Abstract: A hydraulic brake system is configured such that a pressure of a working fluid from a high-pressure-source device is adjusted by electromagnetic pressure-increase and pressure-decrease linear valves and such that a brake device generates a braking force having a magnitude that depends on the pressure adjusted by the linear valves, wherein the following controls are selectively executable, as a control of the energizing currents supplied to the linear valves, a feedback control based on a difference between an actual braking-force index and a target braking-force index; and a feedforward control based on the target braking-force index executed by placing each valve in a valve equilibrium state, wherein, in the feedforward control, an energizing current is supplied to at least one of the two linear valves, the energizing current being larger than that according to a preset relationship between a braking-force index and an energizing current in the valve equilibrium state.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet processing apparatus including an intermediate processing tray on which a sheet conveyed by a discharge roller is stacked, a proximal aligning plate and a distal aligning plate moving in a sheet width direction for aligning the sheet conveyed onto the intermediate processing tray, and a finisher controller for moving and controlling the proximal aligning plate and the distal aligning plate to align, when a sheet having a length in the sheet conveyance direction shorter than a predetermined length in the sheet conveyance direction is conveyed, the sheet at a position shifted nearer to a take-out port side A in the sheet width direction than a position in the sheet width direction at which a sheet having a length in the sheet conveyance direction equal to or more than the predetermined length in the sheet conveyance direction is aligned.

Abstract: An information retrieval device includes a degree-of-association information storage unit capable of storing an item(s) of degree-of-association information indicating a degree of association between each of an item(s) of first information and each of an item(s) of second information; an accepting unit that accepts a query including an item(s) of query information which is/are an item(s) of information used for retrieval of content; a query converter that obtains, by using an item(s) of first information corresponding to each of the item(s) of query information, and the item(s) of degree-of-association information, an item(s) of second information whose degree of association with the item(s) of first information is greater as a predetermined condition is better satisfied; and a retrieval unit that retrieves content by using the item(s) of second information obtained by the query converter. Accordingly, content necessary for a user can be retrieved.

Abstract: An image reading device includes: a feeding unit; a carriage for holding and moving a reading unit; a motor-side transmission gear for transmitting a power from a motor; a feeding unit-side transmission gear for transmitting the power to the feeding unit; a carriage-side transmission gear for transmitting the power to the carriage; a switching gear switched between a carriage-side position where the motor-side and the carriage-side transmission gears are coupled and a feeding unit-side position where the motor-side and the feeding unit-side transmission gears are coupled; and a control unit for performing: a prediction process of predicting whether a feeding unit read mode will be executed before receiving a reading start instruction; and a switching process of switching the switching gear to the feeding unit-side position when the feeding unit mead mode is predicted to be executed.

Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet type motor including: a rotor including a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets; a conducting circuit including a first electric conductor extending in an axial direction of the rotor and being disposed between permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor and a second electric conductor for connecting the first electric conductors electrically; and a stator disposed so as to be opposed to the rotor, including a stator core and an armature winding. A rotation angle is detected by measuring current flowing in the armature winding. The stator core is formed to have a shape in which, a slot pitch is defined by ?s=(2×?×Rs)/Ns, where an inner radius of the stator is represented by Rs and a number of slots is represented by Ns, a value Wsn obtained by dividing a slot opening width Ws by the slot pitch ?s satisfies “0.08?Wsn”.

Abstract: When accepting an establishment request (Cx-LIR) for establishing an information communication path between a sending-side UE and a receiving-side UE, an HSS performs control so as to establish the information communication path between the sending-side UE and the receiving-side UE via an MGW and an existing 3G network if the receiving-side UE exists in an IMS network and is a communication interception target terminal.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin frame member. The membrane electrode assembly includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a first catalyst layer and a first gas diffusion layer. The second electrode includes a second catalyst layer and a second gas diffusion layer. The resin frame member includes an outer peripheral portion and an inner peripheral projection. A first space includes a gap between an outer peripheral end face of the second gas diffusion layer and an inner-side end face of the inner peripheral projection. A second space includes a gap between an outer peripheral end face of the first gas diffusion layer and an inner-side wall face of the outer peripheral portion. The first space has a dimension different from a dimension of the second space.

Abstract: In a direct injection gasoline engine, at acceleration operation, an amount of internal EGR is increased by advancing exhaust valve closing timing, and also fuel injection pressure is increased. In this case, range of increase in fuel injection pressure is determined on the basis of the exhaust valve closing timing at present.

Abstract: An electric motor is controlled based on an operation of a brake pedal to move a primary piston forward through a ball screw mechanism, thereby generating a hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder. At this time, a reaction force from the hydraulic pressure in the master cylinder is fed back to the brake pedal through an input piston. Automatic brake control, which generates the hydraulic pressure by driving the electric motor regardless of whether there is the operation of the brake pedal, is carried out. During the automatic brake control, an actual relative position is compared with a determination threshold value set based on the relative position between the primary piston and the input piston which is generated by a movement of the primary piston, and it is determined that the brake pedal is operated in a case where the relative position is smaller than the determination threshold value.

Abstract: A detailed sheet bundle process may be efficiently performed even in a state in which a plurality of general sheet process apparatuses are connected. The print system capable of individually conveying sheets to a plurality of sheet process apparatuses, comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain waiting times in which conveyance of a sheet is to be waited between sheet bundles of the sheet process apparatuses and switching times required for switching a sheet discharge destination; a determination unit configured to determine whether a sheet process apparatus to be used is to be changed for every sheet bundle among the sheet process apparatuses in accordance with the waiting times and the switching times obtained by the obtaining unit; and a control unit configured to allow change of a sheet process apparatus to be used for every sheet bundle when the determination unit determines that a sheet process apparatus to be used is to be changed every sheet bundle.

Abstract: While enlargement of cover members attached to an engine body is avoided, the flexibility of the shapes of the cover members is increased and it is made possible to lead to a predetermined position drainage discharged from a cooling water pump attached to the external surface of a lateral wall of the engine body. A drainage discharge hole for discharging drainage is provided in a lower portion of a pump case. An engine side rib leads downward drainage discharged from the drainage discharge hole is integrally provided on an engine body forming part of the engine body so as to project from an external surface of a lateral surface thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a cured article of a hydraulic composition, prepared by mixing glycerol, cement and water, the hydraulic composition containing a sulfate ion, the method including step 1 of preparing the hydraulic composition such that a molar ratio of the sulfate ion to the glycerol, sulfate ion/glycerol, is 5.0 to 20 and the content of the sulfate ion is 3.0 to 15 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of cement; and step 2 of aging and curing the hydraulic composition obtained in the step 1.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a display control unit configured to cause the liquid crystal panel to display a right eye image and a left eye image in an alternating manner; and a polarity control unit configured to cause the polarity of the drive voltage for the liquid crystal panel to be reversed. The polarity control unit causes the polarity of the drive voltage to be reversed such that, in one cycle including a number of display frames for right and left eye images, the number being a multiple of 8, the combination of polarities for image display in one pair of display frames composed of right and left eye images is one of four combinations and a number of occurrences of each of the four combinations is equal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical information recording and reproducing device capable of recording an interference fringe pattern as a hologram in an optical information recording medium, the interference fringe pattern being formed by a signal beam superimposed with signal information and a reference beam, and also capable of reproducing the signal information from the optical information recording medium, the device having a light source unit to emit light, a light splitting unit to split the light into the reference beam and the signal beam, a spatial light modulation unit to superimpose the signal information on the signal light, and a light detection unit to detect an image reproduced by the reference beam, wherein information about defects on the spatial light modulation unit is recorded in the optical information recording medium.

Abstract: In a particle therapy treatment planning system for creating treatment plan data, the movement of a target (patient's affected area) is extracted from plural tomography images of the target, and the direction of scanning is determined by projecting the extracted movement on a scanning plane scanned by scanning magnets. Irradiation positions are arranged on straight lines parallel with the scanning direction making it possible to calculate a scanning path for causing scanning to be made mainly along the direction of movement of the target. The treatment planning system can thereby realize dose distribution with improved uniformity.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.

Abstract: An ironing apparatus includes an ironing die and an ironing punch, an injection port for injecting gas or liquid to the metal plate at a high pressure to remove substance adhered to the metal plate therefrom, a suction port for sucking the adhered substance removed from the metal plate, and a protrusion mount portion with a protrusion for preventing dispersion of the gas or the liquid. An ironing method for ironing the metal plate having the single surface or both surfaces coated with the organic resin film includes the steps of injecting the gas or the liquid from the injection port to the metal plate at the high pressure to remove the adhered substance from the metal plate, and sucking and collecting the adhered substance removed from the metal plate from the suction port. The adhered substance such as the hair may be removed by the aforementioned invention.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an optically active 2-arylpiperidinium salt, comprising asymmetrically hydrogenating a pyridinium salt in the presence of an iridium complex and hydrogen, the 2-arylpiperidinium salt being represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1, R2, X, *, and m are as described in Description, the pyridinium salt being represented by the following general formula (2): wherein R1, R2, X, and m are as described in Description, and the iridium complex being represented by the following general formula (3): IrH(Z)(Q)(PP*)??(3), wherein Z, PP*, and Q are as described in Description, or the following general formula (4): [{IrH(PP*)}2(?-Z)3]Z??(4), wherein Z and PP* are as described in Description.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a detecting unit to detect a pointing object in a captured image, and a generation unit to generate pointing information based on detection of the pointing object by the detecting unit. The pointing information may indicate a position of the pointing object determined using a pointable range set based on a user in the captured image. The apparatus may further include a communication unit to transmit the pointing information to an external apparatus.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gel-like cosmetic material the viscosity of which is not easily reduced even in the presence of an electrolyte, the cosmetic material ensuring an unconventional jelly-like feel when being applied to the skin, and a smooth sensation after being applied to the skin. The present invention provides a gel-like composition comprising 0.3 to 3 mass % of an alkyl-modified carboxyl-group-containing water-soluble polymer, 3 to 20 mass % of a polyhydric alcohol, and 0.25 to 5 mass % of an inorganic salt, the alkyl-modified carboxyl-group-containing water-soluble polymer being (i) a polymer obtained by polymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid and a C18-24 alkyl-containing (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, or (ii) a polymer obtained by polymerizing a (meta)acrylic acid, a C18-24 alkyl-containing (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, and a compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups.