Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB includes: a dielectric; a front-surface ground (GND) formed on a front surface of the dielectric; a back-surface GND formed on a back surface of the dielectric; a through hole penetrating from the front-surface GND to the back-surface GND, the through hole in which a chip is disposed, and a conductor that electrically connects the front-surface GND and the back-surface GND on an end face of the through hole. At least a part of the base below the through hole has a cavity. The support structure that supports a surface of the chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity.

Abstract: A coupler includes first and second electrodes and a nonlinear element including a Josephson junction. The first and second electrodes are spaced apart from a ground plane surrounding peripheries thereof and arranged opposed to each other. The first/second electrode includes two opposing portions extended toward first and second qubits/third and fourth qubits. At least either one of a gap between the first electrode and the ground plane facing the first electrode and a gap between the second electrode and the ground plane facing the second electrode, includes a gap width of at least a value of a same extent as or a fraction of a size of the first electrode or the second electrode.

Abstract: A control device of a power supply system includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is a processing unit configured to perform a first process of determining certain strings out of a plurality of strings connected in parallel to a power distribution device. The second processing unit is a processing unit configured to perform a second process of performing inputting of electric power to the plurality of strings connected in parallel to the power distribution device or outputting of electric power from the plurality of strings to the power distribution device using at least the certain strings determined by the first processing unit.

Abstract: To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.

Abstract: This clutch control apparatus includes: a clutch device that connects and disconnects a power transmission between an engine and a drive wheel; a clutch actuator that drives the clutch device and changes a clutch capacity; a driven mechanism that is arranged between the clutch actuator and the clutch device, is operated by a drive of the clutch actuator, and operates the clutch device; a control part that calculates a control target value of the clutch capacity; and a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the driven mechanism, wherein the control part corrects the control target value based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB includes: a dielectric; a front-surface ground (GND) formed on a front surface of the dielectric; a back-surface GND formed on a back surface of the dielectric; a through hole penetrating from the front-surface GND to the back-surface GND, the through hole in which a chip is disposed, and a conductor that electrically connects the front-surface GND and the back-surface GND on an end face of the through hole. At least a part of the base below the through hole has a cavity. The support structure that supports a surface of the chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity.

Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB has a through hole. The PCB has a cavity in at least a part of the base below the through hole. The support structure that supports a surface of a chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity. At least a part of the section supporting the chip in the support structure is not parallel to the back surface of the chip.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of sweep modules, a defect detecting unit, and a control unit. Each sweep module includes a battery module and a power circuit module. The defect detecting unit detects a defect for each sweep module. The number of sweep modules is greater S (S?2) than a minimum number of sweep modules required for operation. When the number of defective sweep modules in which a defect has been detected is equal to or less than F (2?F?S), the control unit is configured to disconnect the defective sweep modules from a main line and to continuously execute sweep control.

Abstract: This clutch control device includes an engine (13), a transmission (21), a clutch device (26) configured to connect and disconnect motive power transmission between the engine (13) and the transmission (21), a clutch actuator (50) configured to drive the clutch device (26) and change a clutch capacity, a clutch operating element (4b) configured to enable the clutch device (26) to be manually operated, and a control unit (60) configured to calculate a target value (Pt) of a control parameter (Ps) of the clutch capacity in accordance with an amount of operation on the clutch operating element (4b).

Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of sweep modules that is connected to a main line. Each sweep module includes a switching element that switches between connection and disconnection between a battery module and the main line and is formed of a MOSFET. A failure detecting device of the power supply system includes a temperature detecting unit configured to detect temperatures of the plurality of sweep modules and a failure determining unit configured to determine whether a difference between a temperature of one sweep module selected from the plurality of sweep modules and a reference temperature which is determined based on the temperatures of other sweep modules is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: This clutch control device includes an engine (13), a transmission (21), a clutch device (26) configured to connect and disconnect motive power transmission between the engine (13) and the transmission (21), a clutch actuator (50) configured to drive the clutch device (26) and change a clutch capacity, and a control unit (60) configured to calculate a target value (Pt) of a control parameter (Ps) for the clutch capacity. When the target value (Pt) of the control parameter (Ps) immediately after system startup is defined as a first control target value (P1) and the target value (Pt) of the control parameter (Ps) during a clutch stroke at the time of the system startup is defined as a second control target value (P2), the control unit (60) is configured to set the first control target value (P1) to a value greater than the second control target value (P2).

Abstract: This clutch control apparatus includes: a clutch device that connects and disconnects a power transmission between an engine and a drive wheel; a clutch actuator that drives the clutch device and changes a clutch capacity; a driven mechanism that is arranged between the clutch actuator and the clutch device, is operated by a drive of the clutch actuator, and operates the clutch device; a control part that calculates a control target value of the clutch capacity; and a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the driven mechanism, wherein the control part corrects the control target value based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle device that provides a driving guidance to a driver, comprising: a selection unit for selecting ideal traveling information from a plurality of pieces of ideal traveling information associated with a plurality of skill levels, respectively, in accordance with an estimation result of a feeling of the driver; a determination unit for determining, for each of a plurality of items to provide a driving guidance, whether a difference between traveling information detected by a sensor of a vehicle during traveling and the ideal traveling information selected by the selection unit falls within an allowable range; and a notification unit for notifying the driver of an item for which the determination unit determines that the difference does not fall within the allowable range in the plurality of items.

Abstract: A gear shift control system controls an actuator so that a pushing force will be a constant gearing-phase pushing force, during a gearing phase. The gear shift control system performs control on the basis of the number of rotation of the engine in the gearing phase, which is measured at the start of the gearing phase, so that the constant gearing-phase pushing force will increase as a number of rotation of the engine in the gearing phase increases. Thus, the hitting sound due to collision between the sleeve and the shift gear in shifting gears is reduced.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of sweep modules. Each sweep module includes a battery module, an input and output circuit, a switching element, a capacitor, and a line. The input and output circuit connects the battery module to a main line. The switching element switches between connection and disconnection between the battery module and the main line. The capacitor is attached in parallel to the battery module. The line connects the input and output circuit to the battery module. The line is maintained in a state in which a loop portion is formed.

Abstract: Provided is a full-charge-capacity estimating device that has one or more of a plurality of battery modules, as battery-modules-to-be-measured, charged or discharged by means of a first switch element and a second switch element according to whether a power supply device is in a powering state or a regenerating state, measures an integrated current value and a change in the state-of-charge of the battery-module-to-be-measured, and then estimates the full charge capacity of the battery-module-to-be-measured from the integrated current value and the change in the state-of-charge.

Abstract: An emotion inference device and an emotion inference system that are capable of inferring a user's emotion with higher precision. A motorcycle includes an individual personality that is configured on the basis of information on a user from a plurality of products associated with the user, connected to a communication network, and including the motorcycle, an automobile, a rice cooker, a vacuum cleaner, a television receiver, and a refrigerator, the individual personality forms a base personality, and the motorcycle includes an emotion detecting section that detects an emotion.

Abstract: This clutch control device includes an engine (13), a transmission gear (21), a clutch device (26), a clutch actuator (50), a control unit (60), a control parameter sensor (58), a clutch operator (4b), and a clutch operation amount sensor (4c), wherein the control unit (60) is configured to enable intervention of a manual clutch operation according to the clutch operator (4b) during automatic control of the clutch device (26) according to the clutch actuator (50), and the control unit (60) is configured to set a control target value of a clutch capacity to a connection preparation target value (Py) acquired by causing an operation target value (Pv) corresponding to an amount of operation of the clutch operator (4b) to approach a disconnection determination value (Pz) in a case in which a control parameter detected by the control parameter sensor (58) reaches the disconnection determination value (Pz) set in advance at a time of performing a clutch disconnection operation through intervention of the manual clu

Abstract: A control device of a power supply system is configured to control inputting of electric power from a power system connected to a power distribution device to a plurality of strings connected to the power distribution device and outputting of electric power from the plurality of strings to the power system and to execute a process of stopping control for switching the at least one switching element between connection and disconnection on a string in which inputting of electric power and outputting of electric power are stopped out of the plurality of strings.

Abstract: To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.