Abstract: A waveguide device includes: a photonic crystal layer having holes periodically formed in an electro-optical crystal substrate; a line-defect optical waveguide formed in the photonic crystal layer; a first electrode arranged above the electro-optical crystal substrate, the first electrode being transparent to light; and a second electrode arranged below the electro-optical crystal substrate. Each of an optical scanning device and an optical modulation device includes the above-mentioned waveguide device.

Abstract: A method for fabricating light emitting diode (LED) dice includes the steps of: providing a substrate, and forming a plurality of die sized semiconductor structures on the substrate. The method also includes the steps of providing a receiving plate having an elastomeric polymer layer, placing the substrate and the receiving plate in physical contact with an adhesive force applied by the elastomeric polymer layer, and performing a laser lift-off (LLO) process by directing a uniform laser beam through the substrate to the semiconductor layer at an interface with the substrate to lift off the semiconductor structures onto the elastomeric polymer layer. During the laser lift-off (LLO) process the elastomeric polymer layer functions as a shock absorber to reduce momentum transfer, and as an adhesive surface to hold the semiconductor structures in place on the receiving plate.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seat back, an armrest provided on a lateral side of the seat back and extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle seat, a support member supporting the armrest, and a cover member covering the support member from a lateral side of the vehicle seat. The support member includes a side portion and a connecting portion connecting a rear end portion of the side portion and a rear end portion of the armrest, and a pivot shaft attachment portion is formed on a part of the connecting portion. The cover member includes an upper cover portion and a lower cover portion, and the upper cover portion and the lower cover portion are attached to the support member in a state where a substantially smooth surface is exposed.

Abstract: A vehicle body conveyance system includes: an unmanned carrier conveying a vehicle body between multiple work stations; and a positioning pin standing on a work station. The unmanned carrier is provided with a driving part, a pair of gripping parts, a lifting part, and a control part. The control part is configured to: control the gripping parts, so that a left-right width between the pair of gripping parts fits a left-right width between a pair of side sills of the vehicle body, control the lifting part to lift up the vehicle body to separate the positioning hole of the vehicle body from the positioning pin; control the driving part to move the unmanned carrier to another work station, and control the lifting part to lower the vehicle body to insert the positioning hole through the positioning pin standing on the another work station.

Abstract: A vehicle body transport system includes an unmanned carrier carrying and transporting a vehicle body between work stations; and an imaging device including an imaging part imaging a traveling route of the unmanned carrier and the surroundings of the traveling route from above, an analysis part analyzing an image captured by the imaging part, and a transmission part transmitting a signal to the unmanned carrier. When a moving object other than the unmanned carrier carrying the vehicle body is present in the image, the analysis part predicts whether a movement trajectory that the vehicle body passes after a predetermined time intersects a movement position where the moving object is located after the predetermined time. When predicting that the movement trajectory and the movement position intersect after the predetermined time, the transmission part transmits an emergency operation signal to the unmanned carrier before the predetermined time elapses.

Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include a distance sensor that detects a distance between the corresponding robot and an object near the corresponding robot, and a robot computing section that controls a travel operation and a loading operation of the corresponding robot. When the vehicle is to be lowered in a parking region, the robot computing section adjusts a parking position of the vehicle based on information detected by the distance sensor.

Abstract: When it is detected that the charging of a battery is finished, a server transmits transport-out instructions for a vehicle to a vehicle transport apparatus, and when receiving the transport-out instructions transmitted from the server, the vehicle transport apparatus transports the vehicle, for which the charging of the battery is finished, out of a charging space.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a management system includes a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, and a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle. The vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received.

Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include omnidirectional wheels and each further include a right lifting arm and a left lifting arm that are freely rotatably movable between storage positions (right storage position and left storage position) where tips thereof are pointed toward a center of a body in a width direction and expanded positions (right expanded position and left expanded position) where the tips thereof are pointed toward the outside of the body in the width direction.

Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include omnidirectional wheels and each further include a right lifting arm and a left lifting arm that are freely rotatably movable between storage positions (right storage position and left storage position) where tips thereof are pointed toward a center of a body in a width direction and expanded positions (right expanded position and left expanded position) where the tips thereof are pointed toward the outside of the body in the width direction.

Abstract: When it is detected that the charging of a battery is finished, a server transmits transport-out instructions for a vehicle to a vehicle transport apparatus, and when receiving the transport-out instructions transmitted from the server, the vehicle transport apparatus transports the vehicle, for which the charging of the battery is finished, out of a charging space.

Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include a distance sensor that detects a distance between the corresponding robot and an object near the corresponding robot, and a robot computing section that controls a travel operation and a loading operation of the corresponding robot. When the vehicle is to be lowered in a parking region, the robot computing section adjusts a parking position of the vehicle based on information detected by the distance sensor.

Abstract: A cup holder includes an enclosure portion configured to hold a drink container inserted therein so as to surround the drink container from an outer peripheral side. An inner peripheral surface of the enclosure portion includes inner peripheral supporting surfaces and recessed surfaces arranged side by side in a circumferential direction, the inner peripheral supporting surfaces extending in the circumferential direction so as to continuously or intermittently draw arc surfaces concentric to each other with the same diameter, the recessed surfaces extending in the circumferential direction in a shape recessed radially outward relative to the inner peripheral supporting surfaces.

Abstract: A cup holder includes an enclosure portion configured to hold a drink container inserted therein so as to surround the drink container from an outer peripheral side. An inner peripheral surface of the enclosure portion includes inner peripheral supporting surfaces and recessed surfaces arranged side -by side in a circumferential direction, the inner peripheral supporting surfaces extending in the circumferential direction so as to continuously or intermittently draw arc surfaces concentric to each other with the same diameter, the recessed surfaces extending in the circumferential direction in a shape recessed radially outward relative to the inner peripheral supporting surfaces.

Abstract: A computer system includes a main device and a subordinate device. Data transmission and reception by means of an optical transmission system are performed by connecting the main device and the subordinate device by an optical transmission cable. The subordinate device, a power of which needs to be cut-off prior to the main device, includes a light reception determination part and a power supply control part. The light reception determination part determines whether the main device is in a power-off state by presence or absence of light reception based on a light-receiving amount received by a photoelectric converter. When it is determined that the main device is in the power-off state, the power supply control part controls a power supply device so as to cut-off the power of the subordinate device.

Abstract: Reduction in power consumption at low costs is realized by a system with apparatuses connected with each other. A switch device comprises transmission/reception unit each connected to each of apparatuses through a communication cable for transmitting/receiving a signal to/from each apparatus, and a connection switching unit for switching connection between the apparatuses by switching connection between the transmission/reception unit. Further provided are a reception state monitoring unit for monitoring a signal reception state of the transmission/reception unit, and a transmission stopping unit for executing signal transmission stopping processing according to a monitoring result obtained by the reception state monitoring unit with respect to other transmission/reception unit to which connected through that communication cable is other apparatus having a connection relationship with the apparatus to which the transmission/reception unit is connected through the communication cable.

Abstract: To provide a signal transmitting/receiving apparatus etc. where a cable length can be measured by using a general-purpose cable, without using an interface. A differential transmission circuit by the present invention includes a signal output circuit sending a high-speed differential signal and a pulse wave; a signal input circuit including a terminating resistor; a bias controller controlling a bias voltage on a transmission path; a terminating resistance controller disconnecting the terminating resistor on sensing a bias voltage and connecting it on sensing no bias voltage, by a bias sensing circuit; a sensing input circuit sensing a pulse wave reflected at the signal input circuit; and an output setting controller setting an electric characteristic of a signal outputted from the signal output circuit by a propagation time from sending the pulse wave by the signal output circuit to receiving the reflected pulse wave by the sensing input circuit.

Abstract: Reduction in power consumption at low costs is realized by a system with apparatuses connected with each other. A switch device comprises transmission/reception unit each connected to each of apparatuses through a communication cable for transmitting/receiving a signal to/from each apparatus, and a connection switching unit for switching connection between the apparatuses by switching connection between the transmission/reception unit. Further provided are a reception state monitoring unit for monitoring a signal reception state of the transmission/reception unit, and a transmission stopping unit for executing signal transmission stopping processing according to a monitoring result obtained by the reception state monitoring unit with respect to other transmission/reception unit to which connected through that communication cable is other apparatus having a connection relationship with the apparatus to which the transmission/reception unit is connected through the communication cable.

Abstract: A computer system includes a main device and a subordinate device. Data transmission and reception by means of an optical transmission system are performed by connecting the main device and the subordinate device by an optical transmission cable. The subordinate device, a power of which needs to be cut-off prior to the main device, includes a light reception determination part and a power supply control part. The light reception determination part determines whether the main device is in a power-off state by presence or absence of light reception based on a light-receiving amount received by a photoelectric converter. When it is determined that the main device is in the power-off state, the power supply control part controls a power supply device so as to cut-off the power of the subordinate device.

Abstract: To provide a signal transmitting/receiving apparatus etc. where a cable length can be measured by using a general-purpose cable, without using an interface. A differential transmission circuit by the present invention includes a signal output circuit sending a high-speed differential signal and a pulse wave; a signal input circuit including a terminating resistor; a bias controller controlling a bias voltage on a transmission path; a terminating resistance controller disconnecting the terminating resistor on sensing a bias voltage and connecting it on sensing no bias voltage, by a bias sensing circuit; a sensing input circuit sensing a pulse wave reflected at the signal input circuit; and an output setting controller setting an electric characteristic of a signal outputted from the signal output circuit by a propagation time from sending the pulse wave by the signal output circuit to receiving the reflected pulse wave by the sensing input circuit.