Abstract: A motor drive device includes: an inverter circuit configured to drive a motor; a drive circuit to which a control voltage is applied, the drive circuit being configured to output a drive signal to the inverter circuit; and a relay configured to stop application of the control voltage to the drive circuit. The relay is configured to detect a motor current that is output from the inverter circuit to the motor, and to stop application of the control voltage to the drive circuit when the motor current reaches a first threshold or higher that is determined in advance.

Abstract: A planar light source includes a substrate, light sources, and at least one partitioning member. The partitioning member includes first wall parts, second wall parts, and partitioned regions. The first wall parts define first ridges extending in a first direction. The second wall parts define second ridges extending in a second direction. The partitioned regions each is surrounded by the first ridges and the second ridges in a plan view. the partitioned regions are arranged in the first and second directions. At least one first cut is defined on at least one of the first ridges. At least one second cut is defined on at least one of the second ridges. The at least one first cut and the at least one second cut are spaced apart from each other. At least one of the light sources is arranged in a corresponding one of the partitioned regions.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing a compound represented by the following formula (1).

Abstract: A pneumatic tire can include a pair of sidewall portions, where an outer surface of the sidewall portion can include a marking portion. The marking portion can include a first region forming a mark, a second region that is a background portion of the mark, and a fringing portion that demarcates the first region from the second region and fringes the contour of the mark. The first region can be formed as a smooth surface. The second region can be a projection-recess region where a plurality of micro projections are arranged. The fringing portion can be a rib projecting from the first region.

Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.

Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving first information indicating a travel plan of a user, acquiring, for each on-demand vehicle service, second information indicating boarding/alighting points and operation status of a vehicle, determining and presenting, based on the first and second information, a recommended route for transferring bet ween first and second vehicles belonging to first and second on-demand vehicle services, and making a reservation with the first and second on-demand vehicle services in accordance with the recommended route.

Abstract: Modified influenza virus neuraminidases are described herein that improve viral replication, thus improving the yield of vaccine viruses. Expression of such modified neuraminidases by influenza virus may also stabilize co-expressed hemagglutinins so that the hemagglutinins do not undergo mutation or decrease the need for HA binding to cells.

Abstract: The toner contains binder resin-containing toner particles and silica fine particle S1, wherein the weight-average particle diameter of the toner is 4.0-15.0 ?m, both inclusive, peaks originating with the silica fine particle S1 are observed in 29 Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particle S1, and, in the spectrum obtained by 29Si CP/MAS NMR or 29Si DD/MAS NMR, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D1 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D2 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, and the peak area of a peak corresponding to the Q unit structure in the silica fine particle S1 satisfy a prescribed relationship.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to an analysis device including one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to estimate an arrangement region of a group of products of a same type based on a sales floor image, and notify information on a display state of the group of products in the arrangement region estimated.

Abstract: A drawing device includes a pen fixed to a cartridge, a mover, a conveyer, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores for each classification of each of a plurality of objects, drawing data representing control conditions of the mover and the conveyer for drawing the object, and angle data representing a fixed angle of the pen with respect to the cartridge when drawing the object. The processor receives at least one of the classifications of the plurality of objects, reads out and acquires, from the memory, the drawing data and the angle data corresponding to the received at least one classification. The processor also displays, on a display, fixed angle information corresponding to the fixed angle represented by the acquired angle data, controls the mover and the conveyer on the basis of the acquired drawing data, and draws the object of the received classification on a target object.

Abstract: To enable a correct and easy discrimination of microorganisms, a microorganism discrimination method includes: acquiring mass spectra related to known microorganisms which belong to the same species and whose subspecies, strains or types are known (S11); retrieving a list describing m/z values of marker-candidate proteins which are supposed to vary in mass among different subspecies, strains or types (S12); creating a mask which gives non-zero values only within a predetermined range including each of the listed m/z values (S14); masking each of the mass spectra (S15); creating wavelet images by performing continuous wavelet transform on the mass spectra (S16); creating a discriminant model by machine learning using, as training data, the wavelet images and information of the subspecies, strains or types of the known microorganisms; and discriminating the subspecies, strain or type of an unknown microorganism by applying a mass spectrum of this microorganism to the discriminant model.

Abstract: In a mass spectrometer employing laser ionization to ionize a sample, a known sample is irradiated with laser light multiple times, and multiple sets of profile data are acquired each of which is a spectrum showing the relationship between the m/z values and intensities of ions generated from the known sample by one laser irradiation (Step S11). Those sets of profile data are sorted into groups so that one or more sets of profile data are included in each group (Step S12). For each group, a peak list is created which describes the m/z value and intensity of each peak originating from the known sample based on the one or more sets of profile data included in the group (Step S13). A discriminant model for discriminating an unknown sample is created using the peak lists of the plurality of groups and information concerning the kind of the known sample as training data.

Abstract: A list mode image reconstruction method includes a step of dividing list mode data into a plurality of subsets and a step of acquiring a subset balance coefficient based on the number of events in the plurality of subsets.

Abstract: An analysis method for analyzing a sample includes a first step of acquiring measurement data including a first signal based on the sample and a second signal based on noise added to the first signal as a result of analysis of the sample, a second step of assuming a shape representing the first signal and a shape representing the second signal and modeling the measurement data using Bayesian inference, and a third step of estimating a probability distribution of characteristics of the sample based on the modeled measurement data.

Abstract: To effectively retain a deployed airbag without increasing installation man hours, in addition to suppressing rotation of this airbag in a direction away from a seat. For example, a side airbag apparatus 1 installed inside a backrest SB of the seat S includes: an airbag 2; an inflator 3 provided inside the airbag 2; a tether 4; and a bracket 5. The airbag 2 is deployed in a first direction in which a base end side 2a thereof is attached to a seat back frame SBF and the tip side thereof is distant from the backrest SB. The tether 4 includes: one end 4a attached to the seat back frame SBF; and the other end which extends in the first direction on the outer surface of the airbag 2 in the deployed state so as to be attached to the part on the tip side 2b of the airbag 2. A bracket 5 is attached to the seat back frame SBF and provided in the direction in which the tether 4 extends. The tether 4 is supported by the front end of the bracket 5.

Abstract: A sample group forming section 24 classifies samples derived from microorganisms into groups according to empirical information showing the species or strain of each sample. A differential analysis section 27 performs a differential analysis using a peak matrix created based on the result of the grouping. An operator enters group rearrangement conditions concerning the drug resistance of microorganisms. Under the entered conditions, a sample group rearranging/rearrangement-cancelling section 25 rearranges the already formed groups by selecting or merging groups using another kind of previously registered empirical information which shows the drug resistance of each group. The differential analysis section 27 performs a differential analysis using a peak matrix newly created based on the result of the rearrangement of the groups. Thus, differential analysis results concerning the resistance to different drugs can be sequentially acquired as the group rearrangement condition is successively changed.

Abstract: An airbag device of the disclosure includes an airbag module that is installed in a central region of a steering wheel of a vehicle, and that accommodates an airbag that can deploy behind the steering wheel when a driver is seated in the driver's seat. The airbag module has an airbag inflation control unit that controls an inflation direction of the airbag in such a manner as to allow the airbag to inflate above the airbag module, after the airbag has inflated in such a direction as to abut on the driver's chest at the time of deployment of the airbag.

Abstract: A walking assistance device includes: a belt-shaped lumbar region fixture wound around a lumbar region; a first elastic string-like member an upper part of which is fixed to the lumbar region fixture at a position of an anterior superior iliac spine and a lower part of which extends in an instep direction of a leg and is hooked to a toe region of a sole; and a second elastic string-like member an upper part of which is fixed to the lumbar region fixture above a position of an ischial tuberosity and a lower part of which extends in an ankle direction and is hooked to a heel region of the sole, wherein each of the first elastic string-like member and the second elastic string-like member is bifurcated near a knee of a leg, and the bifurcated parts of the first elastic string-like member and the second elastic string-like member are bound to each other at positions of an outer knee joint fissure gap and an inner knee joint fissure gap.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid removal device that removes liquid attached to a surface of a steel sheet, the device including a slit nozzle that jets gas to the surface of the sheet, the slit nozzle being installed so as to jet gas from a downstream side toward an upstream side in a movement direction of the sheet that moves relatively to the slit nozzle and being configured in a manner that a jet angle ?, a back face inclination angle ?, and a back face length L of a nozzle back face of the slit nozzle satisfy, ?+??60° and L?20mm, and a gap h between a jetting port of the slit nozzle and the sheet, a slit width d, and nozzle pressure Pn of the slit nozzle satisfy the following relationship: Pn?2.0×1010(h/d)0.6{1/(1+exp(?+??58)+1}?4L?7.

Abstract: A drawing device includes a pen fixed to a cartridge, a mover, a conveyer, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores for each classification of each of a plurality of objects, drawing data representing control conditions of the mover and the conveyer for drawing the object, and angle data representing a fixed angle of the pen with respect to the cartridge when drawing the object. The processor receives at least one of the classifications of the plurality of objects, reads out and acquires, from the memory, the drawing data and the angle data corresponding to the received at least one classification. The processor also displays, on a display, fixed angle information corresponding to the fixed angle represented by the acquired angle data, controls the mover and the conveyer on the basis of the acquired drawing data, and draws the object of the received classification on a target object.