Abstract: A method for addressing power outage of an arithmetic logic apparatus including an arithmetic logic part, a power supply port to which power is externally supplied, and a battery, the arithmetic logic part including a primary system device and a secondary system device, the method includes detection processing of detecting disruption of power in the power supply port, supplying processing of supplying power from the battery to the arithmetic logic part when the disruption is detected in the detection processing, end processing of performing processing of ending the secondary system device to reduce power consumption of the secondary system device when the supplying processing is performed, and backup processing of performing data backup using the primary system device upon completion of the end processing.

Abstract: A communication apparatus including: a reception unit configured to detect a preamble transmitted from a transmission node; and a control unit configured to determine a demodulation operation for a received signal according to whether information related to a destination is included in the preamble.

Abstract: A transmission node includes: a reception unit configured to receive a notification of a resource to be used for transmission; a control unit configured to execute an LBT (Listen before talk) to obtain a resource that is selected autonomously; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a desired signal with at least one of the resource of the notification and the resource obtained by the LBT.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to magnetic recording heads (such as write heads of data storage devices) that include multilayer structures to facilitate targeted switching and relatively low coercivity. In one or more embodiments, a magnetic recording head includes an iron-cobalt (FeCo) layer having a crystalline structure that is a cubic lattice structure, a first crystalline layer formed of a first material, and a second crystalline layer between the first crystalline layer and the FeCo layer. The second crystalline layer is formed of a second material different from the first material, and the second crystalline layer interfaces both the FeCo layer and the first crystalline layer. The crystalline structure of the FeCo layer has a texture of <100>.

Abstract: An airbag system includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; a recognition portion that recognizes a risk object which is present in a vicinity of the vehicle; a prediction portion that predicts a collision between the risk object and the vehicle; and an expansion control portion that performs an expansion control of the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber based on a prediction of the prediction portion.

Abstract: A skin stimulation brush pin includes an elongated tubular body, a base bottom member, an electrode member, and a metal shaft. The elongated tubular body has a proximal end portion. The tubular body includes a radially contracted portion on a distal end side of the tubular body. The base bottom member is made of a metal to allow conduction of electricity from an electric circuit. The base bottom member is at the proximal end portion of the elongated tubular body. The electrode member is connected to an opening of the tubular body on the distal end side thereof and has an exposed distal end, the radially contracted portion of the tubular body radially protruding toward the electrode member. The metal shaft is in a tubular inner portion of the tubular body to couple the base bottom member and the electrode member.

Abstract: A catheter includes: a catheter body wall having an elongated tubular shape; and at least one wire provided in the catheter body wall, the at least one wire having at least one groove.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a seasoning which has a flavor inherent in a soy sauce and which can still have a fruity aroma that is hardly felt with conventional soy sauces even after pasteurization, a method for suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell due to a food material to be felt when a container-packed composition containing the food material is heated in a sealed space and the like. The object is achieved by: a soy sauce or a soy sauce-like seasoning in which the content of at least one kind of ?-lactone is 100 ppb to 60,000 ppb; a method for suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell including a step of suppressing a heat-deteriorated smell due to a food material by heating a container-packed composition containing the food material and at least one kind of ?-lactone; and the like.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a base material and a coating disposed on the base material, wherein the coating comprises a hard particle layer; the hard particle layer is formed from a plurality of hard particles including titanium, silicon, carbon, and nitrogen; in the hard particles, a concentration of the silicon periodically changes along a first direction set in the hard particles; and an orientation of the hard particle layer is a (311) orientation.

Abstract: An access authority is set for each data referred to by a program. A control system includes a control unit that controls a control target, a storage unit that stores a program executed by the control unit and each access authority for each of data referred to by the program, and an input unit that receives an access request for any one of the data. Each access authority includes information about an operation that can be executed by a user having each authority. The control unit refers to each access authority based on acquisition of the access request for any one of the data from the input unit, and determines whether the user who transmits the access request has the access authority for the data for which the access is requested based on each access authority.

Abstract: Reliability of an instrument connected to a control device is verified. A control system includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit and the communication unit are configured to be detachable. The control unit authenticates the communication unit connected to the control unit using a common key, and allows the communication unit to access data in the control unit based on a result of the authentication checking that the communication unit has the common key.

Abstract: A communication device has: a receiving unit configured to receive information from another communication device; a control unit configured to determine transmission power based on the information; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal, by applying the transmission power to the signal, in autonomously selected resources, to the another communication device.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a preamble in resources that are selected autonomously by another communication device; and a control unit configured to acquire, based on the preamble, information for receiving a control signal from the another communication device, and, in this communication device, the receiving unit receives the control signal from the another communication device based on the information.

Abstract: A biosignal electrode that includes a substrate having first and second opposed main surfaces; a conductive material pattern on the first main surface of the substrate, the conductive material pattern defining a plurality of open spaces extending through the conductive material pattern and exposing the first surface of the substrate therethrough; and a biocompatible glue material within the plurality of open spaces of the conductive material pattern.

Abstract: A disclosed apparatus may include (1) a power enclosure electrically coupled to a power supply module of a computing device, (2) a power connector that (A) is electrically coupled to a power cable that facilitates carrying electric current to the power supply module via the power enclosure and (B) is dimensioned to mate with the power enclosure, and (3) at least one power switch that (A) is electrically coupled to the power enclosure, (B) is configured to be engaged by at least one feature of the power connector while the power connector is fully mated with the power enclosure, and when engaged by the feature of the power connector, (C) enables electric current to flow from the power connector to the power supply module via the power enclosure. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a control unit configured to autonomously determine a first resource to be used for transmission; a transmission unit configured to transmit data to another communication device by using the first resource; and a reception unit configured to receive feedback information corresponding to the data by using a second resource that is autonomously or heteronomously determined by the another communication device.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of data items in a resource autonomously selected by another communication device; a control unit configured to multiplex feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the multiplexed feedback information to the another communication device. The control unit determines which feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items is to be multiplexed and multiplexes the feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items, or the control unit multiplexes the feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items, based on information related to multiplexing of the feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items received by the reception unit from the another communication device.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a control unit configured to determine an antenna port to apply to a data signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to another communication device, information that indicates the determined antenna port, and the data signal that is transmitted, in autonomously selected resources, by using the determined antenna port.

Abstract: A communication device has: a control unit configured to autonomously select resources for use for transmission; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a data signal in the selected resources, and information that indicates the selected resources, to another communication device.

Abstract: A color modulation method for a display includes: obtaining a group of original RGB data of a pixel of an image; calling a display look-up-table (LUT) to determine whether a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data is present in the display LUT; if in, performing color modulation using the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data; and if not in, using the group of original RGB data, a plurality of groups of selected RGB data, and a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to each group of selected RGB data in combination with a predetermined interpolation algorithm to calculate the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data, and then using the obtained group of RGB mapped data to perform the color modulation.