Abstract: Provided are a solid electrolytic capacitor including an anode, a dielectric layer provided on a surface of the anode, a coupling agent layer provided on the dielectric layer, a conductive polymer layer provided on the coupling agent layer, and a cathode layer provided on the conductive polymer layer, wherein the coupling agent layer contains a first coupling agent having a phosphonic acid group and a second coupling agent which is a silane coupling agent, and a method for manufacturing the solid electrolytic capacitor.

Abstract: A disclosed liquid discharge head includes plural nozzles configured to discharge droplets; plural chambers in communication with the respective nozzles; a vibration plate member having a deformable vibration area configured to form a part of a wall surface of the chambers, a first projection in the deformable vibration area, and a second projection in a part corresponding to a partition wall between the chambers; and a piezoelectric member having a drive pillar bonded to the first projection and a non-drive pillar bonded to the second projection. A width of a base of the first projection is greater than a width of a base of the second projection, and a width of the drive pillar is less than a width of the non-drive pillar.

Abstract: A load distribution apparatus includes: a control unit that refers to a load information storage unit that stores load values of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, selects an information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold from the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and determines the information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold as an allocation destination of processing requests until the load value of the information processing apparatus reaches the predetermined threshold; and a transmitting unit that transmits the processing requests to the allocation destination determined by the control unit.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a solid electrolytic capacitor having a high capacitance and a small equivalent series resistance (ESR) and a method for manufacturing the same. A solid electrolytic capacitor includes: an anode 1 made of a valve metal or an alloy thereof; a dielectric layer 2 provided on the surface of the anode 1; a first coupling agent layer 3 made of a coupling agent having a molecular structure in which at least two phosphonic acid groups are bonded via an alkyl group, the first coupling agent layer 3 being provided on the dielectric layer; a first conductive polymer layer 4 provided on the first coupling agent layer 3; and a cathode layer 11 provided on or above the first conductive polymer layer 4.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to accurately determine an EGR rate from an in-cylinder pressure. An EGR rate determination method for an internal combustion engine according to the present invention, a combustion period is calculated by using in-cylinder pressure data measured by an in-cylinder pressure sensor. An in-cylinder flame velocity is then calculated from the combustion period. Next, in accordance with prepared data indicative of the influence of an engine speed on the flame velocity, a portion of the flame velocity calculated from the combustion period that is affected by the engine speed is eliminated. Eventually, a current EGR rate is determined from the flame velocity from which the portion affected by the engine speed is eliminated.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a solid electrolyte capacitor that comprises: an anode body; a dielectric layer formed on the surface of the anode body; a first polymer film formed on the dielectric layer and containing a first polymer; a second polymer film formed on the first polymer film and containing a second polymer that is different from the first polymer; a conducting polymer layer formed on the second polymer film and containing a conducting polymer that is different from the second polymer; and a cathode layer formed on the conducting polymer layer, wherein the first polymer film has a larger work function than that of the conducting polymer layer.

Abstract: To provide a conductive polymer film and to improve the conductivity of the conductive polymer film used in an electronic device such as a solid electrolytic capacitor, the conductive polymer film is a conductive polymer film formed by using a polymerization liquid containing a monomer for a conductive polymer, an oxidant, and an additive. A salt formed of a dopant and a basic substance is used as the additive.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising an anode composed of a valve metal or its alloy, a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode, a coupling agent layer formed by subjecting the dielectric layer to a surface treatment with a coupling agent having a phosphonic acid group, a conductive polymer layer formed on the coupling agent layer, and a cathode layer formed on the conductive polymer layer.

Abstract: The search method includes: receiving a search request including plural search conditions; separating the plural search conditions into search conditions for individual databases; storing, for each database, the search condition and the database identifier in a condition record; searching a search result management table by the database identifier and the search condition; determining anterior search databases; searching each of the anterior search databases by the search condition to acquire a first search result; determining common entity identifiers included in common in the first search results; and searching each of posterior search databases by the common entity identifiers and the search condition.

Abstract: To accurately specify an EGR rate from an output value of an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a specifying method of an EGR rate in an internal combustion engine of the present invention acquires an output value of an in-cylinder pressure sensor at an intake stroke to calculate comparison data related to an in-cylinder pressure at the intake stroke from the acquired sensor output value. An output value of the in-cylinder pressure sensor at an exhaust stroke of the same cycle is also acquired to calculate comparison data related to the in-cylinder pressure at the exhaust stroke from the acquired sensor output value. Two comparison data are compared to specify the EGR rate of an air-fuel mixture provided for combustion from a difference between the values.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes: a base portion having a concave portion formed in one of major surfaces thereof; and a light emitting element mounted on a bottom surface of the concave portion of the base portion. The base portion comprises a side wall portion that surrounds the light emitting element. The light emitting element is covered with a resin portion filled in the concave portion. At least a part of an upper surface of the resin portion is positioned closer to the bottom surface of the concave portion than an upper surface of the side wall portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an article sales data processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a selection acceptance unit, a confirmation unit, and a payment processing unit. The storage unit stores, for each article sold, sales data and information indicating a payment method prohibited for that article, of plural payment methods. The selection acceptance unit accepts selection of payment method. The confirmation unit refers to the information stored in the storage unit and confirms whether articles sold include an article for which payment by the payment method with its selection accepted by the selection acceptance unit is prohibited. If it is confirmed that the articles sold include an article for which payment is prohibited, the payment processing unit notifies that the articles sold include an article for which payment is prohibited, and executes payment for articles for which the same payment method is not prohibited, by the same payment method.

Abstract: A second press 10 irons a plate-like steel plate W. This second press 10 comprises a base block 22 for supporting the lower surface of the steel plate W, a rod 11 disposed on the upper surface of the steel plate W, an upper die 30 including a guide rail 24, a first cam 25 and a second cam 34 and a lifting mechanism 40 for moving the rod 11 along the surface of the steel plate W. The base block 22 regulates the movement of the rod 11 in a thickness direction of the steel plate W by contacting the upper surface of the rod 11 over the movement range of the ironing member in the surface direction of the steel plate W.

Abstract: The heating device includes plural heaters to heat fixing members; a power supplying device to supply power to the plural heaters; and a controller. The controller determines heater activation priority order for the heaters every control cycle, and allows the power supplying device to supply power to one of the heaters according to the heater activation priority order. When the controller judges that it is necessary to activate two or more of the heaters in a control cycle, the controller allows the power supplying device to supply power to one of the heaters having the highest rank in the heater activation priority order among the two or more of the heaters. The controller changes the heater activation priority order by according the lowest rank to the heater activated in the last control cycle while maintaining the rank relationship among the others of the heaters.

Abstract: Provided are a solid electrolytic capacitor including an anode, a dielectric layer provided on a surface of the anode, a coupling agent layer provided on the dielectric layer, a conductive polymer layer provided on the coupling agent layer, and a cathode layer provided on the conductive polymer layer, wherein the coupling agent layer contains a first coupling agent having a phosphonic acid group and a second coupling agent which is a silane coupling agent, and a method for manufacturing the solid electrolytic capacitor.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric member on which plural piezoelectric poles are formed, and the plural piezoelectric poles are formed to be inclined in a direction in which the plural piezoelectric poles are arranged.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to promptly detect a crank angle based on in-cylinder pressures and easily compensate for a detection error by processing that has a low computational load. An ECU 50 calculates an in-cylinder pressure ratio (Pn+1/Pn) based on in-cylinder pressures Pn and Pn+1 at two crank angles separated by a predetermined angle ??. The ECU 50 includes map data that represents relations between volume ratio parameters (Vn?/Vn+1?) calculated using in-cylinder volumes Vn and Vn+1 at the crank angles, and the crank angles. Therefore, when cranking, a crank angle can be detected based on the in-cylinder pressure ratio and the map data earlier than a conventional cylinder discrimination operation. Gains included in the in-cylinder pressures Pn and Pn+1 can be removed by dividing the two pressures, and exponential operations and the like can be eliminated by using the map data to thus suppress the computational load.

Abstract: A service providing method of being notified of position information by terminals and providing services corresponding to the notified position information of the terminals includes determining movements of the terminals based on the notified position information; in a case where it has been determined that a difference between the movements of the terminals is equal to or less than a threshold, storing information indicating the determined terminals in an associating information database in a manner of being associated with each other; transmitting signals indicating notification modes of reduced notification frequencies of the position information to the associated terminals; and when the position information is notified by one of the associated terminals, using the notified position information as the position information of the one of the associated terminals and also as the position information of another one of the associated terminals.

Abstract: A user information management device configured to manage user information regarding content provision service users, and to provide a content acquisition method to a user client device, the user information management device includes, a user information storage unit configured to store user information for each user, the user information including an address of the content acquisition method and attribute information including a user's attributes using attribute values classified into predetermined attribute categories; an access attribute information storage unit configured to store access attribute information for each set of content; a content provision unit that acquires from the user information storage unit, a content provision request including content information; an access acquisition unit configured such that, upon receiving a content acquisition request from the user client device including content information, attribute criteria, and user attribute information.

Abstract: Conductive polymer films are provided having excellent conductivity. Electronic devices made from the films and manufacturing methods of the conductive polymer film also are provided. The conductive polymer films are obtained from polymerization liquid that includes monomers of a conductive polymer, an oxidizer, an alcoholic solvent, and an aromatic solvent contained in the polymerization liquid in the proportion of 1 to 50 percent by mass of the total solvent for polymerization. The aromatic solvent contains, as a substituent group of an aromatic ring, an alkyl group with a carbon number of 1 to 10 and/or an alkoxy group with a carbon number of 1 to 10, but lacks a hydroxyl group.