Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having an incident surface, a first surface and a light emergent surface; and at least one prism provided on the first surface and configured to reflect light received by the incident surface and travelling inside the light guide member, towards the light emergent surface. The light guide member provides an optical path along which the light that has entered through the incident surface is directly reflected from the prism and allowed to emerge from the light emergent surface. The light guide member also provides another optical path along which the light that has entered through the incident surface is once reflected from the second surface, reflected again from the prism, and then allowed to emerge from the light emergent surface. The optical system is configured to be coupled to a light source, to illuminate a display system which projects a virtual image onto a target space.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a copper alloy wire being a wire rod formed of a copper alloy and having a tensile strength of 400 MPa or more, an elongation at break of 5% or more, a conductivity of 60% IACS or more, and a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, wherein the copper alloy has a composition containing 0.05% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less of iron, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of phosphorus, and 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of tin with the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, the copper alloy has a structure containing crystals, and a crystal grain size difference determined as a difference between a maximum crystal grain size and a minimum crystal grain size in a cross-section is 1.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a film-equipped component that, when subjected to a plurality of component mountings involving heating to melting, makes it less likely that any previously mounted component becomes misaligned. A film-equipped component 1 includes: a component main body 2; and an adhesion film 3 provided on a principal surface 2a of the component main body 2, wherein the adhesion film 3 includes: a Ni layer 6 layered directly or indirectly on the principal surface 2a of the component main body 2 and containing Ni; a diffusion suppressing layer 7 provided on the Ni layer 6; and a solder layer 8 provided on the diffusion suppressing layer 7 and containing at least one of Au and Sn.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a transparent member that can increase the number of transparent members obtained from a transparent substrate as a base material. A method for manufacturing a transparent member includes: a first step of forming a plurality of through holes 3 in a transparent substrate 2; and a second step of separating the transparent substrate 2 along an imaginary line X1, Y1 connecting centers of the plurality of through holes 3, thus obtaining a transparent member.

Abstract: A base station 200 is installed around a road. The base station 200 includes a controller 22 and a communicator 21. The controller 22 is configured to acquire weather condition information indicating a weather condition on the road, and to estimate a risk level of occurrence of a traffic accident on the road based on the weather condition information. The communicator 21 is configured to transmit, to a vehicle 100 on the road, a warning message including information based on the risk level estimated.

Abstract: A roadside device 200, which performs radio communication with a mobile station on a road, includes: a first communicator 210 available for a first radio communication scheme; a second communicator available 220 for a second radio communication scheme different from the first radio communication scheme; and a controller configured to acquire, from the first mobile station via the first communicator 210, information associated with a first mobile station and distribute the acquired information to a second mobile station via the second communicator 220.

Abstract: A hermetic package of the present invention includes a package base and a glass cover hermetically sealed with each other via a sealing material layer, wherein the package base includes a base part and a frame part formed on the base part, wherein the package base has an internal device housed within the frame part, wherein the sealing material layer is arranged between a top of the frame part of the package base and the glass cover, and wherein an end portion of the sealing material layer protrudes laterally in an arc shape in sectional view.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer includes: an analysis unit performing analysis of a sample; a thin waste fluid tank housing a waste fluid produced by a process of analyzing the sample; an attention attraction thin waste fluid height sensor detecting that the waste fluid has reached a predetermined reference amount, the waste fluid being housed in the thin waste fluid tank; a timer unit starting counting time when the attention attraction thin waste fluid height sensor detects that the waste fluid has reached the reference amount; and a control unit controlling operation of the analysis unit. The control unit determines, when an operator instructs starting analysis, whether to permit starting analysis by the analysis unit based on whether a count result obtained by the timer unit reaches predetermined reference time. Accordingly, it is possible to operate the analyzer while workflows are easily considered and unexpected measurement stops are avoided.

Abstract: This automated analysis device is provided with a plurality of analysis units for analyzing a specimen, a buffer portion which holds a plurality of specimen racks on which are placed specimen containers holding the specimen, a sampler portion which conveys the specimen racks held in the buffer portion to the analysis units, and a control portion which, when performing a process to deliver the specimen racks to the plurality of analysis units, outputs synchronization signals to all the plurality of analysis units, wherein the analysis unit performs a delivery process starting from the synchronization signal, and the analysis unit performs a delivery process starting from the synchronization signal.

Abstract: A wireless roadside device that performs roadside-to-vehicle communication with an in-vehicle communication device in a traffic communication system includes a roadside-to-vehicle communicator that cyclically transmits a roadside-to-vehicle message, and a controller that performs inhibition control to inhibit cyclic transmission of the roadside-to-vehicle message when the roadside-to-vehicle communicator receives no vehicle information message from the in-vehicle communication device.

Abstract: This automated analysis device is provided with a plurality of analysis units for analyzing a specimen, a buffer portion which holds a plurality of specimen racks on which are placed specimen containers holding the specimen, a sampler portion which conveys the specimen racks held in the buffer portion to the analysis units, and a control portion which, when performing a process to deliver the specimen racks to the plurality of analysis units, outputs synchronization signals to all the plurality of analysis units, wherein the analysis unit performs a delivery process starting from the synchronization signal, and the analysis unit performs a delivery process starting from the synchronization signal.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis device capable of replenishing consumables without loss of a specimen and without stopping analysis. The state of an automatic analysis device 100 includes a replenishment prohibition state in which replenishment of consumables (reaction vessel 8, specimen dispensing tip 10a and external reagent vessels 21a, 21b, 21c) is prohibited, and a replenishment permission state in which replenishment of consumables is permitted. In the replenishment prohibition state, a specimen dispensing mechanism 10 performs dispensing, and detection units 18a and 18b perform analysis. In the replenishment permission state, the specimen dispensing mechanism 10 does not perform dispensing, and the detection units 18a and 18b perform analysis.

Abstract: A traffic communication system 1 that performs inter-roadside communication being wireless communication between roadside devices 200 includes a roadside device 200A that transmits a message including a MAC address field through inter-roadside communication, and a roadside device 200B that receives the message through inter-roadside communication. The roadside device 200A stores synchronization information in at least a part of the MAC address field. The synchronization information is information different from a MAC address and is used for synchronization between the roadside devices 200.

Abstract: A suction port and a blow-out port are formed in a casing. A fan is provided in the casing. Under a test condition that a blower is provided in such a way that a reference position of the blow-out port is a position that is separated by 2000 mm upward from a floor, an airflow adjusting mechanism adjusts, in a wide mode, a flow of air blown out from the blow-out port so that an average airflow speed in a first range and an average airflow speed in a second range are approximately equal to each other and so that a ratio of an average airflow speed in a third range to the average airflow speed in the first range is less than 1.5.

Abstract: A radio communication method includes: broadcasting a communication packet including application data regarding to a road and identification indicating a first type of a road corresponding to the application data, by a base station provided around the road. The radio communication method includes receiving the communication packet from the base station, by a mobile station installed on a vehicle. The radio communication method includes specifying a second type of the road on which the vehicle installed the mobile station travels, by the mobile station. The radio communication method includes acquiring the application data included in the received communication packet, when the first type of the road indicated by the identification information included in the received communication packet and the specified second type of the road match.

Abstract: An air-conditioner indoor unit (10) is configured to be capable of changing the direction of an airflow that is blown out through a blow-out port (15). The air-conditioner indoor unit (10) includes a control unit (40) that switches between a normal mode and a wide mode. The control unit (40) switches to the wide mode when an air conditioning load is higher than a predetermined value and extends at least vertically a range that is to be reached by the airflow in an air-conditioning target space in the wide mode compared with the normal mode.

Abstract: An aligning apparatus, which is provided for aligning coil segments to form an aligned coil, includes a cylindrical jig and a hook jig. The cylindrical jig has an outer cylinder to surround a radially outer periphery of the aligned coil and an inner cylinder to be surrounded by a radially inner periphery of the aligned coil. The hook jig has hooks arranged in a radial fashion and is rotatable relative to the cylindrical jig in a radial direction. The cylindrical jig further has an inner entrance provided in the inner cylinder, an outer entrance provided in the outer cylinder, and at least one of an inner guide wall extending from a front opening edge of the inner entrance radially inward and backward in the rotational direction and an outer guide wall extending from a front opening edge of the outer entrance radially outward and backward in the rotational direction.

Abstract: To provide an automated analyzer capable of shortening analysis time. The automated analyzer includes a vessel which contains a mixed solution of a specimen and a reagent; and a control unit which controls a first operation performed on the vessel, a second operation performed on the vessel after the first operation, and a third operation performed on a predetermined mechanism of the automated analyzer before the second operation, in which the control unit performs the first operation and the third operation in parallel. Alternatively, the automated analyzer includes a control unit which controls a first operation performed on the vessel, a second operation performed on the vessel after the first operation, and a third operation performed on a predetermined mechanism of the automated analyzer after the first operation, in which the control unit performs the second operation and the third operation in parallel.

Abstract: To improve the cycle characteristics of a lithium ion battery, a mixture of a powder of a conversion-type oxide made of an iron oxide and/or a silicon oxide and causing a conversion reaction with Li ions and a powder of an oxygen ion conductor are used as a negative electrode material of the lithium ion battery.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to solve the problem of a decomposed product of cyclic ester that causes cycle deterioration and storage deterioration of a lithium ion secondary battery. As a solution for the problem, the lithium ion secondary battery includes; a positive electrode; a negative electrode using a graphite-based carbon material as a negative electrode active material; an electrolyte in which lithium salt is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent containing cyclic ester; and either a barrier layer 15 configured to inhibit contact of the cyclic ester with the negative electrode or a capturing material configured to trap a decomposed product of the cyclic ester generated at the negative electrode.