Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided that can minimize the occurrence of poor joining between a copper electrode and a copper wire. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a copper electrode layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a metallic thin-film layer formed on the copper electrode layer for preventing oxidation of the copper electrode layer, the metallic thin-film layer having an opening through which the copper electrode layer is exposed, the opening being located on an inner side relative to an outer periphery of the metallic thin-film layer; and an interconnection member containing copper as a main component, the interconnection member including a joining region covering the opening, the interconnection member being joined to the metallic thin-film layer and joined to the copper electrode layer in the opening.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for arranging characters along a road to improve appearance and readability. A map display system includes a temporarily arranging part that obtains directions of a plurality of characters for when the plurality of characters are temporarily arranged along a road in a direction of the road, the direction of the road being a reference direction; and an arranging part that arranges, when a difference between directions of consecutive characters is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the consecutive characters so as to reduce the difference, the consecutive characters being two consecutive characters in the direction of the road, and arranges, when the difference is less than the threshold value, the consecutive characters in a temporary arrangement position.

Abstract: Driving assistance systems, methods, and programs accept an inputted planned travel route from the route guidance system, provide driving assistance of the vehicle on the planned travel route, based on driving assistance map data, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the driving assistance map data whose version matches the version of the route guidance map data from a map provider. Route guidance systems search for a planned travel route based on route guidance map data, provide guidance on the planned travel route, output the planned travel route to the driving assistance system, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the route guidance map data whose version matches the version of the driving assistance map data from a map provider.

Abstract: Alight source device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a light source section; a rotating body; a motor; a housing; one or more lens groups; a lens holding section; and an adjusting mechanism. The rotating body includes a fluorescent light body. The fluorescent light body is excited by excitation light from the light source section to output fluorescent light. The motor drives the rotating body. The housing accommodates the rotating body. The one or more lens groups gather the excitation light from the light source section and direct the excitation light toward the rotating body. The lens holding section holds the one or more lens groups. The adjusting mechanism adjusts a distance between the rotating body and the one or more lens groups.

Abstract: A method of forming Cu plating of the present invention includes: a first step of forming a Cu seed layer on one of surfaces of a substrate such that an average grain size is 50 nm or more and 300 nm or less; a second step of forming an oxide film on a surface of the Cu seed layer in an oxygen atmosphere; a third step of removing a part of the oxide film; and a fourth step of feeding power to the Cu seed layer to form Cu plating on a surface of the oxide film on the Cu seed layer by electrolytic plating.

Abstract: A driving assistance systems, methods, and programs are capable of communicating with a route guidance system that searches for a planned travel route of a vehicle and provides guidance on the planned travel route. The systems, methods, and programs accept, as input, the planned travel route from the route guidance system as a route for driving assistance and provide driving assistance of the vehicle on the route for driving assistance. The systems, methods, and programs accept, as input, when the planned travel route whose guidance is provided by the route guidance system no longer matches the route for driving assistance, the planned travel route from the route guidance system.

Abstract: A side airbag device includes: a main bag which is an airbag deployed between a passenger seated on a seat and a side wall portion of a vehicle, the airbag being configured to expand by gas supply when a vehicle side collision occurs; and a sub bag deployed between a side frame on a vehicle outer side in a seat back of the seat and the passenger, the sub bag being configured to expand by supplying gas and push a waist portion of the passenger forward from backward, prior to deployment of the main bag, when the vehicle side collision occurs.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes: an airbag which is deployed and inflated rearward from an accommodation part so that the airbag receives the occupant when inflation gas flows in, the airbag having an inflation completion shape of a loop shape including an upper and lower portions which branch up and down from an inflow opening side and a rear portion which is a mutual connecting part between rear ends of the upper portion and the lower portion as a confluence part on a tip end side. The airbag includes: a bag main body including the upper portion, the lower portion, and the rear portion; and a connecting member having flexibility which is disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion and connects the upper portion and the lower portion so as to regulate a separation distance between the upper portion and the lower portion when inflation is completed.

Abstract: A contact function-equipped multichannel charge/discharge power supply 10 has: first and second charge/discharge probes 12, 13 respectively connected to positive and negative electrodes of secondary batteries 11 and first and second voltage-measurement probes 14, 15 respectively connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the batteries 11; and charge/discharge means 16 each provided for each of the batteries 11 and each connected to a pair of the first and second charge/discharge probes 12, 13. The power supply 10 includes: trays each having a right-angled-quadrilateral shape in plan view, in which the batteries 11 are arranged longitudinally and laterally at predetermined intervals; and substrates each having the charge/discharge means 16 provided along the batteries 11 arranged in each line in one direction, wherein the substrates are each provided with the first and/or second charge/discharge probes 12, 13 corresponding to the batteries 11 arranged in the each line in the one direction.

Abstract: An airbag includes a mounting portion, a top wall deployable towards a vehicle occupant, and a circumferential wall disposed between the mounting portion and top wall. An airbag base member for forming the airbag includes a top-forming panel for forming the top wall, and at least three circumferential panels that extend generally radially from the top-forming panel and form the circumferential wall by being joined together by adjoining edges thereof. Each of the circumferential panels is formed into a generally band-like contour which has a first and a second curving edges that make the circumferential panel enlarge in width from the leading end towards an intermediate portion and then narrow towards the top-forming panel. When the airbag base member is laid flat, adjoining edges of any two adjoining circumferential panels are generally symmetrical to each other in curving shape with respect to a line disposed there between.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire (1) is provided with a cylindrical annular structure (10) that is disposed around the rotational axis and that has an outer surface and an inner surface, a carcass portion (12) at least a part of which is disposed on an outer side of the annular structure in a direction parallel to the rotational axis, the carcass portion (12) having a cord covered by rubber, a rubber layer (11) at least a part of which is disposed so as to face the outer surface of the annular structure, the rubber layer (11) including a tread portion, and a fiber (2) disposed between the annular structure and the rubber layer so as to suppress generation of a gas space between the annular structure and the rubber layer.

Abstract: This posture state estimation device is capable of estimating with high accuracy the posture state of an object. The posture state estimation device (100) is a device for estimating the posture state of an object having a plurality of sections connected by joints on the basis of image data that images the object, and has a section candidate extraction unit (140) for extracting a section candidate for a section from the image data, a complementary section candidate extraction unit (160) which estimates that a portion of an unextracted section for which a section candidate has not been extracted is being shadowed by an already extracted section for which a section candidate has been extracted in order to extract a section candidate of the unextracted section, and a posture state estimation unit (170) for estimating the posture state of the object on the basis of the extracted section candidate.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a substrate; a detection electrode disposed on a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate and including conductive thin wires and electrical coupling portions disposed where the conductive thin wires intersect with each other or are bent, and are coupled with each other, the conductive thin wires being arranged in a mesh-like form; a coupling wire that couples the conductive thin wires with a detecting unit at an end portion of the detection electrode; and a protective layer that is made of an insulation material and that covers the detection electrode and the coupling wire. An area density of the conductive thin wires per unit area is smaller in an end region ranging from an electrical coupling portion closest to the coupling wire to the coupling wire than in a region of the entire detection electrode.

Abstract: A route search system including an electronic control unit configured to perform: acquiring estimated weather information, the estimated weather information being information about weather that is estimated in a region where a candidate of a first route from a departure place to a destination place exists; acquiring reference weather information, the reference weather information being decided based on statistical information about weather information in a predetermined behavior range of a user; and searching the first route by preferentially selecting a first road over a second road, and outputting information about the first route, the first road being a road in a first region where the estimated weather information is not worse than the reference weather information, the second road being a road in a second region where the estimated weather information is worse than the reference weather information.

Abstract: A semiconductor module includes: a semiconductor device having an upper surface electrode; a conductor plate joined to the upper surface electrode via a bonding member; and a wire bonded to the conductor plate, wherein the wire is a metal thread or a ribbon bond, and the bonding member is a porous sintered metal material impregnated with resin.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film, and an electrode. The semiconductor substrate includes a first surface. The insulating film is provided on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and includes a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electrode is connected to the second surface of the insulating film and includes a side surface, a first face in contact with the insulating film, and a second face opposite to the first face. An outer periphery of the second face of the electrode is formed on an inner side of an outer periphery of the first face.

Abstract: A seat device for a vehicle includes a seat for supporting a lower body of a vehicle occupant, and a backrest for supporting an upper body of the occupant. The seat device further includes an arresting portion that is stored in a storage position disposed in the seat. The arresting portion is configured to be deployed from the storage position and restrain a part of the lower body of the occupant from moving forward in the event of a collision of the vehicle.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes an airbag which is deployed and inflated with an amount of protrusion from a storage position to a rear side in an inflation completed state in a large protrusion amount mode and a small protrusion amount mode, and the airbag includes a bag body and a tether. The tether is connected to a length adjustment unit. The bag body has a tubular inflation portion curved in a substantially U shape from the storage position toward the tether connection portion. A shape of the bag body in the large protrusion amount mode is defined such that the tether connection portion is further moved rearward with respect to the inlet port on the inner peripheral surface side, as compared with the case of the small protrusion amount mode.

Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain lane information of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, and set a planned target section for which a lane change plan of the vehicle is to be created. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, for each lane, an obstructive factor present on the road on which the vehicle is traveling and that obstructs continuation of autonomous driving assistance executed on the vehicle, and set, for each obtained obstructive factor, an avoidance route that passes through a lane avoiding the obstructive factor. The systems, methods, and programs create a lane change route that defines the lane change plan of the vehicle in the planned target section and that is set so as to preferentially pass through the avoidance route set for each obtained obstructive factor, and execute the autonomous driving assistance of the vehicle based on the lane change route.

Abstract: A person's behavior monitoring device includes a processor for acquiring a captured image of each of a plurality of cameras, acquiring information relating to a person requiring special attention by analyzing the captured image, and generating a monitoring image including the information, in which the processor determines, for each of the cameras, whether or not a person detected from the captured image is a long-time stayer who stays for a long-time in a capturing area of one of the cameras based on a result of tracking the person, and superimposes and displays a person rectangle that enables identification of a degree of stay on the captured image in correspondence with a person corresponding to the long-time stayer.