Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to enable space saving of an optical fiber connection unit such as an optical switch. According to this disclosure, there is provided an optical connection module that connects first and second multi-fiber connectors, in which the first and second multi-fiber connectors have optical fibers which are two-dimensionally arranged. In the first multi-fiber connector, optical fibers connected to a same optical switch are arranged in a vertical direction, and optical fibers connected to different optical switches are arranged in parallel in a horizontal direction. In the second multi-fiber connector, optical fibers connected to a same optical switch are arranged in a horizontal direction, and optical fibers connected to different optical switches are arranged in parallel in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A display device featuring a touch detection and a fingerprint imaging functions is provided. A display device includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. The light-emitting element includes a first pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a common electrode, and the light-receiving element includes a second pixel electrode, an active layer, and the common electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are provided on the same plane. The common electrode overlaps with the first pixel electrode with the light-emitting layer therebetween, and overlaps with the second pixel electrode with the active layer therebetween. A first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an insulating layer are provided above the common electrode. The insulating layer is provided above the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is provided above the insulating layer.

Abstract: An information processing method performs steps for an information processing apparatus to communicate with an image forming apparatus having first and second sheet output sections. The second sheet output section can be switched between a close position to serve to guide a sheet to the first sheet output section, and an open position not to guide the sheet to the first sheet output section but to stack the sheet. The method inputs a type of sheet, acquires information indicating whether the second sheet output section is in an open or closed state, and transmits image information to the image forming apparatus. When the sheet type recommends the sheet be output to the second sheet output section and the second sheet output section is in the closed state, a message is output to prompt to switch the second sheet output section into the open position before the image information is transmitted.

Abstract: The nut has a first fitting surface provided with a first retaining ring groove on an end portion on the other side in the axial direction; the fitting cylinder, at an end portion on the one side in the axial direction, has a second fitting surface provided with a second retaining ring groove in a portion facing the first retaining ring groove with regard to a radial direction; and the retaining ring is engaged so as to span between the first retaining ring groove and the second retaining ring groove.

Abstract: A multilayer structure includes a polarizing plate; a glass layer laminated on one side of the polarizing plate via an adhesive layer; and an optical display laminated on another side of the polarizing plate via a bonding layer, wherein the glass layer has a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less, and a thickness x of the bonding layer and an elastic modulus y of the bonding layer at 85° C. satisfy y?(299/60)x?296/3.

Abstract: A sensor element includes: an element base including a gas distribution part communicating from a gas inlet; and a leading-end protective layer including an inner layer covering an end portion and four side surfaces of the element base and an outer layer covering the inner layer and having a lower porosity than the inner layer, and a total thickness representative value, defined as an average of total thicknesses of the protective layer at a plurality of positions including a starting point, an intermediate position, and an innermost end of the gas distribution part, is 250 ?m or more, and a film thickness variation degree, defined as a ratio of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the total thicknesses with respect to the total thickness representative value when the value is based at 100, is 20 or less.

Abstract: A mobile object control device (1) includes a first detection unit (21), a second detection unit (22), and a stillness determination unit (24). On the basis of a sensor mounted on a mobile object (100) that moves autonomously, the first detection unit (21) detects a movement state of the mobile object (100). The second detection unit (22) detects at least one of cartographic information at a current location of the mobile object (100), object information present in a periphery of the mobile object (100), and operation information of a movable portion included in the mobile object (100). The stillness determination unit (24) determines whether the mobile object (100) is in a static state on the basis of the movement state detected by the first detection unit (21) and the information detected by the second detection unit (22).

Abstract: A sensor element includes an element body provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein, a measurement electrode, a reference electrode, a reference-gas introduction section, and a heater that heats the element body. The reference-gas introduction section has a reference-gas introduction space that is open outward of the element body and that introduces a reference gas into the element body, and also has a porous reference-gas introduction layer that causes the reference gas to flow from the reference-gas introduction space to the reference electrode. The reference-gas introduction layer has a first porous region and a second porous region in a path segment serving as a reference-gas path between the reference-gas introduction space and the reference electrode. The second porous region has a low porosity region with a lower porosity than the first porous region and is disposed closer to the reference electrode relative to the first porous region.

Abstract: An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.

Abstract: A method for forming a film that includes forming a boron nitride film on a substrate, and forming a boron-containing silicon film on the boron nitride film.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical switch that does not require power supply.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a surface to be pressed and a surface to be restrained. A supporter has a supporter main body, an elastically deformable gripping arm, a pocket, and a slit. The supporter main body has a restraining surface that comes into contact with the surface to be restrained. The gripping arm has a pressing surface that comes into contact with the surface to be pressed. The slit has a pocket opening that is open to the pocket. The pocket opening is disposed between the restraining surface and the pressing surface.

Abstract: A method to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a road vehicle, the steer-by-wire steering system including a steering wheel, a road wheel actuator to actuate road wheels, and a feedback actuator to apply a feedback torque to the steering wheel, the method including, if an ingress situation is detected, switching on the feedback actuator and providing a resistance torque against rotation of the steering wheel in an ingress mode, and if a normal steering system shut down procedure is finished, activating an egress mode of the feedback actuator and providing a resistance torque against rotation of the steering wheel.

Abstract: A display device having a function of sensing light is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light-receiving element, a light-emitting element, a resin layer, and a light shielding layer. The light-receiving element, the light-emitting element, the resin layer, and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light-receiving element includes a first pixel electrode over the first substrate, an active layer over the first pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the active layer. The light-emitting element includes a second pixel electrode over the first substrate, a first light-emitting layer over the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode over the first light-emitting layer. The resin layer and the light shielding layer are each positioned between the common electrode and the second substrate. The resin layer includes a portion overlapping with the light-emitting element.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first-row heat exchange module through which a refrigerant is introduced from the outside, a second-row heat exchange module through which the refrigerant is discharged to the outside, a third-row heat exchange module through which the refrigerant is discharged to the outside, and a flow-splitting module that splits the refrigerant from the first-row heat exchange module into the second-row heat exchange module and the third-row heat exchange module, wherein the refrigerant reciprocates one time in a flow path, the first-row heat exchange module constitutes a forward path of the flow path, and both the second-row heat exchange module and the third-row heat exchange module constitute backward paths of the flow path.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording portion that records an image on a sheet, a first conveyance path in which a cut sheet serving as the sheet is conveyed toward the recording portion, a second conveyance path in which a continuous sheet serving as the sheet is conveyed toward the recording portion, a common conveyance path in which the sheet is conveyed in a conveying direction from a junction point at which the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path join together to the recording portion, and a control portion that controls the conveyance of the sheet. When the sheet is not detected in the second conveyance path after a sheet conveyance abnormality is detected, while the sheet is detected in the common conveyance path, the control portion performs a discharge operation of conveying the cut sheet from the first conveyance path toward the recording portion.

Abstract: A planning system includes flow generating circuitry, confirmation circuitry, and update circuitry. The flow generating circuitry is configured to generate a task flow which includes work tasks predetermined based on a concurrent execution constraint with respect to concurrent execution of tasks performed by robots and connection tasks to be connected to the work tasks. The confirmation circuitry is configured to determine whether at least one of the robots interferes with an object in the connection tasks. The update circuitry is configured to update the concurrent execution constraint when the at least one of the robots is determined to interfere with the object.

Abstract: The resolution of a display apparatus having alight detection function is increased. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-emitting and light-receiving device. The light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, and a common electrode; the light-emitting and light-receiving device includes a second pixel electrode, a second light-emitting layer, an active layer, and the common electrode; the active layer includes an organic compound; the first light-emitting layer is positioned between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode; the second light-emitting layer and the active layer are each positioned between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode; the light-emitting device has a function of emitting light of a first color; and the light-emitting and light-receiving device has a function of emitting light of a second color and a function of receiving light of the first color.

Abstract: Provided are: modified soybeans having a reduced furan fatty acid content in the oils and fats contained in the soybeans; and uses of the modified soybeans. The present invention relates to modified soybeans in which the content ratio of furan fatty acid in the oils and fats contained in the soybeans has been reduced by genetic mutation.

Abstract: A display apparatus having a photoelectric conversion function with high sensitivity is provided. The light extraction efficiency of the display apparatus is increased. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device, a light-emitting and light-receiving device, a first lens, and a second lens. The light-emitting device has a function of emitting light of a first color. The light-emitting and light-receiving device has a function of emitting light of a second color and a function of receiving light of the first color and converting it into an electric signal. The light emitted by the light-emitting device is emitted to the outside of the display apparatus through the first lens. Light enters the light-emitting and light-receiving device from the outside of the display apparatus through the second lens.