Abstract: An outdoor heat exchanger includes: a group of windward flat tubes, a group of leeward flat tubes and a distributor. When the outdoor heat exchanger acts as an evaporator, the refrigerant flows through the plurality of second flat tubes, the plurality of fourth flat tubes, the plurality of third flat tubes, and the plurality of first flat tubes in this order, and when the outdoor heat exchanger acts as a condenser, the refrigerant flows through the plurality of first flat tubes, the plurality of third flat tubes, the plurality of fourth flat tubes, and the plurality of second flat tubes in this order.

Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.

Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for a cured substance, which makes it possible to obtain a cured substance having excellent breaking elongation, a manufacturing method for a laminate, including the manufacturing method for a cured substance, a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, including the manufacturing method for a cured substance or the manufacturing method for a laminate, and there is provided a treatment liquid that is used in the manufacturing method for a cured substance. The manufacturing method for a cured substance includes a film forming step of applying a resin composition containing a precursor of a cyclization resin onto a base material to form a film, a treatment step of bringing a treatment liquid into contact with the film, and a heating step of heating the film after the treatment step, in which the treatment liquid contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a basic compound having an amide group and a base generator having an amide group.

Abstract: A 3D-modeling system includes a first discharge section, a second discharge section, a stage, a heating section, and a control section, wherein the control section performs a modeling process molding a first molded object and a second molded object on a modeling surface by controlling the first and second discharge sections to discharge modeling materials having different plasticization temperatures from each other from the first and second discharge sections and a heating process by controlling the heating section configured to heat the molding materials discharged from the first and second discharge sections at different temperatures from each other, and the modeling process is performed such that a period in which the modeling material discharged from the first discharge section is deposited on the modeling surface and a period in which the modeling material discharged from the second discharge section is deposited on the modeling surface overlap each other.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a mode field diameter test method and test device that enable acquisition of a mode field diameter for an arbitrary higher-order mode. The present disclosure is a mode field diameter test method including: a test light incidence procedure for selectively causing test light to be incident in a mode subject to measurement, on one end of an optical fiber 10 under test; a far-field pattern measurement procedure for measuring a far-field pattern of the mode subject to measurement, with respect to a divergence angle ? at the other end of the optical fiber under test, by a far-field scanning technique; and a mode field diameter calculation procedure for calculating, using an equation, a mode field diameter from information about incident mode orders in the test light incidence procedure and the far-field pattern measured in the far-field pattern measurement procedure.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of shortening processing time of a neural network is provided. The memory stores a compressed weight parameter. A plurality of multiply accumulators perform a multiply-accumulation operation to a plurality of pixel data and a plurality of weight parameters. A decompressor restores the compressed weight parameter stored in the memory to a plurality of weight parameters. A memory for weight parameter stores the plurality of weight parameters restored by the decompressor. The DMA controller transfers the plurality of weight parameters from the memory to the memory for weight parameter via the decompressor. A sequence controller writes down the plurality of weight parameters stored in the memory for weight parameter to a weight parameter buffer at write timing.

Abstract: An insulating material-coated soft magnetic powder includes: a core particle that includes a base portion containing a soft magnetic material containing Fe as a main component and at least one of Si, Cr, and Al, and that includes an oxide film provided on a surface of the base portion and containing an oxide of at least one of Si, Cr, and Al; and an insulating film that is provided on a surface of the core particle and that contains a ceramic, in which a thickness of the insulating film is 5 nm or more and 300 nm or less, and the oxide contained in the oxide film and the ceramic contained in the insulating film are mutually diffused at an interface between the oxide film and the insulating film.

Abstract: An amorphous alloy soft magnetic powder contains a particle having a composition with a compositional formula Fea(Si1-xBx)bCc expressed by an atomic ratio, in which 76.0?a?81.0, 16.0?b?22.0, 0<c?3.0, and 0.5?x?0.9. When XAFS measurement is performed with an analysis depth set to a surface, an obtained Si—K absorption edge XANES spectrum has a peak A having an energy in a range of 1845±1 eV and a peak B having an energy in a range of 1848±1 eV, and an intensity ratio A/B is 0.25 or less where A is an intensity of the peak A and B is an intensity of the peak B.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber strain measurement method including, in order: a strain amount measurement step S2 of measuring a strain amount ?n? of each core wire of an optical fiber ribbon F; a torsion angle calculation step S3 of calculating a torsion angle ? per unit length of the optical fiber ribbon F on the basis of a difference ?? in strain amount between an outer core wire and an inner core wire; a torsional strain amount calculation step S4 of calculating a strain amount ?n caused by torsion of each core wire of the optical fiber ribbon F on the basis of the torsion angle ?; and a tensile strain amount calculation step S5 of subtracting the strain amount ?n from the strain amount ?n?, and calculating a strain amount ??n caused by tension of each core wire of the optical fiber ribbon F.

Abstract: An optical fiber testing method is presented for measuring the change amount for the wave number k of a Brillouin Frequency Shift ? in stimulated Brillouin scattering generated in the same acoustic mode with respect to each target propagation mode. In this way, the ratio of the change amount measured at each propagation mode is acquired as the group delay ratio between the modes.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor laser that includes: an active layer; a grating layer including a phase shift portion with partially different grating periods; a contact layer placed above the grating layer; a highly resistive element higher in electric resistance than the contact layer; and an electrode in contact with the contact layer, and the highly resistive element is below at least a part of a portion of the electrode that overlaps with the phase shift portion.

Abstract: A backscattered light intensity measurement unit is presented that acquires a combination of backscattered light intensities of individual transmittable spatial channels of an optical fiber obtained when test light, for the respective transmittable spatial channels of the optical fiber, is incident on the optical fiber, and a transfer matrix calculation unit that calculates a transfer matrix for each section of the optical fiber in order from a side closer to an incident end of the test light, in which characteristics in a section of the optical fiber are evaluated by using the transfer matrix.

Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument that can output stored lyrics of a song in accordance with operations by a user, a processor determines whether a pedal is on or off, and if the pedal is off, the lyric is advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard, and if the pedal is on, the lyric is not advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operation unit that receives a user performance; and at least one processor. wherein the at least one processor performs the following: in accordance with a user operation specifying a chord on the operation unit, obtaining lyric data of a lyric and obtaining a plurality of pieces of waveform data respectively corresponding to a plurality of pitches indicated by the specified chord; inputting the obtained lyric data to a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voices of a singer so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; synthesizing each of the plurality of pieces of waveform data with the acoustic feature data so as to generate a plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data; and outputting a polyphonic synthesized singing voice based on the generated plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide an optical pulse testing method and optical pulse testing device capable of measuring the loss at an end farther than an axially misaligned connection point at which inter-mode crosstalk occurs independently from the crosstalk value at the point. In this optical pulse testing method, a matrix (loss and crosstalk) representing the mode coupling at a near-end connection point is calculated, and an OTDR waveform having the effects of crosstalk eliminated therefrom is obtained by numerical processing using the calculated matrix representing the mode coupling.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of reducing power consumption is provided. A group controller detects a zero weight parameter having a zero value among “n×m” weight parameters to be transferred to a weight parameter buffer. Then, when receiving the zero weight parameter as its input, the group controller exchanges the “n×m” weight parameters to be transferred to the weight parameter buffer so that all multiplication results of the “n” multipliers included in a target multiplier group that is one of the “m” multiplier groups are zero. The group controller controls the target multiplier group to be disabled, and exchanges the “n×m” pixel data to be transferred to the data input buffer, based on the exchange of the “n×m” weight parameters.

Abstract: A phosphor has a crystal structure of a garnet type and is expressed by a general formula BaaY3-a-bAl5-aSiaO12:Ceb (wherein a and b are values within a range that satisfies 12.0113?A+0.036b?0.003a?12.0153, when A denotes a lattice size of the crystal structure, a [mol] denotes an amount of Ba incorporated in solid solution, and b [mol] denotes an amount of Ce incorporated in solid solution).

Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for a cured substance, which makes it possible to obtain a cured substance having excellent breaking elongation, a manufacturing method for a laminate, including the manufacturing method for a cured substance, a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, including the manufacturing method for a cured substance or the manufacturing method for a laminate, and there is provided a treatment liquid that is used in the manufacturing method for a cured substance. The manufacturing method for a cured substance includes a film forming step of applying a resin composition containing a precursor of a cyclization resin onto a base material to form a film, a treatment step of bringing a treatment liquid into contact with the film, and a heating step of heating the film after the treatment step, in which the treatment liquid contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a basic compound having an amide group and a base generator having an amide group.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a backscattered light amplification device, an optical pulse test apparatus, a backscattered light amplification method, and an optical pulse test method for amplifying a desired propagation mode of Rayleigh backscattered light with a desired gain by stimulated Brillouin scattering in a fiber under test having the plurality of propagation modes. The backscattered light amplification device according to the present invention is configured to control individually power, incident timing, and pulse width of a pump pulse for each propagation mode when the pump pulse is incident in a plurality of propagation modes after the probe pulse is input to the fiber under test in any propagation mode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber measurement system, an optical fiber measurement method, a control calculation device, and a program that are capable of measuring loss and XT occurring at a plurality of points of an optical fiber in which a plurality of modes propagate, for each point.