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: A toilet device includes an electric opening/closing unit configured to open and close at least one of a toilet seat or a toilet lid. The electric opening/closing unit includes a case, a motor, an output shaft, a transmission mechanism and a spring. The output shaft outputs a rotation of the motor to one of the toilet seat or the toilet lid. The transmission mechanism transmits the rotation of the motor to the output shaft. The spring is connected to the transmission mechanism and the output shaft. The spring urges the output shaft in a rotational direction of the output shaft. The transmission mechanism includes an engaging part engaging the spring. The engaging part engages an end part of the spring at the transmission mechanism side and restricts the end part from moving in a circumferential direction of the spring and from moving in a radial direction of the spring.

Abstract: First transmission device includes a first counter that generates counter value incremented in a specified cycle. Second transmission device includes a second counter that generates counter value incremented in the specified cycle. Polarization variation monitoring device acquires a first counter value generated by the first counter and a second counter value extracted by the first transmission device from a received frame transmitted from the second transmission device when the first transmission device detects polarization variation, and a third counter value generated by the second counter and a fourth counter value extracted by the second transmission device from a frame transmitted from the first transmission device when the second detector detects the polarization variation. The polarization variation monitoring device determines an occurrence position of the polarization variation based on the first counter value, the second counter value, the third counter value and the fourth counter value.

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: The present disclosure provides anti-CTLA-4 antibodies and methods of producing and using the antibodies. The present disclosure also provides nucleic acids encoding the anti-CTLA-4 antibodies and host cells containing the nucleic acids. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides polypeptides containing a variant Fc region and methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antibody which binds specifically to human TLR7 or monkey TLR7 and does not bind to mouse TLR7 or rat TLR7, and has an activity of inhibiting a function of human TLR7 or monkey TLR7, and the like.

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.

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: There are provided a positioning method and a positioning device that can position workpieces by a simple method and configuration. A positioning method includes: gripping at least one of first and second workpieces; obtaining point group data of the at least one gripped workpiece of the first and second workpieces; calculating a translation matrix of shape fitting point group data obtained by adjusting a position of the point group data to reference data in a position adjustment state of the first and second workpieces; calculating an inverse matrix based on the translation matrix; and positioning the first and second workpieces by moving the at least one gripped workpiece of the first and second workpieces based on at least one of the translation matrix and the inverse matrix.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container storing a two-component developer, a developer carrying member, and a regulation member. The developer carrying member includes a developing sleeve, and a magnet having a regulation pole opposite the regulation member and a main pole opposite the image carrying member. The regulation member is arranged downstream of the position at which the vertical magnetic force of the regulation pole is 0 [mT] but upstream of a position at which the vertical and horizontal magnetic forces of the regulation pole are equal. Let the horizontal magnetic force gradient at the position at which the horizontal magnetic force of the main pole is 0 [mT] be A and the horizontal magnetic force gradient at the upstream-side surface of the regulation member along the rotation direction of the developing sleeve be B, then |A|>2.45 and |B|<1.30.

Abstract: A steering system is configured such that electric power is supplied to a steering actuator and a turning actuator from a first power supply when a power state of a vehicle is an on state and supply of the electric power from the first power supply is cut off when the power state is an off state. The steering system includes a rotation curbing unit configured to operate such that rotation of the steering wheel is curbed in at least a part of a first power-off period from when the power state becomes an off state until when the power state becomes the on state next, as an operating period, and a second power supply configured to supply, to the rotation curbing unit, the electric power required for operation of the rotation curbing unit in the operating period, the second power supply being different from the first power supply.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a first stirring conveyance member, a second stirring conveyance member, a developer carrying member including a developing sleeve and a magnet, and a regulation member. The regulation pole in the magnet has a region extending over 10° or more in which a maximum value of a vertical magnetic force is not more than 65 [mT] and a vertical magnetic force gradient is not more than 0.3 [mT/°]. A peak position of the vertical magnetic force gradient of the regulation pole is arranged at a position opposed to the second stirring conveyance member, and when a value of the vertical magnetic force gradient and a value of the vertical magnetic force at the peak position of the vertical magnetic force gradient are indicated as A [mT/°] and K [mT], respectively, A?2.8 and A×K?62.5 are satisfied.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides anti-CTLA-4 antibodies and methods of producing and using the antibodies. The present disclosure also provides nucleic acids encoding the anti-CTLA-4 antibodies and host cells containing the nucleic acids. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides polypeptides containing a variant Fc region containing amino acid alterations in a parent Fc region and methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: A recording medium storing a program causing a computer to execute: acquiring, for each model, an attack result of an estimation attack, the acquiring for a respective model being performed by using the respective model and a plurality of data, each model being a model trained by using synthetic data that simulates training data, an amount of the synthetic data for each model being different from each other; specifying, based on the attack result for each model, specific data from among the plurality of data; performing the estimation attack by using the specific data for a specific model of which an amount of the synthetic data is between the amounts of the synthetic data used for any two models; and evaluating, based on an attack result for the specific data and the attack result for each model, a resistance to the estimation attack for the specific model.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with an ethylene unit content of 20 mol % or more and 60 mol % or less, a divalent metal hydroxide (B) and a monovalent metal compound (C), wherein a content of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) is 5 ppm or more and 5000 ppm or less, and a mass ratio (C/B) of the amount of the monovalent metal compound (C) in terms of the monovalent metal atom to the amount of the divalent metal hydroxide (B) in terms of the divalent metal atom is 0.025 to 100. Thus, there is provided a resin composition containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having excellent long run property during melt molding and excellent color phase in long-term melt molding.

Abstract: Provided are a metal-clad laminate, a printed circuit board, and a semiconductor package, wherein the warps therein are effectively suppressed. Specifically the metal-clad laminate comprises a prepreg, wherein the prepreg has a resin composition attached to a fiber base material and satisfies a following formula (1) as well as a Mowing formula (2), provided that in the formulae, a1 represents an average thickness of the resin composition after being cured which is present on one surface of the fiber base material; a2 represents an average thickness of the resin composition after being cured which is present on other surface of the fiber base material; and B represents an average thickness of the fiber base material. 0.12<{(a1+a2)/2}/B??(1) 0.8?a1/a2?1.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor driving circuit of capable of stopping operation within a short period of time. A bridge circuit of the present disclosure is connected to a fan motor. In response to a stop instruction, a control logic circuit fixes an upper arm of a source phase in which a current flows out to be off in the bridge circuit, and maintains statuses of other upper arms and lower arms. The control logic circuit then fixes the upper arms and the lower arms of all phases of the bridge circuit to be off.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production method for a composition for cell culturing. This production method comprises: (1) a step for subjecting algae to an acid hydrolysis treatment and/or an alkali hydrolysis treatment; (2) a step for neutralizing the hydrolysis product obtained in the step (1) to obtain an algae extract; and (3) a step for mixing the algae extract with a medium for cell culturing, wherein the medium for cell culturing does not substantially contain L-glutamine.

Abstract: An outdoor unit includes at least one heat exchanger, a first motor including a first fan, a second motor including a second fan, an inverter that applies voltage to the first motor and the second for respectively, a connection switching unit that switches the voltage applied to the second motor between on and off, and a control unit that controls the inverter and the connection switching unit. The inverter is disposed closer to the first motor than to the second motor.