Abstract: A delivery assistance device includes a controller and a second database that records position information about a rest area. The controller creates, as a delivery route, a route that satisfies both delivering goods to delivery destinations and allowing a delivery vehicle to go to the rest area at each predetermined time interval or at a predetermined rest time based on position information of the delivery destinations and the position information of the rest area.

Abstract: A delivery vehicle management system includes a database configured to manage delivery point information including information about a position of a delivery point of a package for each delivery vehicle and a controller. The controller executes acquiring a boarding position where a ride seeker desires to ride and a destination, calculating an estimated transport time for each delivery vehicle that is an estimated value of a time the delivery vehicle takes to travel from the boarding position to the destination, and assigning the ride seeker one of the delivery vehicles that differs from the delivery vehicle having the longest estimated transport time.

Abstract: A method for managing a delivery box located at a predetermined receiving station is provided. The delivery box includes storage sections and locks. The storage sections are each configured to store a package. The locks are each configured to lock and unlock a corresponding one of the storage sections. The method for managing the delivery box includes determining, with a control device, whether a replacement execution condition is satisfied. The replacement execution condition is satisfied when the number of storage sections that store packages in the delivery box located at the receiving station is less than or equal to a predetermined number. When the replacement execution condition is satisfied, the method further includes sending, with the control device, to a terminal of an operator an instruction to replace the delivery box located at the receiving station with a new delivery box.

Abstract: A delivery assistance device includes a first database in which daily schedules of customers are registered, and a second database in which a delivery schedule of parcels in a delivery vehicle is registered. A controller of the delivery assistance device sets a delivery location and a delivery date and time based on daily schedules of customers and a delivery schedule of parcels in a delivery vehicle. The controller proposes the delivery location and the delivery date and time to the corresponding customer.

Abstract: A delivery assistance device includes controller that creates a parcel delivery route of a delivery vehicle loaded with multiple parcels. The controller obtains position information of the multiple parcels in the delivery vehicle. The controller creates the delivery route based on the position information of the multiple parcels such that a parcel at a position where the parcel is easily unloaded from the delivery vehicle can be delivered to a delivery destination earlier than a parcel at a position where the parcel is not easily unloaded from the delivery vehicle.

Abstract: The processing circuit of the delivery management system sets the delivery area based on the current position of the delivery vehicle. The processing circuit notifies the delivery destination located in the delivery area that the package is to be delivered. The processing circuit permits the delivery vehicle to deliver the package to the delivery destination to which the response to the notification of the delivery of the package is received, and does not permit the delivery vehicle to deliver the package to the delivery destination to which the response to the notification has not been received.

Abstract: A delivery assistance method is for assisting a delivery person in delivering luggage addressed to a customer who receives a luggage delivery service to a luggage locker installed at a location designated by the customer. The delivery assistance method includes: acquiring, with a control device, location candidates selected by the customer as a candidate for a pickup location of the luggage; acquiring, with the control device, locker information including availability of the luggage locker installed at each of the location candidates; selecting, with the control device, a location candidate at which the luggage locker is available from the location candidates as a delivery destination of the luggage based on the locker information; and notifying, with a communication device, the customer of the delivery destination, which is selected with the control device.

Abstract: The delivery support device is a device that notifies a customer of a magnitude of an environmental load caused by delivery of a package using a shipping vehicle. The control device of the delivery support device performs, when the redelivery of the package is required, calculation of the magnitude of the environmental load associated with the redelivery and notification of the magnitude of the environmental load associated with the redelivery to the customer who needs the redelivery . . .

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification catalyst that can prevent a decrease in the exhaust gas purification performance by phosphorus poisoning, and the present invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst (1A), including a substrate (10) and first and second catalyst layers (20, 30) each provided on the substrate (10), wherein the second catalyst layer (30) is provided on an upside or upstream of the first catalyst layer (20), wherein the first catalyst layer (20) contains at least one selected from Pd and Pt, wherein the second catalyst layer (30) contains Rh, Al, and barium sulfate, wherein a mole ratio of a content of Al in the second catalyst layer (30) to a total content of all metal elements in the second catalyst layer (30) is 0.55 or more and 0.85 or less, and wherein a mole ratio of a content of Rh in the second catalyst layer (30) to a content of Ba in the second catalyst layer (30) is 0.0040 or more and 0.040 or less.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal panel includes: a light-transmitting first substrate; a light-transmitting second substrate disposed facing the first substrate with a liquid crystal interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a conductive layer provided on the first substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal and comprising wiring lines or electrodes; an insulating layer stacked on the conductive layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; a first electrode layer stacked on the insulating layer on a side facing the liquid crystal; a second electrode layer provided on the second substrate on a side facing the liquid crystal; and a switch capable of opening and closing a coupling path between the first electrode layer and a reset potential. A sheet resistance of the first electrode layer is higher than a sheet resistance of the conductive layer and a sheet resistance of the second electrode layer.

Abstract: Surgical equipment includes a pipe section to be inserted into an organism, a handle section extending in a direction nonparallel to a longitudinal direction of the pipe section, a transitioning section that couples a rear end portion of the pipe section and a front end portion of the handle section, and a treatment instrument disposed at a front end portion of the pipe section. The surgical equipment includes a manipulator section disposed in the handle section and manipulated when causing the treatment instrument to operate and a transmission member that connects the treatment instrument and the manipulator section and transmits a motion of the manipulator section to the treatment instrument. The transmission member includes a wire. The transitioning section has a hollow pipe shape through which the wire can be inserted. Only the wire is inserted through the transitioning section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a polarization conversion element includes a first substrate including a first plane electrode and a first control electrode, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first control electrode comprises a first strip electrode, a second strip electrode, a third strip electrode, and a first common electrode. The first strip electrode and the first common electrode are orthogonal to each other, respective extension directions of the first to third strip electrodes are different from each other, and an angle formed by the first strip electrode and the third strip electrode is greater than an angle formed by the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a polarization conversion element includes a first wiring and a second wiring, a planar electrode, a control electrode including first strip electrodes, and a first alignment film, a second substrate including a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer. An alignment treatment direction of the first alignment film and an alignment treatment direction of the second alignment film are parallel to each other and cross an extension direction of the first strip electrodes. The control electrode overlaps the planar electrode in plan view. An applied voltage of the first wiring is configured to be higher than an applied voltage of the second wiring. The planar electrode is configured to have a voltage gradient.

Abstract: A sound source device for an electronic musical instrument includes processing electronics to provide at least one virtual input port, assign a different respective tone or other effect to each virtual input port, associate each respective first playing operation device of a musical instrument system with a respective virtual input port, and receive first playing information from at least one of the first playing operation devices. A musical sound generating unit generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the first playing information received and the tone or other effect assigned to the respective virtual input port associated with the first playing operation device.

Abstract: This device for controlling feedback of an electronic percussion instrument includes an acquisition part that acquires a feedback signal of a musical sound of the electronic percussion instrument emitted through an amplifier and a speaker, and a processing circuit that performs uncorrelated processing on the feedback signal on the basis of information indicating a control amount, and outputs a signal after the uncorrelated processing to the amplifier.

Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument capable of simulating a rendition of an acoustic percussion instrument is provided. The electronic percussion instrument includes a housing, a percussion surface attached to the housing, a pressure sensor disposed on a central section of the percussion surface on a side of the back surface and configured to detect pressing against the central section, a head vibration sensor disposed on a peripheral section of the percussion surface on the side of the back surface and configured to detect vibrations of the peripheral section, and a rim vibration sensor disposed at a position overlapping the head vibration sensor when seen in a plan view of the percussion surface and configured to detect vibrations of the housing.

Abstract: This control device for an electronic percussion instrument inputs a musical sound signal corresponding to a hit on a struck surface to a first amplifier for amplifying a signal to be connected to a first speaker disposed on the back side of or around the struck surface, and inputs the musical sound signal to a second amplifier for amplifying a signal to be connected to a second speaker disposed on the back side of or around a first struck surface at a timing later than a timing at which the musical sound signal is inputted to the first amplifier.

Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument capable of simulating a rendition of an acoustic percussion instrument is provided. The electronic percussion instrument includes a housing, a percussion surface attached to the housing, a pressure sensor disposed on a central section of the percussion surface on a side of the back surface and configured to detect pressing against the central section, a head vibration sensor disposed on a peripheral section of the percussion surface on the side of the back surface and configured to detect vibrations of the peripheral section, and a rim vibration sensor disposed at a position overlapping the head vibration sensor when seen in a plan view of the percussion surface and configured to detect vibrations of the housing.

Abstract: An electronic percussion instrument capable of simulating a rendition of an acoustic percussion instrument is provided. The electronic percussion instrument includes a housing, a percussion surface attached to the housing, a pressure sensor disposed on a central section of the percussion surface on a side of the back surface and configured to detect pressing against the central section, a head vibration sensor disposed on a peripheral section of the percussion surface on the side of the back surface and configured to detect vibrations of the peripheral section, and a rim vibration sensor disposed at a position overlapping the head vibration sensor when seen in a plan view of the percussion surface and configured to detect vibrations of the housing.

Abstract: A musical sound generating apparatus capable of improving the sensitivity of pressing against a percussion surface is provided. The musical sound generating apparatus includes a percussion surface, a pressure sensor disposed on the percussion surface on a side of a back surface and configured to detect a pressure change, an elastic body compressed between the percussion surface and the pressure sensor, and a control device configured to output an instruction according to an output value of the pressure sensor, and the control device includes a pressing detection unit configured to detect pressing against the percussion surface on the basis of a difference between the output value of the pressure sensor and a reference value, and an updating unit configured to update the reference value at every updating time according to the output value of the pressure sensor.