Abstract: A vehicle data collection system includes a vehicle-mounted sensor; a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions; and a processor connected to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for generating an invariant feature map, using a first neural network; and comparing the invariant feature map to template data to determine a similarity between the invariant feature map and the template data, wherein the template data is received from a server. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions for determining whether the determined similarity is exceeds a predetermined threshold; and instructing a transmitter to send the sensor data to the server in response to a determination that the determined similarity exceeds the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write IO in the one or more physical blocks associated with the first stream ID, and execute a second command containing a second stream ID received from the host, by selecting a first physical block that includes valid data and invalid data, transfer the valid data stored in the first physical block to a second physical block, and associate the first physical block from which the valid data has been transferred, with the second stream ID.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus that supplies a processing liquid to a front surface of a substrate which is rotating, includes: a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate, wherein the substrate holder includes: a gripper configured to come into contact with a periphery of the substrate to grip the substrate; and a base to which the gripper is attached.

Abstract: An object is to provide a highly reliable display unit having a function of sensing light. The display unit includes a light-receiving device and a light-emitting device. The light-receiving device includes an active layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting device includes a hole-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transport layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-receiving device and the light-emitting device share one of the electrodes, and may further share another common layer between the pair of electrodes. The hole-injection layer is in contact with an anode and contains a first compound and a second compound. The electron-transport property of the electron-transport layer is low; hence, the light-emitting layer is less likely to have excess electrons. Here, the first compound is the material having a property of accepting electrons from the second compound.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a temperature raising part for raising a temperature of a first sulfuric acid; a mixing part for mixing the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part with a moisture-containing liquid to generate a mixed solution; and a discharging part for discharging the mixed solution onto a substrate inside a substrate processing part. The mixing part includes: a joining portion where a sulfuric acid supply line through which the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part flows and a liquid supply line through which the first sulfuric acid where the temperature is raised by the temperature raising part and the moisture-containing liquid flows are joined; and a reaction suppression mechanism for suppressing a reaction between the first sulfuric acid and the moisture-containing liquid in the joining portion.

Abstract: Provided are a varistor forming paste, a cured product thereof, and a varistor, that can increase the degree of freedom in designing an electronic device, and can exhibit appropriate varistor characteristics. The varistor forming paste contains an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B), and a carbon aerogel (C).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a MEMS device having a movable portion. The MEMS device includes: a substrate; a recess, disposed in the substrate; the movable portion, hollowly supported in the recess; and a bump stop, hollowly supported in the recess and configured to restrict a movement of the movable portion by contacting the movable portion. The bump stop includes: a protruding portion, configured to contact the movable portion; and a shock absorbing portion, disposed between the protruding portion and the substrate and configured to absorb at least a part of an impact force applied to the protruding portion by elastic deformation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel peptide that has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 18, and binds to an active protease but does not bind to a pro-protease.

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write IO in the one or more physical blocks associated with the first stream ID, and execute a second command containing a second stream ID received from the host, by selecting a first physical block that includes valid data and invalid data, transfer the valid data stored in the first physical block to a second physical block, and associate the first physical block from which the valid data has been transferred, with the second stream ID.

Abstract: An object is to provide a highly reliable display unit having a function of sensing light. The display unit includes a light-receiving device and a light-emitting device. The light-receiving device includes an active layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting device includes a hole-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transport layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-receiving device and the light-emitting device share one of the electrodes, and may further share another common layer between the pair of electrodes. The hole-injection layer is in contact with an anode and contains a first compound and a second compound. The electron-transport property of the electron-transport layer is low; hence, the light-emitting layer is less likely to have excess electrons. Here, the first compound is the material having a property of accepting electrons from the second compound.

Abstract: A brake light activation determining device has a processor configured to detect decrease in the speed of a vehicle ahead, which is located ahead of one's own vehicle, based on output information from a sensor that acquires information relating to the vehicle ahead, to discriminate whether the brake light of the vehicle ahead is activated based on an image representing the vehicle ahead, and to determine that the vehicle ahead is braking, when it has been discriminated that the brake light of the vehicle ahead has been activated, when the speed decrease timing at which reduction in the speed of the vehicle ahead has been detected and the activation timing at which brake light activation by the vehicle ahead was discriminated are synchronized for the vehicle ahead.

Abstract: A bucket management system 1 comprises: chutes 2 and 3 that have loading areas I1 and I4 and take-out areas O1 and O4 facing each other along a conveying direction F and convey buckets loaded to the loading area along the conveying direction F in storage areas S1 and S4 between the loading areas and the take-out areas; and a loading position indicating device 5 that indicates a loading position P for a bucket to be loaded along the width direction in the loading area. A plurality of bucket rows configured by stacking a plurality of buckets along the conveying direction F can be arranged in the storage areas. The loading position indicating device 5 indicates a loading position P on the basis of the lot number allocated to a bucket to be loaded and the arrangement information of the buckets in the storage areas.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying the state of a signal light includes a processor configured to input time series images into a first classifier to detect object regions each including a vehicle equipped with a signal light in the respective images, the first classifier having been trained to detect the vehicle; chronologically input characteristics obtained from pixel values of the object regions detected in the respective images into a second classifier to calculate confidence scores of possible candidate states of the signal light of the vehicle, the second classifier having a recursive structure or performing a convolution operation in a temporal direction; and identify the state of the signal light, based on the preceding state of the signal light, information indicating whether transitions between the candidate states of the signal light are allowed, and the confidence scores of the respective candidate states.

Abstract: A holding apparatus for applying an electrolytic plating treatment to a planar workpiece, and the holding apparatus can reduce an amount of plating that is deposited on an edge part of the planar workpiece. The holding apparatus for applying the electrolytic plating treatment to the planar workpiece has a rear member and a front member facing the rear member and having an opening part. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member. The front member has a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first insulating parts. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of first insulating parts cover the edge part of the planar workpiece in a width direction of the planar workpiece.

Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near a substrate by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the substrate. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the substrate. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.

Abstract: A terminal block that includes: a first terminal electrically connected to an electrical component; and a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal, wherein a current sensor for detecting a current that flows through the first terminal or the second terminal is integrated with the first terminal or the second terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a calibration method for a detector including a plurality of detecting elements each of which generates an electrical pulse signal with a peak value corresponding to an energy value of incident X-ray photons and counts a photon count for each peak value, including: applying a predetermined tube voltage to an X-ray tube for irradiating the detector with X-rays; acquiring the photon count for each peak value from each of the detecting elements; estimating a maximum peak value H within a range in which X-ray photons are detected and at which the peak value is maximum; and calculating, for each of the detecting elements, a calibration value that associates the tube voltage with the maximum peak value H.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a holding jig that is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece, has good cleaning capabilities, and avoids intimate contact of the planar workpiece with a rear member of the holding jig so that the planar workpiece can be easily detached from the holding jig after cleaning. A holding jig is used for applying a liquid bath treatment to a planar workpiece. The holding jig comprises a rear member, and a front member that faces the rear member and has an opening portion. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member, and the rear member has a plurality of projections formed on the surface of the rear member facing the front member.

Abstract: A wire harness including: at least one electric wire; and a braided member that has a plurality of conductive strands that are braided together and surrounds an outer circumference of the at least one electric wire, wherein: the braided member includes an intersection where the strands intersect, and the intersection has a braid where the intersecting strands are double-braided.

Abstract: According to the embodiments, an external storage device switches to an interface controller for supporting only a read operation of nonvolatile memory when a shift condition for shifting to a read only mode is met. A host device switches to an interface driver for supporting only the read operation of the nonvolatile memory when determining to recognize as read only memory based on information acquired from the external storage device.