Abstract: A braking assistance device for a vehicle includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an intersection entry determination unit for determining entry of a host vehicle into an intersection, and a braking assistance execution unit for executing braking assistance by a braking device so as to avoid or mitigate collision with the object. If the host vehicle is determined to be entering the intersection, the braking assistance execution unit determines, based on a sensing result from the object sensing unit, a traffic environment at the intersection, and controls execution of the braking assistance in accordance with the determined traffic environment.

Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a stacked body that includes insulating base materials, first and second signal lines, and first and second ground conductors. The second signal line is provided on a layer different from the layer of the first signal line and extends in parallel with the first signal line. The first ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the second signal line and overlapped with the first signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The second ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the first signal line and overlapped with the second signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. A first transmission line includes the first signal line, the first ground conductor, and an insulating base material, and a second transmission line includes the second signal line, the second ground conductor, and the insulating base material.

Abstract: The collision prediction apparatus is installed in a vehicle and predicts a collision between a moving object and the vehicle. The collision predict apparatus includes a vehicle path estimation section, a moving object path estimation section, an obstruction specifying section, a direction change information acquisition section, a moving object extraction area setting section, and a collision predict section. The moving object extraction area setting section sets, as a moving object extraction area, an area that is in the vicinity of an obstruction and is near an outer periphery of the obstruction facing a path of the vehicle after change of a traveling direction indicated by direction change information.

Abstract: A collision prediction apparatus includes a radar-detection target position detection section, a pattern matching execution section that detects an image detection target, an image-detection target position detection section, an identical target determination section that determines that the radar detection target and the image detection target are an identical target when a positional relationship between the both targets becomes a predetermined relationship; a collision prediction section that predicts whether the own vehicle is likely to collide with an identical target as an object, and a support execution section that performs driving support when a collision between the own vehicle is predicted. In the apparatus, the collision prediction section predicts whether the radar detection target, as the object, is likely to collide with the own vehicle, under conditions that the object is turning in a direction approaching the own vehicle, and that the image detection target can no longer be detected.

Abstract: A collision avoidance device for a vehicle is provided. The collision avoidance device includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an attribute acquisition unit for using a sensing result from the object sensing unit to acquire an attribute of an oncoming vehicle, and a collision avoidance execution unit for executing at least one of a notification of a possibility of collision and a collision avoidance operation, if it is determined, based on the attribute acquired by the attribute acquisition unit, that the oncoming vehicle crosses a center line.

Abstract: A multilayer resin substrate includes a stacked body including first resin layers made of a thermoplastic resin, conductor patterns on the stacked body, and a protective layer including a second resin layer made of a thermosetting resin. The stacked body includes first and second main surfaces, and a bent portion. One of the conductor patterns located at the bent portion is located only inside the stacked body. The protective layer covers at least the bent portion, on the main surface of the stacked body.

Abstract: In a multilayer board, a transmission line includes layers including a first insulator layer, a first joining material layer in contact with a first surface of the first insulator layer, and a second joining material layer in contact with a second surface of the first insulator layer. A signal conductor of the transmission line is on the first surface of the first insulator layer, a relative permittivity of the second joining material layer is lower than a relative permittivity of the first joining material layer, and an adhesion strength between the first insulator layer and the first joining material layer is higher than an adhesion strength between the first insulator layer and the second joining material layer.

Abstract: A multilayered substrate includes first, second, and third insulating layers, and a transmission line. The first insulating layer includes first and second surfaces opposite to each other. A signal conductor of the transmission line is on the first surface of the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is in contact with the first surface of the first insulating layer. The third insulating layer is in contact with the second surface of the first insulating layer. A dielectric loss of the second insulating layer is lower than a dielectric loss of the third insulating layer. A degree of close contact between the first insulating layer and the third insulating layer is higher than a degree of close contact between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A transmission line includes a ground conductor between first and second signal conductors. A substrate includes a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer having a relative permittivity lower than a relative permittivity of the first insulating layer. The first and second insulating layers are laminated in the thickness direction of the substrate and in contact with each other. The first and second signal conductors and the ground conductor are on an interface at which the first and second insulating layers are in contact with each other. The first and second signal conductors and the ground conductor each include a surface in contact with the first insulating layer and a surface in contact with the second insulating layer, the surface in contact with the second insulating layer being larger than the surface in contact with the first insulating layer.

Abstract: A brake assistance apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The brake assistance apparatus includes a detecting unit and a brake assistance control unit. The detecting unit detects a state surrounding an own vehicle. The brake assistance control unit performs brake assistance to brake the own vehicle at a first brake timing, based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle. In response to the own vehicle being determined to be advancing at an intersection based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle, the brake assistance control unit performs the brake assistance at a second brake timing that is later than the first brake timing.

Abstract: This physical property value measurement device irradiates a specimen with a heating beam arrived at through intensity-pulse modulation of output light of a heating laser and irradiates the specimen with a temperature probe beam that is output light from a temperature probe laser and is delayed relative to the heating beam. The component of a detection signal for the reflected light of the temperature probe beam that is synchronous with the frequency of the intensity-pulse modulation is amplified using a lock-in amplifier, and a computer that performs regression analysis on the thermoreflectance signal obtained from the lock-in amplifier.

Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second circuit boards and an interposer substrate. The first principal surface of the interposer substrate faces the first circuit board, and the second principal surface of the interposer substrate faces the second circuit board. A first input/output pad and a first auxiliary pad are provided on the first principal surface of the interposer substrate, and a second input/output pad and a second auxiliary pad portion are provided on the second principal surface of the interposer substrate. The first circuit board includes a land that is connected to the first input/output pad and the first auxiliary pad, and the second circuit board includes a land that is connected to the second input/output pad and the second auxiliary pad portion.

Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a line portion and a connecting portion. The transmission line substrate includes a base material, a first ground conductor, a second ground conductor, a signal line, an external electrode, a second interlayer connection conductor. In the line portion, a transmission line having a strip line structure including the signal line, the first ground conductor, and the second ground conductor is provided. In the connecting portion, the signal line and the external electrode face each other in a stacking direction, without including therebetween an interlayer connection conductor. The second interlayer connection conductor surrounds a facing portion in which the signal line and the external electrode face each other in the Z-axis direction.

Abstract: A noise monitoring device capable of easily estimating a noise generation source in a factory is connected for communication with a plurality of machines in the factory. The noise monitoring device is provided with a noise information acquisition unit configured to acquire noise information including the time of generation of noise if the noise is generated in the machines, an operation information acquisition unit configured to continually acquire operation information of all the machines, a determination unit configured to extract the operation information at a point in time near the noise generation time, and a display unit configured to display the noise information and the operation information of all the machines at the point in time near the noise generation time.

Abstract: A noise generation cause estimation device capable of easily estimating the cause of noise generation in a factory is connected for communication with a plurality of machines in the factory. The noise generation cause estimation device is provided with a noise information acquisition unit configured to acquire noise information generated in the machines, an operation information acquisition unit configured to continually acquire operation information of all the machines, and a determination unit configured to learn the relevance between the noise information and the operation information. The determination unit is provided with a state observation unit configured to observe the noise information and the operation information as state variables indicative of a current state of the environment and a learning unit configured to form a plurality of clusters including the state variables.

Abstract: An ECU determines that detected first and second objects are identical as an identical object based on a first position of the first object and a second position of the second object, and calculates the position of a target object that is determined as the identical object. The ECU determines whether a current situation is such that a reliability of the identicalness determination is at a predetermined level or higher. In a case of determining the current situation to be such that the reliability is at the predetermined level or higher, the ECU calculates the position of the target object based on a first distance and a second orientation. In a case of determining the current situation not to be such that the reliability is at the predetermined level or higher, the ECU calculates the position of the target object based on a second distance and the second orientation.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a first circuit board portion and a second circuit board portion. The first circuit board portion is provided with a first transmission line for a low-frequency signal or a low-speed signal, and the second circuit board portion is provided with a second transmission line for a high-frequency signal or a high-speed signal. The second circuit board portion is located on the first circuit board portion in a positional relationship in which the first transmission line and the second transmission line are side-by-side with each other. With this structure, signal leakage and interference between different signals are reduced or prevented in a line that transmits signals with different frequencies and different transmission speeds.

Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a stacked body that includes insulating base materials, first and second signal lines, and first and second ground conductors. The second signal line is provided on a layer different from the layer of the first signal line and extends in parallel with the first signal line. The first ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the second signal line and overlapped with the first signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The second ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the first signal line and overlapped with the second signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. A first transmission line includes the first signal line, the first ground conductor, and an insulating base material, and a second transmission line includes the second signal line, the second ground conductor, and the insulating base material.

Abstract: A target detection device including a radar device and a monocular camera, including: a first detecting section detecting a position of a radar detection target; a second detecting section detecting a position of an image detection target which is a specific target; and a determination section that when the radar detection target and the image detection target are provisionally determined to be an identical target, and the image detection target is determined to be a predetermined type of target, determines that the radar detection target and the image detection target are not an identical target, and when the radar detection target and the image detection target are provisionally determined to be an identical target, and a predetermined target determination section determines that the image detection target is not the predetermined type of target, determines that the radar detection target and the image detection target are an identical target.

Abstract: A collision prediction apparatus includes a radar-detection target position detection section, a pattern matching execution section that detects an image detection target, an image-detection target position detection section, an identical target determination section that determines that the radar detection target and the image detection target are an identical target when a positional relationship between the both targets becomes a predetermined relationship; a collision prediction section that predicts whether the own vehicle is likely to collide with an identical target as an object, and a support execution section that performs driving support when a collision between the own vehicle is predicted. In the apparatus, the collision prediction section predicts whether the radar detection target, as the object, is likely to collide with the own vehicle, under conditions that the object is turning in a direction approaching the own vehicle, and that the image detection target can no longer be detected.