Abstract: Based on a received operation task and an operation task cost related table, costs are compared in consideration of a cost of an entire operation task in an operation configured by combining plural operation tasks. The operation task cost related table associates a cloud operation task, a dynamic cost parameter indicating a parameter that directly or indirectly affects a cost of an operation task, an impact parameter indicating a parameter that affects costs of other operation tasks due to the operation task, and an impact calculation formula for calculating a change or degree of impact by the dynamic cost parameter or the impact parameter. A user designates an operation task which is an estimation target regarding the cloud, specifies the dynamic parameters corresponding to the designated operation task and the dynamic parameters for other operation tasks including the impact parameters corresponding to the dynamic parameters, and estimates the cost.

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 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: Provided is a driving assistance information generation apparatus that can cause a vehicle to travel so that an abnormality does not occur in a condition of an occupant other than a driver. The driving assistance information generation apparatus includes processing circuitry to: collect occupant condition information of an occupant, other than a driver, of a vehicle being an information collection source, and position information of the vehicle; determine a caution point where an abnormality has occurred in the condition of the occupant, based on the occupant condition information and the position information; store information of the caution point; and output the information of the caution point to a target vehicle being an information providing destination, based on a request from outside. The occupant condition information includes information related to a condition of at least one of a physical condition, a physiological condition, and a mental condition of the occupant.

Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.

Abstract: A stator unit includes a main circuit board parallel to an up-and-down direction, a sub circuit board at a right angle to the main circuit board, a magnetic sensor on the sub circuit board, and a housing including a sub circuit board space that is located adjacent to an inner space of the stator unit in which a can is disposed. The sub circuit board includes a first end connected to the main circuit board via a circuit board terminal and a second end located near the inner space in the sub circuit board space. The magnetic sensor is located closer to the inner space than the circuit board terminal is.

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: 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: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.

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 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 technique provided increases the possibility that a distribution destination is able to receive running-state information from a distribution source. A distribution control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires the position of a vehicle included in the distribution source and running-state information including video information on the periphery of the vehicle, and a controller that performs control to distribute the running-state information from the distribution source to the distribution destination that has permitted distribution of the running-state information in advance, when the vehicle is determined to be positioned within a range corresponding to a set path that is preset by the distribution source, based on the position of the vehicle and the set path.

Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a conveyer having a roller arranged at the downstream of the head according to a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to carry out: a recording process, a first determining process to determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the recording process, a conveying process to convey a medium in if the first determining process determines that the predetermined time has elapsed, and a setting process to set a predetermined time based on a discharge amount of a liquid from a plurality of nozzles onto a recording area and a conveyance time for the conveyer to convey the medium from the recording area to the roller, before the first determining process.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet cutting apparatus including: a cutter including first and second blades and a shifter including an actuator; a signal outputter; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first cutting processing of moving the first blade in a cutting direction by setting a power value of the actuator to be a first power value; a first determining processing of determining whether abnormality in a moving state of the first blade exists; a first stopping processing of stopping the first blade at a first stop position, in a case that the abnormality is determined to exist; a first returning processing of moving the first blade upstream in the cutting direction; and a second cutting processing of moving the first blade in the cutting direction by setting the power value of the actuator to be a second power value greater than the first power value.

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 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 printing apparatus includes a conveying unit which conveys a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit which prints an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a processing unit which includes a processing member and which executes a processing action for processing the printing medium by moving the processing member while causing the processing member to contact the printing medium; and a controller. The controller executes a processing process for causing the processing unit to execute the processing action with respect to the printing medium by moving the processing unit from a first position to a second position in an intersecting direction; a first conveying process for causing the conveying unit to convey a processed printing medium in the conveying direction; and a first moving process for moving the processing unit from the second position to the first position after the first conveying process.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique allowing reduction in the occurrence of a traffic jam to be caused by autonomous driving by an autonomous driving vehicle. A traveling plan preparation apparatus includes a traveling plan preparation unit that prepares an autonomous driving traveling plan on the basis of traveling cost including convenience cost. The traveling plan preparation unit increases the convenience cost as a congestion level becomes higher, and performs at least one of a process of increasing the convenience cost with a smaller margin of time and a process of reducing the convenience cost with greater closeness of a road to a pick-up position.