Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controller configured to control the motor. Based on an increase in a variation value varying in accordance with a drive load of the motor, the controller controls the motor and causes the feeding roller to start a medium feeding operation.

Abstract: Magnetic pastes which include a magnetic powder (A) and a binder resin (B), in which, in the particle diameter distribution of the component (A), the 10% particle diameter (D10) is 0.2 ?m or larger and 2.0 ?m or smaller, the 50% particle diameter (D50) is 2.0 ?m or larger and 4.3 ?m or smaller, and the 90% particle diameter (D90) is 4.3 ?m or larger and 8.5 ?m or smaller, suppress the magnetic powder from being unevenly distributed, and are useful for forming inductor elements and circuit boards.

Abstract: A device includes an elastic base, a device body provided on the base, a wiring line provided on the base, a coupling member coupled to the wiring line, and an electrically conductive adhesive layer provided between the wiring line and the coupling member. The wiring line extends from the electrically conductive adhesive layer to the device body. The wiring line has a wiring portion overlapping with the electrically conductive adhesive layer. The degree of polymerization of the electrically conductive adhesive layer decreases in the extending direction of the wiring portion.

Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device configured to suppress a temperature rise of a semiconductor element and to suppress warpage, a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device including a cooling medium sealing step, and an electronic apparatus including the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a substrate to which the semiconductor element is adhered; and a cooling medium with which a clearance formed when the semiconductor element and the substrate are adhered to each other with an adhesive is filled. The cooling medium is a liquid metal, a metal-coated small sphere, or a liquid metal and a metal-coated small sphere. The cooling medium transmits heat generated by the semiconductor element to the outside to suppress a temperature rise.

Abstract: Miniaturization is facilitated in a semiconductor package provided with pixels. A semiconductor package includes a transparent member, a semiconductor chip, a photosensitive rib, and an interposer. In this semiconductor package, pixels are arranged on a part of a chip plane of the semiconductor chip. The photosensitive rib is a photosensitive resin disposed between a region not corresponding to the pixel in the chip plane of the semiconductor chip and the transparent member. Furthermore, the interposer is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: Provided is a behavior planning device, a vehicle control system, and a behavior plan generation method in which whether or not to immediately stop is determined at a time when abnormality has been detected, thus reducing obstruction of advancement of another traffic participant. This behavior planning device includes: a stop request determination unit which determines occurrence of abnormality on the basis of acquired obstacle information, own-position information, road information, and vehicle state information, and outputs an emergency stop request or a stop request; and a behavior plan generation unit which, in a case where the emergency stop request is outputted, generates a behavior plan for immediately stopping a mobile object, and in a case where the stop request is outputted, generates a behavior plan for preventing the mobile object from stopping in an area where advancement of another traffic participant is obstructed.

Abstract: This behavior planning device includes: an emergency stop requesting unit which detects abnormality on the basis of obstacle information acquired from an obstacle information acquisition unit and a roadside information acquisition unit and outputs an emergency stop request; a stop position determination unit which calculates a stop position of an own vehicle on the basis of the emergency stop request and determines whether or not the stop position is in an area where advancement of another traffic participant is obstructed; and a behavior plan generation unit which, in a case where it is determined that the own vehicle will stop in the area where advancement of another traffic participant is obstructed, such as an intersection, generates a behavior plan for causing the own vehicle to stop outside the area or after passing over the area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that generates an image to be displayed, based on shape data indicating a shape of an object and surface characteristics data indicating surface characteristics of the object includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the shape data with different resolutions and the surface characteristics data, a setting unit configured to set a display area including at least part of the object, and a generation unit configured to generate the image to be displayed, based on one of the plurality of pieces of shape data according to the display area and the surface characteristics data.

Abstract: A filter element has a central channel, an inner core, an inner filter member, an outer core, and an outer filter member. The inner core has vent holes formed around a portion facing the central channel. The outer core has a perforated portion having vent holes formed therearound and a non-perforated portion having no vent hole. The region over which the non-perforated portion is formed along the central channel extends from a position above the central position of the central channel in the up-down direction to the upper end of the central channel. The region over which the perforated portion is formed along the central channel extends from the lower end of the non-perforated portion to the lower end of the central channel.

Abstract: A method for producing a polytetrafluoroethylene powder, which includes subjecting tetrafluoroethylene to suspension polymerization in an aqueous medium to prepare a suspension-polymerized particle of non melt-processible polytetrafluoroethylene, drying the suspension-polymerized particle to prepare a dry particle, subjecting the dry particle to fluorine radical treatment to prepare a fluorine radical-treated particle, and crushing the fluorine radical-treated particle to produce a polytetrafluoroethylene powder. Also disclosed is a polytetrafluoroethylene formed article obtained by forming the polytetrafluoroethylene powder, as well as a polytetrafluoroethylene compression-molded article obtained by compression molding the polytetrafluoroethylene powder.

Abstract: A method for producing a polytetrafluoroethylene particle, which includes subjecting tetrafluoroethylene to suspension polymerization in an aqueous medium to prepare a suspension-polymerized particle of polytetrafluoroethylene, washing and then crushing the suspension-polymerized particle or crushing the suspension-polymerized particle with washing to prepare a crushed particle, dehydrating the crushed particle to prepare a crushed particle having a water content of 40% by mass or less, and subjecting the dehydrated crushed particle to heat treatment to produce a polytetrafluoroethylene particle.

Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controller configured to control the motor. Based on an increase in a variation value varying in accordance with a drive load of the motor, the controller controls the motor and causes the feeding roller to start a medium feeding operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft?Fdr1.

Abstract: An interface device is provided between a test head and a DUT. The interface device includes pin electronics ICs, RAM, a pin controller, and nonvolatile memory. The RAM stores data based on a device signal received from the DUT by means of the multiple pin electronics ICs. The pin controller controls the multiple pin electronics ICs according to a control signal from the test head. The multiple pin electronics ICs, the RAM, and the pin controller are mounted on a pin electronics PCB.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft?Fdr1.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus that can correctly determine that lane changing is possible in a situation that by accelerating or decelerating, an ego vehicle can perform the lane changing without interfering with an obstacle, and that raises the comfortability for the drier. In the vehicle control apparatus, a target trajectory for performing lane changing under restriction of not entering an entry prohibition region is calculated; a determination section determines whether or not lane changing is possible, based on at least information on a position of the ego vehicle in the target trajectory; in the case where it is determined that lane changing is possible, the ego vehicle is made to change a lane, by use of the target trajectory.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene which is less likely to generate C6-C14 perfluorocarboxylic acids and salts thereof. The disclosure relates to a method for producing low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene having a melt viscosity at 380° C. of 1.0×102 to 7.0×105 Pa·s. The method includes (1) irradiating high-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene with radiation in a substantially oxygen-free state and decomposing the high-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene into a low-molecular-weight component and (2) deactivating, in a substantially oxygen-free state, at least part of main-chain radicals and end radicals generated by the irradiation and providing the low-molecular-weight polytetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: There has been a problem that because in a section where a road forks from a main lane or merges the main lane, the number of lanes increases or decreases, breakage of a lane line and existence of other vehicles hinder the lane line from being read and hence generation of a target course becomes unstable. A course generation apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a prohibition-section determination unit that determines, in the case of forking from a main lane or merging with the main lane, that a present section is an environmental-information-course usage prohibition section, until a time when a vehicle position passes through a forking completion point or a merging completion point, and with a course selection unit that selects an environmental information course or a route-information course in a normal time and selects the route-information course in the environmental-information-course usage prohibition section.

Abstract: There has been a problem that because in a section where a road forks from a main lane or merges the main lane, the number of lanes increases or decreases, breakage of a lane line and existence of other vehicles hinder the lane line from being read and hence generation of a target course becomes unstable. A course generation apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a prohibition-section determination unit that determines, in the case of forking from a main lane or merging with the main lane, that a present section is an environmental-information-course usage prohibition section, until a time when a vehicle position passes through a forking completion point or a merging completion point, and with a course selection unit that selects an environmental information course or a route-information course in a normal time and selects the route-information course in the environmental-information-course usage prohibition section.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an ego-vehicle information acquisition unit which acquires ego-vehicle information; a map information acquisition unit which acquires map information about an intersection; an other-vehicle information acquisition unit which acquires other-vehicle information about another vehicle traveling on a road connected to the intersection; an intersection entry possibility determination unit which calculates a stop time of the other vehicle at a position of a stop line for the intersection, calculates a stop time of the ego vehicle at a position of a stop line for the intersection, and determines whether or not the ego vehicle is allowed to enter the intersection on the basis of the stop time of the other vehicle and the stop time of the ego vehicle; and a vehicle control unit which controls traveling of the ego vehicle at the intersection.