Abstract: An occupant protection system for protecting a vehicle occupant sitting in a seat includes a seatbelt that includes a lap belt for arresting the pelvis of the occupant, and an airbag that is stored in the lap belt. The airbag as deployed includes a main inflatable portion for protecting an upper body of the occupant, and a head protecting portion that is located in a vicinity of an upper end of the main inflatable portion for protecting a head of the occupant. The head protecting portion includes a front inflatable portion for covering a front side of the head, and a pair of side inflatable portions that extend rearward from left and right ends of the front inflatable portion for covering sides of the head. Each of the side inflatable portions is configured to be deployed in such a manner that a space is formed between itself and the head.

Abstract: An occupant protection system for protecting a vehicle occupant sitting in a seat includes a seatbelt that includes a lap belt for arresting the pelvis of the occupant, and an airbag disposed in the lap belt. The airbag is coupled to the lap belt in such a manner as to be movable relative to the lap belt in a left and right direction, and includes a main inflatable portion that is deployable in front of upper body of the occupant, and a positioning inflatable portion that protrudes from a lower end region of the main inflatable portion. The positioning inflatable portion includes a contact surface that contacts and is supported by an environmental member which is disposed in a circumference of the lap belt at airbag deployment, whereby helps align a center in the left and right direction of the main inflatable portion generally with that of the upper body.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm or more and 485 nm or less; a wavelength conversion member including a fluorescent material layer disposed on a light emission side of the light emitting element and containing a fluorescent material having a reflectance to light having a wavelength of 450 nm of 10% or less and a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 610 nm or more and 780 nm or less, and a dielectric multilayer film disposed on a light emission side of the fluorescent material layer.

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.

Abstract: An airbag device for a steering wheel includes: an inflator for supplying an inflation gas to a folded airbag, the inflator including: a main body having a gas discharge portion on an upper portion side; and a flange portion provided on an outer peripheral surface of the main body which is the outer peripheral surface located further on a lower side than the gas discharge port; an attachment base holding the inflator by making the flange portion be attached to the attachment base; fastening members arranged at a plurality positions in a lower surface side around the inflator and mounted on the steering wheel main body by the fastening members. Each of the fastening members is disposed such that at least a part of the fastening member is disposed so as to vertically overlap the flange portion in a lower side of the flange portion.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing a corrosion of a first electrode and a second electrode. A semiconductor element includes a semiconductor substrate, an Al electrode, a polyimide member selectively disposed on the Al electrode, and an Ni electrode. The polyimide member includes a protruding part which protrudes in a plane direction of an upper surface of the Al electrode and which has a lower portion having contact with the Al electrode in a cross-sectional view, in at least part of a peripheral part of the polyimide member in a top view. The Ni electrode is disposed on the Al electrode and the protruding part.

Abstract: A route search system includes 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 experienced weather information, the experienced weather information being information about weather that a user has experienced in past; an 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 coincides with the experienced weather information, the second road being a road in a second region where the estimated weather information does not coincide with the experienced weather information.

Abstract: A light emitting device has a covering member. The covering member includes light reflecting material and a second fluorescent material, and a dominant wavelength of an emission spectrum of the second fluorescent material differs from a dominant wavelength of an emission spectrum of the light emitting device by 30 nm or less. The light emitting device emits light with chromaticity that is within a four-sided region on a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, where chromaticity coordinates (x, y) are (0.645, 0.335) at a first point, (0.665, 0.335) at a second point, (0.735, 0.265) at a third point, (0.721, 0.259) at a fourth point, and a first line joins the first and second points, a second line joins the second and third points, a third line joins the third and fourth points, and a fourth line joins the fourth and first points to define the four-sided region of the chromaticity diagram.

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.