Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading member that reads an image of a document that is transported, a discharge portion onto which the document that is read by the reading member is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the discharge portion, an object being placed on the placement portion such that at least a part of an upper surface of the reading member is covered, and an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: A musical sound processing apparatus, a musical sound processing method, and a storage medium capable of generating musical sound full of interest are provided. The musical sound processing apparatus includes a first control unit configured to control a timing of sounding of a first tone in steps that come with an interval therebetween and a second control unit configured to control a timing of sounding of a second tone following or overlapping the first tone according to a first tempo, wherein the first control unit is configured to control the timing of sounding of the first tone according to the first tempo when timing information has not been acquired from outside and control the timing of sounding of the first tone according to a second tempo which is based on the timing information and different from the first tempo when the timing information has been acquired.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, an electric wire connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to an electric wire, a holding portion provided between the terminal connecting portion and the electric wire connecting portion and configured to be held by a housing, a sealed space formed in the holding portion, a latent heat storage material and a gas sealed in the sealed space, a sealing hole communicating the sealed space with a space outside the connection terminal, and a plug member configured to block the sealing hole.

Abstract: In a control apparatus for an in-wheel motor vehicle equipped with a motor provided in a tire wheel, at least one sensor provided in a case accommodating the motor, an electric power supply provided on a vehicle body and an electrical storage device that stores electric power, a controller provided on the vehicle body to control the motor, a power cable that connects the motor to the electric power supply and the electrical storage device, and a sensor cable that connects the sensor and the controller to each other, the controller is configured to perform disconnection control for discharging the electric power stored in the electrical storage device to an extra device when the sensor cable is disconnected.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to: a composition capable of removing dry etching residue present on the surface of a semiconductor integrated circuit, while suppressing alumina damage in a production process for the semiconductor integrated circuit; a cleaning method for semiconductor substrates that use alumina; and a production method for a semiconductor substrate having an alumina layer. This composition is characterized by containing 0.00005%-1% by mass of a barium compound (A) and 0.01%-20% by mass of a fluorine compound (B) and having a pH of 2.5-8.0.

Abstract: An organic metal complex represented by formula (1) and having a ligand represented by formula (2). MLmL?nL?l??(1) In formula (1), M represents a transition metal, and Lm, L?n, and L?l represent ligands different from each other. In formula (2), R11 to R14 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a substituent. X is selected from the group consisting of CRR?, SiRR?, S, SO, and SO2. Y1 to Y6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom. When Y3 to Y6 are carbon atoms, each of the carbon atoms may be bound to a carbon atom adjacent to the carbon atom to form a ring structure.

Abstract: A novel carboxylic acid iodonium salt and a resist composition comprising the same as a quencher are provided. When resist composition is processed by photolithography using KrF or ArF excimer laser, EB or EUV, there is formed a resist pattern which is improved in rectangularity, MEF, LWR, and CDU.

Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, an inverter, an electric power storage device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to generate a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal of the switching elements by comparison of a voltage command of each phase according to a torque command of the motor and a carrier wave voltage, as a first PWM control. The electronic control unit is configured to generate a second PWM signal of the switching elements based on a modulation factor and a voltage phase of a voltage according to the torque command and a pulse count per unit cycle of an electric angle of the motor, as a second pulse width modulation control. The electronic control unit is configured to limit execution of the second PWM control when high controllability of the motor is requested rather than when the high controllability is not requested.

Abstract: A method of path planning for a host vehicle includes: receiving host vehicle, environmental and obstacle information; calculating one or more projected host vehicle locations; computing a projected obstacle location for each obstacle; and determining a collision potential between each projected host vehicle location and each projected obstacle location. Until a maximum number of steps is reached, and while at least one projected host vehicle location has an associated collision potential below a collision threshold, the method further includes repeating the calculating, computing and determining steps.

Abstract: An aqueous composition may include: (A) a fluoride ion supply source in an amount that gives a fluoride ion concentration of 0.05 to 30 mmol/L in the composition; (B) a cation supply source in an amount that gives a mole ratio of cations of 0.3 to 20 to the fluoride ions in the composition; and (C) 0.0001 to 10 mass % of one or more compounds selected from a C4-13 alkylphosphonic acid, a C4-13 alkylphosphonate ester, a C4-13 alkyl phosphate and a salt thereof, with respect to the total amount of the composition, wherein pH is in a range of from 2 to 6.

Abstract: A vehicle and a system and a method of operating the vehicle. The system includes a reasoning engine, an episodic memory, a resolver and a controller. The reasoning engine infers a plurality of possible scenarios based on a current state of an environment of the vehicle. The episodic memory determines a historical likelihood for each of the plurality of possible scenarios. The resolver selects a scenario from the plurality of possible scenarios using the historical likelihoods. The controller operates the vehicle based on the selected scenario.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by the following general formula is provided. In the above formula (1), R11 to R15 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom provided that at least one of R11, R13, and R15 represents the alkoxy group or the aryloxy group; and R11 to R15 may form a ring structure therebetween. R5 and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. In addition, R21 to R24 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom and may form a ring structure therebetween. The above groups except the acyl group may be substituted when necessary.

Abstract: A control system of the autonomous vehicle may generate multiple possible behavior control movements based on the driving goal and the assessment of the vehicle environment. In doing so, the method and system selects one of the best behavior control, among the multiple possible movements, and the selection is based on the quantitative grading of its driving behavior.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a duct, a stacked core, and a coupling plate. The duct includes a first plate that is disposed to face at least one of end faces of the stacked core in a core width direction, and a second plate that is disposed to face at least one of the end faces of the stacked core in a tube stacking direction. The second plate includes a second-plate end plate portion disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the core width direction and brazed to a wall surface of the first plate, a second-plate center plate portion that is disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the tube stacking direction, and a flange portion that extends in the tube stacking direction and is brazed to a bottom wall surface of a groove portion of the coupling plate.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that reads a document transported in a second scan direction, a detector unit that detect a position of an edge of the document in a first scan direction crossing the second scan direction, a setting unit that sets a search range of the edge of the document in the first scan direction, the search range including the position of the edge detected by the detector unit, and a search unit that, on image data that the reading unit has read from the document, searches for the position of the edge within the search range of the edge set by the setting unit.