Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus to be applied to a vehicle executes at least emergency braking control for avoiding collision of the vehicle with a recognized object. The vehicle drive assist apparatus includes a surrounding environment recognition device and a traveling control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment around the vehicle, and a feature information acquirer that acquires feature information of a target object in the recognized surrounding environment. The traveling control unit centrally controls the entire vehicle. The traveling control unit includes a determiner that determines, based on the acquired feature information, whether the target object has a possibility of hindering traveling of the vehicle. The traveling control unit continues normal traveling control for the vehicle when the target object is determined to have no possibility of hindering the traveling of the vehicle.

Abstract: An inspection method of an optical fiber ribbon where a plurality of optical fibers are intermittently connected in a longitudinal direction through a connecting resin in a state where the optical fibers are arranged in parallel, the inspection method includes a step of irradiating a surface of the optical fiber ribbon where the connecting resin is provided with light from a light source while causing the optical fiber ribbon to travel in the longitudinal direction, and causing an imaging device to acquire an image based on reflected light that is emitted from the light source and reflected from the surface; and a step of detecting a position of the connecting resin based on the image.

Abstract: An inspection method of an optical fiber ribbon where a plurality of colored optical fibers are intermittently connected in a longitudinal direction through a connecting resin in a state where the optical fibers are arranged in parallel, the inspection method includes a step of irradiating a surface of the optical fiber ribbon with light from a light source while causing the optical fiber ribbon to travel in the longitudinal direction, and causing an imaging device to acquire a two-dimensional color image based on scattered light that is emitted from the light source and scattered from the surface of the optical fiber ribbon; and a step of specifying colors and positions of the optical fibers based on the color image.

Abstract: A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having handrail for grasping by an occupant. The handrail disinfection system includes a tank to store disinfectant solution, an exudation part provided on the handrail, an actuator for exuding the disinfectant solution stored in the tank from the exudation part, and a controller for controlling the actuator. At least one processor included in the controller executes upon execution of at least one program, performing a disinfecting process in which the actuator is controlled to exude the disinfectant solution from the exudation part to a surface of the handrail when a predetermined execution condition is satisfied.

Abstract: Electronic apparatus includes a housing, a first sound-emitting component provided at a first side in a left-right direction of the housing and having multiple sound-emitting elements whose main sound-emitting directions differ from each other, and a second sound-emitting component provided at a second side in the left-right direction of the housing and having multiple sound-emitting elements whose main sound-emitting directions differ from each other.

Abstract: An electronic keyboard instrument includes a housing, a keyboard provided in connection with the housing and aligned in a left-right direction of the housing, a sound-emitting component provided inside the housing, and a reflector comprising a reflection surface configured to reflect sound from the sound-emitting component and provided at an upper portion of the housing inside the housing.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a viscosity-index improving agent having an excellent friction reduction effect to reduce friction of a lubricating oil composition when the viscosity-index improving agent is added thereto. The present also aims to provide a lubricating oil composition containing the viscosity-index improving agent. The present invention relates to, for example, a viscosity-index improving agent containing: (co)polymer (A) containing, as an essential constituent monomer, a polyolefin-based monomer (a) represented by the following formula (1); an ester oil (B1) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.00 to 2.50 mm2/s; and an ester oil (B2) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.51 to 5.

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a sheet, and a power supply voltage controller configured to control supply of a power supply voltage to the measurement unit, wherein the power supply voltage controller is configured to start supplying the power supply voltage to the measurement unit when receiving a notification indicating that a mode for performing sheet measurement is set.

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of a sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, and a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, wherein the pressing member is arranged by the moving unit at the first position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has not been conveyed to a measurement position of the measurement unit, wherein the moving unit is configured to move the pressing member from the first position to the second position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has been conveyed to the measurement position of the measurement unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a sheet detection sensor for detecting the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, an image forming unit configured to form, based on a predetermined image forming condition, an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a controller, the controller is configured to stop conveyance of the sheet by the conveyance unit in a case where the sheet is detected by the sheet detection sensor.

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of a sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, and a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, wherein the pressing member is arranged by the moving unit at the first position in a case where the sheet has not been conveyed by the conveyance unit to a measurement position of the measurement unit, wherein the moving unit is configured to move the pressing member to the second position from the first position in a case where the sheet has been conveyed by the conveyance unit to the measurement position of the measurement unit.

Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head including a plurality of nozzles configured to discharge a liquid onto a medium, and a control unit configured to control the discharge of the liquid by the recording head based on recording data. The control unit is configured to execute a plurality of combined halftone processes, the combined halftone process being a combination of a plurality of halftone processes and the plurality of combined halftone processes being different from each other in mode of the combination of the plurality of halftone processes. When performing recording on the medium by executing a recording mode designated from among a plurality of the recording modes having different degrees of error in landing position of dots of the liquid on the medium, the control unit selects the combined halftone process and executes the selected combined halftone process to generate the recording data.

Abstract: Provided is a measurement device that measures a specimen using a sheet-shaped sensor. The measurement device includes: a main body portion in which an insertion port into which the sensor is inserted is formed and a measurement unit that executes measurement related to the specimen is provided; and a movable portion that is movable with respect to the main body portion in a direction along a sheet surface of the sensor in a state of being inserted into the insertion port, and is movable between a storage position and an extension position where an area of the main body portion in planar view is increased more than an area when the movable portion is disposed at the storage position.

Abstract: A measuring device, which measures a specimen by using a sheet-shaped sensor, includes: a housing; a guiding surface which is one end surface of the housing and which is surrounded by peripheral edges; and an insertion port which is formed in the guiding surface at a position that is distant from all of the peripheral edges, and into which the sensor is inserted, wherein the guiding surface is recessed continuously from the peripheral edges toward the insertion port.

Abstract: A traveling device (11) is provided with a cylindrical spindle (12), a rotation shaft (14) that is disposed on an inner peripheral side of the spindle (12) and is rotated by a traveling motor (13), a wheel attaching cylinder (16) that is rotatably disposed on an outer peripheral side of the spindle (12) and to which a wheel (7) is attached and in the inside of which the lubricating oil (L) is accommodated, a gear reduction mechanism (21) that decelerates the rotation of the rotation shaft (14) and transmits the decelerated rotation to the wheel attaching cylinder (16), a retainer (42) that is provided with a bearing fitting hole (42A) and is disposed on the inner peripheral side of the spindle (12), and a bearing (44) that is attached to the retainer (42) and supports the rotation shaft (14).

Abstract: A vehicle with an improved front aerodynamic characteristic includes a front exterior member disposed on a front surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle. The front exterior member includes a front inlet port, a funnel member, and a specially processed surface. The front inlet port is formed in the front exterior member. The front inlet port is configured to draw in an airflow in front of the front exterior member. The funnel member is formed around the front inlet port. The specially processed surface is formed on an inner surface of the funnel member, and has recesses that are arrayed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a first electrode; a first semiconductor region of a first conductive type provided on the first electrode; a second semiconductor region of a second conductive type provided on the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region of a first conductive type provided on the second semiconductor region; a gate electrode provided in the second semiconductor region via a gate insulating film; a contact portion having a first portion and a second portion; and a second electrode electrically connected to the contact portion. The first portion is aligned with the third semiconductor region and a part of the second semiconductor region, and the second portion is provided at a lower end of the first portion and has a width larger than a width of the first portion at an upper end of the third semiconductor region.

Abstract: A machining defect analysis device includes: a cutting point information acquisition unit that acquires cutting point information indicating a position of a cutting point that is a point at which a tool attached to a machine tool cuts a workpiece, the cutting point corresponding to each of a plurality of tip points included in a tool trajectory that is information indicating a movement path of the tip point of the tool; a feature acquisition unit that acquires a feature indicating a characteristic of machining, the feature being calculated corresponding to each of the plurality of tip points; and a machining defect analysis unit that identifies, based on the cutting point information and the feature, a machining defect region in which a machining defect of the workpiece occurs and a cause of the machining defect in the machining defect region.

Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one processor configured to perform: receiving a selection operation from a user that selects one of a plurality of data types for a first data, the first data having a hierarchical structure, the plurality of data types being different from each other at least in terms of a way the first data is associated with a second data that is described at a different level in the hierarchical structure; and adapting the first data in accordance with the data type selected by the selection operation, and causing the adapted first data to be saved in a memory.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select, based on a selection criterion, one or more first colorimetric regions in an image to be formed based on image data; an input/output control unit configured to receive a first user input for selecting one or more second colorimetric regions from the one or more first colorimetric regions selected by the selection unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a print job including information indicating the one or more second colorimetric regions and the image data, to an image forming apparatus.