Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is provided with a mount that is fixed to an inside-face of the bumper, and a sensor body that is coupled to the mount so as to be exposed outside the bumper through an exposure hole that is provided in the bumper. Compared with a case where an ultrasonic sensor is fixed to a bumper by sandwiching the bumper from inside and outside of the bumper, appearance can be improved, since protrusion outward from the bumper is eliminated.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a request unit that requests a print service processing apparatus to register a user who makes a reservation printing as a user who can log in to the print service processing apparatus from the image processing apparatus when the number of times of the reservation printing meets a predetermined condition; and a setting unit that sets the user to be able to log in to the print service processing apparatus upon receiving an approval for the request for registration.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative sheet that excels in moldability and a decorative resin-molded article that uses the decorative sheet and that excels in chemical resistance. In the decorative sheet, at least a substrate layer and a surface protection layer formed of an ionizing radiation curable resin composition are stacked. The surface protection layer includes blocked isocyanate.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.

Abstract: A composite positive active material includes: a composite including a first metal oxide represented by Formula 1 and having a layered structure, and a second metal oxide having at least one crystal structure selected from a layer structure, a perovskite structure, a rock salt structure, and a spinel structure, wherein a content of the second metal oxide is greater than 0 and equal to or less than 0.2 moles, per mole of the composite, LiNixM11-xO2-eM2e??Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M1 is at least one element selected from Group 4 to Group 14 of the Periodic Table of the Elements; Ma is at least one element selected from F, S, Cl, and Br; 0.7?x<1; and 0?e<1. Also, a positive electrode including the composite positive active material, and a lithium battery including the positive electrode.

Abstract: A bearing ring with integrated cooling channels and a method for producing a bearing ring with integrated cooling channels are provided.

Abstract: A comb signal generator is provided. The comb signal generator includes a signal generator, which is adapted to successively generate a plurality of continuous wave signals. The comb signal generator is adapted to successively generate a comb signal from each continuous wave signal of the plurality of continuous wave signals, wherein each of the comb signals has a comb signal bandwidth. The comb signal generator is further adapted to successively generate the comb signals so as to cover a comb signal bandwidth range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel array which comprises a plurality of pixel units, each of the plurality of pixel units comprises a plurality of sub-pixels having different colors, wherein, a horizontal-to-vertical ratio of each sub-pixel is in a range of 1:2 to 1:1. The present invention further provides a driving method of a pixel array, a display panel including the pixel array, and a display device including the display panel.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device whose display quality is independent of environment light. The electronic device is provided with an optical sensor, an acceleration sensor, and the like so that information including the brightness of external light, the angle of external light incident on the electronic device, and the orientation of the display portion in the electronic device is obtained, and the luminance and color tone of the display portion in the electronic device are corrected on the basis of the information. As the correcting method, calculation using a neural network is performed using the luminance and color tone meeting the preference of the user as teacher data and the obtained information as input data. The calculation result is reflected on the luminance and color tone of the display portion in the electronic device, whereby an image with display quality that suits the user's preference can be displayed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aerosol generating device for heating solid tobacco substance. The aerosol generating device includes a housing having a first air inlet, a power supply, a cup body arranged in the housing, a coil module, and a heating element. The power supply is configured for supplying an alternating current power supply. The cup body is configured for receiving the solid tobacco substance, and defines a second air inlet. The coil module is arranged between the housing and the cup body. Two opposite ends of the coil module are connected to the alternating current power supply, such that the coil module generates a high frequency alternating magnetic field. The heating element is arranged at a center of the cup body. The heating element is configured for generating an eddy current and heat in response to the alternating magnetic field, thus heating the solid tobacco substance.

Abstract: Targeting-enhanced anticancer nanoparticles and preparation methods for the nanoparticles are provided. In particular, this invention provides targeting-enhanced anticancer nanoparticles comprising non-covalently bound anticancer drugs, serum albumins as the nanoparticle base material, and porphyrin compounds as tumor-targeting moieties. The targeting-enhanced anticancer nanoparticles described in the present invention are characterized by non-covalently bound constituents: anticancer drugs, serum albumin as the nanoparticle base material, and porphyrin compounds as tumor-targeting moieties, thus preventing common toxic side effects, enhancing the structural stability of nanoparticles, and enhancing tumor targeting by treatment with electromagnetic waves due to the activity of porphyrin, without structural and functional changes.

Abstract: A motive power system includes a first energy storage, a second energy storage, an actuator, an internal combustion engine, a power transmission circuit, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control the power transmission circuit in a charge-depleting mode such that the first energy storage supplies to the actuator a first electric energy that is stored in the first energy storage with a first charge rate range and the second energy storage supplies to the actuator a second electric energy that is stored in the second energy storage with a second charge rate range. The first charge rate range is larger than the second charge rate range.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recommending a route. The route recommending method includes obtaining user's current body information; obtaining geographic information from a current position to a destination; and determining a recommended route to the destination on the basis of the body information and the geographic information.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing road surface covering elements that can be mounted on rollers of chassis dynamometers, including detection of a surface contour of a road surface covering within an essentially strip-shaped section. The method also includes production of a digital image of the detected section and manufacturing of the road surface covering element according to the digital image by means of a three-dimensional manufacturing technique.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for face verification. The apparatus may comprise a feature extraction unit and a verification unit. In one embodiment, the feature extraction unit comprises a plurality of convolutional feature extraction systems trained with different face training set, wherein each of systems comprises: a plurality of cascaded convolutional, pooling, locally-connected, and fully-connected feature extraction units configured to extract facial features for face verification from face regions of face images; wherein an output unit of the unit cascade, which could be a fully-connected unit in one embodiment of the present application, is connected to at least one of previous convolutional, pooling, locally-connected, or fully-connected units, and is configured to extract facial features (referred to as deep identification-verification features or DeepID2) for face verification from the facial features in the connected units.

Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method of a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method of an array substrate. A photoresist is used to define a to-be-doped region of an amorphous silicon layer to thereby make a crystallization be occurred in a source contact region and a drain contact region. A crystallization direction is from the source contact region and the drain contact region towards a channel region, so that it can realize directional crystallization as far as possible, and therefore can improve crystallization efficiency and crystallization uniformity, reduce an influence of grain boundary applied to electron mobility and leakage current of the TFT and improve electrical characteristics of the TFT.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for power conversion system regulation. A system controller includes: a first signal processing component configured to receive a first signal associated with an auxiliary winding of a power conversion system and generate a second signal based at least in part on the first signal, the power conversion system further including a primary winding and a secondary winding; and a drive component configured to receive the second signal and output a drive signal to open or close a switch to affect a current flowing through the primary winding. The first signal processing component is further configured to: detect a plurality of valleys of the first signal, the plurality of valleys corresponding to a same demagnetization process of the power conversion system; select a valley from the plurality of valleys; and change the second signal at the selected valley.

Abstract: A terminal detachable device includes a housing; an engaging member that moves in a first direction towards a terminal disposed at a predetermined position of the housing and that engages with the terminal, and that moves in a second direction away from the terminal disposed at the predetermined position and that disengages from the terminal; and an operating member that is rotatably provided with respect to the housing. The engaging member rotates with respect to the housing in accordance with rotation of the operating member, and is movable in the first direction or the second direction with respect to the housing in accordance with rotation of the engaging member with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A push switch includes a movable contact including a dome part that is shaped like a dome and configured to be inverted in shape when pressed, and a fixed contact including a first fixed contact, the movable contact being configured to be brought into contact with and away from the first fixed contact. The push switch is configured such that an operating load necessary to press the movable contact gradually increases after the movable contact starts to be pressed, decreases thereafter when the dome part is inverted, and increases again when the movable contact is further pressed, and the dome part contacts the first fixed contact after an inflection point at which the decreased operating load starts to increase again.