Abstract: This hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg-based plated steel includes: a steel; and a plating layer formed on a surface of the steel, in which the plating layer contains, as an average composition, Mg: 1 to 10 mass %, Al: 4 to 22 mass %, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, the plating layer includes an (Al—Zn mixed structure) in an area ratio of 10% to 70% in a cross section of the plating layer in a matrix of an (Al/Zn/MgZn2 ternary eutectic structure), the (Al—Zn mixed structure) includes a first region that has a Zn concentration in a range of 75 mass % or more and less than 85 mass % and a second region that is present inside the first region and has a Zn concentration in a range of 67 mass % or more and less than 75 mass %, and an area ratio of the second region in the (Al—Zn mixed structure) in the cross section of the plating layer is more than 0% and 40% or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit that is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body; and a cleaning unit that is provided in the apparatus main body, and at the time of attachment or detachment of the detachable unit, comes into contact with a grip portion of the detachable unit to clean a floating substance adhered to the grip portion, the floating substance being in the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition that contains C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, Al, Ti, Nb, and B with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfies [mol % N]/[mol % Ti]<1; and a steel microstructure in which: an area fraction of ferrite is 30% or more and 60% or less; a total area fraction of tempered martensite and bainite is 35% or more and 65% or less; an area fraction of quenched martensite is 15% or less; an area fraction of retained austenite is 1% or more and 10% or less; an area fraction of low-Mn ferrite having a Mn concentration of 0.8×[% Mn] or less is 5% or more and 40% or less; a result of subtracting the area fraction of the low-Mn ferrite from the area fraction of the ferrite is 10% or more; an area fraction of a residual microstructure is less than 3%; and an average grain size of the low-Mn ferrite is 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: An addition reaction type polyimide resin molded body having a thickness of 5 mm or more, with a number of defects having a size of 0.5 mm or more present on the entire surface of the molded body being 1 per 100 cm2 or less. The addition reaction type polyimide resin molded body is formed by: holding a prepolymer of an addition reaction type polyimide resin at a temperature equal to or higher than a viscosity increase starting temperature of the addition reaction type polyimide resin and increasing a melt viscosity at a temperature lower by 10° C. than the viscosity increase starting temperature to 70 to 900 kPa·s; grinding and mixing the addition reaction type polyimide resin to form a molding precursor; and shaping the molding precursor at a temperature equal to or higher than a heat-curing temperature of the addition reaction type polyimide resin.

Abstract: A vehicle antenna system having high transmission and reception efficiency is provided. A vehicle antenna system includes an antenna that is attached to a vehicle and is capable of transmitting and receiving radio waves of a predetermined frequency band. The antenna is attached to the vehicle in such a way that an elevation angle of the antenna with respect to a horizontal plane becomes large in a predetermined angle range in accordance with the height of a communication frequency band.

Abstract: An electrode includes an active material layer. The active material layer is provided with a first groove portion and a second groove portion on a surface. The first groove portion has a first depth. The second groove portion has a second depth. The second depth is shallower than the first depth. Each of the first groove portion and the second groove portion extends linearly along the surface of the active material layer. The second groove portion is adjacent to the first groove portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes growing a p-type cladding layer with an average Al composition ratio in a thickness direction of not less than 70%, and growing a p-type contact layer with an Al composition ratio of not more than 10%. A flow rate ratio Fp/FIII is a p/III ratio and a flow rate ratio FV/FIII is a V/III ratio. The p-type cladding layer is grown in the growing the p-type cladding layer at a growth rate of not more than 2.5 nm/min, a p/III ratio of not less than 0.0002 and not more than 0.0400 and a VIII ratio of not more than 7000. The p-type contact layer is grown in the growing the p-type contact layer at a growth rate of not more than 3.3 nm/min, a p/III ratio of not less than 0.0200 and a V/III ratio of not less than 10000.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in a first direction toward a recording head for ejecting a liquid, a tank including a containing chamber containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, and an injection port through which the liquid is injected into the containing chamber, the tank being disposed downstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction, a rotatable lever that holds a tank cap for closing the injection port, and a cover that rotates about a rotation shaft between an open position for exposing the lever and a closed position for covering the lever, the rotation shaft being disposed upstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction. The cover includes a sliding portion that is provided on a surface facing the lever and comes into contact with the lever while the cover is rotating toward the closed position.

Abstract: When users of vehicles provide vehicle-related data that are data related to the vehicles to a manager of a processor, the processor determines available services that are services available for the users based on the vehicle-related data, and transmit information about the available services to notification devices usable by the users.

Abstract: A power distribution module including: a power line connecting between a battery and a load; a main relay connected to the power line; an active fuse connected to the power line on the battery side relative to the main relay; a first voltage converter connected to the power line on the load side relative to the main relay; an abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of the power line; and a first driving/control wiring extending from the first voltage converter and connected to the active fuse, wherein a first control unit mounted on the first voltage converter transmits a control signal for disconnecting the active fuse when the abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality of the power line, and the active fuse is disconnected.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of achieving high detection efficiency and low jitter without depending on an increase in thickness of a substrate. A semiconductor device is provided with a plurality of pixels in each of which an avalanche photodiode element that photoelectrically converts incident light is formed, and each of the plurality of pixels is provided with a substrate including a first semiconductor material, and a stacked portion stacked on a surface on a light incident side of the substrate and including a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member, a supply member, first and second voltage application units, and a control unit. Assuming that a difference between a voltage to be applied to the developer bearing member by the first voltage application unit and a voltage to be applied to the supply member by the second voltage application unit in the image forming operation is defined as a first supply contrast, and a difference between the voltage to be applied to the developer bearing member by the first voltage application unit and the voltage to be applied to the supply member by the second voltage application unit in the preliminary rotation operation is defined as a second supply contrast, the control unit controls the second supply contrast to be less than the first supply contrast or to have polarity reversed from polarity of the first supply contrast.

Abstract: An information processing device including a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire vehicle information relating to a vehicle; evaluate a value of structural information, which includes the acquired vehicle information, by using a predetermined evaluation standard; and present a user of the vehicle with the evaluated value of the structural information.

Abstract: A medical device configured to suppress a thrombus from being formed and a method for controlling the medical device are provided. The medical device according to the present embodiment includes the expansion body configured to expand and contract in a radial direction; the elongated shaft portion including the distal portion including the proximal end fixing portion to which a proximal portion of the expansion body is fixed; the plurality of electrodes disposed along the expansion body; and the current supply unit that supplies a current to the electrodes, in which the expansion body includes the recessed portion recessed radially inward and defining the receiving space configured to receive a biological tissue when the expansion body expands, the plurality of electrodes are arranged along the recessed portion to face the receiving space, and the current supply unit is controlled to repeat supply and stop of a current to the electrodes.

Abstract: An adhesive tape including an adhesive layer is provided. The adhesive layer has a biobased content of 50% or more by mass. The adhesive layer contains a reaction product of a urethane resin (A) and a cross-linking agent (B). The urethane resin (A) contains at least a structural unit derived from a biobased polyether polyol and a structural unit derived from an aromatic polyisocyanate. The adhesive layer has a gel fraction of 10% or more by mass and 80% or less by mass and a stress of less than 50 N/cm2 at 100% strain in a stress-strain curve.

Abstract: A facial structure estimation apparatus includes a controller 13. The controller 13 stores, as learning data, a parameter indicating a relationship between a face image and a structure of the face image. The controller 13 learns a relationship between a first face image and a facial structure corresponding to the first face image. The controller 13 learns a relationship between a second face image of a certain person and a facial structure corresponding to the second face image. The controller 13 learns a relationship between a second face image of the certain person detected using infrared light and a facial structure corresponding to the second face image.

Abstract: In an embodiment, dynamically-generated code may be supported in the system by ensuring that the code either remains executing within a predefined region of memory or exits to one of a set of valid exit addresses. Software embodiments are described in which the dynamically-generated code is scanned prior to permitting execution of the dynamically-generated code to ensure that various criteria are met including exclusion of certain disallowed instructions and control of branch target addresses. Hardware embodiments are described in which the dynamically-generated code is permitted to executed but is monitored to ensure that the execution criteria are met.

Abstract: A radar apparatus is mountable to a vehicle. The radar apparatus includes an observing unit, an estimating unit, a predicting unit, a matching processing unit, and a determining unit. The estimating unit calculates, regarding an initial detection target object, a plurality of velocity estimation values in which folding is presumed, using a velocity observation value calculated by the observing unit. The predicting unit calculates a prediction value from each of the plurality of velocity estimation values. The matching processing unit performs association of the velocity prediction value and the velocity observation value.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a firmware rewriting apparatus includes: call position specifying means for specifying, among instructions described in a program of firmware stored in a memory, the instructions for changing a control flow; free area specifying means for specifying a free area in a storage area of the memory in which the program is not stored; and program rewriting means for rewriting the instruction specified by the call position specifying means into a call instruction of a frequency adjustment code and writing the frequency adjustment code for calling an inspection code at a frequency corresponding to a frequency of calling the frequency adjustment code and the inspection code for performing a security check of the program in response to a call from the frequency adjustment code into the free area specified by the free area specifying means.

Abstract: An image forming system executes determination processing with an intensity of an image editing process being a first intensity and a determination threshold being a first value and does not execute the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being the first intensity and the determination threshold being a second value. The system executes the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being a second intensity greater than the first intensity and the determination threshold being the first value and does not execute the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being the second intensity and the determination threshold being the second value.