Abstract: To improve a future prediction simulation technology in order to more accurately predict the future by enabling a mathematics expression and an operand numerical value to be appropriately corrected, a server executes, as a future prediction simulation apparatus, a future prediction simulation by using mathematics expression data and operand numerical data for specifying a mathematics expression and an operand numerical value, which are recorded in a server recorder and which are to be used in the future prediction simulation. The server includes an interpreting unit, a related information collecting unit, and a determining unit. The interpreting unit reads from the server recorder basis data, which is text data for specifying the basis used by the user to determine the mathematics expression and the operand numerical value, and generates interpretation data. The related information collecting unit collects related information related to the basis data by crawling the Internet using the interpretation data.

Abstract: A steering apparatus for use in steering a vehicle includes: a movable body to which an input device is attached, the movable body configured to move back and forth in an extend-retract direction between a first position closer to the front of the vehicle and a second position closer to the driver; an intermediate guide that guides the movable body in the extend-retract direction, and moves back and forth in the extend-retract direction; a base guide that is attached to the vehicle and guides the intermediate guide in the extend-retract direction; a first extend-retract mechanism including an extend-retract drive source that causes the intermediate guide to move back and forth relative to the base guide; and a second extend-retract mechanism that causes the movable body to move back and forth relative to the intermediate guide by using driving force of the extend-retract drive source.

Abstract: The probability of migration and the number of migrating persons with high accuracy and a small amount of calculation can be estimated even when migrations to areas other than adjacent areas are taken into consideration. A parameter estimation unit 120 estimates a first parameter indicating the likelihood of departure from the area to the other area and a second parameter indicating the likelihood of gathering of persons in the area for each of the plurality of areas, a third parameter indicating an influence on the probability of migration of a distance between the areas, and the number of migrating persons from the area to each of the other areas for each of the plurality of areas on the basis of the demographic information. A migration probability calculation unit 170 calculates the probability of migration from the area to each of the other areas for each of the plurality of areas on the basis of the first parameter, the second parameter, and the third parameter.

Abstract: An upper vehicle-body structure for a vehicle includes a roof rail serving as a side part of a roof of the vehicle having an internal space defined therein that extends in a generally vehicle front-rear direction, a first pillar extending downward from the roof rail, a second pillar extending downward from the roof rail at a rearward position relative to the first pillar, a roof reinforcement extending from the roof rail toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side at a rearward position relative to the first pillar, and a filler in the internal space. The filler is in contact with an inner surface of the roof rail defining the internal space and suppresses changes in shape of the roof rail. The filler is in a region extending forward and rearward relative to a front edge of a connection portion of the roof rail with the roof reinforcement.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a roller, a heat source, a calculator, a determination section, and a controller. The determination section determines to activate the heat source when an ink ejection amount calculated by the calculator is larger than a specific reference amount. When the determination section determines to activate the heat source, the controller activates the heat source. When temperature of the roller is equal to or higher than a specific temperature, the controller controls the image forming section to form the image on the sheet.

Abstract: A polythiol composition includes a polythiol compound (a) represented by the following formula (5) and a compound (b) wherein, in a high performance liquid chromatography measurement of the polythiol composition under defined conditions, the peak area of the compound (b) which appears at the retention time from 4.3 minutes to 5.6 minutes is equal to or less than 3.0, with respect to the peak area of 100 of the polythiol compound (a) which appears at the retention time from 12.0 minutes to 13.5 minutes. A process for producing a polythiol composition, a method of manufacturing a molded product, a molded product, an optical element and a lens are also provided.

Abstract: A polythiol composition includes a polythiol compound (a) that includes at least one kind selected from the compounds represented by the following formulae (6) to (8) as main component, and a compound (b) wherein, in a high performance liquid chromatography measurement of the polythiol composition under defined conditions, the peak area of the compound (b) which appears at the retention time from 6.5 minutes to 8.0 minutes is equal to or less than 3.0, with respect to the peak area of 100 of the polythiol compound (a) which appears at the retention time from 22.0 minutes to 28.0 minutes. A process for producing a polythiol composition, a method of manufacturing a molded product, a molded product, an optical element and a lens are also provided.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of taking and editing a content with satisfactory operability while holding a grip. The image pickup apparatus includes a display unit, a grip, an operation unit including a touch operation member extending in a slide direction for a slide operation that designates one of taken contents, a first instruction member to take, and a second instruction member to retake, and a controller that changes a display content on the display unit according to a slide operation to the touch operation member. The operation unit is provided between the grip and the display unit in a perpendicular direction to the slide direction. The first and second instruction members are provided between the touch operation member and the grip in the perpendicular direction. The first and second instruction members are respectively provided near one end and the other end of the touch operation member.

Abstract: A shape identification device includes an accommodation chamber for accommodating an object to be measured such that the same can be removed from and inserted into the accommodation chamber, a first imaging unit for imaging the object accommodated in the accommodation chamber, and an image processing unit for carrying out image processing on the basis of the image information imaged by the first imaging unit and recognizing the external shape of the object. The image processing unit includes a storage unit having, stored therein beforehand, a plurality of types of sample external shapes corresponding to objects to be measured and a shape recognition unit for comparison and discrimination of the external shape information from the first imaging unit and the external shape information stored in the storage unit and recognition of an external shape matching or approximating the external shape information from the first imaging unit.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle side body structure capable of securing vibration suppression performance while suppressing an increase in body weight by a connecting member that connects an outer reinforcement and an inner reinforcement. The present invention includes: a rear wheel house configured to include a wheel house outer and a wheel house inner; an outer reinforcement cooperating with the wheel house outer to define a first closed cross section that extends in a vertical direction and is provided along a part of a rear door opening edge; and an inner reinforcement cooperating with the wheel house inner to define a second closed cross section that extends in the vertical direction. A connecting member is provided to fix a striker to the outer reinforcement and connect a front flange of the outer reinforcement and each of a front wall and a front flange of the inner reinforcement.

Abstract: A vehicle side body structure can secure a vibration-damping property of a body regardless of design specification by including a rear wheel house including a wheel house outer and a wheel house inner; a side sill extending forward from a front end of the wheel house outer; and an outer reinforcement extending in a vertical direction along a door opening edge from an intermediate portion in a front-rear direction of the wheel house outer. The wheel house outer includes: an outer overhang overhanging outward; and an outer flange extending upward from an inner end of the outer overhang. A reinforcing member is provided to cooperate with the outer overhang and the outer flange so as to define a closed cross section in a substantially triangular shape. The reinforcing member couples a rear end of the side sill and a lower end of the outer reinforcement.

Abstract: A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.

Abstract: There are provided first and second loop-shaped structure sections which are provided to extend continuously along respective lower wall parts, respective right-and-left both side wall parts, and respective upper wall parts of a vehicle body so as to have a loop shape in a vehicle elevational view, respectively. The first and second loop-shaped structure sections are respectively positioned on an forward side and on a rearward side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of a damper support section. Each of these sections is formed by a closed-cross section portion where a closed-cross section is partitioned by plural members and/or a thick plate portion having a thicker plate thickness than a vehicle-body panel.

Abstract: A coaxial line is provided which includes: a first columnar conductor disposed inside a multilayer substrate such that one end thereof is coupled to a first stripline and that the other end thereof is coupled to a second stripline; and one or more second columnar conductors penetrating the multilayer substrate such that one end thereof is coupled to a ground layer and that the other end thereof is coupled to a ground layer, the first columnar conductor acting as an inner conductor, and the second columnar conductors acting as outer conductors. Each of the first and second striplines is coupled to an open stub acting as resonators and a matching conductor acting as capacitance matching elements.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode film includes the steps of laminating a metal layer and a black photoresist layer sequentially on a first main surface of a transparent base material, subjecting the black photoresist layer to patterning in a mesh shape by partially exposing the black photoresist layer and performing development, processing the metal layer into a metal mesh electrode by subjecting the metal layer to etching by using the black photoresist layer subjected to the patterning as an etching mask until the metal layer has a width smaller than a width of a thin wire line constituting a mesh of the black photoresist layer, and covering an upper surface and both side surfaces of a thin wire line constituting a mesh of the metal mesh electrode with the black photoresist layer by heating and softening the black photoresist layer to cause the black photoresist layer softened to flow.

Abstract: There is provided a polymerizable composition for an optical material including a polyether-modified compound having a polyether group represented by General Formula (4) below, and a polymerization reactive compound. (In General Formula (4), R25 represents a linear or branched alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R26 represents a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, or a linear or branched alkynyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, a plurality of present R25's may be the same or different, and k is an integer equal to or more than 1.

Abstract: A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.

Abstract: A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a roller, a heat source, a calculator, a determination section, and a controller. The determination section determines to activate the heat source when an ink ejection amount calculated by the calculator is larger than a specific reference amount. When the determination section determines to activate the heat source, the controller activates the heat source. When temperature of the roller is equal to or higher than a specific temperature, the controller controls the image forming section to form the image on the sheet.

Abstract: One object is to increase the amount of abrasion powder accumulated in a sensing region to improve the sensitivity in sensing the abrasion powder. Provided is a sensor for sensing reduction of electric resistance between electrodes, a magnetic field being applied between the electrodes to accumulate magnetic powder floating in a lubricant between the electrodes, wherein at least one sensing region in which the magnetic powder is to be accumulated is provided in at least a part of a region between the electrodes, and the magnetic powder is inhibited from being accumulated in a non-sensing region constituted by a space around the electrodes other than the at least one sensing region.