Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an outdoor unit including a first refrigerant circuit that includes a compressor and a first heat exchanger; a first indoor unit disposed in a first indoor space and that includes a second heat exchanger; a second indoor unit including a third heat exchanger; an intermediate unit including an intermediate refrigerant circuit that causes the second heat exchanger and the third heat exchanger to individually function as an evaporator or a condenser; and a first auxiliary refrigerant circuit including a first auxiliary heat exchanger and a second auxiliary heat exchanger connected in series to the first auxiliary heat exchanger via a refrigerant pipe.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an outdoor unit that includes a first refrigerant circuit including a compressor, and a first heat exchanger; an indoor unit in a first space and that includes a second refrigerant circuit including a second heat exchanger; a liquid side pipe and a gas side pipe each connecting the first refrigerant circuit to the second refrigerant circuit; an outdoor air treatment unit including a first auxiliary refrigerant circuit including a first auxiliary heat exchanger connected to a first branching pipe branching from the liquid side pipe, and a second branching pipe branching from the gas side pipe, and a supply fan that supplies outdoor air having passed through the first auxiliary heat exchanger to the first space; a first shutoff valve on the first branching pipe; and a second shutoff valve on the second branching pipe.

Abstract: A car monitoring system includes: a sub-system to execute a predetermined function by controlling at least one instrument mounted on a railcar; and a monitoring device to monitor an operating state of the sub-system. The sub-system includes: a sub-system controller to create status data containing pieces of event information based on a signal output from the instrument and periodically transmit the status data to the monitoring device, the information informing the monitoring device of a change in state of the instrument; and a first memory to store a first event parameter file defines a data structure of an event region of the status data, the event region being a region wherein the information are stored. When the first parameter file is changed, and the sub-system controller creates the status data, the controller reconstructs the data structure of the region and resets the information in accordance with the reconstructed data structure.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor unit, an outdoor unit, an outdoor expansion valve, an indoor expansion valve, and a controller. The controller executes first control and second control. The first control includes stopping cooling operation or heating operation if a first condition is satisfied during cooling operation or heating operation, and then starting cooling operation or heating operation if a second condition is satisfied. The first condition indicates that a heat load in a target space is low. The second condition relates to the heat load in the target space. The second control includes setting opening degrees of the outdoor expansion valve and the indoor expansion valve upon a start of cooling operation or heating operation according to the first control to be larger than opening degrees upon satisfaction of the first condition.

Abstract: A laminated film including a resin layer on at least one side of a resin base film, the resin layer being present at least one surface, wherein the X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectrum at the carbon K absorption edge at the resin layer surface satisfies I(15°)?I(90°)?0.1 when the angle formed between the incident X-ray and the resin layer surface is defined as ?, and the spectral intensity at 293.5 eV obtained by the partial electron yield method is defined as I(?). Provided is a laminated film as a release film to be used in an application that is carried out by coating the film with a coating liquid including a solvent, drying and solidifying the coating liquid, and then peeling off the solidified coating, which laminated film shows excellent applicability and an excellent peeling property, and does not show delamination of the surface layer even after a heating process.

Abstract: A polypropylene film has an excellent long-term operating reliability in a high temperature environment when used in a high-voltage capacitor, which is suitable for use in such capacitor applications and the like, and which has an excellent structural stability to heat; and a metal film-laminated film and a film capacitor including the same. The polypropylene film, wherein the relationship between the sum (E?135 (MD+TD)) of the storage moduli in the machine direction and the transverse direction of the film, as determined by solid viscoelasticity measurement at 135° C., and the sum (E?125(MD+TD)) of the storage moduli, as determined by solid viscoelasticity measurement at 125° C., satisfies formula (1): E?135(MD+TD)/E?125(MD+TD)>0.7??(1).

Abstract: An authentication server may, in a case where a communication state between the authentication server and a management server is a non-connecting state, send first authentication information to an external device. A printer may, in a case where a communication state between the printer and the management server changes from a communication-enabled state to a communication-disabled state, shift a state of the printer from a first permission state to a first prohibition state, while the state of the printer is the first prohibition state, accept an input of second authentication information from a user; and, in a case where the input of the second authentication information is accepted and the second authentication information matches the first authentication information, shift the state of the printer from the first prohibition state to a second permission state.

Abstract: An elongated medical instrument includes: a base material part; and an outer layer part made of a resin based on a resin suspension that is coated on an outer peripheral surface of the base material part; where a surface of the outer layer part has irregularly disposed recesses formed from cracks generated by drying of the resin suspension, and protrusions formed with an outer peripheral surface formed on an outer peripheral side of the recesses.

Abstract: An elongated medical instrument includes a base material part, and an outer layer part made of a resin provided on a surface of the base material part. An outer surface of the outer layer part is a substantially flat surface other than the presence of irregularly disposed recesses or protrusions.

Abstract: A polypropylene film in which: during a heating process in thermomechanical analysis (TMA), the relationship (Ts?Tf)?40° C. is satisfied by the temperature (Ts) (° C.) at which the film contracts by 0.1% in the longitudinal direction and the temperature (Tf) (° C.) at which the longitudinal shrink stress reaches 0.01 MPa; and the skewness (Ssk), which is the degree of bias of the protrusion shape, of at least one surface of the film is greater than ?30 and less than 5. Thus provided is a polypropylene film that has excellent reliability and withstand voltage characteristics in high temperature environments when used in high voltage capacitors, that has a structure with excellent stability against heat and is suitable for applications in capacitors or the like to be used at high temperatures and high voltages, and that has excellent processability and does not wrinkle during a conveyance process including a vapor deposition process.

Abstract: An authentication server may, in a case where a communication state between the authentication server and a management server is a non-connecting state, send first authentication information to an external device. A printer may, in a case where a communication state between the printer and the management server changes from a communication-enabled state to a communication-disabled state, shift a state of the printer from a first permission state to a first prohibition state, while the state of the printer is the first prohibition state, accept an input of second authentication information from a user; and, in a case where the input of the second authentication information is accepted and the second authentication information matches the first authentication information, shift the state of the printer from the first prohibition state to a second permission state.

Abstract: A guide wire includes a main body portion having an elongated outer shape and having a base and a marker alternately presented on an outer surface along an extending direction, and a resin layer having light permeability, covering the outer surface of the main body portion, and including a recessed portion and a protruding portion alternately arranged along the extending direction of the main body portion, wherein in longitudinal cross-section along the extending direction of the main body portion, a width of the marker is wider than a width of the protruding portion.

Abstract: To provide a guide wire including a core shaft having an elongated outer shape, and a coating film on an outer surface of the core shaft, the coating film containing a resin. The coating film includes a marker portion containing a pigment on an outer surface of the coating film and a resin portion not containing the pigment. On the outer surface of the coating film, the marker portion and the resin portion are alternately visible in a stretching direction. Of the coating film, a thickness of a portion where the marker portion is visible on the outer surface and a thickness of a portion where the resin portion is visible on the outer surface are substantially the same, or the thickness of the portion where the marker portion is visible is smaller than the thickness of the portion where the resin portion is visible.

Abstract: A polypropylene film exhibits a high breakdown voltage even in a high temperature environment and can exhibit a voltage resistance and reliability even in a high temperature environment when used as a capacitor, and a metal layer laminated film and a film capacitor using the polypropylene film. For the polypropylene film, at least one surface of the film has an elastic modulus of 2.6 GPa or more, measured by nanoindentation measurement, and the sum of heat shrinkage rates is in the film longitudinal and width directions 5% or less in a heat treatment at 130° C. for ten minutes.

Abstract: Provided are a polypropylene film that has excellent structural stability relative to heat, is suitable for use in high-voltage capacitors or the like, and, when used in a high-voltage capacitor, has excellent long-term reliability in high-temperature environments; a metal layer laminated film that uses the polypropylene film; and a film capacitor. The polypropylene film has the sum of F5 values for the longitudinal direction and the width direction at 130° C. of at least 15 MPa and, for dielectric breakdown testing at 130° C., a dielectric breakdown voltage (B150) (V/?m) after heat treating for 1 minute at 150° C. and a dielectric breakdown voltage (B0) (V/?m) without heat treating satisfy the following relationship. (B150)/(B0)?0.

Abstract: A polypropylene film has an excellent long-term operating reliability in a high temperature environment when used in a high-voltage capacitor, which is suitable for use in such capacitor applications and the like, and which has an excellent structural stability to heat; and a metal film-laminated film and a film capacitor including the same. The polypropylene film, wherein the relationship between the sum (E?135 (MD+TD)) of the storage moduli in the machine direction and the transverse direction of the film, as determined by solid viscoelasticity measurement at 135° C., and the sum (E?125(MD+TD)) of the storage moduli, as determined by solid viscoelasticity measurement at 125° C., satisfies formula (1): E?135(MD+TD)/E?125(MD+TD)>0.7??(1).

Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition containing polycarbonate resin (A) having structural units represented by general formula (1) and polycarbonate resin (B) having a structural unit represented by general formula (2): (in general formula (1), R represents a hydrogen atom or C1-C4 alkyl group); (in general formula (2), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, C1-C20 alkyl group, C1-C20 alkoxyl group, C5-C20 cycloalkyl group, C5-C20 cycloalkoxyl group, C6-C20 aryl group or C6-C20 aryloxy group, and Y represents a C1-C4 alkylene group.

Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition containing polycarbonate resin (A) having structural units represented by general formula (1) and polycarbonate resin (B) having a structural unit represented by general formula (2): (in general formula (1), R represents a hydrogen atom or C1-C4 alkyl group); (in general formula (2), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, C1-C20 alkyl group, C1-C20 alkoxyl group, C5-C20 cycloalkyl group, C5-C20 cycloalkoxyl group, C6-C20 aryl group or C6-C20 aryloxy group, and Y represents a C1-C4 alkylene group.

Abstract: A polypropylene film exhibits a high breakdown voltage even in a high temperature environment and can exhibit a voltage resistance and reliability even in a high temperature environment when used as a capacitor, and a metal layer laminated film and a film capacitor using the polypropylene film. For the polypropylene film, at least one surface of the film has an elastic modulus of 2.6 GPa or more, measured by nanoindentation measurement, and the sum of heat shrinkage rates is in the film longitudinal and width directions 5% or less in a heat treatment at 130° C. for ten minutes.

Abstract: To provide a printing apparatus and a method for determining a service life of a cleaning mechanism, capable of more accurately determining a service life of a cleaning mechanism. For the purpose, a service life of a recovery unit is determined by multiplication of a number of times a blade wipes a face surface by a coefficient different depending on a quantity of liquid adhering to the face surface.