Abstract: An object is to provide a novel oxide-based ion conductor with improved ion conductivity over lithium oxide. The problem is solved by a noncrystalline ion conductor represented by the following formula:(Li2-xO1-xAx)1-yZy (I) (where A is one or more atoms selected from F, Cl, Br, and I, x satisfies 0.1?x?0.7, Z is a network-forming oxide, a network-modifying oxide (excluding Li2O), or an intermediate oxide, and y satisfies 0?y?0.25, except for those in which A is I and Z is SiO2 when 0.2?y?0.25).

Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.

Abstract: An electric brake apparatus includes a control unit connected to an electric motor, a first connector portion connected to the control unit and used for power feeding and input of one of redundant signals, a second connector portion connected to the control unit and used for power feeding and input of another of the redundant signals, and a third connector connected to the control unit and used for input of a signal related to a wheel speed. This allows providing redundancy for control associated with power feeding and rotation of the electric motor and also reducing noise in the input signal of the wheel speed.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte having a high purity as side reaction hardly occurs, and having a high ionic conductivity, in a simplified manner. The method is for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte containing a lithium atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom and a halogen atom, comprising separately preparing a complex (1) containing a sulfide that contains a lithium atom, a sulfur atom and a phosphorus atom, as a constituent element, and a complex (2) containing a halide that contains a lithium atom and a halogen atom, as a constituent element, and mixing the complex (1) and the complex (2).

Abstract: A method for producing a hydrogenated polymer composition including a hydrogenated conjugated diene modified polymer that has a boron-containing functional group, the method including: (1) anionically polymerizing a monomer including a conjugated diene in the presence of a reactive metal or reactive metal compound capable of causing anionic polymerization to produce a reactive terminal polymer (Z); (2) reacting the reactive terminal polymer (Z) obtained in (1) with a boric acid compound that has at least two partial structures represented by B—O—R (I), and in which at least one R bonded to an oxygen atom in the partial structure (I) has a Taft's steric parameter Es value of ?0.30 or less to obtain an unhydrogenated conjugated diene modified polymer having a boron-containing functional group; and (3) hydrogenating at least some of carbon-carbon double bonds contained in conjugated diene units included in the unhydrogenated conjugated diene modified polymer obtained in (2).

Abstract: A position detection device includes: a first group including N (a multiple of 3) first magnetic sensors facing a magnet that rotates in synchronization with a rotation shaft of a motor and arranged at intervals along a rotation direction of the magnet, and a second group including N second magnetic sensors arranged opposite respectively to the N first magnetic sensors across the rotation shaft in a radial direction of the magnet; and a signal processing device processing output signals respectively output from the first and second magnetic sensors. The signal processing device executes averaging processing of generating N average signals by averaging an output signal of the first magnetic sensor and an output signal of the second magnetic sensor arranged at the position opposite to the first magnetic sensor across the rotation shaft, and estimation processing of estimating a rotational position of the motor based on the N average signals.

Abstract: A seat includes a seat body and a sensor configured to acquired information on an occupant seated on the seat body. The seat includes a coating as a location marker that marks a location of the sensor to render the location visually recognizable from outside the seat body.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.

Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of easily confirming content data, the information of which is registered in a blockchain, is provided. An image pickup apparatus generates an image file and then immediately calculates a hash value of the image file, and transmits image file information including the hash value to a management system. In response to receipt of a registration completion notification indicating that a process of registering the image file information in a blockchain is completed, the image pickup apparatus stores registration-completed information indicating that the image file information is registered in the blockchain, relating to the image file.

Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.

Abstract: One aspect of a position estimation method of the present invention includes: a learning step of acquiring learning data necessary for estimation of a rotational position of a rotor on the basis of an input sensor signal; and a position estimation step of estimating the rotational position of the rotor on the basis of the input sensor signal and the learning data. The learning step is performed, thereby acquiring, as the learning data, data indicating the correspondence relationship between a segment number associated with a section included in each of a plurality of quadrants and a pole pair number representing a pole pair position. The position estimation step is performed, thereby determining an initial position of the rotor on the basis of the input sensor signal and the learning data.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a system control unit, an auxiliary power supply, and an auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit are configured such that information of at least one control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit is able to be output to another control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The at least one control unit is configured to output information indicating that an operation of the at least one control unit is stopped to the other control unit when the at least one control unit stops the operation of the at least one control unit.

Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of guaranteeing that a provider of a content is a generator of the content is provided. The content generation apparatus that generates a content according to an instruction received from a user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric information of the user, a biometric authentication unit configured to perform biometric authentication of the user based on the biometric information of the user, a hash value generation unit configured to generate a hash value of the content in a case that the biometric authentication of the user has succeeded, and a communication unit configured to transmit the content and information of the content to a management server that registers the hash value and the information of the content in a blockchain. The information of the content includes result information indicating a result of the biometric authentication of the user.

Abstract: A content management system includes a memory device and at least one processor. The memory device stores a set of instructions. The at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to apply an edition process to a content in accordance with an instruction from an administrator of the content, generate a hash value of an edited content immediately after generating the edited content by the edition process, generate an identification number for identifying the edited content, register the hash value of the edited content and the identification number in a blockchain in association with each other, receive a content subjected to an authenticity determination and an identification number for identifying the content concerned, and determine the authenticity of the received content by comparing a hash value generated from the received content with the hash value registered in the blockchain and corresponding to the received identification number.

Abstract: A motor module includes: a motor; a driving unit; a control unit; a memory; and a communication unit. The control unit executes: receiving parameter information specialized for a vehicle-mounted device by the communication unit from a management module, and storing the parameter information in the memory; in a case where the parameter information is stored in the memory, driving the motor by the driving unit to operate the vehicle-mounted device so that the motor outputs a predetermined torque based on an operation signal input from an outside for operating the vehicle-mounted device and the parameter information; and in a case where the parameter information is not stored in the memory, driving the motor by the driving unit for a certain period of time and then stopping the motor to inch the vehicle-mounted device so that the motor outputs a maximum torque, based on the operation signal.

Abstract: A method of position estimation including: a signal detection step in which N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) sensors each detect a magnetic field which is in accordance with a position of a mover and output a detection signal as an electrical signal, the detection signals being displaced in phase by an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by N; a crossing detection step in which a crossing detection section sequentially detects a crossing at which each detection signal having been output through the signal detection step crosses another; a subdivision detection step in which a subdivision detection section detects a portion of the detection signal that connects from a crossing to another crossing which is adjacent to that crossing, as one or more subdivision signals; and a line segment joining step in which a line segment joining section sequentially joins the subdivision signals and estimates the position of the mover based on the plural subdivision signals having been joined, to generate an estimate

Abstract: A method of position estimation including: a signal detection step in which N (where N is an integer of 3 or more) sensors each detect a magnetic field which is in accordance with a position of a mover and output a detection signal as an electrical signal, the detection signals being displaced in phase by an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by N; a crossing detection step in which a crossing detection section sequentially detects a crossing at which each detection signal having been output through the signal detection step crosses another; a subdivision detection step in which a subdivision detection section detects a portion of the detection signal that connects from a crossing to another crossing which is adjacent to that crossing, as one or more subdivision signals; and a line segment joining step in which a line segment joining section sequentially joins the subdivision signals and estimates the position of the mover based on the plural subdivision signals having been joined, to generate an estimate

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a film formation apparatus and a film formation method that can form GaN film with high productivity are provided. The film formation apparatus includes: the chamber which an interior thereof can be made vacuum; the rotary table provided inside the chamber, holding a workpiece, and circulating and transporting the workpiece in a circular trajectory, a GaN film formation processing unit including a target formed of film formation material containing GaN and a plasma generator which turns sputtering gas introduced between the target and the rotary table into plasma, the GaN film formation processing unit depositing by sputtering particles of the film formation material containing GaN on the workpiece circulated and transported by the rotary table; and a nitriding processing unit nitriding particles of the film formation material deposited on the workpiece circulated and transported by the rotary table in the GaN film formation processing unit.

Abstract: Provided are a model training method for neural machine translation that enhances an encoder using a monolingual corpus of a target language and improves the accuracy of the entire translator, and a machine translation system for performing the model training method. The machine translation system 1000 uses a monolingual corpus of the target language to obtain multiple pieces of pseudo source language data, thus allowing for obtaining a large amount of pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity. Further, the machine translation system 1000 uses both the pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity, which has been obtained in large quantities, and the base parallel corpus data in a small quantity but with high accuracy, with the applied learning rates changed accordingly, to perform the learning process (training process) for the machine translation model. This allows the machine translation system 1000 to obtain a learned model (machine translation model) with very high accuracy.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electromagnetic wave attenuator includes a first structure body. The first structure body includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member includes a first magnetic layer and a first nonmagnetic layer alternately provided in a first direction. The first nonmagnetic layer is conductive. The first direction is a stacking direction. The second member includes a second magnetic layer and a second nonmagnetic layer alternately provided in the first direction. The second nonmagnetic layer is conductive. The third member includes a third nonmagnetic layer. The third nonmagnetic layer is conductive. A direction from the third member toward the first member is along the first direction. A direction from the third member toward the second member is along the first direction. A first magnetic layer thickness is greater than a second magnetic layer thickness.