Abstract: This seat belt device of a vehicle includes a webbing, a belt reel, a motor, a clutch, detection unit, brake control unit and motor control unit. The motor control unit includes a waiting current control unit configured to conduct a current that can maintain the clutch to be in the connection state in the motor when the brake control unit outputs the operation signal and variable current control unit configured to proceed from current control performed by the waiting current control unit when a change in the movement state of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit during the current control performed by the waiting current control unit and adjusts the amount of conduction in the motor based on the movement state of the vehicle that is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A blood oxygen saturation measuring apparatus includes: a light emitter adapted to emit, to living tissue of a subject, at least two light beams which have different wavelengths from each other; a light receiver adapted to receive the light beams which are transmitted through or reflected from the living tissue, the light receiver which converts the received light beams to electric signals corresponding to receiving intensities of the light beams, respectively; an extractor which extracts frequency components corresponding to changes of the receiving intensities according to a variation of a blood volume of a vein in the living tissue due to respiration of the subject, from the electric signals, respectively; an attenuation ratio calculator which calculates a first attenuation ratio based on amplitudes of the extracted frequency components; and an oxygen saturation calculator which calculates a first blood oxygen saturation in the vein based on the first attenuation ratio.

Abstract: A pendular motion determination unit of a motion stabilizer for a tractor includes a parameter computation unit configured to compute a determination parameter PA indicative of a quantity of change in an actual yaw rate Y, a threshold value setting unit configured to compute a threshold value PAth for the determination parameter PA, and a determination unit configured to determine that a pendular motion caused by swaying motion of a trailer is imparted, if the determination parameter PA is greater than the threshold value PAth. At least one of PAth and PA is changed based upon a correlation of a value related to a lateral acceleration based yaw rate Yg with a value related to the standard yaw rate Ys and a correlation of a value related to the actual yaw rate Y with a value related to the standard yaw rate Ys.

Abstract: In a pendular motion determination unit of a motion stabilizer for a tractor, a parameter computation unit computes a determination parameter PA indicative of a quantity of change in an actual yaw rate Y, a threshold value setting unit computes a threshold value PAth for the parameter PA, and a determination unit determines that a pendular motion caused by swaying motion of a trailer is imparted, if the parameter PA is greater than the threshold value PAth. Based upon at least one of a value related to the actual yaw rate Y and a value related to the standard yaw rate Ys, an evaluation value computation unit computes a steering-back maneuver evaluation value TS (indicative of a possibility of making periodical steering-back maneuvers), based upon which at least one of the threshold value PAth and the parameter PA is changed.

Abstract: For obtaining a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet having high strength and high ductility and excellent phosphatability, a chemical composition of a material steel sheet for forming the hot dip galvannealed steel sheet comprises 0.4 to 2.0 mass % of Si and 1.0 to 3.5 mass % of Mn, and an average Mn concentration for a region from the uppermost surface to 0.01 ?m depth in the coating layer is defined as 0.14% or more.

Abstract: An image sensing device comprises a pixel array, and a peripheral circuit, a column selecting circuit, and a readout, wherein each pixel includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion, a transfer PMOS transistor to the floating diffusion, an amplifier PMOS transistor, and a reset PMOS transistor, the amplifier PMOS transistor has a gate which is formed by an n-type conductive pattern, and is isolated by a first element isolation region and an n-type impurity region which covers at least a lower portion of the first element isolation region, and each PMOS transistor included in the column selecting circuit has a gate which is formed by a p-type conductive pattern and is isolated by a second element isolation region, and an n-type impurity concentration in a region adjacent to a lower portion of the second element isolation region is lower than that in the n-type impurity region.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes forming a wave length conversion portion on a light-emitting element. The light emitting device includes a light-emitting element which emits light of a predetermined wavelength and a wavelength conversion portion which includes a fluorescent substance which is excited by the light emitted from the light-emitting element so as to emit fluorescence of a wavelength different from the predetermined wavelength, which wavelength conversion portion is formed by including the fluorescent substance, a layered silicate mineral, and an organometallic compound.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device including a light-emitting element which emits light with a predetermined wavelength and a wavelength conversion portion including a fluorescent substance which is excited by the light emitted from the light-emitting element to emit fluorescence with a wavelength different from the predetermined wavelength, includes the followings. First, spraying so as to apply a liquid mixture containing a layered silicate mineral and a translucent ceramic precursor on the light-emitting element from a nozzle is performed while the nozzle is moved relative to the light-emitting element. Subsequently, forming of the wavelength conversion portion by heating the sprayed and applied liquid mixture is performed.

Abstract: Provided is an optical pickup device capable of ensuring the compatibility among three types of optical discs, i.e., BDs, DVDs, and CDs, with a common objective lens and, in addition, capable of ensuring a sufficient working distance for CDs, and also provided are an optical information recording and reproducing device and an objective lens suitable for the optical information recording and reproducing device. On the objective lens, there is arranged a first optical path difference providing structure formed such that: the direction of step differences of a basic structure wherein the diffraction order of a blue-violet laser light flux become an odd order faces toward the opposite direction of the optical axis; the direction of step differences of a basic structure wherein the diffraction order of the blue-violet laser light flux become an even order faces toward the optical axis; and both the basic structures are overlapped together.

Abstract: A pain sensory nerve stimulation apparatus includes: a stimulation electrode which is adapted to be attached to a living body, at least one of an exogenous algesic substance and pyrogen which is to be interposed between the living body and the stimulation electrode; and a stimulation power supplier which is configured to supply electric power to the stimulation electrode.

Abstract: An autonomic nerve activity measuring apparatus includes: a pulse wave acquiring unit, configured to acquire at least two pulse wave signals from a living body; an electric stimulation unit, configured to apply electric stimulation to the living body; a comparison unit, configured to compare the pulse wave signals acquired by the pulse wave acquiring unit; and an analysis unit, configured to analyze comparison result provided by the comparison unit.

Abstract: A valve body and a float body are coupled so that the valve body is allowed to move in a direction along a central axis of movement of the float body, and the seated valve body is unseated when the float body descends. On a central axis side of the movement of the float body, a pair of guide members is provided, and when the valve body tilts, the valve body and the float body contact each other on a lower side of a tilt of the valve body and the float body ascends, so that the guide members correct the tilt. Also, when the float body ascends, the float body and the valve body do not contact each other in a rest of a portion.

Abstract: A valve body and a float body are combined by respectively coupling two or more coupling parts provided on one of the valve body and the float body to coupled parts provided on the other of the valve body and the flat body in a state allowing upward and downward movements of the valve body. During descent of the float body, one coupling part of the two or more coupling parts is caught on the coupled parts ahead of the other coupling parts whereby the valve body is tilted, and the other coupling parts restrict the tilting of the valve body.

Abstract: The shape measurement apparatus calculates a characteristic amount for a plurality of points of interest on a surface of a measurement target object, based on an image obtained by image capturing with a camera, calculates an orientation of a normal line based on a value of the characteristic amount by referencing data stored in advance in a storage device, and restores the three-dimensional shape of the surface of the measurement target object based on a result of the calculation. The storage device stores a plurality of data sets generated respectively for a plurality of reference positions arranged in a field of view of the camera, and the data set to be referenced is switched depending on a position of a point of interest.

Abstract: A turning control device for a vehicle includes: a first braking force control amount calculation unit that determines a first braking force control amount on the basis of detection signals of a steering amount detection unit and a detection unit, a second braking force control amount calculation unit that calculates a yaw rate deviation between a standard yaw rate and an actual yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detection unit and determines a second braking force control amount so as to cancel out the yaw rate deviation, and a braking control unit that controls the braking force on the basis of a total braking force control amount acquired by either adding or multiplying the first braking force control amount and the second braking force control amount.

Abstract: This seat belt device of a vehicle includes a webbing, a belt reel, a motor, a clutch, detection unit, brake control unit and motor control unit. The motor control unit includes a waiting current control unit configured to conduct a current that can maintain the clutch to be in the connection state in the motor when the brake control unit outputs the operation signal and variable current control unit configured to proceed from current control performed by the waiting current control unit when a change in the movement state of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit during the current control performed by the waiting current control unit and adjusts the amount of conduction in the motor based on the movement state of the vehicle that is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A turning control device for a vehicle which generates a yaw moment in the body of a vehicle includes: a steering wheel turning amount detection device which detects a steering wheel turning amount of the vehicle; a vehicle speed detection device which detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle; a feedforward control amount calculation unit which calculates a feedforward control amount based on at least the steering wheel turning amount; a braking force control amount calculation unit which determines a braking force control amount based on the feedforward control amount; a braking control device which controls the braking force based on the braking force control amount; and a steering direction determination device which determines whether a steering direction is an incremental steering direction or a returning-steering direction. The feedforward control amount calculation unit includes a feedforward control amount correction unit which corrects the feedforward control amount.

Abstract: A shape measuring apparatus that measures a three-dimensional shape of a measuring target has a lighting device that irradiates the measuring target placed on a stage with light, an imaging device that takes an image of the measuring target, a shape calculating device that calculates orientations of normals at a plurality of points on a surface of the measuring target from an image, the image being obtained by performing imaging with the imaging device while the lighting device irradiates the measuring target with the light, the shape calculating device calculating the three-dimensional shape of the surface of the measuring target from the calculation result of the orientations of the normals, a ranging device that measures a distance from a predetermined reference position with respect to at least one point on the surface of the measuring target, and a determination device that determines a spatial position of the three-dimensional shape of the surface of the measuring target, the three-dimensional shape bei

Abstract: A turning control device for a vehicle includes: a first standard yaw rate calculation unit that calculates a first standard yaw rate on the basis of detection signals of the lateral acceleration detection unit and the vehicle speed detection unit, a correction unit that corrects the first standard yaw rate, in an increasing direction on the basis of detection signals of a steering amount detection unit and the vehicle speed detection unit, and calculates a second standard yaw rate, a braking force control amount calculation unit that calculates a yaw rate deviation that is a deviation between the second standard yaw rate and an actual yaw rate, which is detected by the yaw rate detection unit, and determines a braking force control amount so as to cancel out the yaw rate deviation, and a braking control unit that controls the braking force on the basis of the braking force control amount determined by the braking force control amount calculation unit.

Abstract: A vehicle turning control device of the present invention includes: a correcting section that decides a correction amount for correcting a first standard yaw rate in a direction of increase, and calculates a second standard yaw rate from the first standard yaw rate in accordance with this correction amount; a braking force control amount operating section that calculates a yaw rate deviation between the second standard yaw rate and the actual detected yaw rate, and decides a braking force control amount in a direction which cancels out the yaw rate deviation; and a braking control device that controls the braking force based on the braking force control amount. The correcting section is provided with a plurality of correction regulating sections that, when they determine that a vehicle is in a predetermined running state, decrease the correction amount.