Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image capturing element including a semiconductor substrate and first and second photoelectric conversion parts configured to convert light into electric charge. The first and the second photoelectric conversion parts each have a laminated structure including an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion film sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, and an accumulation electrode facing the upper electrode through the photoelectric conversion film and an insulating film.

Abstract: Modified video is distributed to a viewer of a computer-implemented game by causing a processor to distribute, toward a terminal device of a viewer, a first video including an animation of a first avatar of a distributor generated based on motion data; distribute, toward the terminal device, a second video related to a computer-implemented game generated with operation data using a received web page; receive, from the terminal device, token data indicative of a token sent to the distributor from the viewer during execution of one unit section of the game; and distribute, toward the terminal device, the second video including, during one time section occurring after the one unit section of the game ends and before a next unit section of the game begins, a rendering of a token object selected based on the token data.

Abstract: A reading device includes: a transparent flat plate with an upper surface on which an object to be read is placed; a reading unit reading information on the object while moving in contact with a transparent flat plate lower surface; a retainer retaining the reading unit by urging the reading unit to be pressed against the lower surface; a guide member supporting and guiding the retainer along a movement direction at a time of reading by the reading unit; and a positioning structural member in at least one end of the reading unit and the retainer in a direction crossing the movement direction to position the reading unit to be maintained being displaceable relative to the retainer in a direction to be closer to and in a direction to be away from the transparent flat plate and being non-displaceable upstream and downstream in the movement direction.

Abstract: A front suspension device comprises a suspension arm, one end of which has a front-wheel support portion to support a front wheel of a vehicle and the other end of which is positioned on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the front-wheel support portion and has a vehicle-body attachment portion to be attached to a vehicle-body member of the vehicle and a damper supported at a damper support portion which is provided at a portion of the suspension arm which is positioned in the vicinity of the front-wheel support portion at a lower portion thereof and connected to the vehicle-body member at an upper portion thereof. The damper support portion of the suspension arm has a breakage ease portion to cause breakage of the suspension arm.

Abstract: A satisfaction level calculation device (10) acquires environmental data detected by each of a plurality of environment sensors (20). The satisfaction level calculation device (10) sets each of a plurality of indexes about a space environment as a target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the environmental data acquired by measuring the target index, an individual satisfaction level, which is a satisfaction level of the target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the individual satisfaction level about each of the plurality of indexes, an overall satisfaction level, which is an overall satisfaction level about the space environment.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a system control unit, an auxiliary power supply, and an auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit are configured such that information of at least one control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit is able to be output to another control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The at least one control unit is configured to output information indicating that an operation of the at least one control unit is stopped to the other control unit when the at least one control unit stops the operation of the at least one control unit.

Abstract: A fault recovery support apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a fault insertion unit configured to insert a fault into a target system; a behavior execution unit configured to execute a behavior related to recovery from the fault for the target system; a first construction unit configured to construct an automaton representing a recovery process from the fault by using observation data acquired from the target system as a result of the behavior by the behavior execution unit; and a second construction unit configured to construct a workflow representing a behavior for separating each fault included in a plurality of faults and a recovery process of each fault by using a plurality of the automatons related to the plurality of faults.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fiber-sizing agent which when applied to an inorganic reinforcement material contained in a resin composition, can provide a molded article having excellent impact resistance and high surface gloss properties. The fiber-sizing agent according to the present invention contains a modified olefin wax (A), a polyolefin resin (B), and a silane-coupling agent (C), wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) of the modified olefin wax (A) to the polyolefin resin (B) is in the range of 0.2-10.

Abstract: A novel vinyl chloride resin composition having exceptional transparency is provided. This resin composition comprises 3-15 parts by mass of a rubbery impact-absorbing material (B) for which the glass transition point in differential scanning calorimetry does not exceed 0° C., and 0.1-10 parts by mass of a lubricant (C) that satisfies (i)-(iv) below, the content amounts above being indicated relative to 100 parts by mass of a vinyl chloride resin (A) having a chlorine content of 55-75 mass %. (i) The melt viscosity at 200° C. is 5-5,000 mPa·s (ii) The softening point is in the range of 60?180° C. (iii) The glass transition point (Tg) as measured in DSC is in the range of 0?100° C.

Abstract: A machining device for scraping a workpiece is provided. The machining device includes: a drive unit for driving a scraper; a first detection unit for detecting the position of the scraper; a second detection unit for detecting the machining force of the scraper with respect to the workpiece; a first acquisition unit for acquiring information relating to displacement of the scraper; a second acquisition unit for acquiring information relating to the machining force of the scraper; and a control unit for driving the drive unit based on the information relating to the displacement of the scraper by the first acquisition unit and the information relating to the machining force of the scraper acquired by the second acquisition unit, so the displacement and the machining force of the scraper satisfy a prescribed relationship. A control device and a control method for the machining device are also provided.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport unit, a detector, and a releasing unit. The sheet transport unit transports a sheet by nipping the sheet in a nip between multiple pairs of transport rollers arranged in a sheet width direction intersecting a sheet transport direction. The detector detects a size of the transported sheet. The releasing unit releases the nip of one or more of the pairs of transport rollers outside a transport region of the sheet based on the size of the sheet detected by the detector.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electroconductive resin composition that has excellent electroconductivity and high mechanical strength. The electroconductive resin composition according to the present invention comprises 75-99 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin (A), 1-25 parts by mass of a carbon material (B), and more than 1 part by mass but not more than 10 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the thermoplastic resin (A) and the carbon material (B), of a modified polyolefin wax (C), wherein the carbon material (B) is a granular carbon material having an average grain diameter of 500 nm or less or a fibrous carbon material having an average fiber length of 1000 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an electroconductive resin composition which combines high electrical conductivity with excellent processability. The electroconductive resin composition comprises a thermoplastic resin (A), carbon nanotubes (B) having an outer diameter of 100 nm or smaller, and an aromatic-monomer-modified polyolefin wax (C) obtained by modifying a polyolefin wax with an aromatic monomer. The composition comprises the thermoplastic resin (A), the carbon nanotubes (B), and the aromatic-monomer-modified polyolefin wax (C) in amounts of 74.9-99.4 parts by mass, 0.5-25 parts by mass, and 0.1-10 parts by mass, respectively, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the sum of the thermoplastic resin (A), the carbon nanotubes (B), and the aromatic-monomer-modified polyolefin wax (C).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a dust-collecting apparatus includes a main body with a first surface on which a back surface of a first electrode is disposed; a fixing unit configured to control attachment and detachment of the first electrode and the main body; a second electrode configured to transfer a voltage to the first electrode; and a control board configured to control a magnitude and a timing of a voltage which is applied to the second electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a feed for reducing lipid peroxide or improving meat quality in a tissue in an edible portion of a domestic animal, the feed comprising a spore-bearing lactic acid bacterium and/or a spore-bearing thermophilic bacterium not corresponding to the spore-bearing lactic acid bacterium; and a food for reducing lipid peroxide in a human body, the food comprising a spore-bearing lactic acid bacterium and/or a spore-bearing thermophilic bacterium not corresponding to the spore-bearing lactic acid bacterium.

Abstract: A novel vinyl chloride resin composition having exceptional transparency is provided. This resin composition comprises 3-15 parts by mass of a rubbery impact-absorbing material (B) for which the glass transition point in differential scanning calorimetry does not exceed 0° C., and 0.1-10 parts by mass of a lubricant (C) that satisfies (i)-(iv) below, the content amounts above being indicated relative to 100 parts by mass of a vinyl chloride resin (A) having a chlorine content of 55-75 mass %. (i) The melt viscosity at 200° C. is 5-5,000 mPa·s (ii) The softening point is in the range of 60?180° C. (iii) The glass transition point (Tg) as measured in DSC is in the range of 0?100° C.

Abstract: A tackifier (B) according to the present invention comprises a copolymer (C) that comprises a structural unit derived from ?-methylstyrene or isopropenyltoluene and a structural unit derived from styrene, and the copolymer (C) satisfies the following (i) to (iii): (i) a content of the structural unit derived from ?-methylstyrene or isopropenyltoluene is in the range of 30 to 70 mol %, (ii) a softening temperature (Tm) measured by the ring-and-ball method according to JIS K 2207 is in the range of 110° C. to 170° C., and (iii) a content of a fraction having molecular weight of not more than 350, as determine by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and calculated from polystyrene standard, is less than 1.5 mass %.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fiber-sizing agent which when applied to an inorganic reinforcement material contained in a resin composition, can provide a molded article having excellent impact resistance and high surface gloss properties. The fiber-sizing agent according to the present invention contains a modified olefin wax (A), a polyolefin resin (B), and a silane-coupling agent (C), wherein the mass ratio (A)/(B) of the modified olefin wax (A) to the polyolefin resin (B) is in the range of 0.2-10.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a resin composition, from which a molded article having high durability, sliding property and wear resistance can be produced with a high productivity. The present invention provides a polyacetal resin composition containing 100 parts by mass of a polyacetal resin (A) and 10 parts by mass or more and 100 parts by mass or less of a glass filler (B), in which when a molded article formed of the polyacetal resin composition by molding is fractured by application of tensile force, the surface of the glass filler (B) protruding from a fractured surface of a fractured molded article is covered with a component containing the polyacetal resin (A) having an average thickness of 0.2 ?m or more and 3.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport unit, a detector, and a releasing unit. The sheet transport unit transports a sheet by nipping the sheet in a nip between multiple pairs of transport rollers arranged in a sheet width direction intersecting a sheet transport direction. The detector detects a size of the transported sheet. The releasing unit releases the nip of one or more of the pairs of transport rollers outside a transport region of the sheet based on the size of the sheet detected by the detector.