Abstract: A preparation device includes a fixing section configured to fix a component supply device to which a holding member configured to hold a component is attached and feed the holding member, a preparation capturing section configured to capture an image of the holding member fixed to the fixing section, and a preparation control section configured to execute an initial setting process of the holding member by using a captured image captured by the preparation capturing section and cause a storage section to store correspondence information that associates a captured image including a region of the holding member captured by the preparation capturing section in which the component is present and/or a feature value with identification information of the component supply device, and/or correspondence information that associates a captured image including a region of the holding member captured by the preparation capturing section in which the component is not present and/or a feature value with the identification

Abstract: A data collection apparatus, including: a data reception part that receives sensor data from a vehicle capable of photographing a road surface, the sensor data being acquired by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; and a control part that evaluates a goodness degree of a road surface photographing environment on a basis of the sensor data and control a transmission from the vehicle of a road surface photographed image on a basis of the goodness degree of the road surface photographing environment.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an outermost layer that contains a charge transport material and a binder resin, in which the binder resin includes a polyester resin PA having an elastic deformation rate XA of 53.0% or greater and a polycarbonate resin PB having an elastic deformation rate XB that is less than the elastic deformation rate XA of the polyester resin PA by a range of 5% or greater and 12% or less.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, in which an outermost surface layer is a layer containing a charge transport material and a binder resin and having a breaking energy of 10 mJ/mm3 or greater, and an outer peripheral surface has a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.5 or greater and 1.0 or less.

Abstract: A roll sheet with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form is rotated in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. A sensor whose output is changed in accordance with a distance between the sensor and the sheet is used. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from an opposite direction to the forward direction on the basis of the output of the sensor during rotation of the roll sheet in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprises a substrate and a coating that coats the substrate, the coating including an ?-alumina layer provided on the substrate, the ?-alumina layer including crystal grains of ?-alumina, the ?-alumina layer including a lower portion and an upper portion, the upper portion being occupied in area at a ratio of 50% or more by crystal grains of ?-alumina having a (006) plane with a normal thereto having a direction within ±15° with respect to a direction of the normal to the second interface, the lower portion being occupied in area at a ratio of 50% or more by crystal grains of ?-alumina having a (006) plane with a normal thereto having a direction within ±15° with respect to the direction of the normal to the second interface, the ?-alumina layer having a thickness of 3 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer and a protruding electrode. The insulating layer has a recess formed in the upper surface of the insulating layer. The protruding electrode is partly buried in the insulating layer to protrude in the recess. The width of the protruding electrode is constant in a sectional view of the protruding electrode. The upper surface of the protruding electrode is positioned lower than the upper surface of the insulating layer.

Abstract: An engine system in which blow-by gas with a specific gravity less than 1 with reference to air is generatable includes a cylinder block. The cylinder block includes a cylinder and a crank chamber which are arranged in an up/down direction, the crank chamber being positioned below the cylinder. An internal peripheral face of the cylinder block has a ventilation port that connects to a ventilation passage that connects an internal space of the crank chamber with an external space out of the cylinder block, and that is open. The ventilation port is placed above a center in the up/down direction in the crank chamber.

Abstract: Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a separator for an electricity storage device that includes a step of contacting a porous body formed from a silane-modified polyolefin-containing molded sheet with a base solution or acid solution, and a separator for an electricity storage device comprising a microporous film with a melted film rupture temperature of 180° C. to 220° C. as measured by thermomechanical analysis (TMA).

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a separator for an electricity storage device that includes a step of contacting a porous body formed from a silane-modified polyolefin-containing molded sheet with a base solution or acid solution, and a separator for an electricity storage device comprising a microporous film with a melted film rupture temperature of 180° C. to 220° C. as measured by thermomechanical analysis (TMA).

Abstract: The invention of the application is the invention regarding a semiconductor device and a method for driving the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, first to fifth switches, first to third capacitors, and a display element.

Abstract: A diesel engine 30 includes an injector 4 that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device 2 that controls the driving by the injector 4. The injector control device 2 includes a charge voltage control circuit 22, a storage unit 25 that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector 4, and an injector control circuit 24 that controls the driving by the injector 4 on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit 22 and the correction value stored in the storage unit 25. The correction value is set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device 2 connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device 2.

Abstract: A film capacitor includes a stack including at least one dielectric film and a plurality of metal films, the at least one dielectric film including a polyarylate film, wherein each of the at least one of dielectric film and each of the plurality of metal films are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, each of the plurality of metal films deposited on each of the at least one dielectric film by vapor deposition, cover films on two first side surfaces, the two first side surfaces facing each other in a first direction, the first direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, the cover films containing a polyester hot-melt resin, and metal-sprayed electrodes on two second side surfaces, the two second side surfaces facing each other in a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and orthogonal to the stacking direction.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for adsorbing a disease-causing substance by oral administration, the pharmaceutical composition including two-dimensional particles having one or plural layers, the one or plural layers having a layer body represented by: MmXn, wherein M is at least one metal of Group 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, X is a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, or a combination thereof, n is not less than 1 and not more than 4, m is more than n but not more than 5, and a modifier or terminal T exists on a surface of the layer body, wherein Tis at least one selected from a hydroxyl group, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, an oxygen atom, and a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: A reagent for ?-glucan measurement without requiring a horseshoe crab hemocyte extract by using horseshoe crab-derived factor D in the reagent for ?-glucan measurement.

Abstract: An inspection device is such that the inspection device executes a mounting inspection of a component using an inspection image of a board on which the component is mounted and includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device obtains three monochromatic images of the board in R, G, B. The image processing device sets a board color using brightness values of the three monochromatic images obtained by the imaging device, calculates complementary colors of the board color so set, determines on a color component having a largest brightness value in individual color components of the complementary colors so calculated, and sets the monochromatic image having the color component so determined in the obtained three monochromatic images as the inspection image.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display apparatus that reduces the amount of image data transmitted and maintains high-level display quality, which is a display apparatus (Dp) including a display portion (DIS), a light-emitting portion (SHB), and a light-receiving portion (SJB). The display portion includes a first display region (ALP) and a first circuit region that overlap with each other. The first display region includes a plurality of first display pixels and the first circuit region includes a first driver circuit (DRV). The first driver circuit is electrically connected to the plurality of first display pixels through a plurality of first wirings extended in the first display region. The light-emitting portion has a function of emitting first light, and the light-receiving portion has a function of receiving second light that is reflected by irradiation of an object with the first light and a function of generating information based on the second light.

Abstract: This copper alloy has a composition containing Mg in an amount of 0.10 mass % or greater and 2.6 mass % or less, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, in which in a plastic deformation region of a stress-strain curve obtained in a low-speed tensile test at a strain rate of 1.0×10?6/s, an average value of a period of a strain of a saw edge-shaped curve is 0.01% or greater and 1.0% or less, an average value of a difference in level of stress of the saw edge-shaped curve is 0.1 MPa or greater and 2 MPa or less, and there are five or more saw edge-shaped curves with a period of strain of 0.01% or greater and 1.0% or less and a difference in the level of stress of 0.1 MPa or greater and 2 MPa or less.

Abstract: A novel electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display apparatus, an arithmetic portion, and a gaze detection portion, and the display apparatus includes a functional circuit and a display portion divided into a plurality of sub-display portions. The gaze detection portion has a function of detecting a gaze of a user. The arithmetic portion has a function of distributing each of the plurality of sub-display portions into a first section or a second section on the basis of a detection result by the gaze detection portion. The first section includes a region overlapping with a gaze point. The functional circuit has a function of making the driving frequency of the second section lower than the driving frequency of the first section. The functional circuit also has a function of making a resolution of an image displayed on the sub-display portions included in the second section lower than a resolution of an image displayed on the sub-display portions included in the first section.