Abstract: An inertial sensor having a simple configuration by vacuum sealing a resonator which detects acceleration and exploits a resonance vibration using a high Q value MEMS device. The sensor includes: a detecting proof mass and beam which detects acceleration; a driving electrode which excites the detecting proof mass and beam; a resonant frequency tuning electrode which changes the resonant frequency of the detecting proof mass and beam; and a detecting circuit which applies voltage to the resonant frequency tuning electrode for changing the resonant frequency to cancel a change of the resonant frequency of the detecting proof mass and beam when the acceleration is applied to the detecting proof mass and beam during the vibration of the detecting proof mass and beam by the voltage applied to the detecting proof mass and beam, and outputs the acceleration based on a value of the voltage applied to resonant frequency tuning electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a charge transporting varnish comprising: a charge transporting substance such as an aniline derivative and a thiophene derivative; an onium borate salt such as a compound represented by the formula; and an organic solvent.

Abstract: There is provided a hot stamped body including a middle part in sheet thickness and a surface layer arranged at both sides or one side of the middle part in sheet thickness, further including an intermediate layer formed between the middle part in sheet thickness and each surface layer so as to adjoin them, wherein the middle part in sheet thickness has a predetermined composition, the middle part in sheet thickness has a hardness of 500 Hv or more and 800 Hv or less, the surface layer has a hardness change ?H1 in the sheet thickness direction of 100 Hv or more and less than 200 Hv, and the intermediate layer has a hardness change ?H2 in the sheet thickness direction of 10 Hv or more and less than 50 Hv.

Abstract: There is provided a hot stamped body including a middle part in sheet thickness and a surface layer arranged at both sides or one side of the middle part in sheet thickness, further including an intermediate layer formed between the middle part in sheet thickness and each surface layer so as to adjoin them, wherein the middle part in sheet thickness has a predetermined composition, the middle part in sheet thickness has a hardness of 500 Hv or more and 800 Hv or less, the surface layer has a hardness change ?H1 in the sheet thickness direction of 10 Hv or more and less than 200 Hv, and the intermediate layer has a hardness change ?H2 in the sheet thickness direction of 50 Hv or more and less than 200 Hv.

Abstract: Provided is a composition comprising a sulfonated conjugated polymer having excellent dispersibility in organic solvents used during the manufacture of OLED devices. An ink composition comprising (a) a sulfonated conjugated polymer treated with a reducing agent, (b) at least one amine compound, and (c) a liquid carrier comprising at least one organic solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a composition that allows high transparency or low absorbance in the visible spectrum (transmittance >90% T) to be retained in an OLED device. An ink composition comprising: (a) a polythiophene, (b) one or more metal oxide nanoparticles, (c) one or more dopants, and (d) a liquid carrier comprising one or more organic solvents.

Abstract: In a capacitance detection type sensor system, a sensitivity of the sensor system deteriorates because a low frequency noise typified by a 1/f noise cannot be separated in frequency from a signal band. A carrier wave used for capacity detection is modulated with two kinds of frequencies, sampled at a first modulation frequency, subjected to a C/V conversion, and synchronously detected at a second modulation frequency to obtain a signal.

Abstract: An autonomous traveling device includes a vehicle body, a traveling body to move the vehicle body, a ranging device to consecutively change a direction of emission of light beams while optically scanning a scanning range, and a reflection body to change a direction of an optical path of at least part of light beams emitted from the ranging device and reflected to an area other than a center area of the scanning range. Further, an autonomous traveling device includes an optical path changing device. The optical path changing device changes an angle of inclination downwardly relative to a scanning plane of the ranging device and changes a direction of an incident light from a lateral direction to a forward direction of the vehicle body. Further, the optical path changing device changes a direction of an incident light toward a foot area of the vehicle body.

Abstract: A steel sheet includes: a base iron; a scale of 10.0 ?m or less in thickness on a surface of the base iron; a subscale between the base iron and the scale. In the subscale, an average value of Cr concentrations is 1.50 mass % to 5.00 mass %, and one part or more exist(s) where a ratio of Cr concentrations between two adjacent measurement regions separate by 1 ?m is 0.90 or less or 1.11 or more in a range of 50 ?m in length in a rolling direction. A percentage of an amount of Ti contained in carbide or carbonitride of 100 nm or more and 1 ?m or less in grain diameter to a parameter Tieff represented by a formula “Tieff=[Ti]?48/14[N]” is 30% or less in which [Ti] denotes a Ti content (mass %) and [N] denotes a N content (mass %).

Abstract: The issue of the present invention is to provide a hot-rolled steel sheet with excellent press formability and method for producing the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet has not only hole expandability but also stretch flanging workability by not assessing hole expandability for stretch flanging as conventional but an actual phenomena of side-bend elongation.

Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable acceleration sensor having little 0-point drift. For example, an acceleration sensor having a support substrate having a first direction and a second direction orthogonal thereto in a single surface, a device layer disposed on the support substrate with a space interposed therebetween and having a weight that deforms according to the application of acceleration, and a cap layer disposed on the device layer with a space interposed therebetween, wherein a fixed part fixed to the support substrate is provided in the center of the weight, a beam is provided that extends from the fixed part and makes the weight mobile by being connected thereto, a plurality of posts for coupling the support substrate and the cap layer are disposed on the fixed part, and electric signals are applied to and received from the weight via the posts.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.030% or more and less than 0.075%, Si+Al: 0.08% to 0.40%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.0%, and Ti: 0.020% to 0.150%, and includes a microstructure having a ferrite and a martensite. The hot-rolled steel sheet includes a microstructure having, by area %, 90% to 98% of the ferrite, 2% to 10% of the martensite. 0% to 3% of a bainite, and 0% to 3% of a pearlite. In the martensite, the number proportion of martensite grains having a hardness of 10.0 GPa or more is 10% or less, and a ratio N1/N2 of the number N1 of martensite grains having a hardness of 8.0 GPa or more and less than 10.0 GPa to the number N2 of martensite grains having a hardness of less than 8.0 GPa is 0.8 to 1.2.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.030% to 0.10%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.5%, and Si+Al: 0.100% to 2.5%, in which the steel sheet has a microstructure including, by area fraction, ferrite: 80% or more, martensite: 3% to 15.0%, and pearlite: less than 3.0%, in which a number density of martensite having an equivalent circle diameter of 3 ?m or more at a position which is at a depth of ¼ of the steel sheet thickness from the surface of the steel sheet, is 5.0 pieces/10000 ?m2 or less, and the following Expression (1) is satisfied. R/DM2?1.00??Expression (1) Here, R is an average martensite interval (?m) defined by the following Expression (2), and DM is a martensite average diameter (?m). R={12.5×(?/6VM)0.5?(?)0.5}×DM??Expression (2) Here, VM is a martensite area fraction (%) and DM is the martensite average diameter (?m).

Abstract: A nonlinear optically active copolymer having satisfactory orientation characteristics and able to allow for reduction in heat-induced orientation relaxation of a nonlinear optical material, and a nonlinear optical material obtained using the copolymer. The copolymer including at least a repeating unit A having adamantyl group and a repeating unit B having a nonlinear optically active moiety in one molecule, and an organic nonlinear optical material including the copolymer as a component.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention has a chemical composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.03 to 0.2%, Mn: 0.1 to 3.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Al+Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, N: more than 0% and equal to or less than 0.01%, O: more than 0% and equal to or less than 0.01%, and the balance: iron and impurities. A microstructure of the hot-rolled steel sheet contains bainite as the main constituent, and contains hard phases constituted by martensite and/or austenite in an amount of, in area fraction, equal to or more than 3% and less than 20% where 60% or more of the hard phase present in a sheet-thickness central portion have an aspect ratio of 3 or more, the hard phases present in the sheet-thickness central portion have a length in a rolling direction of less than 20 ?m, and the sum of X-ray random intensity ratios of <011> orientation and <111> orientation as viewed from the rolling direction is 3.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel powdery mildew resistance marker for melon plants, a powdery mildew resistant melon plant including a powdery mildew resistance locus; and a method for producing a powdery mildew resistant melon plant using the same.

Abstract: A recognition apparatus includes one or more processors, a memory to store a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to extract an optically-readable symbol from an optically captured image including an image of the optically-readable symbol, the optically-readable symbol including a first cell line having a plurality of first cells, and one or more second cell lines each having one or more second cells, each of the one or more second cell lines connected to respective ones of the plurality of first cells of the first cell line, recognize first information expressed by the first cell line included in the extracted optically-readable symbol, recognize second information expressed by the one or more second cell lines included in the extracted optically-readable symbol, and acquire identification information included in the optically-readable symbol based at least in part on the first information and the second information.

Abstract: To provide a physical quantity sensor having excellent reliability by reducing the influence of a force applied from the outside. Disclosed is a physical quantity sensor, which has a weight or a movable electrode formed on a device substrate, and an outer peripheral section that is disposed to surround the weight or the movable electrode, said weight or movable electrode being displaceable in the rotation direction in a plane. When the weight or the movable electrode is displaced in the rotation direction in the plane, the physical quantity sensor is provided with a rotation space at the outer peripheral section of an end portion of the weight or the movable electrode, said end portion being in the direction viewed from the center position of the weight or the movable electrode.

Abstract: A gyroscope includes connecting portions which are provided between a mass body and a mass body and connects the mass body with the mass body. Here, the connecting portions includes a fixing portion fixed to a substrate, a shuttle provided between the fixing portion and the mass body, a shuttle provided between the fixing portion and the mass body, a beam connecting the fixing portion with the shuttle, a beam connecting the fixing portion with the shuttle, a beam connecting the mass body with the shuttle, a beam connecting the mass body with the shuttle, and a beam connecting the shuttle with the shuttle. The fixing portion is provided between the shuttle and the shuttle.

Abstract: It is possible to obtain a thin film that can form a minute pattern and that has a high index of refraction by using a polymer containing a triazine ring and containing a repeating unit structure represented for example by formula (22) or (26).