Abstract: A sensor device includes an optical device having a field of view which enlarges as advancing toward one direction from a predetermined position, and a housing which comprises a transmission unit crossing the field of view and accommodates the optical device. The transmission unit includes a first side and a second side located on an opposite side to the first side. A width of the transmission unit on a side with the second side is narrower than a width of the transmission unit on a side with the first side. The second side of the transmission unit is located closer to the predetermined position in the one direction than the first side of the transmission unit. At least one of a front surface of the transmission unit and a rear surface of the transmission unit is curved.

Abstract: A vehicle body includes: a vehicle body floor having a battery housing portion; a pair of left and right side sills; a front cross member disposed in front of the battery housing portion; a rear cross member disposed behind the battery housing portion; and a battery cover that covers a battery from above. A widened portion of which a height in a vertical direction increases with respect to a center region of the front cross member in a vehicle width direction and of which a front-rear width expands to a vehicle rear side with respect to a front-rear width of the center region of the front cross member in the vehicle width direction is provided on an end portion of the front cross member on an outer side in the vehicle width direction. The battery cover is made of a metal and includes an outer connecting portion connected to the widened portion on an outer side in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: An optical device (100) has a field of view (F) which enlarges as advancing toward one direction from a predetermined position. A housing (200) includes a transmission unit (210). The transmission unit (210) crosses the field of view (F). The housing (200) accommodates the optical device (100). The transmission unit (210) includes a first side (212) and a second side (214). The second side (214) is located on an opposite side to the first side (212). A width of the transmission unit (210) on a side with the second side (214) is narrower than a width of the transmission unit (210) on a side with the first side (212). The second side (214) of the transmission unit (210) is located closer to the predetermined position in the one direction than the first side (212) of the transmission unit (210).

Abstract: A three-dimensional scanner includes a lens, imaging circuitry that obtains an image of an object located at a focal position of the lens, a lens driver that drives the lens to make reciprocating motion in a linear direction, obtaining circuitry that obtains geometrical data representing a surface geometry based on an image taken by the imaging circuitry, and lens controller circuitry that controls the lens driver to change an amplitude of reciprocating motion of the lens based on the geometrical data obtained by the obtaining circuitry.

Abstract: A three-dimensional scanner includes imaging circuitry configured to take an image of an object located at a focal position of a lens, a lens driver configured to drive the lens to make reciprocating motion in a linear direction, an angle detector configured to detect variation in angle of inclination of the lens with respect to a prescribed direction, and processing circuitry configured to control an operation of the lens in accordance with the variation in angle of inclination detected by the angle detector.

Abstract: A rear portion of a vehicle body includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel, a pair of left and right side sills, and a front cross plate. The rear floor panel has a higher upper surface height than the front floor panel. The front cross plate connects a rear portion of the front floor panel and a front wall of the rear floor panel, and an outer end portion in a vehicle width direction is coupled to the left and right side sills. The front wall of the rear floor panel has a plurality of bent corner portions having a side view shape bent in a substantially L shape. At least one of the bent corner portions constitutes a closed cross section extending along the vehicle width direction together with the front cross plate in a vertical height range of the left and right side sills.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first control unit that executes, when an abnormality of a driver of a vehicle is detected, stop control, a second control unit that executes, when the vehicle is determined to have a risk of collision, deceleration control, a determination unit that identifies an object around the vehicle as a target candidate of the collision and determines whether or not there is the risk of the collision with the identified target candidate, and a setting unit that sets, when the abnormality is detected, an operation mode of the deceleration control to a special mode from a normal mode, the normal mode provided for cases in which the abnormality is undetected. The determination unit expands a range for identifying the object around the vehicle as the target candidate of the collision in the special mode as compared with the range in the normal mode.

Abstract: A linear motor includes: a movable element including a permanent magnet; a stator including a coil positioned to face the permanent magnet; and a linear guide configured to guide the movable element to move linearly. A support portion provided on the linear guide and a holding portion provided on the movable element to correspond to the support portion are fitted and thereby the movable element is attached to the linear guide. The coil includes a yoke having a plate shape and a winding wire wound around the yoke. The winding wire is continuously wound around the yoke to include a first region where the winding wire is wound around the yoke in a first winding direction and a second region where the winding wire is wound around the yoke in a second winding direction opposite to the first winding direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear motor that undergoes no deterioration of the measurement accuracy or the driving accuracy depending on a driving situation, and a medical care apparatus including the linear motor. The linear motor of the present disclosure is a linear motor that moves linearly, the linear motor including: a movable element including a permanent magnet; a stator including a coil positioned to face the permanent magnet; and two parallel linear guides configured to guide the movable element to move linearly. Support portions provided on the linear guides, respectively, and holding portions provided on the movable element to correspond to the support portions are fitted with play and thereby the movable element is attached to the linear guides. A position where the permanent magnet is attached to the movable element is asymmetrical with respect to each of the holding portions.

Abstract: A touch input device includes: a first input area, a non-input area around the first input area, and an intermediate area between the first input area and the non-input area so as to surround the first input area, the first input area accepting an input operation, the non-input area accepting no input operation; and an input receiver that accepts at least an input to the first input area. The operation panel includes, three-dimensional elements on a surface the operation panel, the three-dimensional elements being are fine and raised or recessed, in each of the first input area, the non-input area, and the intermediate area. The three-dimensional elements in at least one of the intermediate area, the first input area, or the non-input area rein a shape different from a shape of the three-dimensional elements in other areas of the intermediate area, the first input area, and the non-input area.

Abstract: A block copolymer containing one or more segments containing an ionic group (hereinafter referred to as an “ionic segment(s)”) and one or more segments containing no ionic group (hereinafter referred to as a “nonionic segment(s)”), wherein at least one of the ionic segment or the nonionic segment contains: constituent units composed of an aromatic hydrocarbon polymer (hereinafter referred to as a “constituent unit”); and a first linker that links the constituent units with each other. A block copolymer and a polymer electrolyte material produced using the block copolymer are made feasible, in which the block copolymer can achieve high proton conductivity under low-humidity conditions, excellent mechanical strength and chemical stability, and enhanced in-process capability.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte article having high proton conductivity, mechanical strength, and chemical stability, wherein, for the average periodic distance in the phase-separated structure of the polymer electrolyte article observed by small-angle X-ray scattering, the average periodic distance in the atmosphere and the average periodic distance in water satisfy the following condition: (the average periodic distance in water)/(the average periodic distance in the atmosphere)?2.20.

Abstract: [Problem] Developed is a polymer electrolyte membrane having excellent proton conductivity even under low-humidity conditions, and having excellent mechanical strength and chemical stability. [Solution] A polymer electrolyte membrane containing a block copolymer having one or more ionic segments and one or more nonionic segments, wherein the ion exchange capacity (meq/g) of the block copolymer is more than 2.0 and less than 3.1, wherein the polymer electrolyte membrane has a co-continuous phase-separation structure, wherein the average period size (nm) of the co-continuous phase-separation structure is less than 110 nm as observed by transmission electron microscopy, and wherein the average period size (nm) of the co-continuous phase-separation structure and the ion exchange capacity (meq/g) satisfy the relation of: average period size (nm)/ion exchange capacity (meq/g)?21.

Abstract: A polymer electrolyte material composed of a block copolymer having a segment containing an ionic group (hereinafter referred to as an “ionic segment”) and a segment containing no ionic group (hereinafter referred to as a “nonionic segment”), wherein the polymer electrolyte material has a phase-separation structure, and satisfies at least one of the following condition 1 or condition 2: <Condition 1> the saturated crystallinity of the polymer electrolyte material is 5% or more and 30% or less, as measured by wide-angle X-ray diffraction; and <Condition 2> the ion exchange capacity (IEC) of the polymer electrolyte material is 1.8 meq/g or more and 3.0 meq/g or less, and the product of the IEC (meq/g) of the polymer electrolyte material and the heat of crystallization (J/g) of the polymer electrolyte material, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry analysis, is 35.0 or more and 47.0 or less.

Abstract: In response to confirmation request from an onboard terminal in a state where updated data after start of a temporary road change is available, a map update server distributes the updated data and instructs the onboard terminal to temporarily use the updated data. In response to the confirmation request in a state where the updated data after end of a temporary road change is available, the server instructs the onboard terminal to use the updated data from before the start of the temporary road change. In response to being instructed to temporarily use the updated data, the terminal uses the updated data that has been distributed. In response to being instructed to use the updated data from before the start of a temporary road change, the terminal temporarily uses the updated data by using map data from before the start of the temporary road change instead of the updated data.

Abstract: A temperature sensor including a sensor part and a biasing member that is capable of pressing the sensor part. Here, the biasing member includes a pressing part, a biasing part, and a part to be held. The part to be held includes a locking piece that is elastically deformable in an intersecting direction intersecting with the pressing direction, and hooks that are locked by the holding member in a state where movement of the hooks to the other side in the pressing direction is regulated. The biasing member includes a regulating part that regulates movement of the locking piece in the intersecting direction and prevents release of locking between the hooks and the holding member.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer; a light emission layer; a second semiconductor layer; and a groove part formed at least at the substrate and the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a ridge part for guiding laser light generated in the light emission layer. A width of the ridge part cyclically changes in accordance with a position in a waveguiding direction of the ridge part. An angle between a side face of the ridge part and the waveguiding direction is larger than a limit angle defined by an effective refractive index on each of an inner side of the ridge part and an outer side of the ridge part. The groove part is disposed on the outer side of the side face at least where the width of ridge part is small.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element includes: a substrate having a projection at an upper face thereof; a first semiconductor layer; a light emission layer; a second semiconductor layer; and a low refractive index part having a refractive index lower than that of the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a ridge part for guiding laser light generated in the light emission layer. An angle between a side face of the ridge part and the waveguiding direction is larger than a limit angle defined by an effective refractive index on each of an inner side of the ridge part and an outer side of the ridge part. The low refractive index part is disposed between an active layer of the light emission layer and the projection of the substrate, and on the outer side of the side face at least where the width of the ridge part is small.

Abstract: An input device is an input device provided for a table including a placement surface on which an object can be placed, and includes: a sensor that includes a touch sensor of a capacitive type for receiving a touch input on the placement surface; and a controller that determines, based on a detection result from the sensor, whether to enable or disable the touch input received by the touch sensor.

Abstract: An input device includes: a touch sensor that detects a position of a touch on an operation surface by an operation finger; a vibration element that vibrates the operation surface; and a controller that changes a magnitude of vibration of the operation surface by the vibration element according to acceleration in movement of the operation finger along the operation surface, the movement being performed while the operation finger is touching the operation surface.