Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an image signal of a plurality of polarized lights is input, for each set of image signals corresponding to the polarized lights, a maximum value of polarization intensities of polarization components of the image signals and a polarization angle at which the maximum value of the polarization intensities is obtained are found, and a target area to which polarization reduction is to be applied is found based on the image signal and a statistical area is set in the target area. Representative intensity and angle which are modes of the polarization intensities and angles of the sets included in the statistical area are found, and first correction processing for correcting each image signal of the sets included in the target area is performed using the representative intensity and angle according to the polarization angle of the each image signal.

Abstract: A production method for producing a hydrogen gas through electrolysis of water is provided. The production method includes: decreasing a current density to a range that is greater than 0 A/cm2 and less than a value used in the electrolysis and in which the electrolysis does not stop; holding the current density for 1 second or more while introducing a gas to at least a hydrogen generating electrode; and decreasing the current density to a value at which the electrolysis does not take place so as to stop the electrolysis. It is preferable that the gas is a gas that is electrochemically inert to a fuel cell reaction. It is also preferable that the gas is at least one selected from the group consisting of nitrogen and a noble gas.

Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus that inserts an enclosure into an envelope includes an envelope conveyor, a flap opener, an enclosure pusher, and circuitry. The envelope conveyor extends in a vertical direction and conveys the envelope to an enclosing position via an envelope conveyance passage as a passage in which the envelope is conveyed. The flap opener opens a flap of the envelope. The enclosure pusher pushes the enclosure toward an opening of a body of the envelope conveyed to the enclosing position with the flap open. The circuitry changes a pushing amount of the enclosure into the envelope and adjusts the pushing amount based on the opening of the body of the envelope within a specified range from an inside to an outside of the body of the envelope.

Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.

Abstract: An electrode catalyst is provided in which degradation of catalytic action over time is suppressed. The electrode catalyst includes a mesoporous carbon support having pores, and catalyst metal particles supported in at least some of the pores. The ratio r/R of the mean particle size r of the catalyst metal particles to the modal pore size R of the pores is from 0.01 to 0.6, and the mean particle size r is 6 nm or less. The modal pore size R of the pores is preferably from 2 to 50 nm.

Abstract: To estimate a fracture starting point of steel due to hydrogen embrittlement with high accuracy. A steel fracture starting point estimation device includes a hydrogen concentration distribution calculation unit adapted to calculate a hydrogen concentration distribution in steel-to-be-estimated when the steel fractures due to hydrogen embrittlement; a local critical hydrogen content calculation unit adapted to calculate critical hydrogen content at which the steel-to-be-estimated fractures due to hydrogen embrittlement; and a fracture starting point estimation unit adapted to read the hydrogen concentration distribution out of a storage unit. To estimate, calculate, from the hydrogen concentration distribution, a location in the steel in which hydrogen concentration of the critical hydrogen content is distributed, and designate the location in the steel as the fracture starting point of the steel-to-be-estimated.

Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and confirmed that a heteroaryl carboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The heteroaryl carboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.

Abstract: An absorbance detector for a chromatograph includes a light source, a flow cell that receives light generated by the light source, a photodetector that detects light transmitted through the flow cell, a light shield member that shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, a motor that rotates the light shield member to change the light shield member between a light-shielding state where the light shield member shields at least part of the light generated from the light source to the flow cell and a non-light-shielding state where the light shield member does not shield the light generated from the light source to the flow cell, and a reference position detector that rotates the motor and also acquires a change in amount of light received by the photodetector to detect a reference position of the light shield member in a rotation direction of the light shield member based on the acquired change in the amount of the received light.

Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conveyor to convey the enclosure to the enclosing position to insert the enclosure into the envelope; a sensor to acquire, as an image, a structure of the envelope during conveyance, and acquire transparent-portion information indicating a position of a transparent portion in the envelope; an envelope holder to hold the envelope in a state in which the enclosure is insertable; and control circuitry to output position adjustment information for adjusting a position of the envelope in a width direction of the envelope at the enclosing position or a position of the specific information in a conveyance direction of the envelope, based on relative positions between the formation position of the specific information and the position of the transparent portion.

Abstract: An enclosing-sealing apparatus includes a flap opener that opens a flap of an envelope while the envelope is conveyed to an enclosing position. A first envelope detector is disposed upstream from the flap opener in an envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction. A second envelope detector is disposed downstream from the flap opener in the envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction in an open state in which the flap opens. A controller determines the open state of the flap based on a first detection result sent from the first envelope detector and a second detection result sent from the second envelope detector. The controller performs troubleshooting for enclosing the enclosure into the envelope if the controller determines that the open state of the flap is faulty.

Abstract: To easily detect a crack having occurred in a steel material. A current measurement device measures a value of a current flowing through a target steel material that is immersed in an electrolyte aqueous solution and applied with tensile stress while subjected to hydrogen charging, and a device for detecting the occurrence of a crack or the like uses the measured current value to determine the occurrence of a crack in the target steel material when the amount of change in the current flowing through the target steel material, the change rate of the amount of change in the current, or the change rate of the change rate of the amount of change in the current exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: A gyrocompass includes: a binnacle; a gyro case having a gyro rotor; a vertical ring mounted on the binnacle for rotation about a vertical axis, the vertical axis extending perpendicular to a gimbal axis and a horizontal axis, the gimbal axis extends in a direction of a spin axis of the gyro rotor and the horizontal axis extends perpendicular to the gimbal axis and parallel to a horizontal plane; a horizontal ring supported by the vertical ring for rotation about the gimbal axis and supporting the gyro case for rotation about the horizontal axis or supported by the vertical ring for rotation about the horizontal axis and supporting the gyro case for rotation about the gimbal axis; a horizontal servo motor for rotating the gyro case about the horizontal axis; and an azimuth servo motor mounted on the vertical ring for rotating the vertical ring about the vertical axis.

Abstract: A crane includes a jib posture retention device that retains a jib in a frontward tilt posture to a boom. The jib posture retention device includes a jib mast that holds a rope connection part at a tensioning position separate from a jib proximal end and a boom distal end backward thereof to render a jib-side support rope and a boom-side support rope linearly tensioned with the jib in the frontward tilt posture. The jib mast is shiftable to a tension form of holding the rope connection part at a tensioning position in an uprise posture and a looseness allowing form of locating the rope connection part at a looseness allowing position closer to the boom distal end than the tensioning position and closer to the jib proximal end than the tensioning position to allow the jib-side support rope and the boom-side support rope to be loosened.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate, and a first circuit supported by the substrate and including a plurality of TFTs including a first TFT, wherein the first TFT includes a semiconductor layer, a lower gate electrode located on a side of the substrate of the semiconductor layer and overlapping a part of the semiconductor layer via a lower gate insulating layer, and an upper gate electrode located on a side opposite to the substrate of the semiconductor layer and overlapping a part of the semiconductor layer via an upper gate insulating layer, one of the lower gate electrode and the upper gate electrode is a first gate electrode and the other is a second gate electrode, a first signal is supplied to the first gate electrode, and a second signal different from the first signal is supplied to the second gate electrode, the first TFT has a threshold voltage between a high-level potential and a low-level potential of the first signal and between a high-level potential and a low-level potential of the sec

Abstract: An accumulator includes a tank body having a communication port that communicates the lubricant accommodating space capable of accommodating lubricant with the outside, the tank body extending around an axis, a piston that moves in the axial direction in the tank body to vary the size of the lubricant accommodating space, a spiral spring mechanism having a spiral spring, and a rotational force transmission member that converts a linear movement of the piston into a rotational force around the axis to transmit the converted rotational force. The rotational force transmission member converts a rotational movement due to a restoring force of the spiral spring into a force in the axial direction to move the piston in the axial direction.

Abstract: A vulnerability determination apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to input URLs of a plurality of websites to be rehosted to a rehosting apparatus, the rehosting apparatus being configured to rehost the plurality of websites and display the plurality of websites on a user terminal, acquire a response to the input of the URLs from the rehosting apparatus, the response including contents and URLs of the plurality of websites after the rehosting, and identify, based on the acquired response, at least one of a URL set for each of the plurality of websites after the rehosting, presence or absence of a setting for writing a cookie in the plurality of websites, and presence or absence of a code for accessing a predetermined function of a browser in the plurality of websites and determine an attack that is likely to occur due to the rehosting of the plurality of websites.

Abstract: A lubricating oil tank includes: a tank casing having an introduction part into which lubricating oil is introduced and a discharge part through which the lubricating oil is discharged; a plurality of receiving parts which are disposed between the introduction part and the discharge part in the tank casing and which is configured to receive the lubricating oil introduced from the introduction part: and a lubricating oil delivery part which is configured to deliver the lubricating oil from one of the plurality of receiving parts to another one of the plurality of receiving parts between the plurality of receiving parts.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an alkaline storage battery is provided. The hydrogen storage alloy provided is a hydrogen storage alloy used for an alkaline storage battery that has, as a main phase, one or two crystal structures selected from an A2B7-type structure and an AB3-type structure, and that is represented by a general formula: (La1-a-bCeaSmb)1-cMgcNidAleCrf (where suffixes a, b, c, d, e, and f in this formula (1) meet the following conditions: 0<a?0.15; 0?b?0.15; 0.17?c?0.32; 0.02?e?0.10; 0?f?0.05; and 2.95?d+e+f?3.50.

Abstract: A rotary machine system includes a rotary electric machine, a rotary machine, a first supply line and a second supply line through which the lubricating oil is supplied to the rotary machine bearing, a first discharge line and a second discharge line through which the lubricating oil is discharged downward from the rotary machine bearing, and a lower discharge line through which the lubricating oil discharged from the first discharge line and the second discharge line flows toward a discharge destination. The lower discharge line has a first connecting portion connected to a lower end of the first discharge line and a second connecting portion connected to a lower end of the second discharge line, and extends such that the lubricating oil heads for the discharge destination through the first connecting portion from the second connecting portion.