Abstract: An optical device including a Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator includes a Faraday element 31 made of a magnetooptical material 34, two permanent magnets 35, and an electromagnet 20a, with a direction of travel of light as a front-rear direction, the Faraday element includes light incident/emission surfaces in front and rear, and surfaces parallel to each other in left and right, the plate-shaped permanent magnets are attached to each of left and right side surfaces of the Faraday element such that different magnetic poles are opposed to each other, and the permanent magnets are configured to apply a permanent magnetic field to the Faraday element in one direction of a left direction and a right direction, a shaft part 10 that holds the Faraday element, attached with the permanent magnets, over an entire length in the front-rear direction is included, the electromagnet is configured including a coil made by winding a conductor 21 around a periphery of the shaft part with the front-rear direction as

Abstract: A connector includes a female terminal; a female housing; a shield shell which is formed in a tubular conductive material in which both ends are opened, the shield shell being integrated with the female housing in a state in which at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of an end portion on an insertion direction side to the male connector is exposed as an annular exposed surface, and the female terminal and/or the electric wire being disposed inside the shield shell; and a sealing member which has a tubular sealing portion interposed between the male housing of the fitted male connector or the shield shell and the exposed surface as a seal side exposed surface opposed to the male housing or the shield shell, and suppresses entry of liquid therebetween by the sealing member.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer includes: first to n-th demultiplexed light input/output portions; a multiplexed light input/output portion; second to n-th interference film filters; and first to n?1-th mirrors. The first to n-th demultiplexed light input/output portions are disposed on a single plane and correspond to light having a single wavelength. The second to n-th interference film filters are disposed in front of the second to n-th demultiplexed light input/output portions. The first to n?1-th mirrors are disposed in front of the first demultiplexed light input/output portion and in front of the n?1-th interference film filters. Light from the first demultiplexed light input/output portion strikes the first to n?1-th mirrors and the second to n-th interference film filters and is input to the multiplexed light input/output portion. Light output from the multiplexed light input/output portion strikes the second to n-th interference film filters and first to n?1-th mirrors.

Abstract: An environment recognition unit (20a) includes a frame (201), cameras (202) arranged on a front side in the frame (201), a camera control circuit (207) disposed on a back side in the frame (201), a pair of LRFs (205) arranged laterally to the frame (201). The frame (201) includes a first duct (208) provided adjacent to the camera control circuit (207), and a second duct (210) provided adjacent to the cameras (202).

Abstract: A power storage apparatus includes a plurality of power storage modules connected in series and a control apparatus that controls each power storage module. The power storage module includes a battery section, a controller, a communication unit, a first insulator that insulates the controller from the communication unit, and a second insulator having a withstand voltage higher than a withstand voltage of the first insulator. The second insulator is provided between the communication unit of each power storage module and the control apparatus.

Abstract: A power storage module includes: a battery block group including a plurality of battery cells; a connecting terminal portion joined to terminal surfaces of the plurality of battery cells; and a heat conductive material arranged in a manner contacting the connecting terminal portion. The heat conductive material includes at least any member of a plurality of interspersed members or a member having a clearance. The heat conductive materials are distributed more densely in a center portion of a region surrounded by an outermost peripheral edge of the battery block group than in peripheral portions surrounding the center portion in a plan view from a normal line direction of an arrangement surface of the heat conductive materials.

Abstract: A connector includes a female terminal; a female housing; a shield shell which is formed in a tubular conductive material in which both ends are opened, the shield shell being integrated with the female housing in a state in which at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of an end portion on an insertion direction side to the male connector is exposed as an annular exposed surface, and the female terminal and/or the electric wire being disposed inside the shield shell; and a sealing member which has a tubular sealing portion interposed between the male housing of the fitted male connector or the shield shell and the exposed surface as a seal side exposed surface opposed to the male housing or the shield shell, and suppresses entry of liquid therebetween by the sealing member.

Abstract: A female connector includes a female terminal, an inner housing which holds the female terminal, an outer housing relatively movable to the inner housing, tubular first shield shell integrated with the inner housing, and an elastic member which generates a resilient force. The male connector includes a male terminal, a housing which holds the male terminal, and the tubular second shield shell integrated with the housing. First shield shell abuts against the second shield shell on the connector insertion direction side with insertion of the connectors and is pressed against the second shield shell by the resilient force of the elastic member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor including a tactile sensor and bending sensor and a method of making the same, of which the manufacturing cost is low, the production efficiency is high and the sensor sensitivity is improved. The present invention relates to a sensor including a tactile sensor and bending sensor composed of an elastomer containing a magnetic filler and a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic change caused by deformation of the elastomer; and a method of making the same, of which the viscosity of the mixed solution of the thermosetting elastomer precursor solution with the magnetic filler is adjusted to a specified range.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a proposal condition for proposing a product pertaining to a usage of an object and product information indicating the product. The proposal condition is stored in association to the product information. The server apparatus further includes a determination unit that determines whether one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition based on a first collection information including information pertaining to the one or more target management objects, and an output unit that outputs information indicating the one or more target management objects and the product information stored in association to the proposal condition when the one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition.

Abstract: An environment recognition device (20) is provided with a first opening (20c1) through which a harness (20g) passes on a side surface of a frame (20c) below an environment recognition unit (20a). An upper base (10) below the frame (20c) is provided with a second opening (10b) through which the harness (20g) passes. A coupling mechanism (21) configured to couple the environment recognition unit (20a) and the upper base (10) supports the frame (20c) such that the frame (20c) is rotatable about an axis parallel to an upper surface of the upper base (10). A cover (21a) covers the first opening (20c1), the second opening (10b), and part of the harness (20g) extending between the first opening (20c1) and the second opening (10b).

Abstract: The present invention provides a cushion pad with improved durability without feeling of a foreign object. The present invention thus provides a system for detecting a deformation of a cushion pad, comprising; the cushion pad comprising a magnetic elastomer in which magnetic filler is dispersed in an elastomer and an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.5 to 10.0 ?m, and a soft polyurethane foam which is integrated with the magnetic elastomer by adhesion, and a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic change caused by a deformation of the cushion pad. The present invention also provides a production method thereof.

Abstract: A surface defect detecting method of optically detecting a surface defect of a steel material includes: an irradiation step of irradiating an examination target part with illumination light beams from different directions by using two or more distinguishable light sources; and a detection step of obtaining images by reflected light beams of the respective illumination light beams and detecting a surface defect in the examination target part by executing subtraction processing between the obtained images.

Abstract: In the image processing device, the image processing method and the recording medium, the image analyzer carries out image analysis on an image. The tag information assignor assigns the image with tag information corresponding to objects present in the image based on the result of the image analysis. The first assignment ratio calculator calculates an assignment ratio of common tag information assigned to images owned by users as the first assignment ratio. The second assignment ratio calculator calculates an assignment ratio of the common tag information assigned to images owned by each user as the second assignment ratio. And the tag ranking determiner ranks the common tag information assigned to images owned by the user based on the difference between the first assignment ratio and the second assignment ratio of the common tag information.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for heavy load including, on a tread surface thereof, land portions defined by a plurality of lug grooves each extending in the tread width direction while opening at one end thereof to the tread ground-contact end, in which: the tire has a negative ratio Nc of 2% to 10% in a tread center side region; the lug groove has a depth da, the land portion has a width Rw, and the land portion has an extending length L, so that the land portion center line has a length of 0.5 L or more in a segment where Rw/da is 1.3 to 2.5; and the land portion center line has a length of 0.3 L or more in a segment having a tilt angle ? of 60° or less relative to the tire equator direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cushion pad with improved durability without feeling of a foreign object. The present invention thus provides a system for detecting a deformation of a cushion pad, comprising; the cushion pad comprising a magnetic elastomer in which magnetic filler is dispersed in an elastomer and an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.5 to 1.0 ?m, and a soft polyurethane foam which is integrated with the magnetic elastomer by adhesion, and a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic change caused by a deformation of the cushion pad. The present invention also provides a production method thereof.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, image processing method, electronic apparatus, and program, capable of performing motion detection allowing the effects by periodic noise such as flicker to be reduced. An image processing device includes an intensity ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a ratio relating to an intensity of a signal value at a predetermined position in an image captured under different exposure conditions, and a contribution calculation unit configured to calculate a contribution indicating whether an intensity ratio calculated by the intensity ratio calculation unit is derived from a periodic noise component or is derived from motion. The periodic noise is, for example, flicker. The intensity ratio calculation unit calculates the intensity ratio from one image captured using an image sensor in which pixels for which the different exposure conditions are set exist together. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.

Abstract: A surface inspection method for a steel pipe detects a surface defect on a hot steel pipe, and includes: an imaging step of imaging a self-luminous image of the hot steel pipe; a correcting step of making more uniform luminance variation in a circumferential direction of the self-luminous image and correcting the self-luminous image; and a detecting step of detecting a surface defect based on the self-luminous image corrected at the correcting step.

Abstract: A battery module, a power storage device, a power storage system, an electronic appliance, an electric vehicle, and a power system that can detect the voltage of a plurality of battery cells more accurately are provided. The power storage device includes a connection terminal portion which is coupled with terminal planes of a plurality of battery cells constituting battery columns. The connection terminal portion includes a coupling portion including a first coupling portion configured to couple at least with a first battery column and a second coupling portion configured to couple at least with a second battery column adjacent to the first battery column, and an extension portion extended from an end of the coupling portion in a longitudinal direction. The extension portion is provided at a predetermined position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an An image processing apparatus which can restore, from a color and sensitivity mosaic image acquired using a CCD image sensor of the single plate type or the like, a color image signal of a wide dynamic range wherein the sensitivity characteristics of pixels are uniformized and each of the pixels has all of a plurality of color components is provided. A sensitivity uniformization section uniformizes the sensitivities of pixels of a color and sensitivity mosaic image to produce a color mosaic image, and a color interpolation section interpolates color components of the pixels of the color mosaic image M to produce output images R, G and B. The present invention image processing apparatus can be applied to a digital camera which converts a picked up optical image into a color image signal of a wide dynamic range.