Abstract: An ECU of a driving support system as a route candidate setting system is configured to provide a first curved line represented by a first function having x coordinate as a variable and y coordinate and a second curved line represented by a second function having x coordinate as a variable and y coordinate and having a lower degree than the first function, and set the first and second curved lines as traveling-route candidate RC. In a case where an obstacle is detected by a camera and a radar, the ECU is configured not to provide the first curved line having its terminal point corresponding to a grid point Gn located on a forward side, in an advancing direction of a vehicle, of the obstacle and the second curved line having its start point corresponding to this grid point Gn.

Abstract: An input image that includes a target area may be received. A first segment for extracting the target area from the input image may be generated using a first extracting model. A second segment for extracting the target area from the input image may be generated using a second extracting model. The first segment is compared to the second segment to determine a combined segment of at least the target area.

Abstract: A steam turbine (ST) includes a rotor (11) which is rotatable around an axis (Ar), an inner casing (21) surrounding the rotor (11) from an outer peripheral side, an outer casino (30) surrounding the rotor (11) and the inner casing (21) and defining an exhaust chamber between the inner casing (21) and the outer casing (30), the steam being exhausted to the exhaust chamber (30s), and a flow guide (27) which has a tubular shape and is installed on one end portion of the inner casing 21 in an axial direction (Da) in the exhaust chamber (30s) to guide the steam discharged from the rotor (11). The flow guide (27) has a turning surface (RA) which is connected to an outer peripheral surface (27A) and turns a fluid flowing along the outer peripheral surface (27A) toward the other side in the axial direction (Da).

Abstract: Cystic fibrosis is developed through mutation of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR), which is one type of chloride channel. An object of the present invention is to provide compounds effective in the treatment of cystic fibrosis that open a chloride channel different from CFTR, which is the cause of the disease, and do not depend on CFTR. Compounds of the present invention are compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that open calcium dependent chloride channels (CaCCs) via G-protein coupled receptor 39 (GPR39) agonism to have strong chloride ion-secretory action, and are represented by the following general formula (I): General formula (I): wherein, X represents a carboxyl group or a tetrazolyl group; Q represents a C1-C3 alkylene group, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, etc.; G represents a phenyl group where the phenyl group may have 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C1-C6 alkyl group, etc.

Abstract: A printing device includes an ink container, an ink in the ink container, the ink containing an aqueous clear ink and an aqueous color ink and a heating device configured to heat a substrate, wherein the relationship is satisfied, |SCL?SC?5 mN/m, where SCL represents the surface tension of the aqueous clear ink and SC represents the surface tension of the aqueous color ink, wherein the printing device has a low gloss printing and a high gloss printing mode, wherein the heating device heats the substrate while satisfying the relationship: Tlow>Thigh, where Tlow represents the temperature of the substrate in a low gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the low printing mode and Thigh represents the temperature of the substrate in a high gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the high printing mode.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle, the hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, and a battery, includes an electronic control unit configured to: i) set a target SOC which is a target value of an SOC of the battery when the hybrid vehicle arrives at a prescribed charging base; ii) when the hybrid vehicle is traveling outside the charging base, control output of the internal combustion engine and the electric motor such that the SOC at a time when the vehicle arrives at the charging base is the target SOC; and iii) estimate a charging possibility which is a possibility that the battery is charged with an external power source in the charging base when the hybrid vehicle arrives at the charging base, and set the target SOC lower when the estimated charging possibility is high than when the estimated charging possibility is low.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a portable terminal capable of receiving a signal from a transmitter in a detection area. A processor of the apparatus is configured to determine whether to shift to an operable state from a sleep state based on user information contained in proximity information when the proximity information, containing the user information indicating that a user enters the detection area, is received by the communication interface from the portable terminal receiving a signal from the transmitter.

Abstract: An organic EL display device includes an organic EL element and a sealing film. The organic EL element is formed over a display region of a base substrate. The sealing film covers the organic EL element. The sealing film includes a first barrier layer, a buffer layer, and a second barrier layer. The first barrier layer includes a first inorganic film and is disposed on the surface of the organic EL element. The buffer layer includes an organic film and is disposed on the surface of the first barrier layer. The second barrier layer includes a second inorganic film and is disposed on the surface of the buffer layer. The first barrier layer includes micropores in the surface, the surface being in contact with the buffer layer.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, a vaporization system includes a vaporizer, a body, a sensor, a moving mechanism, and a supplier. The vaporizer includes a plurality of containers which can store powdered solid materials. The body in a vacuum state can house the vaporizer. The sensor detects a residue of the solid materials stored in a plurality of the containers respectively. The moving mechanism, on the basis of a detection result of the sensor, moves the plurality of the containers respectively between a first position located inside the vaporizer, and a second position located outside of the vaporizer. A supplier supplies the solid material to the container located in the second position among the plurality of the containers.

Abstract: A titanium alloy includes 15 to 27 atomic % (at %) of tantalum (Ta) and 0 to 8 at % of tin (Sn), the balance being titanium (Ti) and unavoidable impurities, when the entire 5 amount of the titanium alloy is taken as 100 at %. Therefore, the titanium alloy provided has characteristics suitable for medical device materials, biocompatible materials, etc.

Abstract: A forced-ventilation device ventilates a compartment of a vehicle by forced ventilation by actuating a blower of an air-conditioning device of the vehicle when the compartment is left at a high temperature. When a mode for forced ventilation has been set by the user, when a mobile device approaching the vehicle together with a user enters a predetermined detection area within which the mobile device is detectable by a response signal, and when the response signal is successfully verified, a control portion switches ON an ignition switch of the vehicle, opens one or two or more windows using an opening and closing mechanism, and directs the air-conditioning device to actuate the blower.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator is provided, including a vibration plate, a piezoelectric layer, a plurality of individual electrodes arranged in two arrays, first and second common electrodes which have first and second facing portions facing parts of the individual electrodes and first and second connecting portions connecting the first and second facing portions respectively, and first and second wiring portions which are arranged on the vibration plate and which are connected to the first and second common electrodes respectively via first and second connecting wirings, wherein one of the first connecting wirings connects the first connecting portion and one of the first wiring portion while striding over the second connecting portion.

Abstract: A door handle includes a casing inside which an accommodation space is provided, and a lamp unit disposed in the accommodation space. The lamp unit includes: a light emission element; a circuit board on which the light emission element is mounted; a combination member including a housing that supports the circuit board, and a light guiding lens that guides light emitted from the light emission element in a first predetermined direction and emits the guided light from an emission surface; and a light guide that includes a light entrance surface facing at least a portion of the emission surface and guides the light entering the light guide through the light entrance surface in a second predetermined direction.

Abstract: An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly stable haloolefin-based composition that inhibits decomposition or oxidization. The haloolefin-based composition comprising (a) a haloolefin; (b) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFC-254eb, HFO-1243zf, HFC-245eb, HFC-245fa, HFC-245cb, HFC-236ea, HFC-236fa, HFO-1225ye, 3,3,3-trifluoropropine, HFC-23, HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-143a, HFC-134a, FC-1216, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFO-1232xf, HCFO-1223xd, and chloromethane; and (c) water.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a guide member configured to guide a sheet in a first direction in a first state, and in a second direction in a second state; a driving source configured to generate a driving force; a transfer member configured to change the state of the guide member from the first state to the second state by being moved by the driving force; and a control unit configured to control the driving force. The control unit is further configured to set the driving force to a value smaller than a force necessary to move the transfer member to change the guide member from the first state to the second state, and subsequently cause the driving force to increase to a value larger than the force necessary to move the transfer member.

Abstract: An etching method includes loading, first and second supplying, removing and etching steps. In the loading step, a target object is loaded into a chamber. In the first supply step, a first gas containing carbon, hydrogen and fluorine is supplied into the chamber. In the modification step, plasma of the first gas is generated to modify a surface of a mask film and a surface of an organic film which is not covered with the mask film. In the second supply step, a second gas for etching the organic film is supplied into the chamber. In the removal step, a modified layer formed on the surface of the organic film is removed by applying a first high frequency bias power. In the etching step, the organic film below the modified layer is etched by applying a second high frequency bias power lower than the first high frequency bias power.

Abstract: At least one of an upstream drive roller and a downstream drive roller is operated, after printing on web paper and at a time of transportation halt of the web paper, to make a tension value of the web paper between the upstream drive roller and downstream drive roller lower than a tension value at a time of transporting the web paper, so that at least part of contact portions of the web paper in contact with five cooling rollers separate from the five cooling rollers. Consequently, gaps can be produced between the contact portions of the web paper in contact with the five cooling rollers and the five cooling rollers. This can reduce waterdrops due to dew condensation adhering to the web paper. As a result, paper break can be inhibited at a time of starting transportation of the web paper.

Abstract: Included are removing an outermost layer or outermost layers on one side or both sides of liquid crystal polymer film; and a molding step of performing thermocompression molding on liquid crystal polymer film and metal foil stacked on the side of liquid crystal polymer film whose outermost layer is removed. A heating temperature in the molding step is in a range from a temperature equal to a melting start temperature, of the liquid crystal polymer film, measured by using a rigid body pendulum type viscoelasticity measuring device to a temperature 60° C. higher than the melting start temperature inclusive.

Abstract: An editing device for three-dimensional shape data includes: an editor that edits a three-dimensional shape in a second coordinate system different from a first coordinate system, the three-dimensional shape being configurated by multiple voxels and represented by three-dimensional shape data in the first coordinate system; and a converter that converts the three-dimensional shape in the second coordinate system, which is edited by the editor using arrangement information that indicates a positional relationship between the multiple voxels, into a three-dimensional shape in the first coordinate system.