Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a transistor provided in a first region of a semiconductor layer in a plan view; a transistor provided in a second region adjacent to the first region of the semiconductor layer in the plan view; and a drain pad provided in a third region not overlapping the first region and the second region in the plan view. In the plan view, the first region and the second region are one region and an other region that divide an area of the semiconductor layer excluding the third region in half. In the plan view, the transistors are arranged in a first direction. The center of the third region is located on a straight center line that divides the semiconductor layer in half in the first direction and is orthogonal to the first direction. In the plan view, the drain pad is contained in the third region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a cleaning blade having an elastic member contacting a surface of the image bearer, the cleaning blade removing a residue on the surface of the image bearer, and a controller. In the image forming apparatus, the cleaning blade has a coating film of a lubricant formed on an edge contacting, at least, the image bearer, and the controller performs an initial coating film adjustment before an image is initially formed. In the image forming apparatus, the initial coating film adjustment includes driving the image bearer to rotate, sliding the image bearer and the cleaning blade, removing a portion of the coating film of the lubricant, which is formed on the cleaning blade, and exposing the edge of the cleaning blade.

Abstract: An inspection system for a fabricated object formed by layering powder includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image of a surface of each of layers, an identification unit that identifies a defect portion (protruding portion or recessed portion) on the surface of the powder and a position of the defect portion based on the acquired image, and a determination unit that determines that an abnormality occurs when the defect portion successively occurs at a same position in the plurality of layers.

Abstract: An image generation system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a road image obtained by imaging of a road; determine a future degradation level of the road; and generate, based on the road image, a predictive image representing road degradation on a surface of the road, in accordance with the future degradation level.

Abstract: A cleaning blade includes an elastic member that includes a front edge surface extending in the longitudinal direction of the elastic member and the thickness direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and a bottom surface extending in the depth direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and the thickness direction, the bottom surface sharing a front edge ridge part with the front edge surface and facing a cleaning target, and a coating layer coating the front edge surface, the front edge ridge part, and the bottom surface, wherein the front edge ridge part coated with the coating layer is in contact with a surface of the cleaning target, and the coating layer has an average thickness that increases with an increase in a distance from the front edge ridge part in the thickness direction on the front edge surface.

Abstract: An addictive manufactured object manufacturing method includes: a shell portion forming step of additively forming a shell portion corresponding to an outer portion of an addictive manufactured object by a shell portion beads formed by weaving welding; and a core portion forming step of additively forming a core portion corresponding to an inner portion of the addictive manufactured object by a core portion bead formed by welding.

Abstract: An actuator of an airbag device includes a main body portion, which is attached to an attachment base, and a cap including a fitting protruding portion that is inserted into a fitting recessed portion of the main body portion. The fitting protruding portion has a holding portion, which is inserted into a holding hole of a coupling member when fitted to the main body portion and holds a leading end portion of the coupling member, and a movement permitting unit that, when a ceiling portion of the cap is subjected to pressure of a combustion gas of a squib, causes the ceiling portion to move, and causes the holding portion to move from a holding position, wherein the holding portion is inserted into the holding hole of the coupling member, to a holding released position, wherein the holding portion is removed from the holding hole.

Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a drop conveyance passage, an intersecting conveyance passage, a conveying screw, and a floating member. Powder entering from an inflow port drops in the drop conveyance passage. The intersecting conveyance passage communicates with a lower end of the drop conveyance passage and extends in an intersecting direction that intersects the drop conveyance passage. The conveying screw is disposed in the intersecting conveyance passage and rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder in the intersecting direction. The floating member is movably installed in the drop conveyance passage and floats in the drop conveyance passage to move by contact with the conveying screw. The inflow port and the floating member interfere with each other to prevent the floating member from coming out of the inflow port of the drop conveyance passage.

Abstract: Provided are an article having inorganic fibers and needle marks extending in the thickness direction and including vertical bundles composed of the inorganic fibers extending in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A conductive paste for electrode formation contains metal particles, a binder, a metal oxide additive, and a solvent. The metal oxide additive includes a metal oxide having, in an Ellingham diagram, a higher level of standard Gibbs energy of formation than carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide at a temperature of 500 to 1000° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.

Abstract: A handle switch device that prevents a user from being bothered when supplying power, and enables a user to easily check a connection state of a power cord. A handle switch device 10 to be attached to a handlebar 11 of a vehicle 21 is provided with a USB port 18 for supplying power to an external device, and the USB port 18 is directed inwardly with respect to a width direction of a vehicle 21 in a state in which the handle switch device 10 is attached to the handlebar 11.

Abstract: A paper management system setting a paper information piece of paper stored in a sheet feeding unit in an image forming apparatus from a list of paper information pieces registers the paper information pieces with a favorite group, displays a list of the paper information pieces for each favorite group, and enables the list of the paper information pieces to be associated with a paper feed unit through the screen displaying the list.

Abstract: Provided is a method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell which enables a heat insulating block to be firmly fixed to a furnace wall but does not require much time and costs for making the heat insulating block, and which further offers good workability at a site. The method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell includes: inserting a beam of a fixture into a fold of an inorganic fiber aggregate mat that is folded up to form a heat insulating block; and fixing the fixture and a furnace shell to each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner image bearer, a transfer device, a cleaner, a bias power source, and circuitry. The toner image bearer bears a toner image. The transfer device performs a transfer process The cleaner contacts the toner image bearer to remove transfer residual toner that is subject to the transfer process and remove untransferred toner that is not subject to the transfer process. The bias power source applies one of a first bias and a second bias different from the first bias to the cleaner. The circuitry controls the bias power source to output the first bias to the cleaner in response to a start of an image forming operation to remove the untransferred toner from the toner image bearer and control the bias power source to switch an output from the first bias to the second bias.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat transfer tube allowing a refrigerant to flow; and a fin having through holes that are aligned in columns in a second direction crossing a first direction in which air flows. The through holes include: first through holes each penetrated by the heat transfer tube in a thickness direction of the fin; and second through holes not penetrated by the heat transfer tube. The fin includes: a first region having the first through holes; and a second region having the second through holes. One or both ends of the second region in the first direction are adjacent to the first region. Both ends of the second region in the second direction are adjacent to the first region.

Abstract: An injection molding device includes an injection device including a cylinder, a screw, and a nozzle provided at a front end of the cylinder, for discharging molten resin as the screw advances, a mold including a molded product cavity, and a resin channel between the molded product cavity and a portion abutting the nozzle, a channel pressure measuring device for acquiring channel pressure data in the resin channel, and a determination unit that determines presence/absence of clogging of a gate of the resin channel, based on features of the channel pressure data.

Abstract: There are provided a molding conditions determination assist device and a resin state estimation device including: a quality estimation unit which estimates quality of the mold products by a machine learning on the basis of a detection data; a quality transition storage unit which accumulates the estimated quality of the mold products and stores a quality transition with respect to the accumulated quality of the mold products; a tendency evaluation unit which evaluates a quality change tendency with respect to a prescribed standard quality on the basis of the quality transition; a relationship storage unit which stores a relationship between the quality change tendency and a modification amount of the molding conditions for returning the quality to the standard quality; and a modification conditions determination unit which determines the modification amount of the molding conditions on the basis of the quality change tendency and the relationship.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a communication device, comprising: a receiving unit; and a control unit configured to, in a case in which the receiving unit receives a notification satisfying a predetermined condition from the communication device, search for an annotation related to the condition from a predetermined annotation management table, and direct a camera to the annotation that matches, wherein the control unit executes a predetermined operation based on a rule set in advance in a case in which the camera is directed towards the annotation.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a display program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining, among a first plurality of bits in a quantum circuit, a position that is not located between a second plurality of bits of a first type, the position being a position of a bit of a second type, determining an order of the second plurality of bits, based on a number of times a gate circuit intersects an unrelated bit among the second plurality of bits, and displaying the first plurality of bits in parallel, based on the determined position and the determined order.