Abstract: A valve device includes a stationary disk, a shaft and a rotor. The valve device includes: a housing that has a boss portion, through which the shaft is inserted; and a seal member that is shaped in a ring form and is configured to seal a gap between the shaft and the boss portion. The shaft includes a holder that has a contact portion which is in contact with the seal member. The holder is made of a polymer material which includes reinforcing fibers contained in resin. At least the contact portion at the holder extends in an axial direction of the shaft, and a distal end portion of the holder located on one side in the axial direction is coupled to a gear arrangement of a drive device. The distal end portion of the holder has a trace of an injection gate for injecting the polymer material.

Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing; a passage forming portion that has at least one passage hole configured to conduct a fluid; a drive device that is configured to output a rotational force; and a shaft that is configured to be rotated about a central axis. The valve device includes: a rotor that is configured to increase or decrease an opening degree of the at least one passage hole in response to rotation of the shaft; and a torsion spring that surrounds the central axis and is configured to urge the shaft relative to the housing in a circumferential direction of the central axis of the shaft. The housing has a stopper that is configured to contact the shaft and thereby limit a rotational drive range of the shaft when the shaft is rotated to a predetermined position. The stopper is placed at an inside of the torsion spring.

Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes an analog/digital conversion circuit having an input capacitance and sampling an analog signal in the input capacitance to convert the analog signal into a digital signal, a precharge circuit for precharging the input capacitance before the analog/digital conversion circuit sample the analog signal in the input capacitance, a digital arithmetic circuit for performing arithmetic processing to the digital signal, and a reference voltage circuit for supplying a power supply voltage to the precharge circuit and the digital arithmetic circuit, wherein the arithmetic processing start timing and the arithmetic processing end timing of the digital arithmetic circuit are set to the timings avoiding the precharge period in which the precharge circuit precharges the input capacitance.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a chamber having a container including at least one substrate-heating region and at least one substrate-cooling region; a heating mechanism configured to heat a first substrate in the at least one substrate-heating region; a cooling mechanism configured to cool a second substrate in the at least one substrate-cooling region while the first substrate is being heated; and a partition provided in the container and configured to separate the at least one substrate-heating region and the at least one substrate-cooling region from each other in terms of heat and pressure.

Abstract: A direct decomposition device for hydrocarbons for directly decomposing hydrocarbons into carbon and hydrogen includes a rector containing a catalyst including a plurality of metal particles with an iron purity of 86% or more. The reactor is configured to be supplied with a raw material gas containing hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes at least one capacitor element including an anode part and a cathode part, an anode lead terminal, a cathode lead terminal, and an exterior body that covers the least one capacitor element. Each of the anode lead terminal and the cathode lead terminal includes an embedded part embedded in the exterior body. The embedded part of the anode lead terminal has a first contact surface in contact with the exterior body, and the embedded part of the cathode lead terminal has a second contact surface in contact with the exterior body. At least one contact surface selected from the group consisting of the first contact surface and the second contact surface includes a rough surface having a developed area ratio of an interface of more than or equal to 0.4.

Abstract: A laser processing method includes: a forming step of forming a plurality of modified spots along an imaginary plane inside a work piece by irradiating an inside of the work piece with laser light from a surface. The work piece includes a first region and second region when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the surface. In the forming step, a plurality of modified spot rows formed of the plurality of modified spots arranged along a boundary between the first region and the second region are formed in the second region, the plurality of modified spot rows being arranged along a direction intersecting an arrangement direction of the plurality of modified spots, and a crack extending from the second region to the first region is formed by forming the plurality of modified spot rows.

Abstract: Provided is a crystallized glass, which has a high fracture toughness value, and besides, is excellent in transparency. The crystallized glass includes, in terms of mass%, 40% to 70% of SiO2, 5% to 40% of Al2O3, 2% to 25% of B2O3, 0% to 15% of MgO+ZnO, 0% to 20% of CaO+SrO+BaO, 0% to 8% of P2O5+TiO2+ZrO2, 1% to 20% of Na2O+K2O, and 0% to 6% of Li2O, has a crystallinity of from 1% to 50%, and has an average visible-light transmittance of 50% or more at a thickness of 0.8 mm and a wavelength of from 380 nm to 780 nm.

Abstract: An atomic interferometer includes: an optical system including an optical modulating device that includes: an optical fiber for a first laser beam to propagate therein; and a frequency shifter connected to the optical fiber and configured to shift the frequency of the first laser beam, the optical system being configured to generate a moving standing light wave from counter-propagation of the first laser beam from the optical modulating device and a second laser beam; and an interference system for making an atomic beam interact with three or more moving standing light waves including the moving standing light wave.

Abstract: An adjuster 500 performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam 131, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3?M. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with an approach path of the atomic beam 131. A component, in a direction perpendicular to the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is non-zero. A component, in a direction of the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of the radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is negative for atoms having speeds greater than the predetermined speed, and positive for the atoms having speeds smaller than the predetermined speed.

Abstract: An adjuster performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3??M. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with the course of the atomic beam. A component, in a direction perpendicular to the course of the atomic beam, of the sum of radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is zero.

Abstract: A crystallized glass contains: from 58 to 70% of SiO2, from 15 to 30% of Al2O3, from 2 to 10% of Li2O, from 0 to 10% of Na2O, from 0 to 10% of K2O, from 0 to 15% of Na2O+K2O, from 0 to 15% of MgO+CaO+SiO+BaO+ZnO, from 0.1 to 6% of SnO2, from 0.5 to 6% of ZrO2, from 0 to 4% of TiO2, and from 0 to 6% of P2O5 in mass %, in which the crystallized glass has a degree of crystallinity of 1 to 95%, and an average visible light transmittance of 50% or greater at a thickness of 0.8 mm and a wavelength of 380 to 780 nm, and a compression stress layer is formed on a surface.

Abstract: A hydrogen production system includes: a hydrogen compound slurry in which a hydrogen compound member is suspended in a solvent containing water; a first vessel; a second vessel having an internal temperature higher than that of the first vessel; a first passage connecting the first vessel and the second vessel; and a second passage connecting the first vessel and the second vessel and different from the first passage. The hydrogen production system is configured to allow the hydrogen compound slurry contained in the first vessel to move into the second vessel through the first passage, and the hydrogen compound slurry contained in the second vessel to move into the first vessel through the second passage.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes an element stack, an anode terminal, a cathode terminal, and an exterior member. The element stack includes a plurality of capacitor elements stacked on each other, and a conductive material interposed between two adjacent capacitor elements in the plurality of capacitor elements. Each of the plurality of capacitor elements includes an anode part and a cathode part, and the conductive material is disposed on the cathode part. The anode terminal is connected to the anode part. The cathode terminal is connected to the cathode part via a conductive paste. The cathode terminal has a facing surface facing a tip end of the element stack with a gap interposed between the facing surface and the tip end, and at least a part of the gap is filled with a sealing material.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first frame; a first chip on the first frame; a second frame spaced apart from the first frame in a first direction; a second chip on the second frame; and a first joint terminal above the second chip. The first frame includes a first terminal portion extending toward the second frame. The first joint terminal includes a second terminal portion extending toward the first frame. The second terminal portion includes first and second projecting portions each of which projects toward the first frame and which are spaced apart from each other in a second direction. An end portion of the first projecting portion and an end portion of the second projecting portion are each joined on the first terminal portion.

Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a stationary valve and a drive valve. The stationary valve is placed in a fluid passage of the housing. The stationary valve forms a first passage, which conducts fluid, and a penetrating chamber which penetrates through the stationary valve in the axial direction. The drive valve is placed on one axial side of the stationary valve in the fluid passage and forms a second passage which conducts the fluid. The drive valve communicates the second passage to the first passage through rotation of the drive valve. The housing has a bottom portion that covers the penetrating chamber from another axial side. An upstream passage of the fluid passage, which is located on an upstream side of the drive valve and the stationary valve in a flow direction of the fluid, is communicated with the penetrating chamber through a communication passage.

Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a stationary disk, a drive device, a shaft and a rotor. The stationary disk is fixed at an inside of the housing and has at least one flow passage hole. The shaft is rotated about a central axis by the drive device. The rotor increases or decreases an opening degree of the at least one flow passage hole. The rotor includes: a drive disk that slides relative to the stationary disk; and a lever that is fixed to the drive disk and couples between the drive disk and the shaft. A torsion spring is placed between the shaft and the lever and urges the lever relative to the shaft in a circumferential direction around the central axis of the shaft. The shaft has a plurality of contact portions configured to contact the lever and respectively located at a plurality of locations.

Abstract: An atomic beam is irradiated with a first, a second, and a third laser beam. The first laser beam and the third laser beam each have a wavelength corresponding to a transition between a ground state and a first excited state. The second laser beam has a wavelength corresponding to a transition between the ground state and a second excited state. First, atoms each having a smaller velocity component than a predetermined velocity in a direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the atomic beam are changed from the ground state to the first excited state by the first laser beam. Subsequently, a momentum is provided for individual atoms in the ground state by the second laser beam, which removes the atoms from the atomic beam. Finally, atoms in the first excited state are returned from the first excited state to the ground state by the third laser beam.

Abstract: A needle threader includes: a needle holding part for holding a needle having a needle eye; a threading member movable between a retracted position separated from the needle holding part and an advanced position for inserting a thread loop through the needle eye by entering the needle eye; an actuator mechanism including an operation element, to move the threading member to the retracted position in a first state (not operating) and move to the advanced position in a second state (operating); and a thread pressing mechanism for pressing the thread loop inserted through the needle eye by the threading member. The thread pressing mechanism includes a pressure receiving part, a pressing member, and a biasing member. Switching the operation element from the second state to the first state, the pressing member can press the thread loop against the pressure receiving part.

Abstract: A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit and a processing circuit that generates capacitance control data. The oscillation circuit includes a variable capacitance circuit whose capacitance value is variably controlled based on the capacitance control data, and an oscillation frequency thereof is controlled based on the capacitance value of the variable capacitance circuit. The variable capacitance circuit includes a capacitor array. The capacitor array includes a plurality of capacitors each having a binary-weighted capacitance value, and a plurality of switches that are on-off controlled based on the capacitance control data. The processing circuit outputs the capacitance control data, which is subjected to dithering, so as to switch the capacitance value of the variable capacitance circuit between a first capacitance value and a second capacitance value in a time division manner.