Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a field element includes: a circular annular magnet portion that includes magnetic poles of which polarities alternate in a circumferential direction; and a cylindrical magnet holding portion where the magnet portion is fixed on an inner circumferential surface of the magnet portion. An armature is arranged to oppose the magnet portion on an inner side in a radial direction of the magnet portion. The magnet portion includes circular-arc-shaped magnets arranged in an array in the circumferential direction. In each magnet, both end surfaces in the circumferential direction are along the radial direction and in contact with a magnet adjacent in the circumferential direction. The magnet holding portion is reduced in size such that, in a state where the magnets are arrayed in the circumferential direction, an outer circumference of the magnets is reduced from an outer side toward an inner side in the radial direction.

Abstract: In a coil 5 of a multilayer coil component 1, an end portion 6a of a turn 6 closest to a side surface 2e in the facing direction of the side surface 2e and a side surface 2f is connected to a first external electrode 3 and an end portion 11a of a turn 11 closest to the side surface 2f in the facing direction is connected to a second external electrode 4. When viewed from the facing direction, the area of the region where the turn 6 and the second external electrode 4 face each other and the area of the region where the turn 11 and the first external electrode 3 face each other are larger than the area of the region where turns other than the turn 6 and the turn 11 and the first external electrode 3 or the second external electrode 4 face each other.

Abstract: A steering control device, a steering control method, and a steering control system according to the present invention determines a rear wheel steering angle control command for returning a rear wheel steering angle to a predetermined steering angle earlier than a front wheel steering angle when steering wheel operation (that is, operation of a steering wheel) shifts from a state of additional turning to a state of cutback turning, in steering control that steers a rear wheel steering angle of a vehicle in opposite-phase with respect to a front wheel steering angle, and outputs the determined rear wheel steering angle control command to a rear wheel steering device, so that hysteresis of a yaw rate is reduced or eliminated, reducing or eliminating a sense of discomfort given to a driver.

Abstract: A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.

Abstract: A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.

Abstract: Electrodes and a secondary battery having high capacity density and being excellent in terms of rapid charging and rapid discharging are provided. The battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a current collector, a first layer overlapping with the current collector, and a second layer overlapping with the first layer. The first layer contains a first active material with a first particle diameter and the second layer contains a second active material with a second particle diameter. The first particle diameter is smaller than the second particle diameter. It is preferable that the second active material include a surface portion and an inner portion, the surface portion be a region within a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the second active material to the inner portion, and that the surface portion and the inner portion be topotaxy.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for preventing the occurrence of cavitation in a biological particle sorting operation. The present disclosure provides a biological particle sorting device including: a pressure changing element that changes a pressure in a channel in which a biological particles determined to be sorted is recovered; and a control unit that drives the pressure changing element, the control unit adjusting a drive waveform of the pressure changing element on the basis of information associated with the number of times of sorting processing per unit time or information associated with a percentage or the number of sorting target particles contained in a unit sample. Furthermore, the present disclosure also provides a method for adjusting a sorting condition in a biological particle sorting device.

Abstract: A wire harness is arranged between a vehicle body and a sliding door in a vehicle, in which: a protector is mounted on a bent region of the wire harness having a shape in which a middle of the wire harness in a longitudinal direction is bent in a crank shape; the protector includes a groove having a shape corresponding to the bent shape of the wire harness and has a larger width than a radial size of the wire harness; a bottom surface of the groove has a hole into which a pin is detachably inserted, the pin constraining the wire harness in a state where the wire harness has looseness so as not to contact an inner angle portion at a bent site of the groove; and one side of the bent region of the wire harness is fixed to the protector using a fastening member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to generate second image forming data for defect analysis in which confidential data included in first image forming data is invisible in a case where a defect occurs in image forming processing of the first image forming data, execute the image forming processing for the generated second image forming data, and output defect analysis data corresponding to a processing result of the image forming processing executed for the second image forming data.

Abstract: To provide a technology of optimizing a suction condition of a microparticle. The present technology provides an optimizing method of a suction condition of a microparticle including: a particle number counting step of detecting a time point when a microparticle passes through a predetermined position on a main flow path through which liquid containing the microparticle flows, sucking the microparticle from the main flow path to a microparticle suction flow path by the microparticle suction flow path with a predetermined suction force, and counting the number of microparticles sucked into the microparticle suction flow path; and a step of determining an elapsed time from passage through the predetermined position with which the suction by the microparticle suction flow path should be performed on the basis of a time from the time point when the microparticle passes through the predetermined position on the main flow path until the suction is performed and the number of counted microparticles.

Abstract: A steering control device according to the present invention is configured to obtain information on a parking position of a vehicle obtained by an external world recognition unit, and to output, based on the obtained information on the parking position, an instruction for moving a rear portion of the vehicle to a set position in a parking width direction to a rear-wheel steering device configured to control a steered angle of rear wheels of the vehicle. With this configuration, even when a timing or an angle for operating a steering wheel by a driver is not appropriate, or even when a steered angle of front wheels is limited, parking of the vehicle at the predetermined position in the parking width direction is facilitated.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Abstract: There is provided a ceramic heater including: a ceramic base member including: an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface in an up-down direction; a plurality of heating elements embedded in the ceramic base member, and a plurality of temperature sensors each including a temperature sensing portion that is embedded in the ceramic base member. The temperature sensing portion of at least one of the plurality of temperature sensors is positioned in a location that does not overlap with the plurality of heating elements in the up-down direction.

Abstract: To provide a method of efficiently performing priming on a microparticle sorting microchip.

Abstract: There is provided a fine-particle sorting apparatus, including: a determination unit that performs sorting determination of a particle, the determination unit performing the determination using rule data defining, in accordance with a particle population to which a particle that is a sorting-determination target belongs and a particle population to which a different particle within a predetermined range around the particle belongs, a relationship between the particles, particle populations to which the particle that is a sorting-determination target and the different particle within the predetermined range may belong including the following particle populations of (a) a particle population of particles to be sorted, (b) a particle population of particles that are not to be sorted but are ignorable in the determination, and (c) a particle population of particles that are neither the particles to be sorted nor the ignorable particles, the ignorable particles including red blood cells.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes forming a stack by alternately stacking insulating films and sacrificial films on a substrate; forming, in the stack, a through-hole extending in a thickness direction of the stack; forming a block insulating film, a charge trapping film, a tunnel insulating film, and a channel film on an inner surface of the through-hole in this order; forming, in the stack, a slit extending in the thickness direction of the stack separately from the through-hole; removing the sacrificial films through the slit so as to form a recess between adjacent insulating films; forming a first metal oxide film on an inner surface of the recess; forming, on the first metal oxide film, a second metal oxide film having a crystallization temperature lower than that of the first metal oxide film; and filling the recess with an electrode layer.

Abstract: A protector includes a protector body, a lid member, and an engagement mechanism. The lid member has a ceiling and a protrusion. When a first wiring member and a second wiring member are accommodated in an accommodating space in a non-regular arrangement in which a peripheral surface of the first wiring member contacts a bottom and a peripheral surface of the second wiring member contacts the peripheral surface of the first wiring member, the peripheral surface of the second wiring member contacts the protrusion on the way of the transition of the engagement mechanism from a non-engagement state to an engagement state. When accommodated in a regular arrangement, the engagement mechanism transitions from the non-engagement state to the engagement state.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a connector, a grommet assembled to the connector and being in close contact with one opening edge portion of an attachment hole of a panel, and a plurality of electric wires that are inserted into the grommet. The connector includes terminal fittings provided at end portions of the plurality of electric wires, a connector housing that accommodates the terminal fittings, and an inner member having an annular plate-shaped flange disposed outside the connector housing. The grommet includes a flange assembly portion that is assembled to the flange, and an electric wire accommodating dome portion that accommodates drawn-out portions of the plurality of electric wires being drawn out from the connector housing. The inner member includes two deformation preventing walls that prevent the electric wire accommodating dome portion from being deformed inward.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate holder including: a ceramic base member; electrodes embedded in the ceramic base member; at least one conductive member embedded in the ceramic base member; connecting parts each of which has an end electrically connected to one of the electrodes; a land electrically connected to the at least one conductive member; and terminals each of which has an end connected to one of the electrodes, the at least one conductive member or the land. A resistance value between a connecting part, included in the connecting parts and connected to the at least one conductive member, and a terminal, included in the terminals and connected to the at least one conductive member is smaller than a resistance value between both ends of each of the electrodes; and the number of the terminals is smaller than two times the number of the electrodes.