Abstract: A screw device is provided which can facilitate management of a tolerance of a recess where a circulation component is housed. A circulation component is housed in a recess of a nut with clearance. At least part of the circulation component is blocked by a lid member fixed to the nut by fastening means. Upon a centrifugal force acting on a rolling element moving along a circulation path in the circulation component, the circulation component comes into contact at three points with the recess as viewed in an axial direction.

Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a thin-film carbon foam and a method of manufacture the same. It is another object of the present disclosure to provide a stack carbon foam having fewer through holes and a method of manufacturing the same. The carbon foam of the present disclosure is, for example, a stack carbon foam being a stack of at least two monolayer carbon foams stacked one another, each monolayer carbon foam comprising linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, or a carbon foam comprising linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, wherein the ratio of the number of large through holes having a diameter of 1 mm or more to the surface area of the carbon foam is 0.0003/mm2 or less.

Abstract: An improved solid-state image sensor including a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric convertor to convert a light signal into an electrical charge; a transfer transistor to transfer the electrical charge to a floating diffusion; a reset transistor to reset the floating diffusion; and an amplifier transistor to amplify a signal when the floating diffusion is connected to a gate of the amplifier transistor. A first voltage is set less than or equal to a second voltage. Each of a third voltage and a fourth voltage is set higher than a voltage of a ground. The third voltage is a gate voltage of the transistor resistor at times other than the time of reading a signal of the pixel and the fourth voltage is a gate voltage of the reset transistor at times other than a reset time of the reset transistor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon foam and a membrane electrode assembly having linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions; and a carbon foam and a membrane electrode assembly having linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, where the carbon content is 51 mass % or more, and the mean deviation of coefficient of friction by the Kawabata evaluation system method is 0.006 or less.

Abstract: An air-cooled engine generator usable in an enclosed and relatively small indoor space includes an engine including a crank shaft on which a generator and a fan are provided. An outside cover includes a discharge aperture which discharges cooling air generated by the fan, and covers the engine, the generator, the fan, and a cooling section. The cooling section includes a mixing chamber where a coolant introduced from the outside and exhaust gas discharged from an exhaust pipe of the engine mix with each other, and an outer circumferential surface which is cooled by the coolant that is introduced into the mixing chamber. The exhaust gas is mixed with and cooled by the coolant in the mixing chamber while the cooling air which is supposed to be discharged out of the air-cooled engine generator is cooled by the outer circumferential surface of the cooling section.

Abstract: Provided is a nonwoven fabric structure containing an odd-shaped fiber. The odd-shaped fiber has bubbles inside and has a cross-sectional shape that is an irregular, non-circular cross-section. Further, it is preferable that the cross-sectional shape of the odd-shaped fiber changes in the fiber length direction, the odd-shaped fiber has a crystallinity of 40% or less, and the odd-shaped fiber is made of at least two kinds of thermoplastic resins. It is also preferable that that the nonwoven fabric structure contains a heat fusible fiber, the odd-shaped fiber is present in the form of a net-like fiber sheet, and the odd-shaped fiber is in the form of short fibers. In addition, a method for producing such a nonwoven fabric structure is a method in which a thermoplastic resin containing a foaming agent is extruded through a slit die to give an odd-shaped fiber having bubbles inside, followed by three-dimensional shaping.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.

Abstract: An A/D conversion device includes a phase-difference clock generation unit configured to use a plurality of phase interpolators to generate multi-phase clock signals, of which phases are shifted with respect to an input clock signal, from the input clock signal and a signal obtained by delaying the input clock signal; and an A/D conversion unit configured to perform A/D conversion on an input analog signal using the multi-phase clock signals generated by the phase-difference clock generation unit.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensing device includes a pixel array, control lines, signal lines, a pixel control circuit, and a read circuit. The pixel array includes pixel sub-arrays arranged in a main scanning direction and each including pixels arranged to form rows along the main scanning direction and at least one column along a sub-scanning direction. Each of the control lines is connected to at least one pixel in in one of the pixel sub-arrays. Pixels in each of the least one column is connected to different control lines. Each of the signal lines is connected to all pixels in each of the least one column in one of the pixel sub-arrays. The pixel control circuit generates a pixel signal in each pixel and the read circuit reads the pixel signal from each pixel to cause successive phase differences between the pixel sub-arrays.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that when a mobile terminal and image forming apparatus are used in combination, causes an operation to be performed by operating only one side. The image forming apparatus is used by being connected to a mobile terminal provided with a terminal side touch panel display. The communicating unit communicates with the mobile terminal and exchanges data. The apparatus side touch panel display is used for self operation of the image forming apparatus. The control unit, via the communicating unit, receives terminal side image data as content that is displayed on the terminal side touch panel display of the mobile terminal from the mobile terminal side, transmits apparatus side operation data corresponding to the content operated by a user on the apparatus side touch panel display to the mobile terminal side, and causes an application in the mobile terminal to be executed using the apparatus side operation data.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor of a second conductivity type, the first transistor is arranged in an active region of a semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode and the active region overlap with each other in a plan view and also have a portion located between the source and the drain of the first transistor of the semiconductor substrate. In the channel width direction, an impurity concentration of the second conductivity type is higher at the end than on the center side of the portion.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, a read signal processing circuit, a test signal output circuit, a test signal generating circuit, and a control circuit that controls operations of the above mentioned circuits. Each of the plurality of pixels outputs a pixel signal that is obtained by amplifying a photoelectrically converted signal using an output amplifier in one or more pixel units. The read signal processing circuit reads the pixel signal output from the pixel unit in units of one or more pixels to a corresponding signal line and processes the pixel signal. The test signal output circuit, having a test output amplifier for each signal line, outputs a signal from the test output amplifier to the signal line in response to a test signal input to the test output amplifier. The test signal generating circuit generates the test signal.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a plurality of pixels to receive light; and a signal processor to process a signal of the pixels. The signal processor includes: a first element, being a transistor, having a first effective channel width through which a current can effectively pass through in the first element; and a second element, being a transistor, having a second effective channel width through which a current can effectively pass through in the second element. The first effective channel width of the first element is larger than the second effective channel width of the second element.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive resin layer and an adhesive resin film which can prevent generation of air bubbles even when adhered to a substrate having a high level difference, and in which even after thermal endurance and after wet thermal endurance, of a laminate obtained by laminating a substrate, an adhesive resin layer, and a substrate in an order, air bubbles are not generated, durability is good, and transparency can be maintained. More specifically, the present invention is a monolayered adhesive resin layer comprising an acrylic-based adhesive resin composition having transparency, wherein the adhesive resin composition contains an acrylic-based polymer, urethane acrylate, and a thermopolymerization initiator, and may optionally contain an acrylic-based monomer, and an adhesive resin layer has pressure sensitive adhesiveness on both surfaces at an ambient temperature, and can be thermally cured by heating at a temperature of 100 to 250° C. and a time of 30 seconds to 10 minutes.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a substrate state determining apparatus includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a substrate placed on a stage; a learning unit that executes a machine learning using training data in which information indicating a state of the substrate is attached to the image of the substrate, so as to generate a substrate state determination model in which the image of the substrate is taken as an input and a value related to the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate is taken as an output; and a determination unit that determines the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate captured by the image capturing unit, using the substrate state determination model generated by the learning unit.

Abstract: A load port including: a base as part of a wall partitioning a transportation space from an external space; an opening provided to the base; a door configured to open and close the opening and securing a lid to, and releasing a lid from, a container containing contents; and a first seal member for sealing the space between the base and the container. At least some of the container-side end surface of the door is located nearer to the transportation space than the container-side end part of the first seal member. The load port can keep a surrounding space clean when a FOUP is connected to a casing.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus, the solid-state imaging device being capable of expanding the dynamic range without deteriorating the image quality. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section having a plurality of unit pixels and a drive section. Each of the unit pixels includes a first photoelectric conversion section, a second photoelectric conversion section which is less sensitive than the first photoelectric conversion section, a charge storage section configured to store charges generated by the second photoelectric conversion section, a charge-voltage conversion section, a first transfer gate section configured to transfer charges from the first photoelectric conversion section, and a second transfer gate section configured to combine the potential of the charge-voltage conversion section with the potential of the charge storage section.

Abstract: A first gear pair includes a first pinion on an input shaft and a first ring gear on an intermediate shaft. A second gear pair includes a second pinion on the intermediate shaft and a second ring gear on an output shaft. A first case that stores the first gear pair is coupled to a base member in a rotatable manner around an input shaft rotational axis. A second case is coupled to the first case in a rotatable manner around an intermediate shaft rotational axis.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera system capable of reducing interference between signals transmitted through adjacent via holes, preventing an increase in the number of the via holes, reducing the area of a chip having sensors thereon and the number of mounting steps thereof. First and second chips are bonded together to form a laminated structure, a wiring between the first chip and the second chip being connected through via holes, the first chip transmitting signals obtained by time-discretizing analog signals generated by respective sensors to the second chip through the corresponding via holes, the second chip sampling the signals transmitted from the first chip through the via holes at a timing different from a timing at which the signals are sampled by the first chip and quantizing the sampled signals to obtain digital signals.