Abstract: A vehicle may include a battery pack located below the floor panel; an energy absorber extending along a side surface of the battery pack in the front-rear direction and facing the side sill from below; and a cover plate covering a lower surface of the battery pack from below. The energy absorber may include an inner part facing the side surface of the battery pack and an outer part located outside in a left-right direction of the vehicle with respect to the inner part. An end of the cover plate in the left-right direction may be fixed to a lower surface of the inner part of the energy absorber with a plurality of fasteners. A lower surface of the outer part may protrude downward relative to the lower surface of the inner part and is located lower than lower ends of the plurality of fasteners.

Abstract: In an MMC-based power conversion device, a control device generates, for each leg circuit, a first voltage command value not based on circulating current circulating between a plurality of leg circuits and a second voltage command value based on the circulating current. A plurality of individual controllers are provided respectively corresponding to a plurality of converter cells and generate a gate control signal for controlling turning on and off of a switching element of the corresponding converter cell, based on the first voltage command value and the second voltage command value. When generating the gate control signal using pulse width modulation, each individual controller modulates a carrier signal in accordance with the second voltage command value such that the pulse width of the gate control signal changes in accordance with the second voltage command value.

Abstract: Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a sensor unit configured to detect a touch operation; a first control unit configured to supply a first signal to the display panel; and a second control unit configured to calculate touch information related to the touch operation and to supply the touch information to the first control unit. The first control unit includes: a signal generator configured to generate the first signal based on an image signal supplied from an external image signal supply source; and an overdrive circuit configured to perform a process of increasing an amplitude of the first signal generated by the signal generator. The overdrive circuit is actuated based on the touch information from the second control unit. The first control unit, in response to the actuation of the overdrive circuit, supplies the first signal having the amplitude increased by the overdrive circuit to the display panel.

Abstract: A plurality of display panels having a curved surface are placed in a limited space. Two, or three or more display panels are combined to form one display region having a T-shaped outer edge as one screen, and a driver can curve part of the display panel as appropriate so that the driver can see the screen easily. A first display panel or a second display panel has flexibility and includes a position adjustment function of curving an end portion. That is, by curving part of the display panel, the user can see the display panel easily. The in-car design can also be varied.

Abstract: A heat-resistant member comprises: a substrate made of isotropic graphite; a single-layered dense low-emissivity layer covering part of surfaces of the substrate; and a single-layered or multi-layered dense high-emissivity layer covering all or part of the remaining surfaces of the substrate. The dense low-emissivity layer has an outermost surface with an emissivity of ?A, and has a relative density of 97% or more. The dense high-emissivity layer has an outermost surface with an emissivity of ?B (>?A), and has a high-density region with a relative density of 97% or more in any portion between the outermost surface and the interface with the substrate. Preferably, an emissivity difference (?B??A) is 0.1 or more.

Abstract: In a camera module, by four first coils and four first magnets, a driving force to cause a lens module to move in a direction of an optical axis can be generated. By four second coils and the four first magnets, a driving force to cause a substrate to move in a first direction in an in-plane direction orthogonal to the direction of optical axis, a driving force to cause the substrate to move in a second direction that is orthogonal to each of the direction of optical axis and the first direction, and a driving force to cause the substrate to rotate about optical axis can be generated.

Abstract: Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.

Abstract: A terminal device is configured to include: an apparatus information acquiring unit that acquires apparatus information indicating a registered apparatus; an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information indicating whether the apparatus is an IoT apparatus or a non-IoT apparatus from an apparatus management server by transmitting the apparatus information acquired by the apparatus information acquiring unit to the apparatus management server; and a display data generating unit that generates display data indicating whether the apparatus is an IoT apparatus or a non-IoT apparatus on the basis of the identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit, and outputs the display data.

Abstract: An equipment management server includes: an equipment information acquiring unit that acquires, from a first terminal device that registers equipment owned by a user, equipment information indicating the equipment; a demand determination unit that acquires the transaction result of the equipment indicated by the equipment information acquired by the equipment information acquiring unit in a secondhand products trading market, and determines whether or not there is a demand for the equipment in the secondhand products trading market on the basis of the transaction result; and a solicitation notice transmitting unit that transmits, to the first terminal device, a listing solicitation notice prompting listing of the equipment on the secondhand products trading market when the demand determination unit determines that there is a demand.

Abstract: Included are: a list acquiring unit for acquiring a device list that lists models of a device having functions that can be controlled by operation of a remote controller; a model receiving unit for receiving information of a target model of a target device, of which device control signal generated by operation of the remote controller is to be registered, the target model of the target device selected on the basis of the device list acquired by the list acquiring unit; a function determination unit for determining one or more target functions of the target model received by the model receiving unit; and a guidance generation unit for generating guidance information indicating operation of the remote controller for executing the one or more target functions determined by the function determination unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: an operation acquiring unit to acquire operation information based on user's operation; a display generating unit to generate display information indicating a display image in which article images corresponding to respective articles owned by a user are arranged; a display output unit that outputs the display information; an article specifying unit to specify a selected article, corresponding to each of one or more selected article images selected by the user's operation from among the plurality of article images included in the display image indicated by the display information generated by the display generating unit on the basis of the operation information; a request generating unit to generate, on the basis of the operation information, request information for requesting execution of predetermined processing on the one or more selected articles; and a request output unit to output the request information.

Abstract: Because an electronic apparatus includes: an input means; and a display means for, when a first product registered in a first classification is newly registered in a second classification on the basis of an operational instruction via the input means from a user, displaying a first image in which information about the first product is included, and a second image in which information about the first product is added, and for, when a second product registered in the second classification is newly registered in a third classification, displaying the second image in which information about the second product is deleted, and a third image in which information about the second product is added, the electronic apparatus provides a purchase management function of properly displaying a state of each product and making it easy for the user to perform management in accordance with the classifications.

Abstract: A periscope camera module includes a refractor to refract, in a direction of a second optical axis, incoming light that entered along a first optical axis, and a driver to rotate the refractor together with a holder around a first rotation axis and a second rotation axis. The driver includes a magnet and coils. The magnet is provided on the holder opposite to a side on which the incoming light enters the refractor in a direction of the first optical axis, and the coils face the magnet, and are provided on the same or substantially the same plane perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first optical axis.

Abstract: A position detection device detects a position of a lens holder in an X-axis direction based on a change in an output value of a first magnetic sensor, a position of the lens holder in a Y-axis direction based on a change in an output value of a second magnetic sensor, and a position of the lens holder in a Z-axis direction based on the changes in the output values of the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor.

Abstract: A camera module includes a first driver to rotate a lens module about a first axis, a second driver to rotate the lens module about a second axis, a first magnetoresistance sensor to detect the rotation of the lens module about the first axis, and a second magnetoresistance sensor to detect the rotation of the lens module about the second axis.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; and an n-type layer including a nitride semiconductor formed on the surface of the substrate. In the n-type layer, the concentration of donor impurities (excluding O) is 1×1015 cm?3 or more and 1×1020 cm?3 or less, the concentration of C impurities is 1×1016 cm?3 or less, the concentration of O impurities is 1×1016 cm?3 or less, the concentration of Ca impurities is 1×1016 cm?3 or less, and the sum total of the concentrations of the C impurities, the O impurities, and the Ca impurities is lower than the concentration of the donor impurities. Such a semiconductor device can be fabricated by using a halogen-free vapor phase epitaxy (HF-VPE) device.

Abstract: A product selecting unit extracts a candidate for recommended product on the basis of browsing information in a browsing information storing unit and unpurchased product information in an unpurchased product information storing unit. Product specifications that are information specific to each product are stored in a product information storing unit. A specification correlation calculating unit extracts a product having a product specification correlated with a product specification of the candidate for recommended product on the basis of the product specifications, and extracts the product as a recommended product.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor is able to detect a magnetic field applied from a position detecting magnet that makes relative movement as an optical reflector is rotated. Rotation of the optical reflector enables the position detecting magnet to pass through a reference position where a rotation axis, a center or approximate center of the magnetic sensor, and a center or approximate center of the position detecting magnet are located in order on a straight line, as seen in the axial direction of the rotation axis. The magnetic sensor is in an XZ plane that includes a magnetization direction passing through the center or approximate center of the position detecting magnet located at the reference position, and the axial direction of the rotation axis.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor is able to detect a magnetic field applied from a position detecting magnet that makes relative movement as an optical reflector is rotated. Rotation of the optical reflector enables the position detecting magnet to pass through a reference position where a rotation axis, a center or approximate center of the magnetic sensor, and a center or approximate center of the position detecting magnet are located in order on a straight line, as seen in the axial direction of the rotation axis. The magnetic sensor is disposed in an XZ plane that includes a magnetization direction passing through the center or approximate center of the position detecting magnet located at the reference position, and the axial direction of the rotation axis.