Abstract: The present disclosure provides a foam molded product and a manufacturing method. The foam molded product is includes a foam body, an insert material having a display unit or a detection unit attached to the foam body, and a surface material affixed to a surface to which at least the insert material is attached. A manufacturing method includes: preparing a pair of molds including a first mold and a second mold; affixing an insert material and a surface material together such that the surface material is in contact with a molding surface of the first mold; closing the pair of molds; injecting a foam resin into a molding space formed by closing the molds; foaming the foam resin to form a foam body; opening the pair of molds; and removing a molded product in which the affixed part and the foam body are integrated.

Abstract: A road surface rendering device for rendering a road surface by illuminating an illumination region extending along a direction away from the road surface rendering device with light. The illumination region is divided into three regions of a left region, a central region, and a right region in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction, an illuminance of the central region is largest.

Abstract: A sound generation structure having a high flexibility in arrangement is provided. The sound generation structure includes: a speaker unit provided such that a front surface generating a sound faces a space outside a vehicle; and a lamp component constituting a part of a vehicle lamp. A closed space bounded by a plurality of components including the speaker unit and the lamp component is formed on a rear side of the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is bonded to an edge of an opening formed in one of the plurality of components.

Abstract: A charging inlet apparatus includes an inlet box and one or more electrical components. The inlet box is provided at a charging opening of a vehicle. A charging inlet is disposed in the inlet box. One or more electrical components are mounted on a mounting surface of the inlet box from a vehicle cabin side of the vehicle and have a waterproof object area. The mounting surface is inclined toward the vehicle cabin side with respect to a vertical direction. The inlet box includes one or more canopy portions that project from the inlet box so as to be located over the one or more electrical components.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum-exhaustible processing container, an electrode installed in the processing container, a plurality of power feeding portions connected to a peripheral portion of a back surface of the electrode, a high-frequency power supply configured to supply high-frequency power to the electrode through the plurality of power feeding portions, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the plasma processing apparatus to periodically apply the high-frequency power to each of the plurality of power feeding portions.

Abstract: A low-cost, durable silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus. The silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus can be obtained by processing a sintered body which is produced with a method in which metal impurity is reduced to more than 20 ppm and 70 ppm or less, and an ?-structure silicon carbide power having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 3 ?m and including 50 ppm or less of an Al impurity is mixed with 0.5 to 5 weight parts of a B4C sintering aid, or with a sintering aid comprising Al2O3 and Y2O3 with total amount of 3 to 15 weight parts, and then a mixture of the ?-structure silicon carbide power with the sintering aid is sintered in an argon atmosphere furnace or a high-frequency induction heating furnace.

Abstract: An optical coupling device including multiple optical fibers each of which includes at least one core; and a self-forming optical waveguide, wherein the optical fibers are arranged facing each other, and the self-forming optical waveguide is provided between the optical fibers, an end portion of the self-forming optical waveguide is optically connected to the core of each optical fiber, the cores of the optical fibers arranged facing each other are optically connected to each other through the self-forming optical waveguide in a linear shape, optical axis directions of the optical fibers optically connected to each other through the self-forming optical waveguide are parallel with each other, and an end portion of each core is diagonally formed with an inclination angle according to a refractive index of each core and a refractive index of the self-forming optical waveguide.

Abstract: An optical connector includes multiple optical fibers; a single multicore fiber; and multiple self-forming optical waveguides, wherein the total number of cores of the multiple optical fibers and the total number of cores of the multicore fiber are identical to each other, the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber are arranged facing each other, the self-forming optical waveguides are provided among the multiple optical fibers and the multicore fiber, end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides are optically connected to the cores of the multiple optical fibers and the cores of the multicore fiber, and either the multiple optical fibers or the multicore fiber contacting the end portions of the self-forming optical waveguides is detachable from the self-forming optical waveguides.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: a reflective display configured to provide display toward an outside of a vehicle; and a light emission member arranged to face a display part of the reflective display. The light emission member is configured to allow light to be incident from a display part side and light to be incident from an opposite side to the display part side to pass through the light emission member, and is configured to emit light toward the display part, which is different from the light to be incident from the display part side and the light to be incident from the opposite side to the display part side.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck can be manufactured at low cost and can securely prevent arcing even if the main body of the electrostatic chuck is thin. This electrostatic chuck is provided with an electrostatic chuck main body, an arcing prevention member, and a metal base member. The electrostatic chuck main body and the metal base member are provided with a plurality of vertical cooling gas holes. The arcing prevention member includes: a ceramic plate-shaped body through which a plurality of fine holes 20-100 ?m in diameter pass; and an exterior member that secures the ceramic plate-shaped body and is disposed in an upper part of the vertical cooling gas holes. The ceramic plate-shaped body is thicker than the electrostatic chuck main body.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: an inner panel; a side surface portion that defines a vehicle cabin; and a lock release mechanism disposed outside the vehicle cabin with the inner panel interposed between the lock release mechanism and the vehicle cabin, the lock release mechanism configured to release locking of a lock device provided at a charging port. The side surface portion has an opening, the inner panel has a hole, and the lock release mechanism is provided so as to be operable from an interior of the vehicle cabin through the opening and the hole.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate support pedestal including: a first metallic member having a recess formed in an upper portion of the first metallic member; a second metallic member provided on the first metallic member and configured to seal the recess; a substrate support part provided on the second metallic member; and one or more thermoelectric elements disposed in the recess, wherein the recess is filled with a heat transfer medium.

Abstract: An optical branching/coupling device includes a single first port that has an optical fiber; a plurality of second ports each having an optical fiber and arranged at the periphery of the optical axis of the first port, in locations that are removed from the first port in an optical axis direction; a core layer that transmits light between the first port and the second ports; and a cladding layer that covers the periphery of the core layer, wherein the core includes a plurality of optical waveguides, one end side of the optical waveguides being connected to each core of the plurality of second ports, and another end side of the optical waveguides joining together and being connected to a core of the first port, and the optical waveguides are a cured product of a photocuring resin.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: an inner panel; a side surface portion that defines a vehicle cabin; and a lock release mechanism disposed outside the vehicle cabin with the inner panel interposed between the lock release mechanism and the vehicle cabin, the lock release mechanism configured to release locking of a lock device provided at a charging port. The side surface portion has an opening, the inner panel has a hole, and the lock release mechanism is provided so as to be operable from an interior of the vehicle cabin through the opening and the hole.

Abstract: Provided is an optical branching/coupling device in which optical transmission quality is improved by preventing a reduction in optical transmission quality, the reduction being due, for example, to an optical waveguide core affecting a light of another optical waveguide core in the vicinity of a joining section of the two optical waveguide cores. This optical branching/coupling device includes: a first optical waveguide that is provided extending from one end side to other end side; a second optical waveguide that is provided extending on a separate route from the one end side to the other end side, the other end side of the second optical waveguide being joined to the other end side of the first optical waveguide; and a cladding layer that covers the periphery of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, wherein the first and second optical waveguides comprise a cured product of a photocuring resin.

Abstract: A low-cost, durable silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus. The silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus can be obtained by processing a sintered body which is produced with a method in which metal impurity is reduced to more than 20 ppm and 70 ppm or less, and an ?-structure silicon carbide power having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 3 ?m and including 50 ppm or less of an Al impurity is mixed with 0.5 to 5 weight parts of a B4C sintering aid, or with a sintering aid comprising Al2O3 and Y2O3 with total amount of 3 to 15 weight parts, and then a mixture of the ?-structure silicon carbide power with the sintering aid is sintered in an argon atmosphere furnace or a high-frequency induction heating furnace.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: a reflective display configured to provide display toward an outside of a vehicle; and a light emission member arranged to face a display part of the reflective display. The light emission member is configured to allow light to be incident from a display part side and light to be incident from an opposite side to the display part side to pass through the light emission member, and is configured to emit light toward the display part, which is different from the light to be incident from the display part side and the light to be incident from the opposite side to the display part side.

Abstract: A charge cable lock device is for use with an inlet that includes an inlet housing. A charge cable including a rocking arm with a hooking portion is connected in a removable manner to the inlet. The charge cable lock device includes a lock member, a lock housing, and a fixing pin. The lock member is movable to a lock position and an unlock position and configured to contact the rocking arm to restrict disengagement of the hooking portion of the rocking arm from the inlet when the lock member is located at the lock position. The lock housing supports the lock member. The fixing pin is configured to be inserted into the lock housing and the inlet housing and fix the lock housing to the inlet traversing the lock housing and the inlet housing.

Abstract: Provided is an optical branching/coupling device in which optical transmission quality is improved by preventing a reduction in optical transmission quality, the reduction being due, for example, to an optical waveguide core affecting a light of another optical waveguide core in the vicinity of a joining section of the two optical waveguide cores. This optical branching/coupling device includes: a first optical waveguide that is provided extending from one end side to other end side; a second optical waveguide that is provided extending on a separate route from the one end side to the other end side, the other end side of the second optical waveguide being joined to the other end side of the first optical waveguide; and a cladding layer that covers the periphery of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, wherein the first and second optical waveguides comprise a cured product of a photocuring resin.

Abstract: An optical-fiber assembly, optical coupling device and optical-fiber coupling device provided with optical-fiber assembly. In the optical-fiber assembly, damaging a fixing material is prevented by preventing clad mode light from being incident on the fixing material and direct incidence, on the fixing material; of laser light emitted from a light-emitting element or an optical-fiber is prevented to generate resistance to the emitted light. The optical-fiber assembly constitutes by at least an optical-fiber and capillary. The optical-fiber is inserted into the capillary and one optical-fiber end is protruded outside the capillary. The optical-fiber outer periphery and capillary are fixed using fixing material and ceramic material disposed to be in contact with the entire optical-fiber outer circumference and have predetermined contact length in the optical-fiber axial direction.