Abstract: A surveillance satellite that has detected a significant high luminance generates launch sensing data indicating a launch time point corresponding to a detection time point, a launch coordinate value expressing a position at which the significant high luminance was detected, and a line-of-sight vector at the detection time point and containing surveillance data at the detection time point and transmits the launch sensing data. A communication satellite that passes through a point in a communication range with respect to the surveillance satellite to transmit the launch sensing data receives the launch sensing data and transmits the launch sensing data to remaining communication satellites via a satellite communication network.

Abstract: An object detection device includes: a peripheral information acquiring unit to acquire peripheral information including detection information for each of detection points detected by sensing a periphery of a current position; a vehicle information acquiring unit to acquire vehicle information including a current position and a state of a vehicle present at the current position; a map information acquiring unit to acquire map information including a peripheral area of a current position; a traveling status recognizing unit to output traveling status information indicating a traveling state of a vehicle present at a current position and a status around the vehicle by using the peripheral information, the vehicle information, and the map information; and a peripheral information updating unit to output, for each of the detection points, information indicating certainty relating to a detection point by using the traveling status information.

Abstract: A gear shift adjusting mechanism includes: an adjustment unit including a first slider; an adjustment target module including a second slider; and a switch unit including a first rotation shaft and a link member supported rotatably with respect to a fixing member about the first rotation shaft. The link member includes a first engaged part that is engaged with a first engaging part of the first slider and a second engaged part that is engaged with a second engaging part of the second slider. The switch unit moves at least one of the first rotation shaft, the first engaging part, or the second engaging part so that at least one of a first distance between the first rotation shaft and the first engaging part or a second distance between the first rotation shaft and the second engaging part is changed.

Abstract: In a screw compressor, on a bearing side relative to a discharge port of a compression chamber in a casing, an intermediate-pressure chamber to which an intermediate-pressure coolant is supplied from outside of the casing is provided in a high-pressure space surrounded by an outer cylinder and an intermediate cylinder of the casing and communicating with the discharge port, and the intermediate-pressure coolant has a temperature and a pressure that are lower than those of a coolant in the high-pressure space and higher than a coolant in a low-pressure space on a motor side relative to the discharge port in the casing. The intermediate-pressure chamber and the low-pressure space communicate with each other.

Abstract: A travel support device includes processing circuitry configured to output a target speed of a merging vehicle that is going to change lanes; acquire a current speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a first control amount; acquire a position and a speed of a merging destination vehicle; acquire a current position of the merging vehicle and calculate a second control amount; acquire a speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a predicted position of the merging destination vehicle when the current speed of the merging vehicle has reached the target speed; and output one of the first or second control amount.

Abstract: To provide a drive device for a self-propelled elevator which is capable of moving a car in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction with a simple configuration. The drive device for a self-propelled elevator includes: a rotating body which is rotatably coupled to a back face of a cab; and wheels which are provided on the rotating body so as to sandwich guide surfaces of a rail on a back face side of the cab, which generate, by friction between the wheels and the rail, a force that moves the cab in a vertical direction when a longitudinal direction of the rail is the vertical direction, and which generate, by a friction force between the wheels and the rail, a force that moves the cab in a horizontal direction when the longitudinal direction of the rail is the horizontal direction.

Abstract: To provide a map information output apparatus and a map information output method which can reduce a time lag of the positional shift correction of the map information acquired corresponding to the position coordinate of the ego vehicle, when traveling the curve road. A map information output apparatus acquires map information corresponding to a position coordinate of an ego vehicle from map data; acquires a map road shape corresponding to a road where the ego vehicle is traveling; detects a detection road shape where the ego vehicle is traveling based on detection information of a periphery monitoring apparatus; and corrects position information of the map information with respect to a position of the ego vehicle, based on map curvature information which is curvature information included in the map road shape, and detection curvature information which is curvature information included in the detection road shape.

Abstract: The MEMS mirror device includes a fixed member, a movable member rotatably coupled to the fixed member, a mirror, and a wire. The movable member includes a movable plate, a twist beam, and a meander beam. The meander beam is arranged along the twist beam. The mirror is formed on the movable plate. The wire extends from the movable plate to the fixed member. The wire is formed on the meander beam.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor element includes a pinned layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a first magnetic layer, and a free layer. The pinned layer has a fixed magnetization direction. The first non-magnetic layer is laminated on the pinned layer. The first magnetic layer holds the first non-magnetic layer with the pinned layer. The free layer is disposed along a lamination direction in which the first non-magnetic layer is laminated on the pinned layer. Each of the first magnetic layer and the free layer has a magnetization direction more easily changed by an external magnetic field than that of the pinned layer. The pinned layer and the first magnetic layer are coupled by indirect exchange interaction.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique that eliminates the need for an external circuit for enhancing the breakdown voltage. A switching element drive circuit includes a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, and an insulating element isolating the primary circuit and the secondary circuit from each other in terms of a direct current. The secondary circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, a detector provided on a portion of the semiconductor substrate, including a pn junction isolation portion, and configured to detect a voltage of a high voltage terminal, and a controller provided on a remaining portion of the semiconductor substrate and configured to control a control voltage of a semiconductor switching element based on a second signal and a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: A backside conductors is configured such that an electrode for electrical connection to an outside is formed in addition to a heat sink in correspondence with each of a plurality of cavity structures, and a support member is formed so as to be at a position separated from dicing lines for dividing each of the cavity structures into an individual piece, arranged closer to the dicing lines than to the heat sink and the electrode, and interposed between a molding die and a board at a time of integral molding with the mold material.

Abstract: An information collecting device to collect an image and position information to be transmitted from a vehicle to an external server via a communication network includes an image acquisition unit to acquire the image of the outside of the vehicle obtained by capturing by an image-capturing device mounted on the vehicle, a position-information acquisition unit to acquire position information indicating a capturing position of the image, a resource-status acquisition unit to acquire resource information indicating a status of a resource related to a load of processing on the image, a processing-method determination unit to determine a processing method of the image in accordance with the status of the resource, an image processing unit to process the image in accordance with the processing method, and an image analysis unit to perform analysis of the image processed and output the image processed in accordance with a result of the analysis.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technology capable of predicting fluctuation in electrical characteristics of vertical semiconductor transistors when operated in the market. The semiconductor device includes a vertical semiconductor transistor and a horizontal semiconductor transistor provided on the same semiconductor base. A gate electrode of the vertical semiconductor transistor and a gate electrode of the horizontal semiconductor transistor are electrically connected. A source electrode of the vertical semiconductor transistor and a source electrode of the horizontal semiconductor transistor are electrically connected.

Abstract: A neutron flux measurement apparatus includes: a storage which records, as record data, a measured value indicating change in a neutron flux in a nuclear reactor corresponding to adjustment control for output of the nuclear reactor during a first set period; and a calculation circuitry which, on the basis of the record data, performs correction for a detector sensitivity to a neutron of a self-powered detector at a time point in accordance with the adjustment control during a second set period after the first set period, the time point being a time point when the second set period has elapsed, and derives the neutron flux at the time point using the corrected detector sensitivity.

Abstract: In a power grid stabilization system, a second energy storage system has a larger energy storage capacity than a first energy storage system. A bidirectional AC/DC converter is connected between an AC power grid and a pair of input and output terminals of the first energy storage system. A first bidirectional DC/DC converter is connected between the pair of input and output terminals of the first energy storage system and a pair of input and output terminals of the second energy storage system.

Abstract: A transistor and a diode are formed on a common semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate includes a transistor region and a diode region, the diode region includes an n type first semiconductor layer provided on a second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate, an n type second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a p type third semiconductor layer provided closer to a first main surface side of the semiconductor substrate than the second semiconductor layer, a first main electrode that applies a first potential to the diode, a second main electrode that applies a second potential to the diode, a plurality of diode trench gates that reach the second semiconductor layer from the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a contact region provided in an upper layer portion of the third semiconductor layer, and the contact region is composed of a conductor material.

Abstract: Plural hollow structure bodies (3) are formed in a semiconductor substrate (1) in an array manner. The Plural hollow structure bodies (3) have a detection part (4) as a hollow structure and a getter part (5) as a hollow structure different from the detection part (4). A support body (6) demarcates the plural hollow structure bodies (3). The detection part (4) has a detection device (14) inside. The getter part (5) has a getter (16) inside. The detection part (4) and the getter part (5) are spatially joined together by a tunnel portion (7) formed in the support body (6).

Abstract: A MIMO radar signal processing device includes a plurality of matched filter banks to receive reception signals from a plurality of reception antennas and transmission signals from a plurality of transmission signal generating units, and output matched filter outputs serving as a vector element of a reception signal vector, a tentative angle measuring unit to assume the matched filter outputs from the plurality of matched filter banks as reception signals in a direct propagation mode and calculate a tentative measured angle value for a reception signal vector of interest, and a bidirectional angle measuring unit to obtain a bidirectional measured angle value for the reception signal vector of interest from the matched filter outputs from the plurality of matched filter banks and the tentative measured angle value calculated by the tentative angle measuring unit.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator, a first bracket, a second bracket, a bypass definer, a first guide, and a second guide. The bypass definer defines an internal air bypass located radially outward from the stator for internal air to flow through. The first guide transfers heat transferred from the internal air passing through inside a plurality of first partition walls connecting the internal air bypass and an internal space to external air and guides the external air to an external air passage. The second guide transfers heat transferred from the internal air passing through inside a second partition wall connecting the internal air bypass and an internal space to the external air and guides the external air outside.

Abstract: A self-light emitting device in a tiling scheme includes an array of a plurality of self-light emitting units. Each of the self-light emitting units is partitioned into a plurality of unit regions, and each of the unit regions includes at least one light emitting cell each including one or more self-light emitting elements. A central portion and an outer edge portion of each self-light emitting unit differ in number or positions of one or more light emitting cells in each unit region.