Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle that is a fuel cell electric vehicle, the information processing method includes acquiring a remaining hydrogen level and a delivery destination list for each vehicle that makes a delivery, identifying a location of a hydrogen filling station, and assigning, to the vehicle according to the remaining hydrogen level, a delivery destination close to the hydrogen filling station.

Abstract: A memory device that can be highly integrated is provided. The memory device includes a first transistor and a second transistor in a memory cell, and small-area vertical transistors each including a channel formation region on a side surface of an opening portion provided in an insulating layer are used as the two transistors. The memory cell includes a conductor having a function of a gate electrode of the first transistor and a function of one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor. The memory cells are placed in a staggered arrangement, so that the memory device can be highly integrated.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a sensor. The sensor has a casing having an opening portion, a clamp having a recessed part on its outer periphery and having one end inserted into the opening portion, and a sealing ring attached to the recessed part and disposed between the casing and the clamp. The method includes using a first divided mold to form a first component of the clamp, the first component including a main body portion and a first part located at one end side of the main body portion and forming a part of the recessed part. The first divided mold is divided so that a dividing surface intersects the main body portion and separates in an axial direction of the main body portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of switching a discharge manner of a one-page print job in a printer in a two-sided print setting. An information processing apparatus controls a printer capable of printing on a sheet-shaped recording medium. The apparatus includes a setting unit that sets, as a print setting for a first print process, a two-sided print setting or a one-sided print setting, and a controller that controls whether to execute control for discharging a recording medium printed by the first print process in a face-up manner or a face-down manner based on at least one of whether the two-sided print setting is set for a second print process executed before the first print process and whether the second print process is for printing pages, when the two-sided print setting is set for the first print process that prints one page.

Abstract: A inhaler includes a piezoelectric element substrate having an IDT constructed by use of a pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes, a liquid supplier for supplying liquid, which is to be atomized, to a front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate on which the pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes is positioned, a sensor, which includes at least a pair of detection parts which are opposite to each other, for detecting liquid supplied to the front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate, and a controller for controlling, based on result of detection by the sensor, the liquid supplier in such a manner that the liquid supplier supplies a certain quantity of the liquid to the front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate.

Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus, the information processing method including determining, as a delivery center, a first vehicle being a battery electric vehicle under energy charging or a fuel cell electric vehicle under energy fueling, and commanding a second vehicle to pick up a package from the first vehicle and deliver the package.

Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus, the information processing method includes identifying a first vehicle capable of supplying electric power generated by a fuel cell to the outside, and controlling electrical energy to be supplied to the outside according to the amount of hydrogen remaining in the first vehicle and a distance to the next hydrogen station.

Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.

Abstract: An information processing method by an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with one or more vehicles delivering packages, the information processing method includes acquiring vehicle-related information including the position of each vehicle, the energy charge amount of each vehicle, the travel condition of each vehicle, a temperature, the weight of packages on each vehicle, delivery destination information on the packages on each vehicle, energy charging station information near a delivery route of each vehicle, and/or road congestion information, generating, from the vehicle-related information, plans for delivery routes and/or energy charge timings with the highest energy efficiency, and commanding the one or more vehicles to execute the plans.

Abstract: A seat cushion is formed integrally by a body pad portion, an outer peripheral edge portion, and a connection portion. The outer peripheral edge portion protrudes toward a floor panel from the outer peripheral edge portion in a plan view and contacts a floor panel at its lower face. The connection portion is provided to protrude toward the floor panel at a portion which is separated from a front-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion and a rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion, respectively. The connection portion connects the floor panel and the body pad portion. A portion between the front-side part and the rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion in a vehicle longitudinal direction is a separation portion where a lower face of the seat cushion faces an upper face of the floor panel with a gap.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a holding table for holding a workpiece thereon, a polishing head disposed above the holding table and having an acrylic plate for polishing the workpiece held on the holding table, a moving mechanism for moving the polishing head toward the workpiece held on the holding table, and a polishing water supplying unit for supplying polishing water between the acrylic plate and the workpiece held on the holding table.

Abstract: It is known that when etching gold films using etching solutions containing iodine and iodide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NP) is added to improve the etching solution's wettability, microfabrication property, and solution life. However, in recent years, the use of NMP has been regulated due to its adverse effects on human health. The present invention provides an etching solution and etching method for gold film that improves wettability, microfabrication property, and solution life without containing NP. In order to address the problem of the prior art, the present invention provides etching solutions and etching methods for gold films that improve wettability, microfabrication property, and liquid life without NMP, characterized by the inclusion of a specific organic solvent in the etching solution containing iodine and iodide.

Abstract: A power conversion device inputs or outputs a power for changing a state quantity of a distribution grid to which a voltage source device is connected, to or from the distribution grid. A grid control unit calculates a power command value of the power conversion device such that a drooping characteristic is provided for compensating for a deviation from a control target of the state quantity obtained from an output of a detector. A frequency characteristic of control computation for calculating a power command value from the deviation in the system control unit is defined such that a first control gain value in a first frequency range including direct current is set corresponding to a slope of the drooping characteristic, and a second control gain value in a second frequency range including higher frequencies than the first frequency range is set to be lower than the first control gain value.

Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer and a copper foil in contact with at least one surface of the insulating layer, in which the insulating layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a modified polyphenylene ether compound of which a terminal is modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, a chromium element amount on an exposed surface on which the insulating layer is exposed by an etching treatment of the copper-clad laminate with a copper chloride solution, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 7.5 at % or less with respect to a total element amount measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and a surface roughness of the exposed surface is 2.0 ?m or less in terms of ten-point average roughness.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with an image forming apparatus, includes: at least one memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit which function as: a reception unit configured to receive printing setting information used for printing processing of a current printing job that is currently running in the image forming apparatus; an obtainment unit configured to obtain a subsequent printing job registered on a printing queue; and a control unit configured to transmit a subsequent printing job, without a printing processing start command and printing setting information, corresponding to the obtained subsequent printing job, to the image forming apparatus in a case where it is possible to perform continuous printing processing in the image forming apparatus based on printing setting information on the received current printing job and printing setting information on the obtained subsequent printing job.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a chuck table, a rotation mechanism that rotates the chuck table around a predetermined rotation axis, a polishing unit that has a spindle and in which a polishing pad for polishing the wafer sucked and held by the holding surface is mounted on a lower end part of the spindle, a slurry supply unit, and a cleaning unit that cleans the holding surface. The cleaning unit has a cleaning abrasive stone for removing the slurry that adheres to the holding surface through getting contact with the holding surface and a positioning unit that positions the cleaning abrasive stone to a cleaning position at which the cleaning abrasive stone gets contact with the holding surface and an evacuation position at which the cleaning abrasive stone is separate from the holding surface. Hardness of the cleaning abrasive stone is lower than the hardness of the holding surface.

Abstract: There is provided a processing apparatus which processes a workpiece. The processing apparatus includes a processing mechanism having a holding unit which holds the workpiece, and a processing unit which processes the workpiece held by the holding unit, a first cleaning mechanism having a spinner table on which the workpiece processed by the processing unit is held, and a cleaning fluid nozzle which supplies a cleaning fluid containing water to clean the workpiece held on the spinner table, and a second cleaning mechanism including a cleaning holding unit which holds the workpiece cleaned by the first cleaning mechanism, a polishing cleaning liquid supply unit which supplies a polishing cleaning liquid to the workpiece held by the cleaning holding unit, and a polishing pad which abuts on the workpiece supplied with the polishing cleaning liquid to polish the workpiece, thereby cleaning the workpiece.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes an outer edge removing step of removing an outer edge of a first wafer having a first wiring layer formed on a front surface thereof from the front surface, and a polishing step of polishing the first wiring layer on the front surface of the first wafer after the outer edge removing step.

Abstract: An optimization device includes a tool path, an analysis/evaluation unit for inputting one or more evaluation indices each including an evaluation item and weighting, analyzing and evaluating the tool path for each evaluation item, and outputting one or more analysis/evaluation results, and a normalization unit that normalizes the analysis/evaluation results considering the weighting, and outputs one or more normalized analysis/evaluation results.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing head configured to discharge ink onto a recording medium to form an image; a platen including a support surface that supports the recording medium; and a recording medium holding portion being configured to hold a plurality of star wheels configured to hold the recording medium toward the support surface in a direction perpendicular to the support surface. In a case in which a maximum value of a height of the recording medium from the support surface in the direction perpendicular to the support surface is less than 2.2 mm when the recording medium passes between the support surface and the recording medium holding portion, a load of one of the star wheels for holding the recording medium with presence of the recording medium holding portion is equal to or less than 4.5 gf.