Abstract: The adhesion of a fluid to a connecting device for connecting a discharge device and a filling device to each other so as to fill the fluid into the discharge device is suppressed. A discharge system (10) includes a discharge device (20) capable of being filled with a fluid for discharge and discharging the fluid, a filling device (100) for filling the fluid into the discharge device (20), a connecting device (140) for connecting the discharge device (20) and the filling device (100) to each other in a separable manner, and a control device (170). The control device (170) of the discharge system (10) controls an operation speed during a separating operation of separating the discharge device (20) from the filling device (100) to be equal to or less than an operation speed during a connecting operation of connecting the discharge device (20) to the filling device (100).

Abstract: An insolation information generating device has a mesh generator to generate meshes by projecting a solar trajectory on a celestial sphere onto a plurality of mesh positions on a two-dimensional plane, a solar position calculator to calculate a solar position, a feature road shape storage to store three-dimensional information on feature and road shapes, a feature road shape acquisition module to acquire three-dimensional information of a feature and a road located around each of a plurality of regions of interest, an insolation information calculator to determine whether sunlight from each solar position calculated by the solar position calculator is blocked by a feature acquired by the feature road shape acquisition module to calculate at least either one of a sunny ratio and a shady ratio, and an insolation information storage to store each mesh position and at least either one of the corresponding sunny ratio and shady ratio.

Abstract: A composition includes the following (a) to (c). (a) a first organic compound represented by Formula (1) below (R represents a hydrogen atom or a glycidyl group. A plurality of Rs may be identical to or different from each other, but each of at least two Rs is a glycidyl group.

Abstract: The brake ECU applies the target braking force by controlling the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device and the regeneration braking force generating device and the brake ECU further controls the advance speed of the output piston so that a drawn-into of a brake operating member can be prevented upon supplying the wheel cylinders from the master cylinder with the brake fluid by advancing the output piston thereby to improve the brake operating feeling of the brake operating member by preventing the brake operating member from being drawn into.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus in which a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets discharged onto an intermediate processing tray is received in a receiving portion of a stapler and bound with use of a staple, and a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets discharged onto the intermediate processing tray is received in a receiving portion of a staple-less binding unit having a gap in the thickness direction of the sheets smaller than that of the receiving portion of the stapler and bound without using a staple, wherein when the stapler performs the binding process, the staple-less binding unit is arranged in a position shifted in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet discharge direction from a region on the intermediate processing tray, through which the sheets discharged by a sheet discharging portion pass.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first line, a second line, a switching element, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a first alignment film. The second substrate includes a second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule kept between the first alignment film and the second alignment film. First anchoring strength is provided on the first alignment film which is a photo-alignment film, second anchoring strength is provided on the second alignment film which is a rubbing alignment film, and the first anchoring strength is substantially equal to or greater than the second anchoring strength.

Abstract: An ultrasonic probe according to one embodiment, includes a first wiring plate, a second wiring plate and a vibrator. The vibrator is provided between the first wiring plate and the second wiring plate. The vibrator includes a backing material provided on the first wiring plate, a piezoelectric body provided on the backing material, a first acoustic matching layer provided on the piezoelectric body, a second acoustic matching layer provided on the first acoustic matching layer, a first bonding layer having conductive properties and bonding the backing material and the piezoelectric body, a second bonding layer bonding the piezoelectric body and the first acoustic matching layer, and a third bonding layer having insulating properties and bonding the first acoustic matching layer and the second acoustic matching layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of trench gates in the first semiconductor layer extending to reach the inside of the semiconductor substrate; a second semiconductor layer selectively provided in an upper portion of the first semiconductor layer between the trench gates; an isolation layer in contact with a side surface of the second semiconductor layer and extends in the first semiconductor; and a third semiconductor layer in the upper portion of the first semiconductor layer between the trench gates and has at least one side surface in contact with the trench gate. The isolation layer is between and separates the second semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer from each other and is formed to extend to the same depth as, or to a position deeper than the second semiconductor layer.

Abstract: An engine equipped with a secondary air supply device where a cylinder extends obliquely to define a space therebeneath, which includes: a cooling fan disposed laterally of the cylinder; a carburetor disposed closer to the space than the cooling fan; an exhaust muffler disposed opposite from the carburetor with the cylinder interposed therebetween and in communication with a cylinder head via an exhaust pipe; a secondary air introduction pipe connected to the exhaust pipe and extending from the exhaust pipe to the space so that its inlet end portion is located in the space; an intake nozzle provided in communication with the inlet end portion of the introduction pipe and having an opening portion that opens in an opposite direction from the cooling fan; and a partition wall disposed between the opening portion of the intake nozzle and the carburetor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a lysine specific demethylase 1 inhibitory action, and useful as a medicament such as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or Huntington's disease, and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula wherein A is a hydrocarbon group optionally having substituent(s), or a heterocyclic group optionally having substituent(s); B is a benzene ring optionally having further substituent(s); R1, R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group optionally having substituent(s), or a heterocyclic group optionally having substituent(s); A and R1 are optionally bonded to each other to form, together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, a cyclic group optionally having substituent(s); and R2 and R3 are optionally bonded to each other to form, together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, a cyclic group optionally having substituent(s), or a salt thereof.

Abstract: An internal combustion includes: a camshaft having a metal core rod insert formed centrally in the camshaft and a driven gear, an exhaust cam, etc. formed of resin integrally with the camshaft; and a decompression mechanism. The decompression mechanism includes: a pair of supporting protrusions provided on the driven gear and each having an insertion hole; a decompression member having a pair of projections disposed between the supporting protrusions; and a biasing spring disposed between the projections for normally biasing the decompression member toward the exhaust cam. The camshaft also has a guide recess and a balancing recess formed in opposite sides of the camshaft, and the metal core rod is exposed through the guide recess and the balancing recess.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication device for dynamically building a network includes a first receiver and a first transmitter. When the communication device attempts to newly join the network, the first receiver waits for reception of a first beacon containing information for joining the network from another communication device already joining the network for a predetermined first period. When the communication device is already joining the network, the first transmitter determines a schedule indicating timings at which a plurality of communication devices already joining the network transmit first beacons so that intervals at which the communication devices transmit the first beacons in the network as a whole do not exceed the first period and transmit the first beacon according to the schedule.

Abstract: An ultrasonic device unit includes a substrate having a planar part and a recess part recessed from the planar part, an ultrasonic device which has an element array including a plurality of thin film ultrasonic transducer elements disposed in an array and is disposed in the recess part, a first flexible printed board, one end of which is superimposed on a portion of an array surface of the ultrasonic device and connected to the same, the other end of which is superimposed on a portion of the planar part and connected to the same, wherein the array surface of the ultrasonic device which the one end of the first flexible printed board is superimposed on is positioned within a plane including the planar part or a plane outside of the recess part.

Abstract: A charger positioning adjuster, which is included in an image forming apparatus and disposed facing a charger uniformly charging a surface of an image carrier using corona discharging, includes a mounting part provided at a position on which the charger is detachably attached, a positioning member attached to the mounting part and positioning the charger by contacting thereto, and a spacer disposed between the mounting part and the positioning member and adjusting a distance between the surface of the image carrier and the charger.

Abstract: A node on a core network, in accordance with a connection state of a terminal, releases a transmission path resource which is made unnecessary due to LIPA (Local IP access) or SIPTO (Selected IP traffic offload) connection configuration.

Abstract: A method for preparing an article having an uneven microstructure on a surface thereof, including coating a surface of a mold having an uneven microstructure formed from an anodized alumina oxide on a surface with a release treatment solution including a mold release agent that includes one or more kinds of phosphoric ester compound and the pH of the aqueous solution when extracted with 50 mL of water with respect to 1 g of the mold release agent is 3.0 or more; and interposing an active energy ray curable resin composition including a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and an internal release agent between the mold and the substrate, and curing the active energy ray curable resin composition by the irradiation with active energy rays to form a cured resin layer having the uneven microstructure transferred on a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at t

Abstract: A fuse unit (1) includes a unit body (10) fixed to a battery post (3) of a battery (2) via a battery terminal (4) and disposed along a top surface (2a) and a side surface (2b) of the battery (2), and a battery cover (20) mounted to the unit body (10) and configured to cover an outer periphery of the unit body (10). The unit body (10) has a battery abutment rib (17) at a portion of the unit body (10) facing the side surface (2b) of the battery (2). The battery abutment rib (17) is configured to secure a mounting space for the battery cover (20).

Abstract: The terminal holding device includes an attaching unit to be attached to a vehicle, a holding unit which removably holds a terminal device in such a manner that a display unit of the terminal device is exposed and which includes a contact surface to be contact with the terminal device, an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration in a direction from a side of the contact surface to a side opposite to the contact surface, and a supplying unit which supplies a detection signal of the acceleration sensor to the terminal device.

Abstract: A control device includes: a first storage device storing a dither matrix of two-dimensionally arranged dither values; a second storage device storing data of a-gradation levels; a first correction device that performs a first correction processing of calculating a first correction value for correcting gradation blurring-out from the target pixel to an adjacent pixel; a second correction device that performs a second correction processing of calculating a second correction value for correcting gradation blurring-in from the adjacent pixel to the target pixel; and a gradation value deciding device that decides a gradation value of the target pixel expressed in the b-gradation levels by using a value obtained by adding a corresponding one of the dither values stored in the first storage device, a corresponding one of the gradation values stored in the second storage device and at least one of the first correction value and the second correction value.