance indicating a distance between an arm entry/exit surface and a shelf, the arm entry/exit surface being a surface of the conveyance robot in which the arm opening is provided from among surfaces of the conveyance robot 1 constituting the safety cover, and the object being stored in the shelf. The distance sensor is disposed at a fixed height of the shelf in a horizontal direction and at a height of the shelf corresponding to a part to be measured.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins that are spaced from each other and are arranged to divide a heat medium flow passage into a plurality of narrow passages. Each fin incudes a plurality of thick wall portions and a plurality of thin wall portions which are alternately arranged in a passage longitudinal direction. Each adjacent two of the plurality of fins, which are adjacent to each other, are defined as one fine and another fin, and each of the plurality of thick wall portions of the one fin is opposed to an adjacent one of the plurality of thin wall portions of the another fin in a fin arrangement direction, and each of the plurality of thin wall portions of the one fin is opposed to an adjacent one of the plurality of thick wall portions of the another fin in the fin arrangement direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a memory array arranged in a matrix, a plurality of word lines provided corresponding to memory cell rows, a word driver for driving one of the plurality of word lines, a plurality of row select lines connected to the word driver, and a row decoder for outputting a row select signal to the plurality of row select lines based on input row address information. According to the embodiment, the semiconductor device can detect a failure of the address decoder in a simple method.

Abstract: An imaging element includes: a pixel board including a light receiver including plural pixels, each pixel being configured to generate an imaging signal; a circuit board including a functional circuit, the pixel board being layered on the circuit board; plural wiring portions configured to electrically connect the pixel board and the circuit board to each other and electrically transmit signals between respective layers; a terminal provided on the circuit board, the terminal being electrically connected to each of the plural wiring portions, the terminal being configured to output the imaging signal to an outside of the terminal or receive an external signal from the outside of the terminal; and a switch configured to output, by selective switching, at least one of the imaging signal and an internal signal generated at the circuit board, to the terminal.

Abstract: A tube container with a reduced resin usage amount compared to the prior art, and having the stiffness necessary for self-support of the container is provided. The tube container includes a tube-like body portion that is closed at one end and a spout portion mounted at the other end of the body portion, and the body portion is formed by a material composed mainly of paper.

Abstract: Provided a polymerizable compound represented by the following Formula A-1 or Formula A-2: In Formula A-1 or Formula A-2, R1 represents an electron-donating group; n represents an integer from 1 to 5; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or —ORO, wherein RO represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a protecting group of a hydroxy group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a protecting group of a hydroxy group; and X represents a structure represented by any one of Formula B-1 to Formula B-5.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a heating roller that heats the fixing belt, a steering roller, and a pressurization rotating member. The steering roller is controlled to swing to move the fixing belt to a prescribed position. The pressurization rotating member pressurizes and forms a fixing nip portion with the fixing belt. When a recording material bearing unfixed toner is nipped and conveyed to the fixing nip portion, an unfixed toner image is fixed to the recording material. A single inclination operation that inclines the steering roller results in an inclination angle that is smaller when a recording material having a length greater than a predetermined length in a recording material conveying direction is conveyed to the fixing nip portion than when a recording material having a length less than or equal to the predetermined length in the conveying direction is conveyed to the fixing nip portion.

Abstract: An optical amplifier (21) configured to operate with saturated output power is coupled on the receive side with respect to a receiver (18) coupled to a transmitter (17) via an optical fiber (14). The saturated output power is represented as a saturation characteristic drawing a flat curve in which, as power (input optical power) of an optical signal (22i) inputted to the optical amplifier (21) increases in excess of a given level, the variation in power (output optical power) of an optical signal (22o) outputted from the optical amplifier (21) decreases. Consequently, information represented by the optical signal (22o) inputted from the optical amplifier (21) to the receiver (18) can be properly received.

Abstract: A sealing fin fixing apparatus can fix a sealing fin to a rotor in a shortened period of time to minimize variations of the pullout strength of the sealing fin. In the sealing fin fixing apparatus that fixes the sealing fin in a sealing groove defined in the outer circumference of the rotor of a rotary machine and includes a headstock for setting a rotor thereon, a Z-stage movable along a Z-axis, an X-stage movable along an X-axis, a tool rest supported on the X-stage, and a caulking tool mounted on the tool rest and including a shank and a pressing roller, while the pressing roller is being held against a caulking wire inserted, together with the sealing fin, in the sealing groove in the rotor that is set on the headstock, the headstock is actuated to rotate the rotor, thereby caulking the caulking wire to fix the sealing fin to the rotor.

Abstract: Confirming transmission of information in a web conference by determining a presenter of a web conference is providing speech to a second computing device based at least in part on a video data, converting the speech of the presenter to textual data, transmitting information of the second computing device to a third computing device of a participant, wherein the information of the second computing device includes the speech, the textual data, and images of a display of the second computing device, and determining a match level of the information of the second computing device and output information of the third computing device of the participant, wherein the output information of the third computing device correlates with the information of the second computing device.

Abstract: The embodiments provide a process and an apparatus for easily producing a transparent electrode of low resistance and of high transparency. The process comprises: coating a hydrophobic polymer film with a dispersion of metal nanowires, press-bonding an electroconductive substrate directly onto the metal nanowires on the polymer film, and peeling and transferring the metal nanowires from the polymer film onto the conductive substrate. The embodiments also relates to an apparatus for the process.

Abstract: Provided is a neutron beam transmission adjusting device including a neutron beam transmission unit including a neutron reactant and capable of modulating an energy and/or a flux of a neutron beam transmitted through the neutron beam transmission unit.

Abstract: A nanocarbon separation method includes: a step of preparing a plurality of liquids with different specific gravities in which at least one of the plurality of liquids is a dispersion liquid in which a mixture of nanocarbons with different properties is dispersed; a step of sequentially injecting the plurality of liquids into an electrophoresis tank so that the specific gravities of the liquids decrease from a bottom to a top of the liquids in a direction of gravitational force; and a step of separating the mixture of the nanocarbons by moving a part of the mixture toward an electrode side disposed in an upper part of the electrophoresis tank and moving a remainder of the mixture toward an electrode side disposed in a lower part of the electrophoresis tank by applying a direct current voltage to the electrodes.