Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to and from which a replenishment container is attachable and detachable and which includes an accommodating portion that accommodates developer and a replenishment port, an agitation member, an opening/closing member configured to be movable between a closed position and an open position, a drive source for driving the agitation member, and a control portion configured to control the drive source. The apparatus is configured such that image formation is not possible when the opening/closing member is at the open position, and the agitation member is capable of driving in a case where the opening/closing member is at the open position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to accommodate developer containing toner, a developer bearing member to rotate while bearing the developer accommodated in the developer container and develop the electrostatic latent image borne on an image bearing member into a developer image, a detection portion to output remainder amount information corresponding to an amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container, and a notification portion capable of notifying a first state indicating that a remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is a first amount or more and a second state indicating that the remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is less than the first amount. The notification portion notifies one of a plurality of states including the first state and the second state on a basis of the remainder amount information output from the detection portion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A conveyance mechanism which includes a rotation shaft extending in a direction along a first direction connecting first and second discharge ports that is rotatable with a rotation axis extending in the first direction. Wherein, a first rotation conveyance unit is disposed on the rotation shaft, and is rotatable together with the rotation shaft, conveys developer toward the first discharge port, and a second rotation conveyance unit is disposed on the rotation shaft, and is rotatable together with the rotation shaft, conveys developer toward the second discharge port. The second rotation conveyance unit is configured to provide a larger amount of conveyance than the first rotation conveyance unit.

Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. The cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. The locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to and from which the replenishment container is attachable and detachable and which includes an accommodating portion that accommodates developer and a replenishment port, an agitation member, an opening/closing member configured to be movable between a closed position and an open position, a drive source for driving the agitation member, and a control portion configured to control the drive source. The apparatus is configured such that image formation is not possible when the opening/closing member is at the open position, and the agitation member is capable of driving in a case where the opening/closing member is at the open position.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer container having a replenishment port, a developer bearing member, a detection portion configured to output remainder amount information corresponding to the amount of developer accommodated in the developer container, a notification portion capable of notifying a first state, and a second state, and a control portion. The maximum amount of the developer that the developer container is capable of accommodating is larger than a value obtained by adding the amount of the developer accommodated in a replenishment container containing the developer for replenishment to the first amount, and wherein notification of the second state corresponds to notification of a case where the amount of the developer remaining in the developer container is larger than a case where the amount of the developer remaining in the developer container is the smallest.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an autonomous traveling vehicle having a loading space for loading a package and/or a user. The autonomous traveling vehicle includes: a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state where the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state where the loading space forms one continuous space; and a control unit that controls the partition apparatus such that the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only any one of the package and the user is loaded in the loading space and the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages operation of an autonomous vehicle that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that before the autonomous vehicle arrives at a basic delivery destination that is an original delivery destination of the package, acquires a location, at a planned delivery time of the package, of a user that receives the package, and where the location is different from the basic delivery destination, transmits an instruction for delivering the package to the location to the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A rotor blade in an embodiment includes: a suction surface side projecting portion projecting from a suction surface on a leading edge side at a blade tip of the blade effective portion; and a pressure surface side projecting portion projecting from a pressure surface on a trailing edge side at the blade tip of the blade effective portion. The suction surface side projecting portion includes: a leading edge side end surface including a contact surface that comes into contact with the pressure surface side projecting portion of the adjacent rotor blade and a non-contact surface that does not come into contact with the pressure surface side projecting portion of the adjacent rotor blade during rotation; a groove portion formed from the non-contact surface to the trailing edge side; and a joining member joined to the groove portion, the joining member being formed of an erosion-resistance material.

Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. The cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. The locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body.

Abstract: A method for selectively killing protein aggregate-containing cells, a kit thereof, a therapeutic agent for the protein misfolding disease, and an agent for removing a protein aggregate from a blood derivative are provided. The method for selectively killing cells according to one embodiment acts a fluorine-based alcohol or a compound represented by general formula (1) on cells as a compound for detecting a protein aggregate and selectively kills protein aggregate-containing cells.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electronic component device, including: preparing a sealing structure having a sealing layer having two opposing main surfaces, an electronic component, and a connection portion, the connection portion being exposed on a circuit surface that is one main surface of the sealing layer; preparing a rewiring structure having a rewiring portion having two opposing main surfaces, and a plurality of bumps; and bonding the sealing structure and the rewiring structure in a direction that the circuit surface and the plurality of bumps face each other, with an insulating layer intervening.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electronic component device, including: preparing a sealing structure including a sealing layer having two opposing main surfaces, an electronic component, and a connection portion, the connection portion being exposed on a circuit surface that is one main surface of the sealing layer; preparing a rewiring structure including a rewiring portion having two opposing main surfaces, and a plurality of bumps; and bonding the sealing structure and the rewiring structure in a direction that the circuit surface and the plurality of bumps face each other, with an insulating adhesive layer intervening, and thereby connecting the sealing structure and the rewiring structure.

Abstract: A process cartridge mountable in and dismountable from an image forming apparatus includes a frame, a storing portion provided on a mounting surface of the frame and configured to store information on the process cartridge, a projection projecting outwardly of the mounting surface in a direction normal to the mounting surface, and an electrical contact portion mounted on the projection and electrically connected to the storing portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image bearing member, and a process unit attached to the apparatus body, the process unit including a frame including a storage portion configured to store developer, a developer bearing member configured to supply developer to the image bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image; and a circuit board attached to the frame, wherein the circuit board includes a light emitting portion configured to emit light, and a light receiving portion configured to receive the light emitted from the light emitting portion and having passed through an interior of the storage portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an electronic component, the method including: disposing a plurality of electronic components on an adhesive layer of a composite substrate including a support, a temporary fixing material layer, and the adhesive layer with a connection part in contact with the adhesive layer interposed between the adhesive layer and the electronic components; fixing the plurality of electronic components to the composite substrate by curing the adhesive layer; forming a sealing layer sealing the electronic components; obtaining a sealed structure by peeling off the temporary fixing material layer from the adhesive layer; and a forming a circuit surface by grinding the sealed structure from the adhesive layer side. The plurality of electronic components include an IC chip and a chip-type passive component.

Abstract: A toner container for use with an image forming apparatus is provided with a toner accommodating portion in which toner is accommodated; a base portion including a receiving opening for receiving the toner accommodated in the toner accommodating portion, a discharge opening for permitting discharge of the toner, received through the receiving opening, to an outside of the toner container, and a passage which is a passage extending from the receiving opening to the discharge opening and which is for permitting passing of the toner; and a shutter constituted so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis relative to the base between an open position where the discharge opening is exposed to the outside and a closed position where the shutter covers the discharge opening, wherein the passage extends in a direction in which the passage is inclined relative to the rotational axis so that the receiving opening is in a position where the receiving opening crosses the rotational axis and so that the discharge opening

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electronic component including: forming a via hole extending in a thickness direction of a curable sealing resin layer provided on a base material by an imprint method of pressing a mold into the sealing resin layer from a side opposite to the base material; curing the sealing resin layer; filling the via hole with a conductor precursor; and forming a conductive via by heating the conductor precursor filled in the via hole.