Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus which includes the following: A printhead including a plurality of nozzles that discharge ink to a print medium. A first detection unit that detects a distance between the printhead and a platen. An adjustment unit that adjusts the distance between the printhead and the platen. An acquisition unit that acquires difference information concerning a difference of a distance between the platen and each of the nozzle on an upstream side and the nozzle on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the print medium. The adjustment unit adjusts the distance based on a detection result of the first detection unit and the difference information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.

Abstract: A request paraphrasing system 120 allowing a dialogue system to flexibly address to requests in various different manners of expression includes: a pre-processing unit 130 converting a user input 56 to a word vector sequence; and a neural paraphrasing model 94 trained in advance by machine learning to receive the word vector sequence as an input and paraphrasing a request represented by the word vector sequence to a request having a higher probability of obtaining an answer from a question-answering device 122 than the request before paraphrasing. As pre-processing, whether the user input 56 is a request or not may be determined and it may be paraphrased only when it is determined to be a request. Further, a classification model 98 may classify the input request to determine to which request class it belongs, and the classification may be input as one feature to neural paraphrasing model 94.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive system ground fault determination unit configured to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when a ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by a drive system ground fault sensor included in the drive system electrical system exceeds a drive system conduction state threshold value, and to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a non-conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when the ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by the drive system ground fault sensor exceeds a drive system non-conduction state threshold value, which is different from the drive system conduction state threshold value.

Abstract: A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: an acquisition unit that acquires environmental information on weather or a planimetric feature around the vehicle; a prediction unit that predicts a change in solar radiation state of the vehicle based on the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit and a moving state of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a prediction result of the prediction unit.

Abstract: A shielded electric wire includes one metal pipe and one electric wire having a conductor and an insulator. An outer diameter of the conductor at 25° C. is set as a, a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductor is set as ?a, and a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and 25° C. is set as ?t, an outer diameter a? of the conductor after thermal expansion is a?=a+?a×a×?t, and when a wall thickness of the insulator at 25° C. is set as b and a coefficient of linear expansion of the insulator is set as ?b, an insulator wall thickness b? after thermal expansion is b?=b+?b×b×?t, and an inner diameter c of the one metal pipe is set to satisfy c?a?+2b?.

Abstract: A response sentence creation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a situation and trigger information serving as a trigger of start of response sentence creation, a first query creation unit configured to create a first query for deriving the first answer on the basis of the trigger information, a first answer derivation unit configured to derive a first answer to the first query on the basis of the information indicating the situation, a second query creation unit configured to creates a second query for deriving a second answer on the basis of the first answer, a second answer derivation unit configured to derive the second answer to the second query on the basis of the information indicating the situation, and a response sentence creation unit configured to combine the first answer with the second answer to create a response sentence.

Abstract: An electric wire includes a flat stranded conductor having a flat shape in cross sectional view and configured by a plurality of conductive wires each having a wire diameter of 1.2 mm or less and which are stranded to each other, and a flat covering portion that is an insulator and covers the flat stranded conductor. The flat covering portion has a uniform elongation of 43.5% or more.

Abstract: A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether irradiation light to the vehicle is sunlight based on an output of an optical sensor; and a control unit configured to control an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a determination result of the determination unit. The control unit sets the solar power generation system to the first mode when the determination unit determines that the irradiation light is sunlight.

Abstract: An electric wire includes a flat stranded conductor having a flat shape in cross sectional view and configured by a plurality of conductive wires each having a wire diameter of 1.2 mm or less and which are stranded to each other, and a flat covering portion that is an insulator and covers the flat stranded conductor. The flat covering portion has a uniform elongation of 43.5% or more.

Abstract: A secondary battery management device includes a target setting portion that sets a target charging rate that is a target for a charging rate of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle, and a target charging rate reaching time that is a time when main charging in which the secondary battery is charged to the target charging rate at a main charging speed is completed; a main charging setting portion that sets a main charging start time when the main charging is started and the main charging speed on the basis of an output of a charger, the target charging rate, and the target charging rate reaching time; at least one of a discharging setting portion that sets a discharging start time when discharging of the secondary battery is started and a discharging speed that is a speed of the discharging, and a sub-charging setting portion that sets a sub-charging start time when sub-charging in which the secondary battery is charged at a sub-charging speed is started and the sub-charging speed; and a charging/dischargi

Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive system electrical system configured to supply power to a driver system, a non-drive system electrical system configured to supply power to a non-drive system, a first magnetic contactor that is electrically connected between the drive system electrical system and the non-drive system electrical system, a second magnetic contactor that is electrically connected between a power supply system configured to supply power to the non-drive system electrical system and the non-drive system electrical system, and a magnetic contactor control unit configured to execute at least one of first control processing of setting the first magnetic contactor to a non-conduction state when the non-drive system electrical system does not operate by using a DC power supply included in the drive system electrical system and second control processing of setting the second magnetic contactor to a non-conduction state when the non-drive system electrical system does not operate by using the power supply syste

Abstract: A vehicle control device which is used in a vehicle traveling by electric power generated by solar power generation, includes: a solar radiation information acquisition unit which acquires solar radiation information showing a solar radiation amount on a travel route which is a planned travel route; and a target speed determination unit which determines a target speed on the travel route on the basis of the solar radiation information acquired by the solar radiation information acquisition unit and information in which the solar radiation amount is associated with the speed.

Abstract: A grid system in which a first storage battery and a second storage battery can be connected and electric power can be transferred between the first storage battery and the second storage battery, includes: an electric power value setting unit that sets an electric power value per a predetermined amount of electric power according to an electric power state of either or both of the first storage battery and the second storage battery; and an electric power transfer control unit that adjusts an amount of electric power to be transferred between the first storage battery and the second storage battery on the basis of the electric power value.

Abstract: A grid system in which a first storage battery and a second storage battery can be connected and electric power can be transferred and received between the first storage battery and the second storage battery is provided. The first storage battery is a house storage battery provided in a house and the second storage battery is a vehicle storage battery provided in a vehicle.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: an assistance processing unit that executes assistance processing for providing a user with specified information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a list according to a sequential order of the assistance processing executed by the assistance processing unit.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a map information storage unit that stores map information; a communication control unit that acquires traffic information; a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle with respect to each road is recorded; a route estimation unit that estimates a travel route of the vehicle by using the map information and the travel history database; a traveling time calculation unit that calculates actual traveling time of the vehicle with respect to the travel route and calculates predicted traveling time required when traveling the travel route estimated by the route estimation unit by using the traffic information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a map screen indicating the travel route and display the actual traveling time and the predicted traveling time together with the map screen.

Abstract: A collinear relationship is satisfied in which rotation speeds of first to third rotation elements and rotation speeds of fourth to sixth rotation elements are arranged respectively in this sequence on a single straight line in a collinear diagram. The first and fourth rotation elements are connected with first and second power sources respectively. The second and fifth rotation elements are connected with first and second driven units respectively. The second and sixth rotation elements are connected with each other by a first connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later. The third and fifth rotation elements are connected with each other by a second connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later.

Abstract: An information processing system obtains a training data set including input data and a label, which is ground truth data for the input data, training a machine learning model on the training data set, inputs test data to the machine learning model trained on the training data set, evaluates whether performance of the machine learning model satisfies a predetermined condition based on an output of the machine learning model to which the test data is entered, updates the training data set when the performance of the machine learning model is evaluated not to satisfy the predetermined condition, and retrains the machine learning model on the updated training data set. The information processing system repeats updating, retraining, and evaluating the data set in response to the evaluation.

Abstract: A shielded electric wire includes one metal pipe and one electric wire having a conductor and an insulator. An outer diameter of the conductor at 25° C. is set as a, a coefficient of linear expansion of the conductor is set as ?a, and a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and 25° C. is set as ?t, an outer diameter a? of the conductor after thermal expansion is a?=a+?a×a×?t, and when a wall thickness of the insulator at 25° C. is set as b and a coefficient of linear expansion of the insulator is set as ?b, an insulator wall thickness b? after thermal expansion is b?=b+?b×b×?t, and an inner diameter c of the one metal pipe is set to satisfy c?a?+2b?.