Abstract: A short-circuit detection device for a rotating electric machine sets an order lower than a fundamental order of a slot harmonic wave as a threshold value, and reduces, among the plurality of frequency components, even-order frequency components having orders higher than the threshold value and odd-order frequency components, converts a plurality of frequency components output from the specific frequency component reduction unit into a voltage signal, generates a difference waveform of voltage signals respectively corresponding to adjacent magnetic poles, detects a short-circuit of a field winding based on a shape of the difference waveform, and estimates a short-circuit position of the field winding, and determines an estimation accuracy of the short-circuit position of the field winding based on a degree of symmetry of a waveform of a maximum wave with respect to a peak angle of the difference waveform serving as a center.

Abstract: To realize a laser irradiation apparatus by using which accuracy in processing a substrate can be improved. A laser irradiation apparatus according to an embodiment includes a laser irradiation unit configured to apply laser light to a substrate, a base part, and a conveyance stage configured to convey the substrate. The conveyance stage includes a stage configured to be movable over the base part, a base flange fixed over the stage, a substrate stage fixed to an upper end part of the base flange and configured so that the substrate is placed thereover, and a pusher pin for supporting the substrate, the pusher pin being configured to penetrate the substrate stage and to be movable up and down.

Abstract: There is provided an image pickup element including a non-planar layer having a non-planar light incident surface in a light receiving region, and a microlens of an inorganic material which is provided on a side of the light incident surface of the non-planar layer, and collects incident light.

Abstract: A blower may include a fan, a casing including a discharge port and housing the fan, and a nozzle attachable to the discharge port. The nozzle may include a nozzle tube in which air flows, and a plate member disposed within the nozzle tube. A rear end surface of the plate member may be inclined to a flow direction in which air flows within the nozzle tube.

Abstract: A pouch container packaging body and a pouch container package with which a container body can be more reliably opened. The packaging body includes a container body including a top sheet covering the container body at a top side and a spout fixed to an outer surface of the top sheet and including a dispensing space extending axially. The spout includes a fixed portion on the top sheet, a rotating portion to rotate the fixed portion, and a cutting portion to cut the top sheet. The top sheet includes a flat portion where the fixed portion is fixed. The cutting portion is positioned away from the flat portion in an initial state and moves while rotating in a direction from an external surface to an internal surface of the flat portion in response to rotation of the rotating portion, and cuts the flat portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device capable of achieving miniaturization and height reduction of a device configuration, reducing generation of a flare or a ghost, preventing separation of a lens. A size relation of “solid-state imaging element>lens non-effective region>lens effective region” is established in a vertical direction with respect to an incident direction of incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging device.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element having an upper surface, and including a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting structures; and a substrate supporting the light-emitting element. The semiconductor light-emitting structures include a first semiconductor light-emitting structure and a second semiconductor light-emitting structure. The substrate includes: an interconnection layer including: a first interconnection portion comprising a first land, a second interconnection portion comprising a second land and a third land, and a third interconnection portion comprising a fourth land, and a first reflective member covering a portion of the interconnection layer and having an opening. The light-emitting element is located inside the opening of the first reflective member as viewed from above. A portion of the first land, a portion of the second land, a portion of the third land, and a portion of the fourth land are exposed in the opening of the first reflective member.

Abstract: A support frame is placed on a second surface of an electrolyte membrane such that a second catalyst layer and a second gas diffusion layer are placed inside an opening of the support frame. When a fuel cell is viewed from a direction perpendicular to the electrolyte membrane, a first region and a second region are present, the first region being a region where the second gas diffusion layer is present, the second region being a region between an outer peripheral edge part of the second gas diffusion layer and an inner peripheral edge part of the opening of the support frame. A bonding power between a first catalyst layer and a first gas diffusion layer in the first region is smaller than a bonding power between the first catalyst layer and the first gas diffusion layer in the second region.

Abstract: The present technology relates to techniques of preventing intrusion of moisture into a chip. Various illustrative embodiments include image sensors that include: a substrate; a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate; the plurality of layers including a photodiode layer having a plurality of photodiodes formed on a surface of the photodiode layer; the plurality of layers including at least one layer having a groove formed such that a portion of the at least one layer is excavated; and a transparent resin layer formed above the photodiode layer and formed in the groove. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.

Abstract: To provide a light-emitting apparatus capable of suitably controlling light emitted from a light-emitting element. A light-emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are provided on a side of a first surface of the substrate; and an optical element which is provided on a side of a second surface of the substrate and into which light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements is incident, wherein the optical element includes a liquid crystal layer which is configured to function as a lens.

Abstract: To provide a light-emitting apparatus capable of shaping light from a plurality of light-emitting elements into light with a plurality of shapes and a manufacturing method thereof. A light-emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure, including: a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are provided on a side of a first surface of the substrate; and a plurality of first lenses which are provided on a side of a second surface of the substrate and on which light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements is incident, wherein the plurality of first lenses include at least two types of lenses among a concave lens, a convex lens, and a flat lens.

Abstract: Provided are a light source device that has a reduced height and in which the number of components is reduced, a method for manufacturing the light source device, and an electronic device. A light source device according to an embodiment includes: a substrate; a light generating element that is provided on a first surface of the substrate and emits generated light from a second surface opposite to the first surface via the substrate; and a lens that is provided at a position corresponding to the light generating element in the second surface of the substrate and increases an NA.

Abstract: To suppress occurrence of flare and ghost while reducing the size or height of an imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus is configured by mounting a cover structure on a solid-state imaging element. The solid-state imaging element generates a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion according to a light amount of incident light. The cover structure includes a non-flat surface for focusing incident light on a light receiving surface of the solid-state imaging element. The non-flat surface of the cover structure may have either a concave shape or a convex shape. It is assumed that the cover structure includes an inorganic material such as glass, silicon, or germanium.

Abstract: A decrease in image quality is suppressed. A solid-state imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a photoelectric conversion unit (PD) including a material having a smaller band gap energy than silicon; and a circuit board joined to the photoelectric conversion unit, the circuit board including: a pixel signal generation circuit that generates a pixel signal having a voltage value corresponding to a charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit; and a thermometer circuit that detects a temperature of the circuit board.

Abstract: A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a biomass-derived polyester compound useful as a rubber material or an adhesive material, the compound including a multiple bond in the molecule. By synthesizing an ester compound composed of a hydroxycinnamic acid and a fatty acid, and carrying out polycondensation reaction using the ester compound as a monomer, a polyester compound containing cinnamic acid and a ricinoleic acid derivative that are alternately linked to each other can be efficiently obtained. For example, an ester compound of General Formula (1) is produced. (In the formula, the substituents R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a methoxy group; the substituent R3 represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group; and n represents an integer of 10 to 100).

Abstract: The short-circuit detection device according to the present disclosure includes: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a magnetic flux detector configured to detect a magnetic flux generated in a gap between a rotor and a stator of a rotary electric machine, one detected signal based on the magnetic flux and set the one detected signal as a first detected signal and a second detected signal; a signal processing unit configured to perform frequency analysis on the first detected signal, and generate and decode a voltage signal simulating a voltage state assumed in a normal case; and a signal comparison unit configured to perform comparison between a decoded signal obtained through the decoding by the signal processing unit and the second detected signal transmitted from the signal acquisition unit, to detect a short-circuit in a field winding of the rotary electric machine.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To prevent delamination of a film layer in a sheet material container in which an enclosing portion is formed in an interlayer between a first film layer and a second film layer. [Solution] A sheet material container includes a container body 6, and an inner container 7 that is covered by the container body 6 and defines an accommodation space, wherein the container body 6 is formed of a sheet material 3 including a first film layer 1 and a second film layer 2 disposed inside the first film layer 1, the sheet material 3 has a joint portion 32 at which an interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2 is joined and an enclosing portion 51 in which a filler can be enclosed in the interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2, and the first film layer 1 has an extruded multilayer structural part having a polyolefin resin layer 11/an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer 12 on a side facing the enclosing portion 51.

Abstract: To make it possible to restrain generation of chipping or cracking in a substrate of a laminated lens structure. A laminated lens structure includes substrates with lens which each have a lens disposed inside a through-hole formed in the substrate and which are laminated on one another by direct bonding, in which the substrates are each provided in the vicinity of the outer circumference thereof with through grooves penetrating the substrate. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a compound eye camera module.

Abstract: A valve timing controller includes: a driving-side rotation member rotatable around a rotation axis and rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven-side rotation member rotatable around the rotation axis and rotating integrally with a camshaft of the engine; a phase regulating mechanism setting a relative rotation phase of the driving-side and driven-side rotation members by an electric motor; a detection unit detecting the relative rotation phase; a stop control portion displacing the relative rotation phase by controlling the electric motor to stop the engine after the relative rotation phase reaches a stop phase; and a correction control portion displacing the relative rotation phase in a direction closer to the stop phase by controlling the electric motor, when the relative rotation phase is displaced beyond a set amount from the stop phase, in a state where the engine is stopped by the stop control portion.