Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling.

Abstract: Information is provided by a voice taking users into account. An information providing system provides information using a voice. A position direction acquisition unit acquires position information indicating a position of a user, and sight direction information indicating a sight direction that is a direction that a face of the user faces. A storage unit stores, in advance, object position information indicating respective positions of a plurality of objects that may be viewed by the user, and explanation information for explaining each of the objects. An estimation unit estimates the object being viewed by the user based on the position information and the sight direction information of the user, and the object position information. An information output unit outputs the explanation information of the estimated object using the voice.

Abstract: The wafer test system includes: a prober including a chuck that holds a semiconductor wafer and a probe card having probe needles thereon, and brings the probe needles in contact with semiconductor chips formed on the semiconductor wafer to inspect the semiconductor chips; an overhead hoist transport that delivers the cassette that houses the plurality of semiconductor wafers to be inspected to the prober and withdraws, from the prober, the cassette that houses the semiconductor wafers that have been inspected; a conveying control unit that controls the overhead hoist transport to convey the probe card between a replacement position of the probe card predetermined in the prober and a storage of the probe card located in a place different from the prober; and a card conveying mechanism that conveys the probe card between a holding position in the prober and the replacement position.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material is a polycrystalline material composed of a plurality of crystal grains and has a composition represented by formula (I): Mg3+mSbaBi2?a?cAc. In the formula (I), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Se and Te, the value of m is greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.5, the value of a is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.0, and the value of c is greater than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 0.06. The thermoelectric conversion material has an Mg-rich region.

Abstract: Provided is a communication device that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device including a communication unit that executes communication with another node and a control unit that controls communication executed by the communication unit. The control unit operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.

Abstract: A second duct for guiding air outside an image forming apparatus A to a charging device includes: a first flow passage; a second flow passage bent from the first flow passage and extending in a direction orthogonal to a rotational direction and a rotational axis direction of a photosensitive drum, the second flow passage being provided with an outlet; and a plurality of flow dividing plates provided in the second flow passage, the plurality of flow dividing plates being disposed in parallel along the rotational axis direction and forming a third flow passage between the flow dividing plates adjacent to each other, in which a relationship between a length in the orthogonal direction and a length in the rotational axis direction of the third flow passage is a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal paste for forming a metal wiring containing a solid content of a silver particle and kneaded with a solvent. The solid content of the metal paste contains a silver particle having prescribed particle size distribution and average particle size, and using an amine compound as a protective agent. The solvent is a mixed solvent in which two organic solvents of a solvent A and a solvent B are mixed. The solvent A is dihydroterpineol or terpineol, and the solvent B is at least one organic solvent having a boiling point of 240° C. or more. The mixed solvent has a Hansen solubility parameter distance Ra from dihydroterpineol of 3.0 MPa1/2 or less. The metal paste further contains a high molecular weight ethyl cellulose as a first additive, and a polyvinyl acetal resin as a second additive.

Abstract: In a case where a concentration of refrigeration oil detected by the concentration sensor is less than a first threshold value, the control device operates the heater such that a part of a refrigerant in a liquid state in the compressor is vaporized, and in a case where the concentration of the refrigeration oil detected by the concentration sensor exceeds a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value and a temperature of the refrigeration oil detected by the temperature sensor is less than a specified temperature, the control device operates the heater such that the refrigerant in the liquid state in the compressor is vaporized and the temperature of the refrigeration oil in the compressor is increased.

Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a display and a display controller executing a content display process to display, on the display, a content indicating an operation time of a vehicle. The display controller stops executing of the content display process in response to the vehicle being not operated at the operation time indicated by the displayed content.

Abstract: A display apparatus with high detection sensitivity of an image capturing function and high display quality is provided. The display apparatus includes a light-receiving device; a first light-emitting device including a first lower electrode whose end portion has a first tapered shape and a first organic compound layer having a shape along the first tapered shape; a second light-emitting device including a second lower electrode whose end portion has a second tapered shape and a second organic compound layer having a shape along the second tapered shape; a common electrode included in the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device; an insulating layer positioned between the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device and between the second light-emitting device and the light-receiving device; and an auxiliary wiring electrically connected to the common electrode.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce automatic arpeggio playing sounds corresponding to pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a pitch data specified by the user performance without producing the automatic arpeggio playing sound.

Abstract: An absolute encoder includes a spindle gear fixed to a motor shaft, a permanent magnet provided on the spindle gear, and a first driven gear having a center axis perpendicular to a center axis of a worm gear portion, and engaging the worm gear portion. The absolute encoder includes a second driving gear provided coaxially with the first driven gear and rotating according to a rotation of the first driven gear, and a second driven gear having a center axis perpendicular to the center axis of the first driven gear, and engaging the second driven gear. The spindle gear includes a magnet holder which is fit onto a tip end of the motor shaft, coaxially with the motor shaft, and a resin gear portion provided with the worm gear portion on an outer side in a radial direction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating an unpurchased item, an unpurchased item processing unit that executes unpurchased item arrangement processing of arranging the unpurchased item in a virtual reality space on the basis of the information indicating the unpurchased item, a purchase unit that executes purchase processing of the unpurchased item on the basis of purchase operation information indicating a purchase operation after arrangement in the virtual reality space, and a purchased item processing unit that executes the purchased item arrangement processing of arranging the purchased item after the purchase processing of the unpurchased item.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a landing device capable of allowing an unmanned aerial vehicle to be accommodated in a compact manner. A landing device includes a first leg portion that is swingable with a first end portion on a main body side of an unmanned aerial vehicle as an axis; and a second leg portion that is detachably attached to a second end portion of the first leg portion such that the second leg portion extends in an axial direction of the first leg portion. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a drone including a camera at a bottom of a main body.

Abstract: A display device having a function of sensing light is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light-receiving element, a light-emitting element, a resin layer, and a light shielding layer. The light-receiving element, the light-emitting element, the resin layer, and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light-receiving element includes a first pixel electrode over the first substrate, an active layer over the first pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the active layer. The light-emitting element includes a second pixel electrode over the first substrate, a first light-emitting layer over the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode over the first light-emitting layer. The resin layer and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the common electrode and the second substrate. The resin layer includes a portion overlapping with the light-emitting element.

Abstract: A load sensor and load detector for detecting the weight of tiny substances such as viruses or bacteria and includes a resonance generator causing a vibrating unit to resonate, a load sensor, and a voltage detector that detects change in induced electromotive force in a pick-up. The load sensor includes the vibrating unit, pick-up, and a substance adsorbent. The vibrating unit includes a magnetostrictive element capable of resonating. The pick-up generates an induced current using inverse magnetostrictive effect of the magnetostrictive element resulting from the vibrating unit vibrations. The substance adsorbent is provided at the vibrating unit, is composed of an antibody to viruses or bacteria and at least partially covers the vibrating unit. The pick-up is composed of a coil with the vibrating unit arranged inside the coil. The vibrating unit is formed by bonding the magnetostrictive element and a soft magnetic body to each other.

Abstract: A control device includes: a display control unit configured to display a candidate position image, indicating a candidate position that is a candidate of a target position, on a display device when the candidate position is detected based on a detection result of an external sensor provided in a moving object; and a reception unit configured to receive an operation of selecting a candidate position image indicating a candidate position to be set as the target position from among a plurality of candidate position images when the plurality of candidate position images are displayed on the display device. When any one of the candidate position images is selected, the display control unit displays a movement pattern image, representing a movement pattern executable by the moving object when the candidate position indicated by the candidate position image is set as the target position, on the display device.

Abstract: To reduce surface pressure acting on a tip of a winding terminal portion of a spiral wall of an orbiting scroll in a scroll compressor. In a scroll compressor 10, a thrust plate 81 and a thrust sheet 82 capable of being elastically deformed are provided between an opposing surface 237 serving as a thrust receiving part and an orbiting base plate 521 of an orbiting scroll 52. A first sealing member 83 seals between the orbiting base plate 521 and the thrust sheet 82 and a second sealing member 84 having a diameter greater than that of the first sealing member 83 seals the opposing surface 237 of a second partition wall 232 and the thrust plate 81. A back pressure chamber H5 is partitioned from a suction pressure area (space H6) by the thrust plate 81, thrust sheet 82, the first sealing member 83, and the second sealing member 84. A circular concave portion 816 is formed on a surface of the thrust plate 81 on the thrust sheet 82 side.

Abstract: An absolute encoder preferable in being made compact is provided. The absolute encoder includes a worm gear (101c) that rotates in accordance with rotation of a main spindle, and a worm wheel (102a) of which a central axis is perpendicular to a central axis of the worm gear (101c), the worm wheel engaging with the worm gear (101c). The worm gear (101c) is formed using a first material, and the worm wheel (102a) is formed using a second material different from the first material.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a first timbre and a sound of a second timbre, both corresponding to a pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the first timbre corresponding to the pitch data specified by the user performance and not instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the second timbre.