Abstract: A grayscale image generation device (30) comprises a distance information acquisition unit (11), a grayscale information acquisition unit (12), a correction unit (13), and an image generation unit (14). The distance information acquisition unit (11) acquires information about the distance to an object (40) according to the amount of reflection of electromagnetic waves with which the object is irradiated from a lighting device (21). The grayscale information acquisition unit (12) acquires grayscale information according to the amount of reflection of the electromagnetic waves emitted from the lighting device (21) and irradiating the object. The correction unit (13) corrects the grayscale information acquired by the grayscale information acquisition unit (12) on the basis of the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit (11).

Abstract: A thermoelectric module includes: a lower substrate; an upper substrate that is disposed above the lower substrate and faces the lower substrate; a plurality of p-type and n-type thermoelectric elements that are disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; a first electrode that is disposed on an upper surface of the lower substrate and a lower surface of the upper substrate and forms a series circuit by alternately and sequentially connecting the p-type and n-type thermoelectric elements; and a second electrode that is provided on the lower substrate and connects a thermoelectric element at an end portion of the series circuit and a post. The post includes a post main body that is formed of titanium, and a titanium passive film that covers a side surface of the post main body.

Abstract: A resin molded component includes a bus bar having conductivity, a conductive member including an insertion hole into which the bus bar is inserted along an axis line direction, a resin member covering the bus bar and insulating the bus bar and the conductive member, and a potting material charged into the insertion hole. The bus bar includes a bend terminal portion positioned at an end portion in the axis line direction, and bent along a terminal bend direction, and a bus bar crank portion positioned inside the insertion hole and extending along a crank direction intersecting with the axis line direction and the terminal bend direction. The resin member includes a resin crank portion positioned inside the insertion hole and covering and insulating the bus bar crank portion. The potting material covers a whole circumference of the resin crank portion when charged into the insertion hole.

Abstract: A capacitive element includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first electrode finger extending towards a positive side in a first direction, and a second electrode finger disposed facing and spaced apart from the first electrode finger in a second direction intersecting the first direction, extending towards a negative side in the first direction, and connected to a different potential from the first electrode finger. The first electrode finger includes a first portion extending in the first direction and a second portion extending from the first portion, through a first step portion, and at a different position in the second direction from the first portion. The second electrode finger includes a third portion disposed facing the second portion and extending in the first direction, and a fourth portion extending from the third portion through a second step portion, extending from the second portion in the first direction, and facing the first portion.

Abstract: A holding portion is held by a main body portion. The holding portion includes at least one recording head, a carriage, a cover portion, and a blowing unit. The recording head is capable of discharging ink. The carriage has a bottom wall portion to which at least one recording head is attached, and accommodates the at least one recording head. A cover portion has a facing surface facing the bottom wall portion. The blowing unit blows an air toward the facing surface so that the air reaches the recording head.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a modified activin A. The present invention provides activin A comprising a modified proregion.

Abstract: A computer generates an accident risk definition model to estimate a probability of hazard occurrence as an accident risk by inputting first in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past and hazard occurrence data having information on hazard occurrence from the first in-vehicle sensor data preset therein, generates accident risk estimation data by inputting second in-vehicle sensor data collected in the past to the accident risk definition model and estimating the probability of the hazard occurrence, generates an accident risk prediction model to predict the accident risk after a predetermined time by inputting first biological index data corresponding to the second in-vehicle sensor data and the accident risk estimation data, calculates second biological index data from second biological sensor data by acquiring the second biological sensor data of a driver, and predicts the accident risk after the predetermined time by inputting second biological index data to the accident risk prediction model.

Abstract: A vehicle-body structure both protects a battery and provides a routing member below a floor panel that improves underfloor aerodynamic performance. Embodiments of a vehicle-body structure may include: a routing member that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction on a vehicle-width-direction outer side of a battery frame below a floor panel; a cover member that extends from a lower side of a battery to a lower side of the routing member; battery-frame fixation portions that fix the battery frame to side sills; and cover-member fixation portions that fix a vehicle-width-direction end portion of the cover member to the side sills. The routing member and the battery-frame fixation portions may be positioned on a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the cover-member fixation portions.

Abstract: An imaging device is provided with a sample stage configured to be capable of transferring a sample by at least two drive shafts, and shifting an imaging field of view corresponding to positional information of the sample, the positional information being obtained by a computer system. The computer system includes a classifier which outputs, in response to input of image data of a tilt image where the sample is imaged in an inclined state with respect to a charged particle beam, positional information of one or more feature parts existing on the tilt image. The classifier is trained in advance by using training data in which input is image data of the tilt image, and output is positional information of the feature part. The computer system executes, with respect to new tilt image data inputted into the classifier, a processing to output positional information of the feature part.

Abstract: A groove element includes a first groove region, a conical groove region having conical shape, and a second groove region with V shape cross section. At one end of the first groove region, a groove wall surface circumscribes conical surface from both sides, the conical surface having similar shape to the conical groove region and a size smaller than the conical groove region, and at the other end, groove wall surface circumscribes the conical groove region from both sides. At one end of the second groove region, groove wall surface circumscribes conical surface from both sides, and at the other end, groove wall surface circumscribes conical groove region from both sides. The first and second groove regions have same depth as the conical groove region at connection part connected to the conical groove region and have same depth as the conical surface at one end and the other end.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a foamed body or the like, the foamed body containing polyether ether ketone and polyetherimide, in which a ratio of the mass of the polyether ether ketone to the mass of the polyetherimide is from 50/50 to 87/13.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of suppressing, under communication environment including a plurality of cells, degradation in communication quality and decrease in communication rate and communication capacity due to interference from the other cells. Each of the cells includes a plurality of antenna elements, and performs radio communication with a communication terminal device through the antenna elements. Each of the cells notifies the other cells of settings for measuring channel information on a channel for performing radio communication of its own cell. Each of the cells may notify a communication terminal device being served thereby of the settings for measuring the channel information of its own cell. Here, the communication terminal device measures the channel information based on the settings notified from each of the cells, and reports a result of the measured channel information to a corresponding one of the cells when the result satisfies a predetermined reporting condition.

Abstract: The machine tool includes a main shaft, a workpiece support part, a tool magazine, a moving mechanism, and an opening-closing mechanism. The main shaft holds a tool. The workpiece support part supports a workpiece processed by the tool. The tool magazine is provided on the workpiece support part and includes a tool holder supporting tools, and an openable and closable magazine cover covering a periphery of the tool holder. The moving mechanism includes a motor and moves the workpiece support part in a first direction. The opening-closing mechanism is configured to open and close the magazine cover. The opening-closing mechanism includes a first cam, and a link mechanism connected to the magazine cover. When the workpiece support part is moved by the moving mechanism, the link mechanism displaces the magazine cover from a closed state to an open state when the link mechanism abuts the first cam.

Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes: a head configured to discharge a liquid from a nozzle opening on a nozzle surface; a wiper configured to be brought into contact with the nozzle surface at a front surface of the wiper and be movable relative to the head in a first direction; a support portion configured to support at least a rear surface of the wiper and be movable relative to the wiper in a second direction intersecting the nozzle surface and the first direction; and a controller configured to: acquire an elapsed time from when the liquid is discharged from the nozzle; determine, based on the elapsed time, a first support position which is a position of the support portion in the second direction; and position the support portion at the determined first support position, and move the wiper relative to the head in the first direction.

Abstract: A processing unit of a command generation device which is provided separately from a general-purpose inverter, performs following processing. A rotation calculation unit calculates a value relating to a rotation of a rotor of a virtual power generator when the virtual power generator is driven according to an active power command based on a rotor model that simulates a driving of the virtual power generator and calculates a value relating to the rotation of the rotor of the virtual power generator and an active power command. A target determination unit determines a target value of a voltage frequency and a target value of an active power based on the calculated value relating to the rotation. A command generation unit generates a control command for the inverter based on the determined target value of the voltage frequency and the target value of the active power.

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure includes a conductor plate, a groove member formed of an insulation resin, having a shape in which a flow path groove configuring part of a refrigerant flow path in which refrigerant flows and extending along at least a partial shape of the conductor plate in a length direction; a metal cover as a cover made from metal to configure the refrigerant flow path by blocking a groove opening of the flow path groove in the groove member, the metal cover being overlapped by the conductor plate; a pair of refrigerant inlet/outlet ports provided in the metal cover; and a thermal conduction material being sandwiched between the metal cover and the conductor plate to be in close contact with the metal cover and the conductor plate.

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure includes a conductor member formed of a conductive metal in a strip shape, wherein one end side is connected to a component terminal of an electrical/electronic member, and the other end side is connected to an electrical connection target; a refrigerant case formed of an insulative resin to accommodate refrigerant, wherein a pair of refrigerant inlet/outlet ports are provided in the refrigerant case; and a heat transmission member with a first portion and a second portion that enters the refrigerant case to be connected to the refrigerant case in a state of being in contact with the refrigerant so as to connect the conductor member and the refrigerant case with each other, while receive heat generated in the conductor member by the first portion and transmit the heat from the second portion to the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant case.

Abstract: A coolant flow path-attached conductive member includes a first component that has one of divided shapes obtained by dividing a band plate member having an internal flow path that allows a coolant to pass at least in a length direction thereof, the first component being made of a conductive metal, one end side of the first component being connected to a component terminal of a predetermined electric/electronic component, the other end side being connected to an electrical connection target of the electric/electronic component, a second component that has the other of the divided shapes and that is combined with the first component to constitute the band plate member, and a pair of coolant ports provided on the band plate member to allow the coolant to flow through the internal flow path of the band plate member constituted by combining the first component and the second component.

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure is characterized that it includes a conductor member formed of a conductive metal in a strip shape with one end side thereof being connected to a component terminal of a predetermined electrical/electronic member, and the other end side thereof being connected to an electrical connection target of the electrical/electronic member to be energized; a cooling pipe into which refrigerant flows; and a fixing wall as a wall formed of an insulation resin to which the conductor member together with the electrical/electronic member are fixed, and to which the cooling pipe is fixed such that the cooling pipe extends to be in contact with a connection portion of the conductor member connected with the component terminal.

Abstract: A conductor cooling structure includes a cooling plate formed into a band plate shape made of a conductive metal and being a flat plate like member configured to cool a conductor member with a predetermined electric/electronic component being fixed to a front surface of the cooling plate in such a state that the conductor member is placed on the front surface of the cooling plate, the conductor member configured to be energized with one end side of the conductor member being connected to a component terminal of the electric/electronic component, and the other end side of the conductor member being connected to an electrical connection target of the electric/electronic component, a conductor groove being formed on the front surface of the cooling plate, the conductor groove extending along a shape of a longitudinal direction of the conductor member and formed to have a sufficient depth to accommodate at least a portion of the conductor member in a thickness direction thereof, and a heat transfer member coverin