Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided to reduce a change in drive force and to start an engine without delay when starting the engine by a motor during running. The control system is applied to a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and two motors supplied electric power from a battery. The control system comprises a determination means that determines a fact that a state of charge of the battery is lower than a first threshold, during propelling the vehicle by the two motors by supplying the electric power from the battery while stopping the engine (at step S2); and a drive force restriction means that restricts a total drive force of said two motors for propelling the vehicle to an allowable limit which is lower than a theoretical maximum drive force of said two motors, given that the state of charge of the battery is lower than a first threshold (at step S3).

Abstract: A nitride crystal which encircles an outer periphery of a seed crystal, the nitride crystal in an embodiment includes: a first partial region, and a second partial region that has optical characteristics different from those of the first partial region and has optical characteristics which indicate the crystal orientation.

Abstract: A magnetic toner is provided that exhibits an excellent electrostatic offset resistance both initially and after long-term use. The magnetic toner contains: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic body; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain a prescribed metal oxide fine particle in a prescribed proportion; the magnetic toner has prescribed numerical value ranges for a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particle surface covered by the inorganic fine particles and for a coverage ratio B by the inorganic fine particles that are fixed to the magnetic toner particle surface; the magnetic toner particle contains a crystalline polyester; and measurement of the magnetic toner with a differential scanning calorimeter provides a characteristic differential scanning calorimetric curve.

Abstract: This solid-state image sensor includes an array of photosensitive cells and an array of dispersive elements. The photosensitive cell array is comprised of a plurality of unit blocks 40, each including four photosensitive cells 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d. An optical filter 11a is arranged to cover those photosensitive cells 2a through 2d. A portion of the optical filter 11a that covers the photosensitive cells 2a and 2b is located closer to the imaging area than another portion thereof that covers the photosensitive cells 2c and 2d.

Abstract: A surface conditioning composition for use in surface conditioning of a metal prior to being subjected to a phosphate-based chemical conversion treatment, in which the surface conditioning composition has a pH of 3 to 12, and includes at least one kind of zinc compound particles selected from the group consisting of zinc oxide particles, zinc hydroxide particles, and basic zinc carbonate particles; phosphoric acid and/or condensed phosphoric acid; and an amine compound having a specific structure and in which the zinc compound particles are dispersed and stabilized by the phosphoric acid and/or condensed phosphoric acid, and the amine compound.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image sets obtained by different acquisition methods, a generation unit that generates partial image sets by extracting corresponding partial images from respective images of the image sets, an assignment unit that assigns the partial image sets to a root node of a tree structure, a setting unit that sets, at each node of the tree structure, positions of a plurality of pixels for each partial image set assigned to the node, a determination unit that determines whether any one of the plurality of pixels in a. partial image obtained by a predetermined one of the different acquisition methods in each partial image set has an invalid value, and a selection unit that selects art acquisition method based on the determination.

Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas purification device of an internal combustion engine comprising a catalyst (45) having an active element and a composite oxidation which carries the active element in an exhaust passage (40), the active element transforming into the composite oxide as a solid solution when the catalyst temperature is higher than or equal to a predetermined solid solution temperature and the atmosphere of the interior of the catalyst is an oxidation atmosphere and the active element precipitating from the composite oxide when the catalyst temperature is higher than or equal to a predetermined precipitation temperature and the atmosphere of the interior of the catalyst is a reduction atmosphere.

Abstract: A reverse conducting IGBT that includes an insulated gate; a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type drift region, a second conductivity type body region, a first conductivity type emitter region, and a second conductivity type intermediate region; and an emitter electrode provided on a surface of the semiconductor layer. The first conductivity type drift region of the semiconductor layer contacts the insulated gate. The second conductivity type body region of the semiconductor layer is provided on the drift region and contacts the insulated gate. The first conductivity type emitter region of the semiconductor layer is provided on the body region and contacts the insulated gate. The second conductivity type intermediate region of the semiconductor layer is provided on the emitter region and is interposed between the emitter region and the emitter electrode.

Abstract: This drive apparatus includes a first rotation mechanism portion including a first driven gear portion rotated by a first drive gear portion rotating about a first axis and a second rotation mechanism portion including a second driven gear portion rotated by a second drive gear portion rotating about the first axis.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, a sensor, and a controller. The display has a screen. The touch panel is configured to detect contact. The sensor is configured to detect an inclination. The controller is configured to determine whether contact is detected by the touch panel, and control display of an image displayed on the screen based on the inclination detected by the sensor in a period of time from detection of contact by the touch panel to release of the contact.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller configured to form a nip portion; and a sheet guide that is configured to guide a recording sheet. The sheet guide comprises: a conductor configured to face the recording sheet, and insulating ribs that are arranged corresponding to a printing area of the recording sheet in a width direction and are configured to protrude from the conductor to guide the recording sheet. The conductor comprises: a central portion, and a pair of end portions and are configured to protrude towards the recording sheet from a virtual plane extending from the central portion in the width direction. Protrusion amounts of the end portions with respect to the central portion are smaller than a protrusion amount of each rib from the central portion of the conductor.

Abstract: The present inventors conducted dedicated studies and successfully constructed expression vectors that enable high-level production of foreign gene-derived proteins in mammalian host cells, which comprise a translation-impaired dihydrofolate reductase gene cistron whose expression has been attenuated by altering the codons to the least frequently used codons in mammals; and a gene cassette which has a cloning site for incorporation of a foreign gene between a highly transcriptionally active promoter and a highly stable polyadenylation signal.

Abstract: A game system includes a management apparatus and a game device. The management apparatus includes an authentication section for obtaining results of authentications using first and second identifiers that should correspond to a user. When the results of the authentications are affirmative, a validity time limit is associated with the first identifier. In addition, the game device includes a confirmatory identifier acquirer for acquiring a confirmatory identifier that should correspond to the user, and an inquiry maker for making an inquiry asking the management apparatus to check whether or not the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus. The inquiry inquires the management apparatus to check whether or not the validity time limit corresponding to the first identifier is a time after the present time when the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp controller, a vehicle lamp system having the vehicle controller, and a vehicle lamp control method are provided. The vehicle lamp controller includes a receiver configured to receive information on a detected vector from an output of an acceleration sensor, a memory in which a plurality of reference vectors are stored, the reference vectors corresponding to different pitch angles of a vehicle, a control unit configured to obtain a pitch angle of the vehicle from the detected vector and one of the reference vectors that has a smallest angle with respect to the detected vector, and to generate a control signal for adjusting an optical axis of a vehicle lamp based on the obtained pitch angle, and a transmitter configured to transmit the control signal to an optical axis adjustment portion of the vehicle lamp.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first impedance adjustment circuit of a driver circuit includes a first resistor having an end connected to a first signal node. The first impedance adjustment circuit includes a first MOS transistor having an end connected to the other end of the first resistor. The first impedance adjustment circuit includes a second resistor having an end connected to the first signal node. The first impedance adjustment circuit includes a second MOS transistor having an end connected to the other end of the second resistor. The first impedance adjustment circuit includes a third resistor having an end connected to the other end of the first MOS transistor and the other end of the second MOS transistor, and the other end connected to the first output pad.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film which includes oxidized material containing silicon and covers the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and overlap with at least the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the oxide semiconductor film, a first region which is provided to be in contact with the gate insulating film and have a thickness less than or equal to 5 nm has a silicon concentration lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and a region in the oxide semiconductor film other than the first region has lower silicon concentration than the first region. At least the first region includes a crystal portion.

Abstract: On-vehicle electrical loads (121,122) are connected to an on-vehicle battery (101) via a series circuit including a load switching element (221,222) and a reverse current interrupting element (200a) for a load circuit, and a feeding switching element (120A) that is closed in response to closure of a power supply switch (110). The element (FET) (200a) is closed when the switch (110) is closed and a power supply voltage is applied to a load power supply terminal (Vba) connected to the element (120A), to thereby be energized in an energization direction of an internal parasitic diode thereof. The element (200a) is de-energized when the switch (110) is opened. Thus, malfunction is prevented, which occurs when the element (120A) is opened, a short-to-power flows backward via the element (200a) into the terminal (Vba) so as to feed power to another device connected to the element (200a).

Abstract: A semiconductor substrate comprises an IGBT region and a diode region. The IGBT region comprises: an n-type emitter region; a p-type IGBT body region; an n-type IGBT barrier region; an n-type IGBT drift region; a p-type collector region; a first trench; a first insulating layer; and a first gate electrode. The diode region comprises: a p-type diode top body region; an n-type diode barrier region; a p-type diode bottom body region; an n-type cathode region; a second trench; a second insulating layer; and a second gate electrode. An n-type impurity density of a specific part of the diode barrier region making contact with the second insulating layer is higher than an n-type impurity density of the IGBT barrier region.

Abstract: An antiadhesive material is provided and contains a poly-?-glutamic acid having a weight-average molecular weight of 600,000 to 13,000,000, or a kinematic viscosity at 37° C. of 2 cSt to 15 cSt when dissolved in distilled water at a concentration of 0.05% by mass and/or a salt thereof, as an effective ingredient. The antiadhesive material may have any form such as powder or gel form, and therefore, for example, is easy to handle even in relatively localized surgery such as endoscopic surgery and can more reliably prevent adhesion.

Abstract: The object is to constitute a hash function by removing a feed-forward arithmetic operation. A hash value calculation device, for each integer i of i=1, . . . , L in an ascending order, calculates a function f[i] which, upon input of a value M[i] having k-n bits, an n-bit value y1[i-1] (a value y1[0] is a predetermined value IV1), and an n-bit value y2[i-1] (a value y2[0] is a predetermined value IV2), outputs an n-bit value x1[i], an n-bit value x2[i], a k-bit value k1[i], and a k-bit value k2[i]; for the value x1[i] as a plaintext and the value k1[i] as a key, calculates an n-bit value y1[i] with an encryption function of a block cipher; and for the value x2[i] as a plaintext and the value k2[i] as a key, calculates an n-bit value y2[i] with the encryption function for the block cipher. The hash value calculation device, upon input of a value y1[L] and a value y2[L] which are calculated, calculates a hash value with an injective function g.