Abstract: Provided is a photodetector element having a photoelectric conversion element, an optical filter provided on a light incident side of the photoelectric conversion element, and an interlayer provided between the photoelectric conversion element and the optical filter, in which the photoelectric conversion element has a quantum dot layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the optical filter has predetermined spectral characteristics, and the interlayer includes at least one kind of atom selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, Zr, Sn, Zn, Ce, and Hf, or includes a paraxylene polymer, or has a water vapor permeability as determined by a method in accordance with JIS K 7129 of 1×10?4 g/m2/day or less. Provided also are an image sensor and a method for manufacturing a photodetector element.

Abstract: Provided is a photodetector element having a photoelectric conversion element, an optical filter provided on a light incident side of the photoelectric conversion element, a dielectric multi-layer film provided on a light incident side of the optical filter, and an interlayer provided between the photoelectric conversion element and the optical filter, in which the photoelectric conversion element has a quantum dot layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the optical filter is a laminated film including a first filter layer including a coloring material and a second filter layer including a coloring material, and the interlayer includes at least one kind of atom selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, Zr, Sn, Zn, Ce, and Hf, or includes a paraxylene polymer, or has a water vapor permeability as determined by a method in accordance with JIS K 7129 of 1×10?4 g/m2/day or less. Provided also are an image sensor and a method for manufacturing a photodetector element.

Abstract: In a control device of an electric power steering device, a q-axis current command value calculation unit which calculates a current command value for a motor for producing assist torque is provided with a q-axis current limitation value calculation unit which calculates a q-axis current limitation value such that, in a case where the absolute value of a steering angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined first steering angle threshold, the q-axis current limitation value decreases with increase in the absolute value of the steering angle, thereby restricting a q-axis current command value. Thus, a steering operation is prevented from being performed to a maximum steering angle ?max and impact by end contact can be mitigated.

Abstract: A controller detects partitioning lines OL and BL of a road and a road edge E based on an image taken by a camera, generates a pair of left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR that extend from the side to the front of a vehicle along the partitioning lines OL and BL, controls the steering so the vehicle travels between the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR, moves the left virtual line ILL to a position in proximity to the road edge E and fixes the left virtual line ILL to this position, and then, moves the right virtual line ILR to a position separated from the left virtual line ILL by the width of the vehicle and fixes the right virtual line ILR to this position, and controls brakes to stop the vehicle after fixing the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR.

Abstract: A method examines a disease or health condition based on a biomarker in a biological sample. The method includes extracting the biomarker from the biological sample, ionizing the extracted biomarker, obtaining a three dimensional profile by passing the ionized biomarker between two electrodes and providing the two electrodes with a plurality of electrical signals, and discriminating a predetermined disease using a discriminator obtained by learning the three-dimensional profile and a type of disease in association with each other. The discriminator is a model combining convolutional and recurrent neural networks. The three dimensional profile records current values for each combination of a dispersion field, a compensation voltage, and the type of ion. The discriminator has an interlayer transition that applies the convolutional neural network to a dimension of the compensation voltage and applies the recurrent neural network to a dimension of the dispersion field.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry carries out a calibration measurement to prepare a calibration curve for a test item, and then carries out an accuracy management measurement to calculate an accuracy of the prepared calibration curve, determines whether or not the calculated accuracy is within an acceptable range, specifies, if the calculated accuracy is within the acceptable range, an analyte for which the test item needs to be recomputed, and recomputes the test item of the specified analyte using the prepared calibration curve.

Abstract: An image processing circuit captures an image of an capturing object and obtain an image of the capturing object, detects brightness in each criteria region in the image, computes a difference in the brightness of two adjacent criteria regions, determines a position of the capturing object in the image corresponding to a pixel having a brightness greater than a predetermined value on a basis of the difference in the brightness.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an exhaust gas purification catalyst that has both a warming performance and a high load performance is provided. By the present invention, provided is the exhaust gas purification catalyst including a base material and a catalyst coated layer. The catalyst coated layer includes a former stage part and a latter stage part. An alumina content X1 in the former stage part per volume of the base material is not more than an alumina content X2 in the latter stage part per volume of the base material A ratio (Y2/Y1) of a coating amount Y2 in the latter stage part per volume of the base material to a coating amount Y1 in the former stage part per volume of the base material satisfies 1.0<(Y2/Y1)?2.0.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust gas purifying catalyst that may exhibit high purification performance both in a low temperature state immediately after an engine is started and during a high-load operation. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst disclosed herein contains at least one type of noble metal purifying exhaust gas, and includes a substrate, and a catalyst coat layer formed on a surface of the substrate. The catalyst coat layer is formed to have a stack structure including a lower layer provided on the substrate and an upper layer provided on the lower layer. The lower layer contains a noble metal and an oxide having an oxygen storage capacity. A noble metal-containing surface layer portion containing a noble metal is formed in at least a part of a surface portion of the upper layer. The upper layer does not contain an oxide having the oxygen storage capacity.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is configured to execute processing to calculate a correction travel route and a control target value on the basis of a target travel route under a specified constraint condition. The vehicle control apparatus calculates the correction travel route by using an evaluation function in a manner to minimize a difference of the correction travel route from the target travel route. The evaluation function is a sum that is acquired by weighting the evaluation value at each prediction point by weight coefficients. A time interval between each adjacent pair of the prediction points is set to be increased from a near side toward a far side from the vehicle. The weight coefficients are set such that weight at the prediction point on the far side from the vehicle is less than the weight at the prediction point on the near side of the vehicle.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ground boundary estimation method, a ground boundary estimation apparatus, and a program that can acquire the elevation of the ground boundary of the electrical pole quickly and accurately even when the base of the electrical pole is shielded by any shield at observation of the electrical pole. According to the ground boundary estimation method of the present invention, a difference in height between the columnar shape of a three-dimensional model of a columnar object such as an observed electrical pole and a standard shape of the columnar object at a position in which the three-dimensional model and the standard shape are equal to each other in the horizontal dimension is determined, and a penetration depth prescribed by the standard is subtracted from the difference in height, to find a height of a shielded portion of the ground boundary of the columnar object.

Abstract: Even when a missing portion occurs in a solid data set on a columnar structure, an estimator for a deflection value and an accuracy of the deflection value are correctly estimated according to an extent of the missing portion and the like.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes an driver's seat disposed in the rear region of a vehicle body, a left and a right fender that are disposed on the left and right laterally outward sides of the driver's seat, and a partition wall that divides, at a position behind the driver's seat, the vehicle body into a front region of the vehicle body on the front side of the partition wall and a rear region of the vehicle body on the back side thereof. Operation tools for operating working equipment provided on the vehicle body are disposed on one of the fenders, and the partition wall is provided offset toward a side where operation tools are disposed relative to the driver's seat.

Abstract: A laser welding method is provided to ensure a sufficient joining strength between metal plates by increasing the area of a joining region while preventing “burn through” of a molten metal. In the laser welding method by applying a laser beam to a surface of multiple metal plates superimposed on each other, a scanning locus with the laser beam is sequentially shifted from an inner circular scanning locus to an outer one in a predetermined joining region on the metal plates, and an emission interval is provided to temporally stop the metal-plate-surface irradiation when the scanning locus is shifted. Thus, every time the scanning locus is shifted, the molten metal due to the previous irradiation is cooled and increases its viscosity. Accordingly, the “burn through” is prevented regardless of increase of the area of the joining region, which results in a sufficient joining strength between the metal plates.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes a feeder and a mixer unit. The feeder is configured to feed a first liquid and a second liquid. The mixer unit includes an inflow part, an internal space, and an outflow part. The mixer unit is configured so that the first liquid and the second liquid fed from the feeder enter through the inflow part, the first liquid and the second liquid entering through the inflow part flow inside the internal space, and the first liquid and the second liquid flowing inside the internal space exit through the outflow part according to an inflow entering through the inflow part.

Abstract: A conductive supporting member includes an outer portion that includes a Cu matrix phase and a second phase dispersed in the Cu matrix phase and containing a Cu—Zr compound and that has an alloy composition represented by Cu-xZr (x is atomic % of Zr and 0.5?x?16.7 is satisfied) and an inner portion that is present on an inner side of the outer portion, is formed of a metal containing Cu, and has higher conductivity than the outer portion.

Abstract: A vehicle allocation service system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information and positional information of a user, a selection unit configured to select a moving object to be provided to the user based on the biological information, a decision unit configured to acquire priority added to a satisfied condition of the biological information of the user and decide an order of vehicle allocation for the selected moving object according to the priority, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the selected moving object to move according to the positional information.

Abstract: A server apparatus as a management apparatus in a system includes a controller configured to execute acquiring commodity-or-the-like purchase information of a user in a first mobile store from a store device of the first mobile store, selecting a commodity or a service predicted to be purchased next by the user based on commodities or services in the acquired commodity-or-the-like purchase information, and transmitting information regarding the user to a store device of a second mobile store dealing in the selected commodity or service.

Abstract: An electrically conductive tip member includes: an inner periphery portion including a Cu matrix phase and a second phase that is dispersed in the Cu matrix phase and contains a Cu—Zr-based compound, the inner periphery portion having an alloy composition of Cu-xZr (where x is the atomic percentage of Zr and satisfies 0.5?x?16.7); and an outer periphery portion that is present on an outer circumferential side of the inner periphery portion, made of a metal containing Cu, and has higher electrical conductivity than the inner periphery portion.

Abstract: In a laser welding method, generation of relatively large blow holes in a welding part is prevented while decrease in productivity is reduced. The laser welding method for lap welding, using a laser beam LB, of a plurality of metal plates and including an aluminum alloy cast plate includes: a melting path of scanning and irradiating circularly a superimposed part of the aluminum alloy plate and the aluminum alloy cast plate with a first laser beam LB1 to form a molten pool of the molten aluminum alloy plate and the molten aluminum alloy cast plate; and a stirring path of scanning and irradiating circularly the molten pool with a second laser beam LB2 having a scanning speed V2 faster than a scanning speed V1 of the first laser beam LB1 to stir the molten pool.