Abstract: A high-frequency power supply system according to the present disclosure includes a first power supply, a second power supply, a first matcher, and a second matcher. The second power supply performs pulse modulation of repeating an ON operation of outputting a second forward wave voltage and an OFF operation of not outputting the second forward wave voltage. The first power supply performs frequency modulation control in a second power supply ON period, and performs frequency offset control of outputting a forward wave voltage having a fundamental frequency obtained by adding an offset frequency to a fundamental frequency in a second power supply OFF period.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a wireless communication board on which a communication circuit that wirelessly communicates image data with an external device is mounted. The wireless communication board includes a first surface to which a magnetic sheet including a magnetic layer containing metal powder is. The wireless communication board also includes an antenna provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the wireless communication board. The antenna is used by the communication circuit to transmit and receive wireless radio waves. A region of the magnetic sheet on the first surface and a region of the antenna on the second surface overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the wireless communication board.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes: a surface emitting laser element including an element front surface and configured to emit laser light from the element front surface; an element container including a bottom wall where the surface emitting laser element is arranged and a peripheral wall surrounding the surface emitting laser element when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the element front surface, the bottom wall and the peripheral wall constituting a containing space which contains the surface emitting laser element and is open on a same side as the element front surface; a diffusion layer covering the element front surface in the containing space and including a diffusion material; and a reflector covering at least one selected from the group of the bottom wall and the peripheral wall in the containing space and made of a resin material having a higher reflectivity than the diffusion layer.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a cable connector, a first flat cable, and a second flat cable. The first flat cable includes a first conductor exposure portion. The second flat cable includes a second conductor exposure portion. The cable connector includes a restriction portion contactable with the first flat cable to restrict the first conductor exposure portion from moving toward the second conductor exposure portion in a first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure, calculating an impedance change considering a reflected wave due to IMD, provides an impedance matching device for performing impedance matching between a source power supply side and a load side, including: a detector that detects a forward wave power supplied from the source power supply and a reflected wave power from the load and outputs a forward wave voltage as a component of the forward wave power and a reflected wave voltage as a component of the reflected wave power, an impedance information output part that calculates impedance from the forward wave voltage and the reflected wave voltage, and a matching part that performs matching operation based on an impedance value supplied from the impedance information output part. The impedance information output part complexifies each of the forward wave voltage and the reflected wave voltage to calculate an impedance value to generate an impedance locus.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes a substrate including a substrate main surface intersecting a thickness-wise direction, a light emitting element disposed on the substrate main surface, a light receiving element disposed on the substrate main surface, a transparent first cover disposed on the substrate main surface to cover the light emitting element, and a transparent second cover disposed on the substrate main surface to cover the light receiving element. The first cover and the second cover are spaced apart by a gap.

Abstract: An electronic module has a flexible wiring member, a wiring circuit board, and a conductive connection member. The flexible wiring member has a flexible base, a first wiring layer formed on at least one face of the flexible base, and a first electrode formed of the first wiring layer at the end part that is not covered by a first insulating layer. The wiring circuit board has a base provided with a wiring, a second insulating layer having opening formed on at least one face of the base, and a second electrode formed in the opening. The conductive connection member connects the first electrode and the second electrode to each other. The end of the flexible wiring member is arranged above the opening in plan view.

Abstract: The enclosed disclosure describes, among other things, a method including the steps of a first deaerating step in which a mixture comprising peptides is deaerated by lowering the pressure, filtering the mixture through a sterilizing filter; and a second deaerating step, in which the filtrate is deaerated by vibration and lowering the pressure.

Abstract: A virtual reality system includes a virtual reality headset including a display device that displays at least a virtual reality video and an imaging device that captures images at a predetermined range including view of a user, a virtual video server configured to control the virtual reality video, an image forming apparatus, and a management server configured to communicate with the image forming apparatus and the virtual video server, wherein the virtual reality headset enables a user interface relating to operations on the image forming apparatus to be operated without satisfaction of a predetermined condition in a state where a use permission is obtained in the management server, and wherein the virtual reality headset enables the user interface relating to operations on the image forming apparatus to be operated based on satisfaction of the predetermined condition in a state where the use permission is not obtained in the management server.

Abstract: A lead block includes a lead block body and a plurality of bus bars. The plurality of bus bars include a plurality of connection pins and a plurality of conductor connecting portions. At least one of the plurality of conductor connecting portions includes an exposed surface and a connection projection. The connection projection protrudes from the exposed surface in a perpendicular direction and is configured to be connected to a conductor of an electrical cable. The connection projection is disposed in a first region with respect to the exposed surface in the perpendicular direction. The lead block body includes a cable-facing surface provided facing the electrical cable in a state where the connection projection is connected to the conductor of the electrical cable. The cable-facing surface is offset in the perpendicular direction from the exposed surface and is disposed in the first region with respect to the exposed surface.

Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a stator and a rotation body. The stator includes a first stator main body and a second stator main body. The rotation body is provided rotatably about a rotational axis with respect to the stator. The stator and the rotation body define a cable housing space between the stator and the rotation body. The second stator main body includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall extends along an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis. The second wall extends along the axial direction and is spaced apart from the first wall in a radial direction perpendicular to the rotational axis. The first wall is disposed between the cable housing space and the second wall in the radial direction. The first stator main body includes an intermediate wall extending along the axial direction and disposed between the first wall and the second wall in the radial direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a wireless communication board on which a communication circuit that wirelessly communicates image data with an external device is mounted, wherein the wireless communication board has a first surface to which a magnetic sheet including a magnetic layer containing metal powder is attached, includes an antenna provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the wireless communication board and used by the communication circuit to transmit and receive wireless radio waves, and a region of the magnetic sheet on the first surface and a region of the antenna on the second surface overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the wireless communication board.

Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a stator, a rotor and an electrical connector; the rotor including a rotor main body and a connector housing. The connector housing includes a first connector holder and a second connector holder. The second connector holder includes a second holder main body, a first wall, and a second wall. The first wall extends from the second holder main body along an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis. The second wall extends from the second holder main body along the axial direction and is coupled to the first wall.

Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a stator and a rotation body. The stator includes a first stator main body and a second stator main body. The rotation body is provided rotatably about a rotational axis with respect to the stator. The stator and the rotation body define a cable housing space between the stator and the rotation body. The second stator main body includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall extends along an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis. The second wall extends along the axial direction and is spaced apart from the first wall in a radial direction perpendicular to the rotational axis. The first wall is disposed between the cable housing space and the second wall in the radial direction. The first stator main body includes an intermediate wall extending along the axial direction and disposed between the first wall and the second wall in the radial direction.

Abstract: A building structure 1a, 1b, and 1c incorporates an outer wall 6 provided on a lower side of a sloped ceiling 2 in a slope direction, an opening part 5 formed in the outer wall 6, a box-shaped groove part 15 formed at a lower end of the sloped ceiling 2 along the outer wall 6 and having a lower opening 14 opened downward, and an attachment part 17 provided inside the groove part 15 and to which an upper end part of a light shielding material 16 that shields light incident on the opening part 5 is attached, wherein the groove part 15 is a ceiling-embedded type embedded in the sloped ceiling 2, and a lower end of a side plate of the groove part 15 on a side opposite to the opening part 5 is lower than a height of a lower surface of a frame 23 on an upper side of the opening part 5.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an original, a nonvolatile storage that includes a semiconductor area, a setting unit configured to execute a setting for dividing the semiconductor area into a plurality of areas, and a controller configured to execute Trim processing on the divided areas in response to passing of a predetermined time period while the image forming apparatus is in a standby state. The controller is configured to stop the Trim processing based on a detection of the original detected by the sensor while the Trim processing is executed.

Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a rotation body and a fixed body that engage with each other in a relatively rotatable manner, in an interior thereof, a housing space having a cylindrical shape, and a flat cable housed in the housing space in a wound manner, wherein the rotation body includes: a rotating-side ring plate having an annular shape and an inner-circumferential cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape; the fixed body includes: a stationary-side ring plate having an annular shape and an outer-circumferential cylindrical portion; the flat cable has a first end coupled to a stationary-side connector; the fixed body includes an insertion portion from the housing space toward an outer side of the fixed body along a rotation axis direction of the rotation body that relatively rotates; and the stationary-side connector is disposed on a main surface of the stationary-side ring plate on an outer side thereof.

Abstract: Compositions, peptide solutions and macroscopic scaffolds of self-assembling peptides consisting essentially of non-ionic, polar amino acids are provided. Particular peptides include those comprising, or consisting essentially of, serine, threonine, tyrosine, cysteine, glutamine, asparagine, methionine, tryptophan, hydroxy-proline, and combinations thereof. Methods of sterilizing the self-assembling peptides, and scaffolds comprising the peptides are also provided.

Abstract: The enclosed disclosure describes, among other things, a method including the steps of a first deaerating step in which a mixture comprising peptides is deaerated by lowering the pressure, filtering the mixture through a sterilizing filter; and a second deaerating step, in which the filtrate is deaerated by vibration and lowering the pressure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an original, a nonvolatile storage that includes a semiconductor area, a setting unit configured to execute a setting for dividing the semiconductor area into a plurality of areas, and a controller configured to execute Trim processing on the divided areas in response to passing of a predetermined time period while the image forming apparatus is in a standby state. The controller is configured to stop the Trim processing based on a detection of the original detected by the sensor while the Trim processing is executed.