Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass substrate including a pair of main surfaces and an end surface, and having a surface layer diffusion Sn atom concentration of 2.0×1018 atomic/cm3 or more and 1.4×1019 atomic/cm3 or less in at least one of the main surfaces, the surface layer diffusion Sn atom concentration being obtained by subtracting an Sn atom concentration of an inside of the glass substrate from an Sn atom concentration of a surface layer of the glass substrate, in which the Sn atom concentration of a surface layer of the glass substrate is defined as an Sn atom concentration at a depth of 0.1 to 0.3 ?m from the main surface and the Sn atom concentration of an inside of the glass substrate is defined as an Sn atom concentration at a depth of 9.0 to 9.2 ?m from the main surface.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device includes bandpass filters each configured to pass and output only a specific frequency band for the output value of a knocking sensor, a storage device storing first learned neural networks configured to receive the output values of the bandpass filters in respective frequency band, and a processor. Each of the first learned neural networks is pre-learned to output an estimated value for a value representing knocking intensity when receiving the filtered output value of the bandpass filter. The processor calculates an optimal estimated value using a part of acquired estimated values for the value excluding a unique estimated value, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the calculated optimal estimated value.

Abstract: A glass substrate with an antifouling layer includes: a glass substrate which has a pair of principal surfaces facing to each other; a cohesive layer provided on the side of one principal surface of the glass substrate; and an antifouling layer provided on a surface of the cohesive layer, wherein the cohesive layer has a layer, the layer is in contact with the antifouling layer, contains mainly a silicon oxide, and contains carbon atoms at a concentration of 5×1018 atoms/cm3 to 5×1019 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: The present invention provides an exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate via an original, including an illumination optical system configured to illuminate the original, and a projection optical system configured to project a pattern of the original onto the substrate, wherein the illumination optical system illuminates the original by illumination light which includes a first portion that enters an incident pupil of the projection optical system and a second portion which enters a region outside the incident pupil, and the first portion and the second portion are separated from each other on an incident pupil plane of the projection optical system.

Abstract: A vehicle thermal energy control system that is able to achieve improved heat management in the entirety of a vehicle is provided. A thermal energy control system is provided in a vehicle and includes heat sources and a heat amount distributor configured to assign a demanded heat amount calculated from heat demands generated in the entirety of the vehicle, to each heat source on the basis of a suppliable heat amount of each heat source.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first to N-th PLL circuits configured to operate in synchronization with a common reference clock signal to output first to N-th clock signals, respectively; a majority circuit that performs a majority operation on the first to N-th clock signals to generate a majority clock signal; and a filter circuit to which the majority clock signal is provided, the filter circuit operating as a low-pass filter to output an output clock signal. N is an odd number of three or more.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device includes a storage device that stores a normal signal generation model configured to output, upon receiving an output value of a knocking sensor, a noise-removed output value therefrom which an unlearned noise component value has been removed, and a first learned neural network pre-learned to output, upon receiving one of the output value of the knocking sensor and the noise-removed output value, an estimated value of a knocking intensity representative value, and a processor that acquires the estimated value by inputting the output value of the knocking sensor to the normal signal generation model and inputting the noise-removed output value to the first learned neural network, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the acquired estimated value.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device includes bandpass filters each configured to pass and output only a specific frequency band for the output value of a knocking sensor, a storage device storing first learned neural networks configured to receive the output values of the bandpass filters in respective frequency band, and a processor. Each of the first learned neural networks is pre-learned to output an estimated value for a value representing knocking intensity when receiving the filtered output value of the bandpass filter. The processor calculates an optimal estimated value using a part of acquired estimated values for the value excluding a unique estimated value, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the calculated optimal estimated value.

Abstract: Heating is conducted sequentially by dividing a heating operation into first heating control and second heating control consuming higher electric power than that in the first heating control.

Abstract: A holder includes first and second attachments to be attached to an attachment target part of an image formation apparatus. The first attachment is located on a reflection light source side relative to a sensor in a direction of a line connecting the sensor and a reflection light source of the image formation apparatus The second attachment is located on an opposite side to the reflection light source relative to the sensor in the line direction. A holder includes first, second, and third attachments to be attached to an attachment target part of an image formation apparatus. The three attachments are elastically deformable portions. The first and second attachments are provided on one end side of the holder. The third attachment is provided on other end side of the holder. The three attachments are provided as to clamp the attachment target part by using resilience associated with elastic deformation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chemically strengthened glass that can effectively suppress strength of a glass from being deteriorated even though performing chemical strengthening and has high transmittance (that is, low reflectivity). The present invention relates to a chemically strengthened glass having a compressive stress layer formed on a surface layer thereof by an ion exchange method, in which the glass contains sodium and boron, and has a delta transmittance being +0.1% or more, and in which a straight line obtained by a linear approximation of a hydrogen concentration Y in a region of a depth X from an outermost surface of the glass satisfies a specific relational equation in X=0.1 to 0.4 (?m).

Abstract: A bolt of the present invention is a high-strength bolt of high-carbon steel having a tempered martensite structure, wherein the composition of the bolt comprises: 0.50 mass % or more and 0.65 mass % or less of carbon (C); 1.5 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of silicon (Si); 1.0 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of chromium (Cr); 0.2 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less of manganese (Mn); and 1.5 mass % or more and 5.0 mass % or less of molybdenum (Mo); a total content of impurities being phosphor (P) and sulfur (S) is 0.03 mass % or more; and the remaining is iron (Fe). Furthermore, the carbon concentration satisfies the following Formula (1): 0.75?X<1 . . . Formula (1) wherein, in Formula (1), X represents surface carbon concentration/inner carbon concentration.

Abstract: A bolt of the present invention has a composition comprising: 0.50 mass % or greater and 0.65 mass % or less of carbon (C), 1.5 mass % or greater and 2.5 mass % or less of silicon (Si), 1.0 mass % or greater and 2.0 mass % or less of chromium (Cr), 0.2 mass % or greater and 1.0 mass % or less of manganese (Mn), 1.5 mass % or greater and 5.0 mass % or less of molybdenum (Mo), wherein a total amount of phosphorous (P) and sulfur (S) as impurities is 0.03 mass % or less, the remaining is iron (Fe), and the bolt comprises an iron based oxide film with a film thickness of 3 ?m or greater and 20 ?m or less on the surface thereof. The bolt has excellent delayed fracture resistance and reliably provides a fastening axial force.

Abstract: An under-voltage lockout (UVLO) circuit configured for indicating that an electronic device may be enabled and disabled based on threshold levels of a power supply voltage. The UVLO circuit has a non-differential comparator configured to have a fixed threshold voltage. A voltage divider having a first terminal connected to the power supply voltage and configured to adapt a compare signal applied to the non-differential comparator to be proportional the power supply voltage such that a desired threshold voltage for the power supply voltage causes the non-differential comparator to change its output state. The UVLO circuit has a hysteresis controller configured for adjusting the compare voltage such that the power supply voltage has at least two threshold voltages to cause the non-differential comparator to change states. The non-differential comparator comprises a flipped gate transistor with a gate-to-source threshold greater than a normally gated transistor.

Abstract: A water/oil repellent layer-provided article, containing a substrate, a water/oil repellent layer containing a hydrolyzed condensate of a fluorinated compound having a hydrolyzable silyl group, and a silicon oxide layer containing alkali metal atoms, present between the substrate and the water/oil repellent layer, where in the silicon oxide layer, the average concentration of the alkali metal atoms in a region with a depth from the surface in contact with the water/oil repellent layer of at least 0.1 nm and at most 0.3 nm, is at least 2.0×1019 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: An operation adjustment method of an SOI device comprises steps of: (a) obtaining a drain current-substrate bias voltage characteristic of an NMOS transistor for a source-gate voltage of 0V; (b) obtaining a lowest substrate bias voltage which turns on the NMOS transistor from the drain current-substrate bias voltage characteristic; (c) determining an upper limit of a substrate bias voltage of a PMOS transistor as a voltage obtained by subtracting a built-in potential of a pn junction from the lowest substrate bias voltage; and (d) determining the substrate bias voltage of the PMOS transistor as a positive voltage lower than the upper limit. Reduction in the power consumption and maintenance of the radiation tolerance are both achieved for the SOI device.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged to form rows and columns and each configured to output a signal in accordance with an incident light, a plurality of column signal processing units provided in association with the columns and each having an A/D conversion unit that performs A/D conversion on a signal output from the pixels arranged on a corresponding column, a plurality of memory units provided in association with the columns and each having a memory that holds digital data output from the column signal processing unit of a corresponding column, a transfer unit that sequentially outputs the digital data held in each of the plurality of memory units to a common output line, and a bit value inversion unit that inverts a value of a bit of one of first and second digital data sequentially output to the common output line.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a storage device and a processor connected to the storage device. The processor is configured to perform a process for displaying an image and information related to a size of a recognition target, and recognize a recognition target from the image. The information related to the size of the recognition target includes visual information of the recognition target.

Abstract: In order to provide an imaging device that includes an amplifier performing amplification with a plurality of gains for each signal from a pixel unit and can further reduce a noise component, an imaging device included in an imaging apparatus has the pixel unit in which unit pixels are arranged in a matrix and generates a signal voltage by photoelectric conversion. A column amplifier can amplify a photoelectrically converted signal with a plurality of gains. After an amplified signal is subjected to analog/digital conversion by a column ADC, a signal processing circuit subtracts a noise signal from a pixel signal. A noise signal read out after resetting a floating diffusion section included in the pixel unit and a pixel signal read out immediately thereafter are acquired by being multiplied by a first gain, and a pixel signal read out thereafter is acquired by being multiplied by a second gain. The first gain is set to a value larger than the second gain.

Abstract: A printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a printhead with a plurality of print elements for generating energy used for printing an image on a print medium, a first temperature detection element and a second temperature detection element at positions different in a direction of a print element array in which the plurality of print elements are arrayed. The apparatus corrects a signal concerning a head temperature based on an output from the first temperature detection element, and corrects, based on the corrected signal concerning the head temperature, a signal concerning a head temperature output from the second temperature detection element.