Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: a ceramic plate including a wafer placement portion having a reference surface on which a number of small protrusions are provided; a cooling plate including a refrigerant flow path; a joining layer with which the ceramic plate and the cooling plate are joined; a recessed groove provided in the reference surface and having a bottom surface positioned lower than the reference surface; a plug arrangement hole passing through the ceramic plate and being open to the bottom surface of the recessed groove; a porous plug disposed in the plug arrangement hole, the porous plug having a top surface positioned at the same height as the bottom surface of the recessed groove and allowing gas to flow; and a gas supply path through which gas is supplied to the porous plug.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material, by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.

Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. When image formation processing for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle is executed based on image data, the acquisition processing portion acquires a length of a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle, the non-ejection period being included in an execution period of the image formation processing. When the length of the non-ejection period acquired by the acquisition processing portion is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the restriction processing portion restricts abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality of the nozzle using the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a count processing portion, and a detection processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The count processing portion counts a number of times that an electric signal output from the piezoelectric element and corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The detection processing portion detects a viscosity of the liquid contained in the pressure chamber, based on a count result of the count processing portion.

Abstract: A signal generation device includes a first signal generation portion and a second signal generation portion. The first signal generation portion, based on a reference signal that includes a plurality of rectangular single-wave signals, generates an original common signal in which the rise times of the two or more of the single-wave signals are extended so that they are different from each other, and the fall timing of one or more of the single-wave signals is shifted. The second signal generating portion generates a drive signal to be input to a piezoelectric element by extracting a rising edge of any one of the single-wave signals, the rise time of which is extended, from the original common signal amplified by the amplifying portion, maintaining a signal level changed by extracting the rising edge of the single-wave signal, and extracting a falling edge of a single-wave signal after the single-wave signal.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an output processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The output processing portion causes the piezoelectric element to output a first electric signal corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element. The determination processing portion determines whether or not the pressure chamber is in a filled state in which the pressure chamber is filled with the liquid, based on a frequency of the first electric signal output by the output processing portion.

Abstract: A cleaner system for cleaning a sensor mounted on a vehicle includes a first cleaner unit configured to clean a first sensor, a second cleaner unit configured to clean a second sensor different from the first sensor, and a solenoid valve configured to switch a duct of a cleaning medium supplied from a supply source. The solenoid valve is switchable such that the duct is connected to the first cleaner unit during non-energization, and the duct is connected to the second cleaner unit during energization, and the first sensor is provided in front of the second sensor in the vehicle.

Abstract: A wafer placement table includes a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface and an electrode, a cooling plate made of a metal-ceramic composite and having a cooling medium passage, and a joining layer configured to join the plates. A distance from the wafer placement surface to at least one of upper base or lower base of the cooling medium passage is not constant. The cooling plate has a plurality of plate portions including a first plate portion and a second plate portion, and has a structure in which the plurality of plate portions metal-joined to each other. The first plate portion has a first passage portion which is a through groove having the same shape as the cooling medium passage. The second plate portion has a second passage portion which is a bottomed groove disposed in at least part of a region facing the first passage portion.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal is provided with a pedal shaft, and a body part and an end cap. The pedal shaft has a center axis. The body part is rotatably supported by the pedal shaft around the center axis. The body part has a pedal shaft receiving bore with a first opening and a second opening. The first opening receives the pedal shaft along the center axis. The end cap is adjustably attached to the body part at the second opening to adjust a position of the pedal shaft within the pedal shaft receiving bore in an axial direction with respect to the center axis.

Abstract: In a step of inserting each of a plurality of disk-shaped windings into a recessed groove portion of a corresponding one of a plurality of ring-shaped fixing portions, each of the plurality of disk-shaped windings is inserted in a state where an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of disk-shaped windings is spaced apart from a bottom surface of the recessed groove portion of a corresponding one of the plurality of ring-shaped fixing portions. In a step of bringing the outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of disk-shaped windings into direct or indirect contact with the bottom surface of the recessed groove portion of the corresponding one of the plurality of ring-shaped fixing portions, each of the plurality of disk-shaped windings and an outer frame portion are cooled and contracted for contact.

Abstract: Provided is a photocurable resin composition including a reactive compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. A cured product of the photocurable resin composition has two or more glass transition points including a TgA and a TgB. The TgA is less than 25° C., and the TgB is 25° C. or more. An elongation at break in accordance with ASTM D638 of the cured product of the photocurable resin composition is 130% or more, and a breaking strength in accordance with ASTM D638 of the cured product of the photocurable resin composition is 3 MPa or more.

Abstract: To provide a novel pharmaceutical use of a peptide. A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of retinitis pigmentosa, comprising a peptide which comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 30 and inhibits the protease activity.

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, a plurality of periodic two-dimensional arrays of memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, a plurality of periodic two-dimensional arrays of memory opening fill structures, and bit lines. The bit lines laterally extend along a second horizontal direction. Each periodic two-dimensional array of memory openings includes a plurality of columns of memory openings in which neighboring columns of memory openings are laterally spaced apart along a first horizontal direction with an intercolumnar pitch. Memory openings within each column of memory openings are laterally spaced apart along the second horizontal direction with a nearest-neighbor pitch.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to execute an image forming operation for forming an image includes an image bearing member, a development unit, a drive unit, a controller, and a humidity detection unit to detect humidity near the development unit. The development unit contains developer and includes a conveyance member to convey the developer and a developer carrying member to carry the developer to a position where an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member is developed. The controller controls the conveyance and the developer carrying member through the drive unit not to execute a mode for driving the conveyance and the developer carrying member without executing the image forming operation when the humidity detected when power of the image forming apparatus is shifted from off to on is higher than a predetermined value, and to execute the mode when the detected humidity falls below the predetermined value afterward.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding whether a learning model is in a first mode or in a second mode, the learning model configured to detect a state of an energy storage device; and a change unit configured to change an operation of a balancer circuit from a predetermined state in a case where the learning model is in the first mode, the balancer circuit configured to balance a voltage of the energy storage device.

Abstract: An input relay unit receives speech data indicating a speech entered by a speaker. An input relay unit receives a confirmation request that is output in response to a predetermined operation of the speaker. A character string relay unit controls translation of the speech indicated by the speech data, which has been received before the reception of the confirmation request, to be started in response to the reception of the confirmation request. A display control unit controls a display unit to display a screen including an image obtained by overlaying a character string representing a translation result of a speech indicated by speech data that has been received before the reception of the confirmation request on an image captured by a capturing unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing device, a blade, a detecting portion, and a controller. The controller causes the photosensitive member to rotate through one full circumference or more on the following conditions during a predetermined operation: (i) a voltage which is a discharge start voltage or more is applied to the charging member, and (ii) an operation condition of the developing device is a first condition on which an amount of fog toner deposited from the developer carrying member on the photosensitive member is smaller than an amount of the fog toner on a second condition which is an operation condition of the developing device during a sheet interval before the image formation during the continuous image formation is interrupted.

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, a plurality of periodic two-dimensional arrays of memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, a plurality of periodic two-dimensional arrays of memory opening fill structures, and bit lines. The bit lines laterally extend along a second horizontal direction. Each periodic two-dimensional array of memory openings includes a plurality of columns of memory openings in which neighboring columns of memory openings are laterally spaced apart along a first horizontal direction with an intercolumnar pitch. Memory openings within each column of memory openings are laterally spaced apart along the second horizontal direction with a nearest-neighbor pitch.

Abstract: A part of a second split-flow pipe is branched into at least a first branch pipe and a second branch pipe. A second spring check valve is disposed in the first branch pipe to open when a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side of the second spring check valve in the first branch pipe becomes more than or equal to a second set pressure higher than a first set pressure. A third spring check valve is disposed in the second branch pipe to open when a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side of the third spring check valve in the second branch pipe becomes more than or equal to a third set pressure higher than the first set pressure. The second branch pipe is different from the first branch pipe in terms of at least one of diameter, length, and inner volume.