Abstract: A metal contact member 10 includes a metal sheet 15, which has a plurality of streaky projecting portions extend along each other on a front surface 15A of the metal sheet 15. A rubber switch member 12 includes the metal contact member 10 and a rubber switch body 11 joined to the metal contact member 10.

Abstract: Provided is a water-absorbent resin which is capable of giving an absorbent material improved gel-shape stability and which has excellent water-absorption capacity. A water-absorbent resin of the present invention is a polymer of a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and has the following properties (1) and (2): (1) A disintegration amount at 20-fold swelling is 30% by mass or less; and (2) a solubility in physiological saline is 25% by mass or less. (Determination Method for Disintegration Amount at 20-Fold Swelling) 5 g of the water-absorbent resin is added to 100 g of physiological saline to allow the water-absorbent resin to absorb the physiological saline, thereby obtaining a gel. The obtained gel is divided approximately equally into five portions, and these portions are introduced respectively into cylindrical molds having a length of 3.6 cm and a radius of 2.8 cm and molded. The masses of the five molded cylindrical gels are measured.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single-layer photosensitive layer and contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. A hole mobility ?h is at least 1.00×10?7 cm2/V/second and an electron mobility ?e is at least 4.00×10?8 cm2/V/second in the photosensitive layer as measured under conditions of a temperature of 23° C. and an electric field intensity of 1.50×105 V/cm. A ratio (?h/?e) of the hole mobility ?h to the electron mobility ?e is at least 1.0 and no greater than 50.0.

Abstract: A predetermined image processing is carried out on the images that have been taken by the cameras 101 through 108 attached to a side of the cars that form a train before the images are displayed on the monitor 301 that is mounted in the train. That is to say, as a first image processing, among the images to be displayed, a left-right inversion process is carried out on the images where the positional relationship between the cars and the platform in the image is opposite between left and right to the positional relationship as viewed in the direction in which the train is to travel. In addition, as a second image processing, a cutout process is carried out on the images to be displayed so that the cutout regions differ in accordance with the opening and closing state of the doors.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, the substrate treatment device includes a dilutor configured to dilute a first liquid containing a metal ion and exhibiting acidity. The device further includes a pH changer configured to change a pH of the first liquid before or after being diluted by the dilutor. The device further includes a substrate conditioner configured to treat the substrate using the first liquid, which is diluted by the dilutor and with the pH changed by the pH changer.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single-layer photosensitive layer and contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. A hole mobility ?h is at least 1.00×10?7 cm2/V/second and an electron mobility ?e is at least 4.00×10?8 cm2/V/second in the photosensitive layer as measured under conditions of a temperature of 23° C. and an electric field intensity of 1.50×105 V/cm. A ratio (?h/?e) of the hole mobility ?h to the electron mobility ?e is at least 1.0 and no greater than 50.0.

Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure includes a front fender panel, a fender reinforcement attached to the front fender panel, and a head lamp unit fixed to the front fender panel. A rear end portion of the head lamp unit is positioned behind a fixing point at which the front fender panel and the head lamp unit are fixed to each other in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a protruding portion protruding to the vehicle-width-direction inner side is disposed in the fender reinforcement, and the protruding portion is positioned on a rotation trajectory of the head lamp unit at a time when the head lamp unit is rotated about a virtual line in an up-down direction of the vehicle passing through the fixing point such that the rear end portion of the head lamp unit is toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side.

Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes: a fender panel; an apron member disposed below an inner wall section of the fender panel; a fender protector having a lateral wall mounted on the inner wall section of the fender panel, and a vertical wall extending from an inner end of the lateral wall toward a lower side in the vehicle up-down direction, the vertical wall having an inclined part and a lower wall part, the inclined part being bent from the inner end of the lateral wall toward the lower side and extending so as to incline relative to the vehicle up-down direction, the lower wall part being provided so as to extend from a lower end of the inclined part via a bend toward the lower side; and a sealant provided between a lower end portion of the lower wall part and the apron member.

Abstract: Provided is a cooling structure for a bearing device. The bearing device includes a rolling bearing having a stationary raceway ring and a rotating raceway ring, a stationary spacer adjacent to the stationary raceway ring and a rotating spacer adjacent to the rotating raceway ring. The stationary raceway ring and the stationary spacer are provided in a stationary member, and the rotating raceway ring and the rotating spacer are provided in a rotating member. The cooling structure includes: an annular recessed portion provided on a circumferential surface, of the stationary spacer, that confronts an opposite spacer; and a nozzle hole configured to inject a compressed air from an outlet open to a bottom surface of the recessed portion toward a circumferential surface of the rotating spacer that confronts an opposite spacer. The nozzle hole is inclined forwardly in a rotation direction of the rotating spacer.

Abstract: A vehicle lower structure includes: a shear plate that is arranged on a bottom surface in a front portion of a vehicle and is formed with a jacking projection jutting downward at a position where a front-side jacking point is set; and a suspension member that is arranged above the shear plate. The shear plate has a force-bearing area that continues from the rear of the jacking projection and vertically opposes a part of a lower end surface of the suspension member.

Abstract: An access control device for controlling an access by a communication terminal to an application includes an authentication method management means configured to manage each of the application in association with authentication information, which indicates an effective authentication method effective for authenticating an access request source of an access request to access the application, an authenticating means configured to authenticate the access request source using a usable authentication method, which can be used in the communication terminal, based on the access request, an access request receiving means configured to receive the access request to access an intended application from the communication terminal, and an access control means configured to control the communication terminal so that the communication terminal does not access the intended application in a case where the authentication method management means does not manage the authentication information, which indicates the authentication

Abstract: A mounting structure for a water blocking cap is adapted to a wiper device that includes a shaft holder and a water blocking cap. The shaft holder includes a stem and a fixed portion. The water blocking cap includes a mounting portion and a water receiver. One of the shaft holder and the water blocking cap includes a guide portion that moves the water blocking cap in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of the stem. In a mounted state in which the mounting portion is mounted to the stem, a part of the water receiver is arranged in a position that is closer to the proximal side of the stem than the fixed portion and in which the part overlaps with the fixed portion as viewed from the axial direction of the stem.

Abstract: Provided is an information acquiring apparatus having: a calculating unit generating image data, based on signals acquired by transducers receiving an acoustic wave generated from an object by a plurality of times of light irradiation to the object; and a display controlling unit causing a display unit to display an image, wherein the calculating unit generates first image data using the signals corresponding to part of the plurality of times of light irradiation before the plurality of times of light irradiation complete, the display controlling unit causes the display unit to display an image based on the first image data before the plurality of times of light irradiation complete, the calculating unit generates second image data using the signals corresponding to more than the part of the plurality of times of light irradiation after the plurality of light irradiation complete

Abstract: There is provided a transmission system transmitting at least one of image data and audio data among a plurality of transmission terminals. A first transmission terminal includes a state detector that detects whether a user is present therearound, and a controller that controls to transmit correspondence data corresponding to a result detected by the state detector to a second transmission terminal when a state detected by the state detector changes. The second transmission terminal changes quality of at least one of the image data and the audio data that is transmitted to the first transmission terminal in accordance with the correspondence data and transmits at least one of the image data and the audio data when the second transmission terminal receives the correspondence data.

Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes: a fender panel; an apron member disposed below an inner wall section of the fender panel; a fender protector having a lateral wall mounted on the inner wall section of the fender panel, and a vertical wall extending from an inner end of the lateral wall toward a lower side in the vehicle up-down direction, the vertical wall having an inclined part and a lower wall part, the inclined part being bent from the inner end of the lateral wall toward the lower side and extending so as to incline relative to the vehicle up-down direction, the lower wall part being provided so as to extend from a lower end of the inclined part via a bend toward the lower side; and a sealant provided between a lower end portion of the lower wall part and the apron member.

Abstract: A bearing device includes a rolling bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring, an outer ring spacer disposed adjacent to the outer ring, and an inner spacer disposed adjacent the inner ring. The outer ring and the outer ring spacer are fitted to a housing, and the inner ring and the inner ring spacer are fitted to a rotary shaft. The outer ring spacer is provided with a nozzle, which is configured to inject a cooling fluid (R) toward an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring, and is inclined so that an injection port thereof is inclined forwardly in a rotation direction of the inner ring. An inclination angle ? of the nozzle with respect to an axial direction is set to a value within a range from 50° to 90°.

Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure includes a front fender panel, a fender reinforcement attached to the front fender panel, and a head lamp unit fixed to the front fender panel. A rear end portion of the head lamp unit is positioned behind a fixing point at which the front fender panel and the head lamp unit are fixed to each other in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a protruding portion protruding to the vehicle-width-direction inner side is disposed in the fender reinforcement, and the protruding portion is positioned on a rotation trajectory of the head lamp unit at a time when the head lamp unit is rotated about a virtual line in an up-down direction of the vehicle passing through the fixing point such that the rear end portion of the head lamp unit is toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side.

Abstract: A communication management system transmits questionnaire information including a set of questions relating to one or more services available to a communication terminal to the communication terminal through a network, receives answer information including a set of answers to the set of questions from the communication terminal through the network, determines a service to be provided to the communication terminal based on the answer information, and transmits to a relay device an operating parameter for controlling the relay device in transmitting or receiving content data to or from the communication terminal according to the determined service.

Abstract: A mounting structure for a water blocking cap is adapted to a wiper device that includes a shaft holder and a water blocking cap. The shaft holder includes a stem and a fixed portion. The water blocking cap includes a mounting portion and a water receiver. One of the shaft holder and the water blocking cap includes a guide portion that moves the water blocking cap in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of the stem. In a mounted state in which the mounting portion is mounted to the stem, a part of the water receiver is arranged in a position that is closer to the proximal side of the stem than the fixed portion and in which the part overlaps with the fixed portion as viewed from the axial direction of the stem.

Abstract: A vehicle front section structure includes a hood; a front windshield glass; a cowl louver; a front pillar; a front side door; a wiper arm including an arm base portion; and a flow regulating member that is provided at the cowl louver, that is disposed in a wiper storage section at a vehicle width direction outer side and at a vehicle front side of the arm base portion in a state wherein arm base portion is stored in wiper storage section, and includes a vertical wall extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and an inclined wall disposed at the vehicle front side of arm base portion, in the state wherein the arm base portion is stored in wiper storage section, and extending out from a rear end portion of the vertical wall toward the vehicle width direction outer side and toward the vehicle front side along the arm base portion.