Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor base body including: a p-type substrate; and an n-type first semiconductor layer; a first electrode; a second electrode; an isolation film; an insulation film; and a third electrode disposed over the insulation film. The first electrode is electrically connected to a first circuit C1 that is connected to a first power source Vin. The second electrode is electrically connected to a second circuit C2 that is connected to a second power source Vcc. The semiconductor base body further includes a p-type back gate region that is formed in at least a region of the semiconductor base body that faces the third electrode by way of the insulation film with a depth that allows the back gate region to reach the substrate. A dopant concentration of the back gate region falls within a range of 1×1010 cm?3 to 1×1015 cm?3.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide, under practical chrome plating conditions, a composite hard chrome plating film that suppresses non-adhesive regions between the plating film and ceramic particles, has fewer defects as a film, and is excellent in hardness and wear resistance, and also a sliding member coated with the film. Specifically, provided is a composite hard chrome plating film including tabular alumina, the composite hard chrome plating film being characterized in that the chromium source of the composite hard chrome plating film is trivalent chromium, and the ratio A/B of the amount of acid adsorption A per surface area (?mol/m2) to the amount of base adsorption B per surface area (?mol/m2) of the tabular alumina is 0.5 or more and 1.5 or less.

Abstract: ECU is configured to determine a life of a brush motor that is a power source of the oil pump. ECU estimates the motor current of the brush motor based on the oil temperature and the hydraulic pressure. ECU measures the operation time of the brush motor at the estimated motor current. ECU determines the life of the brush motor based on the estimated motor current and the measured operation times.

Abstract: An ECU is configured to determine the life of a pressure storage tank. The pressure storage tank has a gas chamber filled with gas, an oil chamber connected to a common passageway, and a piston dividing the gas chamber and the oil chamber. The pressure storage tank is configured to store hydraulic oil in the oil chamber and to release the hydraulic oil from the oil chamber. The ECU calculates a movement amount of the piston based on the volume change of the gas chamber. The ECU determines that the life of the pressure storage tank has ended when an integrated value of the calculated movement amount exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: It is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned can be exerted sufficiently. A liquid crystal display device (1) including two substrates AM and CF and a liquid crystal layer (4) sandwiched therebetween can be manufactured. The liquid crystal display device manufacturing method includes: a first step of subjecting a surface of one of the substrates AM and CM that is to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer (4) to hydrophilization treatment; and a second step of disposing the two substrates AM and CF so as to face each other such that the two substrates are in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously.

Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor base body including: a p-type substrate; and an n-type first semiconductor layer; a first electrode; a second electrode; an isolation film; an insulation film; and a third electrode disposed over the insulation film. The first electrode is electrically connected to a first circuit C1 that is connected to a first power source Vin. The second electrode is electrically connected to a second circuit C2 that is connected to a second power source Vcc. The semiconductor base body further includes a p-type back gate region that is formed in at least a region of the semiconductor base body that faces the third electrode by way of the insulation film with a depth that allows the back gate region to reach the substrate. A dopant concentration of the back gate region falls within a range of 1×1010 cm?3 to 1×1015 cm?3.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle is installed in a vehicle including: a body having a vehicle cabin and a floor panel constituting a floor of the vehicle cabin; a door opening-closing mechanism that drives a door mounted on the body to open and close; and a slope deploying mechanism that deploys a slope plate housed under the floor panel to the outside of the body. The control device coordinates the operation of the door opening-closing mechanism and the slope deploying mechanism. The control device opens the door by the door opening-closing mechanism after deploying the slope plate toward the outside of the body by the slope deploying mechanism.

Abstract: Provided are a substrate that can exert an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned and a liquid crystal display device. The substrate of the present invention is to be used in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously. The substrate includes an insulating film having a contact surface to be in contact with the liquid crystal composition. The static contact angle of water on the contact surface at 25° C. is 70° or less and/or the surface free energy of the contact surface is 50 mN/m or more. The substrate is preferably a substrate in direct contact with the liquid crystal composition with no alignment film therebetween.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device is configured to acquire a first image, which is obtained when a vehicle-mounted camera of a first vehicle images a second vehicle different from the first vehicle, and detect an abnormal state of a driver of the second vehicle based on an image of the driver of the second vehicle which is included in the first image.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device 1 includes a semiconductor substrate 50 including an upper surface, a trench electrode 22 provided inside a trench 20 formed on the upper surface, and a trench insulating film 21 provided between the trench electrode 22 and the semiconductor substrate 50. The semiconductor substrate 50 includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a lower end of the trench electrode 22 reaching the first semiconductor layer, a deep layer 19 of a second conductivity type partially provided on the first semiconductor layer in contact with the trench insulating film 21, a second semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type provided on the first semiconductor layer and on the deep layer 19 in contact with the trench insulating film 21, and a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type provided on the second semiconductor layer above the deep layer 19.

Abstract: A behavior monitoring device includes a controller configured to detect the behavior of a person included in a vehicle-mounted camera image. The controller detects a plurality of persons from the vehicle-mounted camera image. The controller detects attribute information of each of the detected persons and correlation information indicating a correlation between the detected persons. The controller evaluates the behavior of each of the detected persons based on the attribute information and the correlation information and to output the result of the evaluation.

Abstract: It is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which an anchoring force causing liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned can be exerted sufficiently. A liquid crystal display device (1) including two substrates AM and CF and a liquid crystal layer (4) sandwiched therebetween can be manufactured. The liquid crystal display device manufacturing method includes: a first step of subjecting a surface of one of the substrates AM and CM that is to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer (4) to hydrophilization treatment; and a second step of disposing the two substrates AM and CF so as to face each other such that the two substrates are in contact with a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules and an alignment aid having a polar group and having the function of causing the liquid crystal molecules to be aligned spontaneously.

Abstract: A vehicle-height control system including a tank, a compressor, an actuator, and a valve between the tank and the compressor. The valve is closed to a state of a pressure medium supplier to the compressor-pressure supply state when a tank pressure has reached a threshold in a tank-pressure supply state in which the tank pressure is supplied to the actuator. In the compressor-pressure supply state, the tank pressure is kept at the threshold, and a pressure in the actuator is greater than the tank pressure. The threshold makes it difficult for a pressure differential in the valve to become greater than a valve-opening pressure differential, making it difficult for the valve to be opened in the compressor-pressure supply state. This system enables good supply of a pressure medium from the compressor to the actuator, avoiding a longer time for vehicle height control and achieving a shorter compressor operation time.

Abstract: A vehicle height control system includes a fluid feeder and a vehicle height control unit. The vehicle height control unit includes a communication control unit. In a first communication state, a high-pressure source and a common passage are made to communicate with each other via the first passage and the second passage. In a second communication state, the first passage is shut off and the high-pressure source and the common passage are made to communicate with each other via the second passage. The communication control unit selects one from among the plurality of communication states based on at least one of a content of a start condition, a target vehicle height of a height increasing control and a number of wheels to be controlled in the height increasing control, when the start condition of the height increasing control is satisfied.

Abstract: A behavior monitoring device includes a controller configured to detect the behavior of a person included in a vehicle-mounted camera image. The controller detects a plurality of persons from the vehicle-mounted camera image. The controller detects attribute information of each of the detected persons and correlation information indicating a correlation between the detected persons. The controller evaluates the behavior of each of the detected persons based on the attribute information and the correlation information and to output the result of the evaluation.

Abstract: An operation support device includes a control unit configured to output operation support information regarding an operation vehicle that operates along an operation route passing through prescribed boarding-dropping points to board or drop a passenger at the prescribed boarding-dropping points. The control unit is configured to detect person information from an in-vehicle camera image by a photographing vehicle. The control unit is configured to detect a potential passenger at the prescribed boarding-dropping points based on the person information. The control unit is configured to output the operation support information based on a detection result of the potential passenger.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device is configured to acquire a first image, which is obtained when a vehicle-mounted camera of a first vehicle images a second vehicle different from the first vehicle, and detect an abnormal state of a driver of the second vehicle based on an image of the driver of the second vehicle which is included in the first image.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface, a trench electrode placed inside a trench formed on the upper surface, and a trench insulating film placed between the trench electrode and the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor substrate includes a drift layer, a floating layer for electric field reduction, a hole barrier layer, a body layer and an emitter layer, and the emitter layer, the body layer and the hole barrier layer are separated from the drift layer by the floating layer for electric field reduction, and a path of a carrier passing through an inverted layer formed in the body layer includes the body layer, the hole barrier layer, a non-inverted region of the floating layer for electric field reduction, and the drift layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first and second semiconductor chips, a resistive component, and a semiconductor chip including a first circuit coupled to electrodes on both ends of the resistive component. A sealing body has a first long side, a second side, a third short side, and a fourth short side. In a Y-direction, each of the first and second semiconductor chips is disposed at a position closer to the first side than to the second side, while the semiconductor chip is disposed at a position closer to the second side than to the first side. Also, in the Y-direction, the resistive component, the second semiconductor chips, and the first semiconductor chips are arranged in order of increasing distance from the third side toward the fourth side, while the semiconductor chip is disposed at a position closer to the third side than to the fourth side.