Abstract: A braking control system includes control circuitry configured to control first and second brakes in a vehicle. The control circuitry is configured to calculate a target braking force in accordance with the operation amount of a brake pedal by a driver, determine a first braking force and a second braking force based on the target braking force, and control each of the first and second brakes such that each of the determined braking forces is generated in the vehicle. The first and second braking forces are determined such that a sum of the first and second braking forces becomes the target braking force and a pitch behavior specified by a preset pitch behavior model occurs in the vehicle.

Abstract: By promoting air circulation, heat and humidity are reduced more efficiently. A vehicle seat ventilation mechanism includes: a body case which is provided in a cushioning material of at least one of a seat cushion and a seat back and whose interior is an air circulation space; a fan disposed in the body case; and an exhaust port which is provided at a position apart from the fan and discharges an air stream created by air suction by the fan. The air stream enhances the comfort of a microclimate condition on a vehicle seat side which is a rear side of a contact surface, and with this microclimate condition, a thermal environment on a seat occupant side having an increased causal factor of discomfort is replaced, thereby making it possible to enhance the comfort of the clothing microclimate.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a functional device and a control device, which is electrically connected to the functional device. The functional device includes a functional case, which constitutes a housing of the functional device. The control device includes a control case, which constitutes a housing of the control device. A first connector is partially exposed to an outside of the functional case. A second connector is partially exposed to an outside of the control case. The first connector is coupled to the second connector, so that the functional device is electrically connected to the control device without a harness between the functional case and the control case.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a conductive laminate includes extracting a long flexible substrate from a roll on which the flexible substrate is wound, forming a to-be-plated layer precursor layer on at least one main surface of the flexible substrate while the extracted flexible substrate is transported in the longitudinal direction, preparing a support, bonding the flexible substrate with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to at least one main surface of the support, applying energy to the support with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to obtain a support with a patterned layer to be plated, forming the support into a three-dimensional shape including a curved surface, and performing a plating treatment on the patterned layer to be plated to obtain the conductive laminate having a three-dimensional shape.

Abstract: By promoting air circulation, heat and humidity are reduced more efficiently. A vehicle seat ventilation mechanism includes: a body case which is provided in a cushioning material of at least one of a seat cushion and a seat back and whose interior is an air circulation space; a fan disposed in the body case; and an exhaust port which is provided at a position apart from the fan and discharges an air stream created by air suction by the fan. The air stream enhances the comfort of a microclimate condition on a vehicle seat side which is a rear side of a contact surface, and with this microclimate condition, a thermal environment on a seat occupant side having an increased causal factor of discomfort is replaced, thereby making it possible to enhance the comfort of the clothing microclimate.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily producing an electroconductive laminate having a three-dimensional shape and having a metal layer disposed thereon (for example, an electroconductive laminate having a three-dimensional shape including a curved surface and a metal layer disposed on the curved surface). Another object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional structure with a plated-layer precursor layer, a three-dimensional structure with a patterned plated layer, an electroconductive laminate, a touch sensor, a heat generating member, and a three-dimensional structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laminate with which a metal layer-containing laminate with the occurrence of pattern thickening being suppressed can be obtained. Further, the present invention provides methods for producing a substrate with a patterned plated layer and a metal layer-containing laminate, as well as a touch panel sensor and a touch panel.

Abstract: A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.

Abstract: A conductive film includes: a substrate; a plurality of first wavy wires which have semicircular arcs arranged opposite to each other in direction on the substrate; and a plurality of second wavy wires which have the semicircular arcs arranged opposite to each other in direction and are symmetrical to the first wavy wires in an arrangement direction, and has a conductive sheet body in which an arrangement direction of the arcs of each first wavy wire and an arrangement direction of the arcs of each second wavy wire are made parallel to each other, each first wavy wire and each second wavy wire are separated by a previously set distance, and the arcs of each first wavy wire and the arcs of each second wavy wire facing each other are at least in contact with each other. The first wavy wire and the second wavy wire are made of a conductive material. A wiring has the conductive film. A touch panel sensor also has the conductive film.

Abstract: A touch pad includes a flat portion and a convex type three-dimensional portion having a hemispherical shape. An outer circumferential surface of the three-dimensional portion constitutes a spherical operation area. A second recognition unit of the touch-pad controller recognizes a gesture operation of at least two fingers to be the same gesture operation as a pinch-in operation in a planar operation area, in a case where movement trajectories of the at least two fingers in the spherical operation area are arc-shaped movement trajectories which are bulged outwardly in a case where the spherical operation area is viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive laminate for a touch panel which includes a substrate, and a patterned metal layer which is visually recognized to have greater blackness when viewed from the substrate side; a touch panel; and a transparent conductive laminate. The conductive laminate includes a substrate which has two main surfaces; a patterned plated layer which is disposed on at least one main surface of the substrate and has a functional group that interacts with metal ions; and a patterned metal layer which is disposed on the patterned plated layer, in which the patterned plated layer includes a metal component constituting the patterned metal layer and the ratio of the average peak intensity resulting from the metal component contained in the patterned plated layer to the average peak intensity resulting from the metal component constituting the patterned metal layer is in a range of 0.5 to 0.95.

Abstract: A touchpad includes a flat surface portion and a protruding solid portion having a hemispherical shape. The operation recognition part recognizes a gesture operation performed on an operation region of the touchpad. An operation validity determination part determines that only a rotating slide operation with respect to a lower periphery of the solid portion is a valid operation even at a time of an operation lock invalidating the gesture operation. In a case where the rotating slide operation is performed at the time of the operation lock, the operation lock is released, and at the same time, a specific function is executed by an AP execution part.

Abstract: A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.

Abstract: A touch panel control unit controls a touch panel including a solid region. A gesture determination unit obtains solid shape information from a solid shape information table, specifies a content of a gesture operation with respect to the touch panel based on the solid shape information, and generates gesture specification information. An AP interface unit transmits the gesture specification information to the AP execution unit and receives response information from the AP execution unit. A display control unit controls display of the touch panel based on the received response information.

Abstract: A touchpad includes a flat surface portion and a protruding solid portion having a hemispherical shape. An operation recognition part and an operation validity determination part are implemented in a touchpad control part. The operation recognition part recognizes a gesture operation performed on an operation region of the touchpad. The operation validity determination part determines only a rotating slide operation that is a slide operation with a finger along a lower periphery of the solid portion as a valid operation while an automobile is in a state of manual driving.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a conductive laminate includes extracting a long flexible substrate from a roll on which the flexible substrate is wound, forming a to-be-plated layer precursor layer on at least one main surface of the flexible substrate while the extracted flexible substrate is transported in the longitudinal direction, preparing a support, bonding the flexible substrate with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to at least one main surface of the support, applying energy to the support with a to-be-plated layer precursor layer to obtain a support with a patterned layer to be plated, forming the support into a three-dimensional shape including a curved surface, and performing a plating treatment on the patterned layer to be plated to obtain the conductive laminate having a three-dimensional shape.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided a conductive film which has a mesh-like metal layer composed of metal thin wires and in which visual recognition of the metal thin wires is suppressed and the metal layer has excellent conductive characteristics, a touch panel sensor, and a touch panel. A conductive film according to the invention includes a substrate; a patterned to-be-plated layer which is disposed on the substrate in a mesh pattern and has a functional group interacting with a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof; and a mesh-like metal layer which is disposed on the patterned to-be-plated layer and has a plurality of metal thin wires intersecting each other, an average thickness of the patterned to-be-plated layer is 0.05 to 100 ?m, an average thickness of the metal layer is 0.05 to 0.5 ?m, and an average intersection growing rate at an intersection of metal thin wires of the mesh of the metal layer is 1.6 or less.

Abstract: A high-refractive-index hardcoat layer of a sufficiently reduced haze value can be obtained from an aqueous composition containing Si, Al and at least one of Ti and Zr, in which the ratio of the number of atoms of Ti and Zr with respect to the number of atoms of Si is 2.5 to 18, the ratio of the number of atoms of Al with respect to the number of atoms of Si is 0.08 to 0.22, and the aqueous composition has a haze value of 0.5% or less.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a functional device and a control device, which is electrically connected to the functional device. The functional device includes a functional case, which constitutes a housing of the functional device. The control device includes a control case, which constitutes a housing of the control device. A first connector is partially exposed to an outside of the functional case. A second connector is partially exposed to an outside of the control case. The first connector is coupled to the second connector, so that the functional device is electrically connected to the control device without a harness between the functional case and the control case.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laminate with which a metal layer-containing laminate with the occurrence of pattern thickening being suppressed can be obtained. Further, the present invention provides methods for producing a substrate with a patterned plated layer and a metal layer-containing laminate, as well as a touch panel sensor and a touch panel.