Abstract: An ultrasonic generator (10) includes an ultrasonic wave generation source (11), an ultrasonic wave converging portion (12), and a waveguide (13). The waveguide (13) includes a first shaft portion (21), a second shaft portion (22), and a jutting out portion (30). The first shaft portion (21) extends from the ultrasonic wave converging portion (12) to one side in a predetermined direction. The second shaft portion (22) is disposed on the one side in the predetermined direction relative to the first shaft portion (21) and extends in the predetermined direction. The jutting out portion (30) is provided between the first shaft portion (21) and the second shaft portion (22) in the predetermined direction. The jutting out portion (30) juts out more outward than the outer circumferential surfaces of the first shaft portion (21) and the second shaft portion (22) in a plane direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction.

Abstract: Provided are a seat system and a computer program product by which an occupant seated on a seat can grasp his/her own reflexes or the like. The seat system includes a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor configured to acquire information for use in detecting motion of an occupant seated on the seat body, and a terminal configured to acquire the information from the sensor. The terminal outputs an instruction to prompt the occupant to make a predetermined motion, makes a determination based on the information acquired from the sensor as to whether or not the occupant has made the predetermined motion, and notifies the occupant of a response time elapsed between outputting the instruction and making the predetermined motion, and/or a performance level evaluated based on the response time.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigeration cycle, an outdoor heat exchanger, a cooling necessity determination unit, a determination reference setting unit, and a cooling control unit. The cooling necessity determination unit determines whether or not to cool a battery depending on whether or not a physical quantity that correlates with a temperature of the battery is equal to or more than a predetermined reference physical quantity. The determination reference setting unit sets the reference physical quantity for the cooling necessity determination unit according to the outdoor heat exchanger functioning as a heat absorber or radiator. When the outdoor heat exchanger functions as heat absorber, the determination reference setting unit sets a second reference physical quantity smaller than a first reference physical quantity set when the outdoor heat exchanger functions as radiator.

Abstract: A seat system includes a seat including a sensor configured to acquire information for detection of a motion of an occupant seated on a seat body, a terminal device configured to acquire the information from the sensor, and a server capable of communicating with the terminal device. The terminal device executes a game using the sensor based on the information, and acquires an execution result corresponding to the occupant for a game played by the occupant. The server generates integrated data by integrating execution results of the game acquired from another terminal device, and computes a reference value for execution results of the game based on the integrated data. The terminal device or the server assigns a difficulty level of the game for the terminal device based on the execution result corresponding to the occupant and the reference value. The terminal device reflects the difficulty level on the game.

Abstract: A compressor module includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a refrigerant of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a liquid storage configured to store the refrigerant in a liquid phase; a compressor configured to suction and compress the refrigerant; and a flow passage forming member to which the evaporator, the liquid storage and the compressor are installed. The flow passage forming member forms at least a portion of a flow passage of the refrigerant. The compressor is positioned on a lower side of the flow passage forming member, and the flow passage of the refrigerant includes a suction-side refrigerant flow passage, through which the refrigerant in a gas-phase to be suctioned into the compressor flows. The suction-side refrigerant flow passage has a rising portion that rises upward as the rising portion approaches the compressor.

Abstract: Provided are a seat system and a computer program product by which an occupant seated on a seat can grasp his/her own reflexes or the like. The seat system includes a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor configured to acquire information for use in detecting motion of an occupant seated on the seat body, and a terminal configured to acquire the information from the sensor. The terminal outputs an instruction to prompt the occupant to make a predetermined motion, makes a determination based on the information acquired from the sensor as to whether or not the occupant has made the predetermined motion, and notifies the occupant of a response time elapsed between outputting the instruction and making the predetermined motion, and/or a performance level evaluated based on the response time.

Abstract: An ultrasonic wave converging part (12) and a waveguide (13) have a through-hole (20) penetrating the converging part and the waveguide in a front-rear direction. An inner circumferential surface (20A) forming the through-hole has inner circumferential surface (21) and deformed portion (23) located on a front-end side relative to the inner circumferential surface. The inner circumferential surface has, as a cross-sectional shape in the front-rear direction, a shape linearly extending in the front-rear direction. The deformed portion is, in a cross section in the front-rear direction, at least one of a portion located inward of the inner circumferential surface and a portion located outward of the inner circumferential surface (FIG. 1 showing the portion located inward of the first inner circumferential surface), and is formed in a part of or over an entire circumference (FIG. 1 showing the entire circumference) of the inner circumferential surface in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is a photomultiplier tube including: a container including a window portion formed of a light-transmitting material, and a tubular portion that is connected to the window portion and defines a vacuum space in combination with the window portion; a photoelectric surface that is formed of a photoelectron-emitting material consisting of sodium, potassium, and antimony, is provided on a first surface of the window portion on a side of the vacuum space, and emits photoelectrons in correspondence with incident light; and an electron multiplier that emits secondary electrons in correspondence with incidence of the photoelectrons emitted from the photoelectric surface, and multiplies the secondary electrons. An aluminum oxide layer is formed between the photoelectric surface and the window portion and on a surface of the tubular portion.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that also enables a target to acquire global positional coordinates of the target when the target fails to obtain the global positional coordinates by itself. [Solving Means] An information processing method according to the present technology includes calculating, by a position measurement apparatus, global positional coordinates of the position measurement apparatus; observing, by the position measurement apparatus, a target to calculate a relative position of the position measurement apparatus relative to the target; and calculating, by the position measurement apparatus, first global positional coordinates of the target on the basis of the global positional coordinates of the position measurement apparatus and the relative position.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a reading device to read a printed medium on which a form is printed in advance to generate first image data, a printed matter being the printed medium on which an image is printed by a printing apparatus based on print data to generate second image data, and circuitry. The circuitry is to generate a difference image between the second image data and a master image, the master image being generated from the print data, generate a mask image on which a portion of the form in the first image data is expanded, execute mask processing on the difference image using the mask image, and determine whether a defect exists on the printed matter based on the difference image on which the mask processing is executed.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate that includes at least one pixel having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements configured to receive light from a common microlens, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a first surface that is formed of light-receiving surfaces of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a second surface that faces the first surface, and the first surface has a concave shape, and at least a portion of the first surface is inclined with respect to the second surface.

Abstract: A seat system includes a seat including a sensor configured to acquire information for detection of a motion of an occupant seated on a seat body, a terminal device configured to acquire the information from the sensor, and a server capable of communicating with the terminal device. The terminal device executes a game using the sensor based on the information, and acquires an execution result corresponding to the occupant for a game played by the occupant. The server generates integrated data by integrating execution results of the game acquired from another terminal device, and computes a reference value for execution results of the game based on the integrated data. The terminal device or the server assigns a difficulty level of the game for the terminal device based on the execution result corresponding to the occupant and the reference value. The terminal device reflects the difficulty level on the game.

Abstract: A gas sensor element includes a solid electrolyte body, a measurement electrode film, and a measured-gas intake port. The measurement electrode film includes a noble metal region, a solid electrolyte region, and a mixed region in which a noble metal and a solid electrolyte are mixed together. The measurement electrode film has a structure in which a first average thickness of the mixed region within a first region is greater than a second average thickness of the mixed region within a second region that is closer to a center of the measurement electrode film than the first region in a direction along an intake direction of a measured gas is. The first region is a region from an electrode end on the measured-gas intake port side to ¼ of an overall length of the measurement electrode film in the direction along the intake direction of the measured gas.

Abstract: The vehicle seat device has a rotation device provided between a floor and a seat cushion to rotatably support the seat cushion relative to the floor. The rotation device comprises a base portion provided on the floor; a rotatable portion provided on the seat cushion and rotatably supported by the base portion; an electric actuator for rotating the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion; and a rotation lock device for selectively prohibiting rotation of the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion. The rotation lock device is configured to be manually switched between a locked state and a released state. The electric actuator is configured to allow rotation of the rotatable portion with respect to the base portion when the rotation lock device is released and electric power is not supplied to the electric actuator.

Abstract: A terminal device may, in a case where a function executing operation is accepted, send, by using a target communication path, a function executing instruction for causing the function executing device. The terminal device may, in a case where a predetermined condition which includes a memory of the terminal device storing Virtual Private Network (VPN) communication information is satisfied, execute a related process related to switching the target communication path from a first communication path to a second communication path. The first communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via a local area network without using the Internet. The second communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via the Internet.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat, to reduce the driving force for making the seat expand and contract, a vehicle seat includes a first frame, a second frame supported to be movable relative to the first frame toward a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and an actuator for causing the second frame relative to the first frame toward the first side and the second side. The actuator includes a first actuator that urges the second frame toward the first side, a second actuator that urges the second frame toward the second side, and a control device that controls an urging force generated by each of the first actuator and the second actuator. Preferably, each of the first actuator and the second actuator includes a fluid bag to and from which compressed air is supplied and discharged by the control device.

Abstract: A seat experience system that allows an occupant to grasp the state of the system and feel secure about using the system is provided. In the seat experience system, a seat includes a seat body, and a sensor provided at the seat body and configured to acquire a measurement value for detection of a motion of the occupant seated on the seat body. A controller is connected to the sensor and capable of acquiring the measurement value from the sensor, and a seat experience device is connected to the controller and operable based on the measurement value. The seat experience device may be capable of communicating with a server. If the seat experience device detects a malfunction of the seat experience system, the seat experience device notifies the occupant of the malfunction and limits at least a subset of functions of the seat experience system.

Abstract: Described examples include an integrated circuit having a substrate, a first doped region in the substrate having a first conductivity type, and a first epitaxial layer on the substrate, wherein the first doped region extends into the first epitaxial layer. The integrated circuit also has a second doped region in the first epitaxial layer having the first conductivity type, a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, wherein the second doped region extends into the second epitaxial layer. The integrated circuit also has a well in the second epitaxial layer having a second conductivity type, and a first active device formed in the well.

Abstract: Increased versatility of a seat with a sensor provided therein is sought for. Disclosed is an in-seat experience system (SYS) including: a seat which includes a seat body (S0), a sensor (pressure sensor PS) provided in the seat body (S0), and a seat controller (100) connected to the sensor and thereby allowed to acquire a measurement value from the sensor; an experience instruction device (smartphone SP) connected to the seat controller (100), configured to notify an occupant seated on the seat body a motion instruction and to store user identification information for use in identifying the occupant; and a server (300) capable of communicating with the experience instruction device.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes stabilized or partially stabilized zirconia, and a gas sensor provided with the solid electrolyte. A change rate of a crystallite diameter for at least one of a cubic phase and a tetragonal phase in crystal particles constituting the solid electrolyte configured by a fired body after performing an annealing treatment, before and after heating the solid electrolyte from room temperature to 1200° C., is 10% or less. The solid electrolyte preferably includes partially stabilized zirconia.