Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink; a head substrate placed on the heat sink and having a plurality of heat generating elements arranged in a primary scanning direction; a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit; and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, in which at least one of the first bonding wire and the second bonding wire includes any of a copper wire, a copper alloy wire, and a wire mainly made of copper and coated with a metal different from copper.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus is configured to access a physical storage region of a storage apparatus corresponding to a logical address of a logical storage region, when an error is detected, specify a physical address of the physical storage region, for each of a plurality of regions generated by dividing the physical storage region using a plurality of division conditions different from each other, specify a number of times in which the error is detected, specify a recovery target region in which the number of times is equal to or greater than a first value, specify a first division condition generating the recovery target region, select, from a plurality of recovery methods, a first recovery method corresponding to the first division condition, and cause the storage apparatus to recover a first logical address in the logical storage region corresponding to the recovery target region by using the first recovery method.

Abstract: A sprocket plate, which is rotated synchronously with a crankshaft, includes a tapered hole portion. A shoe housing, which stops rotation of an inner rotor, includes a press fitting hole portion, which extends straight and into which a positioning member is press fitted. The positioning member includes: a contacting distal end portion that is inserted into the tapered hole portion in an axial direction and contacts an inner peripheral surface of the tapered hole portion at a specific side; a main shaft portion that extends straight in the axial direction and is press fitted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction; and a loosely inserting shaft portion that is formed between the contacting distal end portion and the main shaft portion and is loosely inserted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction.

Abstract: A vehicle approach alert device that outputs an approach report sound from a sounding body includes: a memory part in which data of the approach report sound is memorized; a signal generator that generates a voltage waveform signal of the approach report sound based on the data of the approach report sound; a calculator that calculates a temperature of the sounding body; and a correct part that corrects the approach report sound based on the temperature of the sounding body. The calculator acquires information about a temperature detected by a temperature sensor located at a position different from the sounding body in the vehicle, and estimates the temperature of the sounding body based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus including a storage unit and a processor. The processor is configured to set an issuable number with respect to a logical volume on basis of a configuration of storage devices constituting the logical volume and performance of the storage devices. The issuable number is a number of requests issuable to the logical volume during a unit time period. The processor is configured to receive a request requesting access to the logical volume. The processor is configured to accumulate the received request in the storage unit. The processor is configured to issue requests accumulated in the storage unit to the logical volume while limiting a number of issued requests during the unit time period to a range of the issuable number.

Abstract: A vehicle approach alert device that outputs an approach report sound from a sounding body includes: a memory part in which data of the approach report sound is memorized; a signal generator that generates a voltage waveform signal of the approach report sound based on the data of the approach report sound; a calculator that calculates a temperature of the sounding body; and a correct part that corrects the approach report sound based on the temperature of the sounding body. The calculator acquires information about a temperature detected by a temperature sensor located at a position different from the sounding body in the vehicle, and estimates the temperature of the sounding body based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A sprocket plate, which is rotated synchronously with a crankshaft, includes a tapered hole portion. A shoe housing, which stops rotation of an inner rotor, includes a press fitting hole portion, which extends straight and into which a positioning member is press fitted. The positioning member includes: a contacting distal end portion that is inserted into the tapered hole portion in an axial direction and contacts an inner peripheral surface of the tapered hole portion at a specific side; a main shaft portion that extends straight in the axial direction and is press fitted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction; and a loosely inserting shaft portion that is formed between the contacting distal end portion and the main shaft portion and is loosely inserted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction.

Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a check valve, a filter, and a filter holding body. The check valve is placed between a camshaft and a vane rotor. The filter is placed between the camshaft and the check valve. The filter holding body includes a plurality of metal plates, which are stacked one after another. Two metal plates, which serve as enlarged space forming plates, are placed adjacent to the filter on one side of the filter where the camshaft is placed while each of the two metal plates includes enlarged through holes. A metal plate, which serves as an enlarged space forming plate, is placed adjacent to the filter on another side of the filter and includes enlarged through holes. A flow passage cross-sectional area of each enlarged through hole is larger than a flow passage cross-sectional area of a supply oil passage.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multicomponent lithium phosphate compound particle with an olivine structure of formula LiyM11-ZM2ZPO4, M1 is Fe, Mn or Co; Y satisfies 0.9?Y?1.2; M2 is Mn, Co, Mg, Ti or Al; and Z satisfies 0<Z?0.1, in which the M2 concentration is continuously lowered from a surface of the particle to a core portion of the particle. The method includes mixing a lithium M1 phosphate compound with an olivine structure of formula LiXM1PO4, M1 is Fe, Mn or Co, and X satisfies 0.9?X?1.2, and a precursor of a lithium M2 phosphate compound with an olivine structure of formula LiXM2PO4, M2 is Mn, Co, Mg, Ti or Al, and X satisfies 0.9?X?1.2, to form a mixture; and subjecting the mixture to heating in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum.

Abstract: Provided are a diketopiperazine mixture suitable for mixing with a food or drink and a method for producing the mixture. High-temperature and high-pressure treatment of plant peptides in a liquid allows production of a plant extract containing a high concentration of diketopiperazines including cyclo-leucyl-leucine and cyclo-leucyl-phenylalanine. The present invention can provide diketopiperazines having excellent flavor derived from a plant natural product and can produce a food or drink provided with the functions of the diketopiperazines by directly mixing the diketopiperazines with the food or drink.

Abstract: The objective of the present application is to suppress the occurrence of flares and to reduce the amount of secondary electrons arising at an aperture provided to the lead-out electrode of an electron gun. By coating a thin film having a low rate of secondary electron emission such as carbon onto the aperture of a lead-out electrode closest to an electron source in an electron gun, it is possible to reduce the amount of secondary electrons arising. Secondary electrons arising at the lead-out electrode, are reduced, and so as a result, flare is reduced. By incorporating two apertures to the lead-out electrode, and applying to the two apertures a potential that is equipotential to the lead-out electrode, it is possible to eliminate an electric field from seeping from under to over the lead-out electrode. Secondary electrons arising when an electron beam impacts the lead-out electrode cease to incur force in the direction of passage from the lead-out electrode, and consequently there is a reduction in flares.

Abstract: A resin member may include a first side wall, which is placed between a first housing and a laminated body, and a second side wall, which is placed between a second housing and the laminated body. A vane rotor may include a pressing oil passage that is configured to guide hydraulic oil to a first seal member and a second seal member to exert a pressing force, which radially outwardly and axially urge the first seal member and the second seal member.

Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a check valve, a filter, and a filter holding body. The check valve is placed between a camshaft and a vane rotor. The filter is placed between the camshaft and the check valve. The filter holding body includes a plurality of metal plates, which are stacked one after another. Two metal plates, which serve as enlarged space forming plates, are placed adjacent to the filter on one side of the filter where the camshaft is placed while each of the two metal plates includes enlarged through holes. A metal plate, which serves as an enlarged space forming plate, is placed adjacent to the filter on another side of the filter and includes enlarged through holes. A flow passage cross-sectional area of each enlarged through hole is larger than a flow passage cross-sectional area of a supply oil passage.

Abstract: A main angle-limiting mechanism mechanically limits a relative movement between a vane rotor and a housing within a main angular range. When a rotational phase difference between the vane rotor and the housing becomes out of the main angular range, for example, due to a breakage of the main angle-limiting mechanism, an electronic control unit sets a target value for the rotational phase difference. The target value is set at such a value within a restricted angular range, which is smaller than the main angular range.

Abstract: A valve timing controller includes a housing, a vane rotor, and a stopper pin. The stopper pin regulates a relative rotation position of the vane rotor relative to the housing. A boss part of the vane rotor has a plurality of metal plates layered with each other in an axial direction. At least one metal plate of the plurality of metal plates has a hole in which the stopper pin is inserted, and a nail projected from an inner wall of the hole toward the stopper pin so as to hold the stopper pin.

Abstract: A vehicle approach warning apparatus for abnormality detection in various abnormal modes is provided. In the vehicle approach warning apparatus, a sound generator output from the microcomputer passes an AMP and HPF, and an output voltage corresponding to the sound generator output is applied to a speaker to emit vehicle approach sound. The vehicle approach warning apparatus includes a voltage sensor circuit and outputs a check usage output as the sound generator output at the abnormality detection. A single frequency output that is within a resonance frequency band of the speaker and that can be poorly reproduced by the speaker is used as the check usage output. The abnormality detection is performed based on whether an integration circuit voltage outputted from the voltage sensor circuit is within a voltage range being an abnormality determination threshold.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus including a storage unit and a processor. The processor is configured to set an issuable number with respect to a logical volume on basis of a configuration of storage devices constituting the logical volume and performance of the storage devices. The issuable number is a number of requests issuable to the logical volume during a unit time period. The processor is configured to receive a request requesting access to the logical volume. The processor is configured to accumulate the received request in the storage unit. The processor is configured to issue requests accumulated in the storage unit to the logical volume while limiting a number of issued requests during the unit time period to a range of the issuable number.

Abstract: A resin member may include a first side wall, which is placed between a first housing and a laminated body, and a second side wall, which is placed between a second housing and the laminated body. A vane rotor may include a pressing oil passage that is configured to guide hydraulic oil to a first seal member and a second seal member to exert a pressing force, which radially outwardly and axially urge the first seal member and the second seal member.

Abstract: A resin member may include a first side wall, which is placed between a first housing and a laminated body, and a second side wall, which is placed between a second housing and the laminated body. A vane rotor may include a pressing oil passage that is configured to guide hydraulic oil to a first seal member and a second seal member to exert a pressing force, which radially outwardly and axially urge the first seal member and the second seal member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multicomponent lithium phosphate compound particle with an olivine structure of formula LiyM11-ZM2ZPO4, M1 is Fe, Mn or Co; Y satisfies 0.9?Y?1.2; M2 is Mn, Co, Mg, Ti or Al; and Z satisfies 0<Z?0.1, in which the M2 concentration is continuously lowered from a surface of the particle to a core portion of the particle. The method includes mixing a lithium M1 phosphate compound with an olivine structure of formula LiXM1PO4, M1 is Fe, Mn or Co, and X satisfies 0.9?X?1.2, and a precursor of a lithium M2 phosphate compound with an olivine structure of formula LiXM2PO4, M2 is Mn, Co, Mg, Ti or Al, and X satisfies 0.9?X?1.2, to form a mixture; and subjecting the mixture to heating in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum.