Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a medium accommodating part, an image forming engine, a discharge part, a medium conveyer configured to convey a medium from the medium accommodating part to the image forming engine and to the discharge part, a medium holder configured to hold the medium discharged to the discharge part, and a controller. The controller selects a first discharge mode for causing the medium holder to continue to hold the medium when a holding condition is satisfied or a second discharge mode for causing the medium holder not to hold the medium or to hold the medium for a prescribed period and then release the medium. The holding condition includes at least one of a first condition being that material of the medium does not correspond to specific materials and a second condition being that a medium length is less than a first threshold value.

Abstract: A driving assistance device according to the present disclosure is capable of being mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes: a vehicle body; a detection device capable of detecting a state around the vehicle; and a display unit visually recognizable by a driver. The driving assistance device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: determine whether the two vehicles are allowed to pass each other based on the state, size information of a vehicle body of another vehicle, and a size of the vehicle body of the vehicle; search for, when determining that passing between the two vehicles is not performable, a first evacuation candidate area to which the vehicle is allowed to evacuate based on the state detected along a traveling trajectory of the vehicle by the detection device; and display a search result of the first evacuation candidate area on the display unit.

Abstract: Examples of an interface module include a fan filter unit including a fan and a filter, a housing surrounding a space adjacent to the filter, a discharge system attached to the housing, a substrate support instrument provided in the housing, an upper housing surrounding a space adjacent to the fan, a gas supply system attached to the upper housing, a circulation duct connected to the housing and the upper housing, and a radiator provided between the fan and the filter.

Abstract: Examples of an interface module includes a fan filter unit having a fan and a filter, a housing surrounding a space adjacent to the filter, the housing includes a door, an upper housing surrounding a space adjacent to the fan, a first port provided in the upper housing, a second port communicating to a FFU internal space, the FFU internal space is a space between the fan and the filter in the fan filter unit, and a differential pressure gauge connected to the first port and the second port to detect a differential pressure between an interior of the upper housing and the FFU internal space.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat, a side frame of a seat back frame has a front wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a front edge of a plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching an upper frame, and a rear wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a rear edge of the plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching the upper frame, and an inner edge of the front wall has a projecting piece that spreads to the inside from a virtual outline corresponding to a shape of the upper frame and is superimposed on the front wall of the upper frame from the rear. This provides a vehicle seat that can contribute to improvement of the work efficiency when assembling a seat back frame.

Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.

Abstract: The in-vehicle communication device includes a CAN communication unit, an Ethernet communication unit, a controller that controls communication by the CAN communication unit and the Ethernet communication unit, a first voltage output unit that outputs a first voltage, and a second voltage output unit that outputs a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The second voltage output is applied to the Ethernet communication unit. The first voltage output by the first voltage output unit and the second voltage output by the second voltage output unit are applied to the CAN communication unit. An opening/closing unit is provided between the second voltage output unit and the Ethernet communication unit. When a predetermined operation in the vehicle has been detected, the controller puts the opening/closing unit into an open state and cuts off the supply of power from the second voltage output unit to the Ethernet communication unit.

Abstract: A fluid passage device including a passage for flowing high-pressure fluid of a predetermined or higher pressure comprises a sac bore cylinder of a metal, which includes therein a closed passage and a branch passage. The closed passage is shaped to extend straightly in a predetermined direction and has a closed top end, and the branch passage is branched off from the closed passage. A top end part of the closed passage at a closed side is defined by a ceiling wall surface, which is perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a passage wall surface, which is parallel to the predetermined direction, and a connecting wall surface, which connects the ceiling wall surface and the passage wall surface. The connecting wall surface is shaped to curve in a direction to expand the closed passage.

Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.

Abstract: The in-vehicle communication device includes a CAN communication unit, an Ethernet communication unit, a controller that controls communication by the CAN communication unit and the Ethernet communication unit, a first voltage output unit that outputs a first voltage, and a second voltage output unit that outputs a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The second voltage output is applied to the Ethernet communication unit. The first voltage output by the first voltage output unit and the second voltage output by the second voltage output unit are applied to the CAN communication unit. An opening/closing unit is provided between the second voltage output unit and the Ethernet communication unit. When a predetermined operation in the vehicle has been detected, the controller puts the opening/closing unit into an open state and cuts off the supply of power from the second voltage output unit to the Ethernet communication unit.

Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.

Abstract: A fluid passage device including a passage for flowing high-pressure fluid of a predetermined or higher pressure comprises a sac bore cylinder of a metal, which includes therein a closed passage and a branch passage. The closed passage is shaped to extend straightly in a predetermined direction and has a closed top end, and the branch passage is branched off from the closed passage. A top end part of the closed passage at a closed side is defined by a ceiling wall surface, which is perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a passage wall surface, which is parallel to the predetermined direction, and a connecting wall surface, which connects the ceiling wall surface and the passage wall surface. The connecting wall surface is shaped to curve in a direction to expand the closed passage.

Abstract: A storage device according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a plurality of memory devices and a storage controller. The memory devices provide the storage controller with a storage space which comprises a plurality of sectors, each said sector including a write data memory region and an inspection code memory region. When the memory devices receive a read request from the storage controller, if the sector which is the subject of the read request has not been written to, an inspection code is generated on the basis of information included in the read request, and data of a prescribed pattern is transmitted with the inspection code to the storage controller.

Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical path forming member which includes at least one exterior wall surrounding an imaging optical system and defines an optical path inside the exterior wall; a through-portion which extends through the exterior wall of the optical path forming member; a lid member which covers the through-portion from the outside of the optical path forming member; and a plurality of light shield walls provided on one of the optical path forming member and the lid member, wherein the plurality of light shield walls are intermittently arranged in a direction along an optical axis of the imaging optical system so that the through-portion includes a plurality of internal spaces which are respectively positioned between the light shield walls.

Abstract: A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material. The lower die contact portion includes, in the middle portion thereof, a groove portion formed to have a size which allows a moving means to grip the bent material in non-contact relation with the bent material.

Abstract: There are provided a bending die to be used in an apparatus and method for manufacturing an automotive suspension arm to allow the manufacturing apparatus to have a simple and low-cost structure and a reduced installation area and perform automated manufacturing, and the apparatus and method for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm using the bending die. A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material.

Abstract: In a flexible laminate containing a metal foil layer/a thermoplastic polyimide layer or/and a conductor circuit layer/a thermoplastic polyimide layer, the metal foil layer or the conductor circuit layer is bonded to at least one side of the thermoplastic polyimide layer. The thermoplastic polyimide layer is formed from a thermoplastic polyimide resin film or sheet produced by melt extrusion of a thermoplastic polyimide resin. Alternatively, the thermoplastic polyimide layer is formed from a biaxially oriented thermoplastic polyimide resin film or sheet. Such a flexible laminate can be easily manufactured by a lamination method which comprises bonding a thermoplastic polyimide resin film (1) to a metal foil (2) or a conductive circuit layer (4) by heating under pressure, and has excellent heat resistance, electrical properties and mechanical strength inherent in a polyimide.

Abstract: A first image data portion and a second image data portion differing from the first image data portion are converted so that they become similar to each other in binary notation. This conversion is performed, for example, by addition. Then, the first and second converted image data portions are transferred so that those converted portions are positioned adjacently to each other in a time-series manner. Finally, after the execution of said transferring step, the first and second image data portions are restored so that those restored portions respectively include original bits. This restoration is performed, for example, by subtraction.

Abstract: In transferring n data bits by the n data lines of an LCD, the n data lines are divided into s blocks each with m data bits (n=m×s). A majority decision is performed on the s blocks and is again performed on the s outputs from the s blocks. With this, a very small-scale and high-speed decision circuit can be realized. As a result, the effects of a reduction in unnecessary radiation by a reduction in the number of data-bit changes, a reduction in power dissipation by a reduction in the number of data-bit changes and the like are obtainable at realizable cost.