Abstract: A composition including a polytetrafluoroethylene and a polymer (I) containing a polymerization unit (I) based on a monomer represented by the following general formula (I), the composition having a standard specific gravity of 2.200 or less: CX1X3=CX2R(—CZ1Z2-A0)m??(I) wherein X1 and X3 are each independently F, Cl, H, or CF3; A0 is an anionic group; X2 is H, F, an alkyl group, or a fluorine-containing alkyl group; R is a linking group; Z1 and Z2 are each independently H, F, an alkyl group, or a fluorine-containing alkyl group; and m is an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: This aluminum powder mixture is an aluminum powder mixture obtained by mixing two or more powders containing aluminum, in which an oxygen content of the aluminum powder mixture is 0.3 mass % or less, and a total content of one or more elements selected from Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, Si, and Zn contained in the aluminum powder mixture is 0.4 mass % or more and 5.0 mass % or less.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a sensor that measures a velocity of a moving object, a camera that is different from the sensor and images the object, and a processing circuit that controls the operations of the sensor and the camera, wherein the processing circuit causes the sensor to generate velocity information on the object and measurement timing information on the velocity by causing the sensor to measure the velocity of the object, generates control data, including imaging timing information on the camera, in accordance with (a) position information on the object or distance information on the object at a time of velocity measurement, (b) the velocity information, and (c) the measurement timing information, and causes the camera to output, in response to the control data, image data including image information on the object.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a fluoropolymer, the method including polymerizing a fluoromonomer in an aqueous medium to obtain a polymerization dispersion containing the fluoropolymer, and bringing the fluoropolymer in the polymerization dispersion into contact with an alcohol having 3 to 5 carbon atoms to coagulate the fluoropolymer to thereby obtain the fluoropolymer.

Abstract: An electric lock control method includes: performing a first determination of whether a person is present in a predetermined region surrounding an electric lock, based on first information generated by an electronic device; when it is determined that a first person is present in the predetermined region in the performing of the first determination, performing a second determination of whether the first person is a person who is permitted to unlock the electric lock, based on second information related to movement of the first person; and controlling a state of the electric lock based on a result of the second determination, the state being a locked state or an unlocked state.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a composition containing a fluororesin, the method comprising polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in the presence of a polymer (I) containing a polymerization unit (I) derived from a monomer (I) represented by the general formula (I) to obtain a polymerization dispersion containing a fluororesin containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit, coagulating the fluororesin in the polymerization dispersion to obtain a coagulate, and washing the coagulate to obtain a composition containing the fluororesin, wherein (1) the coagulation is carried out by bringing the fluororesin in the polymerization dispersion into contact with an organic solvent, and/or (2) the washing is carried out by bringing the coagulate into contact with an organic solvent, CX1X3?CX2R(—CZ1Z2-A0)m??(I) wherein the definitions of the reference signs in the formula are as provided in the specification.

Abstract: A driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle includes an acquiring unit and a control unit. The acquiring unit acquires a detected traveling environment of the vehicle. Using the acquired traveling environment, and in response to a preceding vehicle being present near a road edge and no obstacle being present between the road edge and the preceding vehicle, the control unit causes a driving assisting unit to perform driving assistance in which the preceding vehicle is tracked.

Abstract: The disclosure aims to provide a fluororesin composition having excellent tensile properties and excellent handleability while containing a fluororesin having a history of being heated to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point thereof and a molded article obtainable from the fluororesin composition. The disclosure relates to a non-melt-flowable fluororesin composition containing: a non-melt-flowable fluororesin A having a history of being heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point thereof; a fluororesin B including at least one selected from the group consisting of a melt-flowable fluororesin and a non-melt-flowable fluororesin having no history of being heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point thereof; and a filler.

Abstract: An object is to improve estimation accuracy of the internal distribution state of a rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator; a rotor rotatably provided on a radially inner side of the stator; a shaft provided as a rotary shaft of the rotor; a bracket supporting the shaft rotatably relative to the stator via a bearing; and a sensor provided to the shaft between the rotor and the bearing.

Abstract: A breakable capsule for use in a tobacco industry product is disclosed. The capsule has a core-shell structure that includes a core containing both a crystallization inhibitor and at least about 35% w/w menthol, based on the total weight of the core. The crystallization inhibitor, which is different than methanol, may help reduce or inhibit the crystallization of methanol in the core-shell structure.

Abstract: A curable water-swelling water stop material including: 100 parts by mass of a resin component which includes 40 to 100 parts by mass of a curable resin having a hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group and 0 to 60 parts by mass of a polyether polyol; 0.3 to 25 parts by mass of an aminosilane coupling agent; 20 to 250 parts by mass of a water-absorbent resin; and 0 to 160 parts by mass of an extender pigment, in which the hydrolysable alkoxysilyl group having a structure represented by Formula (1) —X—CH2—SiR1Y(OR2)3-Y, in which X is a bonding functional group having a heteroatom with an unshared electron pair and bonding to a methylene group bonding to a silicon atom of a hydrolysable silicon group, R1 and R2 are C1-C3 alkyl groups respectively, and Y is 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a molding material excellent in dimensional stability and operation safety during surface treatment after molding. The molding material according to the present invention is for use in molding by a hot melt lamination method and contains an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer.

Abstract: A cooling device capable of preventing inflow of bubbles to a pump even in a zero-gravity space and a space structure including the cooling device are obtained. In a cooling device, a pump, a cooler, and a radiator are connected sequentially by a refrigerant flow path. An accumulator is connected to the refrigerant flow path connecting the pump and the radiator. The accumulator includes a container storing refrigerant, a cooling section cooling a base-end side of the container, and a heating section heating a front-end side of the container.

Abstract: A wearable key device is to be used while being worn on a predetermined position of a body and includes a ring communication module, an imaging device, and a ring controller. The ring communication module is configured to wirelessly communicate with an authentication device provided to a predetermined protection object. The imaging device is configured to capture an image of the predetermined position of the body. The ring controller is configured to acquire wearer information that is biometric information of a wearer who wears the wearable key device based on the image captured by the imaging device. The wearer information is used for determining whether the wearer is an authorized user.

Abstract: A fishing rod includes a hollow rod extending along a central axis; and a shaft member with an outer peripheral surface inclined relative to the central axis inserted into the rod from the one end, and that is supported by an inner peripheral surface of the rod at a support position on another end side of the one end in an axial direction along the central axis, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the rod has at least one convex portion protruding toward the central axis from a virtual curve between the support position and the one end position axially when drawing a virtual curve that is convex toward the central axis through the support position and the one end position at the end of the end side of the inner peripheral surface in an area radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft member.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a first communicator capable of wireless-communicating using a cellular communication scheme; a second communicator capable of wireless-communicating with another communication apparatus using a first communication scheme (not the cellular communication scheme); and a controller controlling the first and second communicators to execute a first communication mode. The second communicator transmits a wireless connection request to the other communication apparatus in the first communication mode.

Abstract: A transmission control device, which drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges, includes: a genuine transmission control unit that transmits, from a genuine transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device; and an inversion transmission control unit that transmits, from an inversion transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, an inversion code including at least partial inverted genuine code concurrently with a transmission of the genuine code from the genuine transmission antenna. The inversion transmission antenna has a transmission range which does not overlap with a transmission range of the genuine transmission antenna.

Abstract: A vehicle authentication system includes a ring-type wearable device, an in-vehicle device, and a communication terminal. The in-vehicle device performs authentication regarding use of the vehicle. The in-vehicle device causes a short-range communication module to perform short-range wireless communication with the ring-type wearable device that has unique identification information. The in-vehicle device acquires information received by a wide area communication module configured to communicate, via a network, with the communication terminal configured to make a reservation for the use of the vehicle.

Abstract: This motor device includes: a motor having components including a stator and a rotor; and a controlling circuitry to control the motor. The motor is provided with temperature sensors to detect a heat transfer amount and a transfer direction about the components. The controlling circuitry includes a temperature calculator to calculate a component temperature based on a thermal circuit network from thermal resistances and heat capacities given for the components. On the basis of actual measured values of the heat transfer amount and the transfer direction obtained by the temperature sensors, the temperature calculator corrects thermal resistances and heat capacities about the components obtained on the basis of the thermal circuit network, and estimates the temperature of each component during driving of the motor.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a lane change detection unit, a lane identification unit, a first space determination unit, an operation control unit. The lane identification unit identifies an original lane and a destination lane by using a detection result obtained by a boundary detection unit that detects a first boundary and a second boundary. The first boundary is a boundary between the original lane and the destination lane, and the second boundary is a boundary that defines the original lane and is located on a side opposite to the first boundary. When it is detected that the own vehicle is scheduled to perform a lane change and it is determined that the passable space is present, the operation control unit causes the own vehicle to perform a lateral movement operation before the lane change is performed. The lateral movement operation causes the own vehicle to approach the destination lane.