Abstract: A multiple-beam image acquisition apparatus includes a stage to mount thereon a target object, a mark member, arranged on the stage, to include a base body having at least a surface made from the first material, plural isolated patterns, formed on the base body, having the same positional relationship as plural irradiation positions, flush in height with the surface of the target object, of plural beams having been determined previously in multiple primary electron beams, and being made from a material different from the first material, and an alignment mark, an electron optical system to irradiate the mark member with the multiple primary electron beams in the state where alignment of the multiple primary electron beams has been performed using the alignment mark, and a multi-detector to detect multiple secondary electron beams emitted from the mark member because the mark member is irradiated with the multiple primary electron beams.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell, a pump laser configured to emit pump light, a probe laser configured to emit probe light to a sensitivity region intersecting the pump light in the cell, an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region, and a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency, and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by transmission of the RF pulse. The magnetoencephalograph module and the MRI module are surrounded by a magnetic shield including a soft magnetic material.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a sensitivity region inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing probe light for detecting change in electron spins to be incident on the sensitivity region in a direction intersecting the first direction, a bias magnetic field coil applying a bias magnetic field in the first direction to the inside of the cell and determining a resonance frequency of the electron spins, a gradient correction coil correcting a gradient of the bias magnetic field, an electron spin tilting unit tilting a rotation axis direction of the electron spins, an optical sensor detecting the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region, and a magnetic field measuring unit measuring a magnetic field strength related to the sensitivity region based on an output of the optical sensor.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a plurality of sensitivity regions inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing probe light to be incident on the sensitivity regions in a direction intersecting the first direction, bias magnetic field coils applying a bias magnetic field to the inside of the cell and determining a resonance frequency of the electron spins, an electron spin tilting unit tilting a rotation axis direction of the electron spins in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, an optical sensor detecting the probe light; and a magnetic field measuring unit measuring magnetic field strengths related to the sensitivity regions, wherein the bias magnetic field coils respectively apply a plurality of the bias magnetic fields having strengths different from each other to the plurality of corresponding sensitivity regions.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell; a pump laser configured to emit pump light; a probe laser configured to emit probe light; an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region; a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and bias magnetic field gradient correction coils configured to correct a gradient of the bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal. At least one of the coil that applies a static magnetic field and the coil that applies a gradient magnetic field is configured by the same coil as the bias magnetic field coil or the bias magnetic field gradient correction coils.

Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.

Abstract: Provided is a hollow fiber membrane module that allows reducing pressure loss of a dry gas and a moist gas. A hollow fiber membrane module has: a hollow fiber membrane bundle; a case in which the hollow fiber membrane bundle is accommodated; a pair of sealing and fixing parts that fixes the hollow fiber membrane bundle to the case; intra-membrane channels; and extra-membrane channels. Moisture in the moist gas is supplied into the dry gas by virtue of the membrane separation effect of the hollow fiber membranes. A first channel is provided, which runs through the case from one end side to the other end side and through which part of the dry gas flows without passing through the intra-membrane channels.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module includes: an inner case; an outer case that covers the inner case from an outer periphery side with a space left therebetween; at least one bypass pipe that connects to the inner case in the space between the inner case and the outer case; and a plurality of hollow fiber membranes that are provided in the space, the inner case including, on an upstream side, an introduction portion that establishes communication between inside and outside, the outer case including, on a downstream side, a discharge portion that establishes communication between the inside and the outside, the inner case including, on the downstream side, at least one bypass port that penetrates through the inner case between the inside and the outside, the bypass pipe communicating with the bypass port and being capable of forming a fluid path that connects the bypass port and the discharge portion.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module includes: an inner case; an outer case that covers the inner case from an outer periphery side with a space left therebetween; and a plurality of hollow fiber membranes that are provided in the space between the inner case and the outer case. The inner case includes an introduction portion that establishes communication between inside of the inner case and outside of the inner case on an upstream side of the inner case and the outer case. The outer case includes a discharge portion that establishes communication between inside of the outer case and outside of the outer case on a downstream side. The inner case includes a bypass portion that establishes communication between the inside of the inner case and the outside of the inner case on the downstream side. The bypass portion includes at least one opening that penetrates through the inner case between the inside and the outside.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module having: a tubular case; a plurality of hollow fiber membranes disposed within the case; sealing and fixing parts that fix the hollow fiber membranes to each other at the ends of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes; and sealing parts that seal annular gaps between the case and the sealing and fixing parts. The sealing parts are bonded to the inner peripheral surface of the case and the outer peripheral surface of the sealing and fixing parts while being allowed to expand or contract in the direction in which the spacing of the gaps between the case and the sealing and fixing parts changes.

Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a rotation angle detecting device capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotation body rotatable about a central axis. The rotation angle detecting device includes: a sensor magnet, having multiple magnetic poles provided side-by side in a circumferential direction about the central axis and installed to the rotation body; a magnetic sensor, overlapped with the sensor magnet when viewed in a predetermined first direction and capable of detecting a magnetic field of the sensor magnet; and a pair of magnetic parts, provided to sandwich the magnetic sensor in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module 10 includes: a plurality of hollow fiber membranes 200; a case 100 that accommodates the plurality of hollow fiber membranes 200 and has a case main body 110 made of a resin and having openings at both ends thereof; and a pair of sealing and fixing portions 310 and 320 that seal a gap between the hollow fiber membranes in a state where a hollow inside of each of the hollow fiber membranes 200 is kept open and fix the plurality of hollow fiber membranes 200 to the case 100 on both end sides of the case 100. In the case main body 110, a reinforcement portion 115 that connects a pair of facing wall surfaces of inner wall surfaces for accommodating the plurality of hollow fiber membranes 200 is integrally provided on the pair of wall surfaces.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module and a dehumidification/humidification device. An outlet portion that makes an annular gap and the outside of an outer case communicate with each other is provided on one end side of the outer case, an inner case is provided with a hollow portion opening to the other end side and also provided with a plurality of windows that make the hollow portion and the annular gap communicate with each other, and a plurality of partition walls that divide a space, in which a fluid flows, into a plurality of spaces in a circumferential direction are provided in the annular gap.

Abstract: Provided are a hollow fiber membrane module and a dehumidification/humidification device which allow an improved contribution ratio of hollow fiber membranes to a membrane separation function and improved dehumidification/humidification performance to be achieved. An outer case 100 is provided with a double tube portion 120 forming an annular space K radially externally of an annular gap S on one end side, with a communication portion 121 providing communication between the annular gap S and the one end side of the annular space K, and with an outlet portion 122 providing communication between the annular space K and the outside of the outer case 100, while an inner case 200 is provided with a hollow region which is open on the other end side and with a plurality of windows 221 providing communication between the hollow region and the annular gap S.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane module includes an inner case 120 with a one-end-side outer peripheral surface 121, the width of which is constant from one end side toward the other end side, and an other-end-side outer peripheral surface 122 which gradually widens from one end side toward the other end side, and in the inner case 120, a hollow portion that opens to the other end side is provided on an inside of the other-end-side outer peripheral surface 122 and a plurality of windows 122a that allow communication between the hollow portion and the annular gap are provided, and in the outer case 110, a communication hole 111a that communicates between the annular gap and the outside of the outer case 110 is provided at a position that is closer to the one end side.

Abstract: Provided is a novel chalcogen-containing organic semiconductor compound having excellent carrier mobility. The compound is represented by Formula (1a) or (1b): [Chem. 1] where in Formulas (1a) and (1b), X represents S, O, or Se, and R1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a pyridyl group, a furyl group, a thienyl group, or a thiazolyl group.

Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking is prohibited in, flashes a hazard lamp, and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.

Abstract: An expanded polypropylene resin bead contains an inorganic pigment, a hindered amine compound, and an ultraviolet light absorber. The ultraviolet light absorber contains an ultraviolet light absorber A having a molecular weight of 360 or more, and a content of the ultraviolet light absorber A in the expanded polypropylene resin bead is 0.010% by mass or more and 2% by mass or less. An expanded polypropylene resin beads molded article is produced by in-mold molding of the expanded polypropylene resin bead.

Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.

Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes a travelling state calculation section, a target detection section, a target state calculation section, a lateral moving object determination section, a collision determination section, and a collision avoidance control section. The collision avoidance control section calculates, based on (i) a passing-through period of the lateral moving object in which the lateral moving object passes through an own vehicle course that is a moving course of the own vehicle and (ii) a reaching time of the own vehicle that is a period remaining before the own vehicle reaching a lateral moving object course that is a moving course of the lateral moving object, an operation timing of the brakes for the lateral moving object passing through the own vehicle course before the own vehicle reaches the lateral moving object course, and operates the brakes at the calculated operation timing of the brakes.