Abstract: A device connector is to be mounted on a board in an enclosure while being passed through an opening formed in the enclosure, and provided with a terminal, a housing including a housing body for holding an outer connecting portion of the terminal and a mounting piece, and an auxiliary member supported by the housing on a side where a coupling portion and a board-side connecting portion extend. The auxiliary member includes a pair of guide plates for coupling the coupling portion of the terminal. Each of the pair of guide plates has a guide edge for guiding the auxiliary member by contacting an inner surface of the opening. The guide edge is formed at a position for avoiding the contact of the board-side connecting portion and the coupling portion with the inner surface of the opening while being held in contact with the inner surface of the opening.

Abstract: There is provided a position detection device that recognizes a presence position of a target object in a three-dimensional space. The device acquires three-dimensional point cloud information of the space and a plurality of images obtained by imaging an area including surroundings of an object in the space from different imaging points. A region detection unit receives, as an input, the plurality of acquired images, determines whether a target object appears in the plurality of images, and detects a region of the object in each of the plurality of images in a case where the target object appears in each of the images. A specifying unit specifies a region of a point cloud corresponding to the target object based on the point cloud information and the region of the object detected in each of the images.

Abstract: A board connector is to be mounted on a board, and provided with a plurality of terminals, a housing for holding outer connecting portions of the plurality of respective terminals with coupling portions and board-side connecting portions of the plurality of respective terminals caused to extend outside, and an auxiliary member supported by the housing on a side where the coupling portions and the board-side connecting portions extend. At least one of the plurality of terminals is a power terminal. The auxiliary member includes an alignment plate having a plurality of through holes, through which the board-side connecting portions of the plurality of terminals are respectively passed. The alignment plate includes protrusions, and located between the plurality of through holes, for increasing creepage distances between the board-side connecting portions respectively passed through the plurality of through holes.

Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a thermal fixing roller pair, a first heater, a second heater, multiple temperature detectors, and a driver. The thermal fixing roller pair includes a first thermal fixing roller and a second thermal fixing roller facing the first thermal fixing roller. The thermal fixing roller pair thermally fixes and conveys a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium nipped between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The first heater heats the first thermal fixing roller. The second heater heats the second thermal fixing roller. The multiple temperature detectors are at different positions along an axial direction of the thermal fixing roller pair. The multiple temperature detectors detect a surface temperature of the thermal fixing roller pair. The driver drives the thermal fixing roller pair.

Abstract: A motor control unit includes: an assist torque command value generation unit that generates an assist torque command value using steering torque; a manual steering command value generation unit that generates a manual steering command value using the steering torque and the assist torque command value; an integrated angle command value calculation unit that calculates an integrated angle command value by adding the manual steering command value to an automatic steering command value; and a switching unit that switches between a first control for controlling an electric motor based on the assist torque command value and a second control for controlling the electric motor based on the integrated angle command value, based on a switching signal.

Abstract: Provided is a binder composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery with which it is possible to form a solid electrolyte-containing layer that can cause an all-solid-state secondary battery to display excellent high-temperature cycle characteristics. The binder composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery contains an acrylic polymer and not less than 500 mass ppm and not more than 20,000 mass ppm of a phosphoric acid ester emulsifier relative to the acrylic polymer.

Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a generator to output AC power, a converter that converts the AC power into DC power, and an inverter that converts the DC power into AC power. An electric motor is driven by the AC power output by the inverter, and an inverter controller (i) calculates a control command value in accordance with an operation command and (ii) controls the inverter based on the calculated value. A value obtained by dividing (i) an amount of the change in the control command value in a case of an increase of the operation command by (ii) a period from when the operation command changes to when the control command value reaches the control command value corresponding to post-change operation command has a negative correlation with the rotational speed of the electric motor at the time when the operation command changes.

Abstract: An acceleration detection device includes an acceleration sensor that has a first detection axis and a second detection axis orthogonal to each other such that a yaw mounting angle between a vehicle reference axis and a virtual line is ±15 degrees or less, an acquisition section that acquires an acceleration in a direction of the first detection axis and an acceleration in a direction of the second detection axis, and a mounting angle calculation section that calculates the yaw mounting angle from an angle calculation formula.

Abstract: An acceleration detection device includes an acceleration sensor that has a first detection axis and a second detection axis such that a yaw mounting angle between a vehicle reference axis and a virtual line is ±15 degrees or less, an acquisition section acquiring an acceleration in a direction of the first detection axis and an acceleration in a direction of the second detection axis, and a mounting angle calculation section calculating the yaw mounting angle from an angle calculation formula and the acceleration in the direction of the first detection axis and the acceleration in the direction of the second detection axis.

Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.

Abstract: An inertia detection device includes one set of gyro sensors for detecting an angular velocity of a detection target object along a same direction, the gyro sensors arranged in a same physical quantity range, in which sensor movement is detectable as a same physical quantity. When an abnormality affecting an output signal of one of the gyro sensors is caused, based on an observation that a difference of magnitudes of the output signals from normal and abnormal gyro sensors is different from a difference of magnitudes of the output signals from two normal gyro sensors, such an abnormality of one of the gyro sensors is determinable by a comparison between the output signals, without using an estimated value thereof.

Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.

Abstract: An electric heating type carrier including a conductive honeycomb structure portion and a pair of electrode layers, wherein in a cross-section orthogonal to the direction in which the cells extend, the honeycomb structure portion is classified into following three regions: a first resistance region having a contact portion with a first electrode layer, a second resistance region having a contact portion with a second electrode layer, and a third resistance region that does not come into contact with either the first electrode layer or the second electrode layer, and traverses the cross-section so as to be sandwiched between the first resistance region and the second resistance region, and has a higher electrical resistance per unit volume (1 cm3) than an electrical resistance per unit volume (1 cm3) of the first resistance region and the second resistance region.

Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.

Abstract: An inertia detection device includes one set of gyro sensors for detecting an angular velocity of a detection target object along a same direction, the gyro sensors arranged in a same physical quantity range, in which sensor movement is detectable as a same physical quantity. When an abnormality affecting an output signal of one of the gyro sensors is caused, based on an observation that a difference of magnitudes of the output signals from normal and abnormal gyro sensors is different from a difference of magnitudes of the output signals from two normal gyro sensors, such an abnormality of one of the gyro sensors is determinable by a comparison between the output signals, without using an estimated value thereof.

Abstract: In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a mounting member having a surface, an electronic component, a solder and a sidefill. The electronic component has a plurality of electrodes on a surface and is mounted on the surface of the mounting member so that the surface of the electronic component having the electrodes faces the surface of the mounting member. The solder is disposed between the mounting member and at least one of the electrodes of the electronic component to electrically and mechanically connect between the at least one of the electrodes and the mounting member. The sidefill is disposed on a periphery of the solder and mechanically connects between the electronic component and the mounting member.

Abstract: An electric heating type carrier including a conductive honeycomb structure portion and a pair of electrode layers, wherein in a cross-section orthogonal to the direction in which the cells extend, the honeycomb structure portion is classified into following three regions: a first resistance region having a contact portion with a first electrode layer, a second resistance region having a contact portion with a second electrode layer, and a third resistance region that does not come into contact with either the first electrode layer or the second electrode layer, and traverses the cross-section so as to be sandwiched between the first resistance region and the second resistance region, and has a higher electrical resistance per unit volume (1 cm3) than an electrical resistance per unit volume (1 cm3) of the first resistance region and the second resistance region.

Abstract: In a consumables ordering system, an image forming apparatus notifies a management system about a consumable whose remaining quantity is under a specific threshold. When a consumable whose remaining quantity is under the threshold is autonomously notified from the image forming apparatus, the management system checks the consumable whose remaining quantity is under the threshold in a specific image forming apparatus other than an autonomously notifying apparatus (S122), and notifies the autonomously notifying apparatus about the consumable autonomously notified from the autonomously notifying apparatus, and ordering information as information necessary for placing an order for the consumable checked in S122 (S129). The autonomously notifying apparatus displays the ordering information notified from the management system, and places an order for the consumable for which the ordering information is displayed in response to an instruction.

Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes a detection signal generation circuit that generates a detection signal based on an output signal of a physical quantity detection element, an analog/digital conversion circuit that converts the detection signal into a first digital signal during a first period and converts the first test signal into a second digital signal during a second period, a digital signal processing circuit that processes the first digital signal to generate a third digital signal during the first period and processes a second test signal to generate a fourth digital signal during the second period, and a failure diagnosis circuit that performs a failure diagnosis of the analog/digital conversion circuit based on the second digital signal and a failure diagnosis of the digital signal processing circuit based on the fourth digital signal during the second period.