Abstract: A reading apparatus includes: a document platen on which a document is placed; a reading portion configured to read a document placed on the document platen; a cover that is openable and closable between a first position at which the document platen is covered and a second position at which the document is uncovered; and a frame member including a first inclination portion and a second inclination portion, configured to constitute at least a part of an outer frame of the document platen, the first inclination portion being adjacent to the document platen and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen, and the second inclination portion being arranged farther away from the document platen than the first inclination portion and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen.

Abstract: A coating composition for forming a coating film including particles and a resin binder is so configured that a content of the particles in the coating film is more than 30 vol%, the coating composition includes the particles, a raw resin of the resin binder, and a solvent, and a ratio V/D is 2.5 or less, where V is a volatilization rate (g/m2·s) of the solvent, and D is a diffusion coefficient (10?9 m2/s) of the solvent in the coating composition.

Abstract: A method for estimating a state of charge of a valve regulated lead-acid battery includes; an overcharge amount identification step of identifying an overcharge amount when the lead-acid battery is overcharged after an arbitrary reference time; an open circuit voltage acquisition step of acquiring an open circuit voltage of the lead-acid battery after the reference time; and a state-of-charge estimation step of estimating a state of charge of the lead-acid battery based on the acquired open circuit voltage and a correlation between an open circuit voltage and state of charge in which a rate of change of the state of charge with respect to the open circuit voltage is smaller as the overcharge amount from the reference time until an acquisition time of the open circuit voltage is larger.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for identifying a subject as having serrated colorectal cancer (CRC), and models of human serrated CRC. Also provided herein are methods for treating serrated CRC in the subject.

Abstract: An energy storage system includes a lead-acid battery, a battery management unit. The battery management unit defines, based on an open voltage of the lead-acid battery, a first amount of change in a capacity of the lead-acid battery from a reference state, correlating with the open voltage of the lead-acid battery and caused by a first deterioration factor and defines, based on the first amount of change in the capacity and an amount of change in overall internal resistance of the lead-acid battery from the reference state, a second amount of change in a capacity of the lead-acid battery, not correlating with the open voltage and caused by a second deterioration factor. The battery management unit defines, based on the first and second amounts of change in the capacity, at least one of a battery capacity of the lead-acid battery or an amount of change in the battery capacity from the reference state.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus (30) according to the present disclosure is arranged between a node apparatus (20) that performs communication in accordance with a GTP and an S/P-GW (40) or an S/P-GW (50). The gateway apparatus (30) includes a communication unit (31) configured to terminate a GTP message transmitted from the node apparatus (20); a determination unit (32) configured to determine a terminal type of a mobile station associated with the GTP message; and a conversion unit (33) configured to change a transmission source address set in the GTP message transmitted from the node apparatus (20) from an identifier of the node apparatus (20) to a first identifier of the gateway apparatus (30), in which the communication unit (31) transmits, to the S/P-GW (40) or the S/P-GW (50) determined in accordance with the terminal type, the GTP message in which the transmission source address has been converted.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a gateway apparatus capable of appropriately allocating a packet in a network constructed based on the 3GPP standards. A gateway apparatus (30) according to the present disclosure is a communication system including: a DB (100) configured to manage an identifier of a mobile station and an identifier of a core network that transmits data related to the mobile station in association with each other; and a gateway apparatus (30) configured to terminate a GTP message transmitted from a node apparatus (20), extract the identifier of the core network associated with the identifier of the mobile station included in the GTP message from among a plurality of core networks from the DB (100), and transmit the GTP message that has been terminated to an S/P-GW (40) or an S/P-GW (50) arranged in the core network.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus (30) according to the present disclosure is arranged between a node apparatus (20) that performs communication in accordance with a GTP and an S/P-GW (40) or an S/P-GW (50). The gateway apparatus (30) includes a communication unit (31) configured to terminate a GTP message transmitted from the node apparatus (20); a determination unit (32) configured to determine a terminal type of a mobile station associated with the GTP message; and a conversion unit (33) configured to change a transmission source address set in the GTP message transmitted from the node apparatus (20) from an identifier of the node apparatus (20) to a first identifier of the gateway apparatus (30), in which the communication unit (31) transmits, to the S/P-GW (40) or the S/P-GW (50) determined in accordance with the terminal type, the GTP message in which the transmission source address has been converted.

Abstract: A method for estimating a state of charge of a valve regulated lead-acid battery includes; an overcharge amount identification step of identifying an overcharge amount when the lead-acid battery is overcharged after an arbitrary reference time; an open circuit voltage acquisition step of acquiring an open circuit voltage of the lead-acid battery after the reference time; and a state-of-charge estimation step of estimating a state of charge of the lead-acid battery based on the acquired open circuit voltage and a correlation between an open circuit voltage and state of charge in which a rate of change of the state of charge with respect to the open circuit voltage is smaller as the overcharge amount from the reference time until an acquisition time of the open circuit voltage is larger.

Abstract: An energy storage system includes a lead-acid battery, a battery management unit. The battery management unit defines, based on an open voltage of the lead-acid battery, a first amount of change in a capacity of the lead-acid battery from a reference state, correlating with the open voltage of the lead-acid battery and caused by a first deterioration factor and defines, based on the first amount of change in the capacity and an amount of change in overall internal resistance of the lead-acid battery from the reference state, a second amount of change in a capacity of the lead-acid battery, not correlating with the open voltage and caused by a second deterioration factor. The battery management unit defines, based on the first and second amounts of change in the capacity, at least one of a battery capacity of the lead-acid battery or an amount of change in the battery capacity from the reference state.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted power supply system according to the present invention is provided with: a main battery; a sub-battery; a voltage regulating unit which regulates the voltage of power supplied from the main battery and the sub-battery; and a state detecting unit which detects the state of the sub-battery.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted power supply system according to the present invention is provided with: a main battery; a sub-battery; a voltage regulating unit which regulates the voltage of power supplied from the main battery and the sub-battery; and a state detecting unit which detects the state of the sub-battery.

Abstract: A new method capable of evaluating wettability of a surface of a material is provided. The method includes the following: applying a gas jet to a surface of a material that is covered with a liquid so as to squeeze the liquid; imaging a surface of a liquid film formed on the surface of the material after squeezing the liquid; and evaluating wettability of the material based on the presence or absence of interference fringes on the surface of the liquid film.

Abstract: A communication system includes: a service control apparatus that is provided in a first network in which user terminals communicate via a wireless base station and that distributes messages to the user terminals; a server that is provided in a second network for allowing user terminals to communicate without the mediation of a wireless base station and that communicates with the user terminals via the second network; and a relaying apparatus that is connected to the service control apparatus and that relays messages transmitted and received between user terminals in the first network and messages transmitted and received between user terminals in the first network and user terminals in the second network.

Abstract: When a representative PS server receives a P-TMSI contained in a PDP context succession request signal from a UE according to a handover communication procedure prescribed in an applicable standard after the UE moves, if the PS server identified with the identification information contained in the received P-TMSI is not its own representative PS server, the representative PS server identifies the PS server identified with the identification information as a PS server that manages a femtocell base station to which the UE belonged before it moved and forwards the PDP context succession request signal to the identified PS server.

Abstract: The present invention enables communication between different communication networks. The communication system 1 according to the present invention has: an SMSC 14 which is provided in a mobile network 10 over which a user terminal 2 performs communication through a wireless base station, and transmits a message to the user terminal 2; a GW 21 which is provided in an autonomous distributed network 20 over which a plurality of user terminals performs direct communication, and communicates with at least one of the plurality of user terminals 2; and a relay device 32 (32a) which, upon receiving a message transmitted using a predetermined protocol from one device of the SMSC 14 and the GW 21, performs communication, which corresponds to a message received from the other device, using a protocol that is used for communication with the other device and is different from the predetermined protocol.

Abstract: When a representative service control device receives a PDP context succession request signal according to a handover communication procedure prescribed in an applicable standard, the representative service control device transmits a P-TMSI contained in the PDP context succession request signal as an address request to a database device. When the representative service control device receives address information of a service control device from the database device, the representative service control device forwards the PDP context succession request signal received from the request transmission means to the received address.

Abstract: When a voice call is made from or received by UE (100) that is present in both 3G femto area (101) and LTE area (103), line switching for making a voice call or receiving a voice call is performed from MME (112) to P-CSCF (108) by using a predetermined protocol.

Abstract: In order to enable a communication system introduced with a femtocell base station using an IMS network, to perform PS service similar to that of the existing 3G network, a service control apparatus (SGSN functional unit), based on the UE's message transmitted to the femtocell base station (FAP), acquires UE's subscriber information for PS (Packet Switching) service, from a HLR and registers the subscriber information in a VLR that is present on the IMS network. Then, service control apparatus performs PS service based on the subscriber information registered in the VLR.

Abstract: When a voice call is made from or received by UE (100) that is present in both 3G femto area (101) and LTE area (103), line switching for making a voice call or receiving a voice call is performed from MME (112) to P-CSCF (108) by using a predetermined protocol.