Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.

Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.

Abstract: An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element electrically coupled to the resonator element and configured to output a clock signal; and a container accommodating the resonator element and the circuit element and including a substrate having a first surface on which the circuit element is mounted. The substrate includes a first electrode provided on the first surface and electrically coupled to the resonator element, a second electrode electrically coupled to the resonator element, and an output electrode configured to output the clock signal. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed side by side in a first direction. The output electrode is disposed adjacent to the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A vibrator device has a base, a semiconductor element having an oscillation circuit, and a vibrator having an excitation electrode sequentially stacked and includes a first wire electrically coupling between the excitation electrode and the semiconductor element, a second wire electrically coupling between a second external terminal as an external output terminal placed on the base and the semiconductor element, and a shield wire placed between at least a part of the first wire and at least a part of the second wire.

Abstract: In a notification method for a vehicle, a cargo area image photographed by an image device that photographs a cargo area of the vehicle is acquired. A change in a detection target is detected in the cargo area based on the cargo area image. A user of the vehicle is notified of the change of the detection target by at least one of sound output from a sound output unit and a display of a notification image from an image output unit when detecting the change in the detection target.

Abstract: An electronic pen main unit is configured as a replaceable cartridge fitted to a fitting part positioned in a casing of an electronic pen. The electronic pen main unit includes: a pen tip part including an electrically-conductive core body configured to protrude externally from the casing; a main body tubular part to which the pen tip part is joined on the pen tip side in the axial center direction, the main body tubular part housing an electronic circuit including a signal generating circuit configured to generate a signal to be transmitted by the core body; and a rear-end-part connector that is positioned at a rear end part of the main body tubular part. The rear-end-part connector includes a plurality of terminals arranged at a plurality of different locations along the axial center direction of the replaceable cartridge and electrically insulated from each other and electrically connected to the electronic circuit.

Abstract: An electronic pen cartridge is replaceable with a refill of a stationery ballpoint pen such that the stationery ballpoint pen housing can be reused as the electronic pen housing. The electronic pen cartridge is of a capacitance type and includes a pen tip which is projectable from an opening on one side in an axial direction of the pen housing. Inside the tubular cartridge housing are an electronic circuit including a signal transmission circuit configured to generate a signal to be supplied to a position detection sensor, and a rechargeable power storage device configured to supply a power supply voltage to the electronic circuit. A coil is wound around a portion of the cartridge housing, the portion located at a position where there is room in the pen housing. The power storage device is charged by a current induced in the coil based on an externally supplied magnetic field.

Abstract: In a case in which an electronic pen main unit made into a cartridge is held movably in a casing, electrical connections between the electronic pen main unit and electronic circuit components of the casing are reliably established. The electronic pen main unit is fitted to a fitting part disposed in a casing of an electronic pen in which the pen tip side is made to be an opening and is housed in a state of being movable in a hollow part of the casing by a movement mechanism that moves the fitting part in the axial center direction of the casing.

Abstract: A cartridge-type electronic pen main body includes a conductive center electrode and a peripheral electrode disposed around the center electrode. The peripheral electrode includes a tapered part on a pen tip side and a cylindrical shaped part on an opposite side along an axial direction. When the cartridge-type electronic pen main body is in use, one end of the center electrode forming a pen tip is projected to the outside from an opening of a cylindrical housing of an electronic pen, and a portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode is also projected to the outside such that both the one end of the center electrode and the portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode are projected beyond a distal end of the cylindrical housing to capacitively couple with a sensor surface while the cylindrical shaped part of the peripheral electrode remains within the cylindrical housing.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen body portion, an electronic pen housing being a cylindrical body housing the electronic pen body portion, a connector portion including a connector substrate, and a terminal portion including a base portion raised from the connector substrate in a direction crossing an axial direction and a contact portion extended to a back end side from a position separated from the connector substrate on a back end surface of the base portion, and a connector housing being a cylindrical body housing the connector portion and connected to a back end side of the electronic pen housing. A cross section of the connector housing in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction is substantially triangular. An axial center of the connector substrate coincides with an axial center of the electronic pen body portion when the connector housing is attached to the electronic pen housing.

Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.

Abstract: By a vehicle control device or a vehicle control method, whether a following vehicle, which is a different vehicle in rear of a subject vehicle and traveling in a same lane as the subject vehicle, is about to perform lane change based on a signal from a rear monitoring sensor that outputs information regarding an object existing behind the subject vehicle, and notification that the following vehicle is about to perform the lane change or cancellation or postponement of the lane change is performed.

Abstract: The application discloses a composition for hard tissue repair comprising a monomer (A), a polymer powder (B) and a polymerization initiator (C), wherein the polymer powder (B) comprises a polymer powder (B-x) having an aspect ratio of 1.10 or more, and the cumulative ratio of powder particles having aspect ratios of 1.00 or more and less than 1.10 in all of the powder particles contained in the composition for hard tissue repair is 75 cumulative % or less, as well as, a kit for hard tissue repair comprising three or more members, in which each of the components of the monomer (A), the polymer powder (B) and the polymerization initiator (C) contained in this composition for hard tissue repair are divided and contained in the members in an optional combination.

Abstract: A cartridge-type electronic pen main body includes a conductive center electrode and a peripheral electrode disposed around the center electrode. The peripheral electrode includes a tapered part on a pen tip side and a cylindrical shaped part on an opposite side along an axial direction. When the cartridge-type electronic pen main body is in use, one end of the center electrode forming a pen tip is projected to the outside from an opening of a cylindrical housing of an electronic pen, and a portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode is also projected to the outside such that both the one end of the center electrode and the portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode are projected beyond a distal end of the cylindrical housing to capacitively couple with a sensor surface while the cylindrical shaped part of the peripheral electrode remains within the cylindrical housing.

Abstract: A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.

Abstract: The vibrator device includes a vibrator element, a relay substrate, a base, an element-side bonding member for bonding the vibrator element and the relay substrate to each other, and a base-side bonding member for bonding the base and the relay substrate to each other. Further, the element-side bonding member has a first bonding member and s second bonding member arranged side by side along an A axis. Further, an X axis of a first quartz crystal substrate provided to the vibrator element is parallel to the A axis, and a second quartz crystal substrate provided to the relay substrate is a Z-cut quartz crystal substrate.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen body portion, an electronic pen housing being a cylindrical body housing the electronic pen body portion, a connector portion including a connector substrate, and a terminal portion including a base portion raised from the connector substrate in a direction crossing an axial direction and a contact portion extended to a back end side from a position separated from the connector substrate on a back end surface of the base portion, and a connector housing being a cylindrical body housing the connector portion and connected to a back end side of the electronic pen housing. A cross section of the connector housing in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction is substantially triangular. An axial center of the connector substrate coincides with an axial center of the electronic pen body portion when the connector housing is attached to the electronic pen housing.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.

Abstract: A cartridge-type electronic pen main body includes a conductive center electrode and a peripheral electrode disposed around the center electrode. The peripheral electrode includes a tapered part on a pen tip side and a cylindrical shaped part on an opposite side along an axial direction. When the cartridge-type electronic pen main body is in use, one end of the center electrode forming a pen tip is projected to the outside from an opening of a cylindrical housing of an electronic pen, and a portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode is also projected to the outside such that both the one end of the center electrode and the portion of the tapered part of the peripheral electrode are projected beyond a distal end of the cylindrical housing to capacitively couple with a sensor surface while the cylindrical shaped part of the peripheral electrode remains within the cylindrical housing.