Abstract: An actuator includes: a casing; a pressure reducing valve and a piston. The pressure reducing valve is provided in the casing to reduce a pressure of a driving fluid supplied from an outside of the casing to a predetermined level. The piston is provided in the casing to form a pressure chamber together with the casing. The piston is driven by the driving fluid that has been pressure-reduced to the predetermined level.

Abstract: A circuit device and a power converter include a core, a coil surrounding at least a part of the core, and a first heat transfer member being in surface contact with the core. A temperature rise of the core can thus be prevented or reduced.

Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion apparatus in which smoke emission, a burnout, and short-circuiting can be suppressed even when a fuse portion is melted by an excessive current and in which it is made possible that heat generated in the fuse portion is less likely to be transferred to the electric power semiconductor device. The electric-power conversion apparatus includes a fuse portion formed in an electrode wiring member, a fuse resin member that covers the fuse portion, and a sealing resin member that seals an electric power semiconductor device and the fuse portion in a case.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 comprises a plurality of oblique grooves 10 extending obliquely from a first tread edge Te1 positioned on one side in a tire axial direction toward a tire equator C, and a plurality of oblique land regions 13 each defined between a pair of the oblique grooves 10 adjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction. Each of the oblique land regions 13 is provided with a plurality of joint grooves 15 each connecting between the pair of the oblique grooves 10.

Abstract: A wire harness support member supports a wire harness including a plurality of electrical wires on an attaching target member. The wire harness support member includes: a base attached to the attaching target member while surrounding at least a part of a periphery of the attaching target member; and at least one electrical wire holding member which can be position-adjustably fixed to the base around the attaching target member while holding at least some of the plurality of electrical wires.

Abstract: According to the embodiments, an air mattress includes an air cell unit, a first side edge unit, and a first pump unit. The air cell unit includes a plurality of air cells that are arranged along a first direction. The first side edge unit includes a polymeric foam. A direction from the first side edge unit to a first portion of the air cell unit is along a second direction that intersects the first direction. The first pump unit performs supply and exhaust of air to and from at least a part of the plurality of the air cells. A direction from the first pump unit to a second portion of the air cell unit is along the second direction. A direction from the first side edge unit to the first pump unit is along the first direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control device which includes: a surrounding object detection part; a target traveling course calculation part; and a corrected traveling course calculation part, wherein the corrected traveling course calculation part is configured to, when a surrounding object to be avoided is detected by the surrounding object detection part, set an upper limit line of a permissible relative speed at which the own vehicle is permitted to travel with respect to the surrounding object, and derive the corrected traveling course, based on the upper limit line, a given evaluation function, and a given limiting condition, and wherein the corrected traveling course calculation part has, as the limiting condition, a region outside the width of the own vehicle whose middle is coincident with an estimated traveling course set on the assumption that a current driving state based on the intent of the driver is continued.

Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a refrigerant passage. An axial direction of the rotor is along the horizontal direction. The stator is placed around the rotor and includes a tubular stator core. The stator core includes: a communication passage via which an inner peripheral surface of the stator core communicates with an outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the communication passage guides the refrigerant from the inner peripheral surface of the stator core to the outer peripheral surface of the stator core; and a projection portion provided on the outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the projection portion extends in the axial direction of the tubular stator core. The projection portion is placed downward in the gravitational direction from an opening of the communication passage on the outer peripheral surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control device which includes: a surrounding object detection part; a target traveling course calculation part; and a corrected traveling course calculation part, wherein the corrected traveling course calculation part is configured to, when a surrounding object to be avoided is detected, set an upper limit line of a permissible relative speed at which the own vehicle is permitted to travel with respect to the surrounding object, and derive the corrected traveling course, based on the upper limit line, a given evaluation function, and a given limiting condition, and wherein the corrected traveling course calculation part has, as the limiting condition, a region outside the width of the own vehicle whose middle is coincident with an estimated traveling course set on an assumption that the own vehicle travels along a traveling trajectory of the preceding vehicle detected by the surrounding object detection part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control device which includes: a surrounding object detection part; a target traveling course calculation part; a corrected traveling course calculation part; and an automatic steering control part to assist in traveling in the lane, wherein: the corrected traveling course calculation part is configured to set an upper limit line of a permissible relative speed with respect to the surrounding object, and derive the corrected traveling course, based on the upper limit line, an evaluation function, and a limiting condition; and the target traveling course calculation part is configured to, when it is determined by the automatic steering control part that there is a possibility of a vehicle deviates from the lane, set the target traveling course at a position offset, with respect to a widthwise middle of the lane, on a side on which there is the possibility of the deviation.

Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device having memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and a controller configured to issue a write command with or without a partial page program command to the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device, in response to the write command issued without the partial page command, executes a first program operation on a page of memory cells and then a first verify operation on the memory cells of the page using a first verify voltage for all of the memory cells of the page, and in response to the write command issued with the partial page command, executes a second program operation on a subset of the memory cells of the page and then a second verify operation on the memory cells of the subset using one of several different second verify voltages corresponding to the subset.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes: a perforated plate that has a plurality of holes penetrating in a plate thickness direction of the perforated plate and in which a main flow flows on one side of the perforated plate in the plate thickness direction; and a housing that is provided on the other side of the perforated plate in the plate thickness direction and partitions a space between the housing and the perforated plate, wherein part of the holes on the one side in the thickness direction is inclined to at least one of the one side and the other side of a flow direction of the main flow.

Abstract: A stacked wiring member includes a plurality of stacked flat wiring members. Each of the plurality of flat wiring members includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members and a base member keeping the plurality of wire-like transmission members in a parallel state in at least a part of the plurality of wire-like transmission members in an extension direction thereof. Wire-like transmission members having different thicknesses in the plurality of wire-like transmission members are disposed to be located together in a stacked direction of the plurality of flat wiring members.

Abstract: A grass mower includes: a main body; a working unit driving motor (drive source) mounted on the main body; an output shaft that projects downward from the working unit driving motor and is rotated by the working unit driving motor; a mowing blade disk mounted to the output shaft; and an upper guard provided to cover the output shaft, the output shaft being between the mowing blade disk and the main body, wherein the upper guard includes a cutout portion for exposing the mowing blade disk at a rear end in the traveling direction of the main body.

Abstract: This supercharging device is provided with an impeller having a shaft, a motor generator configured so as to rotate the impeller to perform supercharging, a planetary gear mechanism, and a restricting mechanism configured so as to restrict the rotation of the impeller. The planetary gear mechanism has a sun gear to which the shaft is linked, a ring gear configured so as to rotate by means of motive power from an engine, a plurality of planetary gears, and a carrier linked to the plurality of planetary gears. The carrier has a cylinder part through which the shaft passes. The motor generator has a rotor integrated with the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder part, and a stator disposed on the radially outward side of the rotor.

Abstract: A production method for a branched conjugated diene-based polymer, comprising: a polymerizing step of obtaining a conjugated diene-based polymer having an active end by polymerizing or copolymerizing a conjugated diene compound, or a conjugated diene compound and an aromatic vinyl compound with an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound used as a polymerization initiator; and a branching step of introducing a branch structure by reacting a styrene derivative as a branching agent with the active end of the conjugated diene-based polymer.

Abstract: A system, apparatus and method enable etching of a layer of a substrate with reduced etching on the surface of a side wall of the layer. The etching method includes forming a protective layer on a surface of the side wall defining a recess in the layer. The protective layer contains phosphorus. The etching method further includes etching the layer in one or more additional cycles so as to increase a depth of the recess after the forming the protective layer.

Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel is provided which has a chemical composition that consists, by mass %, of: C: 0.015% or less, Si: 1.00% or less, Mn: 2.00% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 16.0% or more and less than 22.0%, Ni: 11.0 to 16.0%, Mo: 2.5 to 5.0%, N: 0.07% or more and less than 0.15%, Nb: 0.20 to 0.50%, Al: 0.005 to 0.040%, Sn: 0 to 0.080%, Zn: 0 to 0.0060%, Pb: 0 to 0.030%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and that satisfies the formula [MoSS/Mo?0.98] (MoSS: Mo amount dissolved in the steel).

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes at least three semiconductor elements disposed directly or indirectly on a planar member and constituting an upper arm and a lower arm which perform ON and OFF action at mutually differential times; an upper-surface voltage applied region of each semiconductor element is configured to be narrower than an area of the aforementioned whole semiconductor element in planar view; and each semiconductor element is disposed so that the shortest distance between the semiconductor elements constituting the upper arm is formed so as to be longer than the shortest distance between the semiconductor element constituting the upper arm and the semiconductor element constituting the lower arm.

Abstract: A terminal device according to an embodiment includes: a microphone; a communication unit that performs communication via a network; a first sensor that obtains depth information; a first face detecting unit that detects a face and the distance to the face based on the depth information; and a processor. When a communication program, which is meant for making the processor perform transmission and reception of messages including voice messages and which has a sound input mode for enabling collection of sounds using the microphone and transmission of voice messages based on the collected sounds, is executed, and when a message is received by the communication unit under the control of the communication program being executed; the processor performs first-type face detection using the first face detecting unit and controls turning ON and turning OFF the sound input mode according to the result of the first-type face detection.