Abstract: A server includes a communication unit and a controller. In the server, the controller projects urgency felt by a user and performs switching of a text of a response to the user based on the projected urgency if speech of the user is acquired via the communication unit while a terminal is uttering an utterance text. The urgency is projected based on the start time of the speech of the user.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide, in a vehicle seat having a walk-in mechanism, a locking mechanism for a seat back with which rotation of a lock plate can be suppressed against impact in any direction, and with which the locked state can be more reliably retained.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device, includes the steps of: preparing a substrate including a base, a first wall formed on an upper surface of the base, and a recess defined by a lateral surface of the first wall as an inside lateral surface and the upper surface of the base as a bottom surface; mounting a light-emitting element on the bottom surface of the recess; disposing a sealing member which covers the light-emitting element and the first wall; forming a groove section extending from an upper surface of the sealing member to the first wall by removing the sealing member on the first wall; disposing a second wall inside the groove section; and cutting the second wall and the substrate at a position including the second wall.

Abstract: A flat plate-like space region 13A formed between an inflow port 11A and an outflow port 11B of liquid has a predetermined thickness, and the planar shape of the space region 13A is configured in a shape in which the surface tensions generated, by liquid supplied to the space region 13A, from different places in a contour portion of the space region 13A toward the inner side of the space region 13A interact with each other. Thus, when the liquid is supplied to the space region 13A of a liquid film generating tool 100A from the outside, the liquid spreads in a plate shape along the shape of the space region 13A, and the surface tensions generated toward the inner side of the space region 13 can interact with each other to form a liquid film.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with an external apparatus according to an HTTP; a receiving unit which receives, through the communication unit, an HTTP request for executing predetermined processing; an execution unit which executes the predetermined processing according to the HTTP request; a determination unit which determines whether the execution unit has started execution normally; and a transmitting unit which transmits an HTTP response including a processing result to the external apparatus according to the HTTP request. If the receiving unit has received a request, the transmitting unit transmits a part of an HTTP response before the execution unit finishes execution. If the determination unit has determined that the execution has been started normally, or that the execution cannot be started normally, the transmitting unit transmits an HTTP response including data obtained from the execution, or an HTTP response not including such data, respectively.

Abstract: Provided are a solar cell that can be manufactured by non-vacuum process and can have more excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency and a manufacturing method therefor as well as such a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor. A solar cell, includes at least a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes metal oxide particles of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less in average particle size and a compound having relative permittivity of 2 or more and 1,000 or less. For instance, the content of the organic compound in the first semiconductor layer is 10 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus includes grinding wheel side vibrational displacement calculation devices that obtain a vibrational displacement of a grinding wheel resulting from a vibration in an approaching/separating direction of the grinding wheel; main spindle side vibrational displacement calculation devices that obtain a vibrational displacement of a workpiece generated by propagation of the vibration in the approaching/separating direction of the grinding wheel; a relative vibrational displacement calculation unit that obtains a relative vibrational displacement between the grinding wheel and the workpiece based on the vibrational displacement of the grinding wheel and the vibrational displacement of the workpiece that have been obtained; a position change unit that creates, based on the obtained relative vibrational displacement between the grinding wheel and the workpiece, a position change command to change a position of the wheel spindle stock; and a processing controller that grinds the workpiece W based o

Abstract: The present invention relates to an application liquid for forming a semiconductor film, the application liquid comprising: an inorganic semiconductor particle; and a compound having a relative permittivity of 2 or more or a compound having reducing power against the inorganic semiconductor particle; a method for producing a semiconductor film comprising a step of applying the application liquid; a semiconductor film and a semiconductor element comprising the semiconductor film; and a method for producing the semiconductor element.

Abstract: A die-cast aluminum bracket for a vehicle is provided between a mounted object and a vehicle structure. The die-cast aluminum bracket includes: a first attachment section configured to be coupled to the mounted object; and a second attachment section configured to be coupled to the vehicle structure, wherein a first surface, which faces the mounted object at the time when the mounted object is coupled, in the first attachment section has a chill layer removed section in which an internal layer of the bracket is exposed, and a second surface of the first attachment section has a chill layer, the second surface being on an opposite side of the first attachment section from the first surface.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration to transmit to a user a touch sense in response to an operation of a user on an operation unit, and a grip portion gripped by the user. A lens barrel is attached to a front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion covers a rear surface side and the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion that covers the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus includes a protrusion portion. The vibration device is disposed inside the protrusion portion and on a side facing an optical axis of the lens barrel.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with an external apparatus according to an HTTP; a receiving unit which receives, through the communication unit, an HTTP request for executing predetermined processing; an execution unit which executes the predetermined processing according to the HTTP request; a determination unit which determines whether the execution unit has started execution normally; and a transmitting unit which transmits an HTTP response including a processing result to the external apparatus according to the HTTP request. If the receiving unit has received a request, the transmitting unit transmits a part of an HTTP response before the execution unit finishes execution. If the determination unit has determined that the execution has been started normally, or that the execution cannot be started normally, the transmitting unit transmits an HTTP response including data obtained from the execution, or an HTTP response not including such data, respectively.

Abstract: A terahertz wave signal analysis device includes a fitting processing unit 13 that fits synthetic waveforms of a plurality of normal distribution functions which differ in at least one of a center frequency, an amplitude, and a width to a frequency spectrum obtained from a terahertz wave signal and a graph generating unit 14 that generates a graph using at least one of a center frequency, an amplitude, and a width of a plurality of normal distribution functions used in the fitting as parameters, and it is possible to visualize a feature corresponding to a characteristic of a sample in the form of a graph in an easy-to-understand manner by approximating a frequency spectrum which does not clearly appear because a difference in the characteristic of the sample becomes a feature of a waveform by synthetic waveforms of a plurality of normal distribution functions in a form in which the characteristic of the sample is taken over and generating a graph on the basis of parameters of a plurality of normal distributio

Abstract: In a cylindrical grinding method, rough grinding is performed until a diameter of a workpiece reaches a rough-grinding setting value, and then, first finish grinding is performed until the diameter of the workpiece reaches a first finish setting value while measuring a shape deviation amount of an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece from a perfect round shape. The rough-grinding setting value in the next-time rough grinding step is changed based on a necessary time of the first finish grinding step to time at which the shape deviation amount reaches a first threshold or smaller in the first finish grinding step, and based on a total required time for the first finish grinding step.

Abstract: A terahertz wave is spectrally dispersed into two waves which are caused to pass through a sample liquid film 101 and a reference liquid film 102 and are then collected, and the terahertz waves in an interference state are detected by a terahertz wave detecting semiconductor 15. Consequently, only spectroscopic information related to a distinctive characteristic of the sample liquid film 101 is detected. In addition, a predetermined optical path length difference is provided between a path where the terahertz wave is transmitted through the sample liquid film 101 and a path where the terahertz wave is transmitted through the reference liquid film 102 by an optical delaying unit 17.

Abstract: A server device includes a communication interface, a storage device, and a control device. The storage device stores a state history of an information processing terminal capable of outputting sound. The state history is acquired through the communication interface. The control device is configured to determine a music parameter based on the state history and transmit music generated based on the determined music parameter to the information processing terminal through the communication interface.

Abstract: There are provided a terahertz wave spectral dispersing unit 13 for spectrally dispersing a terahertz wave to be generated from a terahertz wave generating semiconductor 12 into two waves, a terahertz wave focusing unit 14 for focusing a terahertz wave transmitted through a sample liquid film 101 and a terahertz wave transmitted through a reference liquid film 102, and a terahertz wave detecting semiconductor 15 for detecting the focused terahertz wave, and it is possible to detect the terahertz wave transmitted through the sample liquid film 101 and the terahertz wave transmitted through the reference liquid film 102 in an interference state, thereby offsetting a noise made by a stripe-shaped wave generated on the sample liquid film 101 and a noise made by a stripe-shaped wave generated on the reference liquid film 102.

Abstract: In order to output a message in the language used by an operator even if speech recognition fails, provided is an arrangement configured to: obtain input speech information related to user's speech; and select a first response or a second response with reference to the input speech information thus obtained, the first response being a response for carrying out an interaction with a user, the second response being a response for prompting the user to speak again, the arrangement configured to, if selection of the second response is to be carried out before start of the interaction with the user, determine a detail of the second response according to an attribute of the user determined with reference to the input speech information.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat (100) comprising: a seat cushion (101); a seat back (102) capable of being folded toward the seat cushion (101); a slide rail (110) movable in the front-back direction with the seat cushion (101) mounted thereon; a stationary rail (120) for guiding the slide rail (110); and a drive motor (160) for driving the slide rail (110) in the front-back direction along the stationary rail (120). The vehicle seat (100) is configured such that an integral sensor bracket (130) on which a magnetism sensor (141) and a limit switch (151) are mounted is affixed to the slide rail (120), and a magnetic body (142) which is detected by the magnetism sensor (141) and a detection plate (153) which activates the limit switch (151) are mounted to the stationary rail (120).

Abstract: A terahertz wave is spectrally dispersed into two waves which are caused to pass through a sample liquid film 101 and a reference liquid film 102 and are then collected, and the terahertz waves in an interference state are detected by a terahertz wave detecting semiconductor 15. Consequently, only spectroscopic information related to a distinctive characteristic of the sample liquid film 101 is detected. In addition, a predetermined optical path length difference is provided between a path where the terahertz wave is transmitted through the sample liquid film 101 and a path where the terahertz wave is transmitted through the reference liquid film 102 by an optical delaying unit 17.