Abstract: An acquiring unit configured to connect via a network to a device management system that manages functions of devices, and acquire device management information based on which a device usable by a user and a function usable by the user among functions of the device are managed from the device management system; a generating unit configured to generate a WebAPI based on the device management information acquired, and generate a virtual device configured to respond to an access to the WebAPI in cooperation with the device; an informing unit configured to inform a terminal used by the user of information including how to access the WebAPI; and an accessing unit configured to access the device via the virtual device are provided.

Abstract: A master communication apparatus comprises a master wired communicator, a master wireless communicator, and a master controller. The master wired communicator is configured to communicate with a slave wired communicator of a slave communication apparatus in the human-powered vehicle via a wired communication channel. The master wireless communicator is configured to communicate with a slave wireless communicator of the slave communication apparatus via a wireless communication channel. The master controller is configured to transmit, via one of the master wired communicator and the master wireless communicator, a control signal to control a component of the human-powered vehicle. The master controller is configured to control the master wired communicator and the master wireless communicator in accordance with a priority order. The master controller is configured to set the priority order in accordance with information relating to the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus.

Abstract: The chemical-mechanical polishing composition of the present invention is for polishing a substrate and contains an abrasive, a hydroxyethyl cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 or less, a basic component, a surfactant, and an aqueous carrier.

Abstract: An acquiring unit configured to connect via a network to a device management system that manages functions of devices, and acquire device management information based on which a device usable by a user and a function usable by the user among functions of the device are managed from the device management system; a generating unit configured to generate a WebAPI based on the device management information acquired, and generate a virtual device configured to respond to an access to the WebAPI in cooperation with the device; an informing unit configured to inform a terminal used by the user of information including how to access the WebAPI; and an accessing unit configured to access the device via the virtual device are provided.

Abstract: A node performs multi-hop communication. The node includes a relay node determiner that determines a relay node from a plurality of relay node candidates having path information of a path to a master node. The relay node performs relaying. At least when communication frequencies of the relay node candidates are within a predetermined range, the relay node determiner determines the relay node so that a relay node candidate with a higher communication frequency is more likely to be determined as the relay node than a relay node candidate with a lower communication frequency.

Abstract: A paper feeder sucking and feeding a paper sheet from a stack of paper sheets loaded on a paper table, the paper feeder includes: a pair of blowing ports that are disposed across a stack of paper sheets and blow air toward a side surface of the stack of paper sheets to float a paper sheet; and a hardware processor that performs blowing control of blowing air to float a paper sheet in a first operation mode in which a height of one blowing ports is different from a height of another blowing ports.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet storage that stores a plurality of sheets; a conveyer that conveys, in a sheet conveyance direction, sheets stored inside the sheet storage; a driver that drives the conveyer in such a manner that a conveyance speed of the sheet is switchable between two or more speeds; a corrector that corrects inclination of the sheet more on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction than the conveyer is; a first sheet detector that detects a sheet positioned at a first predetermined position between the conveyer and the corrector; and a hardware processor that controls the driver to change a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with a detection result of the first sheet detector.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet storage that stores a plurality of sheets; a conveyer that conveys, in a sheet conveyance direction, sheets stored inside the sheet storage; a driver that drives the conveyer in such a manner that a conveyance speed of the sheet is switchable between two or more speeds; a corrector that corrects inclination of the sheet more on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction than the conveyer is; a first sheet detector that detects a sheet positioned at a first predetermined position between the conveyer and the corrector; and a hardware processor that controls the driver to change a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with a detection result of the first sheet detector.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention includes: a sheet storage unit configured to store sheets; an air blowing unit configured to blow air; a duct configured as a flow passage to an air blowing outlet for blowing air sent from the air blowing unit toward the front end of an upper part of a sheet bundle stored in the sheet storage unit; a suction transport unit configured to suck a sheet floating from the sheet bundle upward and transport the sheet; a shutter member configured to block the flow passage in the duct; and an openable/closeable member configured to open an opening part of the duct, such that air staying in the duct by blocking the flow passage by the shutter member is discharged from the opening part.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention includes: a sheet storage unit configured to store sheets; an air blowing unit configured to blow air; a duct configured as a flow passage to an air blowing outlet for blowing air sent from the air blowing unit toward the front end of an upper part of a sheet bundle stored in the sheet storage unit; a suction transport unit configured to suck a sheet floating from the sheet bundle upward and transport the sheet; a shutter member configured to block the flow passage in the duct; and an openable/closeable member configured to open an opening part of the duct, such that air staying in the duct by blocking the flow passage by the shutter member is discharged from the opening part.

Abstract: A microchip having a substrate, a cover member joined to one surface of the substrate, and a flow path formed on at least one of joined surfaces of the substrate and the cover member, wherein the microchip includes: a well which is an first opening for communicating into the flow path with a surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and is arranged on the substrate; and a chimney which is a member arranged so as to project from the surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and has an second opening which communicating into the well, wherein a liquid rise prevention section is formed in the chimney to prevent the liquid from rising to a top portion of the chimney.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-transmitting electromagnetic-shielding laminate, which is characterized in that two or more layers including an electromagnetic-shielding layer are arranged in layers using a (meth)acrylate adhesive composition which contains a (meth)acrylate monomer, a (meth)acrylate oligomer and at least one member selected from the group consisting of acrylic amide derivatives, silane compounds and organophosphorus compounds. Also disclosed is a light-transmitting radio wave absorber which is characterized in that a resistive layer, a dielectric spacer and a reflective layer are arranged in layers using a (meth)acrylate adhesive composition which contains a (meth)acrylate monomer, a (meth)acrylate oligomer and at least one member selected from the group consisting of acrylic amide derivatives, silane compounds and organophosphorus compounds.

Abstract: A microchip having a substrate, a cover member joined to one surface of the substrate, and a flow path formed on at least one of joined surfaces of the substrate and the cover member, wherein the microchip includes: a well which is an first opening for communicating into the flow path with a surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and is arranged on the substrate; and a chimney which is a member arranged so as to project from the surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and has an second opening which communicating into the well, wherein a liquid rise prevention section is formed in the chimney to prevent the liquid from rising to a top portion of the chimney.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material for use in displays or in-vehicle panels each having a polarizing plate or a retardation plate, wherein the light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material undergoes no generation of light interference fringes and is satisfactory in visibility even through sunglasses, goggles, glare-proof panels or glare-proof window materials having polarizing capability. By using unstretched light-transmitting organic polymer materials low in molecular orientation or small in molecular orientation unevenness as the base substrate of an electromagnetic wave-shielding layer, the light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material excellent in light interference fringe prevention capability can be obtained.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning unit that is switchable between local air-conditioning and overall air-conditioning, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire state quantity data of a requester, and a control unit. The control unit calculates comfort assessment values for both the requester and a neighbor, and controls the air-conditioning unit so that the local air-conditioning is performed to an extent whereby the comfort assessment value of the neighbor is kept in a comfort range and the comfort assessment value of the requester can be within the comfort range.

Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to offer a wave absorber that has reflection attenuation capability sufficient to enable prevention of communication disturbances due to reflection and the like of EM waves, that enables greater thinness and lighter weight, and that has wide-band attenuation properties, as well as a manufacturing method of the wave absorber. The wave absorber of the present invention has a structure which sequentially laminates a grid-like conductor layer composed of an electric conductor, a first dielectric layer, a high-resistance conductor layer having a surface resistivity within a prescribed range, a second dielectric layer, and a pattern layer having multiple patterns composed of an electric conductor, wherein each pattern in said pattern layer differs in either or both of size and form relative to another adjacent pattern.

Abstract: A wave absorber of the present invention includes a sequentially laminated structure including an conductor layer (11) made of a conductive material; a first dielectric layer (polycarbonate substrate (12) and bismaleimide-triazine substrate (13)) made of one layer or a multilayer of a dielectric material; and a patterned layer (14) including a plurality of a pattern made of the conductive material, wherein the conductor layer, the first dielectric layer, and the patterned layer are laminated sequentially, and each pattern in the patterned layer (14) is different from other adjacent patterns with respect to at least one of size and shape. Therefore, the wave absorber has sufficient reflection-attenuating capability to prevent communication failure caused by a reflection of a radio wave and so on, can be thin-sized and reduced in weight, and has a wide-band attenuation property.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-transmitting electromagnetic-shielding laminate, which is characterized in that two or more layers including an electromagnetic-shielding layer are arranged in layers using a (meth)acrylate adhesive composition which contains a (meth)acrylate monomer, a (meth)acrylate oligomer and at least one member selected from the group consisting of acrylic amide derivatives, silane compounds and organophosphorus compounds. Also disclosed is a light-transmitting radio wave absorber which is characterized in that a resistive layer, a dielectric spacer and a reflective layer are arranged in layers using a (meth)acrylate adhesive composition which contains a (meth)acrylate monomer, a (meth)acrylate oligomer and at least one member selected from the group consisting of acrylic amide derivatives, silane compounds and organophosphorus compounds.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning unit that is switchable between local air-conditioning and overall air-conditioning, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire state quantity data of a requester, and a control unit. The control unit calculates comfort assessment values for both the requester and a neighbor, and controls the air-conditioning unit so that the local air-conditioning is performed to an extent whereby the comfort assessment value of the neighbor is kept in a comfort range and the comfort assessment value of the requester can be within the comfort range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material for use in displays or in-vehicle panels each having a polarizing plate or a retardation plate, wherein the light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material undergoes no generation of light interference fringes and is satisfactory in visibility even through sunglasses, goggles, glare-proof panels or glare-proof window materials having polarizing capability. By using unstretched light-transmitting organic polymer materials low in molecular orientation or small in molecular orientation unevenness as the base substrate of an electromagnetic wave-shielding layer, the light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material excellent in light interference fringe prevention capability can be obtained.