Abstract: The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform configured to be capable of receiving commands related to autonomous driving from the autonomous driving kit. The autonomous driving kit is configured to transmit a wake command to the vehicle platform requesting transition of the power mode of the vehicle platform to the wake mode. The vehicle platform transitions to the wake mode by the wake command only when the shift lever indicates parking and the vehicle speed is 0 km/h.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a sensor module that makes it possible to suppress generation of resin burrs and improve workability. [Solving Means] A sensor module (100) according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor element, a first case (11), a second case (12), and a groove (70). The first case (11) includes an opening end including a first welded region and accommodates therein the sensor element. The second case (12) includes a joining surface (123) including a second welded region (50), the second welded region (50) being welded to the first welded region to form a welded portion. The groove (70) is formed in at least one of the first welded region or the second welded region (50).

Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes: a Pt film for a lower electrode provided on a plane of a Si substrate; a PZT film provided on the Pt film; and a Pt film for an upper electrode provided on the PZT film. The PZT film includes a perpendicularly oriented part having a c-axis in a direction perpendicular to the Pt film, and an obliquely oriented part having a c-axis inclined with respect to the c-axis of the perpendicularly oriented part. The c-axis distribution of the obliquely oriented part is discrete with respect to the c-axis distribution of the perpendicularly oriented part.

Abstract: A sensor module according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor element, a first case, a second case, and an intermediate layer. The first case includes an opening end and accommodates therein the sensor element. The second case includes a joining surface welded to the opening end. The intermediate layer is reflective of light, and is formed along an outer peripheral edge of a region, in the opening end, in which the opening end faces the joining surface.

Abstract: A used secondary battery module management system server manages a manufacture of a battery assembly. The server stores, in a memory, a correspondence relationship of each of secondary battery modules among identification information, ranks, and status information. The server extracts an available rank from the ranks in response to a rebuilding request for the battery assembly. The available rank is a rank in which the number of the secondary battery modules having the status information indicating that the secondary battery modules are available is equal to or larger than the number of the secondary battery modules required to constitute the battery assembly. The server receives, from an external terminal, the identification information on each of selection secondary battery modules having an identical rank.

Abstract: A used secondary battery module management system server manages a manufacture of a battery assembly. The server stores, in a memory, a correspondence relationship of each of secondary battery modules among identification information, ranks, and status information. The server extracts an available rank from the ranks in response to a rebuilding request for the battery assembly. The available rank is a rank in which the number of the secondary battery modules having the status information indicating that the secondary battery modules are available is equal to or larger than the number of the secondary battery modules required to constitute the battery assembly. The server receives, from an external terminal, the identification information on each of selection secondary battery modules having an identical rank.

Abstract: For a single input/output circuit, changing an input/output form is enabled by a simple configuration. In the input/output circuit, a circuit section includes power supply terminals and ground terminals. A switching section is switchable between a first state in which a power supply line and a ground line are coupled to one of the power supply terminals and one of the ground terminals and a second state in which the power supply line and the ground line are coupled to the other one of the power supply terminals and the other one of the ground terminals. The circuit section operates as a circuit corresponding to one of an open collector output and an open emitter output in the first state and operates as a circuit corresponding to the other one of the open collector output and the open emitter output in the second state.

Abstract: For a single input/output circuit, changing an input/output form is enabled by a simple configuration. In the input/output circuit, a circuit section includes power supply terminals and ground terminals. A switching section is switchable between a first state in which a power supply line and a ground line are coupled to one of the power supply terminals and one of the ground terminals and a second state in which the power supply line and the ground line are coupled to the other one of the power supply terminals and the other one of the ground terminals. The circuit section operates as a circuit corresponding to one of an open collector output and an open emitter output in the first state and operates as a circuit corresponding to the other one of the open collector output and the open emitter output in the second state.

Abstract: A hybrid welding apparatus selectively switches between MAG welding and TIG welding. The apparatus includes a control device (1), which includes a welding output unit (10) for outputting a welding voltage and a welding current. When MAG welding is selected, the positive terminal of the welding output unit (10) is connected to a MAG welding torch (2), and the negative terminal is connected to a welding base material (4). Meanwhile, when TIG welding is selected, the positive terminal of the welding output unit (10) is connected to the welding base material, and the negative terminal is connected to a TIG welding torch (3).

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a wavelength selecting switch, including an input port and an output port having more ports than the input port, configured to perform an adjustment of a level of an optical signal from the input port to the output port; a first monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the input port unit; a second monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the output port unit; and a controller configured to control the wavelength selecting switch wherein the controller: calculates a virtual output value for the output port unit based on a first monitor result from the first monitoring unit, a second monitor result from the second monitoring unit, and a current adjustment value for the adjustment function; calculates a new adjustment value based on the virtual output value; and sets the new adjustment value to the adjustment.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a wavelength selecting switch, including an input port and an output port having more ports than the input port, configured to perform an adjustment of a level of an optical signal from the input port to the output port; a first monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the input port unit; a second monitor configured to monitor the level of the optical signal at the output port unit; and a controller configured to control the wavelength selecting switch wherein the controller: calculates a virtual output value for the output port unit based on a first monitor result from the first monitoring unit, a second monitor result from the second monitoring unit, and a current adjustment value for the adjustment function; calculates a new adjustment value based on the virtual output value; and sets the new adjustment value to the adjustment.

Abstract: Even during a protection period in which a state transition is not caused from an ALC state to an ALD state, when an output light level that is inputted is below a threshold for ALC transition read from a memory, a processor causes a transition by switching an internal state from an ALC state to an ALD state. Then, an ALD operation is started, outputting a control voltage to a VAT control unit so as to achieve a predetermined fixed attenuation amount.

Abstract: A transponder includes a CDR section that extracts clocks from an input signal, an oscillating section that can output various frequencies to the CDR section, a frequency instruction processing section that instructs the oscillating section to output an arbitrary frequency, a detection processing section, and a frame processing section control section. The detection processing section determines whether the frequency output from the oscillating section and an input signal synchronize in frequency or not in response to an instruction by the frequency instruction processing section, and detects a synchronization frequency. The frame processing section control section operates a frame processing section based on the synchronization frequency detected by the detection processing section.

Abstract: Even during a protection period in which a state transition is not caused from an ALC state to an ALD state, when an output light level that is inputted is below a threshold for ALC transition read from a memory, a processor causes a transition by switching an internal state from an ALC state to an ALD state. Then, an ALD operation is started, outputting a control voltage to a VAT control unit so as to achieve a predetermined fixed attenuation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical add/drop multiplexer including an optical power control unit for performing a control of an optical power by the unit of each signal light included in the wavelength multiplexed light, wherein the optical power control unit includes control logic for implementing a first control mode in which a transition to an automatic control of the optical power and release from the aforementioned control are carried out by comparing the optical power with a threshold value, and a second control mode in which a transition to an automatic control of the optical power is carried out based on control information of a notification by another of the optical add/drop multiplexers and release from the automatic control is carried out based on the comparison between the optical power and the threshold value.

Abstract: An optical-level control apparatus includes a plurality of variable optical attenuators each used for attenuating an input optical signal included in a wavelength division multiplexing signal as a component having a specific wavelength by applying a variable attenuation quantity, a plurality of control units each used for executing automatic control for automatically controlling the attenuation quantity in order to adjust the optical level of an optical signal output by a corresponding one of the variable optical attenuators to a target level in an ordinary normal state of the input optical signal, and a detection unit for detecting a loss of light failure of an optical signal input to each of the variable optical attenuators and detecting disappearance of the loss of light failure.

Abstract: An optical transmission system is provided which is capable of booting the system by using an ASE (Amplified Spontaneous Emission) light in a manner to provide high quality. A pre-amplifier receives noise light and does gain setting in an amplifier booting mode and receives an optical signal and to amplify the received signal in a working mode. A variable dispersion compensator is placed in a preceding-stage of the pre-amplifier and makes compensation of dispersion of a wavelength occurring when an optical signal propagates through an optical fiber in a variable manner.

Abstract: A transponder includes a CDR section that extracts clocks from an input signal, an oscillating section that can output various frequencies to the CDR section, a frequency instruction processing section that instructs the oscillating section to output an arbitrary frequency, a detection processing section, and a frame processing section control section. The detection processing section determines whether the frequency output from the oscillating section and an input signal synchronize in frequency or not in response to an instruction by the frequency instruction processing section, and detects a synchronization frequency. The frame processing section control section operates a frame processing section based on the synchronization frequency detected by the detection processing section.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical add/drop multiplexer including an optical power control unit for performing a control of an optical power by the unit of each signal light included in the wavelength multiplexed light, wherein the optical power control unit includes control logic for implementing a first control mode in which a transition to an automatic control of the optical power and release from the aforementioned control are carried out by comparing the optical power with a threshold value, and a second control mode in which a transition to an automatic control of the optical power is carried out based on control information of a notification by another of the optical add/drop multiplexers and release from the automatic control is carried out based on the comparison between the optical power and the threshold value.

Abstract: A method for an intermediate node to control a level of a signal included in a wavelength-multiplexed signal and transmitted from a source node to a destination node via the intermediate node, includes: detecting a level of the signal; identifying a position of the intermediate node with respect to the source node; determining a control time based on the position; controlling, when the control time has elapsed from the detecting, a level of the signal based on the level detected at the detecting.