Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an inductor component includes preparing an insulating paste that is photosensitive and that includes a filler material composed of quartz, a glass material and a resin material, and a conductive paste, forming a first insulating layer by applying the insulating paste, and exposing the first insulating layer in a state where a first portion of the first insulating layer is shielded by a mask. The method further includes removing the first portion of the first insulating layer to form a groove at a position corresponding to the first portion, applying the conductive paste in the groove to form a coil conductor layer in the groove, and applying the insulating paste on the first insulating layer and the coil conductor layer to form a second insulating layer.

Abstract: A reflectance measurement part measures the reflectance of a back surface of a semiconductor wafer. An imaging parameter of a camera is adjusted based on the measured reflectance. The imaging parameter includes exposure time and sensitivity of the camera. The camera with the adjusted imaging parameter images the back surface of the semiconductor wafer to determine the presence or absence of a flaw from the obtained image data. The camera is able to perform appropriate imaging in accordance with the reflectance of the back surface of the semiconductor wafer. Thus, a flaw in the back surface of the semiconductor wafer is detected with reliability even if the reflectance of the back surface is varied due to the deposition of a thin film on the back surface.

Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit includes a Zener diode and a current generation circuit connected to the Zener diode in parallel. The current generation circuit includes a resistance voltage divider circuit, a transistor circuit and a voltage control circuit. The resistance voltage divider circuit has a branch portion for branching the current into two paths, and outputs a reference voltage acquired by voltage division through a resistive element. The transistor circuit includes two NPN transistors and a series resistance circuit in which resistive elements are connected in series. The two NPN transistors respectively having collectors, bases and emitters. The collectors are respectively connected to the two paths. The bases have a common connection. The series resistance circuit is connected between a ground and one of the emitters. The voltage control circuit equalizes respective collector potentials of the two NPN transistors.

Abstract: A molded bale of a rubber-like block copolymer, the rubber-like block copolymer containing 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (a) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 22% by mass or less; and 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (b) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 23% by mass or more and less than 50% by mass, in which the rubber-like block copolymer has an iodine value of 10 to 250, an ethylene structure content of 3% by mass or more, and a vinyl aromatic monomer block content of less than 10% by mass.

Abstract: A human-powered vehicle component includes an input device, to which first information related to at least one of a human-powered vehicle, a rider of the human-powered vehicle, and environment of the human-powered vehicle is input. The human-powered vehicle component further comprises an electric actuator and an artificial intelligence processor configured to generate second information for controlling the electric actuator in accordance with the first information input to the input device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a molded bale of a rubber composition that is difficult to cold flow and difficult to be thermally deteriorated. The present invention provides a molded bale of a rubber composition containing: a rubber-like polymer (A) having an iodine value of 10 to 250, 3% by mass or more of an ethylene structure, and less than 10% by mass of a vinyl aromatic monomer block; and aluminum (B), in which a content of the aluminum (B) is 2 ppm or more and 200 ppm or less.

Abstract: A molded bale of a rubber composition, containing: a rubber-like polymer (A) having an iodine value of 10 to 250, 3% by mass or more of an ethylene structure, and less than 10% by mass of a vinyl aromatic monomer block; and titanium (C), in which a content of the titanium (C) is 3 ppm or more and 120 ppm or less, and a content of aluminum (B) is less than 2 ppm.

Abstract: A tape cassette includes a recess formed on a part of a side wall of a cassette case, an arm portion, a roller partly exposed from the tape cassette, a first protrusion including a first leading end, and a second protrusion including a second leading end. The first leading end and the second leading end protrudes toward first side. The first leading end is positioned on a first virtual line or further to the first side than the first virtual line. The first virtual line connects an exposed part of an outer peripheral surface of the roller with a connection portion between the recess and a wall comprising the arm portion. The second leading end is positioned further to the first side than a second virtual line. The second virtual line connects the exposed part of the outer peripheral surface of the roller with the first leading end.

Abstract: A controller executes a dither control that cyclically increases and decreases an exciting current in a linear solenoid valve so as to vibrate a spool of the linear solenoid valve. A vibration cycle of the spool obtained through the dither control is referred to a dither cycle. The dither control includes a first dither control that vibrates the spool in a first dither cycle and a second dither control that vibrates the spool in a second dither cycle that is shorter than the first dither cycle. The controller executes the first dither control and the second dither control when an oil temperature of the hydraulic oil is between a first oil temperature and a second oil temperature that is higher than the first oil temperature.

Abstract: A tape cassette includes a cassette case, a tape roll, a print tape wound around the tape roll, a ribbon roll, an ink ribbon wound around the ribbon roll, a recess, an arm portion, and a guide. The print tape and the ink ribbon are conveyed inside the cassette case and the arm portion. The arm portion includes a discharge port to discharge the print tape and the ink ribbon. The guide is provided at a position downstream of the discharge port, on a conveyance path of the print tape and the ink ribbon. A first end of the guide includes a roller members configured to rotate around a shaft extending in the up-down direction. The guide is configured to guide the ink ribbon, by the first end coming into contact with the ink ribbon, to a winding path branching from the conveyance path and toward the ribbon winding spool.

Abstract: A tape cassette includes a recess formed on a part of a side wall of a cassette case, an arm portion, a roller partly exposed from the tape cassette, a first protrusion including a first leading end, and a second protrusion including a second leading end. The first leading end and the second leading end protrudes toward first side. The first leading end is positioned on a first virtual line or further to the first side than the first virtual line. The first virtual line connects an exposed part of an outer peripheral surface of the roller with a connection portion between the recess and a wall comprising the arm portion. The second leading end is positioned further to the first side than a second virtual line. The second virtual line connects the exposed part of the outer peripheral surface of the roller with the first leading end.

Abstract: A hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer of the present invention has a branch number (Bn) measured by viscosity detector-equipped GPC-light scattering measurement of 2.5 or more, and a hydrogenation rate of a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound of 30% or more and less than 99%.

Abstract: A controller for a linear solenoid valve is configured to: calculate an average value of an exciting current within a period including a natural number multiple of the dither cycle as an average current value; execute a feedback control on a control value of the pulse width modulation signal such that a target value of the exciting current and the average current value match; and calculate a dither correction amount by multiplying a ratio between the control value of the pulse width modulation signal obtained by the feedback control and the average current value by a dither current value that is a current value corresponding to the dither correction amount and calculating the dither correction amount such that an increase in the exciting current due to the dither correction amount is canceled out by a decrease in the exciting current due to the dither correction amount within one dither cycle.

Abstract: A human-powered vehicle component includes an input device, to which first information related to at least one of a human-powered vehicle, a rider of the human-powered vehicle, and environment of the human-powered vehicle is input. The human-powered vehicle component further comprises an electric actuator and an artificial intelligence processor configured to generate second information for controlling the electric actuator in accordance with the first information input to the input device.

Abstract: A human-powered vehicle control device includes an artificial intelligence processor, an operation device, and a communication device. The artificial intelligence processor is configured to generate second information for controlling an electric component of a human-powered vehicle in accordance with first information related to at least one of the human-powered vehicle, a rider of the human-powered vehicle, and an environment of the human-powered vehicle. The operation device operates the electric component. The communication device is configured to communicate with an external device. The artificial intelligence processor is configured to change a process for generating the second information in accordance with the first information and an operation of the operation device. The communication device is configured to transmit third information related to a process for generating the second information to the external device.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an artificial intelligence processor that is configured to generate second information for controlling an electric component including at least one of a drive unit that applies propulsion force to a human-powered vehicle, an electric adjustable seatpost, and an electric suspension in accordance with first information related to at least one of the human-powered vehicle, a rider of the human-powered vehicle, and an environment of the human-powered vehicle. The artificial intelligence processor changes a process for generating the second information in accordance with the first information and in accordance with an operation of a first operation unit for operating the at least one of the drive unit, the electric adjustable seatpost, and the electric suspension.

Abstract: A human-powered vehicle component includes an input device, to which first information related to at least one of a human-powered vehicle, a rider of the human-powered vehicle, and environment of the human-powered vehicle is input. The human-powered vehicle component further comprises an electric actuator and an artificial intelligence processor configured to generate second information for controlling the electric actuator in accordance with the first information input to the input device.

Abstract: A controller executes a dither control that cyclically increases and decreases an exciting current in a linear solenoid valve so as to vibrate a spool of the linear solenoid valve. A vibration cycle of the spool obtained through the dither control is referred to a dither cycle. The dither control includes a first dither control that vibrates the spool in a first dither cycle and a second dither control that vibrates the spool in a second dither cycle that is shorter than the first dither cycle. The controller executes the first dither control and the second dither control when an oil temperature of the hydraulic oil is between a first oil temperature and a second oil temperature that is higher than the first oil temperature.

Abstract: A tubular fuser device rotates and is in contact with a sheet on which a positively charged toner image is formed to fix the toner image to the sheet. The fuser device includes a tubular substrate made of a metal, a rubber layer covering the outer periphery of the substrate, an adhesion layer covering the outer periphery of the rubber layer, and a surface layer made of a resin covering the outer periphery of the adhesion layer. In the fuser device, a charge decay ?V at a moment 120 seconds after end of charging a surface of the surface layer to ?1 kV is zero, and an electrostatic capacity per unit area C in a thickness direction of the fuser device is equal to or less than 3.30 pF/cm2.