Abstract: An edaravone suspension for human oral administration includes edaravone particles, a dispersant, and water.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging element that can reduce noise. The imaging element includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a first amplification element that amplifies a signal from the photoelectric conversion element; a second amplification element that amplifies an output from the first amplification element; an offset element provided between the first amplification element and the second amplification element; a first reset element that resets the first amplification element; and a second reset element that resets the second amplification element. The offset element is a capacitor. A charge is accumulated in the offset element via a feedback loop of an output from the second amplification element, and an offset bias is generated. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light source unit, a light-receiving unit, and a range image processing unit that computes a distance to an object. The range image processing unit performs multiple measurements different in relative timing relationship between an emission timing and an accumulation timing, extracts a feature amount based on the amounts of charge accumulated at the measurements, determines whether reflection light of a light pulse has been received by pixels in a single path or via multipath propagation, based on tendency of the extracted feature amount, and calculates the distance to the object present in a measurement space in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light-receiving unit including a pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to incident light and N (N?3) charge storage units that integrate charge in frame cycle, and a pixel drive circuit that turns on or off transfer transistors that transmit charge to the charge storage units at integration timing synchronizing with light pulses to distribute and integrate charge; a light source that emits light pulses; a range image processing unit that calculates a distance to object based on charge integrated in the charge storage units; and a measurement control unit that determines measurement zone to which the measurement distance belongs and which is set according to zone threshold set according to distance, integrates charge according to integration time set in the zone, and emits light pulses by increasing pulse period of light pulses according to increase of the integration time.

Abstract: A range imaging device including: a light source unit; a light receiving unit that includes a pixel and a pixel driving circuit, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion device and three or more charge storage units; and a range image processing unit. To cause charge corresponding to reflected light of a light pulse reflected by an object to be distributed to and stored in two of the charge storage units, the range image processing unit performs control so that the charge corresponding to the reflected light is stored in the two of the charge storage units for different reflected light storage times in a single frame period according to an intensity of the reflected light.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet processing device, and control circuitry. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. The sheet processing device performs post-processing on the sheet. The sheet processing device includes a first conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed and subjected to the post-processing and a second conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed without the post-processing. In response to an instruction of print jobs including both a print job of one or N copies subjected to the post-processing and a print job not subjected to the post-processing, the circuitry executes the job not subjected to the post-processing during execution of an M-th copy of the job subjected to the post-processing and causes the sheet to be conveyed through the second conveyance path, where N is two or greater and M satisfies 1?M<N.

Abstract: A triazine compound represented by formula (1) is provided. In the formula (1), A and B each independently represent an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; L represents a phenyl group or a naphthyl group; n is 0 or 1; and C represents any one of groups X, Y, and Z below, wherein Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a pyridyl group.

Abstract: An iron alloy material for casting includes 0.3 to 3.5 mass% of C, 0.1 to 3.0 mass% of Si, 26.0 to 42.0 mass% of Ni, 0.02 to 0.50 mass% of Sb, and a balance that is Fe and an inevitable impurity/impurities.

Abstract: An integrated pump device includes a motor, an oil pump rotated by a driving force of the motor and configured to discharge oil drawn from an oil pan, and a hydraulic actuator configured to switch between an advance state and a retard state by a hydraulic pressure created by the oil pump. The hydraulic actuator is a parking lock actuator, and includes a housing having vane chambers and a vane rotor housed in the housing and including vanes arranged in the vane chambers. The vane rotor is configured to rotate to enter the advance state when the hydraulic pressure is supplied to an advance chamber, and to rotate to enter the retard state when the hydraulic pressure is supplied to a retard chamber. The parking lock actuator locks a parking lock mechanism at the advance state, and unlocks the parking lock mechanism at the retard state.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a pressure member, and a holder. The pressure member forms a pressure area between the pressure member and a fixing belt. The holder is provided inside the fixing belt, has a sliding surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt via a lubricant, and holds a heater for heating the fixing belt. The holder includes a plurality of slits and a blocking portion. The plurality of slits are arranged in an axial direction on the sliding surface upstream of the pressure area in a passing direction of a medium and guide movement of the lubricant from upstream to downstream in a rotational direction of the fixing belt. The blocking portion restricts an outflow of the lubricant from each of the slits and restricts a fall of the fixing belt into each of the slits.

Abstract: A wafer support includes an RF electrode and a heater electrode that are embedded inside a disk-shaped ceramic base having a wafer placement surface. The RF electrode is constituted by a plurality of RF zone electrodes that are individually disposed for each of a plurality of divided zones of the wafer placement surface. The plurality of RF zone electrodes are separately disposed in at least two stages that are positioned at different distances from the wafer placement surface. The heater electrode is constituted by a plurality of heater zone electrodes that are individually disposed for each of a plurality of divided zones of the wafer placement surface, the zones being divided in a similar or different way to or from the RF zone electrodes.

Abstract: A sealing device provides consistent sealing performance in applications where a rotating shaft rotates at high speed. The sealing device 10 seals an annular gap between a rotating shaft 50 and a housing 60, and includes a case 100 fixedly attached to the shaft hole, and a seal ring 200 held in the case 100 such as to be restricted from moving in a rotating direction, and to separate a high-pressure side (H) where pressure rises during use of the sealing device from an opposite low-pressure side (L). The seal ring 200 is disposed such that there is an annular gap between itself and an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 50, and the annular gap is dimensioned such that a fluid pressure of a sealed fluid flowing from the high-pressure side (H) into the low-pressure side (L) causes the Lomakin effect.

Abstract: A mechanical seal includes: a mating ring; a seal ring; a casing which includes a pop-out regulation portion supporting the seal ring not to be rotatable and to be axially movable and coming into contact with the seal ring to regulate the seal ring from popping out toward the mating ring; an urging member disposed between the seal ring and a back wall of the casing axially overlapping with the seal ring and axially urges the seal ring toward the mating ring; and an annular secondary seal sealing a gap between the casing and the seal ring. The casing includes a regulation wall which regulates the secondary seal from moving toward the side opposite to the mating ring and an axial dimension between the seal ring and the regulation wall is equal to or less than a half of an axial dimension of the secondary seal while the seal ring and the pop-out regulation portion are in contact with each other.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a plurality of applications issuing a request for a communication with an outside of a vehicle, a communicator device performing the communicating, and a network coordinator managing the request for the communication from the plurality of applications. In a communication method in the vehicle system, when the network coordinator receives a request for a connection with an outside of the vehicle from the application, the network coordinator determines whether or not to permit the connection with the outside of the vehicle, and the network coordinator notifies the application of a determination result of the connection with the outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge includes a first surface, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, and a third surface extending between the first surface and the second surface, with a liquid outlet through the first surface. A circuit board is mounted on the third surface. A locking mechanism includes a locking surface that extends above the third surface, and a liquid detection mechanism includes a light access portion. The light access portion is disposed between the circuit board and the locking surface, and the circuit board is disposed between the first surface and the light access portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an austenitic stainless steel contains C?0.10 mass %, Si?0.50 mass %, 3.0?Mn?8.0 mass %, P?0.30 mass %, S?0.30 mass %, 7.0 Ni?12.0 mass %, 18.0?Cr?28.0 mass %, 1.0?Mo?3.0 mass %, 0.03?V?0.50 mass %, 0.0003?B?0.0300 mass %, 0.0001?Ca?0.0300 mass %, 0.35?N?0.80 mass %, W?2.0 mass %, Zr?0.20 mass %, Cu?0.5 mass %, Al?0.10 mass %, and O?0.050 mass %, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The austenitic stainless steel has a number density of coarse alloy carbonitrides of 3×105 pieces/mm2 or less.

Abstract: A battery pack case, including: a battery cell housing part made of metal, the battery cell housing part being configured to accommodate, from one side in a second direction, a battery cell in a state in which a plurality of the battery cells are stacked in a first direction perpendicularly intersecting the second direction and are compressed in the first direction, and the battery cell housing part being configured to support a restoring force of the battery cell; and a flow path forming part made of resin, the flow path forming part being provided integrally with the battery cell housing part, the flow path forming part being disposed at another side, in the second direction, of the battery cell, and the flow path forming part configuring a part of a cooling air flow path part through which battery cell cooling air flows.

Abstract: A sheet separation device includes a rotator, a nipping member to nip the two-ply sheet with the rotator, a first conveyor to convey the two-ply sheet in a first direction toward the rotator and a second direction reverse thereto, a winding member to wind the two-ply sheet around the rotator, a second conveyor to convey a sheet medium in the second direction, a separation claw to move in a width direction; a sheet guide to guide the separated two sheets to different passages; and control circuitry. The first conveyor conveys the two-ply sheet to the rotator with a bonded portion at an upstream end. The control circuitry inserts the separation claw into a space between the two sheets, adjusts a projection amount of the two-ply sheet from a nip of the first conveyor in the second direction, and inserts the sheet medium in two-ply sheet adjusted in the projection amount.

Abstract: A converter blowing control method includes: calculating, by heat balance calculation and material balance calculation, an amount of oxygen to be supplied and an amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material to be charged for controlling a temperature and a component concentration of molten steel at end of blowing in a converter to target values; and controlling the blowing in the converter based on the calculated amount of oxygen to be supplied and the calculated amount of a cooling material or a rising heat material to be charged. A temperature of molten iron is used as a raw material for blowing, which is a target of the heat balance calculation, is used as a charged molten iron temperature used in the heat balance calculation, the temperature of molten iron being measured during a period when the molten iron is charged into the converter.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, and a pair of retention members each including a restriction surface. The restriction surface restricts a movement of the fixing member in an axial direction. The restriction surface includes a first contact area and a second contact area. The first area is an area more on a downstream side of a passing direction of a medium than a center of a pressure area in the passing direction, and also closer to the pressure area than an apex of the fixing member on an opposite side of the pressure area. The first contact area and the second contact area are each tilted at a certain gradient so as to be set apart from the end portion of the fixing member in the axial direction from a side of the apex toward a side of the pressure area.