Abstract: An on-board device is equipped with: an RFIC which includes an activation processing unit for outputting an activation signal upon receiving a radio wave for RFID communication and an RF tag function unit for reading prerecorded tag information; an IC card processing unit which is activated on the basis of the activation signal when electric power is supplied thereto from a power supply circuit, and which reads and writes IC card information from and to an IC card; and a communication unit which transmits the tag information and/or the IC card information to an external device.

Abstract: A vehicle is provided with: a main vehicle body having an attachment portion to which a towed vehicle can be attached, and a first onboard unit and a second onboard unit attached to the main vehicle body, the first onboard unit and the second onboard unit being installed so as to be capable of communicating with a roadside device. The first onboard unit has type information relating to the type of the main vehicle body, and is provided at a position at which communication with the roadside device is possible both when the towed vehicle is attached to the attachment portion and when the towed vehicle is not attached to the attachment portion. The second onboard unit is provided at a position at which communication with the roadside device is possible when the towed vehicle is not attached to the attachment portion and at which communication with the roadside device is not possible when the towed vehicle is attached to the attachment portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a film having a high relative permittivity, a high volume resistivity, and a high breakdown strength. The film has a relative permittivity of 9 or higher at a frequency of 1 kHz and 30° C., a volume resistivity of 5E+15 ?·cm or higher at 30° C., and a breakdown strength of 500 V/?m or higher.

Abstract: A remote control device includes a display unit, physical keys, and a control unit to control operations of the display unit and execute various processes in accordance with commands input via the physical keys. The display unit includes a setting item display area to display setting item information pertaining to configurable setting items, and a set state display area to display information pertaining to set state of the setting items. The physical keys include at least one function key and a separate set state change key. The control unit successively selects the setting items, causes the display unit to display the setting item information, and performs an increase or decrease of a numerical value, a stage change, or a mode change relating to the setting item. The number of function keys is smaller than the number of the setting item information displayed.

Abstract: A fluororesin film containing a fluororesin. The fluororesin film has on at least one surface thereof a ten-point average roughness of 0.100 to 1.200 ?m and an arithmetic average roughness of 0.010 to 0.050 ?m. Further, the fluororesin film has a breakdown strength of 400 V/?m or higher.

Abstract: A method for producing a food product includes preparing a mixture including one or more food ingredients, at least one oil or fat, and water, wherein the mixture has a total fat content of 20 to 75% by mass and a water content of 20 to 80% by mass, pulverizing the food ingredients in the mixture, and obtaining a paste composition including the at least one oil or fat, the water, and 15 to 85% by mass of fine particles of the food ingredients. The fine particles have a maximum particle size of 100 ?m or more, and the fine particles subjected to an ultrasonication treatment have a modal diameter of 0.3 to 200 ?m. The paste composition satisfies a contact angle of 40° to 160°, a sliding angle of 50° or more, or an advancing contact angle of 50° or more.

Abstract: A method for producing a food product includes preparing a mixture including one or more dried food ingredients and at least one oil or fat, wherein a total fat content in the mixture is 10 to 98% by mass, pulverizing the dried food ingredients in the mixture, and obtaining a food composition comprising the at least one oil or fat and 2 to 98% by mass of fine particles of the dried food ingredients. The dried food ingredients are selected from the group consisting of a vegetable, a fruit and an alga. The food composition has a water content of less than 20% by mass. When the food composition is subjected to an ultrasonication treatment at a frequency of 40 kHz and an output of 40 W for 180 seconds, the fine particles after the ultrasonication treatment have a modal diameter of 0.3 to 200 ?m.

Abstract: A method for producing a food product includes preparing a mixture including one or more dried food ingredients and at least one oil or fat, wherein a total fat content in the mixture is 30% by mass or more, wet pulverizing the dried food ingredients in the mixture, and obtaining a food composition including the at least one oil or fat and 20% to 98% by mass of fine particles of the dried food ingredients. The wet pulverization is performed with a maximum pressure of 0.01 to 1 MPa and under a rising temperature condition satisfying T1+1<T2<T1+50. The fine particles subjected to an ultrasonication treatment have a modal diameter of 0.3 to 200 ?m and a decreased maximum particle size. A 10th percentile value of a numerical value N for each fine particle complex is 0.40 or less.

Abstract: There is provided a container or an equipment having low-protein adsorption properties, to be used for administering, storing, conveying or transporting protein or a composition including protein, or for producing protein or a composition including protein. A container or an equipment for producing protein or a composition including protein, wherein the surface of the container or the equipment in contact with protein or a composition including protein is formed of a fluororesin which is at least one fluororesin selected from a tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene-based copolymer and a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkylvinyl ether-based copolymer, which has a melting point of 320° C. or less and which has a total number of non-fluorinated group terminals and —CF2H group terminals in the fluororesin of 70 or less per 1×106 carbon atoms, has remarkable low-protein adsorption properties.

Abstract: An air conditioner is installed in a target space. An operating state is switched based on a command sent from a portable communication terminal. The air conditioner includes a specific information storage component, a specific information notification component that gives notification of the specific information to the communication terminal, a command receiving component that receives the command sent from the communication terminal, and an actuator drive component that executes a switching control that switches action of an actuator based on the command received. The specific information includes identification information and operable period information that designates an operable period during which the operating state is switchable by the communication terminal.

Abstract: A remote control for an air conditioner facilitates setting of various kinds of data without operation of a button. A remote control (30) includes an external communication unit (45) having an NFC circuit (42) and an NFC antenna (43). The external communication unit (45) is capable of wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus even when a microcomputer (36) in the remote control (30) is not supplied with power (i.e., in a non-operating state). Hence, through the wireless communication between the external communication unit (45) of the remote control (30) and the external apparatus, the various kinds of data is forwarded from the external device to the remote control (30), and stored in the remote control (30).

Abstract: A method for producing differentiated cells from pluripotent stem cells by an embryoid body (EB) method, including the steps of: (1) culturing pluripotent stem cells by using a culture bag having a perfluoropolymer on its inner surface to thereby form an embryoid body; and (2) inducing differentiation of the pluripotent stem cells contained in the embryoid body obtained in step (1) to thereby obtain differentiated cells.

Abstract: An endoscopic system includes an over-tube being defined by an elongated tubular member. The elongated tubular member includes an endoscope channel and at least one treatment tool channel each of which is formed longitudinally along a length of the elongated tubular member and is spaced apart from one another within circumference of the elongated tubular member. An endoscope is configured to be inserted into the endoscope channel. Two treatment tools each of which is configured to be inserted into the respective treatment tool channels. A channel position identifier is configured to be disposed in an inner surface of at least a portion of the endoscope channel in a longitudinal direction thereof for indicating the position of the treatment tool channel with respect to the endoscope channel in a circumferential direction. The channel position identifier further includes a transparent window part and an opaque identifying member.

Abstract: Provided is a same vehicle detection device, including: a first license plate information acquisition unit configured to store, in a first recording unit, first license plate information acquired from an onboard unit installed in a vehicle; a second license plate information acquisition unit configured to store, in a second recording unit, second license plate information of the vehicle read in, based on an image captured by shooting a predetermined region including the license plate of the vehicle; and a same vehicle determination unit configured to determine whether the first license plate information stored in the first recording device relates to the same vehicle as the second license plate information stored in the second recording device.

Abstract: A remote control device configured communicate with an air conditioner or a heat pump includes a touch panel having an electrode unit, a liquid crystal display, and a casing accommodating the touch panel and the liquid crystal display. The casing has a back surface part and a front surface part. The liquid crystal display is disposed to overlap the touch panel as seen from a front surface part side. The electrode unit has a first electrode section to detect a touched position, and a second electrode section that may function as an antenna to perform wireless communication with another communication device. The first and second electrode sections are configured and arranged to be nearer to the front surface part than to the back surface part inside the casing, and to be disposed so as not to overlap with each other as seen from the front surface part side.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a plurality of air conditioning indoor units installed in a target space, a plurality of remote control devices corresponding to the air conditioning indoor units, and a controller. The remote control device has a command input to set the corresponding air conditioning indoor unit or the remote control device. The controller performs a process based on the command input to the remote control device. Each remote control device includes a communicating unit that performs a communication with the corresponding air conditioning indoor unit, and a short range wireless communicating unit that performs a short range wireless communication with a communicating apparatus having a function of the short range wireless communication. The command is input by receiving a signal transmitted from the communicating apparatus by the short range wireless communication, at the short range wireless communicating unit.

Abstract: A remote control device includes a display unit, physical keys, and a control unit to control operations of the display unit and execute various processes in accordance with commands input via the physical keys. The display unit includes a setting item display area to display setting item information pertaining to configurable setting items, and a set state display area to display information pertaining to set state of the setting items. The physical keys include at least one function key and a separate set state change key. The control unit successively selects the setting items, causes the display unit to display the setting item information, and performs an increase or decrease of a numerical value, a stage change, or a mode change relating to the setting item. The number of function keys is smaller than the number of the setting item information displayed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an occupant restraining apparatus includes a webbing W, a tongue 4, an airbag 20 provided along the webbing W, a bag cover 40 surrounding the airbag 20, and a webbing guide 30 through which the webbing W is passed. The webbing guide 30 extends continuously from one end to the other end of the bag cover 40. The lower end of the bag cover 40 surrounds the lower end of the webbing guide 30, and the lower end of the bag cover 40 and the lower end of the webbing guide 30 are bound together. The upper end of the bag cover 40 surrounds the upper end of the webbing guide 30, and the upper end of the bag cover 40 and the upper end of the webbing guide 30 are bound together.

Abstract: An air conditioner is installed in a target space. An operating state is switched based on a command sent from a portable communication terminal. The air conditioner includes a specific information storage component, a specific information notification component that gives notification of the specific information to the communication terminal, a command receiving component that receives the command sent from the communication terminal, and an actuator drive component that executes a switching control that switches action of an actuator based on the command received. The specific information includes identification information and operable period information that designates an operable period during which the operating state is switchable by the communication terminal.

Abstract: When mammal cells are administered by using a container whose surface in contact with the mammal cells is formed of a fluororesin material at least partially having a —CF3 terminal group or a container whose surface in contact with the mammal cells is formed of a fluororesin material having a total number of non-fluorinated group terminals and —CF2H group terminals in the fluororesin of 70 or less per 1×106 carbon atoms, or mammal cells are stored or cultured in such a container, the cell adhesion on the container inner surface and the cell survival rate reduction can effectively be suppressed. Therefore, by using these containers, a mammal cell-containing liquid having a high concentration and a high proportion of living cells can be administered, stored or prepared, which contributes to regenerative medicine using the mammal cell-containing liquid (suspension liquid).