Abstract: A support for an electric heating type catalyst comprises: a honeycomb structure having partition walls that define a plurality of cells, each of cells extending from one end face to other end face to form a fluid path for a fluid; and a pair of electrode layers formed on a side surface of the honeycomb structure, the pair of electrode layers being arranged so as to face each other across a center of the honeycomb structure. The pair of electrode layers is electrically connected to the honeycomb structure. The honeycomb structure side of each of the electrode layers comprises a portion having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the honeycomb structure.

Abstract: A control device of a synchronous electric motor includes: the synchronous electric motor with three-phase stator windings Y-connected; a detection unit that detects a neutral point potential which is a potential at a Y connection point; and an inverter that drives the synchronous electric motor. The control device of the synchronous electric motor which controls the synchronous electric motor using the inverter, includes a measurement mode in which the neutral point potential is detected in a state in which the synchronous electric motor is energized by an AC current and controls the synchronous electric motor based on a value of the neutral point potential detected in the measurement mode.

Abstract: A motor drive controller comprises: a driver unit comprising semiconductor switches (SW1-SW4) for adjusting power supplied to a motor; a control unit for outputting, to the driver unit, a control signal (PWM1, PWM2) for controlling on and off of the semiconductor switches (SW1-SW4); and an overcurrent monitoring unit for monitoring for an overcurrent at multiple locations in the driver unit. The control unit outputs, to the driver unit at a predetermined timing, the control signal for forcibly maintaining the semiconductor switches at at least two different on-off combination settings (M2) one after another for a predetermine time per each on-off combination setting. Each time the predetermined time has elapsed, the control unit detects whether and which of abnormalities due to short-to-ground and short-to-supply has occurred in a motor power supply line connecting the motor to the driver unit, based on where an overcurrent is detected in the driver unit.

Abstract: In a control device and a control method for a variable valve timing mechanism according to the present invention, the rotational phase of a camshaft is measured based on the cam angle signal and crank angle signal upon receiving each pulse of the cam angle signal, and the rotational phase change over time within a period of the cam angle signal is measured based on the motor angle signal. It is decided whether the cam angle signal and/or crank angle signal has a prescribed pulse pattern at a diagnostic timing that comes after the last pulse of the cam angle signal. When this decision result is positive, it is then decided whether the motor angle sensor operates normally or abnormally based on the rotational phase and the amount of rotational phase change that are measured when the last pulse of the cam angle signal is received before the diagnostic timing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that allow control of an invisible light component of a captured image without a mechanism that inserts and removes a filter that shields the invisible light component. A luminance composition unit combines a luminance signal of a visible light component of a pixel signal of a captured image including an invisible light component and the visible light component with the pixel signal. A chroma gain amplifier attenuates a chrominance signal of the visible light component. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus and the like that include, for example, an optical filter that transmits visible light and infrared light, have pixels in an RGBW array, and perform a Bayer conversion process on a captured image.

Abstract: A motor drive controller comprises: a driver unit comprising semiconductor switches (SW1-SW4) for adjusting power supplied to a motor; a control unit for outputting, to the driver unit, a control signal (PWM1, PWM2) for controlling on and off of the semiconductor switches (SW1-SW4); and an overcurrent monitoring unit for monitoring for an overcurrent at multiple locations in the driver unit. The control unit outputs, to the driver unit at a predetermined timing, the control signal for forcibly maintaining the semiconductor switches at at least two different on-off combination settings (M2) one after another for a predetermine time per each on-off combination setting. Each time the predetermined time has elapsed, the control unit detects whether and which of abnormalities due to short-to-ground and short-to-supply has occurred in a motor power supply line connecting the motor to the driver unit, based on where an overcurrent is detected in the driver unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides organic-inorganic composite particles of which the creep deformation is further suppressed; and a method for producing the same. Organic-inorganic composite particles 10 include a compound having a siloxane bond and has a particle diameter d0, and when a load is applied such that an amount of displacement Ds satisfies 0.08d0?Ds?0.15d0 and is held for 180 seconds, conditions of the following Formulae (1) and (2) are satisfied: (D180?Ds)/d0?1%??Formula(1); and (Dmax?Ds)/d0?1%??Formula (2), wherein d0 is an average particle diameter, D180 is an amount of displacement of the particle diameter after 180 seconds of application of the load, and Dmax is the maximum amount of displacement of the particle diameter during the 180 seconds.

Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine and a control method for a variable mechanism for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle, according to the present invention, is configured to maintain a drive stopped state of an electric actuator of the variable mechanism when a position of the electric actuator does not change in a case in which the position of the electric actuator is apart from stoppers and the electric actuator is stopped, whereas to restart driving the electric actuator when the position of the electric actuator changes. In this way, it is possible to prevent wasteful power consumption while the internal combustion engine is stopped.

Abstract: A support for an electric heating catalyst includes: a honeycomb structure having partition walls extending between inflow and outflow to define cells forming a through channel; and an outer peripheral wall; a pair of electrode layers disposed on the outer peripheral wall; and a pair of electrode portions. Each of the electrode layers is formed in a strip extending in an extending direction of the cells. In a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction, one electrode layer is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode layer across a center of the honeycomb structure. Each of the electrode layers is electrically connected to each of the electrode portions via two or more base layers, and the base layers are spaced apart from each other and include a metal material and a ceramic material.

Abstract: In a control device and a control method for a variable valve timing mechanism according to the present invention, the rotational phase of a camshaft is measured based on the cam angle signal and crank angle signal upon receiving each pulse of the cam angle signal, and the rotational phase change over time within a period of the cam angle signal is measured based on the motor angle signal. It is decided whether the cam angle signal and/or crank angle signal has a prescribed pulse pattern at a diagnostic timing that comes after the last pulse of the cam angle signal. When this decision result is positive, it is then decided whether the motor angle sensor operates normally or abnormally based on the rotational phase and the amount of rotational phase change that are measured when the last pulse of the cam angle signal is received before the diagnostic timing.

Abstract: A support for an electric heating type catalyst includes: a honeycomb structure having: porous partition walls extending through the honeycomb structure from an inflow end face to an outflow end face to define a plurality of cells forming a through channel; and an outer peripheral wall located at the outermost periphery; a pair of electrode layers disposed on the outer peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure; and a pair of electrode portions. Each of the electrode layers is formed in a strip shape extending in an extending direction of the cell of the honeycomb structure. In a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cell, one electrode layer of the pair of electrode layers is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode layer across a center of the honeycomb structure. Each of the electrode layers is electrically connected to each of the electrode portions via two or more base layers, and the base layers have conductivity and are spaced apart from each other.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit, an extracting unit, a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a display. The setting unit sets, in a first area that displays thumbnails, a second area that includes a thumbnail that is open to a person concerned among the thumbnails. The extracting unit extracts a thumbnail displayed in the second area. The transmitting unit transmits information on the thumbnail extracted by the extracting unit to an information processing apparatus used by the person concerned. The receiving unit receives information on a thumbnail that is open, from the information processing apparatus used by the person concerned. The display displays, in a third area, the thumbnail displayed in the second area and a thumbnail based on the information received by the receiving unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control device and a control method for a brushless motor, including energization modes for selecting a phase to be energized by pulse width modulation operation from among phases of the brushless motor, and being provided for controlling the rotation speed of the brushless motor by switching between the energization modes based on comparison of a voltage induced in a non-energized phase with its threshold value. In the control device and method, the input voltage of the brushless motor is increased when the duration for which the induced voltage is maintained unchanged or the duration for which the current energization mode is maintained employed reaches a predetermined time. This prevents the brushless motor from being staying in the stopped state, even when the load on the brushless motor abruptly increases while the brushless motor rotates at a speed within an extremely low speed range.

Abstract: A support for an electric heating type catalyst includes: a honeycomb structure having: porous partition walls extending through the honeycomb structure from an inflow end face to an outflow end face to define a plurality of cells forming a through channel; and an outer peripheral wall located at the outermost periphery; a pair of electrode layers disposed on the outer peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure; and a pair of electrode portions. Each of the electrode layers is formed in a strip shape extending in an extending direction of the cell of the honeycomb structure. In a cross section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cell, one electrode layer of the pair of electrode layers is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode layer across a center of the honeycomb structure. Each of the electrode layers is electrically connected to each of the electrode portions via two or more base layers, and the base layers have conductivity and are spaced apart from each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device and to a control method for a vehicle drive mechanism including a moving body having a movability range regulated by two stoppers, and a sensor which senses a position of the moving body. The control device of the present invention learns an output of the sensor corresponding to a contact state of a high-rigidity stopper, and limits, to a lower level, an operation variable of the actuator for moving the moving body toward a low-rigidity stopper along with an increase in an amount of change in the output of the sensor from the contact state of the high-rigidity stopper. Then, the control device learns the output of the sensor corresponding to the contact state of the low-rigidity stopper, and controls the actuator based on the output of the sensor learned at both the stopper positions.

Abstract: A motor drive device and a motor drive method for a vehicle electric pump. The device and the method set a target value according to an instruction value of a motor control amount and control the motor of the vehicle electric pump based on the target value. When the instruction value is greater than an actual control amount, the instruction value is set to the target value. Meanwhile, when the instruction value is less than the actual control amount, the actual control amount is set to the target value when the actual control amount is less than a value less than a previous target value by a predetermined value, and the value less than previous target value by predetermined value is set to the target value of this time when the actual control amount is greater than the value less than previous target value by predetermined value.

Abstract: To enable overmodulation control having high controllability and low noise characteristics, a control device of an AC motor includes an inverter for driving an AC motor and a controller for controlling the inverter by pulse width modulation. The controller, when over-modulating the inverter, limits the amplitude of the voltage command in the pulse width modulation to a predetermined upper limit value or less.

Abstract: Before sensorless control is performed on a three-phase brushless motor by sequentially switching between six energization modes each for selecting two phases to be energized from the three phases, the initial position of the rotor is estimated based on a change in a second induced voltage by: momentarily energizing the three-phase brushless motor according to each of the six energization modes, and detecting six first induced voltages each generated in a non-energized phase by the energization; calculating three induced voltage differences corresponding respectively to three non-energized phases, each induced voltage difference being a difference between two of the six first induced voltages that are detected during energization according to two energization modes that share a non-energized phase; and energizing the three-phase brushless motor according a predetermined energization mode selected based on the three induced voltage differences, and detecting the second induced voltage generated in a non-energi

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an association unit, and a guide unit. The acquisition unit acquires biological information of a user. The association unit associates the acquired biological information with a specific state of the user. The guide unit guides the user to the specific state. A reference to be used for association with the specific state by the association unit is calibrated by using the biological information, the biological information being acquired from the user who is guided to the specific state by the guide unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit. The selection unit selects whether to calibrate biological information of a user in accordance with designation by the user. When the selection unit selects no calibration in accordance with designation by the user, the biological information is associated with a specific state of the user under a predetermined condition.