Abstract: Provided is a temperature sensor attachment structure capable of reliably fixing a temperature sensor and being retrofitted to a standard component. Provided is an attachment structure of a temperature sensor to be attached to flow path blocks or a fluid control device of a fluid control apparatus including the plurality of flow path blocks each of which includes a fluid flow path therein and on at least one surface of which has an opening portion of the fluid flow path, and the fluid control device placed on the flow path blocks. The attachment structure includes a rectangular temperature sensor attachment piece, and a pair of clamping pieces extending from opposite sides of the attachment piece facing each other.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided each of which stores data that is received in a memory; acquires transfer history information indicating a transfer state of the data, from an information processing system configured to transfer the data to an external storage; identifies data to be transmitted from within the data stored in the memory, based on the transfer history information; and transmits the identified data to the information processing system.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to store data in the memory, transmit the data stored in the memory to an information processing system, instruct the information processing system to execute a transfer job that includes a first process for transferring the data and a second process related to the first process, and delete the data from the memory in a case where transfer job execution history information indicates that the first process and the second process are completed. The transfer job execution history information includes a history of execution of the transfer job.

Abstract: A method for applying an ultraviolet curable coating material and a method for producing an ultraviolet cured film include the steps of: supplying an ultraviolet curable coating material containing an ultraviolet curable acrylic monomer into a mixer under a condition of greater than or equal to 8 MPa without diluting the ultraviolet curable coating material with an organic solvent; supplying carbon dioxide with a critical pressure or more into the mixer; mixing the ultraviolet curable coating material and the carbon dioxide supplied into the mixer to form a mixed fluid; spraying the mixed fluid under a condition of a critical pressure or more of the carbon dioxide to form a coating film; and irradiating the coating film with ultraviolet rays to form an ultraviolet cured film.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion device includes: a switch connected to input units through signal lines to receive external voltages selecting and outputting one external voltage; an S/H circuit holding a voltage corresponding to an output of the switch; a converter performing AD conversion based on the voltage; and a controller determining the external voltage selected by the switch and performing a disconnection determination whether a disconnection occurs in the signal line. In the disconnection determination, the controller controls the switch to select a reference voltage different from the external voltage before controlling the switch to select the external voltage to be determined, and performs the disconnection determination based on a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the external voltage after controlling the switch to select the external voltage.

Abstract: A method for applying an ultraviolet curable coating material and a method for producing an ultraviolet cured film include the steps of: supplying an ultraviolet curable coating material containing an ultraviolet curable acrylic monomer into a mixer under a condition of greater than or equal to 8 MPa without diluting the ultraviolet curable coating material with an organic solvent; supplying carbon dioxide with a critical pressure or more into the mixer; mixing the ultraviolet curable coating material and the carbon dioxide supplied into the mixer to form a mixed fluid; spraying the mixed fluid under a condition of a critical pressure or more of the carbon dioxide to form a coating film; and irradiating the coating film with ultraviolet rays to form an ultraviolet cured film.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion device includes: a switch connected to input units through signal lines to receive external voltages selecting and outputting one external voltage; an S/H circuit holding a voltage corresponding to an output of the switch; a converter performing AD conversion based on the voltage; and a controller determining the external voltage selected by the switch and performing a disconnection determination whether a disconnection occurs in the signal line. In the disconnection determination, the controller controls the switch to select a reference voltage different from the external voltage before controlling the switch to select the external voltage to be determined, and performs the disconnection determination based on a voltage difference between the reference voltage and the external voltage after controlling the switch to select the external voltage.

Abstract: A joint includes a first block, a second block, and a single pipe section connecting the first block and the second block. The first block, the second block, and the single pipe have a first gas passage and a second gas passage inside therein. The first gas passage is formed so that a first port which opens at an outer surface of the first block, the single pipe section, and a second port which opens at an outer surface of the second block communicate with each other. The second gas passage is formed so that a third port and a fourth port which open at the outer surface of the second block communicate with each other. The second port is disposed between the third port and the fourth port.

Abstract: The present invention provides an effective means for improving the dispersibility of sediments or aggregates of microbial cells generated at the time of production and during storage of a food or beverage product containing microbial cells such as lactic acid bacteria. The present invention provides a beverage that contains microbial cells comprising (A) microbial cell powder and (B) polyglycerin fatty acid ester composed of polyglycerin having a polymerization degree of 3 to 10 and fatty acid having 10 to 18 carbon atoms connected by ester bonds.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device.

Abstract: An illumination device (11) includes a light guide plate (15) and a light source unit (10) which includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of LED chips (16) disposed on the substrate (12), and which is disposed in a position at which emitted light of the LED chips (16) enters a light entrance portion (15a) of the light guide plate (15). The LED chips (16) are disposed to form a plurality of rows on the substrate (12), and are disposed to line up in a direction which orthogonally intersects the rows between each of the rows.

Abstract: An automatic transaction device includes a first device mounted internally and a control unit that controls devices send and receive data between the first device and the control unit. The first device executes processing that generates a first code relating to the first device and sends same to the control unit and executes processing that verifies a second code received from the control unit and generates an encryption key in accordance with the verification results. The control unit executes: processing whereby, after the first code has been received, verification is made that the operation environment is within the automatic transaction device; and processing whereby, if a determination is made that the operation environment is within the automatic transaction device, a second code is generated and sent to the first device.

Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus. The information processing system includes a provisional cost calculator configured to apply failure history information to a failure prediction model to provisionally calculate a cost of the failure prediction model, the failure history information expressing failure history of at least one electronic device in which a failure has occurred, the failure prediction model including a symptom detection method for detecting a symptom of a failure to occur in the electronic device in association with a preventive action for preventing the failure to occur in the electronic device; and an adoption determiner configured to determine to adopt the failure prediction model by which a profit can be obtained, based on a result of the provisional calculation.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device.

Abstract: An illumination device (11) includes a light guide plate (15) and a light source unit (10) which includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of LED chips (16) disposed on the substrate (12), and which is disposed in a position at which emitted light of the LED chips (16) enters a light entrance portion (15a) of the light guide plate (15). The LED chips (16) are disposed to form a plurality of rows on the substrate (12), and are disposed to line up in a direction which orthogonally intersects the rows between each of the rows.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel oral administration preparation that enables administration of silodosin, which is a drug with extremely strong bitterness, without a foreign-body sensation even without water, and has dissolution properties of being able to reproduce an effective blood concentration for the treatment of dysuria associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia or the like. The present invention relates to a masked particle and a novel oral administration preparation comprising the masked particle or the like, wherein the masked particle obtained by granulating or coating a drug particle comprising a fine powder of silodosin with a coating agent comprising a non-enteric polymer, and a content of the non-enteric polymer is 80 parts by mass to 400 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of silodosin.

Abstract: The coaxial connector of the Present Disclosure includes a tube-shaped outer conductor, an insulating portion and an inner conductor. The insulating portion has a first fixed portion, a first elastic portion positioned on one side of the first fixed portion, and a second elastic portion. The inner conductor has a second fixed portion, a first holding portion positioned on one side of the second fixed portion, and a second holding portion positioned on the other side of the second fixed portion. The first elastic portion biases the outer peripheral surface of the first holding portion towards the outer peripheral surface of the inner conductor of the other coaxial connector. The second elastic portion biasing the outer peripheral surface of the second holding portion towards the outer peripheral surface of the inner conductor of the other coaxial connector.

Abstract: The coaxial connector includes a tube-shaped outer conductor and an inner conductor provided inside the outer conductor in a plan view. The outer conductor includes an engaging portion recessed towards the inner conductor, a first portion positioned closer to one end of the outer conductor relative to the engaging portion, and a second portion positioned closer to the other end of the outer conductor relative to the engaging portion. The outer peripheral surface of the engaging portion is positioned closer to the inner conductor than to the outer peripheral surface of the first portion and the outer peripheral surface of the second portion, and the inner peripheral surface of the engaging portion is closer to the inner conductor than to either the inner peripheral surface of the first portion or the inner peripheral surface of the second portion.

Abstract: An example computer apparatus includes a processor coupled to a memory storing a program. The processor executes the program to perform operations including displaying an application menu screen displaying at least a selectable first menu item for an uninstalled first application and a selectable second menu item for an installed second application; periodically determining availability/unavailability of the first application for download from another computer apparatus; in response to selection of the first menu item if the most recent periodic determining has determined that the first application is unavailable for download from the server, providing announcement information about the first application; and in response to selection of the first menu item if the most recent periodic determining has determined that the first application is available for download from the server, initiating a process for downloading and installing the first application.

Abstract: A method of producing olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, including a process of reacting at least one kind of a catalyst (D) selected from the group consisting of below catalysts (A) to (C) with synthesis gas in the presence of a dispersion medium through a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, in which the catalyst (A) contains iron and one to three kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of alkali metal and alkali earth metal, the catalyst (B) contains cobalt, provided that the catalyst (B) is a catalyst except a catalyst obtained by reducing a cobalt ion and an iron ion in a dispersion liquid or a solution containing the cobalt ion, the iron ion and a dispersant that interacts with the cobalt ion and the iron ion, and the catalyst (C) contains nickel or ruthenium.