Abstract: Provided is a heat-dissipating structure having a heat-dissipating path that enables efficient dissipation of heat. An electronic device (100) comprises: a substrate (1); a heat-generating component (2) mounted on the substrate (1); a case (3) attached to the substrate (1) and having a shape at least partially covering the heat-generating component (2); and a heat-dissipating member (4) thermally connected to the case (3). The substrate (1) has a filled-via group (12). The filled-via group (12) is disposed across: a first region (A1) including a region in which the heat-generating component (2) contacts the substrate (1); a second region (A2) including a region in which the case (3) contacts the substrate (1); and a third region (A3) including a region between the first region (A1) and the second region (A2). The filled-via group (12) forms a heat-dissipating path from the heat-generating component (2) to the case (3).

Abstract: In an antenna configuration in which two omnidirectional antenna elements that are arranged on a printed board, a device GND plane connected to a ground potential is formed on the printed board so as to cover an area other than a part where an electronic circuit is formed on the printed board, and parasitic antenna elements that are a first parasitic antenna element and a second parasitic antenna element are arranged at positions adjacent to the respective two omnidirectional antenna elements, in a state of being parallel to the omnidirectional antenna elements, and the parasitic antenna elements are arranged in a state of being close to the device GND plane, and entire lengths of the parasitic antenna elements are each set to be a length that is (½) of a wavelength of radio waves handled by the omnidirectional antenna element.

Abstract: An authentication management device acquires a result of authenticating a user by otoacoustic authentication in an earphone; stores the authentication result; after the authentication result is acquired, acquires a wearing determination result indicating whether the earphone is worn in an ear of the user on the basis of a detection result of a proximity sensor; and updates the stored authentication result when the wearing determination result indicates that the earphone is not worn in the ear.

Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication unit and an angle adjustment method with which it is possible to adjust an azimuthal angle, elevation and depression angles, and a polarization angle, with a simple structure. This wireless communication unit comprises: an antenna device including an antenna body and an attachment member that includes mechanisms for adjusting an azimuthal angle and elevation and depression angles of the antenna body, and a structure for retaining a to-be-attached member; a wireless communication device disposed on a back-surface part of the antenna device; a circular-arc-shaped guide part formed in the wireless communication device; and a screw member that penetrates the guide part and that is for fixing the wireless communication device to the antenna device. The wireless communication device is rotated relative to the antenna device by the screw member being guided by the guide part in a state where the screw member is loosened.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication system that prevents a wireless LAN terminal fixedly installed from performing roaming. A communication system (1) includes: a wireless LAN terminal (10) that transmits first information indicating whether or not the wireless LAN terminal is a fixed station fixedly installed; and an access point (20) that selects, when the first information indicates that the wireless LAN terminal is the fixed station, communication rates including a maximum communication rate and a minimum communication rate from among a plurality of communication rates that can be set in communication with the wireless LAN terminal (10) and transmit second information about the selected communication rates to the wireless LAN terminal (10). The wireless LAN terminal (10) attempts communication based on the communication rates included in the second information.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a terminal used by a user; a detection unit that detects at least one of a position of contact by the user and a position in which droplets of saliva of the user are attached, in the terminal; and an identification unit that identifies a sanitization part to be sanitized of the terminal, on the basis of the at least one of the positions. According to such an information processing system, it is possible to properly identify the part to be sanitized in an operation terminal.

Abstract: A reporting system determines whether an earphone is worn in one ear of a user, reports instruction information instructing the user to wear the earphone when it is determined that the earphone is not worn, and authenticates the user by otoacoustic authentication when it is determined that the earphone is worn in one ear after the instruction information is reported. The otoacoustic authentication is an authentication method that sends out a test sound in the direction of the ear canal of the one ear or other ear of the user, and authenticates the user based on the reflected sound to the test sound.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a display (110), a housing (120), and a wireless relay apparatus (130). A control unit is provided inside the housing (120). The control unit includes, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), and performs various pieces of arithmetic processing and control processing. One example of the control processing is control of the display (110). The display (110) is mounted to the housing (120). The wireless relay apparatus (130) is mounted to any surface in surfaces of the housing (120). As one example, the display (110) and the wireless relay apparatus (130) are each mounted to a side surface of the housing (120).

Abstract: A telephone exchange apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a specification unit, and a call control unit. In a case where an incoming call including a user ID is detected, the acquisition unit acquires event information of a user having the user ID, the event information indicating a schedule event. The extraction unit extracts location information of the user from the event information. The specification unit specifies a telephone terminal to which the user is most likely to respond among telephone terminals on a basis of the location information, the telephone terminals having been used by the user in a past. The call control unit causes the specified telephone terminal to ring.

Abstract: Provided is a heat-dissipating waterproof structure having both excellent heat dissipation ability and high waterproofness. A heat-dissipating waterproof structure (300) provided between a top part (203) of a casing (200) to accommodate a heat source (102) and the heat source (102) includes a water receiving part (301) that guides a liquid having entered into the casing (200) through an outlet (203A) provided in the top part (203) of the casing (200), and a water guide channel (302) that guides the liquid having been guided by the water receiving part (301) to be discharged to outside of a space where the heat source (102) is accommodated, and the water receiving part (301) has at least a sloping surface which gradually becomes higher the further it is from being immediately above the heat source (102).

Abstract: A heat dissipation structure (1) includes a heat generation part (2) and an internal heat dissipation part (3), inside a housing (8); a heat transport member (4); an external heat dissipation part (5); and a fixing member (6), wherein edges are vertically disposed on both sides of the heat transport member (4), in the vicinity of the fixing member (6) in a first groove (3a); a second groove (6b) extending from the through hole (6a) toward an area not covered with the external heat dissipation part (5) is formed in the second surface (6d); and a gap portion between the heat transport member (4) and the through hole (6a), a portion between the edges vertically disposed on both sides of the heat transport member (4), and the second groove (6b) are filled with a sealant.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication system that prevents a wireless LAN terminal fixedly installed from performing roaming. A communication system (1) includes: a wireless LAN terminal (10) that transmits first information indicating whether or not the wireless LAN terminal is a fixed station fixedly installed; and an access point (20) that selects, when the first information indicates that the wireless LAN terminal is the fixed station, communication rates including a maximum communication rate and a minimum communication rate from among a plurality of communication rates that can be set in communication with the wireless LAN terminal (10) and transmit second information about the selected communication rates to the wireless LAN terminal (10). The wireless LAN terminal (10) attempts communication based on the communication rates included in the second information.

Abstract: An optical apparatus that allows easy adjustment of the position of an optical unit is provided. An optical apparatus (1) includes: a ball lens (10); an optical unit (20); a base (30); and a cover (40). The optical unit (20) includes a magnet (21), and is mounted on the base (30) so as to rotate around the ball lens (10) in response to magnetic force by which the magnet (21) is attracted.

Abstract: There is provided a voice output apparatus for providing a high-quality sound to an eardrum of a user. The voice output apparatus includes a first voice output unit outputting a voice to an ear canal of a user based on an output voice signal, a first noise acquirer arranged to face outward from a body of the user and captures a mixed voice including first external noise arriving from an outside of the user to output a mixed voice signal, an echo canceler cancelling an influence, on the first external noise, of a leaked voice output from the first voice output unit and leaking to the outside of the user, and a noise canceler generating a first external noise signal corresponding to the first external noise, and processing, using the first external noise signal, an input voice signal input from the outside to generate the output voice signal.

Abstract: In a POS terminal device (1) according to the present invention, a rotation center of an operator-side rotation shaft (31) is at a position spaced apart from a longitudinal center line of a housing (2), a rotation center of a customer-side rotation shaft (41) is at a position spaced apart from the center line on an opposite side of the operator-side rotation shaft (31), an operator display (3) is rotated by 90 degrees in a horizontal direction around the operator-side rotation shaft (31) in such a way that a lateral end surface having a shorter distance from the rotation center of the operator-side rotation shaft (31) approaches a customer display (4), and the customer display (4) is rotated by 90 degrees in the horizontal direction around the customer-side rotation shaft (41) in the same direction as the operator display (3).

Abstract: An information transmission apparatus can use a salesclerk information storage unit. The salesclerk information storage unit stores, by a plurality of salesclerks, salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk and detailed information about the salesclerk in association with each other. Then, the information transmission apparatus includes a salesclerk position transmission unit and a detailed information transmission unit. The salesclerk position transmission unit transmits, for each of a plurality of salesclerks present in a store, salesclerk position information about the salesclerk and salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk in association with each other to a customer terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a passenger monitoring system comprising: a ranging sensor that is provided in a vehicle and capable of outputting a distance information corresponding to a distance to a passenger in the vehicle; and a control unit that estimates a state of congestion of the vehicle based on the distance information.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to compactly interconnect at least three substrates with flat cables. A composite substrate according to the present invention includes: a first substrate including a first connector and a second connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to a first direction; a second substrate including a third connector and a fourth connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to the first direction; a third substrate including a fifth connector and a sixth connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to the first direction; a first flat cable connecting the first connector and the third connector; a second flat cable connecting the second connector and the fifth connector; and a third flat cable connecting the fourth connector and the sixth connector.

Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.

Abstract: A cooling system includes a first module, a second module provided at a different position in a depth direction of a housing with respect to the first module, a third module provided at a different position in a width direction of the housing with respect to the first module and the second module, an upstream side tube configured to supply a cooling medium to a cooling member of the first module, a downstream side tube configured to supply the cooling medium passed through the cooling member of the first module to a cooling member of the second module, and a branch tube configured to branch from the downstream side tube and supply the cooling medium to a cooling member of the third module.