Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a position of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle and to cause the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes in which tasks imposed on an occupant of the vehicle are different, and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode which is to be performed by the driving controller. The recognizer recognizes first road information including road marking objects near the vehicle with respect to a position of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from an external sensor, recognizes second road information including road marking objects near the vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the vehicle, and performs a process of recognizing the position of the vehicle through matching between the first road information and the second road information.

Abstract: A hydrophilic group-modified organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (1) containing 0.03 mol % or less of silanol groups at siloxane chain terminals, and 15 ppm or less of propionaldehyde after the organopolysiloxane is mixed with pure water at a mass ratio of 1:1 and mixed at 50° C. for 24 hours. As a result, the present invention provides a hydrophilic group-modified organopolysiloxane having a low silanol content and a low residual amount of acids, neutral salts, etc., as well as a method of producing the hydrophilic group-modified organopolysiloxane by a simpler way than previously-known methods.

Abstract: An invention to measure the blood pressure of a living body in a noncontact and non-invasive manner. An experimental device irradiates a subject with microwaves from a transmission antenna and a reception antenna. The phase of the reflected wave varies with micro-movements caused by the heartbeat, a pulse wave is detected from the difference between the emitted wave and the reflected wave. The experimental device detects the blood pressure from a blood pressure sensor mounted on the subject while detecting the pulse wave. A spectrum of the pulse wave of is generated by Fourier transformation. A comparison of the spectrum and the blood pressure of the subject detected by the blood pressure sensor reveals a positive correlation of the systolic blood pressure with an eighth harmonic wave from the pulse wave. A device can detect a pulse wave in a non-invasive manner using a microwave and measures systolic blood pressure.

Abstract: Dimethylchlorosilane is prepared by reacting 1,2-tetramethyldichlorodisilane with hydrogen chloride in the presence of a catalyst mixture of a) palladium, b) a tertiary amine, and c) a tertiary phosphine having at least one phenyl group having at least one functional group other than hydrogen. The catalyst does not lose its activity upon contact with hydrogen chloride at low temperatures and ensures production of dimethylchlorosilane in high yields.

Abstract: Dimethylchlorosilane is prepared by reacting 1,2-tetramethyldichlorodisilane with hydrogen chloride in the presence of a catalyst mixture of a) palladium, b) a tertiary amine, and c) a tertiary phosphine having at least one phenyl group having at least one functional group other than hydrogen. The catalyst does not lose its activity upon contact with hydrogen chloride at low temperatures and ensures production of dimethylchlorosilane in high yields.

Abstract: A cardiac magnetic field diagnostic apparatus for evaluating intracardiac three-dimensional localization of a myocardial injury by means of cardiac magnetic field measurement and a three-dimensional localization evaluating method of myocardial injury are disclosed. A magnetic field distribution measuring instrument (1) creates magnetic field distribution data by contactless magnetic field measurement on coordinates on the breast of a subject. An arithmetic operation unit (2) computers intracardiac three-dimensional current density distribution data from the magnetic field distribution data, draws a magnetic field integral cubic diagram as a cardiac contour cubic diagram according to the three-dimensional current density distribution data, creates data to draw the three-dimensional distribution of the QRS difference, the T-wave vector, or the RT dispersion of the same subject according to the three-dimensional current density distribution data, and reconstructs it on the cardiac contour.

Abstract: In a SQUID magnetometer, high resolution, a high slew rate, and a high dynamic range are achieved without using expensive circuit components having a large number of processing bits and enabling a high speed processing operation. A digital FLL circuit using a double counter system is provided. This circuit utilizes two or more counters, for example, a change range counter in a digital FLL for carrying out a processing operation at a high speed and a reproducing counter in a control/measuring computer. In addition, in the present invention, hysteresis characteristics having a 1?0 positive margin is used. That is, a change of a state of a magnetic flux is counted by means of a counter. At the time of this change, control is made so as to track a different channel between cases in which a magnetic flux increases and decreases, thereby stabilizing the control.

Abstract: In a SQUID magnetometer, high resolution, a high slew rate, and a high dynamic range are achieved without using expensive circuit components having a large number of processing bits and enabling a high speed processing operation. A digital FLL circuit using a double counter system is provided. This circuit utilizes two or more counters, for example, a change range counter in a digital FLL for carrying out a processing operation at a high speed and a reproducing counter in a control/measuring computer. In addition, in the present invention, hysteresis characteristics having a 1?0 positive margin is used. That is, a change of a state of a magnetic flux is counted by means of a counter. At the time of this change, control is made so as to track a different channel between cases in which a magnetic flux increases and decreases, thereby stabilizing the control.