Abstract: A conversion method executed by a computer, the conversion method includes acquiring skeleton information in which each of a plurality of joints included in a human body and coordinates for the plurality of joints is set, and reference posture information in which each of a plurality of joints included in a human body and reference coordinates for the plurality of joints is set, specifying a second joint that corresponds to a first joint set in the reference posture information from the plurality of joints set in the skeleton information, calculating a relative rotation angle from reference coordinates of the first joint to coordinates of the second joint, and converting the skeleton information into hierarchical structure data by setting the relative rotation angle to the hierarchical structure data.

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: This charged particle beam device (10) comprises a focused ion beam irradiation optical system (14), an electron beam irradiation optics (15), a needle (18), a needle drive mechanism (19), a display device (21), and a computer (22). The computer (22) stores coordinate data for the needle drive mechanism (19) when the tip of the needle (18) matches a prescribed position in an image obtained by irradiating the needle (18) with a focused ion beam or an electron beam. The computer (22) controls the needle drive mechanism (19) and the focused ion beam irradiation optics (14) such that when the total amount of change in the coordinate data in a suitable period is at least a prescribed threshold, a process is executed for removing, by means of irradiation with the focused ion beam, at least a portion of a deposition film attached to the tip of the needle (18).

Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery having excellent adhesion between an electrode mixture layer and an electronic insulating layer provided thereon is provided. The lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode mixture layer provided on the positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode electronic insulating layer provided on the positive electrode mixture layer; and a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode mixture layer provided on the negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode including a negative electrode electronic insulating layer provided on the negative electrode mixture layer. The height of recesses and projections at the interface between the positive electrode mixture layer and the positive electrode electronic insulating layer is 2 ?m or more.

Abstract: An image presentation device (1) according to the present invention includes: an image capturing unit (11) configured to capture images of a plurality of users; an image processing unit (12) configured to process the captured images with an effect; and an image combining unit (14) configured to alternately switch between the captured images of the plurality of users and the processed images and to display them on a display device (4).

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery is provided that can ensure adequate insulation even in a situation in which tab wires extending from negative electrode current collectors are gathered in order for the function as a battery to be performed, and a clearance between the tab wires and a positive electrode current collector is short due to bend of the tab wires. The all-solid-state battery includes an electrode body including a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode layer, and a negative electrode current collector that are stacked in this order. The battery further includes a first insulating material at an end of the positive electrode layer, and a second insulating material at a portion that is between the negative electrode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer and faces an end of the solid electrolyte layer and an end of the first insulating material.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a transfer sheet which can impart a sufficient function to an adherend. The method for manufacturing a transfer sheet includes performing the following steps (1) and (2) in order: (1) applying a coating liquid for forming a transfer layer onto a release substrate 1 to form a transfer layer comprising at least one functional layer; and (2) laminating a release substrate 2 onto the transfer layer to obtain a transfer sheet A comprising the release substrate 1, the transfer layer and the release substrate 2 in the presented order and having a peel strength 2 between the release substrate 2 and the transfer layer larger than a peel strength 1 between the release substrate 1 and the transfer layer.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a flat chassis composed of an upper plate, a lower plate, and a side plate having four peripheral sides; a substrate provided in the chassis; a receptacle connector which is attached to the substrate and has a plug insertion opening directed to a side of the chassis; a cover fitting cutout formed in the side plate of the chassis so as to extend from a point, where the plug insertion opening is exposed, to the lower plate; and a cover assembly attached to the substrate. The cover assembly includes: a block detachably fixed to the substrate, and a cover which is journaled to the block and rotates to close the cover fitting cutout in a closed state and expose the plug insertion opening in an open state.

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: 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: 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.