Abstract: A dust core includes a metal magnetic material, a resin, an insulation film, and an intermediate layer. The insulation film covers the metal magnetic material. The intermediate layer exists between the insulation film and the metal magnetic material and contacts therebetween. The metal magnetic material includes 85 to 99.5 wt % of Fe, 0.5 to 10 wt % of Si, and 0 to 5 wt % of other elements, with respect to 100 wt % of the entire metal magnetic material. The intermediate layer includes a Fe—Si—O based oxide. The insulation film includes a Si—O based oxide.

Abstract: A dust core includes a metal magnetic material and a resin. Fine particles exist on a surface of the dust core.

Abstract: A conductive element includes wiring having a flat portion at a top portion and including metal particles. An average value of a ratio of a width of the flat portion to a width of the wiring is 20% or more. An average value of arithmetic average roughness of the top portion is 1 ?m or less.

Abstract: A relay terminal includes an upper conductive and lower conductive plate, each having a plate surface intersecting with the Y direction, and a coupling part that couples the upper conductive plate and the lower conductive plate to each other. The coupling part is provided on one end in the Z direction of a combination of the upper conductive plate and the lower conductive plate, such that the coupling part connects both to a middle portion in the X direction of the upper conductive plate and to a middle portion in the X direction of the lower conductive plate. First and second pairs of contact parts are formed on the plate surfaces in end sides in the X direction of the upper and lower conductive plates, each contact part having a curved surface.

Abstract: A home interior monitoring system includes a master device that can wirelessly communicate with at least one electric device installed in an interior of a home and is not connected to the Internet, and a mobile phone terminal that can wirelessly communicate directly with the master device. The mobile phone terminal, in a case of launching an application, sets, to OFF, a connection invalidity flag that invalidates wireless connection to an access point that is not connected to the Internet. The master device outputs an electromagnetic wave for wireless connection with the mobile phone terminal.

Abstract: An engine of the invention includes an engine main unit having cylinders, an intake line, an exhaust line, a supercharger, a turbo sensor detecting a rotational speed of the supercharger, a control device controlling, based on signal from the turbo sensor, an operating state of the engine main unit that has a correlation with the rotational speed of the supercharger, and a crank angle sensor detecting a rotation angle of a crankshaft. The control device recognizes timings at which the cylinders are in a top dead center state based on detection signals of the crank angle sensor and, also, makes a disconnection judgment for the turbo sensor at non-top dead center timings that are within one combustion cycle of the engine main unit and at which none of the plurality of cylinders are in a top dead center state.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal-clad laminate sheet including forming a laminate sheet having the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film and the metal foil bonded together; and providing the laminate sheet with a heat treatment which satisfies conditions (1) and (2) below: (1) a heat treatment temperature ranges between 1° C. inclusive and 50° C. exclusive higher than a melting point of the thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film. (2) a time for the heat treatment ranges from one second to 10 minutes.

Abstract: A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section including a plurality of segments, a plurality of stiffness variable portions provided in the respective segments and configured to vary stiffness of the respective segments, and a state detector configured to detect a shape of the insertion section. The apparatus includes a state calculator configured to acquire a shape of a tube at a time when the insertion section advances into the tube, and configured to calculate a relative position of the segment to the tube, and a control device configured to control, based on the shape of the tube, the stiffness variable portion provided in the segment which is calculated the relative position to the tube by the state calculator.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device to form a toner image onto a recording medium by transferring the toner image directly or indirectly onto the recording medium, the image forming device including a developing unit to develop a latent image formed on an image carrier into the toner image; and a controller to control the image forming device.

Abstract: A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section including a bending portion and a flexible tube portion, variable stiffness sections which causes a change in a level of a bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion, a variable stiffness control section which controls the change in the bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion by the variable stiffness sections, an image sensor which images a subject in a forward direction of the bending portion, a cavity detection section which detects a presence of a cavity in the forward direction based on an image from the image sensor, and a time setting section that sets a time period. The bending stiffness is switched each time period set by the time setting section when the cavity detection section has detected the presence of the cavity in the forward direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel anticariogenic agent without side effects so that anticariogenic effect can also be obtained in humans who are highly sensitive to oligosaccharides and sugar alcohols. Also, an agent for preventing periodontal disease or for treating periodontal disease which has an effect of preventing or treating periodontal disease and which does not have side effects is provided. The invention relates to an anticariogenic agent and an anticariogenic composition comprising a bifidobacterium, an agent and a composition for preventing periodontal disease comprising a bifidobacterium and an agent and a composition for treating periodontal disease comprising a bifidobacterium.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion portion inserted into a subject; a forward image pickup device configured to acquire a first subject image from a first direction; an image pickup device configured to acquire a second subject image from a second direction; and an image processing section configured to generate a bird's-eye view image based on a bird's-eye view subject image looking down on the subject from a virtual point of view away from the insertion portion and configured to execute a process of associating the first subject image and the first direction in the bird's-eye view subject image and associating the second subject image and the second direction in the bird's-eye view subject image.

Abstract: An flexible tube insertion apparatus includes a tubular insertion section including a bending portion and a flexible tube portion, variable stiffness sections to cause a change in a level of a bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion, a variable stiffness control section that controls the change in the bending stiffness by the variable stiffness sections; and a time setting section that sets a time period. The variable stiffness control section causes the bending stiffness of the variable stiffness sections to change in such a manner that the relationship of levels between the bending stiffness of adjacent variable stiffness sections is switched at the set time period when the variable stiffness control section determines that the flexible tube portion is passing through a flexure of the subject.

Abstract: A dust core including a metal magnetic powder and a resin, in which the metal magnetic powder shows a particle diameter of more than 0 ?m and 200 ?m or less, a number percentage of 5.0% or more of metal magnetic particles among the metal magnetic particles composing the metal magnetic powder are at least partially surface-coated with an inorganic compound including an alkaline earth metal, in a coating part coating the metal magnetic particles, an amount of the alkaline earth metal is 10.0 mass % or more, when a total amount of a metal element included in the coating part is 100 mass %, is provide. The dust core is superior in a corrosion-resistance.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an insertion section, a bending portion provided in the insertion section, including a distal side and a proximal side, and deformable into an arcuate shape by bending in at least one predetermined direction, a distal-side bending portion, a proximal-side bending portion, a first variable stiffness section provided in the distal-side bending portion and configured to change a stiffness of the distal-side bending portion, a second variable stiffness section provided in the proximal-side bending portion and configured to change a stiffness of the proximal-side bending portion, and a controller for performing control to make a stiffness of the first variable stiffness section higher than a stiffness of the second variable stiffness section.

Abstract: A composite magnetic body includes metal magnetic powder formed of metal magnetic particles and an insulator impregnated into at least a part of voids among the metal magnetic particles. On a cumulative curve of widths of the voids among the metal magnetic particles, a void width at which a cumulative distribution is 50% is equal to or smaller than 3 ?m, and a void width at which the cumulative distribution is 95% is equal to or greater than 4 ?m.

Abstract: A motion sensor light turns on a light once a motion sensor detects movement of a person. The light illuminates a monitoring area once the light is turned on. The motion sensor light initiates measurement of lighting duration of the light. After then, the motion sensor light initiates measurement of lights-out delay duration in a case where the movement of a person is no longer detected, and acquires a set value of the lights-out delay duration according to the lighting duration set in advance. The motion sensor light turns off the light in a case where a measured value of the lights-out delay duration exceeds the set value of the lights-out delay duration and a measured value of the lighting duration of the light exceeds a set value of the lighting duration.

Abstract: In a case of a connection destination of a master device in wireless communication not being registered in the master device, a smartphone, at the start of setting of the registration, determines a mode of wireless communication with the master device (specifically, a router connection mode or a soft AP mode) according to whether or not wireless communication is performed through a wireless router and acquires setting information related to the connection destination corresponding to the determined mode of wireless communication. The smartphone sends a message indicating that wireless communication will be performed in the determined mode of wireless communication and sends the setting information related to the connection destination corresponding to the mode of wireless communication to the master device. The master device registers the setting information that is sent from the smartphone and related to the connection destination corresponding to the mode of wireless communication.

Abstract: A home interior monitoring system includes a master device that can wirelessly communicate with at least one electric device installed in an interior of a home and is not connected to the Internet, and a mobile phone terminal that can wirelessly communicate directly with the master device. The mobile phone terminal, in a case of launching an application, sets, to OFF, a connection invalidity flag that invalidates wireless connection to an access point that is not connected to the Internet. The master device outputs an electromagnetic wave for wireless connection with the mobile phone terminal.

Abstract: An endoscope includes: a first image acquisition portion configured to acquire a first object image from a first direction; a second image acquisition portion configured to acquire a second object image from a second direction different from the first direction; first illumination light emission portions provided on a straight line with the first image acquisition portion, the first image acquisition portion being interposed between the first illumination light emission portions, and arranged along a line orthogonal to an optical axis of the first image acquisition portion; and second illumination light emission portions lined up and arranged on a plane where the second image acquisition portion is arranged at the insertion portion, and a lining direction of the first illumination light emission portions and a lining direction of the second illumination light emission portions are arranged at positions to be a twisted relation.