Abstract: An image display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a right side support and a left side support that support the display unit in an upright state, and are at least partially light-transmissive; a right side first light source and a left side first light source that are disposed in the display unit, and emit light to at least a part of the right side support and the left side support.

Abstract: A particulate matter detection device includes a sensor element and a detection control unit. The sensor element includes a particulate matter detection unit and a temperature compensation unit. The particulate matter detection unit includes a pair of detection electrodes on a deposition surface of a detection conductive layer. The temperature compensation unit includes a pair of temperature compensation electrodes on a non-deposition surface of a temperature compensation conductive layer. The detection electrodes and the temperature compensation electrodes are connected to a common ground terminal. The detection control unit detects a first output signal based on an electrical resistance between the detection electrodes and detects a second output signal based on an electrical resistance between the temperature compensation electrodes, and calculates a deposition amount of particulate matter on the basis of a differential output between the first output signal and the second output signal.

Abstract: A particulate matter detection device includes a sensor unit which has a detection unit provided with a pair of electrodes and a heater unit provided with a heater electrode and which is configured to output a signal corresponding to the amount of particulate matter, and a sensor control unit which detects the number of particles of the particulate matter. The sensor control unit has a capture control unit, a heating control unit to heat the detection unit to a first temperature at which a SOF is volatilizable and a second temperature at which soot is burnable, an output changing ratio calculation unit to calculate a ratio between a first output value at the first temperature and a second output value as the maximum output upon heating to the second temperature, and a particle number calculation unit to estimate the average particle diameter of the particulate matter from a value corrected based on the temperature of the sensor unit at the second output value to calculate the number of particles.

Abstract: A speech processing apparatus includes a specifier, and a modulator. The specifier specifies any one or more of one or more speeches included in speeches to be output, as an emphasis part based on an attribute of the speech. The modulator modulates the emphasis part of at least one of first speech to be output to the first output unit and second speech to be output to the second output unit such that at least one of a pitch and a phase is different between the emphasis part of the first speech and the emphasis part of the second speech.

Abstract: A cutting insert may include a base body, a first part and a second part. The base body may include a first surface, a second surface, a first lateral surface, a second lateral surface, a first recess and a second recess. The first part may be located in the first recess. The second part may be located in the second recess. The first recess may include a first bottom surface, a first wall surface and a first valley line located on an intersection of the first bottom surface and the first wall surface. The second recess may include a second bottom surface, a second wall surface and a second valley line located on an intersection of the second bottom surface and the second wall surface. The first valley line may intersect with the second valley line in a perspective view of the first surface.

Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a silicon steel sheet and an insulation coating. When t is a thickness of the silicon steel sheet and when PDR is defined as (PDR=(maximum?minimum)/minimum×100) which indicates a ratio concerned with maximum and minimum of number densities of AlN precipitates in three areas which are 1/10t area, ?t area, and ½t area from a surface of the silicon steel sheet along a thickness direction, the PDR is 50% or less.

Abstract: A female connector is connected to a male connector having a cylindrical hood portion open in the longitudinal direction and housing a plurality of terminals. The male connector has a holding portion holding a plurality of terminals arranged inside the hood portion when the female connector is connected to the male connector, a seal interposed between the outer surface of the holding portion and the inner surface of the hood portion, and a slider arranged along the outer surface of the hood portion. The slider is able to slide in the transverse direction and the sliding action causes the hood portion to be engaged so that force is applied to the hood portion in the direction in which the male connector connects to the female connector. A pressing portion is formed on the slider to press the hood portion into the holding portion.

Abstract: After an engine is started, an ECU performs first regeneration processing of a PM sensor through heating by a heater and, after the first regeneration processing, applies a voltage continuously to detection electrodes for a predetermined voltage application period. The ECU causes PM to adhere to an insulating substrate due to the voltage application and, at a time point after the predetermined time period has elapsed, determines the amount of PM that is adhering to the insulating substrate. When a predetermined condition is satisfied outside the voltage application period, the ECU determines whether the amount of adhering PM on the insulating substrate is equal to or greater than an excess determination threshold value. If the amount of adhering PM is determined to be equal to or greater than the excess determination threshold value, the ECU performs second regeneration processing of the PM sensor, through heating by the heater.

Abstract: A heater is provided to heat an optical window. The inner face of the optical window is partitioned by the shield plate into a first part for the phototransmitter and a second part for the photoreceiver, the first part for the phototransmitter being arranged to face the first space, the second part for the photoreceiver being arranged to face the second space. The heater includes a first film, a second film, two phototransmitter electrodes, and two photoreceiver electrodes. The first film is a transparent conductive film arranged to cover the first part for the phototransmitter. The second film is a transparent conductive film arranged to cover the second part for the photoreceiver. The two phototransmitter electrodes are configured to energize the first film. The two photoreceiver electrodes are configured to energize the second film.

Abstract: An analysis device includes a turntable, an optical pickup, and a controller. The turntable holds a disc for specimen analysis having a reaction region on which fine particles binding to substances to be detected are captured per track. The optical pickup emits laser light to the reaction region, receives a reflected light from the reaction region, and generates a reception level signal of the light. The controller sequentially generates a plurality of measurement gate signals per track for counting the number of the fine particles captured on the reaction region, counts the number of the fine particles per measurement gate signal from the reception level signal, compares measurement results obtained in positions having a symmetric relation with each other in the reaction region, and defines a measurement-result-correction target region for correcting the number of the fine particles.

Abstract: A speech processing apparatus includes a specifier, a determiner, and a modulator. The specifier specifies an emphasis part of speech to be output. The determiner determines, from among a plurality of output units, a first output unit and a second output unit for outputting speech for emphasizing the emphasis part. The modulator modulates the emphasis part of at least one of first speech to be output to the first output unit and second speech to be output to the second output unit such that at least one of a pitch and a phase is different between the emphasis part of the first speech and the emphasis part of the second speech.

Abstract: To provide a substrate heating apparatus, a substrate heating method and a method of manufacturing an electronic device having excellent uniformity at the time of processing the substrate by a linear heat source. A substrate heating apparatus including a substrate holding tool holding a substrate as a processed object, a heat source heating the substrate held by the substrate holding tool by a linear heating portion, a moving mechanism allowing the substrate holding tool and the heat source to relatively move in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the linear heating portion of the heat source and a cooling mechanism arranged in the substrate holding tool and contacting the substrate to cool an outer peripheral portion of the substrate, in which the cooling mechanism has a distribution in cooling ability according to a position of the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus which detects particulate matter is provided. This apparatus estimates a volume of water inside an exhaust passage using estimation sections. When an estimated volume of water is larger than a water drainage threshold, an element portion is heated using a heater by the first temperature range controller, in a temperature range which resists water-induced cracking independent of a volume of water droplets. If the estimated volume of water is less than a water drainage threshold, the water drainage determination section determines that the water drainage of the exhaust passage is completed. Additionally, if it is estimated that the water drainage is completed, the element portion is heated by a second temperature controller at temperature lower than a starting temperature of combustion of particulate matter and in order to repel water adhered onto the element portion in a water-repellent temperature range for a predetermined period.

Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a plurality of drive units and link units each driven by the corresponding drive unit. Each of the drive units includes a motor, a transmission mechanism that transmits the rotation of the motor to the link unit, and a housing that holds the motor. The housing includes a first connection portion, a second connection portion, and an opening through which the link unit extends. The first connection portion of one of the drive units and the second connection portion of another of the drive units are connected to each other, while the second connection portion of the one of the drive units and the first connection portion of another of the drive units are connected to each other.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a toilet device includes: a washing unit washing a surface of a bowl in a toilet bowl; a water supplying unit supplying washing water to the washing unit; a silicic acid polymerization inhibiting unit adding inhibitor for silicic acid polymerization to the washing water left on the surface of the bowl after the washing of the bowl, the inhibitor inhibiting polymerization of silicic acid component in the washing water left on the surface of the bowl; and a control portion executing a control starting an operation of the silicic acid polymerization inhibiting unit before the surface of the bowl is evaporated.

Abstract: The controller performs shift control of the transmission such that an actual pressure of a primary pressure becomes an indicating pressure. The controller includes a phase advance compensator which performs advance compensation of the indicating pressure, and a setting unit which sets an indicating pressure on which the advance compensation is performed by the phase advance compensator as the indicating pressure, in accordance with at least one of a rotation speed of a primary pulley, an input torque to a secondary pulley, a speed ratio, or a changing rate.

Abstract: An optical disc device capable of detecting a reference position of an optical disc in a rotating direction includes an optical disc rotation drive unit, an optical sensor, and a control circuit. The optical disc rotation drive unit rotates the optical disc provided with a rotation reference mark. The rotation reference mark is formed into a shape having a width changing in the radial direction of the optical disc. The optical sensor detects the rotation reference mark. The control circuit controls the optical disc rotation drive unit and the optical sensor, extracts a detection signal of the rotation reference mark as a pulse waveform from an output signal of the optical sensor with the optical disc being rotated, and specifies a rotation reference position of the optical disc in accordance with the pulse waveform.

Abstract: A parallel link robot includes: a base having two or more actuators; a movable part; two or more link parts connected to the actuators; an orientation changing mechanism that changes the orientation of an element attached to the movable part; two or more additional actuators that are provided on the two or more link parts and that change the orientation of the element with the same degree of freedom; and power transmission shafts. The link parts each have a driving link and two parallel driven links. The additional actuators are each disposed between the driven links of the two or more link parts. The power transmission shafts extend from the additional actuators along the driven links and are connected, with universal joints, to shafts extending from the orientation changing mechanism. The universal joints are located on a straight line connecting intersections between the two driven links and the movable part.

Abstract: A particulate matter detecting device includes: an element unit on which particulate matter contained in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine is deposited; a heater that heats the element unit; a detecting unit that detects the amount of particulate matter on the basis of electrical characteristics of the element unit; and a control unit that controls the operation of the heater. For a predetermined period that does not include a period in which the particulate matter is deposited on the element unit, the control unit operates the heater using a predetermined amount of control set in advance such that the temperature of the element unit is higher than the temperature of the exhaust gas and lower than a predetermined temperature at which the element unit is thermally degraded.