Abstract: A fuel cell system is basically provided with a fuel cell, a pressure adjusting valve, a purge valve and an anode pressure controller. The fuel cell includes an anode that receives an anode gas and a cathode that receives a cathode gas to generate electric power corresponding to a load. The pressure adjusting valve is disposed in a supply path to adjust anode gas pressure to the anode. The purge valve is disposed in a discharging flow path to discharge an anode-off gas containing impurities from the fuel cell. The anode pressure controller is configured to control the pressure adjusting valve to perform a pulsation operation that pulsates the anode gas pressure of the fuel cell. The anode pressure controller decreases a median pressure of the pulsation operation as a wetness level of an electrolyte membrane of the fuel cell stack is determined to become higher.

Abstract: The robustness of discriminating results at each stage is improved in discrimination processing in which a plurality of stages of discriminators are used to identify an object. An information processing apparatus in which a plurality of stages of the discriminators are used to identify a class of an object, comprises a candidate class output unit that acquires as a candidate class a class discriminated at a first stage of the discriminators, and an extended class setting unit that sets in a second stage of the discriminators, a class of a second stage of the discriminators, which is defined as an extended partial space of a partial space defined by a candidate class in a discriminating space used in discriminating the candidate class by the first stage of the discriminators, as a class to be discriminated at this second stage of the discriminators.

Abstract: A resist composition includes a polymer that includes an acid-labile group-containing structural unit, a photoacid generator, and a solvent. The solvent includes a compound that includes a ketonic carbonyl group and an alcoholic hydroxyl group. The alcoholic hydroxyl group is preferably a tertiary alcoholic hydroxyl group. The solvent preferably further includes an alkylene glycol monoalkyl ether carboxylate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of inspecting printed matter as a recording sheet on which an image including a copy forgery-inhibited pattern has been printed. An image is printed on a sheet based on print image data. Scanned image data is acquired by reading the printed sheet. Reference data is created by excluding image data representative of image portions which cannot be read from the print image data. It is determined whether or not the printed sheet is free from defective printing by comparing the scanned image data and the reference data.

Abstract: A differential pressure control valve has a valve seat made of magnetic material, a valve body, and a guiding member fixed to the valve seat to guide the valve body. The valve body is located on the downstream side of the valve seat, and is seatable on the valve seat in accordance with the pressure difference between the upstream side and the downstream side to selectively open and close a valve hole. The valve body has a lid made of magnetic material and a guided member made of nonmagnetic material. The lid is seated on the valve seat to close the valve hole, and the guided member is guided by the guiding member. The valve seat or the lid has a permanent magnet, located outside the area where the valve body is seated on the valve seat, urging the valve body in the direction approaching the valve seat.

Abstract: An image editing apparatus includes: a processor that: (i) generates an editing information indicating a content of editing applied to at least one of frames included in a video stream, and performs an editing process in which the editing is applied to the at least one frame; (ii) specifies a subject frame to be edited from among the frames, based on the editing information; and (iii) generates a thumbnail for the subject frame to which the editing has been applied, and outputs the generated thumbnail.

Abstract: An edge graph in which a pixel of an image is set as a node and an edge is set between nodes is generated. The dissimilarity or similarity between nodes at the two ends of the edge is used as the feature amount of the edge, and the edge is classified into one of a plurality of classes based on the feature amount. The edge of interest is selected in ascending class order of the feature amount, and it is determined whether to merge determination target regions to which the nodes at the two ends of the edge of interest belong. Determination target regions determined to be able to be merged are merged, and a feature amount in the merged region is updated.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, with (a) a pixel array unit including two-dimensionally arranged pixels each including (i) a photoelectric conversion element, (ii) a select transistor configured to perform pixel selection, and (iii) a charge discharging transistor configured to selectively discharge the charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element; and (b) driving circuitry operable to drive reading of output signals from the pixels of the pixel array unit, for each pixel the driving circuitry driving the charge discharging transistor using a select transistor driving signal.

Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a swash plate, and an actuator capable of changing the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator includes a movable body. The movable body includes a sliding portion that slides on the rotary shaft or the lug member and a movable body-side transmission portion that engages with the swash plate at a position radially outward of the rotational axis of the swash plate. The movable body-side transmission portion is configured such that a perpendicular line or a normal to the movable body-side transmission portion and the rotational axis of the rotary shaft intersect with each other in a zone surrounded by the sliding portion when viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction in which the rotational axis of the rotary shaft extends and perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A running control device is configured to execute an engine coupling running mode performed with an engine and wheels connected by a connecting/disconnecting device, a neutral inertia running mode performed with the engine separated from the wheels by the connecting/disconnecting device while the engine is supplied with fuel and allowed to perform self-sustaining rotation, and a free-run inertia running mode performed with the engine separated from the wheels by the connecting/disconnecting device while fuel supply to the engine is stopped to stop rotation. The neutral inertia running mode is terminated when an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes equal to or greater than a predefined first determination value. The free-run inertia running mode is terminated when an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes equal to or greater than a predefined second determination value larger than the first determination value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a retrieval apparatus includes a first receiving device, an obtaining device, a calculator, a determining controller, and a first display controller. The first receiving device receives selection of at least one mask image from among a plurality of predetermined mask images indicating retrieval target areas. The obtaining device obtains a first image. The calculator calculates a first feature quantity of an extraction area defined by the mask image in the first image. The determining controller searches for second information, in which a second image and a second feature quantity of each of a plurality of items are associated with each other, and determines the second image corresponding to the second feature quantity having a degree of similarity with the first feature quantity equal to or greater than a threshold value. The first display controller performs control to display the determined second image on a display.

Abstract: An engine equipped with a secondary air supply device includes: a fuel tank disposed over a cylinder head for storing fuel of the engine; an exhaust muffler disposed beneath the fuel tank and below the exhaust port in a region lateral of the cylinder head; an exhaust pipe connecting the exhaust port to the exhaust muffler; a secondary air introduction pipe connected to the exhaust pipe for introducing air into the exhaust muffler; and a tailpipe for discharging exhaust gas of the exhaust muffler to the outside, the exhaust muffler and the fuel tank defining therebetween a space, the tailpipe being disposed to meander in the space.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a separator maintaining high rate characteristics and enabling suppression of short circuit. The object is achieved by a separator comprising a substrate having an inner surface and an outer surface, and inorganic particles presented on the outer surface and the inner surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate has a porosity of 55% or more and a mean flow pore size of 30 ?m or less, the inorganic particles have an average particle size of 1.0 to 4.0 ?m, and the inorganic particles comprises 40% by volume or less of particles having a particle size of 1.0 ?m or less and 30 to 75% by volume of particles having a particle size of 2.0 ?m or more.

Abstract: A belt unit is detachably attachable to a body of an image forming apparatus. The belt unit includes a belt, a pressing member, and a frame. The belt is wound around a plurality of supports to travel in a belt travel direction. The belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer. The pressing member presses warping on an edge of the belt. The frame supports the plurality of supports. The pressing member is positioned on the frame.

Abstract: In a compressor of the present invention, a first acting portion and a second acting portion are formed at a rear end of a first cylinder portion of a movable body. The first and the second acting portions are formed by stepping across a top dead center surface, and are plane-symmetrical with respect to the top dead center surface. Further, an affected portion is formed on a front surface of a swash plate. The first and the second acting portions and the affected portion are located eccentrically to a top dead center position corresponding portion side from a drive shaft axis.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a defect detection method includes inspecting an inspection target, classifying the inspection target by a characteristic quantity of a signal in the inspection of the inspection target, producing an in-plane map of the inspection target based on the characteristic quantities of the signals in the inspection of the inspection target, calculating a characteristic quantity of an in-plane map of the inspection target, and classifying defects of the inspection target in accordance with an agreement rate between the in-plane map characteristic quantity of the inspection target and an in-plane map characteristic quantity of a reference target.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a rotary machine, which includes: a casing forming process of forming a casing of the rotary machine that has multiple opening parts and suctions and discharges a fluid; a surface activating process of supplying a pretreatment liquid into the casing, then discharging the pretreatment liquid from the casing through the opening parts, and activating an inner surface of the casing after the casing forming process; a plating process of performing supply and discharge of a plating liquid into and from the easing through the opening parts to circulate the plating liquid and plating the inner surface of the casing after the surface activating process; and an assembling process of providing a rotating body that is rotatable relative to the casing so as to he covered from an outer circumference side by the casing plated in the plating process.

Abstract: The assay device (10) comprises a micro flow path (76); a porous medium provided near the distal end portion (80) of the micro flow path (76); and a space (82) provided between the micro flow path (76) and the porous medium for controlling the flow rate of a fluid moving from the micro flow path (76) to the space (82). After a fluid moved along the micro flow path (76) based on a lateral flow is brought into contact with the porous medium beyond the space (82) and is absorbed to the porous medium, the fluid is divided by the space (82) so that the fluid stays in the micro flow path (76). With this structure, it is possible to perform solution exchange in the micro flow path without using an external device such as a pump.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a means for enabling cancer immunotherapy that targets approximately 30% of various cancer patients that highly express forkhead box M1 (FOXM1) among the Japanese, by identifying FOXM1-derived peptides that can activate cancer cell-damaging human killer T cells by binding to HLA-A2. The present invention provides a peptide of (A) or (B) below: (A) a peptide including the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 3; (B) a peptide which includes the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 3, wherein one, two, or several amino acid(s) are substituted, deleted, inserted, and/or added, and wherein the peptide shows cytotoxic (killer) T cell-inducing activity.

Abstract: The image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a connector and a heater including an insulated substrate, a heat generating resistor, an electrode brought into contact with a contact of the connector; and a conductor provided on a surface of the insulated substrate opposite to a surface on which the electrode wherein the insulated substrate includes multiple through holes electrically connecting the electrode and the conductor to each other, in an area in which the electrode is provided, wherein the distances between a position on the electrode brought into contact with the contact and the multiple through holes are substantially equal to each other, so that burning of the through hole and conduction failure caused by the burning can be prevented.