Abstract: The foil bearing includes a housing, a top foil, and bump foils. The bump foil includes first support portions that contact an outer circumferential surface of the top foil, second support portions that contact an inner circumferential surface of the housing, and coupling portions that couple the first support portions and the second support portions together such that the first support portions and the second support portions are disposed alternately in a rotation direction of a rotating body. When a load input from the rotating body increases, the bump foil is deformed to increase one of the number of the first support portions that contact the outer circumferential surface of the top foil and the number of the second support portions that contact the inner circumferential surface of the housing before increasing the other one of the numbers.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a main body connector, a fuser having a fuser connector, a power supply board, and a main board. The fuser connector is disposed at a first end section in the main body housing with the fuser attached to the main body housing. The main board is disposed at a second end section opposed to the first end section in the main body housing. The power supply board is connected with the main board via a first connection line disposed close to and along a ceiling surface or a bottom surface in the main body housing, and is connected with the main body connector via a second connection line. The main board is connected with the fuser via the first connection line, the power supply board, the second connection line, the main body connector, and the fuser connector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main frame and a unit installable in an installation position in the main frame. The main frame has a first guide, a second guide, a groove, and a frame-side connector. The frame-side connector is movably held by the main frame. The unit has a first reference portion and a unit-side connector. The unit is installed in the main frame by a first process in which the first reference portion is guided by the first guide, a second process, in which the first reference portion is guided by the second guide, and a third process, in which the first reference portion is received in the groove and the unit is located in the installation position. The unit-side connector engages the frame-side connector in the first process, and the frame-side connector moves as the unit-side connector moves in the second process and in the third process.

Abstract: A vehicle remote control method controls a vehicle having an autonomous travel control function to execute autonomous travel control. The method includes detecting an input position at which a touch operation is performed by an operator on a touch panel of a remote operation device and making a gesture determination area variable in accordance with the input position. The gesture determination area is an area in which a gesture for remotely controlling the vehicle is received. The method further includes detecting the gesture from the gesture determination area and determining whether or not the detected gesture is a command gesture that is preliminarily set. When the gesture is the command gesture, the vehicle is controlled to execute the autonomous travel control.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sheet-shaped reinforcing fiber substrate having shear deformability to conform to a three dimensional shape and restraining the generation of waste pieces to realize a large improve in the yield of reinforcing fibers and a reduction in production cost, and also provide a production method therefor.

Abstract: A fiber placement device that includes a placement surface on which a reinforcing fiber tow is placed and stacked; a tow arranging mechanism which presses and places the reinforcing fiber tow against and on the placement surface; and a heating mechanism which is configured to heat the placement surface. In one placement cycle, the tow arranging mechanism presses a group of the reinforcing fiber tows against the placement surface heated in advance by the heating mechanism, moves by a predetermined length in a first axial direction to glue and fix the group of the reinforcing fiber tows onto the placement surface, and move the placement surface in a second axial direction which substantially intersects the first axial direction.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium secondary battery having excellent charge-discharge cycle performance at high temperatures and having low resistance and high power. A spinel-type lithium manganese oxide including a phosphate, the spinel-type lithium manganese oxide being represented by chemical formula: Li1+XMn2?X?YMYO4 (where 0.02?X?0.20, 0.05?Y?0.30, and M represents Al or Mg), wherein the volume of pores having a size of 0.6 ?m or less is 0.003 cm3/g or more and 0.2 cm3/g or less, and the relative standard deviation of size of secondary particles is 25% or more and 45% or less, a method for producing the spinel-type lithium manganese oxide and applications of the spinel-type lithium manganese oxide.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an etching method that includes a resist pattern-forming step of forming a resist layer on a target object, the resist layer being formed of a resin, the resist layer having a resist pattern; an etching step of etching the target object via the resist layer having the resist pattern; and a resist protective film-forming step of forming a resist protective film on the resist layer. The etching step is repetitively carried out multiple times. A processing gas, used in the resist protective film-forming step, includes a gas capable of forming SixOy?z; wherein a is any one of F, Cl, H, and CkHl; and each of x, y, z, k, is a selected non-zero value. After the etching steps are repetitively carried out multiple times, the resist protective film-forming step is performed.

Abstract: A cautery puncture needle includes a pipe portion. The pipe portion has a first bent portion located on a distal end side of the pipe portion and a second bent portion located on a proximal end side of the pipe portion. A curvature radius of an arc of the first bent portion is equal to or larger than a curvature radius of an arc of the second bent portion and a length of the arc of the first bent portion is longer than a length of the arc of the second bent portion, or the length of the arc of the first bent portion is equal to or longer than the length of the arc of the second bent portion and the curvature radius of the arc of the first bent portion is larger than the curvature radius of the arc of the second bent portion.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a jetting head which is movable in a main scanning direction and which has nozzles configured to jet an ultraviolet-curable type ink onto a printing medium; a light source which is configured to irradiate the ultraviolet-curable type ink jetted onto the printing medium with an ultraviolet ray; a movement mechanism which is configured to relatively move the printing medium with respect to the jetting head in a subsidiary scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction; and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the ink contained in the jetting head to be agitated without jetting the ink at least during irradiation with the ultraviolet ray by the light source.

Abstract: A second conductor, third conductor, and fourth conductor sandwiches a first layer together with a first semiconductor. The fourth conductor is positioned farther from the first conductor than the third conductor, which is positioned farther from first conductor than the second conductor. A first circuit is configured to apply a first potential to the first and second conductors, apply a second potential lower than the first potential to the third conductor in parallel with the application of the first potential, and apply a third potential higher than the second potential and lower than the first potential to the fourth conductor in parallel with the application of the first potential.

Abstract: A cooling member for a rotating electrical machine includes: a first portion forming a cooling medium inlet hole; a second portion forming a cooling medium outlet hole; and a third portion forming a cooling medium passage that connects the cooling medium inlet hole and the cooling medium outlet hole without communicating with outside. The third portion includes, in the cooling medium passage, a plurality of first pillar portions each standing in a first direction perpendicular to a flow of a cooling medium, and a plurality of protruding portions each protruding in the first direction. The cooling medium is in contact with surfaces of the plurality of first pillar portions and surfaces of the protruding portions that are exposed to the cooling medium passage.

Abstract: A gear includes an annular sleeve and a tooth portion provided by injection molding to cover a part of the sleeve. The sleeve is a stacked body including a plurality of annular steel plates stacked in an axial direction of the sleeve.

Abstract: A vehicle control method and a vehicle control device are configured to control the movement of a vehicle based on operation of a terminal device located outside the vehicle. The vehicle receives from the terminal device a first signal indicating that a first button of the terminal device has been pressed. The vehicle doors are unlocked based on the reception of the first signal, and the vehicle is placed in a state in which movement control is permitted.

Abstract: A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel; the first pixel includes a first display element, a first color conversion layer, and a first absorption layer; the first display element emits first light; the first absorption layer overlaps with the first display element; and the first absorption layer absorbs the first light. Furthermore, the first color conversion layer is sandwiched between the first display element and the first absorption layer; the first color conversion layer converts the first light into second light; and the second light has a spectrum including a high proportion of light with a long wavelength compared with the first light.

Abstract: A vehicle program rewriting system includes a first control unit configured to execute a first control program for controlling a vehicle, a second control unit configured to execute a second control program for controlling the vehicle, a first communication line that connects, when rewriting at least one of the first and second control programs, the first control unit and a program update unit which transmits program update information to the first control unit, and a second communication line branching from the first communication line and connected to the second control unit. The second control unit executes control of, when the program update information for updating the second control program is transmitted, acquiring the program update information for the second control program from among communication contents between the program update unit and the first control unit acquired via the second communication line.

Abstract: The vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer composition according to the present invention comprises a vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer and a specific surfactant and contains no fluorinated surfactant, wherein the specific surfactant is contained in an amount of 10 ppm or larger but less than 100 ppm in terms of mass ppm of the solid components of the composition and has an HLB value of 10 or greater. The method for producing a vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer according to the present invention comprises emulsion-polymerizing specific monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of a specific emulsifier and an initiator without using any fluorinated surfactant, the use amount of the emulsifier being 8.5 ppm or larger but less than 100 ppm in terms of mass ppm of the monomers.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main casing including an image forming unit and a discharge tray, and an optional device configured to be removably attached to the main casing. The main casing includes a conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed from the image forming unit, a discharge path through which the sheet is conveyed toward one of the discharge tray and the optional device, the discharge path diverging from the conveying path, and a return path including a first path through which the sheet is conveyed temporarily out of the main casing via an opening formed in the main casing, and a second path through which the sheet is conveyed toward the image forming unit. The first path diverges from the conveying path. The second path diverges from the first path. The optional device is disposed closer to the discharge tray than the opening.

Abstract: A combined administration of a liposomal composition comprising Eribulin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a PD-1 antagonist exhibits unexpected antitumor effect.

Abstract: A processing device that determines a vulnerability of open software in a system, the processing device comprising: a control unit that outputs priority of the vulnerability based on at least one of first information indicating whether the open software is externally accessible, and second information indicating whether an attack code for the vulnerability of the open software is in circulation, wherein the control unit assigns higher priority to the vulnerability of the open software externally accessible compared to the vulnerability of the open software externally inaccessible, or assigns higher priority to the vulnerability where the attack code is in circulation compared to the vulnerability where the attack code is not in circulation.