Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The vehicle includes a display device disposed facing outside, and a first control unit configured to execute control so as to display advertisement information on the display device. The information processing apparatus includes a second control unit configured to execute: acquiring a congestion degree of persons present around the vehicle; and determining a display position of the advertisement information on the display device in accordance with the congestion degree. When the congestion degree is equal to or greater than a first threshold, the information processing system determines a display region of the advertisement information to be an upper region on a display screen of the display device.

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: Methods of repairing defects in polymeric composite structures are provided. The methods include filling or bonding defects with a pre-polymerization solution and polymerizing the pre-polymerization solution in situ. Patches or support structures can be disposed at the site of the defect to increase the strength of the repair or to make the repair cosmetically pleasing, respectively. Such a method of repairing a defect may include applying a pre-polymer solution having a reinforcing material and a monomer to the defect in a polymeric composite structure; disposing a support structure on a surface of the polymeric composite structure over at least a portion of the defect having the applied pre-polymer solution; and polymerizing the monomer in the pre-polymer solution to form a repaired region in the polymeric composite structure including a polymer having the reinforcing material distributed therein.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device (ECU) 10 which comprises a target traveling course calculation part 10a to calculate a target traveling course R of a vehicle 1, wherein the target traveling course calculation part 10a is configured to, upon detection of an obstacle, correct the target traveling course R so as to avoid the obstacle (S14). The target traveling course calculation part 10a is configured to, in the traveling course correction processing, correct the target traveling course R to calculate corrected traveling course candidate for avoiding the obstacle; and evaluate the corrected traveling course candidates with respect to the target traveling course R by an evaluation function J including evaluation factors, to derive one corrected traveling course according to the evaluation. The target traveling course calculation part 10a is configured to revise the evaluation factors based on an external signal.

Abstract: An electrode tip portion is provided with a projection portion and a plurality of recess portions. The plurality of the recess portions are independent of one another, and are provided at the electrode tip portion in a dispersed manner. The projection portion is a region other than regions where the recess portions are provided, and is configured to be equipped with a continuous surface that continues in regions among the plurality of the recess portions.

Abstract: A compound which, when used for organic semiconductor films in organic thin-film transistors, makes the organic thin-film transistors exhibit a high carrier mobility, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, an organic thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, and an organic semiconductor film. The organic thin-film transistor contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof.

Abstract: More specifically, provided are a polyarylene sulfide resin composition including 100 parts by mass of a polyarylene sulfide resin and 1 to 100 parts by mass of an inorganic filler surface-treated with a sizing agent, wherein the sizing agent is a sizing agent (?) containing at least a urethane-modified epoxy resin having an alkoxy polyoxyalkylene structure and a urethane resin having a sulfonate group, a sizing agent (?) containing a copolymer (?1) having a mass average molecular weight of 5000 to 150000, which is obtained by radical copolymerization of a polymerizable monomer mixture of at least a (meth)acrylic acid ester and maleic acid (anhydride), or a sizing agent (?) containing at least a polyether resin, a urethane resin, and a silane coupling agent, a molded article thereof, an inorganic filler used for the composition, and methods for producing them.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin-film transistor which has an organic semiconductor film produced using a compound having an excellent solubility in organic solvents and has an excellent carrier mobility, a compound, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor, and an organic semiconductor film. An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound which is represented by General Formula (1) or General Formula (2) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof and has a molecular weight of 3,000 or less. In General Formula (1) and General Formula (2), at least one of R5, . . . , or R8 is a group other than a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control device (ECU) (10) having plural driving support modes, comprising: an obstacle information detection part (10b) for detecting obstacle information; a traveling regulation information detection part (10c) for detecting traveling regulation information; and a traveling course calculation part (10d) for calculating a future traveling course comprising a target position and a target speed of the vehicle, wherein the calculation part (10d) is operable to: execute, without taking into account the obstacle information, traveling course calculation processing (S13) of calculating traveling courses temporally repeatedly; execute, based on a selected driving support mode, traveling course selection processing (S14) of selecting one of the traveling courses as a target traveling course; and execute, based on the obstacle information and/or the traveling regulation information, traveling course correction processing (S15) of correcting the target traveling course selected in the traveling c

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle control device reducing a driving force generated by an engine of a vehicle to prevent the vehicle from colliding with a forward obstacle. The vehicle control device includes an ECU configured to control the driving force, an ultrasonic sensor configured to detect the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle, and a monocular camera configured to take an image of an area in front of the vehicle. The ECU determines the presence or absence of the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle based on the image taken with the monocular camera while the vehicle is travelling, and changes an upper limit of the driving force in accordance with a combination of whether or not the ultrasonic sensor has detected an object and the presence or absence of the forward obstacle determined based on the image taken with the monocular camera.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a copper alloy according to the present invention comprises (a) weighing a copper powder and one of a Cu—Zr master alloy and a ZrH2 powder such that an alloy composition of Cu-xZr (x is the atomic % of Zr, and 0.5?x?8.6 is satisfied) is obtained and pulverizing and mixing the copper powder and the one of the Cu—Zr master alloy and the ZrH2 powder in an inert atmosphere until an average particle diameter D50 falls within the range of from 1 ?m to 500 ?m to thereby obtain a powder mixture; and (b) subjecting the powder mixture to spark plasma sintering by holding the powder mixture at a prescribed temperature lower than eutectic temperature while the powder mixture is pressurized at a pressure within a prescribed range.

Abstract: A main controller includes: a d-axis current limiter configured to calculate a d-axis current limiting value with priority, based on a dq-converted current limiting value, and calculate a limited d-axis current command value by clipping the d-axis current command value to be the d-axis current limiting value or less; a q-axis current limiter configured to calculate a q-axis current limiting value, based on the dq-converted current limiting value and the limited d-axis current command value, and calculate a limited q-axis current command value by clipping the q-axis current command value to be the q-axis current limiting value or less; and an inverter controller configured to control motor current, based on the limited d-axis current command value and the limited q-axis current command value.

Abstract: A sign recognition and display device (1) includes: a camera (2); a sign recognition unit (10) configured to recognize a road sign included in an image taken with the camera; a speed limit information obtaining unit (12) configured to repeatedly obtain speed limit information; and a display control unit (14) configured to, if a speed limit sign is recognized, and the speed limit information is obtained, show, on a display device (8), information on a speed limit indicated by the speed limit sign. If, while information on the speed limit indicated by the speed limit sign is displayed, the speed limit information is obtained, and the speed limit determined by the obtained speed limit information is different from the speed limit determined by the previously obtained speed limit information, the display control unit shows information on the speed limit determined by the presently obtained speed limit information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite material including a black pigment, carbon fibers, and a resin, wherein marking is applied with a laser having a wavelength of 100 to 2,000 nm on the composite material having 1) an area proportion of the carbon fibers in its topmost surface layer of 10 to 90%, 2) a proportion of the black pigment contained in the composite material of 0.2 to 20% by mass, and 3) an average fiber length of the carbon fibers of 1 mm or more.

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.

Abstract: An audio device includes a first broadcast processor configured to execute reception processing of a first broadcast wave to generate a first reproduction signal, a reproduction unit configured to reproduce audio based on the first reproduction signal, a first storage configured to temporarily store audio data related to the first reproduction signal, a controller configured to acquire a time table of a broadcast related to the first broadcast wave and receive a saving instruction of a musical piece from a user, and a second storage configured to, when the controller receives the saving instruction, cut first musical piece data of a predetermined musical piece depending on a reception time of the saving instruction from the audio data temporarily stored in the first storage based on the time table and store the first musical piece data.

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: Disclosed is a vehicle control device (ECU) (10) having plural driving support modes, comprising: a preceding vehicle detection part (10b); a traveling road edge detection part (10c); and a vehicle control part (10e) for controlling a vehicle (1) to follow a preceding vehicle detected by the detection part (10b), wherein the control part (10e) is operable, according to a result of the detection of the edge position of the road by the edge detection part (10c), to execute traveling course selection processing (S14) of selecting, based on the driving support mode selected by a passenger, a target traveling course from traveling courses including at least a course (R1) set to enable the vehicle to maintain traveling within the road, and a course (R2) set to enable the vehicle to follow a trajectory of the preceding vehicle and each comprises a target position and a target speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: Partial welding of partially joining together two metal plates by melting at least one area inside a joining region of the metal plates is performed. After a lapse of a predetermined time from completion of the partial welding, main welding of joining together the metal plates by melting the joining region entirely is performed.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular holding device that, in an ON state, holds a vehicle component in a state where displacement of the vehicle component in an axial direction is restrained, and that, in an OFF state, holds the vehicle component in a state where displacement of the vehicle component in the axial direction is possible. The vehicular holding device includes at least one engagement part, a cam mechanism, and an axial direction restraining part. The at least one engagement part is at a position where the engagement part engages with an engaged part in the ON state, and is at a position where the engagement part is separated from the engaged part in the OFF state. The cam mechanism displaces the at least one engagement part from the OFF-state position to the ON-state position. The axial direction restraining part receives axial-direction force acting on the at least one engagement part.