Abstract: A light module (1), in order to adjust the phase of light using a simple configuration, comprises: a light outputting means (20) for outputting light; a phase control means (17) for adjusting the phase of the light; and a detection means (16) for detecting the intensity of the light. The phase control means (17) adjusts the phase of the light on the basis of the intensity.

Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser apparatus (10) comprises: a semiconductor optical amplifier (121) that outputs light due to supplied power; a heater (124) that controls a wavelength of the light output from the semiconductor optical amplifier by performing heating due to the supplied power; and a control unit (11) in configured to control power, the power being supplied to the heater, in which the control unit determines, based on the wavelength of the light output from the wavelength tunable laser apparatus, a target value of the power to be supplied to the heater and transition of the power to be supplied to the heater until the target value is reached.

Abstract: In order to enable oscillation of transmission light at any oscillation frequency even in an environment in which an environmental temperature varies significantly from an assumed temperature, a control device for a light source including a wavelength variable filter includes a temperature reception means for receiving substrate temperature information being information indicating a substrate temperature being a temperature of a substrate on which the light source is provided, and housing temperature information being information indicating a housing temperature being a temperature of a housing containing the substrate; and a control means for controlling, based on the substrate temperature information and the housing temperature information, the substrate temperature and a refractive index of the wavelength variable filter in such a way that a frequency of transmission light being output by the light source becomes a desired frequency.

Abstract: The electric vehicle of the present disclosure includes an accelerator pedal, a paddle type shifter, and a motor controller. The paddle type shifter is pre-registered with upshift operation, downshift operation, and mode switching operation. The motor controller switches a control mode of the electric motor between a manual mode and an automatic mode in response to the mode switching operation on the paddle type shifter. When the control mode is the automatic mode, the motor controller changes an output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal. On the other hand, when the control mode is the manual mode, the motor controller changes an output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the upshift operation and the downshift operation of the paddle type shifter.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus can communicate with a controller configured to operate a catheter robot capable of moving an inserted device within the object and comprises a display and processing circuitry. The display is configured to display at least one fluoroscopic image of an object. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a control signal indicating a content of an operation on the catheter robot from the controller, acquire a plurality of fluoroscopic images of the object by irradiating the object with X-rays, control X-ray irradiation to the object, cause the display to display the plurality of fluoroscopic images to be sequentially acquired when the X-ray irradiation is performed, generate a plurality of reproduced images based on the plurality of fluoroscopic images acquired before a stop of the X-ray irradiation and cause the display to display the plurality of reproduced images when the X-ray irradiation is stopped.

Abstract: The electric vehicle of the present disclosure includes an accelerator pedal, a paddle type shifter, and a motor controller. The paddle type shifter is pre-registered with upshift operation, downshift operation, and mode switching operation. The motor controller switches a control mode of the electric motor between a manual mode and an automatic mode in response to the mode switching operation on the paddle type shifter. When the control mode is the automatic mode, the motor controller changes an output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal. On the other hand, when the control mode is the manual mode, the motor controller changes an output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the upshift operation and the downshift operation of the paddle type shifter.

Abstract: The electric vehicle of the present disclosure includes an accelerator pedal, a paddle type shifter, and a motor controller. The paddle type shifter is pre-registered with upshift operation, downshift operation, and mode switching operation. The motor controller switches a control mode of the electric motor between a manual mode and an automatic mode in response to the mode switching operation on the paddle type shifter. When the control mode is the automatic mode, the motor controller changes an output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal. On the other hand, when the control mode is the manual mode, the motor controller changes an output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the upshift operation and the downshift operation of the paddle type shifter.

Abstract: A battery electric vehicle includes: a mode selection device in which one travel mode is selected from a plurality of travel modes by an operation of a driver, the travel modes including a motor travel mode in which a motor is controlled such that required torque required for traveling is output to a drive shaft, and a shift travel mode in which the motor is controlled such that torque output to the drive shaft based on a shift operation by the driver is simulation torque that simulates torque behavior in an engine vehicle equipped with an engine and a stepped transmission; and a control device that controls the motor such that the battery electric vehicle travels in the travel mode selected by the mode selection device. The control device prohibits a change in the simulation torque while the battery electric vehicle is traveling, when the shift travel mode is selected.

Abstract: A battery electric vehicle includes a motor configured to output torque for driving to a drive shaft, a mode selector configured to select a driving mode from a plurality of driving modes based on driver's operation including a motor driving mode that the battery electric vehicle is driven by outputting a required torque required for driving from the motor and a gear shift driving mode that the battery electric vehicle is driven with behavior of torque output from the motor as behavior of the torque in an engine vehicle including an engine and a transmission based on the driver's shift operation, and a controller programmed to control the motor such that the battery electric vehicle drives in the driving mode selected by the mode selector. The controller is programmed to permit switching between the motor driving mode and the gear shift driving mode when a steering wheel is gripped.

Abstract: The invention of the present application has an object of providing a mine management system capable of separately sensing an abnormality of a powertrain system and a load amount sensor of a mine dump truck. For this purpose, a mine management system for managing mine dump trucks operating in a mine includes a processing device that calculates and totalizes a productivity index of the mine dump trucks, in which the processing device: calculates consumed energy of the mine dump truck on the basis of at least a vehicle velocity of the mine dump truck, a road surface gradient, and a load amount; calculates input energy of the mine dump truck on the basis of at least one of a fuel injection amount, trolley electric power, and battery electric power of the mine dump truck; and determines presence or absence of an abnormality of a load amount sensor or a powertrain system of the mine dump truck on the basis of the consumed energy and the input energy.

Abstract: A battery electric vehicle includes: an accelerator pedal; a shifter; a mode selection device that selects a control mode for an electric motor from a manual mode and an automatic mode in accordance with a mode selection operation by a driver; and a motor control device. The motor control device varies an output characteristic of the electric motor for an operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with an operation position of the shifter in the manual mode. The motor control device varies an output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal, irrespective of the operation position of the shifter, in the automatic mode. When ACC is requested during control in the manual mode, the motor control device switches control for the electric motor from the manual mode to the automatic mode.

Abstract: Battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a data management device that manages vehicle characteristic data, and a motor control device that controls an electric motor according to the vehicle characteristic data. The vehicle characteristic data is data configured to change the output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the operation position of the shifter. The vehicle characteristic data includes standard vehicle characteristic data and locked special vehicle characteristic data. The data management device is configured to unlock the special vehicle characteristic data in response to the unlocking condition requiring the predetermined action of the driver being satisfied.

Abstract: A battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a mode selector, and a control device. The mode selector selects either an EV mode or an MT mode as a control mode for an electric motor according to a mode selection operation by a driver. When the SOC of a battery is within a predetermined range, the control device controls the electric motor in the control mode selected by the mode selector. When the SOC is out of the predetermined range, the control device controls the electric motor in the EV mode regardless of the control mode selected by the mode selector.

Abstract: Battery electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a shifter, a mode selection device, and a control device. When the electric motor is controlled in EV mode, the control device changes the output of the electric motor in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal regardless of the operation position of the shifter, and when the electric motor is controlled in MT mode, the control device changes the output characteristic of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the accelerator pedal in accordance with the operation position of the shifter. When battery electric vehicle is activated, the mode selection device automatically selects a particular control mode, preferably an EV mode, between EV mode and MT mode.

Abstract: The electric vehicle of the present disclosure is configured to use an electric motor as a power unit for traveling. The electric vehicle includes an accelerator pedal, a sequential shifter, and a controller. The controller is configured to change a motor torque output by the electric motor in response to operation of the accelerator pedal and operation of the sequential shifter. The controller is configured to change a change rate of the motor torque at least twice during a preset shift time in response to the operation of the sequential shifter.

Abstract: A smoke detector includes: a casing; a first light emitting unit; a second light emitting unit; and a light receiving unit. A second scattering angle that is an angle between the reception axis of the light receiving unit and a second extension extending from an intersection of the second emission axis and the reception axis in a direction away from the second light emitting unit is larger than a first scattering angle that is an angle between the reception axis of the light receiving unit and a first extension extending from an intersection of the first emission axis and the reception axis in a direction away from the first light emitting unit.

Abstract: In order to provide an optical module capable of detecting a frequency variation at higher accuracy, an optical module includes a light source that outputs light, a first splitter that splits the light, a band filter that transmits one piece of light split by the first splitter with a periodic frequency characteristic, a transmitted-light detector that detects transmitted-light intensity transmitted through the band filter, a variation device that varies the transmitted-light intensity in a first direction, by varying a parameter of a signal being input to the light source, and a frequency variation detection device that detects a frequency variation of the light from the light source, when a variation of the transmitted-light intensity in a second direction being opposite to the first direction is detected, in a case where the variation device varies the parameter from the first value to the second value.

Abstract: A vehicle body management system for managing a vehicle body having a power train formed by a plurality of parts including a prime mover, the vehicle body management system including: a processing device that computes an efficiency value of a monitoring target, the monitoring target being the power train or a part or a subsystem of the power train, on the basis of information about the vehicle body, the information being sensed by a sensor provided to the vehicle body; and an output terminal that outputs the efficiency value of the monitoring target, the efficiency value being computed by the processing device, the processing device computing a load parameter of the power train, determining whether the load parameter is larger than a load determination value set in advance, computing the efficiency value of the monitoring target on the basis of input energy and output energy of the monitoring target on condition that the load parameter be larger than the load determination value, and recording the computed ef

Abstract: An object of the invention of the present application is to provide a mine management system capable of accurately maintaining and managing the productivity of a mine.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry that obtains first X-ray images, a second X-ray image taken later than the first X-ray images, first biological information to a periodic movement of a subject at the times of taking the first X-ray images and second biological information to a periodic movement of the subject at the time of taking the second X-ray image; detects a characteristic position to a first device from each of the first X-ray images; associates the characteristic position with a time phase in the first biological information, based on the first X-ray images and first biological information; and displays device information to the first device superimposed on the second X-ray image, by using a result of the associating and time phase in the second biological information.