Abstract: A structure is a structure of a quartz crystal substrate having a slit. The structure includes, as an inner wall of the slit, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first side surface extends along a first direction which is a longitudinal direction of the slit, and the second side surface extends along the first direction. The first end surface is continuous with the first side surface and extends along a first crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate, and the second end surface is continuous with the second side surface and extends along a second crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate. In a plan view of the quartz crystal substrate, an intersection point where a first straight line corresponding to the first end surface and a second straight line corresponding to the second end surface intersect each other is located inside the quartz crystal substrate.

Abstract: A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna and a reception antenna. The transmission antenna is configured to transmit a transmission wave. The reception antenna is configured to receive a reflection wave generated by reflection of the transmission wave. The electronic device allows the frequency at which the transmission wave is transmitted to be variable in multiple segments and detects an object that reflects the transmission wave based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflection wave. The electronic device transmits sensing information to an information processing apparatus along with position information of the electronic device. The sensing information is based on the transmission signal transmitted at a frequency in one of the multiple segments as the transmission wave and the reception signal received as the reflection wave.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first sensor and a second sensor. Each of the first sensor and the second sensor includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a controller. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected. The controller detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The first sensor and the second sensor are disposed in respective directions that are not parallel to each other.

Abstract: Provided is a driving support device which can perform an effective warning to occupants of the vehicle in order to avoid collision between one's own vehicle and another vehicle. A driving support device 11 includes: an acoustic device 91; an outside-world information acquisition unit 40; a relative distance measurement unit 201 which measures the relative distance from another vehicle 300 traveling ahead of the vehicle 1 based on the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquisition unit 40; and a music control unit 202 which control music outputted by an acoustic device 91, in which the music control unit 202 modulates the tone of music according to the relative distance, in the case of the relative distance becoming no more than a first predetermined distance D1, in a state of outputting music by the acoustic device 91.

Abstract: A reproduction system includes an external detection unit configured to acquire external information of an own vehicle, a vehicle sensor configured to acquire vehicle information of the own vehicle, a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, and at least one processor connected to the storage medium, the at least one processor executing the computer-readable instructions to generate external time-series data indicating an external situation of the own vehicle in time series based on the external information, generate vehicle time series data indicating a driving situation of the own vehicle in time series based on the vehicle information, generate, based on the external time-series data and the vehicle time-series data, a moving image that reproduces a movement history of the own vehicle at a specific traffic location, and cause a display device to display the moving image.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna and a reception antenna. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflection wave generated by reflection of the transmission wave. The electronic device detects an object based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflection wave. The electronic device includes a controller that determines how frequently to transmit the transmission wave in each of multiple segments of frequencies at which the transmission wave is transmitted in accordance with noise powers in the multiple segments of the frequencies.

Abstract: A vehicle drive-assist apparatus includes a traveling environment information acquisition unit, an output setting unit, an urban-region traveling determination unit, and an output suppression control processor. The traveling environment information acquisition unit is configured to acquire traveling environment information of a vehicle. The output setting unit is configured to set output of a driving source of the vehicle on the basis of an accelerator-pedal pushing amount of the vehicle. The urban-region traveling determination unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle is traveling in an urban region, on the basis of the traveling environment information. The output suppression control processor is configured to set an output characteristic of the driving source to a suppression characteristic in a case of traveling in the urban region. The output setting unit is configured to set the output of the driving source on the basis of the set suppression characteristic.

Abstract: Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.

Abstract: A sensor interface circuit includes: an RF switch having a control node; a bias circuit electrically connected to the control node and applying, to the control node, a voltage at a first level or a second level corresponding to a linear region of a reflection characteristic; a first variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a first sensor; a second variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a second sensor; and a difference circuit electrically connected between the first variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit, and between the second variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit.

Abstract: A method for assisting a person to perform a task in a dynamic environment comprises a step of acquiring data on the dynamic environment, and of predicting at least one behavior of an object or event in the dynamic environment based on the acquired data. The method proceeds by determining a relevance measure of the at least one behavior of the object or event based on the prediction. Then a modulation signal is generated, wherein the modulation signal changes at least one signal parameter as a function of the determined relevance. The modulation signal is then used to modulate at least one directional stimulus signal, wherein the at least one modulated directional stimulus signal further depends on a direction of the predicted at least one behavior of the object or event with respect to the assisted person. The at least one modulated stimulus signal is then output to the assisted person.

Abstract: A vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information of outside brightness of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control, based on the outside brightness, luminance of a plurality of display areas including a first display area displayed by a first display unit for displaying a situation of the vehicle and a second display area displayed by a second display unit for displaying a situation of the vehicle, the second display area being displayed below the first display area, wherein when the outside brightness is higher than a first threshold, the control unit suppresses luminance of the first display area in accordance with a decrease in the outside brightness, and when the outside brightness is equal to or lower than the first threshold, suppresses luminance of the second display area in accordance with the decrease.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct White Maitake variety named ‘YUKIGUNIMAI 14GO’, which is characterized by: (1) there is no color unevenness throughout the caps of the fruit body, and it has a homogeneous white color; (2) it has a remarkably low incidence of the caps to be colored in the fruit body; and (3) it does not become colored even under black light irradiation including ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The control unit performs control to detect, as a target, an object having a motion characteristic of a motion of an arm of a person, among objects located around the electronic device.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave; a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected; a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave; and a gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of the reception signal. The control unit performs control to transmit the transmission wave in at least two different modes. The gain adjustment unit adjusts the gain of the reception signal for each of the modes.

Abstract: A carbon fiber tape material is favorable in followability to molds and impregnation with matrix resins, and capable of enhancing the productivity in producing a reinforcing fiber laminate by a method of fiber placement and capable of providing a molded body with high mechanical strength when the material is impregnated with a resin and molded. The carbon fiber tape material has a carbon fiber bundle group including a plurality of carbon fiber bundles arranged in parallel with the fiber orientation direction and a fabric are integrated, and satisfies (a) to (c): (a) the fabric includes one or more thermoplastic resins; (b) the carbon fiber tape material excluding the fabric is between 120 g/m2 and 400 g/m2 in basis weight; and (c) the fabric elongation rate with a load of 80 mN/50 mm applied to the fabric is 5% to 100% in at least one direction of the fabric.

Abstract: A gun drill machine capable of shortening a margin dimension required in a gun drill as much as possible. In a free zone between a chip box and a moving spindle unit, a plurality of swing stopping devices for loosely holding a gun drill and suppressing the swing of the gun drill are arranged, and each swing stopping device is configured to freely retract from a steady action position where a swing stopping action is performed to avoid interference with the spindle unit that moves in the free zone.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of sensors installed in predetermined orientations at different positions. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The electronic device further includes a determination unit that determines a shift in orientation of at least any of the plurality of sensors, based on detection results of an object obtained by the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: A dry tape material for fiber placement includes a plurality of reinforcing fiber strands that satisfy (i) to (iii): (i) the reinforcing fiber strand has thicknesses T1 and T3 at both ends in a width direction of a section of the reinforcing fiber strand, and both T1 and T3 are 50 to 200% relative to a thickness T2 at a central portion of the reinforcing fiber strand, (ii) the reinforcing fiber strand has a number of filaments N and a width W that satisfy a relationship of 4.8<N/W<12, and (iii) the reinforcing fiber strand has a form kept by a first resin material having a glass transition temperature Tg or a melting point Tm of 40° C. to 200° C., the first resin material being heat-meltable, wherein the plurality of reinforcing fiber strands are bound and integrated with each other by a second resin material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct White Maitake variety named ‘YUKIGUNIMAI 14GO’, which is characterized by: (1) there is no color unevenness throughout the caps of the fruit body, and it has a homogeneous white color; (2) it has a remarkably low incidence of the caps to be colored in the fruit body; and (3) it does not become colored even under black light irradiation including ultraviolet light.