Abstract: This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries comprises a lithium-transition metal composite oxide and a surface modification layer. The lithium transition metal composite oxide contains at least Al and 80 mol % or more Ni with reference to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, and the surface modification layer contains at least Sr and is formed on the surface of primary particles of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide.

Abstract: A disclosed electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and a cathode lead terminal. The capacitor element includes an anode body and a cathode part. The cathode lead terminal includes a connection part that is connected to the cathode part via a conductive member. The connection part includes a plate-shaped part, and first and second side walls standing from the plate-shaped part. Grooves are formed in a surface of each of the plate-shaped part and the first and second side walls. The grooves include first grooves and second grooves that are formed so as to extend continuously from the plate-shaped part across the first and second side walls. The conductive member is disposed between one surface of the cathode part and the plate-shaped part, and between two side surfaces of the cathode part and the respective corresponding first and second side surfaces.

Abstract: A battery material includes a compound having an imidazoline ring and an aromatic ring. The compound has a molecular weight of less than 350. The compound is, for example, 2-benzylimidazoline. The battery material, for example, further includes a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte has, for example, a particle shape. The compound is, for example, located between a plurality of particles of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: A processor of an information processing device acquires first device information including failure information related to each client terminal, and failure resolution information, and generates a failure database containing the failure information and the failure resolution information associated with each other. The processor acquires second device information related to each client terminal at a predetermined time interval, and performs, in the failure database, primary search for the failure resolution information based on information for search for searching for the failure resolution information.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having A (A is an integer of three or more) pieces of lens elements, positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having B (B is an integer of two or more) pieces of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position. A first lens group composed of ? pieces (? is one or more and less than B) of lens elements positioned first from the magnification side in the relay optical system has a negative power.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which allows the capacity of nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries to be increased and offers a smaller decrease in charge discharge cycle characteristics, and to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having such a positive electrode active material. A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to the present invention includes a composite oxide containing Li, Ni, Co, Al, W and additive elements M, the proportion of Ni in the composite oxide being not less than 80 mol % relative to the total number of moles of the metal elements except Li, the additive elements M including at least either of an alkaline earth metal element and an alkali metal element except Li, and a tetravalent or higher valent element, the average valence of the additive elements M being not less than 3.6.

Abstract: An ear-worn device includes: a microphone that obtains a sound and outputs a sound signal of the sound obtained; a DSP that performs signal processing on the sound signal to determine whether speech contained in the sound has reverberance, and outputs, based on a result of the determination, a first sound signal obtained by performing first signal processing on the sound signal; a loudspeaker that reproduces the sound based on the first sound signal output; and a housing that contains the microphone, the DSP, and the loudspeaker.

Abstract: A method includes: detecting, through a sensor, a location and a movement direction of the user and an object around the user; specifying the type and the location of the detected object; if the object is a dangerous object and is located in the movement direction of the user, setting a relative position where the robot is to be located relative to the user to a lead position ahead of the user and in a direction different from the movement direction; driving at least one pair of legs or wheels of the robot to cause the robot to move to the lead position; and driving the at least one pair of legs or wheels to cause the robot to accompany the user in the lead position and induce a change in the movement direction of the user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an obtainer that obtains sensing data; a common neutral network (NN) that inputs the sensing data into an inference model to obtain a result of inference and information on a processing time for a plurality of tasks subsequent to the processing performed by the inference model; and an NN inference computation management unit that determines a task schedule for a task processing unit that processes the plurality of subsequent tasks to process the plurality of subsequent tasks on the basis of the information on the processing time for the plurality of subsequent tasks and inputs the result of the inference into the task processing unit to process the plurality of subsequent tasks according to the determined task schedule.

Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.

Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus performing parking assistance based on a route of a vehicle in teaching travel, the parking assistance apparatus including: a processor that determines whether an operation amount of a driver in the teaching travel of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined range, in which the processor executes predetermined processing in a case where the operation amount exceeds the predetermined range.

Abstract: A management server displays, on a user terminal, a profile setting screen for enabling the user to make specification regarding an expanded rental mode, acquires and stores profile information regarding the expanded rental mode according to specification by the user, controls, by referring the profile information, switching between the expanded rental mode and a normal rental mode which permits rental of only fully charged battery packs at each battery station, and displays a station guidance screen on the user terminal, the station guidance screen providing the user with guidance on the battery stations based on control of the rental mode thereof and including information on a transition state to the expanded rental mode at each battery station.

Abstract: A charging device is wirelessly charges a terminal device having a power receiver that is disposed on a placement surface and receives wirelessly transmitted power. The charging device includes: a power transmission coil that transmits power to the terminal device; a processor coupled to a memory and configured to cause the power transmission coil to transmit power; a detection coil for detecting an arrangement position of the terminal device on the placement surface; a signal transmitter that outputs, to the detection coil, a first signal for generating a detection magnetic field; and a signal detector that detects an echo signal returned from the terminal device to the detection coil in response to the detection magnetic field. The processor is further configured to determine whether the terminal device is present within an estimated chargeable range by the power transmission coil, based on a detection result of the echo signal.

Abstract: Provided is a battery including: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an electrolyte layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode includes: a current collector; and an active material layer located between the current collector and the electrolyte layer, the active material layer contains Bi as a main component of an active material, and the active material has a density of from 6.0 g/cm3 to 9.8 g/cm3, inclusive.

Abstract: This laser processing device includes an imaging portion accommodated in a housing of a head unit that accommodates a scanning portion. The imaging portion acquires a target object image including at least a portion of a machining region, by imaging a machining target through protective glass. The imaging portion is disposed in such a way that an imaging axis for acquiring the target object image intersects a vertical axis of the protective glass in a position a prescribed first distance from the protective glass.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a mechanical shutter; a shutter driver that operates the mechanical shutter in a continuous shooting mode and a single shooting mode; a driving electric power supplier; and an undercut controller (undercut/driving electric power controller) that stops operation of the imaging device when a power supply voltage becomes lower than a predetermined undercut voltage. In the single shooting mode, the driving electric power supplier lowers a driving electric power and the undercut controller stops operation of the imaging device at a lower undercut voltage.

Abstract: Provided is a method for use by a driving assistance apparatus that assists a transition from an autonomous driving mode in which a vehicle is driven under autonomous control to a manual driving mode in which the vehicle is driven by a driver. The method includes: detecting an activity by the driver; detecting conditions of the driver; and determining a take-over request method which is a method of presenting, in the vehicle, a take-over request that informs the driver that the autonomous driving mode is going to be cancelled, the determining being based on at least the detected activity by the driver and the detected conditions.

Abstract: A packaging cushion material, to be housed in a box body together with an article, includes a holder portion adapted to accommodate the article, a holder support portion adapted to support the holder portion, and a hinge portion connecting the holder portion and the holder support portion to each other. The holder portion, the holder support portion, and the hinge portion are integrally molded as one component. When the packaging cushion material is housed in the box body in a state where the hinge portion is folded, the holder support portion supports the holder portion with the hinge portion interposed therebetween such that the holder portion is displaceable.

Abstract: A head-up display includes: a combiner; a display device that emits display light representing information; and a housing that houses the display device. Furthermore, the combiner includes a first surface and a second surface on a back side of the first surface. Furthermore, a reflective film that reflects the display light emitted by the display device is provided on the first surface. Lastly, a low-reflective portion that has a reflectivity lower than a reflectivity of the first surface is provided on the second surface.

Abstract: A vehicle security apparatus includes a primary dynamic authenticator and a connection manager that are provided in an ECU included in a vehicle, wherein when an access request from an access source in the vehicle to an access destination in the vehicle is received, the primary dynamic authenticator determines, based on reliability of an application installed in the access source determined based on at least one of a state of the application of the access source or a state of the vehicle, whether to cause a secondary dynamic authenticator included in a zone ECU connected to the access destination of the access request to execute authorization determination for the access request, and when it is determined to cause the secondary dynamic authenticator that corresponds to the access destination to execute the authorization determination, the connection manager outputs the access request to the zone ECU connected to the access destination.

Abstract: Provided is a composite member including a matrix part that includes inorganic substance particles and is formed by bonding the inorganic substance particles to each other, organic substance particles present in a dispersed state inside the matrix part, and a radio wave absorbing material present in a dispersed state inside the matrix part, wherein the matrix part includes at least one of a metal oxide or a metal oxide hydroxide.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a DC/DC converter including a conversion circuit; and a control circuit that detects a first voltage at an output terminal, a first current flowing through the conversion circuit, and a second voltage at an input terminal, obtains information indicating a target output voltage and a predetermined voltage, and performs calculations to emit a PWM signal for operating the conversion circuit. The control circuit performs: a first calculation for calculating a target current for approximating the first voltage to the target output voltage; a second calculation for calculating a first duty ratio for approximating the first current to the target current; a third calculation for calculating a second duty ratio based on the predetermined voltage and the second voltage; and a fourth calculation for calculating a driving duty ratio of the PWM signal using the first and the second duty ratios to control the first voltage.

Abstract: A parking support method sets a parking route for parking a vehicle in a first parking slot, sets a branching point on the parking route, and sets a branching route for parking the vehicle in a second parking slot from the branching point. When a change instruction operation is detected while the vehicle is being automatically parked along the first parking route, the vehicle is automatically parked along the branching route.

Abstract: This control device for performing channel allocation for terminals which support a first radio system and which belong to a first network is provided with: a receiving unit which acquires a classification result obtained by classifying interference detected in each of channels to first interference from a radio device which supports the first radio system and which belongs to the first network, and second interference different from the first interference; and a control unit which, on the basis of the sum of an unmanaged traffic amount of each of the channels, determined on the basis of the amount of interference of the second interference, and a managed traffic amount distributed to each terminal, determines the managed traffic amount for each channel, and which determines the number of terminals to be allocated to each of the channels on the basis of the managed traffic amount.

Abstract: A control device includes a parameter acquisition unit that acquires an augmentation parameter regarding geometric augmentation or optical augmentation of training data to be used for training a machine learning model, a display controller that causes a display device to display an image based on the augmentation parameter, an imaging controller that causes an imaging device to capture the displayed image, and an output unit that outputs the captured image obtained by the imaging device as the training data.

Abstract: A motor including a first terminal and a second terminal to which a single-phase AC is input includes a third terminal, an AC/DC converter that converts a single-phase AC into a DC, an inverter that is PWM-controlled by a PWM signal to convert the DC into a three-phase AC, a controller that outputs a PWM signal to the inverter, and a detection circuit connected to the third terminal, in which the detection circuit outputs any one of a first detection signal, a second detection signal, and a third detection signal, and the controller outputs a PWM signal to be in a first rotation state when the detection circuit outputs the first detection signal, to be in a second rotation state when the detection circuit outputs the second detection signal, and to be in a third rotation state when the detection circuit outputs the third detection signal.

Abstract: A component mounting system including: a component mounting device group in which a plurality of component mounting devices that mount components supplied to a board transported in from an upstream side by a tape feeder and transport out the board to a downstream side, and cut a carrier tape after supplying the components by a cutter device and discharge scraps of carrier tape, are installed on a floor surface while being arranged in a direction of conveying the board; a main conveyor that is installed along an arrangement direction of the plurality of component mounting devices in a region on the floor surface under the component mounting device group, and transports the scraps of carrier tape discharged from each of the plurality of component mounting devices; and a scraps storage that is installed outside the region and stores the scraps of carrier tape transported by the main conveyor.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions that forms a bridge circuit. Each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions includes a first resistance portion and a second resistance portion that are connected together in series. In each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions, the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion are spaced from each other in a first direction by a distance that is one half as long as a cycle of magnetization of a detection target. In each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions, the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion are symmetric to each other with respect to a line when viewed in plan in a third direction.

Abstract: A filter array according to one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with filters arranged two-dimensionally. The filters include multiple types of first filters having mutually different transmission spectra, of which each transmission spectrum includes first peaks, and multiple types of second filters having mutually different transmission spectra, of which each transmission spectrum includes one or more second peaks. The number of the first peaks in the transmission spectrum of each of the multiple types of first filters is greater than the number of the one or more second peaks in the transmission spectrum of each of the multiple types of second filters, and the multiple types of first filters and the multiple types of second filters are disposed in a mixed arrangement.

Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a front case, a rear case, and a shield member. The front case supports an imaging optical unit. The rear case includes an electrically conductive output mechanism configured to output a signal output from the imaging optical unit. The shield member electrically connects the front case and the output mechanism.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a control unit and a generation-method changer. The control unit generates a driving signal for driving a motor in accordance with a command signal and an encoder signal and outputs the generated driving signal to the motor, the command signal being a signal for setting the position of a moving part connected to the motor to a target position, the encoder signal indicating the position of the motor detected by an encoder. The generation-method changer changes a method used by the control unit to generate the driving signal in accordance with a position sensor signal indicating a detected target position that is the target position detected by a position sensor mounted on the moving part.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method of encoding three-dimensional points includes: calculating a new predicted value as a predicted value, using attribute information items of one or more second three-dimensional points neighboring a first three-dimensional point, and assigning the predicted value to at least one prediction mode among two or more prediction modes, the new predicted value being used for calculating an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point; selecting one prediction mode from the two or more prediction modes; calculating a prediction residual which is a difference between the attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point and the predicted value of the one prediction mode selected; and generating a bitstream including the one prediction mode and the prediction residual.

Abstract: A conductive paste for an electrolytic capacitor used for connecting a cathode part and a cathode lead terminal of the electrolytic capacitor. The conductive paste includes a thermosetting resin, and conductive particles, and the conductive particles include flaky metal particles and acicular conductive particles. The content of the conductive particles in the conductive paste is, for example, 50 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less, and the mass ratio of the flaky metal particles to the total of the flaky metal particles and the acicular conductive particles is, for example, 60% or more and 80% or less.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding, for each of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, geometry information and one or more items of attribute information to generate a bitstream. In the encoding, a normal vector of each of the three-dimensional points is encoded as an item of attribute information included in the one or more items of attribute information of the three-dimensional point.

Abstract: A disconnect device includes a cooling device having first and second main surfaces opposite to each other, a first insulator contacting the first main surface, a second insulator contacting the second main surface, a charging relay and a first discharging relay which contact a surface of the first insulator opposite to a surface of the first insulator contacting the first insulator, a protector contacting a surface of the second insulator opposite to a surface of the second insulator contacting the second main surface, a first power storage terminal configured to be connected to a first electrode of the power storage element, a second power storage terminal configured to be connected to a second electrode of the power storage element. The charging relay is separated from the discharging relay via a space between the charging relay and the discharging relay. At least a part of the protector faces the space across the first insulator, the cooling device, and the second insulator.

Abstract: An optical resonator of wavelength beam combining type, includes: a laser diode array having a plurality of laser elements arranged along a predetermined direction and configured to emit light beams having wavelengths different from one another; a diffraction grating that diffracts the light beam emitted from each of the laser elements at a diffraction angle corresponding to the wavelength of the light beam; an output coupler that reflects a part of the light beam diffracted by the diffraction grating toward each of the laser elements; and an optical system provided between the laser diode array and the diffraction grating and configured to align the light beams emitted from the laser elements with one another; wherein the optical system includes a first lens element having a negative power only in the predetermined direction and a second lens element having a positive power only in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: An attitude estimation system includes an obtainer, an estimator, and an outputter. The obtainer obtains a detection result of a first sensor attached to a vehicle. The estimator calculates a relative angle of a road surface on which the vehicle travels with respect to the first sensor, based on the detection result of the first sensor obtained by the obtainer, and estimates a constant deviation of the attitude of the vehicle with respect to a reference attitude of the vehicle. The outputter outputs attitude information indicating the deviation estimated by the estimator.

Abstract: A heat storage device of the present disclosure includes a latent heat storage material and a container. The latent heat storage material is water-soluble. The container houses the latent heat storage material and is formed of a main material being aluminum or an aluminum alloy. The container has a joining portion and a first coating. The first coating covers at least the joining portion on an inner surface of the container. On a surface of the first coating, a first element and fluorine are present. The first element is an element other than aluminum and having a lower ionization tendency than potassium.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a following lens group following the fifth lens group. The first to fifth lens groups and the following lens group are arranged in this order such that the first lens group is located closest to an object and that the following lens group is located closest to an image. While the zoom lens system is zooming, intervals between the respective lens groups change. While the zoom lens system is focusing from an infinity focus point through a shortest shooting range, a plurality of negative lens groups included in the fifth lens group and the following lens group move.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. The circuitry: derives an absolute value of a sum of gradient values in first and second ranges; derives, as a first parameter, a total sum of absolute values of sums of gradient values derived respectively for pairs of relative pixel positions; derives a pixel difference value between pixel values in the first and second ranges; inverts or maintains a plus or minus sign of the pixel difference value, according to a plus or minus sign of the sum of the gradient values indicating the sum of the gradient values in the first and second ranges; derives, as a second parameter, a total sum of pixel difference values each having the plus or minus sign inverted or maintained, the pixel difference values derived respectively for the relative pixel positions; and generates a prediction image using the first and second parameters.

Abstract: A positive-electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery, wherein an average pore size of the positive-electrode active material is 0.2 ?m to 1.0 ?m when a pore size is measured in a range of 0.0036 ?m to 400 ?m.

Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes: an obtainer that obtains vehicle information related to the status of a vehicle and including location data indicating the location of the vehicle; a model storage that stores, for each of a plurality of cells of a grid imposed on a map, an evaluation model for evaluating the vehicle information of the vehicle located at the cell; and a determiner that calculates, based on the vehicle information and evaluation models each being the evaluation model and corresponding to evaluation cells including a first cell including the location of the vehicle indicated in the location data and one or more second cells each having a predetermined positional relationship with the first cell, an anomaly level indicating a degree of anomaly of the vehicle information, determines, based on the anomaly level, whether the vehicle information is anomalous, and outputs a determination result.

Abstract: An inspection machine includes image sensors that image a sheet, a lighting device that irradiates the sheet with light, and an image processing device that generates an image of an object from outputs of the image sensors. The image processing device generates captured images that include an image in a predetermined range of the sheet in common based on the outputs from the image sensors. The image processing device extracts images of the object on the sheet for each of the generated captured images. The image processing device associates the extracted images of the object with each other based on a feature amount of the object reflected in the images. The image processing device combines the associated images of the object with each other.

Abstract: An optical device includes a nanostructure body which induces surface plasmon resonance when irradiated with light, an alloy layer which is in contact with the nanostructure body and which has a lower work function than the nanostructure body, and an n-type semiconductor which is in Schottky contact with the alloy layer. The nanostructure body is composed of one selected from the group consisting of elemental metals, alloys, metal nitrides, and conductive oxides. The alloy layer is composed of at least two metals.

Abstract: A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, and a determination unit configured to perform an inspection determination related to a shape of the welding bead based on the input data. The determination unit determines which of a range of a value indicating a non-defective product zone, a range of a value indicating a gray zone, and a range of a value indicating a defective product zone a value obtained from the input data belongs to. The range of the value indicating the gray zone is between the range of the value indicating the non-defective product zone and the range of the value indicating the defective product zone.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery contains a lithium-nickel composite oxide, in which the lithium-nickel composite oxide contains lithium, nickel, manganese, titanium, niobium, and optionally an element M1, an amount of substance ratio of the respective elements is represented as Li:Ni:Mn:M:Ti:Nb=a:(1?x1?y1?b?c):x1:y1:b:c (provided that, 0.95?a?1.25, (1?x1?y1?b?c)<0.80, 0.03?x1?0.35, 0?y1?0.35, 0.005?b?0.05, and 0.001<c?0.03), in the amount of substance ratio, (b+c)?0.06 and b>c are satisfied, and an amount of lithium to be eluted in water is 0.07% by mass or less.