Abstract: A controller detects partitioning lines OL and BL of a road and a road edge E based on an image taken by a camera, generates a pair of left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR that extend from the side to the front of a vehicle along the partitioning lines OL and BL, controls the steering so the vehicle travels between the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR, moves the left virtual line ILL to a position in proximity to the road edge E and fixes the left virtual line ILL to this position, and then, moves the right virtual line ILR to a position separated from the left virtual line ILL by the width of the vehicle and fixes the right virtual line ILR to this position, and controls brakes to stop the vehicle after fixing the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR.

Abstract: A production method for an adhesive sheet for semiconductor device production including: preparing a backing material-attached laminated body including a laminated body and a backing material; a laminated body cutting step of making an incision in the laminated body along any cut-out shape; and a backing material peeling step of peeling the backing material from the laminated body, wherein in the backing material peeling step, a portion of the laminated body existing in a region surrounded by the incision is attached to the backing material and removed.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: a spacer including a plurality of ribs and a plurality of grooves defined by the plurality of ribs; a plurality of optical fiber units accommodated in each of the plurality of grooves; and a cable sheath configured to cover the spacer and the plurality of optical fiber units. The spacer and the cable sheath are integrally formed.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes: a base portion; a first arm portion, a second arm portion, and a third arm portion that are coupled to the base portion and that are provided with fixing portions; a movable portion disposed between the first arm portion and the second arm portion and between the first arm portion and the third arm portion in a plan view; a constricted portion that is disposed between the base portion and the movable portion, and that couples the base portion and the movable portion; and a physical quantity detection element that is disposed across the constricted portion in the plan view and that is attached to the base portion and the movable portion. Thin portions are formed at least at two positions in at least one of the second arm portion and the third arm portion.

Abstract: This intermittent connection-type optical fiber tape core is configured in a manner such that in a state where a plurality of optical fiber cores are arranged in parallel in a direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of said plurality of optical fiber cores, some or all of the intervals between the plurality of optical fiber cores are intermittently provided in the lengthwise direction with connected sections where the intervals between adjacent optical fiber cores are connected and non-connected sections where the intervals between adjacent optical fiber cores are not connected. The outer diameter of each of the plurality of optical fiber cores is 160-220 ?m, inclusive. The catenary amount of the tip end of the intermittent connection-type optical fiber tape core projecting from the held location is 0.1-2 mm, inclusive, in a given state.

Abstract: Provided is a filter coefficient optimization technology that makes it possible to design a stable beamformer having a good quality by considering the relationship of a filter coefficient between adjacent frequency bins. A filter coefficient optimization apparatus includes an optimization unit that calculates an optimum value of a filter coefficient w={w1, . . .

Abstract: In a double-ended tuning fork vibrator, a pair of vibration beams having a pair of bases coupled to both ends have a first end region, a first excitation region, a first relay region, a second excitation region, a second relay region, a third excitation region, and a second end region in this order toward a first direction, and an interconnect coupling an excitation electrode in the first excitation region and an excitation electrode in the second excitation region and an interconnect coupling an excitation electrode in the first excitation region and an excitation electrode in the second excitation region are provided on a front surface of the first relay region.

Abstract: A water treatment plant which performs water treatment using a water treatment device includes an imaging device, a processing device, and a control device. The imaging device images a water treatment environment of the water treatment device and outputs image data obtained by imaging. The processing device causes an arithmetic device which performs an arithmetic operation using one or more calculation models generated by machine learning to execute the arithmetic operation employing the image data output from the imaging device as input data of the one or more calculation models. The control device controls the water treatment device on the basis of output information output from the arithmetic device by executing the arithmetic operation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to easily assemble and exchange a reflection type optical device and their parts in an optical sensor for bill validation by fitting unitized housings into openings of partitions. The optical sensor for bill validation includes a reflection type optical device (13, 30) that has a housing (41) for receiving an optical component (40) and also forming a part of a bill passageway (20). The housing (41) has a lid (42) and a box (43), the lid (42) being formed of light-permeable materials to allow lights irradiated from the inner optical component (40) and lights reflected on the bill to pass through the lid (42), and the box (43) surrounding the inner optical component (40) in combination with the lid (42) that is fit into an opening (53) formed in a partition (11, 12).

Abstract: A hose for conveying a refrigerant, having an inner surface layer that includes a thermoplastic resin composition with a sea-island structure or a thermoplastic resin, an outer surface layer that includes a thermoplastic resin composition having a sea-island structure, and a reinforcing layer. An oxygen permeability coefficient at a temperature of 21° C. and a relative humidity of 50% of the thermoplastic resin composition or the thermoplastic resin of the inner surface layer is 0.05 cm3·mm/(m2·day·mmHg) or less. A water vapor permeability coefficient at a temperature of 60° C. and a relative humidity of 100% of the thermoplastic resin composition of the outer surface layer being is 10.0 g·mm/(m2·24 h) or less. The reinforcing layer includes an organic fiber with an inclination angle of 49° or more and 61° or less.

Abstract: A dark place judgment device includes: an acquisition portion, acquiring a composite image, which is a composite of a first captured image captured in front of a vehicle with a first sensitivity and a second captured image captured in front of the vehicle with a second sensitivity; a dark place progression calculation portion, calculating a time change amount of a ratio of a first number of pixels of first pixels of the first captured image in a predetermined judgment area or a second number of pixels of second pixels of the second captured image in the judgment area to a number of pixels of judgment pixels in the judgment area of the composite image as the dark place progression; and a judgment portion, judging that a dark place is scheduled to be entered when the dark place progression is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: An estimation unit estimates attitude parameters, which are parameters representing an attitude of an object in a target image based on the target image, which is an image in which the object whose attitude is to be estimated has been taken, using an attitude estimation model learned using one or more teacher data including a teacher image, which is an image in which the object has been taken, and the attitude parameters of the object in the teacher image. An acquisition unit acquires a teacher image whose attitude similarity, which is a degree of similarity between the estimated attitude parameters and the attitude parameters related to the teacher image, is the largest among one or more teacher images included in the one or more teacher data. A first computation unit computes an image similarity, which is a degree of similarity between the target image and the acquired teacher image.

Abstract: The disclosure aims to provide a polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder containing less water and less impurities. Provided is a polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder substantially free from water and a fluorine-containing compound having a molecular weight of 1000 or less.

Abstract: A physical quantity detector includes a base member, a movable part coupled to the base member, a physical quantity detection element which is attached to the base member and the movable part, and which detects a physical quantity caused by a stress according to a displacement of the movable part, a supporter configured to support the base member, and a weight bonded to a principal surface of the movable part, wherein the weight includes a main body overlapping the movable part and the supporter when viewed from a perpendicular direction of the principal surface, and a first protrusion which protrudes from the main body toward the movable part, and which is bonded to the movable part, and the main body and the first protrusion are disposed integrally with each other.

Abstract: A modular vending machine system including: multiple cartridges configured to hold a good to be dispensed; a docking station configured to removably store at least one of the cartridges; a vending machine main body including a cartridge port configured to receive at least one of the cartridges, a dispensing-port for dispensing the good to a user, and a mechanism configured to perform at least one of removing the good from the cartridge, performing dispensing preparation processing of the good, or dispensing the good via the dispensing port; and control circuitry configured to control operation of the cartridges, the docking station, and the vending machine, wherein the cartridge is provided with a traveling mechanism configured to enable the cartridge to move to and from the docking station and the vending machine main body.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a tank, and a flow passage. The carriage includes a liquid ejecting recording head and reciprocates in first and second directions. The flow passage supplies liquid from the tank to the recording head, and includes a fixed flow passage, a first flow passage, and a second flow passage. The fixed flow passage is connected to the tank and does not to follow a movement of the carriage. The first flow passage is branched off from the fixed flow passage, is connected to the recording head in the first direction, and follows the carriage movement. The second flow passage is branched off from the fixed flow passage, is connected to the recording head in the second direction, and follows the carriage movement. After the carriage moves in the first direction, stops, and moves in the second direction, liquid is sucked from the recording head.

Abstract: The disclosure aims to provide a polytetrafluoroethylene powder for an electrode binder which can not only reduce or prevent gas generation inside a battery cell and deterioration of battery characteristics but also improve the electrode strength, an electrode binder, an electrode mixture, an electrode, and a secondary battery. Provided is a polytetrafluoroethylene powder for use as an electrode binder, the polytetrafluoroethylene having a standard specific gravity of 2.200 or less and being substantially free from water.

Abstract: Provided is a refrigerant-transporting hose having a low gas permeability of steam, fluorocarbons, or the like, and being flexible and light-weight. The refrigerant-transporting hose includes at least an outer layer, a reinforcing layer, and an inner layer. The outer layer has a layer composed of a thermoplastic resin composition A, and the inner layer has a layer composed of a thermoplastic resin composition B. The thermoplastic resin composition A has a sea-island structure in which a thermoplastic resin a containing a polyolefin resin serves as the matrix and from 51 to 85 mass % of an elastomer a containing a butyl elastomer serves as the domains. The thermoplastic resin composition B has a sea-island structure in which a thermoplastic resin b containing a polyamide resin serves as the matrix and an elastomer b containing a butyl elastomer serves as the domains.

Abstract: A hybrid-type solid electrolytic capacitor which suppresses corrosive reaction even if chlorine ions are contaminated while suppressing deterioration of product characteristics. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element including an anode foil and a cathode foil facing each other and an electrolyte layer formed in the capacitor element. The electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte layer including a dopant and a conjugated polymer, and an electrolyte solution filled in air gaps in the capacitor element on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed. The electrolyte layer includes a cation component at a molecular ratio of 6 or less relative to 1 mol of a functional group which can contribute to a doping reaction of the dopant, and the electrolytic solution includes a sulfolane-based solvent.