Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a temperature sensing circuit to which a temperature sensing element is electrically connected, wherein a surface of a heater on a side where the temperature sensing element is provided is in contact with the inner surface of a film, a heating element is provided in a primary side circuit which is electrically connected to a commercial power supply, and the temperature sensing circuit is electrically insulated from both of the primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit which is electrically insulated from the primary side circuit.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus whose function can be easily changed is provided. The image pickup apparatus, to which a mounting component part having a wireless IC tag can be attached, comprising at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units, a reading unit configured to read information recorded in the wireless IC tag, an attitude determination unit configured to determine an attitude of the mounting component part, which is attached, with respect to the image pickup apparatus, and a function changing unit configured to change a function of the image pickup apparatus. In a case that the reading unit can read the information recorded in the wireless IC tag, the function changing unit changes the function of the image pickup apparatus according to the attitude of the mounting component part, which is determined.

Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer on the substrate and having a display area for displaying images, and a sealing layer covering the light-emitting element layer. The sealing layer includes a first inorganic film, an organic film on the first inorganic film, a second inorganic film on the organic film, and a third inorganic film. The first inorganic film and the second inorganic film are in contact with each other around the organic film. The third inorganic film, without overlapping with the display area, covers a peripheral portion of the organic film.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector capable of improving dissipation performance while suppressing enlargement. A connector 10 includes a connector housing 11 and terminals T to be accommodated into the connector housing 11 and electrically connected to a mating device. The connector housing 11 includes upper slope portions 41a, 41b inclined with respect to a horizontal direction at positions vertically above the terminals T in a state mounted on the mating device. Breathable upper breathable films 44a are provided in upper through holes 43a, 43b provided in the upper slope portions 41a, 41b.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a pinion gear having a large pinion gear and a small pinion gear, a carrier that supports the pinion gear, a ring gear that engages with the small pinion gear, an oil supply unit positioned above a horizontal line that passes through a revolution center of the pinion gear, and a downstream side wall part facing a gear surface of the large pinion gear. The downstream side wall part is arranged to be adjacent to the oil supply unit further downstream in a revolution direction of the pinion gear than the oil supply unit when viewed from an axial direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a corrugated paperboard printer comprising a pressing device for applying a pressing force to press a chamber which reserves ink toward an anilox roll. The pressing device is configured to apply a first pressing force, and a second pressing force which is greater than the first pressing force, respectively, to a first pressing area and a second pressing area in a back surface of a chamber frame. In a state in which no pressing force is applied by the pressing device, bending occurring in the chamber frame due to a load transmitted from a printing roll to the chamber frame via the anilox roll as printing is performed to a corrugated paperboard sheet is greater in the second pressing area than in the first pressing area.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit that includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode that has an opposite region opposite to the first electrode via an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrode that is opposite to the first electrode and the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer.

Abstract: The electrical device comprises a common device main body having selectively and detachably attached thereto either a variable-voltage power supply device or a high-voltage power supply device. The device main body has: a protruding section that abuts a power supply-side main erroneous attachment prevention section provided in the variable-voltage power supply device and the high-voltage power supply device; a device-side main erroneous attachment prevention section that abuts the power supply-side main erroneous attachment prevention section provided in a low-voltage power supply device and prevents the low-voltage power supply device from abutting an attachment positioning section; and a device-side attachment permitting section that can be combined in a power supply-side auxiliary erroneous attachment prevention section provided in the high-voltage power supply device.

Abstract: A subject observation system includes a light source, a light sensor, an image pickup device, a light source controller configured to cause the light source to alternately perform low-luminance illumination and high-luminance illumination at a predetermined luminance ratio, and a video processor configured to generate an HDR image, and sets a target sensor value S(n) in a temporarily succeeding n frame based on a sensor value S(n?1) in a temporarily preceding (n?1) frame and the luminance ratio.

Abstract: In the vicinity of an opening end of a first liner constituent member and a second liner constituent member made of a resin material, a flange portion is formed. After end surfaces of the opening end are abutted and joined to each other, the flange portion is removed in such a way that a part of a bottom portion remains. The remaining amount of protrusion is set such that the joint strength of a joint portion is not less than the tensile strength of the resin material or not less than the cohesion failure strength of the joint portion.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus and a method that allow for synthesis of information using an original signal and a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of the original signal whose demodulation has failed, in wireless communication with independent physical layer and MAC layer. Information is transmitted regarding a configuration of a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of an original signal whose demodulation has failed to a sender of the retransmission signal, and the retransmission signal transmitted from the sender is received on the basis of the information regarding the configuration of the retransmission signal transmitted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a corrugated paperboard printer comprising a chamber which reserves ink, wherein the chamber comprises a chamber frame comprising an ink reservoir which reserves the ink. A steel member and a recovery pipe are arranged on the opposite side of an anilox roll across the chamber frame. The steel member comprises a web extending in an up-down direction, and a first flange and a second flange connected, respectively, to up-down directional opposite ends of the web. The web is penetratingly formed with a maintenance opening in accordance with the position of a coupling port valve or the like. The second flange is formed with an insertion part for allowing the recovery pipe or the like to be inserted therein.

Abstract: Provided is technology that enables a lighting device to luminously display a clear sign. A display panel 3 of a lighting device 1 has a layered structure including a transparent base layer 30, a decorative layer 33 having a general decorative portion 33g and a display decorative portion 33d, and a blocking layer 35 having a general blocking portion 35g and a display blocking portion 35d. A blocking outer-edge portion 35e which is at least a part of an outer edge of the display blocking portion 35d is located on a radially outer side relative to a paired decorative outer-edge portion 33e.

Abstract: A support apparatus includes: a protective frame connected body to hold a plurality of protection targets flexibly, each protection target being a flexible cable or pipe having one end connected to a fixed-side member and the other end connected to a movable-side member that moves relative to the fixed-side member, the protective frame connected body having a bending portion bent in a middle, an upper side and a lower side of the protective frame connected body overlapped vertically; a lower supporter to support the lower side of the protective frame connected body; and a plurality of upper supporters, each of the plurality of upper supporters supporting the upper side of the protective frame connected body at a predetermined position of the protective frame connected body and being moved by movement of the movable-side member to pass the bending portion without being in contact with the bending portion.

Abstract: A transport vehicle includes at least one antenna, at least one satellite positioning receiver configured to receive positional information via the antenna, at least one antenna support member including an antenna attachment portion with the antenna attached thereto and a vehicle body connector connected to the vehicle body, and a vehicle position estimator configured to estimate a vehicle position of the transport vehicle using the positional information received by the satellite positioning receiver. The antenna support member is configured to move between at least one use state, in which the antenna is disposed at at least one use position at a predetermined distance above a loading surface of the cargo bed, and a stored state in which the antenna is disposed below the use position.

Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a digital broadcast receiver configured to receive digital broadcasting in which contents are transmitted; a network transceiver configured to execute network communication; a data string converter configured to perform a mixing process for creating a new coded data string based on a coded data string of the received contents and a coded data string acquired by the network transceiver; a digital interface configured to output the contents to external equipment; and a controller configured to determine a state of the network communication of the external equipment. The state of the network communication of the external equipment includes a first state in which the network communication is in a communicable state and a second state in which the network communication is in an uncommunicable state. In accordance with the determined state of the network communication, the digital interface performs three types of output operations.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a development cartridge is movable between a contact position in which a development roller is in contact with a photosensitive drum and a separate position in which the development roller is separate from the photosensitive drum, by a cam and a cam follower that is caused to slide in directions parallel to a rotation axis of the cam between a push position in which the development cartridge is pushed by the cam and positioned in the separate position and a no-push position in which the development cartridge is in the contact position. The cam follower includes a first shaft and a contact arm extending from the first shaft and configured to contact a cam surface of the cam. A projection of the first shaft onto the first cam in a direction parallel to the rotation axis is positioned inside a contour of the first cam.

Abstract: A battery deterioration degree prediction apparatus comprising an obtaining unit and a controller. The obtaining unit obtains one or more histories of types of operation parameters for a target battery and reference batteries and a degree of deterioration of the reference batteries. The controller predicts a degree of deterioration of the target battery. Using map data where groups into which the reference batteries are classified and coefficients representing rates of change in the degrees of deterioration of the reference batteries are associated with each other. The groups in the map data are classified by a trend of histories of a first group parameter included in the types of operation parameters. The coefficients in the map data are derived based on the histories for the reference batteries and the degrees of deterioration of the reference batteries belonging to one of the groups that is associated with the coefficients.

Abstract: An attachment unit of the biological information management system includes a body temperature measurement unit that measures a body temperature of a subject on an underarm portion and a body water measurement unit that measures body water of the subject on the underarm portion, and the body temperature measurement unit and the body water measurement unit of the attachment unit are attached to the underarm portion. The biological information transmission unit sends the body temperature of the subject measured by the body temperature measurement unit and the body water of the subject measured by the body water measurement unit to a determination unit, and the determination unit outputs a determination result of whether or not there is a possibility that the subject develops infection or heatstroke based on information of the body temperature and body water of the subject sent from the biological information transmission unit.

Abstract: To prompt generation of a new motion of a mobile body. The mobile body includes: a blending parameter setting section that sets a blending parameter; a motion generator that is configured to be able to generate a third motion by blending, into a predetermined first motion as a motion of the mobile body, a predetermined second motion as a motion of the mobile body different from the first motion with a reflection degree corresponding to the blending parameter set by the blending parameter setting section; and a motion controller that is configured to be able to reflect the third motion generated by the motion generator to a motion to be actually performed by the mobile body.