Abstract: The suspension device for vehicles includes: an electric damper which operates by electricity; a fluid pressure damper which operates by hydraulic pressure; a road-surface state detector which detects a road-surface state ahead of a tire of a vehicle; and a controller which causes at least one to operate among the electric damper and the fluid pressure damper, based on a detection result of the road-surface state detector.

Abstract: A curable composition containing: a blocked isocyanate prepolymer containing a polyol compound, a polyisocyanate compound, a branching agent, and a blocking agent; an epoxy resin; and a curing agent and/or a curing accelerator, wherein the polyol compound is polytetramethylene glycol, the branching agent is a compound having at least three reactive functional groups capable of reacting with an isocyanate group, an amount by mole of the isocyanate group in the polyisocyanate compound is 2 mol or less relative to 1 mol of a total amount by mole of a hydroxy group in the polyol compound and the reactive functional groups capable of reacting with the isocyanate group in the branching agent, and an amount of the reactive functional groups in the branching agent is more than 50 mol % of the total amount of the hydroxy group in the polyol compound and the reactive functional groups in the branching agent.

Abstract: A preview road surface detector capable of discontinuing predictive control is provided, which suppresses the energy consumption required to determine whether predictive control should be discontinued. The preview road surface detector includes: a distance sensor provided on a vehicle body member, the distance sensor detecting a value related to a distance between the vehicle body member and a measurement point on a road surface ahead of a vehicle, the measurement point corresponding to at least part of a road surface contact portion of a wheel; and a distance calculator that calculates a road surface distance as the distance from the vehicle body member to the measurement point, based on a detection value detected by the distance sensor, in which the distance sensor is deactivated under a predetermined condition.

Abstract: The vehicular state estimation apparatus includes: a physical quantity detector configured to detect a physical quantity indicating behavior by the vehicle; a vehicle behavior estimator configured to estimate current behavior by the vehicle; a distance sensor that is configured to detect a value pertaining to a distance between the vehicle body member and a measurement point on a road surface in front of the vehicle and corresponding to at least a central section of a road surface contact section on a wheel; a distance calculator configured to calculate a road surface distance; a spring constant calculator configured to calculate at least one of spring constants, in a vehicle stopped state; and a suspension controller configured to control operation of the active suspension apparatus based on the spring constants, the road surface distance, and vehicle behavior information.

Abstract: A preview road surface detector is provided, which is capable of suppressing the crosstalk of received detection waves. A preview road surface detector, including: a distance sensor including a plurality of transmitters and at least one receiver installed on a vehicle body member and arranged in a direction intersecting a travel direction of a vehicle, the distance sensor detecting a value related to a distance between the vehicle body member and a measurement point on a road surface ahead of a vehicle, the measurement point corresponding to at least part of a road surface contact portion of a wheel; and a distance calculator that calculates a road surface distance as the distance from the vehicle body member to the measurement point, based on a detection value detected by the distance sensor, in which the transmitters transmit detection waves with a time difference between the adjacent transmitters.

Abstract: An electrically powered suspension system includes: an actuator that is provided between a vehicle body and a wheel of a vehicle and generates a load for damping vibration of the vehicle body; an information acquisition part that acquires information on a sprung state amount and a road surface state; a target load calculation part that calculates a first target load related to skyhook control based on the sprung state amount and calculates a second target load related to preview control based on the road surface state; and a load control part. The target load calculation part calculates a third target load related to roll generation control based on a target roll angle and calculates a combined target load into which the first target load, second target load, and third target load have been combined. The load control part performs load control of the actuator using the combined target load.

Abstract: An image inspector includes a recording device and circuitry. The reading device is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has a wrinkle and an edge folding based on a plurality of positions on the image on the recording medium read by the reading device satisfying a predetermined relation. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has the wrinkle based on the predetermined relation, and then determine whether the recording medium has the edge folding based on the predetermined relation.

Abstract: A suspension device includes: a hydraulic damper including a rod provided with a valve for generating a hydraulic pressure when the rod is displaced between a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber; and an electric damper configured to electrically displace the rod by an actuator. The electric damper includes: an outer cylinder; an inner cylinder; a piston provided on the rod and configured to stroke in the inner cylinder; and a communication passage disposed inside the inner cylinder at a central portion where the piston strokes. The communication passage establishes communication between the first liquid chamber at one axial end side of the piston and the second liquid chamber at another axial end side of the piston.

Abstract: An electrically powered suspension system performs an accurate vibration damping of a vehicle with low power consumption even if a linear motor of an electromagnetic actuator strokes to reach an irregular region and includes an electromagnetic actuator generating a driving force for the vibration damping. A linear motor of the actuator includes a cylindrical rod member provided with a plurality of on-rod armature coils along its axis and a housing surrounding the rod member, mounted movable back and forth along the axis with respect to the rod member, and provided with a plurality of permanent magnets along the axis. The on-rod armature coils located on ends of the rod member are provided with short-circuit parts b suppressing the rod member and the housing from moving back and forth with respect to each other.

Abstract: Provided is a hot-melt curable silicone composition with excellent hot dispensing properties and storage stability, which can be cured by triggering an external energy stimulus, and which provides excellent adhesive and mechanical properties to the cured product, and applications thereof. A curable silicone composition, including in a specific mass % range, comprises: (A) a non-hot-melt solid organopolysiloxane resin mixture; (B) a linear organopolysiloxane that is liquid at 25° C. having the same curing reactive functional group; (C) an organohydrogen polysiloxane; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst that is inert at room temperature but is activated by an external energy stimulus. The whole composition has hot-melt properties, and the melt viscosity (flow tester measurement) at 100° C. is 50 Pa·s or less. A cured product thereof, and use in semiconductor applications and the like, is also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a laminate body using a hot-melt curable silicone composition that is compatible with liquid dispensing by a dispenser, has excellent controllability of reaction due to suppressed curing reactivity at the dispensing temperature, wherein the curable silicone composition can be cured at high speed after dispensing. A method of manufacturing a laminate body, including a step of: dispensing a curable silicone composition having hot-melt properties as a whole, a melt viscosity at 100° C. (measured by a flow tester) of 50 Pa·s or less, and curable by irradiation with a high energy beam in a form filled in a dispensing cartridge onto a portion or all of a surface of at least one substrate; and optionally irradiating the composition with a high energy beam to cure the composition.

Abstract: Provided is a curable silicone composition that can be handled as a liquid at room temperature, where a cured product thereof has excellent adhesive and mechanical properties and exhibits relatively high hardness. The curable silicone composition comprises: (A1) an organopolysiloxane resin having a curing reactive functional group that contains a carbon-carbon double bond, (A2) an organopolysiloxane resin not having the curing reactive functional group, and (B) a linear organopolysiloxane in a liquid state at 25° C. having the curing reactive functional group, in specific mass % ranges, as well as (C) a curing agent. The viscosity of the entire composition is 50 Pa·s or less, and the amount of the curing reactive functional groups in 100 g of the composition is 1.5 mol % or more. Also provided is a cured product of the composition, and a use thereof in a semiconductor application and the like.

Abstract: An ECU includes: a road surface height measurer which measures road surface heights at three or more points along a vehicle-width direction in front of a tire mounted on a wheel; a position detector which detects a position at which a difference of the road surface height from an adjacent road surface height is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold among the road surface heights at three or more points measured by the road surface height measurer; and a road surface condition determiner which excludes a value of the road surface height at the position at which the difference detected by the position detector is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, and determines a condition of the road surface based on the road surface heights at positions at each of which the difference from an adjacent road surface height is smaller than the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An ECU includes: a road surface height measurer which measures road surface heights at three or more points along a vehicle-width direction in front of a tire mounted on a wheel; a position detector which detects a position at which a difference of the road surface height from an adjacent road surface height is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold among the road surface heights at three or more points measured by the road surface height measurer; and a corrector which corrects the road surface height at a position at which the difference detected by the position detector is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold to a predetermined height.

Abstract: A damper control apparatus for controlling a front damper at a front wheel and a rear damper at a rear wheel. The damper control apparatus includes: a preview sensor configured to detect a road surface state in front of a vehicle; a steering angle sensor configured to detect a steering angle of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the front and rear dampers based on a detected value of the preview sensor. In response to the steering angle sensor detecting a steering angle that exceeds a predetermined steering angle threshold, the controller is configured to reduce control of the rear damper that is based on the detected value of the preview sensor.

Abstract: A mounting structure of a vehicle sensor includes: an exterior member provided at a front side of a vehicle body; a frame member configured to support the exterior member or a drive source for driving a vehicle; and a road surface condition detector configured to detect a road surface condition at a front side of the vehicle. The road surface condition detector is fixed to a frame member located frontward of a front wheel.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes heating and pressurizing rotary members, and a speed control unit. In a first mixed job to be executed in a first mode and where a first recording material is to be initially conveyed and a second recording material is to be conveyed subsequent to the first recording material, the speed control unit sets a conveyance speed of the first recording material to a second speed based on acquired grammage information and sets a conveyance speed of the second recording material to a first speed based on the acquired grammage information. In a second mix job to be executed in the second mode and where the second recording material is to be conveyed subsequent to the initially conveyed first recording material, the speed control unit sets the conveyance speed of the first and second recording materials to the first speed based on the acquired grammage information.

Abstract: A vehicle suspension system includes: a road surface sensor provided in a vehicle body portion ahead of a front wheel to detect an unevenness of a road surface; an electromagnetic damper that applies a damping force and a propulsive force along a stroke direction to a vehicle body and the front wheel with the aid of a motor element; and an ECU. The road surface sensor includes: a first road surface sensor; and a second road surface sensor that overlaps the first road surface sensor in a vehicle width direction and is provided at a position behind the first road surface sensor. The ECU includes: a road surface height calculation unit that calculates a road surface height based on detection values from the road surface sensors and a movement amount of the vehicle; and a damper control unit that controls the motor element based on the calculated road surface height.

Abstract: Provided is a silicone gel composition that provides a silicone gel cured product having excellent storage stability as well as heat resistance and transparency at high temperatures, being capable of maintaining low elastic modulus, low stress, and high transparency even when used for long periods of time, particularly under conditions where only one direction of a member is exposed to high temperatures, and having resistance to cracking, peeling, and the like. The silicone gel composition comprises (A) a branched organopolysiloxane having an alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom, (B-1) a branched organohydrogenpolysiloxane having three or more silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule, and containing at least 20 mol % or more of T units and Q units of all siloxane units, (B-2) a chain organohydrogenpolysiloxane having two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in one molecule, (C) a platinum-based addition reaction catalyst, and (D) a reaction product of ceric salt.

Abstract: An operation management method does: acquiring a work plan that mutually associates a farm field F where a work vehicle does work, work content of the work to be done by the work vehicle at the farm field F, and a scheduled work day of the work; determining whether or not a first work plan that needs to be alerted for the work vehicle to do the work as planned in the work plan is present in plural work plans that include the work plan; and notifying work information on the first work plan, when the first work plan is present in the plural work plans.