Abstract:
An automatic bread maker includes a container in which bread ingredients are fed, a main body which receives the container and is equipped with a motor, and a control unit which controls to perform a bread making process in a state where the container is received by the main body. The bread making process includes a grinding step of grinding grains in the container by driving the motor, and a kneading step of kneading bread ingredients in the container including the ground flour of the grains into bread dough by driving the motor. The control unit monitors a load of the motor so as to decide end of the active step on the basis of the load in at least one of the grinding step and the kneading step.
Abstract:
An automatic bread maker comprises a container in which bread ingredients are fed; a body for accommodating the container; a control unit for carrying out bread-making steps in a state in which the container is accommodated in the body; and a rise detector for detecting that dough has risen to a prescribed height from an upper surface of the container in a state in which the container is accommodated in the body.
Abstract:
A wiping device includes a first web material, a second web material, and a pressing member. The second web material is different from the first web material. The pressing member presses the first web material and the second web material to a target to be wiped. The first web material and the second web material are overlaid on top of one another and pressed against the target to be wiped.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus contains an ink having a dynamic surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m at a life time of 15 msec at 25 degrees C., a container containing the ink and a head configured to discharge the ink to a fabric including a first fabric containing synthetic fiber in an amount of more than 50 percent by mass and a second fabric containing natural fiber in an amount of 50 percent by mass or greater, the head including a nozzle surface, wherein a first distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the first fabric is shorter than a second distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the second fabric.
Abstract:
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyance path, a liquid discharge head, an ejection tray, and a drying device. A medium is conveyed in the conveyance path. The liquid discharge head discharges liquid onto the medium conveyed in the conveyance path. The medium is ejected to the ejection tray. The drying device dries the medium. The conveyance path includes a first bending portion to bend the medium, with a liquid-applied surface of the medium facing inward. The ejection tray includes a second bending portion to bend the medium, with the liquid-applied surface of the medium facing inward. A curvature of the medium bent by the first bending portion is greater than a curvature of the medium bent by the second bending portion. The drying device dries the medium conveyed in the first bending portion.
Abstract:
An ozone purification body supported on a vehicle component has manganese dioxide and activated carbon as ozone purification components. The mixing ratio (weight basis) of activated carbon and manganese dioxide is 4:1 to 1:4.
Abstract:
Provided is a variable capacitance element comprising a plurality of single capacitance elements that each include (i) a fixed electrode provided on a surface of a substrate, (ii) a floating electrode provided to be separate from the fixed electrode and facing the fixed electrode, and (iii) an actuator that moves the floating electrode closer to or farther from the fixed electrode; and a floating electrode driving section that supplies the actuators with drive power to move the floating electrodes, such that a combined capacitance of the plurality of single capacitance elements becomes a prescribed capacitance.
Abstract:
In a parking brake control device, the minimum value of a motor current is set as an idle current after a motor begins to be driven, specifically, in a period during which the idle current is being sampled. As a result, the idle current is set to a value which reflects the temperature of an electric parking brake and the dispersion of individual units of the motor. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a parking brake control device, which can set a target current value capable of coping with the dispersion of the individual units of the motor by calculating the target current value by adding a target effective current necessary to generate an actuation force to the idle current set as described above.
Abstract:
A storage-management apparatus and method that manages storage areas. The storage-management apparatus includes a collecting unit that collects valid-area-determination information items, each of which shows whether a corresponding one of the storage areas is a valid or invalid area, and timestamp information items, each of which shows that a corresponding one of the storage areas has been accessed. In accordance with the valid-area-determination information items and the timestamp information items, data from a storage area which is selected from among valid areas and whose timestamp information item is oldest is copied to a storage area which is selected from among invalid areas and whose timestamp information item is oldest, and timestamp information items and valid-area-determination information items concerning the storage area from which the data is copied and concerning the storage area to which the data is copied is updated.
Abstract:
An optimal path search system, which optimizes a travel path of a moving object, comprising: a path information database; and a path search unit that searches for an optimal path that exhibits a minimum travel cost borne by the moving object, from among travel paths of the moving object, wherein: the path search unit is configured to: determine destination points on the path network; search for at least one nearest node to each of destination points, search for a second travel path along which the moving object travels by passing through the at least one nearest node and all of the at least one destination point, determine the second travel path for which a travel cost is minimum; and search for the travel paths followed by using each of a plurality of moving means, respectively, in a case where the moving object travels along the optimal path.