Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a connecting section connecting a pair of beam sections adjacent to each other. The connecting section is connected to one of the pair of beam sections at a first end portion. The connecting section is connected to another of the pair of beam sections at a second end portion. The second end portion faces the first end portion in a direction in which the pair of beam sections are aligned. A second coupling portion is located along a first coupling portion. The connecting section includes only one first end portion. The connecting section includes only one second end portion. Each of the first end portion and the second end portion is closer to a tip end portion than to a fixed end portion of each of the pair of beam sections.

Abstract: An optical and electronic integrated switch includes a network processor that controls the functions of the packet switch, a plurality of optical transceivers having photoelectric conversion functions, and a plurality of optical switches. The optical switches include different types of optical core switch and a plurality of optical-path selection switches. The optical transceivers provided near the processor have a regenerative relay function that regenerates optical signals and turns back the optical signals, and perform optical communication with a communication counterpart via the optical switches. In the optical communication, optical switches of the different types can cooperate to set paths for optical cut-through in which path selection is performed such that inputted optical signals are outputted without the intervention of the processor. This optical cut-through can be effectively performed without imposing a signal processing burden that consumes electric power on the processor.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger seat airbag device includes: an airbag main body that is stored on a lower side of an instrument panel and that is partitioned by an upper partition member to a lower chamber that restrains lower limbs of an occupant and an upper chamber that restrains an upper body of the occupant; and a flow straightening cylinder that is provided so as to be passed through the upper partition member inside the airbag main body and that distributes gas ejected from an inflator to the lower chamber and the upper chamber. The flow straightening cylinder is provided such that a sectional shape of at least a region passing through the upper partition member is provided in a flat shape with its longitudinal direction in a vehicle width direction when the flow straightening cylinder expands and deploys due to ejection of the gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel copolymer available for a drug delivery technique. More particularly, a novel copolymer for a drug delivery carrier targeting a tumor is provided. The present invention relates to a copolymer comprising structural units represented by the following formulas (A), (B), and (C): wherein R1, R2, and R3 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or a C1-3 alkyl group, R4 represents a C1-3 alkyl group, R5 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-18 alkyl group, a 3- to 8-membered cycloalkyl group optionally having a substituent, an adamantyl group, a C6-18 aryl group optionally having a substituent, or a 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl group optionally having a substituent, X1, X2, and X3 are the same or different and represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or N—R7, R6 represents a hydrogen atom, a leaving group, or a linker, R7 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-3 alkyl group, m represents an integer of 1 to 100, and n represents an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: An upper includes an upper body covering the instep of a foot. An upper body includes a first layer, a second layer disposed with a gap from the first layer, and a third layer connecting the first layer and the second layer. A part of the upper body is disposed with a low stiffness region having lower stiffness than an adjacent region. At least a part of the low stiffness region has a point in which the third layer is not disposed. A plurality of holes is disposed in at least a part of a portion of the first layer and the second layer of the low stiffness region corresponding to the point in which the third layer is not disposed.

Abstract: A photonics-electronics convergence switch with which, even if an optical network system is built by combining a plurality of packet switches, the amount of processing in the packet switches does not increase, the optical network system operates with low electric power consumption, and this enables wide-range optical communication between the nodes of a communication origin and of a communication partner, includes a network processor that is an electronic circuit configured to control the functions of the packet switch, a plurality of optical transmitter-receivers having photoelectric conversion functions, and a plurality of optical switches.

Abstract: A wiring board (10) includes a substrate (11) that is transparent and a wiring pattern region (20) that is disposed on the substrate (11) and that includes a plurality of wiring lines (21, 22). The wiring pattern region (20) has a sheet resistance of less than or equal to 5 ?/sq, and each wiring line (21, 22) has a maximum width of less than or equal to 3 ?m when viewed at a viewing angle of 120°.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection head configured to include an ejection port surface in which ejection ports for ejecting liquid are arranged, a cap configured to be movable to a capping position where the ejection port surface is capped, and to an uncapped position where the ejection port surface is not capped, and a cleaning mechanism configured to be movable, independently of the cap, to a cleaning position where the ejection head is cleaned, and to a standby position where the ejection head is not cleaned. The cap at the uncapped position is positioned above the cleaning mechanism at the standby position.

Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head, a conveyance portion that conveys a liquid-ejected medium so that the liquid-ejected medium passes through a position facing the recording head, a supply portion for air, and an air blowing mechanism that is disposed on an upstream side of the recording head in a relative moving direction between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium, the air blowing mechanism including an air blow-out port for blowing out air from the supply portion toward a gap between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium. The air blow-out port includes a plurality of slits that are lined up in a direction intersecting the relative moving direction, and the plurality of slits are lined up in the direction intersecting the relative moving direction so that long sides of the adjacent slits have regions facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the long sides.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance roller configured to convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction, and a moving portion configured to move a recording head between a positioning position and a non-positioning position, the moving portion having a first supporting portion that supports the recording head at the non-positioning position. The first supporting portion does not support the recording head at the positioning position.

Abstract: In a recording apparatus including a recording head having an ejection port surface in which an ejection port that ejects a liquid is provided and a supporting portion configured to support the recording head to move the recording head between a recording position and a non-recording position, the supporting portion can be in a first state where an angle change of the ejection port surface is regulated and a second state where the angle change of the ejection port surface is not regulated.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a program that make it possible for objects that are capable of moving autonomously to move in corporation with each other. The control device according to one aspect of the present technology moves, in response to an action made by a user on a predetermined object among multiple objects that are capable of moving autonomously, an object corresponding with the predetermined object. The present technology can be applied to a control device that controls mobile robots.

Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head, a conveyance portion that conveys a liquid-ejected medium so that the liquid-ejected medium passes through a position facing the recording head, a supply portion for air, and an air blowing mechanism that is disposed on an upstream side of the recording head in a relative moving direction between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium, the air blowing mechanism including an air blow-out port for blowing out air from the supply portion toward a gap between the recording head and the liquid-ejected medium. The air blow-out port includes a plurality of slits that are lined up in a direction intersecting the relative moving direction, and the plurality of slits are lined up in the direction intersecting the relative moving direction so that long sides of the adjacent slits have regions facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the long sides.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (170). The control unit (170) detects free time of a user (U) based on behavior information on behavior of the user (U). When detecting the free time, the control unit (170) determines a task to be presented to the user (U) from a plurality of tasks.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control device, a control method, an electronic device, and a program that enables an operation in a natural manner for switching between and remotely operating various control target devices. A plurality of control target devices emits infrared light codes each including a unique ID in a predetermined pattern. A user holds a controller and directs an infrared light receiving unit toward a control target device. At this time, a control state is established for the control target device specified by an infrared light code received by the controller. After the control state has been established, when a user rotates a main body of the controller, a control parameter in accordance with the amount of rotation is calculated, and a control command in accordance with the control parameter is transmitted to the control target device to control the control target device. The present disclosure can be applied to a remote controller.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that are configured to cause a user to intuitively notice to which control target device an operation command has been issued. The information processing device includes a control unit that executes a process of guiding a user's line of sight to a place of a control target device, and a process of controlling timing of running an operation command in the control target device, according to timing of guiding the line of sight.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of giving an instruction for control relating to a location in a space even in voice utterance that does not include the name of a specific location. [Solution] The information processing device includes a control unit that acquires voice utterance corresponding to a processing command of control relating to a location in a space, determines the location in the space in the processing command on the basis of a result of environment sensing processing of the space by a plurality of kinds of sensors in a case where the acquired voice utterance does not include a word that specifies the location in the space, and performs control of issuing a processing command of control relating to the location in the space on the basis of the determined location.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a moving body and a moving method that make it possible to move the moving body while causing the moving body to exert interactivity. The moving body of one aspect of the present technology moves while controlling a movement speed and a movement direction, depending on a state of the moving body, a state of a person located around the moving body, and a parameter indicating character or emotion of the moving body. The present technology can be applied to movable robots.

Abstract: An information processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes a projection environment in space on the basis of sensor data obtained by sensing the space in which content is projected, and an inducement control unit that presents, to a user, inducement information to change a state of the projection environment from the recognized first projection environment state to a second projection environment state with improved visibility.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method as well as a program that make it possible to control, by a partition provided on a boundary between two spaces, a visual shielding property and an auditory shielding property of a first space to a person in a second space in an interlocking relationship with each other in response to a distance between the person in the second space and the partition. A distance between the partition, which partitions the first space and the second space, and a person in the second space is measured, and transmittance of the partition and magnitude of output of audio in the first space to the second space are controlled in response to the measured distance. The present disclosure can be applied to a control apparatus for a partition section.