Abstract: A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.

Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions, a carcass, and an inner liner layer. The carcass includes a plurality of carcass cords and a topping rubber layer. The inner liner layer includes a butyl rubber layer and an adhesive rubber layer. An electronic module is disposed between the carcass and the adhesive rubber layer. The electronic module includes an electronic component and a cover rubber. The cover rubber includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The electronic component is covered between the inner layer and the outer layer of the cover rubber.

Abstract: A double-action friction stir joining system, which includes a double-action friction stir joining device, a cleaning mechanism having a dressing member, a robot, and a control device. The double-action friction stir joining device includes a first rotary driver configured to rotate a pin member and a shoulder member, and a tool driver configured to reciprocate the pin member and the shoulder member. The control device is adapted to (A) operate the tool driver so that the pin member is thrusted into the shoulder member, (B) operate the first rotary driver so that the shoulder member rotates, and (C) operate the robot so that the robot holds the double-action friction stir joining device and the dressing member contacts an inner circumferential surface of the shoulder member.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion having a ground contacting surface and a first groove. A tread rubber forming the tread portion includes a first rubber layer and a second rubber layer. The second rubber layer has a complex elastic modulus smaller than a complex elastic modulus of the first rubber layer. The first groove includes a first groove edge, a groove bottom surface, and a first groove wall. In a lateral cross section of the first groove, the first groove wall includes a first wide top portion arranged between the first groove edge and the groove bottom surface and located outside the first groove edge in a groove width direction of the first groove. The first wide top portion is positioned in the second rubber layer.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread portion provided with shoulder blocks arranged along the tread edges and each having a side surface extending radially inwardly from the tread edge. The side surface includes a first surface section and a second surface section arranged in the tire circumferential direction and protruding outward of the tire than the groove bottom surfaces of the shoulder lateral grooves. In a tire meridian section including the first surface section, the profile line of the first surface section extends from the tread edge to a position corresponding to a position of the radial inner ends of the shoulder lateral grooves. In a tire meridian section including the second surface section, the profile line of the second surface section extends from the tread edge to a position corresponding to the above-said position of the radial inner ends through a path inward of the tire than that of the profile line of the first surface section.

Abstract: A separating system includes a placing unit, a removing apparatus and a transfer device. The placing unit is configured to place therein a first cassette allowed to accommodate a combined substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other with a separation layer therebetween, a second cassette allowed to accommodate the first substrate, and a third cassette allowed to accommodate the second substrate. The removing apparatus is configured to remove the separation layer by radiating laser light to the combined substrate. The transfer device is configured to perform a processing of transferring the combined substrate to the removing apparatus and a processing of transferring the first substrate and the second substrate separated from the combined substrate to the placing unit.

Abstract: A resin composition contains a resin component (A) and a phosphorus-containing flame retardant (B). The resin component (A) contains an epoxy resin (a1), of which the viscosity at 25° C. is equal to or less than 50000 mPa·s. The proportion of the epoxy resin (a1) to the resin component (A) is equal to or greater than 20% by mass. The phosphorus-containing flame retardant (B) includes a phosphorus-containing flame retardant (B1) that neither melts nor thermally decomposes at a temperature lower than 150° C.

Abstract: A tyre 1 for a motorcycle comprises a tread portion 2 and a pair of sidewall portions 3 connected with both ends of the tread portion 2 and extending inwardly in a tyre radial direction. A connecting portion 9 of the tread portion 2 and at least one of the pair of the sidewall portions 3 is provided with a plurality of protruding portions 10 each protruding outwardly in a tyre axial direction. The plurality of the protruding portions 10 is arranged in a tyre circumferential direction with a space 11 between each other.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread portion provided with shoulder blocks arranged along the tread edges and each having a side surface extending radially inwardly from the tread edge. The side surface includes a first surface section and a second surface section arranged in the tire circumferential direction and protruding outward of the tire than the groove bottom surfaces of the shoulder lateral grooves. In a tire meridian section including the first surface section, the profile line of the first surface section extends from the tread edge to a position corresponding to a position of the radial inner ends of the shoulder lateral grooves. In a tire meridian section including the second surface section, the profile line of the second surface section extends from the tread edge to a position corresponding to the above-said position of the radial inner ends through a path inward of the tire than that of the profile line of the first surface section.

Abstract: A tire for running on rough terrain comprises a tread portion bound with an intended tire rotational direction. The tread portion comprises a row of crown blocks and rows of middle blocks. The crown blocks and the middle blocks each has an axially-elongated shape. A crown front edge of each of the crown blocks comprises a most concave portion positioned at the most toe-side thereof in the tire rotational direction and a pair of inclined edges extending from the most concave portion toward axially both sides thereof and toward the heel-side in the tire rotational direction. The inclined edges are each inclined at an angle from 10 to 45 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. A middle front edge of each of the middle blocks extends axially outwardly and linearly over its entire length and is inclined to the heel-side.

Abstract: A tire for running on rough terrain comprises a tread portion 2 bound with an intended tire rotational direction. The tread portion 2 comprises a row of crown blocks 10 and rows of middle blocks 11. The crown blocks 10 and the middle blocks 11 each has an axially-elongated shape. A crown front edge 15 of each of the crown block 10 comprises a most concave portion 18 positioned at the most toe-side thereof in the tire rotational direction and a pair of inclined edges 20 extending from the most concave portion 18 toward axially both sides thereof and toward the heel-side in the tire rotational direction. The inclined edges 20 are each inclined at an angle from 10 to 45 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. A middle front edge 21 of each of the middle blocks 11 extends axially outwardly and is inclined to the heel-side.

Abstract: A motorcycle tire comprises bead portions each having an axially outer surface provided with a profile which comprises a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion. The radially inner portion is located axially outward of a bead core and extending substantially linearly in the tire radial direction. The radially outer portion is smoothly continued from the radially inner portion and extends radially outwardly to a sidewall portion, while inclining toward the axially outside. When an axial width between the bead portions is adjusted to coincide with a rim width between rim flanges, and an axial center of the axial width coincides with an axial center of the rim width, and further the tire rotational axis coincides with the rotational axis of the wheel rim, then at least a part of the radially outer portion of the profile protrudes axially outwardly from a profile of the inner surface of the rim flange.

Abstract: A motorcycle tire is provided in a tread portion 2 with blocks including crown blocks 11 disposed in a tread crown region 3. The crown blocks 11 include first crown blocks 16 on the tire equator C, pairs of second crown blocks 17, and pairs of third crown blocks 18. The minimum axial distance L2 between the ground contacting top surfaces of the paired second crown blocks 17 is smaller than the maximum axial width L1 of the ground contacting top surface of the first crown block 16. The minimum axial distance L3 between the ground contacting top surfaces of the paired third crown blocks 18 is greater than the maximum axial width L1 of the first crown block 16.

Abstract: A cord of a band of a tire has a single-stranded structure in which steel filaments are stranded, and the number of the filaments is not less than three and not greater than six. In a cross-section of the cord, when ? represents a diameter of a smallest circle that surrounds cross-sections of the filaments, and ? represents a diameter of each filament, a gap is formed between the filaments such that the diameter ? is not less than three times the diameter ? and not greater than six times the diameter ? in the case of the number of the filaments being three or four. An initial elongation of the cord is not less than 0.1% and not greater than 1.5%.

Abstract: A tyre 1 for a motorcycle comprises a tread portion 2 and a pair of sidewall portions 3 connected with both ends of the tread portion 2 and extending inwardly in a tyre radial direction. A connecting portion 9 of the tread portion 2 and at least one of the pair of the sidewall portions 3 is provided with a plurality of protruding portions 10 each protruding outwardly in a tyre axial direction. The plurality of the protruding portions 10 is arranged in a tyre circumferential direction with a space 11 between each other.

Abstract: A tire for running on rough terrain comprises a tread portion 2 bound with an intended tire rotational direction. The tread portion 2 comprises a row of crown blocks 10 and rows of middle blocks 11. The crown blocks 10 and the middle blocks 11 each has an axially-elongated shape. A crown front edge 15 of each of the crown block 10 comprises a most concave portion 18 positioned at the most toe-side thereof in the tire rotational direction and a pair of inclined edges 20 extending from the most concave portion 18 toward axially both sides thereof and toward the heel-side in the tire rotational direction. The inclined edges 20 are each inclined at an angle from 10 to 45 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. A middle front edge 21 of each of the middle blocks 11 extends axially outwardly and is inclined to the heel-side.

Abstract: A motorcycle tire comprises bead portions each having an axially outer surface provided with a profile which comprises a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion. The radially inner portion is located axially outward of a bead core and extending substantially linearly in the tire radial direction. The radially outer portion is smoothly continued from the radially inner portion and extends radially outwardly to a sidewall portion, while inclining toward the axially outside. When an axial width between the bead portions is adjusted to coincide with a rim width between rim flanges, and an axial center of the axial width coincides with an axial center of the rim width, and further the tire rotational axis coincides with the rotational axis of the wheel rim, then at least a part of the radially outer portion of the profile protrudes axially outwardly from a profile of the inner surface of the rim flange.