Abstract: In an optical fiber cable in which an optical fiber ribbon formed by parallelly arranging a plurality of optical fibers is packaged in an internal space, a core portion of each optical fiber is made of pure quartz and an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fiber ribbon is an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers are connected by continuously applying an adhesive resin between adjacent optical fibers. An occupation ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to the internal space calculated from a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the internal space to a cross-sectional area of the packaged optical fiber ribbon is 25% or more and 55% or less.

Abstract: An electrode for a battery includes a laminate including an active material layer and a current collector, and a sealing portion covering an end portion surface of the laminate. The laminate includes two principal faces facing each other, and an end face. The end portion surface includes the end face, and an adjacent face on each of the two principal faces. The adjacent face includes one or more asperities. The sealing portion includes a first sealing portion covering the end face, and a second sealing portion covering at least part of the adjacent face. The second sealing portion is present in one or more recessed portions of the one or more asperities of the adjacent face and does not include a portion higher than a height position of the one or more asperities that is highest. The first sealing portion and the second sealing portion are connected.

Abstract: A pre-training method executed by a training apparatus includes converting an input acoustic feature amount sequence into a corresponding intermediate acoustic feature amount sequence having a first length using a first conversion model to which a conversion model parameter is provided, converting a correct answer symbol sequence to generate a first frame unit symbol sequence having the first length and generating a second frame unit symbol sequence having the first length by delaying the first frame unit symbol sequence by one frame, converting the second frame unit symbol sequence into an intermediate character feature amount sequence having the first length using a second conversion model to which a character feature amount estimation model parameter is provided, and performing label estimation using an estimation model to which an estimation model parameter is provided based on the intermediate acoustic feature amount sequence and the intermediate character feature amount sequence.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic device includes a layered body with a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a first non-magnetic layer between the first magnetic body and the second magnetic body. A side wall layer covers at least a side wall of the first non-magnetic body of the layered body and includes at least one first substance chosen from silicon oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, and silicon nitride, and at least one second substance chosen from arsenic, tellurium, antimony, bismuth, and germanium.

Abstract: A torque limiter includes a first side plate, a second side plate, a friction disc, a pressure plate, and a biasing member. The first side plate includes an attachment surface. The attachment surface faces in an axial direction so as to be attached to a flywheel. The second side plate has a smaller outer diameter than the outer diameter of the first side plate. The second side plate is disposed so as to not overlap the attachment surface as seen in an axial direction. The second side plate is attached to the first side plate.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a motion vector of a current block by referring to at least one reference picture different from a picture to which the current block belongs; performs a mode for estimating, for each sub-block unit of sub-blocks obtained by splitting the current block, a surrounding region of the motion vector to correct the motion vector; determines whether to apply deblocking filtering to each of boundaries between neighboring ones of the sub-blocks; and applies the deblocking filtering to the boundary, based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit and a controller. The refrigerant circuit is configured to allow refrigerant to circulate through a compressor, a condenser, an LEV, and an evaporator. The LEV has an opening degree variable from a lower limit opening degree to an upper limit opening degree. The controller is configured to control the LEV to alternately repeat a first opening degree and a second opening degree in a range of less than or equal to a quarter of the upper limit opening degree, the second opening degree being smaller than the first opening degree.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides to an apparatus for managing travel of a vehicle having an autonomous travel function. The apparatus executes the following steps. The apparatus sequentially acquires sensor information from a recognition sensor mounted on the vehicle. The apparatus sequentially generates prediction information showing a position of an object at a future time point based on the sensor information acquired sequentially. The apparatus transmits a remote support request to a remote support operator. The apparatus receives a remote support given in response to the remote support request by the remote support operator. The apparatus makes the vehicle autonomously travel in accordance with the remote support in response to confirming that an actual position of an object obtained from sensor information and a predicted position of an object obtained from prediction information correspond.

Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention, a heating mechanism for heating a substrate includes a gas discharge nozzle arranged in an internal space, a heater attached to an outer wall of a chamber, and a pipe feeding to the discharge nozzle. An observing mechanism includes a light source part and an image pickup part which are arranged at a separation position away from an attachment portion in the outer wall of the chamber. Thus, the light source part and the image pickup part become less susceptible to an effect of heat generated by the heater. In other words, it is possible to prevent the reduction in the observation accuracy due to an effect of temperature change.

Abstract: Provided is a surface treatment agent capable of imparting superior antifouling property as well as good and durable hydrophilicity to an inorganic substrate. The surface treatment agent is one comprising a pretreatment agent and a hydrophilizing treatment agent and being to be sequentially applied to an inorganic substrate, wherein the pretreatment agent comprises a silane compound having a reactive silyl group and an organic functional group and a polyfunctional monomer, and the polyfunctional monomer has one or more first reactive groups that react with the organic functional group and one or more second reactive groups that react with the hydrophilizing treatment agent.

Abstract: A light detection device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate that includes a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other, and includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels is disposed in an array; a semiconductor layer that is provided on a side of the first surface of the semiconductor substrate; a light receiver that is provided inside the semiconductor substrate for each of the pixels, and generates carriers corresponding to a received light amount by photoelectric conversion; a multiplier that includes a first conduction-type region and a second conduction-type region sequentially stacked on the side of the first surface, at least the second conduction-type region being provided in the semiconductor layer, and that performs avalanche multiplication on the carriers generated by the light receiver; a first electrode that is provided on the side of the first surface, and is electrically coupled to the light receiver; and a second elect

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main tank that stores an ink, an ink head that ejects the ink, a first supply channel connected to the main tank, a second supply channel for supplying the ink from the first supply channel to the ink head, and a discharge channel for discharging the ink from the first supply channel without allowing the ink to pass through the ink head. The second supply channel is provided with a first supply valve, and the discharge channel is provided with a discharge valve.

Abstract: Provided are a photopolymerizable composition including at least one compound selected from a compound represented by Formula (1) or a compound represented by Formula (2), a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator, and a cured substance and an optical member which are formed of the photopolymerizable composition.

Abstract: Provided is a 3-acyloxymethyl-3-butenal acetal compound of General Formula (10): wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, are each an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or are bonded to each other to form a divalent alkylene group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, and X1 is an acyloxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A projection-type display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a panel pixel, an optical path shifting element that shifts a projected pixel projected from the panel pixel, and a display control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shifting element. The display control circuit supplies, to the liquid crystal panel, the same data signal and controls the projected pixel to be at a same position in each of a unit period f1-1 and a unit period f2-1, and controls the optical path shifting element to cause a shift direction from the projected pixel before the shift toward the projected pixel after the shift from a unit period f1-2 to a unit period f1-4 to be opposite to the shift direction from the projected pixel before the shift toward the projected pixel after the shift from a unit period f2-2 to a unit period f2-4.

Abstract: Motor controller device comprising a position control system that controls the position of a machine end connected to a motor, wherein the motor controller device receiving the first speed directive from the high-level controller, stored in the position control system to output a motor axis position response to the high-level controller, comprising speed controller and vibration controller in speed control system, wherein the vibration controller in speed control system comprising: a position command estimator that calculates an estimate of the location directive based on the first speed directive and the motor axis position response, a parallel vibration damping controller that extracts the frequency components that excite vibration of the machine end included in the first speed directive based on the estimated value of the location directive, and outputs the extracted frequency components.

Abstract: A maintenance liquid is used to maintain an ink jet head of a printing apparatus configured to eject an ink for printing from the ink jet head. The maintenance liquid is aqueous and subject to detection by a conductivity-based sensor. The maintenance liquid includes at least one selected from the group consisting of inorganic alkalis and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid compounds and at least one selected from the group consisting of organic acids and organic alkalis. The maintenance liquid has an electrical conductivity of 100 ?S/cm or more and a pH of 6.0 to 11.

Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes a base body, plural conductive layers, and plural outer electrodes. The base body include plural insulating layers stacked on each other in a stacking direction. The plural conductive layers are disposed inside the base body and are stacked on each other in the stacking direction together with the plural insulating layers. The plural outer electrodes are each disposed on a surface of the base body. The base body has first and second main surfaces opposing each other in the stacking direction. At least some of the plural conductive layers are electrically connected to each other so as to form a coil which is electrically connected to the plural outer electrodes. The plural conductive layers include first and second outer conductive layers and at least one inner conductive layer.

Abstract: A server is configured to distribute update data for software for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle. The server includes: a storage device that stores device identification information in which information that specifies a communication module mounted on the vehicle and information that specifies a portable terminal configured to communicate with an update control device mounted on the vehicle are associated with each other, and the update data; and a processor configured to determine whether communication with the update control device is possible, and transmit the update data to the portable terminal that is associated with the communication module when the determination unit determines that the communication with the update control device is not possible.