Abstract: A connector (10) includes a set of type 1 contacts (4A) disposed in a type 1 holding area, the type 1 contacts (4A) being disposed facing each other, and a type 2 contact (4B) disposed in each of two type 2 holding areas sandwiching the type 1 holding area. When viewed from above, at least a portion of the type 2 contact (4B) is disposed in a range obtained by extending, in a first direction in which the type 1 holding area and the two type 2 holding areas are arranged, a region in which the set of type 1 contacts (4A) oppose each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Additionally, the type 2 contact (4B) includes a connecting portion that is connected to the circuit of the circuit board, and a contacting portion that is disposed at a position separated, from the connecting portion in a normal direction of an installation surface to the circuit board, and that contacts a terminal of a mating connector.

Abstract: To provide a motor controller and an electric power steering apparatus which can suppress torque fluctuation resulting from low detection resolution of angle, with simple calculation, even in condition where the rotational speed of motor is low. A motor controller estimates an angle error correlation value correlated with the angle detection error based on the current command value when a change frequency of the angle detection value is lower than a cutoff frequency of feedback control system which controls a rotation state; corrects the current command value or the angle detection value based on the estimation value of angle error correlation value; and changes the estimation value of angle error correlation value so that the absolute value of angle detection error increases with respect to increase in the current command value, and the absolute value of angle detection error decreases with respect to decrease in the current command value.

Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet seat disposed on an upper side of a toilet; an image sensor provided on a back surface of the toilet seat and configured to image an inner space of a toilet bowl at time of excretion; an open-close acquiring device configured to acquire open-close information of the toilet seat; and an imaging controller configured to determine whether or not to image by the image sensor according to the open-close information of the toilet seat acquired by the open-close acquiring device.

Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement.

Abstract: A determination device includes an image information acquirer configured to acquire image information of a subject image obtained by photographing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; an estimator configured to perform estimation regarding a determination matter relating to excretion by inputting the image information to a learned model, the learned model having learned a correspondence relationship between an image for learning and a determination result of the determination matter relating to excretion, the learned model learned by machine learning using a neural network, the image for learning representing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; and a determiner configured to perform determination regarding the determination matter of the subject image based on an estimation result obtained by the estimator.

Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a high-frequency compensation unit that outputs a high-frequency compensation signal obtained by filtering the high-frequency components of an assist torque command signal and multiplying the filtered high-frequency components by a gain; a corrected steering torque signal obtained by negatively or positively feeding back the high-frequency compensation signal to a steering torque signal is inputted to an assist torque command calculation unit; the assist torque command calculation unit outputs the assist torque command signal in accordance with the corrected steering torque signal.

Abstract: An electric wire arranging jig (40) has an electric wire arranging groove (16, 31, 41) configured to be inserted the electric wires. The electric wire arranging groove has a pair of arranging surfaces facing each other. The electric wire arranging groove is configured to have a cross-sectional shape, in a section perpendicular to a direction of the electric wires extending within the electric wire arranging groove, having a distance in a width direction of the electric wire arranging groove continuously narrowed from an insertion start portion for the electric wires toward a bottom portion of the electric wire arranging groove and the arranging surfaces each inclining from a vertical direction, at least in a part of a segment between the insertion start portion and the bottom portion.

Abstract: A blank has an upper surface and a reverse surface. The upper surface is printed in a conventional manner and includes outer side panels and inner side panels. Attachment regions are provided on the inner side panels of the outer surface, and corresponding attachment regions are provided on the outer side panels of the reverse surface. During assembly the respective attachment regions are arranged to face one another and an adhesive is provided therebetween. In the present method, the attachment regions of the upper surface initially have a surface tension in the range from around 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm before the upper surface is printed. The attachment regions are treated in order to maintain a surface tension in the desired range of 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm, following printing and before any adhesive is applied. This is achieved by applying an auxiliary printing medium to the attachment regions.

Abstract: An installation structure of a temperature sensor includes a measured object support provided with an installation section, a guide section, and a measured object support section configured to support a measured object; and a temperature sensor provided with a guided section engaged with the guide section of the measured object support, and installed in the installation section of the measured object support by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the measured object support in a manner along one predetermined outer surface of the measured object while engaging the guided section with the guide section.

Abstract: To provide a motor controller and an electric power steering apparatus which can suppress torque fluctuation resulting from low detection resolution of angle, with simple calculation, even in condition where the rotational speed of motor is low. A motor controller estimates an angle error correlation value correlated with the angle detection error based on the current command value when a change frequency of the angle detection value is lower than a cutoff frequency of feedback control system which controls a rotation state; corrects the current command value or the angle detection value based on the estimation value of angle error correlation value; and changes the estimation value of angle error correlation value so that the absolute value of angle detection error increases with respect to increase in the current command value, and the absolute value of angle detection error decreases with respect to decrease in the current command value.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an active exercise apparatus for lower limbs that allows a user to perform on a floor lower limb active exercise highly effective in preventing thrombosis.

Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.

Abstract: An electric wire arranging jig (40) has an electric wire arranging groove (16, 31, 41) configured to be inserted the electric wires. The electric wire arranging groove has a pair of arranging surfaces facing each other. The electric wire arranging groove is configured to have a cross-sectional shape, in a section perpendicular to a direction of the electric wires extending within the electric wire arranging groove, having a distance in a width direction of the electric wire arranging groove continuously narrowed from an insertion start portion for the electric wires toward a bottom portion of the electric wire arranging groove and the arranging surfaces each inclining from a vertical direction, at least in a part of a segment between the insertion start portion and the bottom portion.

Abstract: In an electric sound conversion apparatus, it is possible to reproduce sound of high quality particularly in a low-tone range. A driving magnet 31 is fixed in a cup-shaped yoke 29, and a vibrating membrane 39 facing a driving magnet at an interval is fixed at a tip portion of the yoke 29 to block it. A voice coil 41 formed by winding an insulated wire is fixed in the vibrating membrane 39 to surround the central region. The voice coil 41 is inserted between an outer periphery of the driving magnet 31 and an inner wall inside the yoke 29. Lead wires at both ends 41a of the voice coil 41 are drawn from diagonal positions. An outer peripheral region 39b faces a sealed space E formed between the outer periphery of the driving magnet 31 and an area inside the yoke 29 from a vicinity of the voice coil 41 in the vibrating membrane 39.

Abstract: A control unit of an electric motor control device includes an inverter circuit 6 that supplies power to an electric motor, a current control unit that outputs a voltage command value as a drive command of the inverter circuit, a current detecting unit that detects current flowing to each phase of the electric motor, and a failed phase identifying unit that identifies a location of a failure in the current detecting unit. The failed phase identifying unit determines whether or not a magnitude or a phase of a frequency component of the test voltage command included in a detected current value when the inverter circuit is driven with a test voltage command having a frequency higher than a rotational frequency of the electric motor as a drive command is within a predetermined range, and determines that a failure has occurred in a phase that is not within the predetermined range.

Abstract: There is provided an electroacoustic transducer capable of reproducing high-quality sound particularly in a low frequency range, including: a cylindrical yoke; a drive magnet placed coaxially with the yoke so as to circumferentially face the yoke; a diaphragm fixed at the cylindrical tip end portion of the yoke so as to face each other; and a voice coil fixed to one surface of the diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm is formed, with the central region having rigidity so as to be less flexible compared with an outer circumferential region surrounding the central region, and the voice coil is inserted between the drive magnet and the yoke, and configured to cause the diaphragm to vibrate by a voice signal applied to the both-end lead wire. The both-end lead wire of the voice coil is led out to the outside through the central region of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A blank has an upper surface and a reverse surface. The upper surface is printed in a conventional manner and includes outer side panels and inner side panels. Attachment regions are provided on the inner side panels of the outer surface, and corresponding attachment regions are provided on the outer side panels of the reverse surface. During assembly the respective attachment regions are arranged to face one another and an adhesive is provided therebetween. In the present method, the attachment regions of the upper surface initially have a surface tension in the range from around 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm before the upper surface is printed. The attachment regions are treated in order to maintain a surface tension in the desired range of 34 dynes/cm to 60 dynes/cm, following printing and before any adhesive is applied. This is achieved by applying an auxiliary printing medium to the attachment regions.

Abstract: Provided is a sensing system (1) in which a desired trajectory determining section (32) determines a first desired trajectory th(t) (where t<t1) whose first derivative is continuous, a second desired trajectory th(t) (where t2?t<t3) whose first derivative is continuous, a third desired trajectory th(t) (where t1?t<t2) configured with a common tangent line to the first and second desired trajectories, and a fourth desired trajectory th(t) (where t35?t<t4) configured with a common tangent line to the second desired trajectory in the current-time cycle and a first desired trajectory in a next-time cycle. A drive mechanism controlling section (33) controls an operation of the drive mechanism so as to track the desired trajectories.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes a high-frequency compensation unit that outputs a high-frequency compensation signal obtained by filtering the high-frequency components of an assist torque command signal and multiplying the filtered high-frequency components by a gain; a corrected steering torque signal obtained by negatively or positively feeding back the high-frequency compensation signal to a steering torque signal is inputted to an assist torque command calculation unit; the assist torque command calculation unit outputs the assist torque command signal in accordance with the corrected steering torque signal.