Abstract: A travelling vehicle includes a body including a small marker and a large marker, an imager, a pattern recognizer, and a state determiner. The large marker includes a display pattern including a first region, a second region with a lower reflectance than a reflectance of the first region, and a region where the small marker is located. The small marker has a display pattern including a third region with a lower reflectance than the reflectance of the first region and a fourth region with a lower reflectance than the reflectance of the third region and a lower reflectance than the reflectance of the second region.

Abstract: An overhead transport vehicle includes: a holding unit that is provided to be liftable and lowerable and configured to hold an article; a three-dimensional ranging sensor that has a detection range to include surroundings of a lower space formed directly below the article held by the holding unit; and a control device that is configured to determine presence or absence of an obstacle based on a detection result of the three-dimensional ranging sensor.

Abstract: A toilet device includes an electric opening/closing unit including a motor and a transmission mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes an internal gear, a first transmission part and a second transmission part. The first transmission part transmits a rotational force of the motor. The second transmission part transmits a rotational force of the first transmission part. The first transmission part includes a first planetary gear and a first planetary carrier. The second transmission part includes a second planetary gear, a second planetary carrier, and a shaft part. The shaft part revolves around a rotation axis. The first planetary carrier includes a protrusion extends along a trajectory of the revolution of the shaft part. The shaft part contacts the protrusion. A gap is formed between the shaft part and a part of the first planetary carrier other than the protrusion.

Abstract: To provide a lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method which can determine an effective range of the approximated curve corresponding to the lane shape. A lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method detects relative positions of a series of marks or objects which are continuously arranged in front of an own vehicle, with respect to the own vehicle; calculates a curve which approximates the relative positions of the series of marks or objects with respect to the own vehicle; and when a plurality of curves are calculated, mutually compare shapes of plurality of curves and determines the curves corresponding to the lane shape and the effective range of the curves.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a feed or food product in which an inner layer is encrusted with a gelled outer layer composition, the method including the steps of: preparing an outer layer composition feedstock by adding a secondary feedstock to a protein feedstock and/or a starch feedstock that forms a gel upon heating and then mixing by stirring, and preparing an inner layer composition that is encrusted with the outer layer composition; extrusion molding with an extruder provided with a double nozzle so as to cover a surface of the inner layer composition while simultaneously gelling the outer layer composition feedstock by heat treatment; and cutting a continuously extruded cylindrically shaped product to a fixed length with a shutter mechanism while simultaneously encrusting a cut surface with the gelled outer layer composition.

Abstract: A display system includes a processor that acquires a current location of an own vehicle, generates a virtual environment image showing a surrounding environment of the own vehicle based on a current location of the own vehicle and map information, extracts a participant video image, the participant video image being a video image portion of a traffic participant from the real environment video image, determines the presence of an intention to turn of a driver of the own vehicle, and generates and displays on a display device a composite image by inlaying the participant video image into the virtual environment image at a corresponding position.

Abstract: A display system includes a location acquiring unit that acquires a current location of an own vehicle, an environment image generating unit that generates a virtual environment image based on a current location of the own vehicle and map information, the virtual environmental image being a virtual image showing a surrounding environment of the own vehicle, a partial video image extracting unit that acquires a real environment video image of a surrounding of the own vehicle and extracts a participant video image, the participant video image being a video image portion of a traffic participant from the real environment video image, and a display control unit that generates and displays on a display device a composite image by inlaying each of the extracted participant video image into the virtual environment image at a corresponding position on the virtual environment image.

Abstract: A developer includes a toner containing toner particles and a carrier containing carrier particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include first silica particles and spacer particles. The first silica particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and no greater than 30 nm. The spacer particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 32 nm and no greater than 145 nm. The spacer particles in the toner particles have a coverage ratio of at least 2.0% by area and no greater than 40.0% by area. The carrier particles each include a carrier mother particle and strontium titanate particles attached to a surface of the carrier mother particle.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container storing a two-component developer containing a magnetic carrier and a toner, a developer carrying member carrying the developer on its outer circumferential surface, and a regulation member arranged to be opposed at a prescribed distance to the developer carrying member. The developer carrying member includes a developing sleeve on which a magnetic brush is formed, and a magnet secured in the developing sleeve and having a plurality of magnetic poles including a regulation pole opposed to the regulation member and a downstream-side magnetic pole arranged downstream of the regulation pole with respect to the rotation direction of the developing sleeve. The magnet is such that the vertical magnetic force gradient [mT/°] has a local minimum value near a position at which the vertical magnetic force is 0 [mT] between the downstream-side surface of the regulation member and the downstream-side magnetic pole.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a sensor 10 including: a base material 11; a first electroconductive part 12 provided on a first face 11A side of the base material 11; and a second electroconductive part 13 provided on the first face 11A side of the base material 11, and disposed apart from the first electroconductive part 12; wherein the first electroconductive part 12 has a plurality of first electrode portions 12A and a wiring portion 12B electrically connecting the first electrode portions 12A adjacent to each other; wherein the second electroconductive part 13 has a plurality of second electrode portions 13A, and a bridge wiring portion 13B straddling the wiring portion 12B and electrically connecting the second electrode portions 13A adjacent to each other; and wherein the bridge wiring portion 13B contains a resin portion 17B and an electroconductive fiber 18B disposed in the resin portion 17B

Abstract: A vehicle-to-vehicle distance control device includes a delay distance calculation unit and a delay distance compensation unit. In a running scene in which the velocity of a leading vehicle changes, a delay distance generated owing to a delay in a vehicle velocity control unit is calculated, and, while a delay distance compensation vehicle velocity command to compensate for the delay distance is considered for a vehicle velocity command, an actual vehicle-to-vehicle distance is controlled to be matched with a target track from an initial value of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance until arrival at a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance obtained after the leading vehicle accelerates/decelerates.

Abstract: A path generation device (110) of a motor vehicle comprises: a target route-path generation unit (101) for producing a target route-path of the motor vehicle; a lateral position compensation-quantity setting unit (102) for setting a lateral position compensation-quantity being a compensation-quantity in a lateral direction with respect to the target route-path; and a target route-path correction unit (103) for calculating a correction. route-path on the basis of the target route-path and on that of the lateral position compensation-quantity.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a conductive layered body having excellent solvent resistance and scratch resistance as well as a low haze value and a significantly high light transmittance. The present invention relates to a conductive layered body including, as an outermost layer thereof, a conductive layer containing a conductive fibrous filler, wherein the conductive layered body has a Martens hardness of 150 to 3,000 N/mm2 as measured at an indentation depth of 100 nm from a surface, and a ratio, in atomic percentage, of a conductive material element constituting the conductive fibrous filler on an outermost surface-side surface of the conductive layer is 0.15 to 5.00 at %.

Abstract: A wheeled vehicle's antilock brake system (ABS) control device has three kinds of control modes of a braking force oriented mode, a sideways force oriented swinging-motion suppression mode and a sideways force oriented swinging-motion enhancement mode each of which is an ABS control mode being selected by means of an ABS control mode selection unit; and the vehicle ABS control device is so arranged that, in accordance with an ABS control mode selected by the ABS control mode selection unit, target slip rates on each of the vehicle's wheels being set by a target slip-rate setting unit are transferred toward respective braking force orientation or sideways force orientation, thereby the behavior of a wheeled vehicle is stabilized at a time when the wheeled vehicle on which the vehicle ABS control device is mounted makes a turn.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides an electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11, a plurality of light-transmitting electroconductive parts 12 provided on one surface 11A of the light-transmitting base material 11, and a nonconductive part 13 located between the electroconductive parts 12, wherein each of the electroconductive parts 12 contains a light-transmitting resin 15 and an electroconductive fiber 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15; the nonconductive part 13 contains a light-transmitting resin 15; and the surface 13A of the nonconductive part 13 has an arithmetic average roughness of 3 nm or more.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multilayer film comprising a resin composition layer containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol% or more and 60 mol% or less and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer with an ethylene unit content being more than the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, and a thermoplastic resin layer.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-transmitting electroconductive film 10 comprising a light-transmitting base material 11 and an electroconductive part 13 provided on one surface of the light-transmitting base material 11, wherein the electroconductive part 13 includes a light-transmitting resin 15 and plural electroconductive fibers 16 incorporated in the light-transmitting resin 15, and the electroconductive part 13 can conduct electricity from the surface 13A of the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive fibers 16 as a whole are unevenly distributed on the light-transmitting base material side than the position HL, which is located at half the film thickness of the electroconductive part 13 in the electroconductive part 13, and the electroconductive part 13 has a surface resistance value of 200 ?/? or less, and the electroconductive film 10 has a haze value of 5% or less.

Abstract: Provided is a preceding vehicle determining device including: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a signal from an object detection device; a border setting unit configured to set a border of a lane on which the own vehicle is traveling; a determination area setting unit configured to set a preceding vehicle determination area being an area forward of the own vehicle based on at least one piece of information out of vehicle type information, device type information, detection state information, or preceding vehicle information being information on a vehicle set as a preceding vehicle in previous processing, and based on the border set by the border setting unit; and a preceding vehicle determining unit configured to determine whether the another vehicle is to be set as the preceding vehicle based on a position of the another vehicle with respect to the preceding vehicle determination area.

Abstract: To provide a preceding vehicle determination system and a preceding vehicle determination method which can improve the determination accuracy of the preceding vehicle, considering an estimation error of the traveling lane of the own vehicle. A preceding vehicle determination system and a preceding vehicle determination method estimates a high probability region which is a region where the own vehicle probably travels and estimates a middle probability region which is a region where a possibility that the own vehicle travels is lower than the high probability region, based on the traveling state of the own vehicle; and determines whether the front vehicle is a which is traveling forward in a traveling lane of the own vehicle, based on the position history of the front vehicle, the high probability region, and the middle probability region.