Abstract: An action control device that controls the actions of a robot acquires an external stimulus; and in a case of executing an action corresponding to the external stimulus, controls so as to execute, based on an intimacy between a subject applying the external stimulus and the robot, different action content.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle lower section structure including a rocker that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle width direction outer side, a tunnel section that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction at a central portion in the vehicle width direction, a pair of dash cross members that extend in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dash panel, that are separated by the tunnel section, tunnel reinforcement that is disposed at a lower side in the vehicle up-down direction that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, wherein a first front flange is formed at a front end of the dash cross member in the vehicle front-rear direction, and wherein a second front flange is disposed at a position opposing the first front flange across the dash panel or a floor section.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle lower section structure including a rocker that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle width direction outer side, a tunnel section that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction at a central portion in the vehicle width direction, a pair of dash cross members that extend in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dash panel, that are separated by the tunnel section, tunnel reinforcement that is disposed at a lower side in the vehicle up-down direction that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, wherein a first front flange is formed at a front end of the dash cross member in the vehicle front-rear direction, and wherein a second front flange is disposed at a position opposing the first front flange across the dash panel or a floor section.

Abstract: There is obtained a vehicular air-conditioning device that can restrain the space of a cabin from decreasing. The vehicular air-conditioning device is equipped with a fan that produces an air current, a main current blowout port from which the air current produced through the operation of this fan is blown out toward a cabin, and a wind direction adjustment current blowout port from which the air current produced through the operation of the fan is blown out toward the cabin and which is arranged such that the air current thus blown out intersects with the air current blown out from the main current blowout port.

Abstract: In this invention, an optical lens element (L1) receiving a wave beam from a common laser source radiating a spherical wave beam and a full reflection mirror (MR) having a small window (W) are employed. This spherical wave beam is irradiated through the small window (W) of the full reflection mirror (MR) onto a hologram record medium (HR1) as a subject wave beam (A). Also, another wave beam from the source is reflected by the full reflection mirror (MR) is simultaneously irradiated onto the hologram record medium (HR1) as a reference wave beam (B). Thus, an inline hologram lens (IN-L) is produced having a large numerical aperture.

Abstract: A method of producing an inline hologram lens is disclosed which includes the steps of producing a diffracted wave beam by a diffraction device, producing a spherical wave beam by an optical device, providing the diffracted wave beam perpendicularly incident on a photo-sensitive layer as a reference wave beam, simultaneously providing a spherical wave beam perpendicularly incident on the photo-sensitive layer as a subject wave beam through the diffraction device, and developing the photo-sensitive layer to produce an inline hologram lens.

Abstract: An inline hologram lens suitable for use in an optical reproducing head is formed by first preparing a mother off-axis hologram lens by exposing a photo-sensitive layer to a subject wave beam and an off-axis reference wave beam, and then developing the photo-sensitive layer; and subsequently by forming the inline hologram lens by exposing a second photo-sensitive layer to an interference pattern formed by passing an inline reference wave beam through the mother off-axis hologram lens to be incident normal to the second photo-sensitive layer while passing an off-axis subject coherent beam at an angle through said off-axis mother hologram lens to form a subject beam that is focussed a predetermined distance from the second photo-sensitive layer, and finally by developing the second photo-sensitive layer. Preferably, the mother hologram lens has a diffraction efficiency of less than unity.