Abstract: A housing has a housing main body and an outlet port. The housing main body includes a cylindrical housing inner wall that defines an internal space therein. The outlet port fluidly connects the internal space and an outside of the housing main body to each other. The valve has a valve body rotatable about an rotation axis along a rotation axis of the cylindrical housing inner wall. The valve is configured to selectively open and close the outlet port depending on a rotation position of the valve. The housing inner wall is formed such that a distance between the housing inner wall and the axis of the housing inner wall varies in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is an optical waveguide element having high polarization conversion efficiency even in an optical waveguide having a large core thickness. A core C22 of an optical waveguide 22 constituting a polarization separation and rotation unit 12 is formed in a tapered shape in which the width W1 continuously gradually increases from the input end toward the output end. A groove 25 having a V-shaped cross section is formed on the upper surface of the core C22. The groove 25 is formed on the upper surface of the core C22 to extend in the light propagation direction in the range from the input end to the output end of the core C22. In the optical waveguide 22, a waveguide mode in which an effective refractive index between an input end and an output end thereof is maximized is a TE0 mode, a second guided mode is a TM0 mode at the input end and a TE1 mode at the output end, and a transition is made from the TM0 mode to the TE1 mode from the input end toward the output end.

Abstract: Provided is a chemical analysis device that facilitates the estimation of a failure position in failure diagnosis. This chemical analysis device comprises a plurality of reaction cells into which specimens and reagents are dispensed and measures the absorbances of mixed liquids of the specimens and reagents accommodated in the reaction cells using a light measurement system for emitting light onto the mixed liquids and measuring the light that has passed through the mixed liquids. The chemical analysis device comprises a diagnosis unit for failure diagnosis. The diagnosis unit accumulates time-series light-measurement-system data measured using a sample specimen for failure diagnosis and a reagent for failure diagnosis, creates a light measurement data population for failure diagnosis for each prescribed reaction cell, and carries out failure diagnosis by comparing the light measurement data of the light measurement data populations created for each prescribed reaction cell with a preset threshold.

Abstract: An electrolyzer stores of electrolytic cells, in which a pressing force applied to the stack is maintained by automatically adjusting the position of a locking mechanism of a safety device. The electrolyzer includes a stack obtained by stacking a plurality of electrolytic cells with membranes interposed therebetween, a pressing plate arranged on one end side in a stacking direction of the stack, an actuator which generates a pressing force along the stacking direction by moving the pressing plate, a safety device which is configured to maintain the pressing force by allowing the locking mechanism to come into contact with the contact plate to prevent the retraction of the pressing plate, when the actuator is not operated, and a control device which adjusts a distance between the locking mechanism and the contact plate within a specific range so as to maintain the pressing force which acts on the stack.

Abstract: A housing has a housing main body and an outlet port. The housing main body includes a cylindrical housing inner wall that defines an internal space therein. The outlet port fluidly connects the internal space and an outside of the housing main body to each other. The valve has a valve body rotatable about an rotation axis along a rotation axis of the cylindrical housing inner wall. The valve is configured to selectively open and close the outlet port depending on a rotation position of the valve. The housing inner wall is formed such that a distance between the housing inner wall and the axis of the housing inner wall varies in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A novel semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a mixer circuit and a bias circuit. The mixer circuit includes a voltage-to-current conversion portion, a current switch portion, and a current-to-voltage conversion portion. The bias circuit includes a bias supply portion and a first transistor. The voltage-to-current conversion portion includes a second transistor and a third transistor. The bias supply portion has a function of outputting a bias voltage to be supplied to a gate of the second transistor and a gate of the third transistor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the second transistor and the gate of the third transistor. The first transistor is turned off when the bias voltage is supplied, and the first transistor is turned on when the supply of the bias voltage is stopped.

Abstract: Provided is an operation support apparatus including: a prediction unit which predicts a maintenance recommended time at which a target object in an electrolysis apparatus is put into a maintenance recommended state; and a provision unit which provides information for recommending that maintenance of the target object should be performed at a first maintenance time. The operation support apparatus may further include a determination unit which determines a temporal relation between a predetermined first maintenance time at which the target object can be maintained and the maintenance recommended time as well as a temporal relation between a predetermined second maintenance time at which the target object can be maintained and the maintenance recommended time, where the second maintenance time comes after the first maintenance time.

Abstract: The resin composition contains at least one resin (S) selected from the group consisting of an ethylene??-olefin copolymer (A) including a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms and satisfying the following requirements (a-1) to (a-3), and an acid-modified product (B) of the ethylene??-olefin copolymer (A): (a-1) a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is 10 to 5,000 mm2/s, (a-2) a content rate of a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms is 60 to 85 mol %, and (a-3) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) is 2.5 or less.

Abstract: An image analysis server (200) includes personal information analysis means (300) for determining whether an image analysis target image contains personal information, encryption means (301) for encrypting the image analysis target image if it is determined that the image analysis target image contains the personal information, and storage means (302) for storing the image analysis target image encrypted by the encryption means. Thus, measures (security measures) can be taken to prevent the leakage of image analysis target images (images containing personal information such as names, phone numbers, and photos that can identify individuals).

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a discharge head configured to discharge ink, a supply tank in which ink supplied to the discharge head is stored, a collecting tank in which ink collected from the discharge head is stored, a connecting pipe connecting the supply tank and the collecting tank, a circulation pump that is interposed in the connecting pipe and is configured to deliver ink from the collecting tank to the supply tank, a replenishment tank in which ink with which the supply tank is replenished is stored, a replenishment pipe connecting the replenishment tank and the connecting pipe, and a replenishment pump that is interposed in the replenishment pipe and is configured to deliver ink from the replenishment tank to the connecting pipe. A connection point of the replenishment pipe and the connecting pipe is positioned between the circulation pump and the supply tank.

Abstract: A recording system includes a transportation unit that transports a paper sheet, an ejection unit that ejects an ink, a heating unit that heats the paper sheet, a discharge unit to which the paper sheet is discharged, and a control unit. The control unit specifies an amount of ejection of the ink from the ejection unit. The control unit also controls an operation of the heating unit such that an undried region where the ink on the paper sheet is not dried and a dried region where the ink on the paper sheet is dried are formed on the paper sheet. Then, the control unit controls a transporting operation by the transportation unit such that the paper sheet on which the dried region and the undried region are formed is discharged to the discharge unit.

Abstract: An electric motor stator includes a stator core in a tubular shape, which stator core has slots in which insulating paper and a winding are fixed with varnish, and at a first temperature obtained by heating, an adhesive force of an adhesive provided on at least one side of a base material of the insulating paper is less than an adhesive force of the varnish.

Abstract: A first printing unit and a second printing unit are supplied with ink from a first sub-tank and a second sub-tank, respectively. The first sub-tank and the second sub-tank are supplied with the ink from a first branch pipe and a second branch pipe, respectively. The first branch pipe is provided with a first valve, and the second branch pipe is provided with a second valve. A central control unit determines which one of the first sub-tank and the second sub-tank is to be preferentially supplied with ink based on at least one of the amount of remaining ink in each of the first sub-tank and the second sub-tank, and an estimated amount of consumption of ink in each of the first printing unit and the second printing unit, and controls the first valve and the second valve based on a result of the determination.

Abstract: Efficiency of operation related to acquisition of a tilt offset of a surveying apparatus is improved. A total station includes a tilt sensor, a tilt offset acquisition unit that acquires a tilt offset of the tilt sensor, a measurement unit that measures a variable value of a phenomenon that can cause the tilt offset to vary, and a determination unit that determines whether to acquire the tilt offset, based on output from the measurement unit.

Abstract: A bonding method for providing an adhesive layer and a curing agent layer between a first adherend and a second adherend to bond the first adherend and the second adherend in which: the adhesive layer contains an epoxy resin as a main component and is cured by an effect of the curing agent layer; a curing agent contained in the curing agent layer is a polymerization catalyst type curing agent; and a thickness A (m) of the adhesive layer before curing and the application amount B (kg/m2) of the curing agent contained in the curing agent layer satisfy 5<B/A<900.

Abstract: Provided is a distance detection device attached to a position at which it surrounds a camera lens device. The distance detection device has a light emitting element configured to irradiate a target region with irradiation light and a light receiving element configured to receive reflected light of the irradiation light from a target in the target region. The distance detection device acquires distance information indicating a distance to the target on the basis of a time until the light receiving element receives the reflected light after the light emitting element performs irradiation with the irradiation light and communicates the distance information.

Abstract: The transport path TR is a transport path TR for transporting the medium P in the transport direction, the transport path TR including path members XP that guide the medium P and that are arranged in the X-axis direction, which intersects the transport direction, wherein the path members XP are configured so that positions where the path members XP are provided are mutually switchable.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a medicament for cyanide poisoning, hydrogen sulfide poisoning, and azide poisoning, wherein the medicament does not cause side effects, is excellent in immediate effectiveness, and has a high antidotal effect. Specifically, the present invention relates to a medicament for cyanide poisoning, hydrogen sulfide poisoning, and azide poisoning, wherein the medicament comprises, as an active ingredient(s), one or more selected from the group consisting of a heme protein capable of binding to cyanide ions (CN?), hydrogen sulfide ions (HS?) and azide ions (N3?), a substance containing a heme protein capable of binding to CN?, HS? and N3?, and a heme derivative capable of binding to CN?, HS? and N3?. More specifically, the present invention relates to a medicament or a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of cyanide poisoning, hydrogen sulfide poisoning, and azide poisoning.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor configured to capture an object image, an electronic device configured to perform processing relating to imaging, a duct thermally connected to the electronic device, a first airflow generating unit configured to generate first airflow for cooling the electronic device in the duct, and a second airflow generating unit disposed outside the duct and configured to generate second airflow for cooling the image sensor.