Abstract: In one mode, with a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention, a control command is output for operating an actuator unit mounted in a vehicle, so as to obtain a control moment including at least one of a roll moment, a pitch moment, and a yaw moment that are generated for the vehicle before a curve on a traveling road on which the vehicle runs, based on a physical quantity about a curvature ahead on the traveling road and a physical quantity about a speed of the vehicle. In this way, the passenger's sense of security when the vehicle runs on the curve may be improved.

Abstract: A congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) acquires a captured image (50) generated by an in-vehicle camera that captures an inside of a target vehicle. The congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) determines, for each of persons (30) present in the target vehicle, an area (20) in which the person (30) is positioned out of a plurality of areas (20) in the target vehicle using the captured image (50). The congestion degree determination apparatus (2000) determines the congestion degree of the target vehicle using the number of the persons (30) positioned in each of two or more of the areas (20).

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The first information processing device is configured to receive the atomic information from the second information processing device, calculate a processing result corresponding to the atomic information by inputting the atomic information into a neural network, and transmit the processing result to the second information processing device. The second information processing device is configured to transmit atomic information to the first information processing device.

Abstract: An NTC thermistor element includes a thermistor body and a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the thermistor body and opposing each other. The thermistor body includes a region interposed between adjacent internal electrodes of the plurality of internal electrodes. The region of the thermistor body includes a plurality of crystal grains arranged in succession between the internal electrodes adjacent to each other. The plurality of crystal grains include a first crystal grain, a second crystal grain, and a third crystal grain. The first crystal grain is in contact with one internal electrode of the internal electrodes adjacent to each other. The second crystal grain is in contact with another internal electrode of the internal electrodes adjacent to each other. The third crystal grain is not in contact with the first crystal grain and the second crystal grain.

Abstract: A drive device protection structure has a rotary electric machine, a gearbox connected the rotary electric machine, an undercover disposed underneath the drive device and a protecting plate provided to the undercover. The rotary electric machine has a rotary electric machine housing that has a rotary electric machine flange. The gearbox has a gearbox housing that has a gearbox flange. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are connected together. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are formed such that a lower surface of the gearbox flange is positioned lower than a lower surface of the rotary electric machine flange. The protecting plate is formed of a material more rigid than a material of the undercover. The protecting plate is provided beneath connecting part between the rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange so as to face the connecting part.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum supported by a frame, a coupling positioned at an end of the photosensitive drum, with the coupling being configured to receive a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum. A lever is movably supported by a part of the frame at a position that is adjacent to the end of the photosensitive drum, with the lever being movable between a first position and a second position. As viewed along the axis of the photosensitive drum, an end of the lever is a first distance from the axis of the photosensitive drum when the lever is in the first position, and the end of the lever is a second distance from the axis of the photosensitive drum when the lever is in the second position, with the second distance being greater than the first distance.

Abstract: To improve accuracy of gas analysis. An analysis apparatus is placed on a toilet bowl and collects and analyzes a sample gas in the toilet bowl. The analysis apparatus includes a gas flow generator including a sucker and a discharger and generating a gas flow of the sample gas passing through the inside of the toilet bowl, and an analyzer that analyzes a component contained in the sample gas.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a core unit including first and second memory cell groups; and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to, in response to a read command including designation of a first address and designation of a second address, read first data from the first memory cell group, read second data from the second memory cell group, and output third data and fourth data in parallel. The first and second addresses correspond to the first and second memory cell groups, respectively. The designation of the second address is made after the designation of the first address. The third data corresponds to the read first data. The fourth data corresponds to the read second data.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: [TASK] To further develop prior art technique. [SOLUTION] A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling. the coupling includes a main body and a movable member movable relative to the main body. The movable member includes an engaging portion which is capable of entering between a driving force application member and a braking force application member by the movement relative to the main body. The movable member receives a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum, from the driving force application member and also receives a braking force applying a load against rotation of the photosensitive drum, from the braking force application member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body having a first metal terminal, a plurality of toner cartridges to store toner and including a housing storing the toner, a supporting member provided at one end, and a memory medium including a chip for recording information about the toner cartridge and an electrical contact and being supported by the supporting member, and a tray movable between a housed position and a drawn-out position. The tray includes a frame which can mount the plurality of toner cartridges, a plurality of tray-side electrical contacts provided at the frame and able to contact the electrical contact of the memory medium of the plurality of toner cartridges respectively, and a second metal terminal electrically connected to the plurality of tray-side electrical contacts and able to contact the first metal terminal.

Abstract: A developer accommodating device includes a frame extending in a longitudinal direction thereof and an opening portion provided on the frame. The frame includes a guide portion to mount the developer accommodating device on a developing unit along a mounting direction crossing the longitudinal direction, a first portion including first and second chambers arranged in parallel in a first direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and a second portion communicating with the first and second chambers with respect to the longitudinal direction and a volume thereof is larger than that of the first portion. The first chamber, in which the opening portion is formed, does not directly communicate with the second chamber with respect to the first direction but communicates with the second chamber via the second portion. As seen in the longitudinal direction, a cross sectional area of the second chamber is equal to or larger than that of the first chamber.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.

Abstract: To provide a process cartridge, a drum unit capable of receiving a driving force from the main assembly, and an image forming apparatus including the process cartridge. A cartridge is provided with a movable member having a driving force receiving portion. The movable member moves between an advanced position and a retracted position.

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes a casing accommodating toner and provided with a toner discharge opening, a fan, a closing member capable of shifting between a closed position and an open position for opening a passage. The toner cartridge also includes a drive receiving member for receiving a driving force from outside of the toner cartridge and for transmitting the driving force toward the fan and the closing member by rotation thereof. The closing member periodically moves between the closed position and the open position by receiving the driving force.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a tray which is movable between a housed position at which the tray is housed in a housing portion of a body and a drawn-out position, a first cartridge detachably attached to the tray and including a first developing roller, and a second cartridge detachably attached to the tray and including a second developing roller. In a contacting state where (i) the first cartridge and the second cartridge are attached to the tray, (ii) the tray is in the housed position, (iii) the first developing roller contacts a first photosensitive drum, and (iv) the second developing roller contacts a second photosensitive drum, a position of a first projection of the first cartridge and a position of a first holder to which a first memory is fixed at least partially overlap each other with respect to the vertical direction.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a drum unit and a development unit. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a frame, a transfer roller, and a cleaning member. The development unit includes a development roller, and a memory. The cleaning member is configured to come into contact with the photosensitive drum at a region between a development nip portion and a transfer nip portion in a circumferential direction of the photosensitive drum and at an end portion of the photosensitive drum in a direction of the rotational axis. The frame has an exposing hole through which the memory is exposed from the frame, and a recessed portion that is adj acent to the exposing hole in the direction of the rotational axis, and stores foreign matters removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaning member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a developing cartridge having a housing, a memory medium, a memory medium unit, a developer carrier, and a protrusion portion in the longitudinal direction of the developer carrier; and a tray having a frame, an image bearing member, a guide member provided at one end in the longitudinal direction, an electric contact portion with the memory medium, and a memory unit support portion. The guide member includes a portion which functions as a memory unit support portion, and a downstream portion located downstream of the memory unit support portion in the mounting direction of the developing cartridge. The memory unit support portion guides the protrusion portion to the downstream portion when the developing cartridge is mounted on the frame.