Abstract: A drainage groove includes a basic groove portion that opens toward a front surface side of a windshield between a side end surface on the windshield side and an opposite wall of a front pillar; and an expansion groove recessed from a bottom side of the basic groove portion toward an inside of the windshield in the vehicle width direction. The drainage groove further includes a wall portion configured to protrude toward an opening side of the basic groove portion from a position in a bottom of the basic groove portion which is spaced apart in the vehicle width direction from each of the side end surface on the windshield side and the opposite wall of the front pillar.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wiper apparatus reduced in the number of parts. A wiper apparatus 40A has: a drive mechanism 13 for driving a wiper 12 for wiping a front windshield of a vehicle; a gear case 17 in which the drive mechanism 13 is housed, and which is fixed to a vehicle body, wherein the wiper apparatus 40A has: a fixing part 35 provided in the gear case 17 and fixed to the vehicle body; and a fixing part 36 provided in the gear case 17 and fixed to the vehicle body at a position different from a fixed position of the fixing part 35 in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

Abstract: An analysis subject determination device includes: a demand period detection unit which detects, from data corresponding to audio of a dissatisfaction conversation, a demand utterance period which represents a demand utterance of a first conversation party among a plurality of conversation parties which are carrying out the dissatisfaction conversation; a negation period detection unit which detects, from the data, a negation utterance period which represents a negation utterance of a second conversation party which differs from the first conversation party; and a subject determination unit which, from the data, determines a period with a time obtained from the demand period utterance period as a start point and a time obtained from the negation utterance period after the demand utterance period as an end point to be an analysis subject period of a cause of dissatisfaction of the first conversation party in the dissatisfaction conversation.

Abstract: A recessed portion positioned on a vehicle rear side with respect to a lens of a camera and recessed in an inner side direction from an outer surface of a mirror housing is provided on the mirror housing. A flow rectifying surface, which forms a flow of traveling wind toward the recessed portion, is provided on the mirror housing.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a fixing member that transports a recording medium on which an image is transferred while nipping the recording medium to fix the image to the recording medium, a discharge member that discharges the recording medium by rotating forwardly, a guide member that guides the recording medium to a reverse transport path in which a front surface and a rear surface of the recording medium are reversed by coming in contact with the recording medium transported by the discharge member that reversely rotates, and a waving member that is disposed at a downstream side of the fixing member in the transport direction of the recording medium, and waves the recording medium transported by the fixing member in a width direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: This vehicle is provided with: a window opening and a secondary window opening, which are formed adjacent to each other in a vehicle body; a window panel for covering the window opening; a secondary window panel for covering the secondary window opening; and a wiper device for wiping both the window panel and the secondary window panel. The wiper device is provided with a wiper blade that is capable of passing over a boundary between the window panel and the secondary window panel to continuously wipe from the window panel to the secondary window panel.

Abstract: Provided is a power generation battery capable of improving power generation efficiency. The power generation battery includes a first layer, a second layer, and a filter layer. The first layer includes a semiconductor element that has a main absorption region in a visible light region and absorbs a light to generate electric power. The second layer, disposed on a side opposite to an incident direction side of the first layer, includes a semiconductor element that has a main absorption region in an infrared light region and absorbs light to generate electric power. The filter layer is disposed between the first layer and the second layer and blocks or absorbs a light in the visible light region.

Abstract: An external mirror device includes a housing arranged at a side of a vehicle and having an opening facing rearward of vehicle, a mirror accommodated in the opening of the housing, and a camera arranged at the housing and configured to acquire information from outside of the vehicle. With respect to the position of the camera in the front-rear direction, the camera is arranged in a rear of a contour line which includes an outline of the housing when seen from a rear of the vehicle. The housing includes a separating portion having a concave-convex shape to separate air traveling on a surface of the housing, and the separating portion is arranged at a same position as the camera in a direction along the contour line, and arranged frontward of the contour line.

Abstract: A speech recognition unit (102) includes a phrase determination unit (103) which determines a phrase boundary based on the comparison between the hypothetical word group generated by speech recognition and set words representing phrase boundaries. In this speech processing device, the speech recognition unit (102) outputs recognition results for each phrase based on a phrase boundary determined by the phrase determination unit (103).

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater and a presser. The heater includes an endless heating belt that rotates while heating a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image. The presser presses against the recording medium in cooperation with the heater to fix the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium. The heater further includes a first plate body extending to form a contact region in contact with an inner surface of the belt, a heat source nipping the first plate body in cooperation with the belt in the contact region, and a second plate body disposed opposite the first plate body with the heat source interposed therebetween and extending at a distance from the heat source. The first plate body has relatively higher heat absorptivity than the second plate body. The second plate body has relatively higher heat reflectivity than the first plate body and is in contact therewith.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater and a presser. The heater includes an endless heating belt that rotates while heating a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image. The presser presses against the recording medium in cooperation with the heater to fix the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium. The heater further includes a first plate body extending to form a contact region in contact with an inner surface of the belt, a heat source nipping the first plate body in cooperation with the belt in the contact region, and a second plate body disposed opposite the first plate body with the heat source interposed therebetween and extending at a distance from the heat source. The first plate body has relatively higher heat absorptivity than the second plate body. The second plate body has relatively higher heat reflectivity than the first plate body and is in contact therewith.

Abstract: A temperature detection device includes a supporting body that includes end portions and a middle portion and that is elastically deformed by being pressed by an object to be detected, both of the end portions being supported at positions separated from the object to be detected, the supporting body having an initial shape such that the middle portion bulges in an arc shape to a position beyond the object to be detected when the supporting body does not receive an external force from the object to be detected; and a temperature detection element that is supported by a contact portion of the supporting body that contacts the object to be detected.

Abstract: An analysis subject determination device includes: a demand period detection unit which detects, from data corresponding to audio of a dissatisfaction conversation, a demand utterance period which represents a demand utterance of a first conversation party among a plurality of conversation parties which are carrying out the dissatisfaction conversation; a negation period detection unit which detects, from the data, a negation utterance period which represents a negation utterance of a second conversation party which differs from the first conversation party; and a subject determination unit which, from the data, determines a period with a time obtained from the demand period utterance period as a start point and a time obtained from the negation utterance period after the demand utterance period as an end point to be an analysis subject period of a cause of dissatisfaction of the first conversation party in the dissatisfaction conversation.

Abstract: This vehicle is provided with: a window opening and a secondary window opening, which are formed adjacent to each other in a vehicle body; a window panel for covering the window opening; a secondary window panel for covering the secondary window opening; and a wiper device for wiping both the window panel and the secondary window panel. The wiper device is provided with a wiper blade that is capable of passing over a boundary between the window panel and the secondary window panel to continuously wipe from the window panel to the secondary window panel.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotating fixing unit, a switching unit, and a control unit. The rotating fixing unit has a surface, the surface fixing a toner image on a recording medium by contacting the recording medium. The switching unit switches between transportation directions in which the recording sheet is transported such that an orientation of a predetermined side of the recording medium with respect to the fixing unit matches either an orientation corresponding to a first direction in which the central axis of the fixing unit extends or an orientation corresponding to a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The control unit controls the switching unit such that the recording medium is transported in a direction corresponding to a smaller one of integration values obtained along the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a pressing member that is rotatably held and provides a pressure acting in one direction; a heating member that is rotatably held, faces the pressing member, and includes a substantially cylindrical member and a heating unit, the substantially cylindrical member receiving the pressure, the heating unit being provided inside the substantially cylindrical member, the heating member fixing a toner image on a sheet with the pressure and heat; a drive source that outputs a driving force with which the heating member is rotated; and a transmission member having a space that receives an end of the substantially cylindrical member with a gap interposed therebetween, the transmission member having an inner circumferential surface that comes into contact with the end of the substantially cylindrical member in the space when the substantially cylindrical member receives the pressure, the transmission member transmitting the driving force to the heating member.

Abstract: A vehicular wiper device is provided with a snowfall determination unit that determines whether a predetermined snowfall condition is satisfied. When the snowfall determination unit determines that a predetermined snowfall condition is satisfied, a controller that controls a wiper motor changes lower reverse positions of wiper blades to lower reverse positions during snowfall that are on the lower side with respect to lower reverse positions during normal times.

Abstract: This conversation analysis device comprises: a change detection unit that detects, for each of a plurality of conversation participants, each of a plurality of prescribed change patterns for emotional states, on the basis of data corresponding to voices in a target conversation; an identification unit that identifies, from among the plurality of prescribed change patterns detected by the change detection unit, a beginning combination and an ending combination, which are prescribed combinations of the prescribed change patterns that satisfy prescribed position conditions between the plurality of conversation participants; and an interval determination unit that determines specific emotional intervals, which have a start time and an end time and represent specific emotions of the conversation participants of the target conversation, by determining a start time and an end time on the basis of each time position in the target conversation pertaining to the starting combination and ending combination identified by

Abstract: An analysis object determination device includes a detection unit which detects a plurality of specific utterance sections using data related to a voice in a conversation, the specific utterance sections representing a plurality of specific events originating from one or a plurality of participants in the conversation, or a specific event originating from one of the conversation participants, and an object determination unit which determines, on the basis of the plurality of specific utterance sections detected by the detection unit, one or more cause analysis sections for the specific event originating from the conversation participant, the number of the cause analysis sections being fewer than the number of the plurality of specific utterance sections.

Abstract: This dissatisfying conversation determination device include: a data acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of word data, and a plurality of phonation time data by target conversation participants; an extraction unit that extracts a plurality of specific word data configuring polite expression and impolite expression from the plurality of word data; a change detection unit that detects a point of change from polite expression to impolite expression by the target conversation participants based on the plurality of specific word data and the plurality of phonation time data; and a dissatisfaction determination unit that determines whether the target conversation is a dissatisfying conversation for the target conversation participants based on the result of the point of change detected by the change detection unit.