Abstract: User equipment includes a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble or an identifier of the user equipment to a base station apparatus in a two-step random access procedure, a receiver configured to receive a response signal corresponding to at least one of the random access preamble and the identifier of the user equipment, and a downlink signal based on the response signal, from the base station apparatus, and a control unit configured to determine that a contention resolution is successful when information included in the downlink signal matches a part of or all of the identifier of the user equipment.

Abstract: A laser machining apparatus includes a laser device, an image processing part, and an irradiation controller. The laser device irradiates a surface of a machining object with a laser beam. The image processing part divides an image for drawing with respect to the surface of the machining object into a plurality of gradations and creates a plurality of layer according to the plurality of gradations. The irradiation controller draws a layer on the surface of the machining object by scanning and linearly irradiating each of the plurality of layer with a laser beam in a single direction.

Abstract: An actuator includes a holder, a case, a support assembly, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a coil. The holder includes a sphere centered at a reference point and houses an optical module. The case houses the holder. The support assembly is in the case and supports the holder in a manner rotatable about the reference point. The first magnet is on a portion of the sphere in a first radial direction from the reference point. The second magnet is on a portion of the sphere in a second radial direction from the reference point. The coil is in the case and is energized to generate a magnetic field acting on the first magnet and the second magnet. The first magnet and the second magnet are located asymmetric to each other with respect to the reference point and have different lengths in a circumferential direction of the holder.

Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive system information including second information related to a cell to which first information related to a subgroup in one or more paging occasions is transmitted; and a control unit configured to control monitoring of a PDCCH for first downlink control information including the first information based on the second information in a case of an idle state or an inactive state, in which the control unit is configured to monitor the PDCCH for the first downlink control information including the first information in a cell in which an RRC release message is received when the second information is configured for a last cell indicating the cell in which the RRC release message is received, and monitor the PDCCH for the first downlink control information including the first information in a serving cell when the second information is not configured.

Abstract: An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and at least including a photoelectric conversion layer; and a first semiconductor layer provided between the second electrode and the organic layer and having an electron affinity of 4.5 eV or more and 6.0 eV or less, the first semiconductor layer including a first carbon-containing compound and a second carbon-containing compound, the first carbon-containing compound having an electron affinity greater than 4.8 eV or an electron affinity greater than a work function of the second electrode, the second carbon-containing compound having an ionization potential greater than 5.5 eV.

Abstract: A caring device includes an adjustment command section configured to give a command for an adjustment of a standing start position of a support member, a standing operation command section configured to give a command for assistance of the standing operation using the support member, and a control device. The control device perform a cooperative operation of the first arm and the second arm so that the support member moves in an up-down direction when a command of the adjustment command section is received. The control device performs a cooperative operation of the first arm and the second arm so that a reference position of the support member moves along different movement trajectories in accordance with the standing start position adjusted by the command of the adjustment command section when a command of the standing operation command section is received.

Abstract: A UE configured to perform communication with an MCG managed by a master node and an SCG managed by a secondary node comprises including an MAC entity associated with the SCG. The MAC entity manages, for each logical channel, a variable that is for uplink resource allocation to each logical channel used for communication with the SCG and has a value increasing with lapse of time. The UE is configured to perform, for the variable, a first process in reset of the MAC entity by deactivation of the SCG, perform a second process while the SCG is in an inactive state, and perform a third process when the SCG is activated.

Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a receiver configured to receive a system information block (SIB) from a base station; and a controller configured to determine a number of bits of a bitmap for an availability indication of a tracking reference signal (TRS) in downlink control information (DCI). The controller is configured to determine, in a case where a TRS resource set configuration that is a list of TRS resource sets is included in the SIB, the number of bits on a basis of an identifier related to the TRS resource set, and determine, in a case where the TRS resource set configuration is not included in the SIB, the number of bits as 0.

Abstract: A UE configured to perform communication with an MCG managed by a master node and an SCG managed by a secondary node comprises: including an MAC entity associated with the SCG; and receiving information instructing deactivation of the SCG. The MAC entity manages a BFD parameter for performing BFD on the SCG, and in a case in which the deactivation of the SCG is instructed and the UE is configured to perform the BFD, the controller is configured to control not resetting or not stopping the BFD parameter in a process of resetting the MAC entity.

Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a message for requesting to report a terminal capability, a control unit that configures information for reporting a parameter associated with a codebook based on information for indicating a range of the parameter associated with the codebook included in the message for requesting the report of the terminal capability, and that includes, in a message for reporting the terminal capability, the information for reporting the parameter associated with the codebook, and a transmission unit that transmits the message for reporting the terminal capability to the base station.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that is a second communication apparatus having a communication capability reduced as compared with a first communication apparatus having a designated communication capability, the communication apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform a random access procedure using a specific initial BWP for the second communication apparatus, which is a bandwidth part (BWP) that is a part of a bandwidth of a cell of a base station in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state. The controller is configured to switch the specific initial BWP to an initial BWP in which a CD-SSB is present, when the random access procedure has failed, in a case where no cell defining-synchronization signal block and physical broadcast channel block (CD-SSB) is present on the specific initial BWP.

Abstract: A base station configured to operate as an MN in a case of using dual connectivity in which the MN and an SN communicate with a UE, the base station includes: configuring a plurality of measurement gap patterns in the UE; and transmitting MN configuration gap information indicating a configuration of each of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to the SN via a network interface.

Abstract: Provided is a device that includes a user spoken voice extraction unit that extracts a user spoken voice from a microphone input sound. The user spoken voice extraction unit analyzes a sound source direction of an input sound, determines whether the input sound includes an external apparatus output sound on the basis of sound source directions of external apparatus output sounds recorded in a database, and removes a sound signal corresponding to a feature amount, for example, a frequency characteristic of the external apparatus output sound recorded in the database, from the input sound to extract a user spoken voice from which the external apparatus output sound has been removed upon determining that the input sound includes the external apparatus output sound.

Abstract: A control method for a hybrid vehicle configured to switch between stoichiometric combustion and lean combustion in which the target air fuel ratio is set to be leaner than the theoretical air fuel ratio is provided. The control method for the hybrid vehicle includes when the combustion mode is switched from the lean combustion to the stoichiometric combustion, stopping a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine; decreasing an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine during the stop; setting the target air fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine to the theoretical air fuel ratio, or the air fuel ratio richer than the theoretical air fuel ratio, in a state in which the intake air amount of the internal combustion engine is decreased; and restarting the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A base station is configured to operate as an MN in a case of using dual connectivity in which the MN and an SN communicate with a UE. The base station includes: deciding an SN gap upper limit number that is an upper limit number of measurement gap patterns configured in the UE by the SN; and transmitting gap upper limit information for specifying the SN gap upper limit number to the SN via a network interface.

Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit for receiving, from a base station that is a master node, a first message to configure communications with a master cell group and a secondary cell group, a communication unit for performing the communications with the master cell group and the secondary cell group configured that are based on the first message, a control unit for detecting an occurrence of a failure in communications with the secondary cell group, and a transmission unit for transmitting, when the control unit detects the occurrence of the failure in the communications with the secondary cell group, a second message including information indicating the occurrence of the failure in the secondary cell group, wherein the control unit includes location information in the second message when the first message is configured to have information indicating that the location information is to be included in the second message.

Abstract: A non-aqueous secondary battery includes a positive electrode composite material layer. In a cross-section in a direction of thickness of the positive electrode composite material layer, the positive electrode composite material layer includes a first region including one end portion in a direction intersecting with the direction of thickness, a second region including the other end portion, and a third region lying between the first region and the second region. The first region is composed of a first composite material containing lithium iron phosphate and lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide, and the second region is composed of a second composite material containing lithium iron phosphate and lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide. The third region is composed of a third composite material containing lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide.

Abstract: A liquid storage container including a positioning configuration contributing to downsizing is provided. The container capable of storing liquid therein includes a fitting portion including a communication port establishing communication between an inside and an outside, wherein a supply member supplying liquid is fitted and can supply the inside with liquid via the communication port; a first positioning portion positioning the supply member at one point; and a second positioning portion including a guide provided in the fitting portion and capable of guiding the supply member to a position where the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion when the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion while being positioned by the first positioning portion and a restriction portion restricting movement of the supply member using the first positioning portion as a rotation axis in the position where the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a graphene material that is lightweight, has a large retention capacity, and is useful as a base material for sustainedly releasing a non-aqueous component, and a method of producing the same. Provided is a graphene material having a total porosity of 60.0% or more and an open porosity of 50.0% or more.

Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives configuration information for transmitting a random access preamble; and a control unit that configures, when a two-step random access procedure is applied, a time domain resource specified by an index for the two-step random access procedure included in the configuration information, as a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble.