Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte including a step of processing a slurry by at least one treatment selected from drying and heating, wherein a solid electrolyte raw material containing a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element and a halogen element, and a complexing agent are mixed in a reactor to give a complex slurry containing a complex formed of the solid electrolyte raw material and the complexing agent, and the complex slurry is transferred into an intermediate tank equipped with a cooling device and cooled therein.

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: 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: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass, satisfying: a ratio ICS (?400)/ICS being more than 0.13 in a stress profile, the ICS representing an integrated value of compressive stress in a region from a surface of the glass to a depth where the compressive stress becomes 0 in the stress profile, and the ICS (?400) representing an integrated value of compressive stress in a region from a depth of 400 ?m from the surface of the glass to the depth where the compressive stress becomes 0 in the stress profile.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are provided for predicting the likelihood or probability of a subscriber of a service to cancel or not renew a subscription. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of receiving data pertaining to aspects of a service that is provided by a service provider to a subscriber in accordance with a subscription. The data may include one or more impact factors each having a positive, neutral, or negative influence on the likelihood of subscriber churn. The method also includes a step of using the one or more impact factors to predict the likelihood that the subscriber will cancel the subscription.

Abstract: A measurement device (100) that measures an absolute coordinate of a target object (300) provided inside an excavation ditch (200) includes: a coordinate measurement unit (10) that measures a position coordinate of a reference point in a vertical direction from the target object (300); a distance measurement unit (20) that measures the vertical distance from the reference point to the target object; and a calculation unit (30) that calculates the absolute coordinate of the target object based on the vertical distance and the position coordinate.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a housing, a sheet stacker, a stacker elevator, an extension sheet stacker, and a support. The sheet stacker is included in the housing and is configured to stack a sheet. The stacker elevator is configured to elevate the sheet stacker. The extension sheet stacker is attached to the sheet stacker and is configured to extend outward from the housing. The support is configured to support the extension sheet stacker and has an inclined portion configured to diagonally extend in a sheet conveyance direction, to the housing from a position upstream from a center of the extension sheet stacker in the sheet conveyance direction, when viewed from a width direction of the sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass, satisfying in comparison of an estimated stress profile with an effective stress profile, an absolute value of a difference between tensile stress values at a center in a thickness direction is 30 MPa or smaller, and a value obtained by subtracting, at a depth of 15 ?m from a chemically strengthened surface of the glass, a compressive stress value of the effective stress profile from a compressive stress value of the estimated stress profile is 50 MPa or larger.

Abstract: A controller of a NOx sensor determines whether a determination target value being an indicator of operation of pumping in oxygen of one of electrochemical pump cells other than a measurement pump cell including inner electrodes arranged in respective internal spaces of a sensor element, an out-of-space pump outer electrode disposed at a location other than the internal spaces, and solid electrolytes between these electrodes exceeds a threshold during a predetermined determination time, controls, unless the determination target value exceeds the threshold, the NOx sensor in a basic mode in which a concentration of NOx is identified based on a pump current flowing between the measurement electrode and the outer electrode, and stops, when the determination target value exceeds the threshold, the basic mode, and controls the NOx sensor in a protected execution mode in which the measurement electrode is protected against over-reduction.

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: 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: A recommendation device includes: a determination unit that determines a combination of insurance products and insurance premiums to be paid to the insurance products from among a plurality of insurance products based on a risk degree indicating a degree of damage caused to a user due to an event to be compensated for by each of the plurality of insurance products and a compensation degree indicating a degree of compensation by each of the plurality of insurance products; and an output unit that outputs recommendation information indicating the combination and the insurance premiums.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can accurately guide facilities or services which are available to a user who is scheduled to take a transportation. an information processing apparatus includes: a registration unit that registers a status of a user scheduled to board on a transportation related to boarding acquired by a boarding procedure and biometric information of the user acquired during the boarding procedure in association with each other; and a generation unit that generates guide information related to a facility or a service available to the user guided by an information processing terminal according to the status of the user, who is identified by matching of target biometric information which is biometric information acquired by the information processing terminal for one user, and registered biometric information which is the biometric information registered by the registration unit.

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: 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: 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 controller is configured to control an internal combustion engine that includes an exhaust gas temperature sensor. The exhaust gas temperature sensor detects, as an exhaust gas temperature, a temperature of exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust passage. The controller is configured to execute an estimation process that estimates a generation amount per unit time of condensed water generated in the exhaust passage. In the estimation process, the controller estimates a lower value of the generation amount for a higher value of the exhaust gas temperature that is detected by the exhaust gas temperature sensor.

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.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: a sheath; and a core including twisted optical fibers disposed in an accommodation space in the sheath. Each of the twisted optical fibers includes: a glass portion, a primary layer that covers the glass portion, and a secondary layer that covers the primary layer. A fiber pulling force when pulling out the twisted optical fibers is equal to or greater 15 N/10 m. A value of an index Q is less than 20.