Abstract: A seal member includes a seal surface that comes into contact with and slides with an end portion of an outer circumferential surface of a developing roller. The seal surface includes a first seal region configured of a plurality of first fiber bundles including a first fiber having a charge property that repels a developer, and a second seal region configured of a plurality of second fiber bundles including a second fiber having a charge property that attracts the developer, both extending in an inclined direction such that a portion thereof closer to an opening portion of a frame body of a developing unit is located further downstream in a rotating direction of the developing roller, and being alternately disposed in the rotating direction, and a proportion of a portion occupied by the second fiber bundles on the seal surface is at least 5% and not more than 60%.

Abstract: There is provided semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; and a second substrate adjacent to the first substrate, where a side wall of the second substrate includes one or more diced portions that can include a blade diced portion and a stealth diced portion; and also imaging devices and methods of forming the same, including: a first substrate; a transparent layer; an adhesive layer between the first substrate and the transparent layer; a second substrate, where the first substrate is disposed between the adhesive layer and the second substrate; and a groove extending from the adhesive layer to the second substrate, where the groove is filled with the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock structure includes: a housing; an active lever supported by the housing to be displaceable relative to the housing between locked position where the active lever prohibits opening of a vehicle door by a door opening operation of a door operation handle provided on the vehicle door and an unlocked position where the active lever allows the opening of the vehicle door by the door opening operation of the door operation handle; and a spring configured to selectively hold the active lever at either the locked or unlocked position. The housing includes a held portion held by the spring. The spring includes: locked-position and unlocked-position holders respectively holding the held portion such that the active lever is held at the locked and unlocked positions. The active lever includes a spring holder that holds the spring.

Abstract: There is provided an optical communication connector, an optical communication cable, and an electronic device that can curb occurrence of a transmission error. The optical communication connector includes a collimating lens that collimates light from multiple optical transmission lines transmitting optical signals, and a refracting portion that refracts and emits light emitted from the collimating lens, in which in the collimating lens, at least some of transmission channels and reception channels corresponding to the multiple optical transmission lines are thinned out. The optical communication connector can be applied to an optical communication system, for example.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving sensitivity while suppressing degradation of color mixture. The solid-state imaging device includes an anti-reflection portion having a moth-eye structure provided on a boundary surface on a light-receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion region of each pixel arranged two-dimensionally, and an inter-pixel light-blocking portion provided below the boundary surface of the anti-reflection portion to block incident light. In addition, the photoelectric conversion region is a semiconductor region, and the inter-pixel light-blocking portion has a trench structure obtained by digging the semiconductor region in a depth direction at a pixel boundary. The techniques according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device of a rear surface irradiation type.

Abstract: A sound crosstalk suppression device includes: a speaker analysis unit configured to analyze a speaker situation in a closed space based on voice signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones arranged in the closed space; a filter update unit that includes a filter configured to generate a suppression signal of a crosstalk component included in a voice signal of a main speaker, that is configured to update a parameter of the filter, and that is configured to store the updated parameter in a memory; a reset unit configured to reset the parameter of the filter in a case where it is determined that an analysis result of the speaker situation is switched; and a crosstalk suppression unit configured to suppress a crosstalk component by using a suppression signal.

Abstract: A method for producing isopropyl alcohol is provided in which propylene is hydrated directly with water to produce isopropyl alcohol, the method including: a distillation step in which crude isopropyl alcohol is distilled; and a filtration step in which the isopropyl alcohol obtained in the distillation step is filtered through a filter having an ion-exchange group.

Abstract: A method generates a sound signal in accordance with score data representative of respective durations of a plurality of notes and a shortening indication to shorten a duration of a specific note. The method includes generating a shortening rate, generating a series of control data, and generating a sound signal. The shortening rate is representative of an amount of shortening of the duration of the specific note, and is generated, by inputting, to a first estimation model, condition data representative of a sounding condition specified by score data for the specific note. Each of the series of control data is representative of a control condition of the sound signal corresponding to the score data, and the series of control data reflects a shortened duration of the specific note shortened in accordance with the generated shortening rate. The sound signal is generated in accordance with the series of control data.

Abstract: This method of manufacturing a stator includes a step of removing insulating coatings on first surfaces of lead wire portions that are surfaces to be welded, and a step of welding together the first surfaces by a green laser with the insulating coatings on the first surfaces being removed and with insulating coatings on second surfaces opposite the first surfaces being unremoved.

Abstract: An object recognition device includes a recognition unit and an object determination unit. The object determination unit includes a detection unit, an estimation unit, and a pseudo-determination unit. The estimation unit assumes that a shielding object is a vehicle and estimates a length of a side surface of the shielding object based on the width of the shielding object. The pseudo-determination unit determines whether a candidate object is a pseudo-object by using the length of the side surface. The pseudo-determination unit determines that the candidate object is the pseudo-object, if it is determined that transmission waves radiated in a direction in which the candidate object is located are reflected from the side surface and if another object is recognized at a location apart from a reflection point in a reflection direction by the same distance as a distance from the reflection point to the candidate object.

Abstract: An object recognition device to be mounted to a vehicle includes a cluster point group formation unit and an object recognition unit. The cluster point group formation unit is configured to form a cluster point group by executing clustering for a plurality of reflecting points. The object recognition unit recognizes the cluster point group as an object. The object recognition unit is configured to, in response to determining that an outer shape of an upper surface that is an outer shape of the recognized object viewed from the top has a concave section when viewed from a vehicle side, divide the cluster point group into a plurality of quasi-cluster point groups based on a position of the concave section and recognizes each of the plurality of quasi-cluster point groups as an object.

Abstract: An acoustic crosstalk suppression device includes a speaker estimation unit configured to estimate a main speaker based on voice signals collected by n units of microphones corresponding to n number of persons (n: an integer equal to or larger than 3); n units of filter update units each of which is configured to update a parameter of a filter configured to generate a suppression signal of a crosstalk component included in a voice signal of the main speaker; and a crosstalk suppression unit configured to suppress the crosstalk component by using a synthesis suppression signal generated by the maximum (n-1) units of filter update units corresponding to reference signals collected by the maximum (n-1) units of microphones.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member for transmitting a driving force to the photosensitive drum. A movable member is provided movable relative to a frame and a rotatable portion is supported by the movable member and rotatable relative to the movable member. A regulating member is movable between a regulating position for regulating movement of the movable member by contacting the rotatable portion and a non-regulating position where the regulating member does not regulate the movable member. A position of an end portion of the movable member in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum changes relative to the frame by movement of the movable member between a first position and a second position, and the end portion of the movable member is closer to the coupling member in the axial direction of the photosensitive drum when the movable member is in the second position than when the movable member is in the first position.

Abstract: A target recognition device includes a target recognition unit, a tracking unit, a target registration unit, a condition determination unit, and a registration requirement setting unit. The condition determination unit determines whether a target satisfies predetermined conditions J1 to J3. The registration requirement setting unit sets a requirement for registering a target by the target registration unit to be stricter for the target determined to satisfy all of the conditions J1 to J3 than for the target determined to satisfy not all of the conditions J1 to J3.

Abstract: There is provided a light emitting element and an optical waveguide that propagates light from the light emitting element. For example, the optical waveguide is an optical fiber or a silicon optical waveguide. The light propagating through the optical waveguide is light having components of a fundamental mode and a first order mode, and the light propagates through the optical waveguide while having a light intensity distribution in which high intensity portions alternately appear in one direction and another direction opposite to the one direction with respect to the center of a core along the optical waveguide. A light intensity distribution at an output end surface of the optical waveguide is a light intensity distribution corresponding to an intermediate position between a first position where the high intensity portion is in the one direction and a second position where the high intensity portion is in the another direction.

Abstract: A target recognition device includes a roadside object determination unit, a coordinate calculation unit, a road boundary estimation unit, a distance calculation unit, and a likelihood increasing unit. The roadside object determination unit determines whether a target has a feature of a roadside object. The coordinate calculation unit calculates a coordinate in a lateral direction of the target. The road boundary estimation unit estimates a road boundary. The distance calculation unit calculates a distance from the target to the road boundary. The likelihood increasing unit increases a likelihood that the target is a roadside object, on condition that the distance is a preset threshold value or less.

Abstract: A cartridge for an image forming apparatus includes: a process unit to be used to form an image; a first member including a first resin material; a second member including a second resin material having higher flame retardant capability than the first resin material; and an electrode member including a contact section configured to be supplied with power from an apparatus main body of the image forming apparatus. The electrode member is configured to electrically connect the apparatus main body to the process unit. The second resin material of the second member has a greater density than the first resin material of the first member. The contact section is located in the vicinity of the first and second members and is closer to the second member than to the first member.

Abstract: A drive circuit of a voltage-controlled power semiconductor element, including first to fourth switching elements, first and second delay circuits, an overcurrent detection circuit, a slow shutdown detection circuit and a flip-flop. The first switching element turns on upon receiving an off signal. The second switching element is turned on by the first delayed signal generated by the first delay circuit. The third switching element turns on upon receiving a second delayed signal generated by the second delay circuit through the flip-flop. The fourth switching element is turned on by the slow shutdown detection signal generated by the slow shutdown detection circuit. The first to fourth switching elements extract electric charges from the gate terminal of the voltage-controlled power semiconductor element, with first to fourth extracting capabilities, respectively. The first and fourth extracting capabilities are larger than the third extracting capability and smaller than the second extracting capability.

Abstract: An image forming device including a deaerator that deaerates liquid, a supply tank for storing liquid, a spray device that sprays liquid, and a controller. The controller executes a control causing supply of deaerated liquid from the deaerator to the supply tank, and from the supply tank to the spray device, and spraying of liquid by the spray device to form an image, and while waiting for image forming or while the supply of liquid from the supply tank to the spray device is stopped, the controller executes a control causing at least some of the liquid stored in the supply tank to be supplied to the deaerator in a direction opposite the supply from the deaerator to the supply tank, and causing the deaerator to deaerate the liquid so supplied.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a rear cover covering a rear face of the display, and a reinforcing member disposed between the display and the rear cover. The reinforcing member includes a base, a plurality of projections protruding from the base to the display, each of the plurality of projections having a top face disposed at a position in contact with or in proximity to the display, and a plurality of recessed portions respectively enclosed by the plurality of projections and recessed from the top face.