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.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dental mill blank having excellent mechanical strength and having gloss retention high enough to maintain the gloss similar to that of natural teeth in an oral cavity for a long period of time. The present invention is a dental mill blank made of a cured product of a curable composition containing: a polymerizable monomer (A); and a spherical inorganic filler (B) having an average primary particle size of not less than 0.1 ?m and less than 1 ?m.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes following units. The extraction unit extracts, from image data including a plurality of pixels, wavelength signal values of the plurality of pixels. The light attenuation amount calculation unit calculates a light attenuation amount based on a ratio of a wavelength signal value of a target pixel to a representative signal value obtained from wavelength signal values of a local region around the target pixel. The pigment amount calculation unit calculates a pigment amount of a predetermined pigment component at the target pixel by resolving the light attenuation amount using an absorbance base of the predetermined pigment component.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a charging bias output device, a developing bias output device, a transfer bias output device, and a controller. The controller controls the transfer bias output device to supply a transfer bias from a time at which a first position of a photosensitive member arrives at a transfer position after the charging bias output device starts supplying a charging bias. An initial value of the transfer bias is controlled to be smaller than a normal set value for a predetermined time period which is a time after the transfer bias starts to be supplied and within a time corresponding to a rise time during which a surface potential of the photosensitive member reaches a predetermined potential after the charging bias starts to be output. The first position of the photosensitive member is a position at which the charging device starts charging the photosensitive member.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool having excellent fracture resistance and wear resistance is provided. In the surface-coated cutting tool having at least a hard coating layer made of an (Al, Cr)N layer with a layer thickness of 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m formed to coat on the surface of a cutting tool body made of a WC cemented carbide, pores and droplets are dispersed and distributed in the (Al, Cr)N layer, the occupied area ratio of the pores and the occupied area ratio of the droplets in a cross-section of the (Al, Cr)N layer are 0.5 to 1 area % and 2 to 4 area % respectively, and, furthermore, out of the droplets, Al-rich droplets having a higher Al content ratio than the average Al content ratio of the (Al, Cr)N layer occupy 20 area % or more of the total droplet area.

Abstract: The disk drive includes: a box-shaped exterior casing having an opening on one side face; a tray stored in the exterior casing and having a mounting face; a pickup; and a rail being a recessed portion formed on the mounting face as a path along which the pickup moves. The stopper is formed of a sheet member having a self-restoring property which allows the sheet member to return to a flat plate shape, and includes: a restricting portion; a connecting portion; and a tab portion, which are formed by folding the sheet member. When the stopper is stored in the disk drive, the stopper is disposed such that the restricting portion is disposed in the inside of the rail, the connecting portion is disposed on the mounting face, and the tab portion projects outside through a gap formed between the tray and the exterior casing.

Abstract: Provided are an marker for determining sensitivity to an anticancer agent capable of distinguishing a therapeutic response of an individual patient and a novel means for a cancer therapy using the marker. The marker for determining sensitivity to an anticancer agent contains a calcium-binding protein S100A7, S100A8, or S100A10.

Abstract: A fixing device may include a nip member, an endless belt, a rotating body, and a stay. The endless belt may be in sliding contact with the nip member. The rotating body may nip the endless belt to constitute a nip region. The stay may be disposed opposite to the nip region, and may receive a pressure from the nip member. A pressure direction may be defined as a first direction. The rotating body may define an axial direction as a second direction. The stay may have a first wall. The first wall may include a center portion, a first end portion, a second end portion and a supporting portion. The first end portion may include a first low rigidity portion. The second end portion may include a second low rigidity portion. The supporting portion may provide a convex shape protruding toward the nip member upon receiving the pressure.

Abstract: The objective is to provide a novel process for synthesizing a cyclic peptide compound. It is also an objective to provide a novel cyclic peptide compound. The novel process for synthesizing a cyclic peptide compound comprises the steps of: (1) translationally synthesizing a non-cyclic peptide compound having in a molecule a functional group 1 and a functional group 2, which are a pair of functional groups capable of reacting to form a bond, and (2) cyclizing the non-cyclic peptide compound by the reaction of the functional groups 1 and 2 to form a bond. The novel cyclic peptide compound can be synthesized by the process.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an IC card includes an IC module and a substrate. The IC module includes a plurality of communication units, a storage unit, and a controller. The storage unit stores first data, and stores an access condition for the first data. The controller permits, when the access condition includes information which permits an access to the first data based on a reception command received via a first communication unit of the plurality of communication units, an access to the first data based on a first command received via the first communication unit, and does not permits an access to the first data based on a second command received via a second communication unit of the plurality of communication units.

Abstract: In a region of a weak internal electric field, photocharges generated in a region deeper than the photodiode are diffused laterally to lower the sensitivity by photoelectrons flowing into adjacent pixels, etc (crosstalk). An anti-crosstalk layer is disposed in the photodiode forming portion, and between a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region. Crosstalk between a pixel and a pixel or between a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region is decreased to improve the photosensitivity.

Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes porous partition walls arranged to form a plurality of cells which become through channels of a fluid, porosities of the partition walls are from 45 to 70%, a pore diameter distribution of the partition walls is measured by mercury porosimetry, the pore diameter distribution indicates a bimodal distribution, in the bimodal distribution, a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a small pore side distribution is from 1 to 10 ?m, and a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a large pore side distribution exceeds 10 ?m, and a ratio between a pore volume of the small pores and a pore volume of the large pores is in a range of 1:7 to 1:1 in the honeycomb structural body.

Abstract: A light distribution controller includes a pedestrian detection unit, a determination unit, and an illumination controller. The pedestrian detection unit detects a pedestrian in a predetermined area ahead of a vehicle on the basis of an image captured by an infrared camera. The determination unit determines whether a driver notices the pedestrian when the pedestrian detection unit has detected the pedestrian in the predetermined area, on the basis of whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. The illumination controller causes the headlight to be lit with a light distribution pattern without a restriction on illumination of the pedestrian until the determination unit determines that the driver notices the pedestrian, and causes the headlight to be lit with a light distribution pattern having a restriction on illumination of a body member including at least the eyes of the pedestrian after the determination unit determines that the driver notices the pedestrian.

Abstract: Provided is a filler for affinity chromatography which is useful for protein purification and contains porous particles that have a high dynamic binding capacity for proteins and excellent pressure characteristics. The filler for affinity chromatography of the present invention is characterized in that it includes a porous particle consisting of a polymer of vinyl monomer including a cross-linkable vinyl monomer that contains hydroxyl group but does not contain epoxy group and an epoxy group-containing non-cross-linkable vinyl monomer, or a cross-linkable vinyl monomer that contains hydroxyl group and epoxy group, ligands bound to the porous particle, and ring-opened epoxy groups.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of notifying a reception side of a fact that a halftone process has been performed for data to be transmitted and a method of transmitting additional information to a reception side in image transferring among a plurality of devices. The present invention includes a step of performing image processes for video information and a step of outputting a signal containing the video information for which the image processes have been performed, and the signal to be output includes information related to the image processes.

Abstract: A transmission system, a location management system, and a transmission method, each of which transmits first location data and second location data, respectively, from a first transmission device and a second transmission device, and receives, at the second transmission device, the first location data and terminal identification data that identifies a communication terminal, from the communication terminal that receives at least the first location data.

Abstract: A bodily fluid absorbent article adapted to absorb bodily fluid over a wide range thereof. An absorbent structure in the bodily fluid absorbent article includes an upper absorbent component and a lower absorbent component. The absorbent structure further includes one of a dispersing surface constituting the upper absorbent component and kept in contact with the lower absorbent component and a dispersing surface constituting the lower absorbent component and kept in contact with the upper absorbent component. Such dispersing surface exhibits a dispersion velocity for bodily fluid higher than those exhibited by the absorbent sections defined immediately above and under this dispersing surface.

Abstract: A discharge controller carries out discharge control by determining a voltage to be applied to a conduction control terminal of each of switching elements such that a current in a non-saturation region of one of the switching elements is lower than a current in a non-saturation region of the other thereof, and applying the voltage to the conduction control terminal of each switching element with an opening-closing member opening an electrical path to turn on the switching elements, resulting in short-circuit of both electrodes of a capacitor so that a discharge current is outputted from the capacitor based on the discharge control. A manipulator manipulates, based on a value of the discharge current, how to apply the voltage to the conduction control terminal of the one of the switching elements, thus controlling an amount of heat to be generated in the one of the switching elements.

Abstract: A collision determination device includes: a radar detection unit that detects an object around a vehicle using a radar wave; an image detection unit that captures an image of the surroundings of the vehicle and detects the object using the captured image; and a collision determination unit that determines a collision between the vehicle and the object on the basis of a composite target which is generated using a detection result of the radar detection unit and a detection result of the image detection unit. When the object is detected by the radar detection unit and the image detection unit after being detected only by the image detection unit of the radar detection unit and the image detection unit, the collision determination unit performs the collision determination, preferentially using the detection result of the image detection unit over the detection result of the radar detection unit.

Abstract: Any one or more members of an engine, that is, a piston, a cylinder head and a valve, has a wall face disposed face-to-face to a combustion chamber, and the wall face is coated by a heat-insulation coating film. The heat-insulation coating film includes a heat-insulative layer formed on a surface of the wall face, and an inorganic-system coated-film layer formed on a surface of the heat-insulative layer. The heat-insulative layer includes a resin, and first hollow particles buried inside the resin and exhibiting an average particle diameter being smaller than a thickness of the heat-insulative layer. The inorganic-system coated-film layer includes an inorganic compound.