Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit generating a first chart image having a plurality of patches with different tone values, an obtaining unit obtaining measurement values acquired by measuring a test chart created by forming the first chart image on a medium, the measurement values indicating densities of a color material in regions of the test chart corresponding to the respective patches, and a selection unit selecting at least one tone value in a range in which an output characteristic of the image forming apparatus derived based on the tone values of the respective patches and the measurement values satisfies a predetermined condition. The generation unit generates a second chart image having a patch corresponding to the selected tone value included and at least one patch corresponding to the tone value outside the range in which the output characteristic satisfies the predetermined condition is omitted among the patches.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and first and second bus bar disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes a winding portion including conductor connection bodies in which conductors are connected in series and a stator core having slots through which the conductor connection body passes. The winding portion includes a coil end located on one side in the axial direction of the stator core. The conductor connection body includes first and second ends located at an outermost circumference in the radial direction of the coil end. The first bus bar is connected to the first end. The second bus bar is connected to the second end. The first bus bar is located on one side in the axial direction of the coil end. The second bus bar is located on the radial outside of the coil end.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a bus bar unit disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes conductor connection bodies and a segment coil. Each connection body includes first and second ends in the axial direction. The bus bar unit includes a neutral point bus bar connected to the first end and phase bus bars connected to the second end. The neutral point bus bar extends along a circumferential direction. The phase bus bar includes a main body extending along the circumferential direction and at least partially overlapping the neutral point bus bar and a connection portion extending from the main body to one side in the axial direction. The first end passes through one side in the axial direction of the neutral point bus bar and is connected to the connection portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyvinyl alcohol resin with which a polyvinyl acetal resin having a controlled particle size and forming less lumps during dissolution to exhibit excellent solubility can be produced. Provided is a polyvinyl alcohol resin containing: methyl acetate; a vinyl alcohol unit; and a vinyl acetate unit, the methyl acetate being contained in an amount of 0.05 to 3% by weight, the vinyl alcohol unit being contained in an amount of 80 to 99.5 mol %, the vinyl acetate unit having a mean chain length LA of 1 to 4.5, the vinyl alcohol unit having a mean chain length LO of 1 to 30.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer according to one aspect of the present invention includes an ion source (31), a mass separator (32), and a detector (33), the mass spectrometer further including: a parameter optimization unit (531, 532, 533) configured to optimize a parameter value using a Bayesian optimization method based on a result obtained by making measurements while changing values of device parameters including a plurality of parameters that affects ionization efficiency in the ion source (31), a display processor (536) configured to display a sensitivity model which is a posterior distribution indicating a relationship between a plurality of parameters in all or some of the device parameters and signal strength estimated during the optimization of the device parameters, expressing as a graph like a heat map or an array of a plurality of the graphs on a display unit (7), and to sequentially update the sensitivity model, and a file creation unit (535) configured to a user to designate a position on the displayed gr

Abstract: A waveform processing assistance device includes an acquirer that acquires a plurality of waveform data obtained by an analysis of a sample, a selector that selects reference data among the waveform data, an extractor that extracts correct answer peaks and correct answer data from the reference data a determiner that determines each processing section including a correct answer peak and each parameter initial value, a waveform processor that performs waveform processing in each determined processing section based on each parameter initial value, an adjuster that generates a parameter adjustment value at which a waveform processing result obtained in each processing section matches or approximates corresponding correct answer data, and a program creator that creates a waveform processing execution program that includes an instruction to execute waveform processing using the parameter adjustment value in each processing section.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization unit, a mass separation unit, a detection unit, a first measurement control unit configured to control the ionization unit to repeatedly execute a first measurement on a target sample while changing values of a plurality of parameters defined as device parameters, a second measurement control unit configured to control the ionization unit to set a value of each of the plurality of parameters to a predetermined reference value and execute a second measurement on the target sample at two or more time points before, after, or in a middle of repetition of the first measurement, a correction processing unit configured to correct results of the first measurements using results of the second measurements, and a device parameter-related information acquisition unit configured to determine the plurality of parameters using the corrected measurement results or acquire reference information for determining the plurality of parameters.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer according to an aspect of the present invention includes, to optimize N (where N is an integer of 2 or more) parameters that affect ionization efficiency in an ion source (31), a measurement controller (41) that causes respective units to repeatedly execute measurement on a sample containing a target component while changing values of the N parameters or a value set of M (where M is an integer smaller than N) parameters, in a plurality of stages, and a parameter determiner (53) that sequentially finds an optimum value for each parameter based on a result of the measurement executed under control of the measurement controller (41). At least one parameter whose physical quantity is temperature is optimized prior to all of the parameters whose physical quantities are other than temperature.

Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, and a fourth flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The third flow path supplies a part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to the outer surface of a stator. The fourth flow path supplies the other part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to a hollow portion of a shaft. A minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the fourth flow path is smaller than a minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the third flow path.

Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a tubular portion, a side plate portion, a plate portion, and a peripheral wall portion. The tubular portion extends in a first direction and accommodates a motor. The side plate portion has a plate shape intersecting the first direction, and is at one end portion of the tubular portion in the first direction. The plate portion expands from the tubular portion along one of the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The peripheral wall portion surrounds an inverter accommodation portion that accommodates inverter when viewed from a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and is connected to the plate portion. Each of a pump and an oil cooler is at any of one end portion of the peripheral wall portion in the second direction, another end portion of the plate portion in the third direction, and another end portion of the side plate portion in the first direction.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a hollow shaft, a housing, a current shunter fixed to the housing and in electrical contact with the shaft and the housing, and a nozzle member for feeding a fluid inside the shaft. The shaft has an open end portion on a first axial side. The housing includes a bottom wall on the first axial side from the open end portion, and a peripheral wall protruding from the bottom wall toward a second axial side and surrounding the open end portion. The nozzle member has a feeding tubular part at least partly inserted inside the shaft from the open end portion, and a flange portion protruding radially outward from the feeding tubular part. The current shunter is located radially inside the peripheral wall, and the flange portion is located between the current shunter and the bottom wall in an axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a film for a liquid crystal device that is a film (15 or 16) used for a liquid crystal device (10) and contains a thermoplastic resin, in which the NI point change of liquid crystal upon contacting the film with the liquid crystal is ?2° C. to +2° C.

Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including a hollow shaft, and a bearing supporting an outer face of the shaft. A holder holding the bearing is on the inner face of a housing of the transmission mechanism. The holder has a facing face facing an end of the shaft, a tubular portion holding the bearing and protruding in the axial direction radially from the facing face, and a rib inside the tubular portion and protruding in the axial direction from the facing face. The rib extends in a concave shape opening upward. A lower end of an inner face of the rib is below an upper end of an inner face of the shaft when viewed from the axial direction. At least one end of the rib in an extending direction faces an inner face of the tubular portion via a gap when viewed from the axial direction.

Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including gears, a first shaft, and a first bearing supporting the first shaft, a housing accommodating the transmission mechanism and having a first bearing holder portion on the inner face, oil collected in the lower region of the housing, and a catch tank disposed in the housing and opens upwards. The first bearing holder portion has a holding tubular portion that holds the first bearing from radially outside. The holding tubular portion has a cutout portion that connects the inside and outside of the holding tubular portion. A flow passage including a cutout portion is provided on the inner face of the housing. The catch tank includes a reservoir and a feed portion extending from the inside of the reservoir to the holding tubular portion. The distal end portion of the feed portion is inserted into the flow passage.

Abstract: Provided is a resin composition capable of enhancing the application property, and enhancing the grindability and the oil resistance of a cured body. A resin composition according to the present invention comprises a (meth)acrylic monomer, and a (meth)acrylic polymer, the (meth)acrylic monomer includes a first (meth)acrylic monomer, the first (meth)acrylic monomer has a glass transition temperature of homopolymer thereof of 65° C. or more and 110° C. or less, a content of the first (meth)acrylic monomer in 100% by weight of the (meth)acrylic monomer is 50% by weight or more and 85% by weight or less, the (meth)acrylic polymer has a weight average molecular weight of 400000 or more and 1900000 or less, and a content of the (meth)acrylic polymer, relative to 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acrylic monomer is 5 parts by weight or more and 30 parts by weight or less.

Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, an inverter to control current supplied to the motor, plate-shaped busbars that electrically connect the motor with the inverter, and a housing that accommodates the motor, the inverter, and the busbars. The housing includes a partition wall that partitions the inside of the housing into a motor housing and an inverter housing. The partition wall is provided with a through hole. Each busbar includes a motor connection terminal, an inverter connection terminal, a first portion extending from the motor connection terminal toward the through hole, and a second portion extending from the first portion to the inverter connection terminal through the through hole. At least two busbars overlap each other in a plate thickness direction inside the through hole.

Abstract: A gear portion of a drive device is connected to a motor shaft. An oil passage through which oil to cool a motor flows includes a first oil passage, a second oil passage, a third oil passage, and a fourth oil passage. The first oil passage connects a gear accommodation portion and a pump accommodation portion. The second oil passage connects the pump accommodation portion and an oil cooler. The third oil passage connects the oil cooler and the fourth oil passage. The fourth oil passage connects the third oil passage and a motor accommodation portion. Each of the first oil passage, the second oil passage, and the third oil passage is in a first housing portion. The fourth oil passage is in a third housing portion.

Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the sound insulating property of laminated glass over a wide resonance frequency region. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a one-layer or two or more-layer structure, and when the interlayer film is arranged between two sheets of clear float glass having a width of 25 mm, a length of 300 mm and a thickness of 2 mm to obtain a laminated glass X, a loss factor at a second resonance frequency, a loss factor at a third resonance frequency, and a loss factor at a fourth resonance frequency measured by a central exciting method at 20° C. in mechanical impedance measurement in accordance with ISO16940 of the laminated glass X are respectively 0.4 or more.

Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, a housing, an oil passage in the housing, an oil pump in which a portion of the oil passage is provided, and a strainer inside the housing and in which a portion of the oil passage is provided. The oil passage includes an oil sump in which oil is accumulated and a suction path connecting the oil sump and the oil pump. A central axis of the oil pump extends in a direction intersecting the vertical direction. The strainer is in the suction path. The strainer includes a suction port to suction oil from the oil sump, a discharge port to discharge oil toward the oil pump, and a filter. The suction port opens downward in the vertical direction. The discharge port opens in a direction intersecting the vertical direction toward the oil pump.

Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor, a reduction gear connected to the motor, a differential connected to the motor through the reduction gear, a housing including a housing space to house the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential, and an oil passage to lead an oil to the motor. The oil passage includes an electric pump and a cooler. The electric pump and the cooler are fixed to the housing. The electric pump includes a portion located vertically below the cooler.