Abstract: Provided is an armrest device that can be positioned in an appropriate position suitable for the build of the vehicle occupant. The armrest device comprises an interior member provided on an inboard side of a vehicle door, and an armrest main body supported by the interior member so as to be moveable between an initial position and a projecting position more inboard and forward than the initial position.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic component includes an element, a first lead, and a second lead. The element includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first lead is electrically connected with the first electrode, and has a flattened cross section. The second lead is electrically connected with the second electrode. The first lead includes a first connection portion, a first bonding portion, and a first extension portion. The first connection portion is connected with the first electrode. The first bonding portion is configured to be bonded with a substrate. The first bonding portion extends in an extension direction perpendicular to a first counter direction. The first counter direction connects the first electrode and the second electrode. The first extension portion is located between the first connection portion and the first bonding portion. The first extension portion extends in the extension direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory string and a control circuit. The memory string includes a first memory cell connected to a first word line and a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell and connected to a second word line. The control circuit is configured to perform a multi-bit-data writing with respect to each of the first and second memory cells. The multi-bit-data writing includes, in order, a first programming to program the first memory cell, the first programming with respect to the second memory cell, a reading of first data from the first memory cell, a second programming to program the second memory cell, and a verification of data programmed in the second memory cell. The control circuit is configured to set a verify voltage to be applied to the second word line during the verification based on the first data.

Abstract: In a driving assistance apparatus, an image acquiring unit acquires a captured image captured by an onboard camera. Based on the captured image acquired by the image acquiring unit, a boundary line recognizing unit recognizes a boundary line that demarcates a traffic lane in which an own vehicle is driving. A road information acquiring unit acquires road information related to a road on which the own vehicle is driving. Based on the road information acquired by the road information acquiring unit, a degree-of-reliability setting unit sets a degree of reliability of the boundary line recognized by the boundary line recognizing unit. Based on the boundary line recognized by the boundary line recognizing unit, a driving assisting unit performs driving assistance of the own vehicle and varies control content of the driving assistance based on the degree of reliability.

Abstract: A resin pellet includes a pellet-shaped ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer; a liquid coating agent; and a solid coating agent adhered to at least a portion of surfaces of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and of the liquid coating agent, in which the liquid coating agent is a compound including a hydroxyl group, and the solid coating agent is an organic compound.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a resin composition includes a step of chemically crosslinking an ionomer (A) of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer in the presence of an organic peroxide (B), and a step of melt kneading the chemically crosslinked ionomer (A) and a polyamide resin (C).

Abstract: Provided is an armrest device that can be positioned in an appropriate position suitable for the build of the vehicle occupant. The armrest device comprises an interior member provided on an inboard side of a vehicle door, and an armrest main body supported by the interior member so as to be moveable between an initial position and a projecting position more inboard and forward than the initial position.

Abstract: A display control apparatus is installed in an own vehicle to display an image on a display device viewed by a passenger of the own vehicle. The display control apparatus includes a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels, and an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane. The apparatus generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object, and displays the position image on the display device.

Abstract: The present invention is a thermoplastic polyester resin composition which in a composition including an inorganic-reinforcing material such as glass fiber, maintains a good surface appearance while having high strength and high stiffness, has little warpage deformation, and generates very little burr; and an inorganic-reinforced thermoplastic polyester resin composition comprising 20 to 60% by mass of a polybutylene terephthalate resin (A), 5 to 20% by mass of an amorphous resin (B), 30 to 60% by mass of an inorganic-reinforcing material (C), 0.5 to 10% by mass of an ethylene-glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer (D), and 0.05 to 2% by mass of a transesterification inhibitor (E), wherein the composition has a melt viscosity of no less than 0.5 kPa·s and no more than 1.5 kPa·s at 265° C. and a shear rate of 10 sec?1.

Abstract: A linear light-emitting device including a substrate extending while being curved in a predetermined direction, a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged on the substrate in a predetermined direction, and a seal for sealing the plurality of light-emitting elements, wherein a luminance of a specific part of the substrate is higher than that of the other parts of the substrate.

Abstract: An application providing system is provided. The application providing system includes a portable terminal device having an IC chip configured to perform radio communications; and a server device; the application providing system connecting the portable terminal device and the server device through a communication network, wherein the portable terminal device includes a transmitted message receiver section, an application determination section, an application transmission request generation section, and an application storage section, wherein the server device includes a transmitted message generation section, a transmitted message sender section, an application transmission request receiver section, an application storage section, and an application sender section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition comprising 20 to 50 mass % of a polybutylene terephthalate resin (A) having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.60 to 1.0 dl/g, 20 to 45 mass % of a fibrous filler (B), 1 to 20 mass % of a polycarbonate resin (C) having a melt volume rate (MVR) of 30 cm3/10 min or more, 3 to 20 mass % of a copolymerized polybutylene terephthalate resin (D), and 0 to 20 mass % of an inorganic filler (E) other than the fibrous filler (B). The polybutylene terephthalate resin composition can form a molding that remedies sink marks, maintains high heat deflection temperature, and has excellent appearance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reinforced thermoplastic polyester resin composition comprising 20 to 35 parts by mass of a polybutylene terephthalate resin (A), 1 to 10 parts by mass of a polyethylene terephthalate resin (B), and 1 to 10 parts by mass of a copolymerized polybutylene terephthalate resin (C), 5 to 12 parts by mass of a copolymerized polyethylene terephthalate resin (D), 1 to 6 parts by mass of a polycarbonate resin (E), 45 to 60 parts by mass of a fiber reinforcing material (F), and 0.05 to 2 parts by mass of a transesterification inhibitor (G), based on 100 parts by mass in total of components (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F), which can stably form a molding having high rigidity and high strength, and having few appearance defects, and a regular uniform textured appearance, under a wide range of molding conditions.

Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polyamide resin (A); an ionomer of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer (B); and an ethylene-based polymer (C), wherein a content of the polyamide resin (A) is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the polyamide resin (A), the ionomer of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer (B) and the ethylene-based polymer (C), and wherein a content of the ethylene-based copolymer (C) is less than 50% by mass with respect to a total amount of the ionomer of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid-based copolymer (B) and the ethylene-based polymer (C).

Abstract: A position detection system includes a measurement unit that obtains a measurement value related to transmission and reception of radio waves from when the radio waves are transmitted from one of first and second communication devices to the other one of the first and second communication devices to when the one of the first and second communication devices receives a response to the radio waves to detect a positional relationship of the first and second communication devices. The measurement unit obtains multiple measurement values by performing communication to obtain the measurement value a multiple number of times in which a parameter of the communication is changed.

Abstract: A position detection system includes a measurement unit that obtains a measurement value related to transmission and reception of radio waves from when the radio waves are transmitted from one of first and second communication devices to the other one of the first and second communication devices to when the one of the first and second communication devices receives a response to the radio waves to detect a positional relationship of the first and second communication devices. The measurement unit obtains the measurement value related to the transmission and reception of radio waves during each of first communication in which the first communication device transmits radio waves to the second communication device and receives a response to the radio waves and second communication in which the second communication device transmits radio waves to the first communication device and receives a response to the radio waves.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester resin composition comprising 18 to 35 parts by mass of a polybutylene terephthalate resin (A), 10 to 25 parts by mass of a polyethylene terephthalate resin (B), 10 to 20 parts by mass of a thermoplastic polyester elastomer (C), 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of an epoxy group-containing ethylene copolymer (D), 12 to 20 parts by mass of a spherical and/or amorphous inorganic filler (E), 10 to 35 parts by mass of a glass fiber reinforcing material (F), 0 to 10 parts by mass of a polycarbonate resin (G), and 0 to 2 parts by mass of a transesterification inhibitor (H). The polyester resin composition is excellent in heat resistance, capable of imparting toughness to a molding while remedying sink marks.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device having a high conversion efficiency between electrical energy and mechanical energy is provided. The piezoelectric device has first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the piezoelectric layer is formed of a ZnO-based material having a wurtzite crystal structure to which a metal that does not cause the piezoelectric layer to exhibit conductivity is added, and wherein a squared value of a electromechanical coupling coefficient in thickness vibration mode is 6.5% or more.

Abstract: The present invention is a modified resin for a molded article obtained by modifying an ionomer of an ethylene/unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer with at least one guanidine compound selected from guanidine derivatives and salts thereof.

Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus includes: a vehicle seat arranged in an inner space of a side wall of a vehicle; a side airbag device provided in the side wall or the vehicle seat and including a side airbag to be inflated and deployed between the side wall and the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat includes: a pressure-receiving portion to receive a load from an occupant seated on the vehicle seat; and a frame to support the pressure-receiving portion. The occupant protection apparatus further comprising an electronic control circuit configured to perform moving the pressure-receiving portion so that the occupant is pushed away from the side wall before the occupant comes into contact with the side airbag at an activation time when the side airbag device is activated by an impact acting on the side wall from an outside of the vehicle and the side airbag is inflated and deployed.