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.

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: 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 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: 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: An antifouling layer-attached glass substrate includes a glass substrate having a pair of main surfaces facing each other, and an antifouling layer formed on or above at least one main surface of the glass substrate. At the time of measuring an absorbance inside the antifouling layer-attached glass substrate by a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer according to ATR method (Attenuated Total Reflection) from a surface on a side where the antifouling layer is formed, in the case where an absorbance value at 3,955 cm?1 is set to 0.10, a value (H2O absorbance) obtained by subtracting, as a base, the absorbance value at 3,955 cm?1 from a peak value of an absorbance peak which appears around 3,400 cm?1 is 0.010 or more.

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus, including: a feed roller; a conveyer; a recording head; a carriage; a motor; a transmission mechanism; a lock detector; and a controller. The controller is configured to: record image on recording medium by alternately repeating a line feed process and a recording process; start feeding of second recording medium, before the recoding of the image to first recoding medium is completed, by rotating the motor to drive the feed roller; continue, in a case that the motor lock state is detected before the recording of the image to first recording medium is completed, a control for rotating the motor, until a process for recoding the image to first recording medium being executed when the motor lock state is detected, is completed; and stop a driving of the motor after the process for recoding the image to first recording medium is completed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic having 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 including, in mass % on an oxide basis: 45-70% of SiO2; 1-15% of Al2O3; and 10-25% of Li2O.

Abstract: In a data linkage management system, at least each node of a specified plurality of organizations among a plurality of nodes holds a tolerance range rule that defines a specified tolerance range relating to discrepancies among data acquired from a specified external system, and forms a consensus that tolerates discrepancies among the data by passing a tolerance pass-fail judgment relating to discrepancies among the data according to the tolerance range rule in regards to a transaction issued by each node for the data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass sheet in which a value of SB/(SA×t) is 5.0 mm?1 or more, where SA (MPa·?m) is an integrated value of a compressive stress from a surface of the glass sheet to a depth of 10 ?m, SB (MPa·?m) is an integrated value of a compressive stress from the depth of 10 ?m to DOL which is a depth at which the compressive stress is zero, and t (mm) is a thickness of the glass sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass having a fracture toughness value of 0.85 MPa·m1/2 or more, and including, as represented by molar percentage based on oxides, 40% or more of SiO2, 20% or more of Al2O3, 5% or more of Li2O, and from 1 to 6% in total of one or more selected from Y2O3, La2O3 and Ga2O3. The present invention relates to a glass including, as represented by molar percentage based on oxides, from 40 to 60% of SiO2, from 20 to 45% of Al2O3, and from 5 to 15% of Li2O. Denoting the content of SiO2 as [SiO2] and the content of Al2O3 as [Al2O3], (2×[Al2O3]-X)/[SiO2] is 0 or more and 1 or less.

Abstract: A controller is configured to: when both a first conveyor and a second conveyor are operating concurrently, determine whether a reference current value exceeds a threshold value, the reference current value being obtained based on at least one of a first driving current that is a driving current of the first conveyor and a second driving current that is a driving current of the second conveyor; in response to determining that the reference current value exceeds the threshold value, continue an operation of an earlier-driven conveyor that is one of the first conveyor and the second conveyor that is started at earlier timing, and temporarily stop an operation of a later-driven conveyor that is one of the first conveyor and the second conveyor that is started at later timing; and after a driving current of the earlier-driven conveyor drops to a particular standard, restart the operation of the later-driven conveyor.

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: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrically operated valve capable of more accurately detecting the position of a valve body. In order to achieve the above object, the electrically operated valve of the present invention comprises a valve body, a driver configured to move the valve body along a first axis, a rotation shaft configured to rotate the driver around the first axis, a permanent magnet member, and an angle sensor. The permanent magnet member is disposed on the rotation shaft and configured to rotate with the rotation shaft. The angle sensor is configured to detect a rotation angle of a permanent magnet included in the permanent magnet member. The angle sensor is disposed above the permanent magnet.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrically operated valve capable of more accurately detecting the position of a valve body. In order to achieve the above object, the electrically operated valve of the present invention comprises a valve body, a driver configured to move the valve body along a first axis, a rotation shaft configured to rotate the driver around the first axis, a permanent magnet member, an angle sensor, and a yoke configured to cover a portion of the permanent magnet or a portion of the angle sensor. The permanent magnet member is disposed on the rotation shaft and configured to rotate with the rotation shaft. The angle sensor is configured to detect a rotation angle of a permanent magnet included in the permanent magnet member. The angle sensor is disposed above the permanent magnet.

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus, including: a feed roller; a conveyer; a recording head; a carriage; a motor; a transmission mechanism; a lock detector; and a controller. The controller is configured to: record image on recording medium by alternately repeating a line feed process and a recording process; start feeding of second recording medium, before the recoding of the image to first recoding medium is completed, by rotating the motor to drive the feed roller; continue, in a case that the motor lock state is detected before the recording of the image to first recording medium is completed, a control for rotating the motor, until a process for recoding the image to first recording medium being executed when the motor lock state is detected, is completed; and stop a driving of the motor after the process for recoding the image to first recording medium is completed.