Abstract: A suspension device includes: a damping device that damps a force generated between a vehicle body and a wheel of a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the vehicle is jumping, using an acceleration of the vehicle in a front-rear direction, an acceleration of the vehicle in a left-right direction, and an acceleration of the vehicle in a vertical direction; and a damping force control unit that increases a damping force of the damping device so as to be greater than the damping force generated when the determination unit does not determine that the vehicle is jumping, when the determination unit determines that the vehicle is jumping.

Abstract: A suspension device includes: a suspension including a damping device which damps a force generated between a vehicle body and a wheel; and a damping force control unit that increases a damping force of the damping device so as to be greater than the damping force generated when an acceleration of change in a stroke amount is less than a predetermined value determined in advance, when the acceleration of the change in the stroke amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, in which the stroke amount is an amount of displacement from a reference position of the wheel with respect to the vehicle body in an extension direction of the suspension.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate-side pattern region of a substrate by using a mold. The imprint apparatus includes a light irradiation unit configured to irradiate the imprint material with light having a first wavelength for curing, and a heating unit configured to heat a partial region of the substrate, the partial region corresponding to the substrate-side pattern region, by irradiating the substrate with light that has passed through the mold and has a second wavelength different from the light having the first wavelength. The heating unit is configured to heat the partial region to deform the substrate-side pattern region by forming an uneven temperature distribution on the substrate-side pattern region by irradiation of the light having the second wavelength with an uneven illumination distribution.

Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment device includes front forks, a rear suspension, a weight estimation unit, and a front wheel-side target movement amount determination unit. The front fork includes a front wheel-side suspension spring and a front wheel-side support member, which supports one end of the front wheel-side suspension spring, and moves toward another end of the front wheel-side spring to change the front wheel-side suspension spring length. The rear suspension includes a rear wheel-side suspension spring and a rear wheel-side support member, which supports one end of the rear wheel-side suspension spring, and moves toward another one end of the rear wheel-side spring to change the rear wheel-side suspension spring length. The weight estimation unit estimates a weight applied to a vehicle. The front wheel-side target movement amount determination unit decreases, a movement amount of the front wheel-side support member as the estimated weight increases.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode including powder of a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte. The powder of the positive electrode active material includes particles, which have a grain boundary and in which c axes of two regions sandwiching the grain boundary are in reflective symmetry, and the particles in the powder of the positive electrode active material have a content percentage of 50% or less.

Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber includes: a cylinder; a piston rod on which a first piston, a valve, and a second piston are disposed sequentially from one end side; and an oil lock portion that is disposed on the one end side inside the cylinder, and that forms a gap flow path between the oil lock portion and an outer circumferential surface of the first piston. The first piston has a piston internal flow path, and is displaceable in an axial direction of the piston rod. When the piston rod moves toward the one end side, the first piston relatively moves toward the other end side with respect to the piston rod and the other end side of the first piston abuts against the valve, so that due to a flow of working oil passing through the piston internal flow path, the valve bends to generate damping force.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus includes a substrate holding unit. A generation unit generates heating distribution data indicating distribution of a heat value to be applied to a region to be processed. A heating unit gives heat to the region to be processed to deform the region. An obtaining unit which obtains first information defined based on a difference of shapes of the region and a pattern portion of the mold, and second information about a deformation amount of the region. The second information is obtained, by trying deformation of the region to be processed by the heating unit while the substrate holding unit attracts the substrate. A patterning unit forms the pattern while the heating unit is deforming the region to be processed based on the heating distribution data generated, in which the generation unit generates the heating distribution data based on the obtained first and second information.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, a deflector, an optical member, a supporting portion, a casing, a cover member, a first air current deflecting portion configured to deflect, to a direction from the bottom toward the cover member, an air current generated by rotation of the rotatable polygonal mirror and flowing along a longitudinal direction of the optical member; and a second air current deflecting portion provided on the cover member and configured to deflect, to a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, the air current deflected by the first air current deflecting portion and flowing in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint method of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, the method including obtaining, before bringing the mold and the imprint material into contact with each other, a correction parameter for correcting deformation of a pattern of the mold caused by bringing the mold and the imprint material on the substrate into contact with each other, and reducing the deformation of the pattern of the mold by moving at least one of the mold and the substrate by a moving unit configured to relatively move the mold and the substrate in a direction parallel to a surface of the substrate in accordance with the correction parameter in a state in which the mold and the imprint material on the substrate are in contact with each other.

Abstract: A storage device includes a first conductor, a resistance variable film, and a second conductor. The resistance variable film includes a first layer and a second layer. The second layer is located on a side opposite to the first conductor with respect to the first layer, contains oxygen, and has conductivity higher than that of the first layer. The second conductor includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion abuts on the second layer of the resistance variable film. The second portion is separated from the resistance variable film as compared to the first portion. The oxygen content of the first portion is higher than that of the second portion.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, a deflector, an optical member, a supporting portion, a casing, a cover member, a first air current deflecting portion configured to deflect, to a direction from the bottom toward the cover member, an air current generated by rotation of the rotatable polygonal mirror and flowing along a longitudinal direction of the optical member; and a second air current deflecting portion provided on the cover member and configured to deflect, to a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, the air current deflected by the first air current deflecting portion and flowing in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a plurality of positive electrode active substance grains, and an average number of grain boundaries per one of the positive electrode active substance grains is less than 0.58.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus for transferring a pattern of a mold to a shot region on a substrate by curing an imprint material on the substrate while the mold and the imprint material are in contact with each other, comprising a heating unit configured to deform a shape of the shot region by heating each of a plurality of portions of the substrate, and a control unit configured to obtain a target heat quantity in each of the plurality of portions so that the shape of the shot region becomes closer to a target shape, generate a heating profile for each of the plurality of portions so that a heat quantity in the portion becomes equal to the target heat quantity, and control the heating unit to heat each of the plurality of portions according to the generated heating profile.

Abstract: A light scanning apparatus including: a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect a laser beam emitted from a light source; optical elements configured to guide the laser beam to a photosensitive member; a housing having a bottom surface and a side wall portion standing from the bottom surface and intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the optical elements; and a plurality of wall portions provided on the bottom surface so as to intersect with the longitudinal direction between the bottom surface and a lens of the optical elements that is closest to the rotary polygon mirror, the plurality of wall portions forming an air flow path for guiding an air flow caused by rotation of the rotary polygon mirror from a first space in which the rotary polygon mirror is arranged to a second space opposite to the first space with respect to the lens.

Abstract: A switched reluctance motor system includes a switched reluctance motor, a rotor including a plurality of salient poles, a stator including a plurality of salient poles, coils of three phases wound around the salient poles of the stator, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to drive the switched reluctance motor in a pole configuration pattern of NSNSNS in which the salient poles of the stator that have different polarities are alternately arranged. The electronic control unit is configured to perform current waveform control when an excitation sound frequency of a given order coincides with a resonance frequency of the switched reluctance motor.

Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment device includes an actuator, a detector, and a controller. The actuator is driven when supplied with a current and is configured to change a relative position of a body of a vehicle relative to an axle of a wheel of the vehicle. The detector is configured to detect the relative position. The controller is configured to control the current supplied to the actuator to make the relative position a target value so as to adjust a vehicle height of the body. When a detection value of the detector is smaller than the target value of the relative position, the controller is configured to alternately supply an increase current and a maintenance current to the actuator. The increase current increases the relative position to increase the vehicle height. The maintenance current maintains the relative position to maintain the vehicle height.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus which is advantageous in view of reduction of consumption of a replacement gas. An apparatus for forming a pattern on a substrate using a mold includes a gas supply unit, a positioning unit and a controller. The controller controls a gas supply unit and a positioning unit and, causes second contact between a second shot region different from a first shot region and the mold after first contact between a first shot region having a material supplied thereon among the plurality of shot regions and the mold and controls the positioning unit so that a second gap which is the distance at the time of changing a relative position between the mold and the substrate in a surface direction from the first shot region to the second shot region is shorter than a first gap which is the distance at the time of gas supply.

Abstract: A valve mechanism includes a housing, a plate-shaped valve body, a valve positioning member, and a drive valve moving mechanism. The valve positioning member causes the valve body to face the valve seat via a predetermined gap with respect to the valve seat. The drive valve moving mechanism causes the gap between an inner circumference of the valve body and the valve seat to be variable by moving the drive valve in a direction of approaching the valve seat and elastically deforming the valve body in a direction that the inner circumference of the valve body approaches the valve seat.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a first signal line, a first conductive layer, a first storage layer and a first insulation layer. The first signal line extends in a first direction crossing the substrate. The first conductive layer extends in a second direction crossing the first direction and being parallel to the substrate, and has a first surface and a second surface that is away from the first signal line in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The first storage layer is provided between the first signal line and the first conductive layer. The first insulation layer is provided between the second surface and the first storage layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring connected to the first wiring and extending in a second direction, which crosses the first direction, a third wiring extending in a third direction, which crosses the second direction, and a first variable resistance film connected to the second wiring and the third wiring. The third wiring includes a first portion that extends in the third direction and a second portion that protrudes from a side surface of the first portion toward the second wiring and that has an end surface connected to the first variable resistance film.