Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first detector detecting an operation sound based on a sound wave received by a receiver; a second detector detecting basis weight of recording material based on an ultrasonic wave transmitted from a transmitter and received by the receiver; a switching unit that switches destination of a reception signal from the receiver between a first path to the first detector and a second path to the second detector; and a controller that controls the switching unit such that the reception signal is output to the first path at a first timing and to the second path at a second timing. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the controller controls the switching unit such that the reception signal is output to the second path at the first timing or to the first path at the second timing.

Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a first display unit disposed in front of and above a driver's seat and including a display screen configured to be deployed from an interior member into the vehicle cabin and be withdrawn from the vehicle cabin into an inside of the interior member, a drive unit configured to drive the display screen, and a control unit configured to control the first display unit and the drive unit. The control unit includes a driving status acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving status of a vehicle, a drive control unit configured to change a deployment amount of the display screen based on the acquired driving status, and a display control unit configured to cause the display screen to display a rear seat image captured by an in-vehicle camera for a rear seat to fit with the deployment amount of the display screen.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector and a manufacturing method or a connector. The connector includes: a terminal fitting; and a housing holding the terminal fitting. The housing includes a first resin molded body in which at least a part of the terminal fitting is embedded, the first resin molded body being made of a first material, and a second resin molded body in which at least a part of the first resin molded body is embedded, the second resin molded body being made of a second material. The first material has a linear thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the second material.

Abstract: To provide an antireflection member which not only has a low reflectance, but also is enhanced in scratch resistance, and an image display device comprising the antireflection member. An antireflection member 100 comprising a low refractive index layer 130 on a transparent substrate 110, in which the low refractive index layer 130 includes a binder resin and silica particles 132 and 134, a ratio of Si element attributed to the silica particles, obtained by analysis of a surface region of the low refractive index layer 130 by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 10.0 atomic percent or more and 18.0 atomic percent or less and a ratio of C element under the assumption that the ratio of Si element is defined to be 100 atomic percent is 180 atomic percent or more and 500 atomic percent or less.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes forming a metal oxide resist film on a substrate including an underlayer; forming a pattern in the metal oxide resist film; modifying the metal oxide resist film in which the pattern has been formed; and etching the underlayer by using the modified metal oxide resist film as a mask.

Abstract: A cleaning method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: supplying a halogen-containing gas that does not contain fluorine to an interior of a processing container that is capable of being exhausted via an exhaust pipe to perform a cleaning; and supplying a fluorine-containing gas to at least one of the interior of the processing container and an interior of the exhaust pipe to perform the cleaning after the supplying the halogen-containing gas to perform the cleaning.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a brazing sheet includes layering at least a core-material slab composed of an aluminum material and a filler-material slab composed of an Al—Si series alloy to prepare a clad slab. At least one aluminum slab in the clad slab, which is disposed in a range from the core-material slab to the filler-material slab inclusive, contains a metal element that oxidizes more readily than Al. The clad slab is hot rolled to prepare a clad sheet that includes a core material composed of the core-material slab and a filler material composed of the filler-material slab. Then, one or more passes of cold rolling is performed on the clad sheet. Between passes of cold rolling or after completion of the cold rolling, at least one surface of the clad sheet is etched using an alkaline etching solution having a sodium hydroxide concentration of 0.05-1.0 mass %.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes an inner housing and an outer housing. An inner circumferential surface of the outer housing includes a first cylindrical surface contacting first sealing member, a second cylindrical surface contacting a second sealing member, and a third cylindrical surface in which an end part of the inner housing is press-fitted into. The second cylindrical surface has a smaller diameter than the first cylindrical surface and the third cylindrical surface has a smaller diameter than the second cylindrical surface and is provided closer to the bottom than the second cylindrical surface. The first sealing member contacts the first cylindrical surface and the second sealing member contacts the second cylindrical surface to form a gap in an axial direction between the end part of the inner housing and the third cylindrical surface where the inner housing has been inserted into the outer housing.

Abstract: An endoscopic treatment instrument can include a coil sheath, a wire, a wire connection portion, and an end effector. The wire is provided in the coil sheath and configured to move in a longitudinal direction of the coil sheath relative to the coil sheath. The wire connection portion is connected to a distal end side of the wire. The end effector is configured to switch between an open state and closed state in response to movement of the wire, when the end effector is in the closed state, a proximal end of the wire connection portion is located proximally relative to a distal end of the coil sheath.

Abstract: This floating-type disc brake device (1) is configured to comprise an inner pad (4), an outer pad (5), a support (2), and a caliper body (3). An overhanging part (32) is provided to substantially the entirety of a portion that is of an outer body part (21) constituting the caliper body (3) and that faces a substrate part (49b) of the outer pad (5) in the axial direction. An axially inner surface of the overhanging part (32) has formed thereon a projecting abutment part (33) where the area of a portion that faces a radially inner half of the substrate part (49b) in the axial direction is greater than the area of a portion that faces a radially outer half of the substrate part (49b) in the axial direction. At the time of braking, only the leading end surface of the projecting abutment part (33) is brought into contact with an axially outer surface of the substrate part (49b).

Abstract: A substrate-processing method includes: preparing a substrate including an undoped silicon film and a phosphorus-doped silicon film, at least the phosphorus-doped silicon film being exposed on a surface of the substrate; and supplying a halogen gas to the substrate, and, from among the undoped silicon film the phosphorus-doped silicon film, etching and removing the phosphorus-doped silicon film selectively.

Abstract: A seat-mounted airbag device is provided with an airbag including front-and-rear chambers and an airbag main body. At a time of collision of a vehicle, gas jetted out from an inflator is supplied to the front-and-rear chambers, which inflate and expand to a front side along left and right sides of the head of a vehicle occupant. In association with the inflation and expansion of the front-and-rear chambers, the airbag main body moves to the front side, passing between the head of the vehicle occupant and a vehicle cabin ceiling. The gas is supplied from the front-and-rear chambers to the airbag main body, which inflates and expands and is disposed at the front side of the vehicle occupant.

Abstract: An airbag device includes: an inflator generating gas at a time of a collision of a vehicle; and an airbag to which the gas is supplied, and that inflates and expands from a seat rear side of an upper portion of a vehicle seat toward a seat front side, and slips-through between a ceiling of a vehicle cabin and a head of a passenger seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag has at least one gas supply path that is provided so as to be directed toward the seat front side and whose angle of incidence with respect to the ceiling in a side view seen from a seat transverse direction is set to be an acute angle.

Abstract: A left-right pair of rear tethers is configured such that one-end portions thereof are anchored to a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions, other-end portions thereof are anchored to a seatback or to the vehicle body, and during passenger restraint each of a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions is pulled relatively in a seat diagonally rearward and downward direction such that a coupling portion approaches a femur area of a passenger.

Abstract: A seat-mounted airbag device including an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that ejects gas during a vehicle collision; and an airbag including an airbag body that, by being supplied with gas ejected from the inflator, moves toward a seat front side through between a head of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat and a ceiling of a vehicle cabin, and is expanded and deployed, so as to be disposed at the seat front side of the passenger, wherein the airbag is housed in the headrest with both seat width direction end portions fold-bent toward a seat downward side, so as to follow an external profile of a headrest of the vehicle seat in face-on view seen from the seat front side.

Abstract: An airbag device includes an inflator that is installed in an upper part of a vehicle seat, and that generates gas in an event of a vehicle collision, an airbag to which the gas from the inflator is supplied, and is inflated and deployed from the upper part of the vehicle seat toward a front side of the vehicle seat, and a diffuser that distributes the gas to the airbag. The diffuser includes a connecting portion that is connected to the inflator, and a plurality of branching portions that each branch from the connecting portion and connect to the airbag. The diffuser includes a silencing portion in at least the branching portions. The silencing portion reduces sound pressure of the gas.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transducer. The transducer includes: a support substrate, having a first cavity; an oscillating device; and a lid, having a second cavity and bonded to the oscillating device by an adhesive. The oscillating device includes a first frame and an oscillating unit. A portion of the oscillating unit is connected to the first frame. When viewed from a connection direction of the oscillating device and the lid, the portion of the oscillating unit other than a connecting portion between the oscillating unit and the first frame is separated from the first frame by a slit penetrating the oscillating device along the connection direction. The lid has a second frame surrounding the second cavity and including a second bonding surface bonded to the first bonding surface by the adhesive. The first cavity and the second cavity are connected by the slit.

Abstract: A piezoelectric film device 90 includes a substrate 80 having a lower surface 81 and an upper surface 82 facing opposite directions, a support portion 41 supporting the lower surface 81 and fixed to an installation surface, and a piezoelectric film 12 provided on the upper surface 82 and displaced in a vertical direction together with the substrate 80 in response to application of a bias voltage and a drive voltage, in which the substrate 80 has a first region 81x supported by the support portion 41 and a second region 81y not supported by the support portion 41 as regions of the lower surface 81, and in a state where the bias voltage and the drive voltage are not applied, the substrate 80 is formed to be warped such that the second region 81y is located closer to the installation surface than the first region 81x.

Abstract: There is provided a light diffusion film in which a decrease in the half-value angle can be suppressed even after processing with a high elongation rate. A light diffusion film including a base material film and a light diffusing layer, the light diffusing layer containing light diffusing particles and a resin binder, wherein a ratio (T/t) of an average film thickness T of the light diffusing layer, to an average particle diameter t of the light diffusing particles, is 3.0 or more.