Abstract: A lever-type connector 1 includes: a connector housing 10 that has a first code arrangement surface 15S1 and is configured to be fitted with a partner connector 50; a lever 20 configured to be attached so as to be rotatable from a fitting start position to a fitting completion position with respect to the connector housing 10, and having a second code arrangement surface 26S1 configured to be arranged on the same plane as the first code arrangement surface 15S1 when the lever 20 is at the fitting completion position; a first divided code 40A arranged on the first code arrangement surface 15S1; and a second divided code 40B arranged on the second code arrangement surface 26S1. When the lever 20 is at the fitting completion position, the first divided code 40A and the second divided code 40B are adjacent to each other to form a two-dimensional code 40.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition capable of obtaining uniform electromagnetic absorption performance with no in-plane variation in a molded article thereof as a result of the fluidity being favorable in addition to the reflection loss and transmission loss being high. A thermoplastic resin composition according to the present disclosure which is to be used in an electromagnetic wave absorber and contains a thermoplastic resin (A) and carbon nanotubes (B), wherein the carbon nanotubes (B) satisfy formulas (1) and (2), and a sheet having a thickness of 100 ?m and formed from the thermoplastic resin composition has a sheet surface maximum height Sz of 5 ?m or less when measured according to ISO 25178. (1) The full width at half maximum of the diffraction peak of the (002) plane in powder X-ray diffraction analysis is 2.0-6.0°. (2) The G/D ratio is 0.5-2.0.

Abstract: An optical probe includes a first region and a second region connected to have a continuous optical waveguide in which a transmission mode is a single mode. The first region connected to a tip-end surface opposed to an optical device includes a region in which a mode field diameter that is maximum at the tip-end surface is gradually decreased toward a boundary between the first region and the second region. The tip-end surface is a curved surface and has a radius of curvature set so that an advancing direction of an optical signal entering through the tip-end surface approximates in parallel to a central-axis direction of the optical waveguide.

Abstract: A measurement method of receiving an emission light output from an optical semiconductor element on an incident end surface of an optical probe, shifts a relative position between the optical semiconductor element and the optical probe on a plane surface intersecting with an optical axis of the emission light, measures an incident intensity of the emission light at several positions, and obtains an incident intensity pattern showing a relationship between a change in the relative position and the respective incident intensities.

Abstract: The disclosure is to constitute, while reducing a cost for collecting training data used in machine learning that makes a control module acquire an ability to control a robot device, the control module operatable in an actual environment by the machine learning. A learning device according to one aspect of the present invention executes machine learning of an extractor by using a first learning data set constituted by a combination of simulation data and first environmental information and a second learning data set constituted by a combination of actual data and second environmental information. Further, a learning device according to one aspect of the present invention executes machine learning of a controller by using a third learning data set constituted by a combination of third environmental information, state information, and a control command.

Abstract: A toner container (32) includes a rotatable container body (33). The container body includes an opening portion (33c) and a plurality of projections (33a). The opening portion is on a first end, which is opposite a second end, of the container body in a rotation axis direction. The plurality of projections are each protrude inward and have a slope inclined with respect to the rotation axis direction. The plurality of projections are disposed such that, out of two adjacent projections in the rotation axis direction, one projection closer to the first end of the container body in the rotation axis direction overlaps the other projection closer to the second end of the container body in the rotation axis direction, in an area of the one projection closer to the second end and an area of the other projection closer to the first end in the rotation axis direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, an element region, and fin transistors. The substrate includes a principal surface. The semiconductor layer is formed as a surface layer or on the principal surface of the substrate, the surface layer being the principal surface of the substrate. The semiconductor layer has a crystal structure in which an angle between two of crystal orientations with equivalent relationships on a crystal plane having a correspondence with the principal surface of the substrate is 60 degrees or 120 degrees. The element region includes unit element regions formed on the principal surface of the substrate. The fin transistors are formed in the semiconductor layer, in the respective unit element regions. The fin transistors radially extend from a center toward an outer periphery of the element region. Adjacent two of the fin transistors have a spacing with a 60° angle or a 120° angle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an input operation of a user; and a display controller configured to display, in a display area having a first area and a second area, an image. The display controller includes: an icon controller configured to display, in the second area, first icons associated one-to-one with different layouts in splitting the first area, and a first splitter configured to split the first area into split areas based on a layout corresponding to a selected first icon to when the receiver receives an input operation for selecting any of the first icons.

Abstract: A liquid discharge method for a liquid discharge apparatus having a plurality of print modes includes determining and changing. The determining determines the print modes by a determiner. The changing changes, based on the print mode determined by the determiner, a use nozzle width and a discharge amount of a spot color head in a line feed direction such that a print mode having a low print speed has a narrower nozzle width and a larger discharge amount than a print mode having a high print speed by a controller.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of suppressing separation of a sealing resin at an internal reverse surface is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead on which the semiconductor element is mounted, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element and a part of the lead. The lead includes an obverse surface to which the semiconductor element is bonded, a reverse surface facing away from the obverse surface in a thickness direction of the first lead and exposed from the sealing resin, and an internal reverse surface facing the same side as a side that the reverse surface faces in the thickness direction and covered with the sealing resin. The internal reverse surface includes an irregular portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protein having pentosidine oxidase activity, a method for measuring pentosidine comprising: contacting the protein with a specimen; and detecting a change caused by the contact, and the like.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a vehicle equipped with a battery, a power supply device, and a control device that controls power supply from the power supply device to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an engine and a motor that receives the power supplied from the battery to generate traveling drive force. When the power supply by the power supply device is requested from the vehicle, the control device (a) acquires a remaining amount of fuel for the engine from the vehicle, (b) outputs an instruction to urge the vehicle to shorten a charging time when the remaining amount of fuel is larger than a reference value, and (c) sets at least one of a unit price for charging power or a unit price for fuel lower when a response to accept the instruction is received from the vehicle compared with when the instruction is not accepted.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the issue of providing a method for removing a transition metal oxide adhered to a transition metal film in a process for manufacturing a semiconductor element, and of providing a treatment liquid. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for treating a semiconductor of a transition metal, the method including, in a semiconductor formation process, a step of removing a transition metal oxide and a step of removing the transition metal. The present invention also provides a reducing agent-containing treatment liquid for a transition metal oxide, wherein the concentration of the reducing agent contained in the reducing agent-containing treatment liquid is 0.01 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less.

Abstract: A signal determination device includes an identification unit which identifies a reference signal that serves as a reference to identify an abnormal signal among a plurality of signals detected in the communication network, a time interval estimation unit which estimates a time interval of signals that are to be input in series to the communication network based on detection timing of the plurality of signals detected in the communication network, a timing estimation unit which estimates timing at which a plurality of signals is to be detected in the communication network after the reference signal, and a determination unit which determines whether each of the plurality of signals detected in the communication network after the reference signal is a normal signal based on the timing estimated by the timing estimation unit and detection timing of the plurality of signals detected in the communication network after the reference signal.

Abstract: An abnormality determination apparatus that includes: a judgement unit which judges, based on detection timings of multiple signals in the communication network, whether each of the multiple signals is either a normal signal or an abnormal signal; and a determination unit which determines, if there is detected a signal judged as the abnormal signal, a type of abnormality having occurred in the communication network based on distribution of detection timings of multiple signals detected at a timing at which the signal judged as the abnormal signal is detected in the communication network or later. Here, each of the multiple signals is judged as the normal signal or the abnormal signal.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a welded portion in which a hole circumferential portion of a current collecting member and a swaged and deformed portion of a terminal member are welded, and a first space, which is surrounded by the welded portion, a hole circumferential surface of the hole circumferential portion, and the swaged and deformed portion, is placed adjacent to the welded portion to extend in a circumferential direction along the hole circumferential surface.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain, for each of a plurality of exposure regions on a substrate, surface positions in a height direction in the exposure region, and a control unit configured to control, based on the obtained surface positions, driving of a substrate stage in the height direction, wherein the control unit obtains an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region from the obtained surface positions obtained, and for a first exposure region for which information related to the approximate surface does not exceed a predetermined range, controls the driving based on a correction value related to the driving obtained from an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region that has been exposed prior to the first exposure region.

Abstract: An elevator includes a plurality of elevator units each including a car and a unit control section that controls operation of the car; and an operation management device that manages operation of the plurality of elevator units, in which, in a case where it is determined that any of the elevator units has left any of passengers behind, the operation management device additionally and immediately dispatches the car of another elevator unit to a floor where any of passengers has been left behind.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain, for each of a plurality of exposure regions on a substrate, surface positions in a height direction in the exposure region, and a control unit configured to control, based on the obtained surface positions, driving of a substrate stage in the height direction, wherein the control unit obtains an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region from the obtained surface positions obtained, and for a first exposure region for which information related to the approximate surface does not exceed a predetermined range, controls the driving based on a correction value related to the driving obtained from an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region that has been exposed prior to the first exposure region.

Abstract: A voice conversion device and so forth, capable of realizing both high voice quality and real-time nature using spectral differentials, are provided. The voice conversion device 10 includes an acquisition unit 11 that acquires signals of a voice of a subject, a filter calculation unit 12 that performs transform of features representing a voice timbre of the voice by a trained transformer model, and subjects the features following transform to liftering by a trained lifter, thereby calculating a spectrum of a filter, a shortened filter calculation unit 13 that performs inverse Fourier transform of the spectrum of the filter, and applies a predetermined window function, thereby calculating a shortened filter, and a generating unit 14 that applies a spectrum, obtained by Fourier transform of the shortened filter, to the spectrum of the signals, and performs inverse Fourier transform, thereby generating a synthesized voice.