Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a conveyer, a first conveyer path, a printer, a cutter assembly, and a controller, is provided. The controller controls the printer to print images for at least two pages on a first side of a printing medium; after printing the images on the first side of the printing medium, controls the conveyer to move the printing medium to a second conveyer path being a different path from the first conveyer path through a switchback action and invert the printing medium by conveying in a second conveying direction; after inverting the printing medium, controls the printer to print an image in a predetermined part on a second side opposite to the first side of the printing medium; and after printing the image in the predetermined part on the second side of the printing medium, control the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a conveyer, a first conveyer path, a printer, a cutter assembly, and a controller, is provided. The cutter assembly cuts the printing medium into a first part located frontward and a second part located rearward in a first conveying direction. The controller controls the printer to print an image in the second part on one side of the printing medium, controls the conveyer to move the printing medium from the first conveyer path to a second conveyer path through a first switchback action and inverts the printing medium by conveying in a second conveying direction, controls the printer to print an image in the second part on the other side of the printing medium, and controls the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium into a first printing medium having the first part and a second printing medium having the second part.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a container to store a printing medium therein, an acquisition device to acquire image data, a printing device to print an image on the printing medium, a cutter assembly to cut the printing medium, and a controller, is provided. In a case where a size of the image contained in the image data acquired by the acquisition device is smaller than a size of the printing medium stored in the container, the controller generates rotated image data containing a rotated image, which is an image rotated from an original posture of the image in the image data acquired by the acquisition device, controls the printing device based on the generated rotated image data to print the rotated image on the printing medium, and controls the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium having the rotated image printed by the printing device thereon.

Abstract: A generation unit that generates a user interface in which a user is allowed to select an incentive associated with a solution; a storage unit that stores information indicating an incentive, associated with a solution, selected by a user in a user interface generated by the generation unit, information indicating the solution, and information indicating the user in association with each other; an execution unit that monitors whether an application related to a solution is available and executes a process related to an incentive associated with a solution of the available application; and an output unit that outputs a fact that the process related to the incentive is executed by the execution unit are provided.

Abstract: A vibration damping device including a vibration-damping device main unit attached to a bracket from a lateral side by a second attachment member being fitted to opposed walls provided on widthwise opposite sides of the bracket. The bracket includes flexible latches extending from the respective opposed walls forward in a direction of attachment. The second attachment member includes outer recesses respectively opening onto surfaces overlapped with the respective opposed walls. Each latch has a slope portion sloping inward in a width direction of the bracket such that a distal end face of the latch is inserted in the corresponding outer recess. The distal end face of the latch is latched by a forward wall inner face of the outer recess, and displacement of the second attachment member relative to the bracket in a direction of dislodgment opposite to the direction of attachment is limited.

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: Provided is a particulate phosphor including a single crystal having a composition represented by a compositional formula (Y1-x-y-zLuxGdyCez)3+aAl5?aO12 (0?x?0.9994, 0?y?0.0669, 0.001?z?0.004, ?0.016?a?0.315) and a particle diameter (D50) of not less than 20 ?m. Also provided is a light-emitting device including a phosphor-including member that includes the phosphor and a sealing member including a transparent inorganic material sealing the phosphor or a binder including an inorganic material binding particles of the phosphor, and a light-emitting element that emits a blue light for exciting the phosphor.

Abstract: Aspects relate to contribution management for quantifying the contribution of solution owners to digital ecosystems based on the growth progress of the digital ecosystem. A contribution management device for managing a contribution of a solution owner in a digital ecosystem, including a data collection unit to collect a first set of solution performance metrics for a first digital solution and a set of ecosystem key performance indicators, a contribution measurement unit to calculate a first contribution score for the first digital solution, and a suggestion unit to generate a set of recommended actions for increasing growth of the digital ecosystem. The contribution measurement unit further includes a growth assessment unit to generate a set of growth progress data for the digital ecosystem and a dynamic weight calculation unit to calculate the first set of metric weights.

Abstract: A vibration damping device including a vibration-damping device main unit inserted into a mounting space of a bracket from a lateral side and securely supported by the bracket. The bracket includes engaging pieces on respective opposed inside faces of the mounting space, and engaging action of the engaging pieces with respect to respective detent engaging faces formed on a fixture member of the vibration-damping device main unit prevents the vibration-damping device main unit from becoming dislodged from the mounting space of the bracket. Opposed walls of the mounting space are each penetrated by an aperture window, and inspection flat surfaces are separately provided to an outside surface of each engaging piece visible from an outside through the aperture window and a corresponding external side surface of the bracket that is off the aperture window. The inspection flat surfaces are parallel to each other.

Abstract: An electrically operated valve having excellent wear resistance while suppressing cost is provided. The electrically operated valve comprises a valve main body having a valve seat; a motor including a stator fixed to the valve main body and a rotor driven to rotate with respect to the stator, a planetary gear type deceleration mechanism configured to decelerate rotation of the rotor to transmit to an output gear, a valve member configured to be movable toward and away from the valve seat in an axial direction, and a feed screw mechanism configured to convert rotational movement of the output gear into movement of the valve member in the axial direction. The planetary gear type deceleration mechanism includes a sun gear coupled to the rotor, a planetary gear engaged with the sun gear, a carrier for rotatably supporting the planetary gear, an annular ring gear engaged with the planetary gear, and a sliding member abutting against an axial end of the sun gear.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique that allows a first mobile unit to provide an appropriate display that makes it possible to easily identify a second mobile unit in a rendezvous of the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit. A For the rendezvous of the first mobile unit and the second mobile unit, a rendezvous assistance apparatus includes a first controller that performs control to cause a first display of the first mobile unit to display a first display object on the basis of the first receive information received by the first mobile unit, the first display object indicating the position of at least part of the second mobile unit accompanied with the first image or a landscape of the outside of the first mobile unit corresponding to the first image.

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: According to one embodiment, an electronic transaction device includes: a relationship map storage unit that stores a relationship map (a participant relationship map) which is information indicating a relationship between a plurality of parties involved in a predetermined transaction; a policy requirement storage unit that stores policy requirements, which are requirements for the parties involved in the transaction, necessary for the closing of the transaction; an agreement policy calculation unit that generates an agreement policy which is a condition related to an approver of a transaction indicated by transaction data holding a predetermined transaction content, based upon the relationship map and the policy requirements; and an approval request transmission unit that transmits a predetermined approval request to a predetermined information processing device associated with an approver of a transaction specified based upon the generated agreement policy.

Abstract: A vibration proofing device includes a bracket having an internal space, and a vibration proofing member inserted into the internal space. The internal space is open on an outer surface of the bracket. At least a pair of facing-each-other surfaces, against which the vibration proofing member is pressed, is formed in an inner surface of the bracket. A distance between the pair of the facing-each-other surfaces on a far side in an insertion direction of the vibration proofing member is the same, in at least some regions of the bracket, as that on a near side in the insertion direction. This provides the vibration proofing device and the bracket to allow for compactly configuring the device as a whole, while sufficiently securing a retaining force between the bracket and the vibration proofing member.

Abstract: Provided are a coil device that considerably reduces the man-hours and the cost for manufacturing, and a motor-driven valve and a solenoid valve including such a coil device. The terminal end of the magnet wire is fixed to a conducting terminal by swaging and/or fusing at a distal-end binding part for binding the terminal end of the magnet wire.

Abstract: An electrically operated valve having excellent wear resistance while suppressing cost is provided. The electrically operated valve comprises a valve main body having a valve seat; a motor including a stator fixed to the valve main body and a rotor driven to rotate with respect to the stator, a planetary gear type deceleration mechanism configured to decelerate rotation of the rotor to transmit to an output gear, a valve member configured to be movable toward and away from the valve seat in an axial direction, and a feed screw mechanism configured to convert rotational movement of the output gear into movement of the valve member in the axial direction. The planetary gear type deceleration mechanism includes a sun gear coupled to the rotor, a planetary gear engaged with the sun gear, a carrier for rotatably supporting the planetary gear, an annular ring gear engaged with the planetary gear, and a sliding member abutting against an axial end of the sun gear.

Abstract: A distributed ledger system has a configuration in which each of the distributed ledger subsystems includes a sub-ledger that holds ledger data shared in the distributed ledger subsystems, and a smart contract that interlocks between the distributed ledger subsystems having a common sub-ledger to perform a transaction processing related to an input and output of the ledger data, transmits a transaction request targeted for ledger data of another sub-ledger managed by another distributed ledger subsystem to another distributed ledger subsystem having the common sub-ledger by receiving a predetermined transaction request from a predetermined device and executing the smart contract, and replies with a transaction reply obtained from the other distributed ledger subsystem to the predetermined device.

Abstract: An electric valve can be further miniaturized while reducing the number of manufacturing man-hours. The electric valve contains: a motor including a stator member and a rotor member that displace a valve body, and a housing for accommodating the motor. The housing is formed by joining a heat generation portion formed of a first material to a heat receiving portion formed of a second material. The light transmittance in the first material is lower than the light transmittance in the second material.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a sensor, a carriage, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: setting a first sheet at a first printing position; printing an image on the first sheet while conveying the first sheet from the first printing position; determining whether an interval is more than a predetermined period; in a case where the interval is determined to be more than the predetermined period: causing the carriage to move in a first direction to a first detection position at which a second sheet is detected; and in response to detecting the second sheet, causing the carriage to move in the first direction to a first carriage position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a chemically strengthened glass, the method including chemically strengthening a lithium aluminosilicate glass having a thickness of t [unit: ?m], in which the lithium aluminosilicate glass has a fracture toughness value (K1c) of 0.80 MPa·m?12 or more, the chemical strengthening is chemical strengthening with a strengthening salt including sodium and having a potassium content of less than 5 mass %, and a chemically strengthened glass to be obtained has a surface compressive stress value (CS0) of 500-1,000 MPa and has a depth DOL [unit: ?m] at which a compressive stress value is zero of 0.06 t to 0.2 t.