Abstract: An electric valve includes a valve body that has a valve port and a valve seat enclosing the valve port, a valve member that faces the valve port, a valve stem, and a stepping motor. The valve stem has an external thread. The valve body has an internal thread into which the external thread is screwed. The external thread and the internal thread constitute a screw-feed mechanism. The valve stem is coaxially secured to a magnet rotor of the stepping motor. The lower end of the valve stem is connected to the valve member. When the magnet rotor rotates in a valve closing direction, the valve member moves toward the valve port. When the valve member comes into contact with the valve seat, the valve member is restricted from moving toward the valve port.

Abstract: A glass ceramic has a visible-light transmittance of 85% or more in terms of a thickness of 0.7 mm, and a haze value of 1.0% or less in terms of a thickness of 0.7 mm, and has a composition including, in mass % on an oxide basis: 45-70% of SiO2; 1-15% of Al2O3; and 10-25% of Li2O.

Abstract: An electric valve includes a valve body that has a valve port and a valve seat enclosing the valve port, a valve member that faces the valve port, a valve stem, and a stepping motor. The valve stem has an external thread. The valve body has an internal thread into which the external thread is screwed. The external thread and the internal thread constitute a screw-feed mechanism. The valve stem is coaxially secured to a magnet rotor of the stepping motor. The lower end of the valve stem is connected to the valve member. When the magnet rotor rotates in a valve closing direction, the valve member moves toward the valve port. When the valve member comes into contact with the valve seat, the valve member is restricted from moving toward the valve port.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveying unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit configured to print an image on the printing medium based on print data included in a print job; a processing unit including a processing member and configured to process the printing medium by moving the processing member in a state that the processing member contacts the printing medium; and a controller configured to execute no processing process for the printing medium by the processing unit, in a case that the controller determines that a first length in the conveying direction of the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit is shorter than a predetermined second length, during a printing process in which the image is printed on the printing medium based on the print data by the printing unit.

Abstract: A motor-operated valve includes a driving shaft that has an external thread, a guide member that has an internal thread into which the external thread is screwed, and a planetary gear mechanism that reduces the rotational speed of a rotor and transmits rotation of the rotor to the driving shaft. Where L represents the lead of the external thread, and K represents the speed-reduction ratio of the planetary gear mechanism, the motor-operated valve 1 satisfies expressions [1] and [2] below: 0.04 K ? L ? 0.1 K ? and [ 1 ] 30 ? K ? 100 .

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a divider disposed downstream of a print engine in a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller causes a conveyor to convey a print medium until a planned dividing position of the print medium reaches a dividing position of the divider, when a first conveyance amount is larger than a second conveyance amount. The first conveyance amount corresponds to a print width for a printing process by the print engine. The second conveyance amount is calculated using a distance between a reference position and the dividing position and a distance between the reference position and the planned dividing position. After the planned dividing position of the print medium reaches the dividing position, the controller causes the divider to divide the print medium into first and second print media. The controller causes the conveyor to convey the second sheet to a printing position.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a support, and a wavelength conversion layer that includes a phosphor particle group and a sealing member to seal the phosphor particle group and that is provided directly or through an other layer on the support. A predetermined region, in which a cross-sectional area rate of the phosphor particle group is not less than 50%, is included in an arbitrary cross section of the wavelength conversion layer taken parallel to a thickness direction thereof. The predetermined region includes a rectangular region with a width of 700 ?m and a thickness of 50 ?m from a bottom surface of the wavelength conversion layer when a thickness of the wavelength conversion layer is not less than 50 ?m, or a rectangular region with a width of 700 ?m and a thickness equal to the thickness of the wavelength conversion layer when it is less than 50 ?m.

Abstract: A contract management system acquires application information, which is information obtained from an applicant applying for the execution of a contract, written in natural language, and extracts contract event information, which is information related to a contract event, which is an event that causes the execution of the contract, from the contract written in natural language. The contract management system inputs the application information and the contract event information extracted from the contract into a large language model to determine whether the application information includes a contract event. If the application information includes a contract event, the contract management system acquires contract execution information, which is information necessary for the execution of the contract corresponding to the contract event, by inputting the application information into the large language model, and inputs the acquired contract execution information into the contract execution system.

Abstract: The present invention related to a hollow silica particle including: a shell layer containing silica; and a space formed inside the shell layer, in which the hollow silica particle has a particle density as measured by a dry pycnometer density measurement using helium gas of 2.00 g/cm3 or more and a particle density as measured by a dry pycnometer density measurement using oxygen gas of lower than 2.00 g/cm3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic having a three-dimensional shape including plural R-shapes including a smallest R-shape whose average radius of curvature is 5.0×102 mm or less and a largest R-shape whose average radius of curvature is 1.0×103 mm or more, having a maximum value of retardations of 20 nm/mm or less, and having a haze value converted into a value corresponding to a thickness of 0.8 mm of 1.0% or less in the largest R-shape.

Abstract: In an information processing system that provides a function for issuing or verifying a verifiable credential and a verifiable presentation, which is implemented between a plurality of organizations by a self-sovereign identity (SSI) technology, a creation request of extraction information specifying storage or non-storage, for information in the verifiable credential, in a blockchain (BC) of a distributed ledger system is received from a node, an approval or non-approval of information specifying storage or non-storage in creation request information generated based on the creation request is determined by consensus formation in the distributed ledger system, and the extraction information is created based on the creation request information when consensus is reached. BC storage information to be stored in a distributed ledger is created based on a schema or a credential definition and the extraction information.

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recorder; a cutter; a conveyor; and a controller. A cutting position is located upstream of the recorder in a first conveyance route. The controller is configured to execute first control to generate a first recorded item being a first medium on which a first image is recorded and a second recorded item being a second medium on which a second image is recorded. The first control includes: a first recording process of causing the recorder to record the first image and the second image on a first objective recording medium; a first conveying process of causing the conveyor to convey the first objective recording medium after the first recording process; and a first cutting process of causing the cutter to cut the first objective recording medium after the first conveying process.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an accommodating part which accommodates a medium, a recording part, a cutting part, a conveyor, and a controller. A cutting position of the medium is located upstream of the recording part in the first conveyance path. The controller executes first control so as to generate a first recorded item in which a first image is recorded on a first medium and a second recorded item in which a second image is recorded on a second medium.

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recorder; a cutter; a conveyor; and a controller. A cutting position is located upstream of the recorder in a conveyance route. The controller is configured to execute first control to generate first and second recorded items. The first control includes: a first conveying process of causing the conveyor to convey a recording medium; a first recording process of causing the recorder to record at least a part of a first image on the recording medium; a second conveying process of causing the conveyor to convey the recording medium so that a cutting planned position of the recording medium is located at the cutting position; a first cutting process of causing the cutter to cut the recording medium; and a second recording process of causing the recorder to record a second image on the second medium obtained by cutting the recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass including, in mole percentage in terms of oxides: 40-65% of SiO2; 25-40% of Al2O3; and 7-15% of one or more components, in total, selected from Y2O3, La2O3, Nb2O5, Ta2O5, and WO3. Also the present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a base composition including, in mole percentage in terms of oxides: 40-65% of SiO2; 25-40% of Al2O3; 7-15% of Y2O3; and 2-15% of Li2O, and having a compressive stress value, measured at a depth of 50 ?m from a surface thereof, of 150 MPa or more.

Abstract: A glass sheet, containing, in mass % on an oxide basis: 45-70% of SiO2, 1-15% of Al2O3, 10-25% of Li2O, 0-10% of Na2O, 0-5% of K2O, and 0-15% of ZrO2. K2O/R2O is 0.10 or less and ZrO2/R2O is 0.30 or more, where R2O is a total content of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O. The glass sheet has an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50° C.-350° C. of 90×10?7/° C.-140×10?7/° C. and a Young's modulus of 85 GPa or more.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a sintered body of a phosphor. An average diameter of pores in an arbitrary cross section falls within a range of not less than 0.28 ?m and not more than 0.98 ?m. A ratio of an area of pores to a whole area in an arbitrary cross section falls within a range of not less than 0.04% and not more than 2.7%. An average diameter of grains of the phosphor in an arbitrary cross section falls within a range of not less than 1 ?m and not more than 3 ?m.

Abstract: An electric valve includes a valve member that includes a control portion having a single tapered shape. A stepping motor rotates to move the valve member in a moving section between a valve closing position and a full-open position. When the valve member is at the valve closing position, a control surface of the control portion is in contact with a valve seat. When the valve member moves from the valve closing position and is in the moving section, a throttle passage is formed between the valve seat and the control surface. The moving section includes a first section between the valve closing position and a first position and a second section between the first position and a second position. A controller sets a step angle when the valve member is in the first section to be smaller than when the valve member is in the second section.

Abstract: An electric valve includes a valve body that has a valve port and a valve seat enclosing the valve port, a valve member that faces the valve port, a valve stem, and a stepping motor. The valve stem has an external thread. The valve body has an internal thread into which the external thread is screwed. The external thread and the internal thread constitute a screw-feed mechanism. The valve stem is coaxially secured to a magnet rotor of the stepping motor. The lower end of the valve stem is connected to the valve member. When the magnet rotor rotates in a valve closing direction, the valve member moves toward the valve port. When the valve member comes into contact with the valve seat, the valve member is restricted from moving toward the valve port.