Abstract: A distance measurement device includes a light emission unit which is capable of emitting measurement light to be irradiated toward an object, a light reception unit configured to receive light from the object via an optical filter through which light having the same wavelength band as the measurement light passes, a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance to the object based on each charge amount obtained by accumulating a charge corresponding to the received light at a plurality of timings which are delayed by a predetermined phase with respect to emission timing of the measurement light, and an external light intensity calculation unit configured to calculate external light illuminance of external light illuminating the object at the spectral sensitivity of the optical filter based on the charge amounts acquired at the light reception unit and a reflectivity of the object.

Abstract: A distance-measuring apparatus includes an optical window incorporating a first polarizing filter that polarizes reference light and a second polarizing filter that polarizes incident light in a direction inclined at 90 degrees relative to a polarization direction of the first polarizing filter.

Abstract: A connection device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate located above the first substrate and disposed opposite to the first substrate; a protrusion provided on an upper surface of the first substrate and protruding from the first substrate toward the second substrate; a first terminal provided on the protrusion; and a second terminal provided on a lower surface of the second substrate and disposed opposite to the first terminal. The first terminal includes a first connector and a second connector, and the first connector and the second connector are electrically joined together. The second terminal includes: a third connector that contacts the first connector; and a fourth connector that contacts the second connector, and the third connector and the fourth connector are electrically joined together. The third connector is located above the first connector. The second connector is located between a first side surface of the protrusion and the fourth connector.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes an element body and an external electrode. The element body is formed by laminating a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer. The external electrode is electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The external electrode includes a baked electrode layer. The baked electrode layer includes a first region and a second region. The first region is contacted with an end surface of the element body and located near a joint boundary with the element body. The second region is located outside the first region and constituting an outer surface of the baked electrode layer. The first region includes a first glass having a predetermined composition. The second region includes a second glass having a predetermined composition.

Abstract: In one non-limiting embodiment, the present disclosure is an antibody-containing formulation comprising an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody as an active ingredient, and contains histidine-aspartate buffer or histidine-glutamate buffer, Poloxamer 188, and arginine, and has a pH of 5.5 to 6.6. In one non-limiting embodiment, the present disclosure is a method of stabilizing an antibody-containing solution, a method of suppressing antibody association (e.g., dimerization), and a method of suppressing the generation of insoluble particles, wherein L-aspartic acid or L-glutamic acid, and optionally, Poloxamer 188 are added.

Abstract: A distance-measuring apparatus includes a precision calculation section that calculates a precision for each pixel, the precision based on a relation among the amounts of the electric charges stored at a plurality of timings that respectively delay by certain phases from a timing of the emission of the measuring light, wherein the precision is outputted from the distance-measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a rectangular shape with a side extending in a first direction and another side extending in a second direction. A thermal conductivity in the first direction of the semiconductor substrate is different from a thermal conductivity in the second direction of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is configured to satisfy a mathematical relation of L1/L2=(K1/K2)0.5 with an inclusive tolerance range of ?5% to +5%, where L1 denotes a length of the semiconductor substrate in the first direction, L2 denotes a length of the semiconductor substrate in the second direction, K1 denotes the thermal conductivity in the first direction of the semiconductor substrate, and K2 denotes the thermal conductivity in the second direction of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A sliding seismic isolation device includes a structure fixation plate having a first sliding surface and a metallic slider having a second sliding surface contacting the first sliding surface. A friction member composed of a single-layer fabric is attached to the first sliding surface, the second sliding surface, or both of the first sliding surface and the second sliding surface. One of a warp and a weft is formed of multiple plied yarns into which high-strength fibers and PTFE fibers are twisted together and the other of the warp and the weft is formed of multiple high-strength fibers in the single-layer fabric. The single-layer fabric has a twill weave and is woven such that the plied yarns of the one forming the single-layer fabric are exposed at a surface opposite from the attachment side of the friction member more than the high-strength fibers of the other forming the single-layer fabric.

Abstract: An object monitoring system includes a distance measuring device which generates, while repeating an imaging cycle having different imaging modes, a distance image of a target space for each of the imaging modes, and a computing device which determines presence or absence of an object within a monitoring area set in the target space based on the distance image.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes a reference object distance calculation section which calculates a distance to a reference object based on a two-dimensional image in which the reference object, which includes a plurality of feature points having obvious three-dimensional coordinate correlations, is captured, and a correction amount calculation section which calculates a correction amount for correcting a distance image by comparing the calculated distance to the reference object with a distance measurement value to the reference object in the distance image.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes an optical system abnormality detection section for detecting abnormalities of an optical system of the distance measuring apparatus by comparing a relationship between a measured distance value d and a light intensity Ls with a reference value K?, K?1, KLs0d0, or KAb0.

Abstract: In a task management device, an acquisition unit is configured to acquire vehicle information from a vehicle. A task management unit is configured to generate instruction information on priorities of a plurality of tasks executed by an in-vehicle multimedia device based on the vehicle information. A communication unit is configured to transmit to the multimedia device the instruction information for executing the task. The task management unit is configured to derive the priorities of the plurality of tasks based on the vehicle information, and to generate the instruction information on the derived priorities of the tasks.

Abstract: In a tire, plural outer side cutouts, which respectively correspond to block land portions and extend toward tire width direction outer sides and end midway along outer side land portions, are formed so as to be spaced apart in a tire circumferential direction in tire width direction inner-side side walls, which are exposed to central circumferential grooves, of the outer side land portions that are provided further toward tire width direction outer sides than the two central circumferential grooves respectively. Further, at least portions of tire width direction inner side openings of the outer side cutouts are positioned between maximum position A, at which a tire width direction distance of a corresponding block land portion is a maximum, and an intermediate point B of two vertices that are adjacent at a tire width direction outer-side side wall of the block land portion.

Abstract: An object monitoring system includes means for calculating an arrangement of an external object in a target space based on a distance measurement value of the external object, and estimating a shift amount of the distance measurement value caused by the external object in accordance with the calculated arrangement, and means for correcting, based on the estimated shift amount, determination of whether or not a monitored object is present in a monitoring area set in the target space.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes an element body and an external electrode. The element body is formed by laminating a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer. The external electrode is electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The external electrode includes a baked electrode layer. The baked electrode layer includes a first region and a second region. The first region is contacted with an end surface of the element body and located near a joint boundary with the element body. The second region is located outside the first region and constituting an outer surface of the baked electrode layer. The first region includes a first glass having a predetermined composition. The second region includes a second glass having a predetermined composition.

Abstract: The platability improver of the present invention comprises heterophasic-polymer particles having a coefficient of variation in particle diameter of 40%-90%. It is preferable that the proportion of polymer particles each having a particle diameter of 0.05 ?m or larger be 80% by volume or more with respect to all the heterophasic-polymer particles and the proportion of polymer particles each having a particle diameter of 0.05 ?m or larger but smaller than 0.15 ?m be 10%-60% by volume with respect to all the heterophasic-polymer particles.

Abstract: A sample crushing device is provided having a function of stably absorbing vibration of a support member supporting a sample container and vibration of other members which accompanies the vibration. When a rotating shaft 20 is rotated and driven by rotation driving mechanism, revolving motions of a first support member 12 around an axis line C1 of a rotating shaft 20 and rotational movement of an inclined shaft 10 around an axis line C2 arm restrained by a base 1 via first elastic members 14. As a result, the first support member 12 and sample containers 41 are vibrated in plural directions, and samples housed in the sample containers 41 are crushed by crushing media. Vibration of the first support member 12 in plural directions is absorbed by a base 1 via the first elastic members 14 coupled with each of the first support member 12 and the base 1.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect. A liquid composition comprising an effective amount of mefentrifluconazole, 0.1 to 10% by volume of an oil adjuvant, and water.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition which is excellent in plant disease control effect. A liquid composition comprising 100 to 2000 ppm of mefentrifluconazole, 0.1 to 0.5% by volume of a Nonionic Surfactant (NIS), and water.

Abstract: An acquisition unit and a processing unit are provided. The acquisition unit acquires, from a mobile terminal possessed by a passenger of a mobile object, mobile-object state information indicating a state of the mobile object and boarding identifying information to identify a time when and a location where the passenger boards the mobile object. The processing unit, based on time information given when the mobile-object state information is acquired, associates location information on the mobile object given when the mobile-object state information is acquired, the mobile-object state information, and the boarding identifying information and stores in a storage unit.