Micron Technology Incorporated

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Subaru Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Kentaro Ishii

Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy

Yongjun Jeff Hu

Hiroshi Nishimura

Christopher W Petz

Tadafumi Nogawa

Luca Fumagalli

Amirhasan Nourbakhsh

Fumiyuki Moriya

Takeshi Yamazaki

Mutsumi Katayama

Koji Sengoku

Hiroshi Ienaga

Ryozo Koyama

Yo Masuda

Akihito Katsume

Kazuma Takeuchi

Masahiro Washizu

Ken Kurisu

Hiroshi Tanooka

Daisuke Tagawa

Masami Tsujimoto

Provided is a method for rolling a steel sheet and a method for manufacturing a steel sheet capable of preventing occurrence of defects in appearance of a steel sheet caused by oil spots of a coolant and preventing occurrence of defects in shape of a steel sheet by appropriately controlling thermal deformation of work rolls. The method for rolling a steel sheet according to the present invention is a method for rolling a steel sheet involving feeding of a coolant to rolls that form a rolling mill during the rolling. The method includes keeping a coolant feeding rate at or lower than a predetermined rate lower than an upper constant rate at a start of operation of the rolling mill, and increasing the coolant feeding rate to the upper constant rate in response to an amount of center buckles of the steel sheet reaching or exceeding an upper target value.

Method for rolling steel sheet and method for manufacturing steel sheet

A method of forming an apparatus comprises forming a first metal nitride material over an upper surface of a conductive material within an opening extending through at least one dielectric material through a non-conformal deposition process. A second metal nitride material is formed over an upper surface of the first metal nitride material and side surfaces of the at least one dielectric material partially defining boundaries of the opening through a conformal deposition process. A conductive structure is formed over surfaces of the second metal nitride material within the opening. Apparatuses and electronic systems are also described.

Devices, methods of forming a device, and memory devices

A microelectronic device comprises a first conductive material comprising copper, a conductive plug comprising tungsten in electrical communication with the first conductive material, and manganese particles dispersed along an interface between the first conductive material and the conductive plug. Related electronic systems and related methods are also disclosed.

Microelectronic devices comprising manganese-containing conductive structures, and related electronic systems

An optical cable, in which a fiber optic core and tensile strength filaments are covered with a covering, is connected to a connecting element incorporated into a connector, wherein a clamping member clamps the end portion of the covering along its outer peripheral surface in a state where the covering has been removed from the end portion of the optical cable such that the fiber optic core and the tensile strength filaments are uncovered; a gripping member that grips the exposed tensile strength filaments in a state where the exposed fiber optic core passes therethrough; and a protective member that covers a range extending from the clamping member to the gripping member in the axial direction of the fiber optic core in a state where the exposed fiber optic core is connected to a connecting element of the connector while the gripping member is attached to the connector.

Optical cable connection structure and optical cable connection method

Methods of forming an apparatus, and related apparatuses and electronic systems

Microelectronic devices comprising manganese-containing conductive structures, and related electronic systems and methods

A vehicle control apparatus includes a thermal load priority calculator, a stability priority calculator, and a driving force distribution controller. The thermal load priority calculator is configured to calculate a thermal load priority that prioritizes a thermal load of a motor for driving a vehicle according to an operating state of the vehicle. The stability priority calculator is configured to calculate a stability priority that prioritizes a stability of the vehicle according to an operating state of the vehicle. The driving force distribution controller is configured to control a driving force distribution in a front and a rear of the vehicle, on a basis of a result of comparing the thermal load priority and the stability priority.

Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method

A vehicle power supply device including a power storage device includes: an inlet that is coupled to an external power supply via a charging cable when the power storage device is charged using the external power supply; an outlet that is coupled to an external device when power is supplied from the power storage device to the external device; a first power converter that is formed between the inlet and the power storage device and converts alternating current (AC) power into direct current (DC) power; a second power converter that is formed between the outlet and the power storage device and converts DC power into AC power; and a malfunction diagnosis unit that diagnoses malfunction of a power supply path in a state in which the inlet and the outlet are coupled to each other using the charging cable.

Vehicle power supply device and malfunction diagnosis method thereof

Provided is a system or the like capable of allowing a navigation-client to efficiently use a route search result by a navigation server, while accepting the existence of difference between map data used by each of the navigation server and the navigation-client. By having a common description such as coordinate values, it is able to make the navigation-clientefficiently use the route search result by the navigation server, while accepting the existence of difference of map data used by each of the navigation serverand the navigation-client

Navigation system, navigation server, navigation client, and navigation method

A waterproof connector includes a housing and an elastic seal member. The housing includes a hollow portion for accommodating a mating connector. The elastic seal member is placed in the housing. The elastic seal member includes a main body portion and an engaged portion extending from the main body portion. An extending end portion of the engaged portion includes a protruding portion, and the protruding portion protrudes outwardly. The extending end portion has a width in a protruding direction of the protruding portion greater than a width of an entrance of an installation portion in the protruding direction where the extending end portion is to be accommodated.

Waterproof connector having an elastic seal member with the engaged portion

Disclosed is a weather information processing device that can make the users of a mobile object aware of the changes in weather conditions in various environments. The weather information processing device is mounted in a vehicle and includes a first arithmetic processing element and a second arithmetic processing element. The first arithmetic processing element intermittently measures a weather condition variable indicating the weather conditions that a vehicle is in contact with, and if the current measurement value of the weather condition variable has a deviation of a predetermined value or greater from a reference value, generates a weather change detection information indicating the deviation. The second arithmetic processing element transmits the weather change detection information to another weather information processing device mounted in another vehicle to make it output a first weather information according to the weather change detection information.

Weather information processing device and weather information processing system

A navigation server is equipped with a support route searching element which searches for a support route from a departure position to a destination position, on the basis of a journey plan and a support map information of a support map information database, a support information retrieving element which retrieves discount information satisfying discount conditions of a toll of toll roads, on the basis of the departure time of the mobile body and the support route, and a support data creating element which transmits discount notice data which is capable of making the car navigation system output the discount information while omitting information arithmetic processing using navigation map information to the car navigation system.

Navigation server and navigation system

An inter-terminal connection structure includes a circuit board terminal to be mounted on a circuit board; and a connection connector for connecting the circuit board terminal. The circuit board terminal includes a base portion, a pair of contact pieces extending from the base portion, and a pair of locking pieces extending from the base portion. Each contact pieces includes an elastic arm portion, and each locking pieces includes a locking portion having a locking protrusion. The connection connector includes a connection terminal having a plate shape portion sandwiched between the contact pieces and the locking pieces, and a housing that holds the connection terminal. The plate shape portion includes a locked portion, so that the locking protrusion is situated in the locked portion with a play to be movable when the connection connector is attached to the circuit board terminal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kentaro Ishii