Abstract: An optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of separation walls, one or more optical waveguides, and one or more spacers. The first substrate has a surface which extends in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The plurality of separation walls are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and extend in the first direction. The one or more optical waveguides are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and include one or more dielectric members which are positioned between the plurality of separation walls and which extend in the first direction. The one or more spacers are directly or indirectly sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate and positioned around the one or more optical waveguides.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to receiving and transmitting data in a frame with subframes of a wireless communication system, each subframe being either an uplink subframe accommodating uplink signal, a downlink subframe accommodating downlink signal or a special subframe including a downlink signal portion as well as an uplink signal portion. A control signal includes a special subframe configuration specifying the length of the uplink and/or downlink portion of the special subframe. The mapping and demapping of user data and/or control data including feedback information in a transmission time interval, TTI, onto or from one subframe is then performed, wherein the length of a second TTI for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe is shorter than a first TTI for mapping onto an uplink subframe, or a first number of TTIs mapped onto the uplink subframe is larger than a second number of TTIs for mapping onto the uplink portion of a special subframe.

Abstract: A line beam scanning optical system includes: a plurality of laser light sources disposed so as to be aligned in a direction corresponding to a long side of a line beam; an optical deflector; a first cylindrical lens configured to converge laser light from the plurality of laser light sources, into substantially parallel light in a direction perpendicular to an alignment direction in which the laser light sources are aligned, and to cause the laser light to be incident on a mirror; and a second cylindrical lens configured to condense the laser light from the plurality of laser light sources, in the alignment direction in which the laser light sources are aligned, and to cause the laser light to be incident on the mirror. The plurality of laser light sources are disposed at positions shifted from a focal position on the laser light source side of the second cylindrical lens.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a linear actuator that is disposed more to the outer peripheral side than the outer peripheral surface of a focus lens unit, and has two permanent magnets, a yoke unit, and a coil; and the focus lens unit that holds a focus lens and is driven back and forth along the optical axis direction. The permanent magnets are disposed substantially in parallel and spaced apart, with the same poles facing each other. The yoke unit includes a center yoke portion, a back yoke portion, and a yoke that magnetically couples the center yoke portion and the back yoke portion. The coil is wound around the center yoke portion, and its center is offset from the center of the two permanent magnets to the outer peripheral side with respect to the optical axis center of the focus lens.

Abstract: Provided is an antenna device including a feeding antenna conductor, a non-feeding antenna conductor, a ground conductor, and an artificial magnetic conductor disposed between the feeding antenna conductor and the non-feeding antenna conductor, and the ground conductor. The antenna device further includes a conductor that electrically connects the artificial magnetic conductor to the ground conductor. The conductor is disposed at a position opposite to the feeding antenna conductor with respect to the non-feeding antenna conductor, and is separated from the non-feeding antenna conductor.

Abstract: An image display system includes: an image projection unit that projects and displays an image on a display target for a moving body; a posture angle calculation unit that calculates a posture angle for the moving body on the basis of chronological data for acceleration detection values for the acceleration of the moving body in a prescribed time period; and a display control unit that controls the display position at which the image is projected and displayed on the display target, in accordance with the posture angle calculated by the posture angle calculation unit. The acceleration detection values include bi-directional components. The posture angle calculation unit excludes acceleration detection values from the chronological data used when calculating the posture angle, said acceleration detection values being included in an exclusion time period which has a ratio for the bidirectional components, in the prescribed time period, that is outside a prescribed range.

Abstract: A solder paste includes a solder powder; and a flux component containing a compound having at least one carboxyl group protected by a trialkylsilyl group.

Abstract: Provided are user equipment (UE) and communication methods. The UE includes: a receiver, operative to receive transmissions of a TB performed by another UE using each of a first set of beams respectively; circuitry, operative to perform measurement on the received transmissions, and to select resource for sidelink transmission among candidate resources based on a measurement result; and a transmitter, operative to perform the sidelink transmission with the selected resource, wherein, the circuitry is further operative to preclude, from the candidate resources, one or more candidate resources associated with a transmission using a beam of the first set of beams, if the measurement result of the transmission using the beam fulfills a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An electronic control unit that is capable of more accurately determining an event that has occurred in a network installed in a mobile body such as a vehicle, the electronic control unit including: a transmitter-receiver that receives first messages transmitted from a first ECU included in an in-vehicle network; and an attack determiner that, when a first message among the first messages received by the transmitter-receiver is determined to have an anomaly, determines whether a cause of the anomaly is an attack on the in-vehicle network.

Abstract: A battery can has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. An annularly grooved portion is formed by constriction near the open end of the opening section. The annularly grooved portion has an upper-groove section as the section closer to the open end than the narrowest section, which is positioned farthest inside, of the grooved portion, and also has a lower-groove section as the section closer to the bottom section than the narrowest section. The wall thickness T1 of the lower-groove section is larger than the wall thickness T2 of the body section.

Abstract: A transmission device includes N wireless transmission circuits and N transmission buffers. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. Each of the N transmission buffers is connected to a respective wireless transmission circuit of the N wireless transmission circuits. At least a part of a piece of delivery data is stored in each of the N transmission buffers before the N wireless transmission circuits establish wireless links. The N wireless transmission circuits are instructed to transmit the piece of delivery data stored in the N transmission buffers after the N wireless transmission circuits establish the wireless links.

Abstract: An electrochemical device of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector containing aluminum, a positive electrode material layer containing a conductive polymer, and an aluminum oxide layer disposed on a surface of the positive current collector. The aluminum oxide layer contains fluorine.

Abstract: A radar device includes a radar transmitting circuit that transmits radar signals from a transmission array antenna, and a radar receiving circuit that receives returning wave signals, where the radar signals have been reflected at a target, from a receiving array antenna. One of the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna includes multiple first antennas of which phase centers are laid out along a first axis direction. The other of the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna includes multiple second antennas of which phase centers are laid out at a second spacing along a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The multiple first antennas include multiple antennas of which the phase centers are laid out at a first spacing, and multiple antennas of which the phase centers are laid out at a third spacing that is different from the first spacing.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processor; a first storage storing firmware to be executed by the processor when the electronic device is activated, and key code information defining a function of an operation button; a second storage reading the key code information and temporarily storing the key code information in a rewritable manner; and a keyboard controller assigning a key code to the operation button based on the key code information stored in the second storage. The processor determines whether the key code information stored in the second storage has been rewritten during setup of the firmware, and generates key code change information for changing a key code assigned to the operation button when the processor determines that the key code information has been rewritten. The keyboard controller changes a key code assigned to the operation button based on the key code change information during the setup of the firmware.

Abstract: In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a separator includes a substrate, a first filler layer containing phosphate salt particles, and a second filler layer interposed between the substrate and the first filler layer and containing inorganic particles. The separator is disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode in such a manner that the first filler layer and the second filler layer are directed to the positive electrode side. Further, a resin layer is disposed between the positive electrode and the first filler layer.

Abstract: A parking assistance device is configured to assist parking of a vehicle. The parking assistance device includes: a communication interface; a processor; and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the parking assistance device to perform operations. The operations include: obtaining an image of a parking frame through the communication interface, the image being captured by the image capturing device provided in the vehicle; and determining, based on a number of one or more occupants in the vehicle, a correction value of a position of each of at least one end point of the parking frame detected from the image.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition contains an ethylene-propylene-diene copolymer (A), a terminal-modified polyphenylene ether compound (B), an inorganic filler (C), a styrene-based elastomer (D), and a fibrous filler (E).

Abstract: A vehicle approach notification system includes a filter; a notification sound controller which generates a signal corresponding to a notification sound for notifying of approaching of a vehicle, based on a sound signal obtained from a notification-sound sound source; and a setter which obtains vehicle information of the vehicle, and sets, according to the vehicle information, at least one of the notification-sound sound source to be used in generation of the notification sound, a filter property to be applied to the filter, or a control parameter to be applied to the notification sound controller in generation of the notification sound. The notification sound controller outputs the signal generated, through the filter to an exterior loudspeaker provided to the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium ion battery which comprises a positive electrode having a positive electrode mixture layer that contains a positive electrode active material, and a negative electrode having a negative electrode mixture layer that contains a negative electrode active material, and which is charged and discharged by the movement of lithium ions between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode mixture layer contains a negative electrode active material represented by general formula La3(1-x)M3xNi2(1-y)Me2yX7 (wherein M contains at least one of Ca, Mg and Sr; Me contains at least one of Mn, Co, Cu and Fe; X contains at least one of Ge, Si, Sn and Al; 0.1?x<0.5; and 0<y?1).

Abstract: A metal-clad laminate includes an insulating layer that contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by Formula (1) in a molecule and a metal foil that is laminated on the insulating layer and is a metal foil in which a nickel element amount on a surface on a side in contact with the insulating layer and a nickel element amount on the surface when the surface is sputtered for 1 minute at 3 nm/min in terms of SiO2 are each 4.5 at % or less with respect to the total element amount on each surface. In Formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1-R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4-R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms.