Abstract: An apparatus includes a first resonant circuit including a first coil mounted to a movable member; a second resonant circuit including a second coil facing the first coil and generating a magnetic field upon supply of an electric current and outputs a detection signal of a voltage level depending on a relative position of the second coil to a position of the first coil; and a first equivalent circuit equivalent to the second resonant circuit in a case where a distance between the first and second coils is infinite and a second equivalent circuit equivalent to the second resonant circuit in a case where the distance is zero. A processor corrects the detection signal based on an output signal output from the first equivalent circuit and an output signal output from the second equivalent circuit, and calculates, based on the corrected detection signal, a displacement amount of the movable member.

Abstract: An instrument comprises a body including a soundboard that transmits a vibration of a sound source, and a vibration exciter configured to vibrate the soundboard in response to an input signal. The vibration exciter comprises a vibrator member attached to the soundboard and configured to vibrate the soundboard in response to the input signal, a displacement member configured to displace relative to the vibrator member in response to the input signal, and a support member including an elastic member and supporting the displacement member via the elastic member with respect to the body. At least part of the vibration exciter overlaps a center of a region of the soundboard that extends in a width direction from a contact region of the soundboard where the soundboard contacts with the vibrator member.

Abstract: Provided is an ejection cap capable of smoothly and reliably breaking through a film closing a mouth part of a container body and ejecting a content inside a container. An ejection cap (1) comprising an asymmetric cutter (6) that hangs from a lower surface of a top plate part of a substantially cylindrical dispensing cylinder (4) threadedly engaging a mouth part (3a) of a container body (3) closed by a film (2) and penetrating the film to eject a content, and that has a notch part (7) at a lateral surface on a side opposite to a threadedly engaging rotating direction on a substantially circumference at the tip of the dispensing cylinder.

Abstract: An information communication system transmits an advertisement to a first terminal device used by a first user based on transmission of a message from the first terminal device to a second terminal device used by a second user. The information communication system causes the first terminal device to display an operation part operable to transmit the advertisement to the second terminal device. The information communication system transmits the advertisement to the second terminal device in response to operation of the displayed operation part by the first user. The information communication system executes processing of giving a reward to the first user based on recognition that the second user takes an action corresponding to a successful result of the advertisement after the second user selects the advertisement.

Abstract: A detection system includes a detectable member disposed on a movable member that is configured to be displaced in response to a user operation, and signal generating circuitry including a first coil configured to generate a magnetic field, the signal generating circuitry being configured to generate a detection signal dependent on a distance between the detectable member and the first coil, in which the detectable member includes a flexible base fixed to the movable member, and a second coil disposed on the flexible base.

Abstract: A musical instrument includes: a fixed member; a movable member displaceable relative to the fixed member within a movable range in response to a playing operation of the musical instrument; a detectable circuit including a magnetic or conductive body and disposed on the movable member; a detector circuit including a coil disposed on the fixed member and configured to output a detection signal corresponding to a voltage that is dependent on a distance between the detectable circuit and the coil; at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to implement the instructions to perform a plurality of tasks, including: a generating task that generates, based on correspondences between voltages of detection signals and positions of the movable member in the movable range, position data indicating a position of the movable member that depends on the voltage of the detection signal output from the detector circuit; and a calibrating task that calibrates the correspondences based on th

Abstract: A musical instrument includes a fixed member; a movable member displaceable in response to a playing operation of the musical instrument, the movable member being displaceable relative to the fixed member from a first state where the movable member is in an initial position to a second state where the movable member is displaced from the initial position; a detectable circuit including a magnetic or conductive body and disposed on the movable member; and a detector circuit including a coil disposed on the fixed member and configured to output a detection signal corresponding to a voltage that is dependent on a distance between the detectable circuit and the coil. A distance between the detectable circuit and the coil in the first state is smaller than a distance between the detectable circuit and the coil in the second state.

Abstract: Provided is an ejection cap capable of smoothly and reliably breaking through a film closing a mouth part of a container body and ejecting a content inside a container. An ejection cap (1) comprising an asymmetric cutter (6) that hangs from a lower surface of a top plate part of a substantially cylindrical dispensing cylinder (4) threadedly engaging a mouth part (3a) of a container body (3) closed by a film (2) and penetrating the film to eject a content, and that has a notch part (7) at a lateral surface on a side opposite to a threadedly engaging rotating direction on a substantially circumference at the tip of the dispensing cylinder.

Abstract: An information communication system acquires first user information indicating a first user and second user information indicating a second user based on transmission of a message from a first terminal device used by the first user to a second terminal device used by the second user. The information communication system transmits, to the first terminal device, a first advertisement corresponding to an attribute of the first user indicated by the acquired first user information. The information communication system transmits, to the second terminal device, a second advertisement corresponding to an attribute of the second user indicated by the acquired second user information.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle sensor configured to detect a vehicle state; a first control device connected to the vehicle sensor and provided with a first recording area; a first power supply device configured to supply electric power to the first control device; a second control device connected to the first control device and provided with a second recording area; and a second power supply device configured to supply electric power to the second control device. The first control device is configured to record vehicle data including the vehicle state in the first recording area at a prescribed timing and to transmit the vehicle data to the second control device on a prescribed cycle. The second control device is configured to record the vehicle data received from the first control device in the second recording area at a prescribed timing.

Abstract: An information communication system transmits an advertisement to a second terminal device used by a second user based on transmission of a message from a first terminal device used by a first user to the second terminal device. The information communication system executes processing of giving a reward to the first user based on recognition that the second user takes an action corresponding to a successful result of the advertisement after the second user selects the advertisement.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel method which is for preparing a DNA fragment for microbial cell transformation, and by which the combinatorial library of a long-chain DNA can be efficiently constructed and confirmation of the genotype of the obtained clone is facilitated.

Abstract: An operation detection device for a key operation of a keyboard device includes a conductive unit configured to be disposed on each of keys, a substrate configured to be disposed facing each of the keys in a pressing direction of the keys. The substrate is provided with a sensor including at least first and second coils, the sensor being configured to be disposed spaced from one key so that at least one of the first or second coil outputs a signal corresponding to a distance between the one key and the respective sensor. The operation detection device includes a detection unit configured to detect a displacement of the one key in at least one of a yaw direction or a roll direction based on signals output from the first and second coils during a key pressing stroke of the one key.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel method which is for preparing a DNA fragment for microbial cell transformation, and by which the combinatorial library of a long-chain DNA can be efficiently constructed and confirmation of the genotype of the obtained clone is facilitated.

Abstract: A biological information acquisition device includes a detection-value acquisition unit to acquire a detection value from a non-contact biometric sensor, a vital measurement unit to measure a vital sign of a target person (TP) using the detection value, an image-data acquisition unit to acquire image data indicating an image captured by a camera, an image processing unit to perform at least one of a state estimation process of estimating a state of the target person, an attribute estimation process of estimating an attribute of the target person, or a personal identification process of identifying the target person by performing image processing on the image captured including the target person, and a parameter setting unit to set a parameter in measuring the vital sign in accordance with a result of the image processing.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a control device configured to execute automatic driving control of a vehicle; an image capturing device configured to capture a surrounding image of the vehicle; and a recording device configured to record the surrounding image. The control device includes: a function classifying unit configured to classify functions of the automatic driving control into a first automatic driving function and a second automatic driving function; a state determining unit configured to determine whether the recording device is in a recordable state; and a function restricting unit configured to permit use of the first automatic driving function in a case where the state determining unit determines that the recording device is in the recordable state, and to prohibit the use of the first automatic driving function in a case where the state determining unit determines that the recording device is not in the recordable state.

Abstract: A musical instrument includes: an acoustic portion that makes sound in response to vibration; an exciter that includes an exciter body and a vibrating portion vibrating with respect to the exciter body, and excites the acoustic portion; and a support portion that is attached to the acoustic portion and supports the exciter body such that the vibration is transmitted from the vibrating portion to the acoustic portion. The support portion supports the exciter body such that the exciter body is elastically displaced with respect to the acoustic portion. A resonance frequency of a vibration system including the exciter body and the support portion is lower than the lowest resonance frequency of the acoustic portion.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recording device configured to record vehicle information in files. The recording device includes: an event information receiving unit configured to receive information about prescribed events; a tag providing unit configured to provide protection tags to the files, the protection tags being of different types according to magnitude of the events; and an overwriting setting unit configured to prohibit overwriting of the files provided with the protection tags of a same type in a case where the number of the files provided with the protection tags of the same type is within a prescribed upper limit number, and to permit the overwriting of the files provided with the protection tags of the same type in a case where the number of the files provided with the protection tags of the same type exceeds the upper limit number.

Abstract: A displacement sensor includes: a detectable portion: including a first coil; and being disposed on a movable member that is displaceable in response to an operation; and a signal generator: including a second coil that opposes the first coil; and being configured to generate a detection signal based on a relative position between the first coil and the second coil. A first distance from a first end of the first coil to a second end of the first coil in a first direction differs from a second distance from a third end of the first coil to a fourth end of the first coil in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction when the first coil is viewed in plan view.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are to provide a new means of improving the productivity of a target protein. The present inventors have identified a novel protein consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 through an exhaustive analysis of the nucleotide sequence of chromosomal DNA of a yeast belonging to the genus Komagataella. Activation of a gene encoding the novel protein provides a cell having an improved productivity of a target protein.