Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst for 2-stroke general-purpose engines, which is characterized in that: the exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a base and a coat layer on the base; the coat layer contains noble metals and metal oxides; the noble metals include palladium and one or more elements selected from among platinum and rhodium; the zirconia content in the coat layer is 0.07 mole or less per 100 g of the metal oxides contained in the coat layer; and the total content of one or more metal oxides selected from among lanthana and alkaline earth metal oxides in the coat layer is 0.05 mole or more per 100 g of the metal oxides contained in the coat layer.

Abstract: A control system including a discharge control circuit configured to control an application device such that a coating is discharged from a discharge circuit; a robot control circuit configured to cause an articulated robot to change a position and an orientation of the discharge circuit such that the coating is applied to a workpiece; an application abnormality detection circuit configured to detect an abnormality in an application state of the coating on the basis of at least one of a state of the device or of the robot; an application position calculation circuit configured to calculate an application position of the coating; and an abnormality notification circuit configured to send a notification of a site of an abnormality in the application state on the workpiece on the basis of a detection result of the abnormality in the application state and a calculation result of the application position.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a roller pair for transporting a sheet, a recording head, and a controller. The controller determines a linefeed amount by which the sheet is transported by the roller pair between corresponding two adjacent passes of the recording head. The controller executes image recording on the sheet by alternately repeating a linefeed operation for rotating the roller pair by the determined linefeed amount to transport the sheet in a transport direction, and a pass recording operation in which the controller causes the roller pair to stop and the recording head to perform a pass and to record part of an image on the sheet. Upon determining that a linefeed operation would cause the sheet to travel past the roller pair while the roller pair is decelerating, replace for the linefeed operation a determined linefeed amount by an adjusted linefeed amount.

Abstract: A printer includes a print engine and a controller configured to, when a particular condition is satisfied, control the print engine to perform first partial printing to form first dots corresponding to a first portion of a target image without forming second dots corresponding to a second portion of the target image, perform sub scanning over a first distance after the first partial printing and before second partial printing, and perform the second partial printing to form the second dots without forming the first dots, and when the particular condition is not satisfied, control the print engine to perform the first partial printing to form at least a part of the first dots, perform the sub scanning over a second distance different from the first distance after the first partial printing and before second partial printing, and perform the second partial printing to form the second dots.

Abstract: A first distributed processing node transmits distributed data to a second distributed processing node as intermediate consolidated data. A third distributed processing node generates intermediate consolidated data after update from received intermediate consolidated data and distributed data, and transmits the intermediate consolidated data to a fourth distributed processing node. The first distributed processing node transmits the received intermediate consolidated data to fifth distributed processing node as consolidated data. The third distributed processing node transmits the received consolidated data to a sixth distributed processing node.

Abstract: A printer includes a printing device including a print head, a first moving device, and a second moving device, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate first partial-dot-data by executing a first generating process with respect to first partial-image data and generate second partial-dot-data by executing a second generating process with respect to second partial-image-data. In the second generating process, the controller determines a degree of reduction in density by the second generating process to a first degree of reduction in a first case where a particular condition including a code condition that is satisfied when the second partial-image includes at least a portion of a code image is satisfied, and determine the degree of reduction in density by the second generating process to a second degree different from the first degree of reduction when the second partial-image does not include the code image.

Abstract: There are provided a composite plated product, which has little uneven appearance, a low contact resistance and good wear resistance, and a method for producing the same without the need of any silver-plating solutions containing cyanides and any silver-plating solutions containing silver nitrate as a silver salt. After carbon particles are caused to be suspended in water, an oxidizing agent is added thereto for carrying out a wet oxidation treatment of the carbon particles, and a silver-plating solution, which contains at least one sulfonic acid and the carbon particles treated by the wet oxidation treatment, is used for electroplating a base material to form a coating film of a composite material, which contains the carbon particles in a silver layer, on the base material to produce a composite plated product.

Abstract: A first distributed processing node transmits distributed data as intermediate consolidated data from a first communication port to a second distributed processing node. A third distributed processing node generates updated intermediate consolidated data from the received intermediate consolidated data and distributed data, and transmits the data from the first communication port to a fourth distributed processing node. The first distributed processing node transmits intermediate consolidated data received via a second communication port as consolidated data to a fifth distributed processing node from the second communication port. The third distributed processing node transmits consolidated data received via the first communication port to a sixth distributed processing node from the second communication port. Each of the distributed processing nodes updates a weight of a neural network based on the consolidated data.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print execution section and a controller. The print execution section includes a printing head which has nozzles for discharging ink of specified color, the nozzles being aligned in a first direction; a head driver which drives the printing head to discharge the ink of the specified color thereby forming dots of the specified color on a printing medium; and a conveyor which conveys the printing medium relative to the printing head in any direction of the first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The controller is configured to: acquire object image data; generate a plurality of pieces of dot data, which represent formation states of the dots of the specified color, for a plurality of pixels by using the object image data; and print a printing image on the printing medium by using the plurality of pieces of dot data.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming, on or above the first surface of the substrate, a semiconductor structure comprising a light-emitting layer; forming a crack inside the substrate, the crack reaching the first surface of the substrate; disposing a wavelength conversion layer on the second surface of the substrate; forming a first recess in the wavelength conversion layer by removing a first portion of the wavelength conversion layer, the first portion overlapping with the crack when viewed in a direction from the wavelength conversion layer toward the semiconductor structure, and leaving a second portion of the wavelength conversion layer between the first recess and the semiconductor structure; and cleaving the second portion along the crack.

Abstract: A first distributed processing node transmits distributed data to a second distributed processing node as intermediate consolidated data. A third distributed processing node generates intermediate consolidated data after update from received intermediate consolidated data and distributed data, and transmits the intermediate consolidated data to a fourth distributed processing node. The first distributed processing node transmits the received intermediate consolidated data to fifth distributed processing node as consolidated data. The third distributed processing node transmits the received consolidated data to a sixth distributed processing node.

Abstract: A distributed deep learning system includes a plurality of computers connected to each other over a communication network, wherein each iteratively performs forward propagation calculation and backpropagation calculation based on learning data, and sends a calculation result of the backpropagation calculation to the communication network, and an Allreduce processing apparatus connected to the computers over the communication network, that processes the calculation results received from the plurality of computers, and returns the calculation results to transmission sources, wherein the computers each include a forward propagation calculator, a backpropagation calculator, a transfer processor that stores the calculation result of the backpropagation calculation in a transfer buffer each time the backpropagation calculator calculates the calculation result of the backpropagation calculation for each of layers, and a communicator that sequentially transmits the calculation results of the backpropagation calculati

Abstract: A distributed processing system includes a plurality of lower-order aggregation networks and a higher-order aggregation network. The lower-order aggregation networks include a plurality of distributed processing nodes disposed in a ring form. The distributed processing nodes generate distributed data for each weight of a neural network of an own node. The lower-order aggregation networks aggregate, for each lower-order aggregation network, the distributed data generated by the distributed processing nodes. The higher-order aggregation network generates aggregated data where the aggregation results of the lower-order aggregation networks are further aggregated, and distributes to the lower-order aggregation networks. The lower-order aggregation networks distribute the aggregated data distributed thereto to the distributed processing nodes belonging to the same lower-order aggregation network. The distributed processing nodes update weights of the neural network based on the distributed aggregated data.

Abstract: A control device is configured to cause a print execution unit to print an image by repetitively executing: partial printing of causing a print head to eject ink while causing a main scanning unit to perform the main scanning; and conveying processing of causing a conveyor to perform a conveyance, and the control device is configured to execute: selection processing of selecting one of first processing and second processing for printing an Nth band area when the Nth band area includes a blank pixel line extending in a second direction; and execution processing of executing the one of the first processing and the second processing, and in the selection processing, the control device is configured to: select the second processing when a total count condition is satisfied; and select the first processing when the total count condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus for analyzing a behavior of a ball that has a center of gravity and in which an acceleration sensor is installed at a position shifted from the center of gravity by a predetermined shift amount, the analysis apparatus including a control unit configured to derive a centrifugal acceleration that is applied to the acceleration sensor, based on acceleration data that is output by the acceleration sensor, and derive at least one of a direction of a rotation axis and a rotation speed of a spin of the ball, based on the predetermined shift amount and the centrifugal acceleration.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a print execution section and a controller. The print execution section includes: a printing head having nozzles, an ink having a specified color being discharged from the nozzles; a head driver which drives the printing head to form dots having the specified color on a printing medium by discharging the ink having the specified color from the nozzles; and a movement mechanism which moves the printing medium relative to the printing head. The controller is configured to: obtain object image data; generate, by using the object image data, a plurality of pieces of dot data indicating formation states of the dots having the specified color, for a plurality of pixels; and print a printing image by causing the print execution section to execute discharge of the ink having the specified color and movement of the printing medium by use of the pieces of dot data.

Abstract: There is provide an image processing apparatus including a carriage with a recording head and a sensor mounted thereon, a conveyer, and a controller. The controller carries out: acquiring a recording data, a front edge margin, and a tail edge margin, determining whether or not at least one of first and second reference values is less than a threshold value, and a positioning process. When at least one of the first and second reference values is less than the threshold value, then the controller carries out: a front edge detecting process, a first recording preparation process, and a recording process. When at least one of the first and second reference values is not less than the threshold value, then the controller carries out: a second recording preparation process, and the recording process.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a recording unit; an accommodation part configured to accommodate therein a plurality of recording media including first and second recording medium and having a support surface on which the plurality of the recording media is supported; a conveying path; a feeder roller contacting the recording medium in the accommodation part from above; a reversing path; a recording medium detection unit located above the support surface and between the feeder roller and a downstream end of the support surface in the conveying direction; and a controller configured to control the feeder roller so as to feed the second recording medium in a manner that a front end portion of the second recording medium overlaps a rear end portion of the first recording medium, when the recording medium detection unit detects the rear end portion of the first recording medium fed by the feeder roller.

Abstract: A controller acquires image recording data for recording a plurality of passes; determines a first movement distance of a carriage for recording each of the plurality of passes; determines a non-usage ratio that is a ratio of a number of unused nozzles in a last pass of the plurality of passes to a total number of the plurality of nozzles arranged in a conveyance direction; determines a second movement distance in a particular pass which is recorded before the last pass, the second movement distance being a movement distance of the carriage assuming that the particular pass is recorded without using nozzles of a first ratio smaller than or equal to the non-usage ratio; and in response to determining that the second movement distance is shorter than the first movement distance, performs image recording of the particular pass without using the nozzles of the first ratio.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print execution section and a controller. The print execution section includes: a printing head having nozzles arranged in a first direction; a head driver that drives the printing head to discharge ink from the nozzles thereby forming dots on a printing medium; and a movement mechanism that moves the printing medium relative to the printing head in any of the first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The controller obtains a piece of object image data, generates, by using the object image data, a plurality of pieces of dot data indicating formation states of the dots for pixels, and prints a printing image by causing the print execution section to execute discharge of the ink and movement of the printing medium by use of the pieces of dot data.