Abstract: A crosslinked rubber composition includes: a rubber component containing a first polymer which is an ethylene-?-olefin elastomer having an ethylene content of less than 60% by mass and a second polymer which is an ethylene-?-olefin elastomer having an ethylene content of 60% by mass or more; and short fibers dispersed in the rubber component. The rubber component is crosslinked by using organic peroxide as a crosslinking agent. The content of the organic peroxide in a not-yet crosslinked rubber composition is 1 part by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical element, a support body swingably supporting the movable body, and a suction mechanism. The optical element reflects light traveling in a first direction to an intersecting second direction. The suction mechanism generates suction force in the movable body between the movable body and the support body, and includes a magnet and a magnetic member. One of the magnet and the magnetic member is in the movable body, while the other is in the support body. The magnet and the magnetic member overlap each other when viewed from a predetermined direction, which is one of the first direction, the second direction, and a third direction. The third direction intersects the first and second directions. When viewed from the predetermined direction, a center of the magnet and a center of the magnetic member are separated from each other.

Abstract: To reduce complication of a configuration of a vehicle while suppressing an increase in weight of the vehicle, a camera system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle per cycle and an image processor to obtain the multiple frame images from the imaging unit and separate the multiple frame images into a first given number of frame images as a recognition target and a second given number of frame images as a storage target to be stored in an image recorder. The image processor separately outputs the first and second given numbers of frame images to be recognized and stored, respectively.

Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device capable of recognizing a user's facial feature accurately. A glasses-type electronic device includes a first optical component, a second optical component, a frame, an imaging device, a feature extraction unit, and an emotion estimation unit. The frame is in contact with a side surface of the first optical component and a side surface of the second optical component. The imaging device is in contact with the frame and has a function of detecting part of a user's face. The feature extraction unit has a function of extracting a feature of the user's face from the detected part of the user's face. The emotion estimation unit has a function of estimating information on the user from the extracted feature.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a surface emitting laser according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes the following two steps: (1) a step of forming a semiconductor stacked structure on a substrate, the semiconductor stacked structure including an active layer, a first DBR layer of a first electrical conduction type, and a second DBR layer of a second electrical conduction type, the first DBR layer and the second DBR layer sandwiching the active layer, the second electrical conduction type being different from the first electrical conduction type; and (2) a step of forming a mesa section at a portion on the second DBR layer side in the semiconductor stacked structure and then forming an annular diffusion region of the first electrical conduction type at an outer edge of the mesa section by impurity diffusion from a side surface of the mesa section, the mesa section including the second DBR layer, the mesa section not including the active layer.

Abstract: A spectrum control device includes a control unit that obtains spectrum information. The control unit controls at least one of a spectrum of light emitted by a light emitting device or a spectrum of image light that forms an image, on the basis of the spectrum information.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel provided on a vehicle front side and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A first battery arrangement portion is provided long in a vehicle front-rear direction at a center portion of the front floor panel in the vehicle width direction. A second battery arrangement portion is provided outside the first battery arrangement portion in a vehicle width direction below the front floor panel. An upper portion of the first battery arrangement portion is positioned higher than an upper portion of the second battery arrangement portion.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A front battery that supplies electric power to the traction motor is arranged below the front floor panel.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs machine learning of a learning model for improving the accuracy of inference of an image even in a case where the characteristics of an image are changed by correction applied to the image. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a training image and a teacher image according to each of a plurality of correction conditions. Machine learning of the learning model is performed using the training image and the teacher image. A plurality of parameters obtained by performing the machine learning of the learning model are stored in association with the plurality of correction conditions, respectively.

Abstract: A side load-transmitting member extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and transmitting a load applied to a vehicle-inward side from a vehicle-outward side toward the vehicle-inward side is provided inside a side sill. A lower portion of the side sill is provided to overlap a battery case in a vehicle side view. The side load-transmitting member comprises a first vertical wall portion provided to overlap a floor-side cross member in the vehicle side view and a second vertical wall portion provided to overlap the battery case in the vehicle side view.

Abstract: A cement clinker producing system, capable of providing a gas containing a carbon dioxide gas at a high concentration by increasing a carbon dioxide gas concentration for a part of an exhaust gas, includes a cyclone preheater to preheat a cement clinker raw material, a rotary kiln to burn the preheated cement clinker raw material so as to provide cement clinker, a calcination furnace to promote decarbonation of the cement clinker raw material, a clinker cooler to cool the cement clinker, a kiln exhaust-gas discharge passages to discharge an exhaust gas generated in the rotary kiln, a combustion-supporting gas supply device to supply a combustion-supporting gas having a higher oxygen concentration than air, a combustion-supporting gas supply passage to guide the combustion-supporting gas to the calcination furnace, and a calcination furnace exhaust-gas discharge passage to discharge a carbon dioxide gas-containing exhaust gas generated in the calcination furnace.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a joint structure formed by joining a first plate-shaped member and a second plate-shaped member having a shape that is longer in a longitudinal direction than in a lateral direction includes overlapping the first plate-shaped member and the second plate-shaped member, after the overlapping, joining each of both edge portions of the second plate-shaped member by forming a weld metal along the longitudinal direction to the first plate-shaped member. The weld metal extends further outward in the lateral direction than the edge portions of the second plate-shaped member, in which the weld metal is formed by a hybrid welding in which a laser is added as a heat source during arc welding such that the weld metal extends around both of the edge portions of the second plate-shaped member along the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel positioned lower than the front floor panel, and a connection panel extending from a rear portion of the front floor panel to a front portion of the rear floor panel and inclined or curved so as to be positioned downward toward a rear side. At least the front portion of the connection panel is positioned at the front of the front portion of the front seat.

Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a space inside a vehicle cabin and a pair of left and right suspension tower portions which are formed to bulge inward in the vehicle width direction and support upper portions of front suspension apparatuses. A lower-side portion of the partition wall portion is formed to be positioned further to vehicle rear toward a lower position. A traveling motor is installed below the lower-side portion of the partition wall portion. An upper-side portion of the partition wall portion extends from an intermediate portion of the left suspension tower portion in a vehicle front-rear direction to an intermediate portion of the right suspension tower portion in the vehicle front-rear direction.

Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes a front-side battery frame which is provided in a front of the battery casing, a pair of left and right side frames which extend from the front-side battery frame toward vehicle front to be positioned on vehicle-width-direction outer sides toward front, and a cross member suspended between left and right. Outer ends of the cross member in a vehicle width direction extend to the vehicle-width-direction outer sides of outer ends, in the vehicle width direction, of fronts of the side frames.

Abstract: Both of a requirement for absorption of an impact load in a collision and a requirement for layout of direction and position of a steering wheel are satisfied based on a vehicle-body front structure that includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a vehicle cabin inside space. A lower-side portion of the partition wall portion is formed to be positioned further to vehicle rear toward a lower position. A traveling motor is installed below the lower-side portion of the partition wall portion. A recess portion which is recessed toward vehicle front is formed in a portion, on an upper side of the traveling motor, in the partition wall portion. An inserting hole through which a steering shaft is inserted is formed in a lower wall portion of the recess portion.

Abstract: A vehicle-front body structure includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a vehicle cabin inside space, a motor arrangement portion which is formed by causing a part of the partition wall portion to bulge to an inside of a vehicle cabin and in which at least a part of a traveling motor is capable of being arranged, a cross member which is fixed to a floor panel on a vehicle rear side of the motor arrangement portion and extends in a vehicle width direction, and a reinforcement member which couples the motor arrangement portion and the cross member together.

Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure for an electric vehicle includes a front-side battery frame which extends in a vehicle width direction, a pair of left and right side frames which extend from the front-side battery frame to a vehicle front to be positioned on vehicle-width-direction outer sides, a left-side support mounted on the front-side battery frame and supports the left side frame from the vehicle-width-direction outer side, and a right-side support mounted on the front-side battery frame and supports the right side frame from the vehicle-width-direction outer side.

Abstract: In order to provide a camera system capable of performing improved gradation compression processing in accordance with an imaging mode, the camera system includes an imaging system configured to image an object to generate an image signal, performs gradation compression processing on the image signal based on at least one of two or more input/output conversion parameters, and includes an imaging system control unit setting the input/output conversion parameter, and an image processing system that acquires an image from the imaging system in at least one of two or more imaging modes, and the imaging system control unit sets the input/output conversion parameter in a gradation compression unit according to the imaging modes in the image processing system.

Abstract: A method of treating systemic sclerosis in a patient administers an IL-23 specific antibody, e.g., guselkumab, at an initial dose and subsequent doses in order for the patient to respond to the antibody and meet one or more of the clinical endpoints.