Abstract: A sound-field correction device, comprising: a target calculating unit, a correction amplitude characteristic calculating unit and a setting unit. The target calculating unit calculates, based on a predetermined sound signal, a target amplitude characteristic targeted for sound-field correction by a parametric equalizer and a plurality of auxiliary target amplitude characteristics having amplitude characteristics approximately equal to or gentler than the target amplitude characteristic. The correction amplitude characteristic calculating unit calculates a correction amplitude characteristic for correction sound-field based on the calculated target amplitude characteristic and the calculated plurality of auxiliary target amplitude characteristics. The setting unit sets the parametric equalizer based on the calculated correction amplitude characteristic.

Abstract: A toner having chargeability and fluidity that do not change to a great extent is provided. The toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and includes inorganic fine particles A, wherein the shape factor SF-2 of primary particles of the inorganic fine particles A is 116 or less, and regarding the particle size distribution on a volume basis of the inorganic fine particles A on the toner particle surfaces, the particle diameter when a cumulative value from the small particle side reaches 16% by volume is denoted as D16, the particle diameter when a cumulative value reaches 50% by volume is denoted as D50, and the particle diameter when a cumulative value reaches 84% by volume is denoted as D84, D50 is 80 nm or more and 200 nm or less, and the particle size distribution indicator A represented by D84/D16 is 1.70 or more and 2.60 or less.

Abstract: A communication terminal is connected to a server and provides movement guidance for a mobile unit based on guidance information delivered from the server. The terminal requests the server for update information for updating area identification information that identifies a section corresponding to an update target area and a section not corresponding to the update target area on a section-by-section basis. The update target area is an area whose terminal-side map information included in the communication terminal is an older version. The terminal updates the area identification information based on the update information transmitted from the server, requests the server for guidance information for providing movement guidance for the mobile unit based on the updated area identification information, and provides the movement guidance for the mobile unit based on the guidance information delivered from the server.

Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particles each containing an amorphous polyester resin and a wax, in which: the surface of each of the toner particles has a coating layer; and the coating layer contains one or more kinds of olefin-based copolymers each having a specific ester moiety.

Abstract: A communication system is provided which includes: a portable terminal; a mobility management device that manages mobility of the portable terminal; a first gateway that connects the portable terminal to a first network; and a second gateway that connects the portable terminal to a second network. Based on a result of determining whether to connect the portable terminal to the first network via the first gateway or connect the portable terminal to the second network via the second gateway, the mobility management device switches between causing the portable terminal to use first contract information for connection to the first network via the first gateway and causing the portable terminal to use second contract information for connection to the second network via the second gateway.

Abstract: To make a notification to the driver so that the driver can distinguish or recognize the notification. A vehicle notification device (1a) inputs a first sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a predetermined frequency range, to a vibrator (4), calculates frequency characteristics of a vibration in the vehicle interior, detects a frequency range in which the signal level of vehicle-travel-time frequency characteristics is higher than the signal level of vehicle-stop-time frequency characteristics by a predetermined level amount or more, generates a second sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a range obtained by excluding the detected frequency range from the predetermined frequency range of the first sweep signal, and outputs the second sweep signal from the vibrator (4).

Abstract: Provided is a toner including a toner particle that contains a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a wax, and a coating layer containing a 1,2-polybutadiene resin at the surface of the toner base particle, wherein the coverage ratio of the toner base particle by the coating layer is at least 50%.

Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle, wherein the toner particle contains a polyester resin and a fatty acid metal salt, the toner contains a tetrahydrofuran-soluble component A with a molecular weight of at least 1,000 and not more than 5,000, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, in an amount of at least 25 mass % and not more than 80 mass %, and a mass ratio of the fatty acid metal salt to the tetrahydrofuran-soluble component A is at least 0.003 and not more than 0.060.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped matched-type electromagnetic wave absorber can obtain electromagnetic wave absorption performance with a relatively small thickness but has a problem that particularly a dimensional change in an electromagnetic wave absorption layer (resin composition layer) has a large influence on the electromagnetic wave absorption performance when being exposed to a high temperature. By laminating a resin composition layer in which a filler with an aspect ratio of 5 or more and a filler with an aspect ratio of less than 5 are dispersed and fixed with an electromagnetic wave reflection layer in a cured product of a resin composition containing an acrylic polymerizable resin and a polymerization initiator, it is possible to provide a matched-type electromagnetic wave absorber having high heat resistant dimensional stability and high electromagnetic wave absorption performance.

Abstract: Provided is a toner containing: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an inorganic particle, wherein the inorganic particle contains a silicon oxide particle with a number-average particle diameter (D1) from 50 nm to 300 nm and a strontium titanate particle with a number-average particle diameter (D1) from 10 nm to 60 nm, the content of the silicon oxide particle is from 0.5 to 15.0 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the toner particle, the content of the strontium titanate particle is from 0.02 to 5.00 times the content of the silicon oxide particle, and in dielectric constant measurement at 25° C. and 1 MHz, the dielectric constant of the silicon oxide particle is from 1.0 pF/m to 20.0 pF/m, and the dielectric constant of the strontium titanate is from 25.0 pF/m to 100.0 pF/m.

Abstract: To make a notification to the driver so that the driver can distinguish or recognize the notification. A vehicle notification device (1a) inputs a first sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a predetermined frequency range, to a vibrator (4), calculates frequency characteristics of a vibration in the vehicle interior, detects a frequency range in which the signal level of vehicle-travel-time frequency characteristics is higher than the signal level of vehicle-stop-time frequency characteristics by a predetermined level amount or more, generates a second sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a range obtained by excluding the detected frequency range from the predetermined frequency range of the first sweep signal, and outputs the second sweep signal from the vibrator (4).

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a wax, and inorganic fine particles, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin, and, in a cross section of the toner particle, when Sc represents an area taken up by the crystalline polyester resin and S1 represents an area taken up by the inorganic fine particles that are present in the crystalline polyester resin portion, Sc and S1 satisfy the relationship S1/Sc?0.2.

Abstract: A signal processing device comprises: a band detecting means for detecting a frequency band which satisfies a predetermined condition from an audio signal; a reference signal generating means for generating a reference signal in accordance with a detection band by the band detecting means; a reference signal correcting means for correcting the generated reference signal on the basis of a frequency characteristic thereof; a frequency band extending means for extending the corrected reference signal up to a frequency band higher than the detection band; an interpolation signal generating means for generating an interpolation signal by weighting each frequency component within the extended frequency band in accordance with a frequency characteristic of the audio signal; and a signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the generated interpolation signal with the audio signal.

Abstract: To allow the driver to identify a notification vibration even in a situation in which the notification vibration may be masked depending on the road conditions. A vehicle notification device (1) randomly extract one of a plurality of pieces of signal data by the number of vibrators (exciters EX1 to EX4), each of the pieces of signal data being different in a combination of an initial frequency and a target frequency and generates a plurality of sweep signals by changing the frequency from the initial frequency to the target frequency of the extracted piece of signal data in cycles. A plurality of notification vibrations whose frequencies change in different frequency ranges are outputted by outputting the generated sweep signals, individually from the vibrators (exciters EX1 to EX4).

Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant includes a compound represented by Formula (1) below, a crystal of the compound in the toner particle has a diffraction peak with a full width at half maximum of at least 0.400° and not more than 0.440° in a range of a diffraction angle 2? of at least 5.0° and not more than 6.0° in an X-ray diffraction spectrum using CuK? rays, in Formula (1), X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom or a methyl group.

Abstract: Provided is a magenta toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin, a wax and a colorant, wherein the colorant contains a specific amount of a compound (1), the colorant also contains one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a naphthol compound, a quinacridone compound and a lake compound thereof in addition to the compound (1), and the binder resin contains a specific amount of a polyester resin.

Abstract: An autonomous lawn mower, comprising a traveling frame provided with traveling wheels, a motor holding member for vertically moving while holding a cutter blade driving motor, a vertical driving member vertically moving the motor holding member, and one of a vertical driving motor or a manual driving mechanism, the vertical driving motor electrically driving the vertical driving member, the manual driving mechanism manually driving the vertical driving member, the frame including a support portion for supporting the vertical driving member, a motor mounting portion for mounting the vertical driving motor, and a manual driving mechanism mounting portion for mounting the manual driving mechanism, and, when the frame is viewed from above, the motor mounting portion and the manual driving mechanism mounting portion are positioned in different phases around the support portion.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin, wherein, in a cross-sectional observation of the toner by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the number-average diameter (D1) of major axis lengths of the crystalline polyester resin dispersed up to a depth of 0.30 ?m from a toner surface is 40 nm to 110 nm, and the number-average diameter (D1) of major axis lengths of the crystalline polyester resin dispersed deeper than 0.30 ?m from the toner surface is 1.25 to 4.00 times the number-average diameter (D1) of the major axis lengths of the crystalline polyester resin dispersed up to a depth of 0.30 ?m from the toner surface.

Abstract: A CNT production apparatus 1 provided by the present invention includes a cylindrical chamber 10 and a control valve 60 provided to a gas discharge pipe 50. The chamber 10 includes a reaction zone provided in a partial range of the chamber 10 in the direction of the cylinder axis, a deposition zone 22 which is provided downstream of the reaction zone 20, and a deposition state detector 40 that detects a physical property value indicating a deposition state of carbon nanotubes in the deposition zone 22. The apparatus is configured to close the control valve 60 and deposit carbon nanotubes in the deposition zone 22 when the physical property value detected by the deposition state detector 40 is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, and configured to open the control valve 60 and recover the carbon nanotubes deposited in the deposition zone 22 when the physical property value exceeds the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and a low molecular aromatic hydrocarbon, the binder resin contains a polyester resin, at least one kind of a unit derived from an aromatic monocarboxylic acid and a unit derived from an aromatic monoalcohol is contained, and the low molecular aromatic hydrocarbon has 1 or more and 4 or less benzene rings, and has a melting point of 60° C. or more and 120° C. or less.