Abstract: A determination system includes a determiner that determines whether sleepiness of a driver who drives a mobile body is normal, based on sleepiness data regarding the sleepiness of the driver and reference data regarding sleepiness used as reference for determining whether the sleepiness of the driver is normal.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a count processing portion, and a detection processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The count processing portion counts a number of times that an electric signal output from the piezoelectric element and corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The detection processing portion detects a viscosity of the liquid contained in the pressure chamber, based on a count result of the count processing portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an output processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The output processing portion causes the piezoelectric element to output a first electric signal corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element. The determination processing portion determines whether or not the pressure chamber is in a filled state in which the pressure chamber is filled with the liquid, based on a frequency of the first electric signal output by the output processing portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. When image formation processing for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle is executed based on image data, the acquisition processing portion acquires a length of a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle, the non-ejection period being included in an execution period of the image formation processing. When the length of the non-ejection period acquired by the acquisition processing portion is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the restriction processing portion restricts abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality of the nozzle using the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A signal generation device includes a first signal generation portion and a second signal generation portion. The first signal generation portion, based on a reference signal that includes a plurality of rectangular single-wave signals, generates an original common signal in which the rise times of the two or more of the single-wave signals are extended so that they are different from each other, and the fall timing of one or more of the single-wave signals is shifted. The second signal generating portion generates a drive signal to be input to a piezoelectric element by extracting a rising edge of any one of the single-wave signals, the rise time of which is extended, from the original common signal amplified by the amplifying portion, maintaining a signal level changed by extracting the rising edge of the single-wave signal, and extracting a falling edge of a single-wave signal after the single-wave signal.

Abstract: A memory chip unit includes a pad electrode including first and second portions, and a memory cell array. A prober includes a probe card and a movement mechanism. The probe card includes a probe electrode to be in contact with the pad electrode, and a memory controller electrically coupled to the probe electrode and executes reading and writing on the memory cell array. The movement mechanism executes a first operation that brings the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the second portion, and a second operation that does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and brings the probe electrode into contact with the second portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an insulated gate electrode structure provided in a semiconductor substrate; a base region; a first main electrode region; a contact plug buried in a trench penetrating the first main electrode region to reach the base region with a barrier metal film interposed; an interlayer insulating film provided with a contact hole integrally connected to the trench; a contact region provided in contact with a bottom of the trench; and a second main electrode region, wherein an opening width at a lower end of the contact hole conforms to a width at an opening of the trench, an upper part of a side wall continued from the opening of the trench has a curved surface convex to an outside, and a lower part of the side wall continuously connected to the bottom of the trench has a curved surface convex to the outside.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a therapeutic agent for abdominal aortic aneurysms, with which pharmacotherapy is possible. The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for an aortic aneurysm comprising, as an active component, (?)-6-[3-[3-cyclopropyl-3-[(1R,2R)-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]ureido]propoxy]-2(1H)-quinolinone or a salt thereof, or a solvate of these.

Abstract: A TOF optical rangefinder 200 calculates a distance to an object based on the time of flight measured based on a sum of voltage pulses output from a plurality of photon-counting light receiving elements 3, where the optical rangefinder 200 is configured to generate a histogram showing a distribution frequency of the times of flight, as calculated by a time-of-flight measurement circuit for repeated emission of measurement light at predetermined periods, over respective regions on a time axis divided into a plurality of regions at predetermined time intervals, calculate a representative value of the times of flight for the object from the times of flight distributed over the regions where the histogram frequency reaches a predetermined histogram threshold, and correct the representative value of the times of flight based on a frequency-error characteristic obtained by a histogram generation circuit with intensity of the reflected light varied in advance.

Abstract: A map update controller of a map data management apparatus predicts meshes whose pieces of map data will be requested from a map application, and identifies meshes whose pieces of map data stored in the map database are not latest as update-necessary meshes, from among the predicted meshes whose pieces of map data will be requested. The map update controller performs a first map update process of immediately updating pieces of map data of the update-necessary meshes when the pieces of map data of the update-necessary meshes can be updated before the map application requests the pieces of map data of the update-necessary meshes, and performs a second map update process of updating the pieces of map data of the update-necessary meshes at the timing that an operation of the map application satisfies a predefined condition when the pieces of map data cannot be updated.

Abstract: A control method of controlling a resonance type power conversion device including a voltage resonance circuit is provided. The voltage resonance circuit comprising, a choke coil connected to input power supply, a first switching element connected to the choke coil, a capacitor connected in parallel to the first switching element, and a resonance circuit connected between a connection point and an output terminal, the connection point being a point at which the choke coil and the first switching element are connected. The control method comprising, detecting a polarity of current flowing through parallel circuit connected in parallel to the first switching element by using a sensor included in the voltage resonance circuit; and controlling an operating condition of the first switching element depending on a polarity of the current detected by the sensor.

Abstract: A method for controlling a power conversion device can prevent over temperature by suppressing a change in impedance of a capacitor included in a rectifier circuit. The power conversion device includes an AC wave generation circuit for generating an AC wave, and a rectifier circuit for rectifying the AC wave generated by the AC wave generation circuit with a configuration including a rectifier capacitor and a diode connected in parallel. The method for controlling the power conversion device regulates the AC wave input to the rectifier capacitor depending on a change in impedance of the rectifier capacitor so as to suppress the change in the impedance of the rectifier capacitor.

Abstract: A travel road determination apparatus includes a vehicle position acquisition unit and a travel road determination unit. The vehicle position acquisition unit acquires position information of a vehicle. In first determination processing, the travel road determination unit determines whether or not the vehicle that is determined to be traveling on a first-type road based on first position information of the vehicle has started traveling on a second-type road, based on second position information of the vehicle and first map data. In second determination processing, the travel road determination unit determines whether or not the vehicle that is determined to be traveling on the second-type road based on third position information of the vehicle has started traveling on the first-type road, based on fourth position information of the vehicle and the second map data.

Abstract: A polishing liquid for polishing a surface to be polished containing cobalt, the polishing liquid containing abrasive grains, at least one sugar component selected from the group consisting of a sugar alcohol, a sugar alcohol derivative, and a polysaccharide, an acid component, and water, in which a pH of the polishing liquid is more than 8.0.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel squarylium dye that can achieve an equivalent chromaticity value of even a colored resin composition having a low content of the squarylium dye as compared with a colored resin composition comprising a conventional squarylium dye. The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R4 to R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like; R5 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like; R9 and R10 each independently represent a monovalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or the like; R11 and R12 each independently represent a halogen atom or an alkyl halide group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and m1 and m2 each independently represent an integer of 1 to 5.

Abstract: A method for controlling a power conversion device for converting power from a power supply by controlling an input to a resonance circuit comprising a resonance coil and a resonance capacitor, with a switching element, the method comprising simultaneously changing a switching frequency and a time ratio of the switching element so that the switching element satisfies a condition of zero-voltage switching when an output power of the power conversion device is changed.

Abstract: A method for controlling a resonance type power converter including a first resonance circuit (L0, C0) and a shunt circuit (3), which converts and outputs the power of the DC power supply, shunting a current flowing into a first capacitor (CS) by controlling a second switching element (S2) during a predetermined period within turn-off period of a first switching element (S1), the first capacitor connected in parallel to the first switching element (S1), the second switching element (S2) included in the shunt circuit (3), and the first switching element (S1) operated in response to the resonance of the first resonance circuit (L0, C0).

Abstract: A drive assist apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a dynamic information acquisition unit acquiring, as dynamic information, at least one of subject vehicle dynamic information, the other vehicle dynamic information, and obstacle dynamic information from each of a plurality of vehicles; a map data acquisition unit acquiring map data including a shape of a traffic lane; a dynamic information management unit associating the dynamic information and the map data with each other and managing them; an interference prediction unit predicting whether or not the subject vehicle interferes with the other vehicle traveling in front of the subject vehicle along a traffic lane adjacent to a traffic lane along which the subject vehicle travels when the other vehicle avoids the obstacle based on the dynamic information and the map data; and a drive assist information generation unit generating drive assist information based on the predicted result.

Abstract: A method for controlling a power conversion device for converting power from a power supply by controlling an input to a resonance circuit comprising a resonance coil and a resonance capacitor, with a switching element, the method comprising simultaneously changing a switching frequency and a time ratio of the switching element so that the switching element satisfies a condition of zero-voltage switching when an output power of the power conversion device is changed.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a therapeutic agent for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, the therapeutic agent making drug therapy possible. The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for aortic aneurysm, the therapeutic agent having as active ingredients: (?)-6-[3-[3-cyclopropyl-3-[(1R,2R)-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]ureido]propoxy]-2(1H)-quinolinone or a salt thereof, or a solvate of these; and a statin.