Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating material composition that has excellent storage stability and that demonstrates high coating film performance and strong glass adhesiveness even when cured at a relatively low temperature. The present invention discloses an aqueous coating material composition including (A) a hydroxyl group- and carboxyl group-containing resin, (B) a blocked polyisocyanate compound, (C) a polycarbodiimide compound, and (D) a basic compound. The basic compound (D) includes (D1) a basic compound having an acid dissociation constant (PKa) in a range from 7.0 to 8.5 and a boiling point in a range from 100 to 200° C. A content ratio of the basic compound (D1) is in a range from 30 to 100 mass % based on the mass of the basic compound (D). The aqueous coating material composition has a pH in a range from 8.0 to 11.5.

Abstract: Provided is a system, comprising: a control plane device; and a plurality of user plane devices, wherein the control plane device including: a request receiving unit for receiving a session generating request transmitted by a mobility management device, which has received a connection request from a user terminal; a user plane device selection unit for selecting a user plane device corresponding to the user terminal from the plurality of user plane devices, based on the session generating request; an address acquiring unit for obtaining an IP address assigned to the user terminal based on the session generating request; and a response transmission unit for transmitting a session generating response including the IP address assigned to the user terminal, identification information and IP address of the user plane device selected by the user plane device selection unit, and IP address of a PGW-U.

Abstract: Provided is a technology that suppresses the removal of collector layers in the planarization process while suppressing the snapback phenomenon. A semiconductor device related to a technology disclosed in the present specification includes a drain layer of first conductivity type in a part of a lower surface a drift layer, a plurality of collector layers of second conductivity type in parts of the lower surface of the drift layer, and a dummy layer of the first conductivity type interposed between the plurality of collector layers in parts of the lower surface of the drift layer, in which a width of the dummy layer 3 in a first direction, which is the direction in which the dummy layer is interposed between the plurality of collector layers, is narrower than a width of the drain layer in the first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thermal print head. The thermal print head includes: a substrate; a glaze layer, disposed on the substrate; and a wiring layer, disposed on the glaze layer. The wiring layer includes a plurality of bonding pads. The plurality of bonding pads are divided into a plurality of groups. Each of the plurality of groups includes a first bonding pad, a second bonding pad, a third bonding pad and a fourth bonding pad. A first group of the plurality of groups is adjacent to a second group of the plurality of groups along a first direction. The second bonding pad of the first group is located between a center of the first bonding pad of the first group and a center of the third bonding pad of the first group along the first direction.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes at least one magnetic sensor and a support. A center of gravity of an element layout area of the at least one magnetic sensor is deviated from a center of gravity of a reference plane of the support. The at least one magnetic sensor includes four auxiliary resistor sections constituted by a plurality of magnetoresistive elements. The element layout area includes first to fourth areas for laying out the four auxiliary resistor sections, respectively. Two of the first to fourth areas are arranged so that at least parts of the respective two areas sandwich a reference axis therebetween, and other two of the first to fourth areas are arranged so that at least parts of the respective other two areas sandwich the reference axis therebetween.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a substrate including a top surface, an insulating layer including an inclined surface, and a magnetic detection element disposed on the inclined surface. The magnetic detection element includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface is located at a position forward in a first direction that is one direction along the inclined surface. The second side surface is located at a position forward in a second direction that is another direction along the inclined surface. The magnetic detection element includes a first non-constant portion in which a gap between an upper end of the first side surface and an upper end of the second side surface becomes smaller along the longitudinal direction of the magnetic detection element.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a battery disposed at a vehicle body central lower portion, i.e., at a central lower portion of the vehicle body; a side sill of a hollow shape, the side sill disposed at an outer side of the battery in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a reinforcement member disposed inside the side sill, having a closed cross section of a polygonal shape, and having a continuous cylindrical structure where a plurality of the closed cross sections are continuous when viewed in the vehicle width direction; and a deformation control member attached to the reinforcement member and configured to control a deformation of the continuous cylindrical structure of the reinforcement member in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a processor configured to generate a surrounding image when a vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, based on captured images, generate a composite image in which a vehicle image showing the vehicle when viewed from the virtual viewpoint is combined with the surrounding image, and display the composite image on a display device. The processor is configured to: perform a first control for displaying the composite image on the display device while rotationally moving the virtual viewpoint with respect to the vehicle in a predetermined pattern, and a second control for displaying the composite image on the display device while moving the virtual viewpoint to a position according to an operation of an operation unit of the vehicle; and change a transmittance of the vehicle image when performing the first control and when performing the second control.

Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.

Abstract: The coating film transfer tool includes a feeding portion that feeds tape with a coating film, a transfer head that transfers the coating film from the tape onto a transfer target surface, a cassette to which the transfer head is fixed, and a head cap. Shaft portions are provided on either the head cap or the transfer head/cassette, and shaft bearing holes are provided on the other one. Due to relative rotation of the shaft portions, the head cap rotates between a closed position for covering the transfer head and an open position for exposing the transfer head. The distances from the rotation axis to the shaft portion and to the shaft bearing hole change along the circumferential direction. The head cap is biased toward the closed position when located on the closed position side, and is biased toward the open position when located on the open position side.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a user side heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe. Further, the refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a discharge temperature of the compressor, and a heat transfer pipe temperature and an outlet pipe temperature of the heat exchanger functioning as a condenser; and a controller capable of performing a supercooling degree control and a discharge temperature control or a discharge superheating degree control, based on a result of the detection by the detector. The controller is configured to control an opening degree of the expansion valve based on any of the supercooling degree control and the discharge temperature control or the discharge superheating degree control, according to operating characteristics of the refrigeration cycle apparatus.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes at least one magnetic sensor and a support. A center of gravity of an element layout area of the at least one magnetic sensor is deviated from a center of gravity of a reference plane of the support. The at least one magnetic sensor includes four resistor sections constituted by a plurality of magnetoresistive elements. Magnetization of a free layer in each of two of the resistor sections includes a component in a third magnetization direction. The magnetization of a free layer in each of the other two resistor sections includes a component in a fourth magnetization direction opposite to the third magnetization direction.

Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.

Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a display processing unit configured to display, on a display, a peripheral image representing a virtual gaze area including a virtual gaze point viewed from a virtual viewpoint in a virtual space in which a situation in a periphery of a vehicle is reflected, based on a captured image acquired by capturing an image of the periphery of the vehicle; and a change processing unit configured to change a viewpoint radius corresponding to a distance between the virtual gaze point and the virtual viewpoint and a viewing angle corresponding to a range of the virtual gaze area viewed from the virtual viewpoint in accordance with a change in a situation on a left side or a right side in a traveling direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit is connected, by a pipe, to each of a plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers via a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device, a defrosting flow passage switching device, and a backflow prevention device. The controller switches a flow passage for use in introduction of refrigerant using the defrosting flow passage switching device, to select one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers as a defrosting target to be defrosted; and supplies defrosting refrigerant whose pressure is reduced by the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device to the selected one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a flow switching device, an indoor heat exchanger, a pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe, a flow control device provided to the bypass pipe and configured to adjust a flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe, an evaporating pressure sensor configured to measure an evaporating pressure of the refrigerant, and a controller. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured to operate in a normal heating operation mode and a heating-defrosting operation mode. When an operation associated with the normal heating operation mode is switched to an operation associated with the heating-defrosting operation mode, the controller adjusts an opening degree of the flow control device using the evaporating pressure in the parallel heat exchanger and a driving frequency of the compressor.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor of the present invention has an elongate element portion having a magnetoresistive effect and a pair of elongate soft magnetic bodies that are arranged along the element portion on both sides of the element portion with regard to a short axis thereof. Each soft magnetic body includes a central portion that is adjacent to the element portion from one end to another end of the element portion with regard to a long axis direction thereof and a pair of end portions that protrude from the central portion in the long axis direction. A width of at least one of the end portions gradually decreases in a direction away from the central portion in at least a part of the end portions in the long axis direction thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides acrylic resin-modified silica particles which, when used in a coating composition, enable the coating composition to form a coating film that exhibits excellent scratch resistance and excellent adhesion during recoating (recoat adhesion). The acrylic resin-modified silica particles contain silica particles (A) and an acrylic resin (B) bonded to the silica particles (A), the acrylic resin (B) having at least one chain selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyalkylene chain and a polyester chain and having a polysiloxane structure.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, an air-conditioning load state detection unit, an operation-state detection unit, and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The air-conditioning apparatus has a simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode. In the simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode, the controller controls a compressor, a pressure reducing device, and a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device such that control amounts of the compressor, the pressure reducing device, and the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device reach respective normal-time control target values that are set based on an air-conditioning load state and an operation state.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic field detection device that includes a first and second soft magnetic bodies, and a magnetic detector. The first and second soft magnetic bodies extend along a first plane and are disposed in confronted relation in a third direction. The first plane includes both a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third direction is orthogonal to both the first and second directions. The magnetic detector is provided between the first and second soft magnetic bodies in the third direction.