Abstract: Asymmetric films, methods of making asymmetric films, and uses of asymmetric films. A method may include using at least two different solvents and at least one homopolymer and at least one block copolymer that can undergo self assembly, where the solvents are immiscible and have different surface tension, where, on film formation, all or substantially all of the block copolymer(s) migrate to an exterior surface of the homopolymer. The asymmetric films may include an isoporous region or layer and an asymmetric region or layer, where the asymmetric region does not include 10 percent by weight or more of the multiblock copolymer(s) and/or the isoporous region/layer and the asymmetric pore region/layer are not independently (or separately) formed and/or not laminated together to form the asymmetric film. The films can be used in devices, such as, for example, filtration devices.

Abstract: A game using a user character is started on the basis of a first start instruction input. At a first timing after that, advancement of the game is finished, and advancement state data until then is transmitted to a server. On the basis of a second start instruction input from a user, a game that is based on advancement state data transmitted to the server by an information processing terminal of another user different from the user and acquired from the server is started, the game using an other-user character having been used in the game by the other user and the user character of the user. At a second timing after the start, advancement of the game is finished and advancement state data is transmitted to the server.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plural image forming units each having a plural image forming sections, and an intermediate transfer body on which toner images formed by the plural image forming sections are primarily transferred; a plural secondary transfer units that are provided corresponding to the plural the image forming units, and secondarily transfer the toner images of the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and a processor configured to: in response to an instruction for adjusting misalignment of the toner images, execute a mode in which a first chart for checking amounts of misalignment between a toner image formed by a reference image forming section and the toner images formed by another image forming section, for each image forming unit, and a second chart for checking amounts of misalignment between toner images formed by the reference image forming sections of the plural image forming units are secondarily transferred to the recording medium and output, and an input of a fi

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a receiving unit that receives a response frame in which the traffic information is stored; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to permission of transmission directed to a first wireless communication device that is identified on the basis of the traffic information stored in the received response frame and that is permitted to perform multiple access. A wireless communication device includes: a receiving unit that receives a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a transmission unit that transmits a response frame in which the traffic information is stored in response to the received request frame; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to the traffic information on the basis of a communication parameter related to multiple access.

Abstract: A DC power supply and distribution system is obtained that improves power distribution efficiency at a low-load factor while suppressing overall upsizing. The DC power supply and distribution system includes a main AC/DC converter and an auxiliary AC/DC converter connected in parallel to the main AC/DC converter and having a rated power capacity smaller than that of the main AC/DC converter, wherein when the absolute value of the DC output power is smaller than the absolute value of a threshold power set smaller than the rated power capacity of the auxiliary AC/DC converter, a first switching command for switching from the first operation mode to the second operation mode is generated for a power conversion unit.

Abstract: A fusion sheet includes: a base material layer including a first surface and a second surface; a fusion base part partially stacked to the first surface of the base material layer and fusible to a wire-like transmission member; and an adhesive base part partially stacked to the second surface of the base material layer and having larger adhesive strength with an adhesive member than the base material layer. A first section and a second section are provided along an extension direction of the base material layer. The first section is a section where the adhesive base part is stacked to the base material layer other than a laminated section where the adhesive base part is stacked. The second section is a section where the adhesive base part is stacked to the base material layer other than a laminated section where the fusion base part is stacked.

Abstract: A lead member includes a lead conductor having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The lead member includes a resin portion that covers the first main surface, the second main surface, and two side surfaces that are between both ends of the lead conductor, while exposing the both ends of the lead conductor in a first direction. The lead conductor includes a metal substrate and a surface treatment layer formed on at least a portion of a surface of the metal substrate, the surface treatment layer including chromium, oxygen, and fluorine. A moisture content of a portion of the surface treatment layer exposed from the resin portion, as measured by coulometric Karl Fischer titration at a vaporization temperature of 220° C., is 5.0 ?g/cm2 or less.

Abstract: A travel planner identifies, for a connection point where a travel lane in which a vehicle is traveling connects ahead of the vehicle with another lane different from the travel lane, an entry time range representing a time range during which entry of the vehicle from the travel lane to the connection point is recommended, and creates a travel plan including a transition of travel speed of the vehicle from a current position of the vehicle to the connection point so as to arrive at the connection point within the entry time range.

Abstract: A communication device that performs multi-link and multi-user communication is provided. A communication device includes a communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating on a plurality of links, a communication processing unit that performs processing of simultaneously transmitting data to a plurality of reception-side communication devices, and a control unit that performs control to transmit data using an optimum link to each of the plurality of reception-side communication devices. The control unit performs control to transmit a trigger request signal for requesting information regarding a reception opportunity from the plurality of reception-side communication devices on a link on which a transmission opportunity has been acquired, and determine an optimum link for each reception-side communication device on the basis of a request response signal from the plurality of reception-side communication devices.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units including plural image forming sections and an intermediate transfer body to which a toner image formed on the plural image forming sections is primarily transferred, and a processor, in which wherein the processor is configured to, in a case where, during image formation using any of the image forming units among the image forming units, in a case where a consumable of any of the image forming sections of the image forming unit is insufficient, an image forming section of an identical color to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient is present in another image forming unit, and a storage medium for storing management information for managing a consumable unit is not provided in the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient, ask a user whether or not to exchange the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient and a consum

Abstract: A cooling water temperature control method, includes: calculating thickness of a water film remaining on a steel sheet; calculating a change in the thickness of the water film; calculating a change in temperature of the steel sheet; calculating a steel sheet temperature on an exit side of a draining roll at which a position where the thickness of the water film on the steel sheet becomes zero coincides with an exit side position of a drying equipment, and setting the calculated temperature to a lower limit value; calculating a steel sheet temperature on the exit side of the draining roll at which the steel sheet temperature on the entrance side of coating equipment coincides with a predetermined temperature and setting the calculated temperature to an upper limit value; and controlling the temperature of cooling water within a range of the lower limit value and the upper limit value.

Abstract: To provide an inorganic filler fluidity modifier for improving the fluidity of an inorganic filler.

Abstract: A network node apparatus (SMF) responsible for a Session Management Function (SMF) in a core network includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain network function information including information elements respectively related to network slices supported by the SMF; and a first communication processing unit configured to transmit the network function information to a network node apparatus responsible for a Network Repository Function (NRF) in the core network. The information elements respectively related to the network slices supported by the SMF have been aggregated within the network function information according to a predetermined rule.

Abstract: To improve accuracy of a result acquired by analyzing, by using a machine learning model, an image in which a road is captured, an information processing system 100 is an information processing system for collecting a machine learning image, and includes a generation unit 122 and a storage processing unit 123. The generation unit 122 processes an image in which a road is captured, and generates capturing situation information indicating a situation related to capturing of the image. The storage processing unit 123 performs processing for storing an image, based on the capturing situation information.

Abstract: A motion manager mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor receives, from an application that has determined that another object will collide with the vehicle, a motion request indicating that an additional braking force is needed, when the vehicle is stopped. The processor generates an instruction value for causing a brake device to generate a greater braking force than before the motion request is received, when the motion request indicating that the additional braking force is needed is received.

Abstract: A negative electrode including: a negative electrode current collector with a roughened surface; and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes: negative electrode active material particles containing a compound of lithium, silicon, and oxygen; and a composite compound filled in interparticle gaps and a surface layer of the negative electrode active material particles, the composite compound at least containing chemically bonded carbon and oxygen atoms, the composite compound not being alloyed with the negative electrode active material particles. A ratio O/Si of the oxygen to the silicon constituting the negative electrode active material particles is in the range of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less.

Abstract: A collecting device includes a collecting path for a developer, at least one transport member that is disposed in the collecting path and that transports the developer by rotating, a driving unit that drives, by receiving electric power, the transport member in such a manner that the transport member rotates, a detecting unit that detects a load applied to the driving unit due to transportation of the developer, and a control unit that controls the driving unit based on the load detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a tool performing joining by ultrasonic vibration while applying a load to a metal terminal. The tool includes a plurality of protrusions arranged along the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction on a pressing surface in a rectangular shape at a tip end portion facing the metal terminal. The intervals between the plurality of protrusions are equal in the X direction of the pressing surface, and are larger on the inner peripheral side than on the outer peripheral side in the Y-axis direction of the pressing surface.

Abstract: Provided is a developer replenishing container including: a developer containing part capable of containing a developer; a discharge port through which the developer contained in the developer containing part is discharged; a conveyance part conveying the developer in the developer containing part by rotating; and a displacement part displaceable in conjunction with rotation of the conveyance part in the developer in a vicinity of the discharge port, and including a moving member capable of reciprocating in conjunction with the rotation of the conveyance part and a biasing member which biases the moving member and which is expandable according to movement of the moving member.

Abstract: An information management device according to the embodiment is an information management device that manages information provided to a first device mounted on a mobile object that an occupant has boarded and a second device used by a user at a location different from the mobile object, and includes an acquirer configured to acquire information from the first device and the second device, and a provider configured to provide each of the first device and the second device with information on the basis of the information acquired, in which the acquirer acquires an indoor image and an outdoor image of the mobile object using the first device, and acquires operation information of the user using the second device, and the provider switches between the indoor image and the outdoor image and provides the second device with a switching result when an operation of the user is a predetermined operation.