Abstract: A liquid sterilization device includes: an outer tube through which a fluid to be sterilized flows from one end side to the other end side in the axial direction; a flow-regulating plate that has a plurality of tapered holes having diameters thereof increasing from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction; and a light source that applies ultraviolet light to a sterilization space on the other end side relative to the flow-regulating plate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fluid controller includes a fluid channel deforming portion and a mixing portion provided downstream from the fluid channel deforming portion. The fluid channel deforming portion includes an upstream end portion, a first channel, a second channel and a channel terminating portion. At least one of the first and second channels is deformed between the upstream end portion and the channel terminating portion. A region of the second channel in a second cross-section, is increased more than a region of the second channel in the first cross-section, between the upstream end portion ad the channel terminating portion. The mixing portion mixes a plurality of fluids flowing through the fluid channel deforming portion.

Abstract: A vehicle software update apparatus includes an update control device and an input and output control device. Before performing a process of updating software of a vehicle, the update control device: determines a visual ability of an occupant on board the vehicle to view guidance display of the software update process for the vehicle; displays a guidance notification of the software update process on a display device via the input and output control device, upon a determination that the occupant has the ability to view the guidance display; and displays the guidance notification of the software update process on the display device via the input and output control device, and outputs an audio guidance notification of the software update process from a sound output device via the input and output control device, upon a determination that the occupant does not have the ability to view the guidance display.

Abstract: A vehicle software update apparatus includes an update control device, an input and output control device, and a communication control device. Before performing a process of updating software of a vehicle, the update control device: determines whether an administrator is on board the vehicle; outputs, via the input and output control device, a guidance notification of the software update process for the vehicle from an output device provided in the vehicle, upon a determination that the administrator is on board; and outputs, via the communication control device, the guidance notification of the software update process for the vehicle from a terminal device of the administrator of the vehicle, upon a determination that the administrator is not on board. The update control device performs the process of updating the software of the vehicle, after outputting the guidance notification of the software update process for the vehicle.

Abstract: An antenna and an antenna apparatus for vehicle that can achieve reduction in size are provided. The antenna includes a dielectric body, a radiation conductor disposed on a first principal surface side of the dielectric body, and a ground conductor disposed on a second principal surface side of the dielectric body. The ground conductor is a planar conductor disposed within a rectangular region having a length LG1 in a first direction and a length LG2 in a second direction. When the ground conductor is divided into a first region and a second region, the ground conductor includes a slit that starts extending toward the inside of the ground conductor starting from an outer edge of the ground conductor in the first region.

Abstract: A vehicle external environment detection system includes a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The first vehicle includes an image sensor, a first processing circuit, and a first communication circuit. The first processing circuit identifies a moving method of a person around the first vehicle based on a result of the imaging performed by the image sensor, estimates a person's moving speed based on the moving method, and calculates an arrival time at which the person arrives at an intersection based on the person's moving speed. The first communication circuit transmits notification data including data regarding the arrival time. The second communication circuit receives the notification data. The second processing circuit calculates an interference possibility between the second vehicle and the person based on the data regarding the arrival time included in the notification data and warns an occupant on the second vehicle when the interference possibility is high.

Abstract: A bonded object production method according to an embodiment uses a continuous furnace to process a stacked body including a metal member, a ceramic member, and a brazing material layer located therebetween, while conveying the stacked body; and the method includes a process of heating the stacked body in an inert atmosphere from 200° C. to a bonding temperature at an average temperature raising rate of the stacked body of not less than 15° C./min, a process of bonding the stacked body in an inert atmosphere at the bonding temperature that is within a range of not less than 600° C. and not more than 950° C., and a process of cooling the stacked body from the bonding temperature to 200° C. at an average temperature lowering rate of the stacked body of not less than 15° C./min. A ceramic substrate is favorably a silicon nitride substrate.

Abstract: A step of forming an on-chip lens of a phase difference pixel is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel array unit, an individual on-chip lens, a common on-chip lens, and an adjacent on-chip lens. In the pixel array unit, pixels that performs photoelectric conversion according to incident light components, a plurality of phase difference pixels that is included in the pixels, is arranged adjacent to each other, and detects a phase difference, and phase difference pixel adjacent pixels that are included in the pixels and are adjacent to the phase difference pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. The individual on-chip lens is arranged for each of the pixels and individually condenses the incident light components on corresponding one of the pixels. The common on-chip lens is commonly arranged in the plurality of phase difference pixels and commonly condenses the incident light component.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor configured to rotate with a shaft. The rotor includes a plurality of yoke portions and a plurality of holding portions each corresponding to a space portion provided between the adjacent yoke portions and configured to hold therein a magnet. At least one of the plurality of yoke portions includes a tab portion extending towards the holding portion and configured to hold the magnet held in the holding portion. The holding portion includes an insertion space provided between a first end portion of the yoke portion in an axial direction of the shaft and the tab portion. The insertion space allows the magnet to be inserted into the insertion space towards an inner side in a radial direction of the shaft.

Abstract: A step of forming an on-chip lens of a phase difference pixel is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel array unit, an individual on-chip lens, a common on-chip lens, and an adjacent on-chip lens. In the pixel array unit, pixels that performs photoelectric conversion according to incident light components, a plurality of phase difference pixels that is included in the pixels, is arranged adjacent to each other, and detects a phase difference, and phase difference pixel adjacent pixels that are included in the pixels and are adjacent to the phase difference pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. The individual on-chip lens is arranged for each of the pixels and individually condenses the incident light components on corresponding one of the pixels. The common on-chip lens is commonly arranged in the plurality of phase difference pixels and commonly condenses the incident light component.

Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a stator including a plurality of stator pieces, a rotor being arranged inside the stator and rotating about a rotation axis, a housing holding the stator and the rotor, a lid member preventing the stator and the rotor from coming out of the housing, and a cylindrical frame forming the stator by containing the plurality of stator pieces and being internally mounted in the housing, in which a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion for fixing the frame to the housing are disposed at both end portions of the frame along an extending direction of the rotation axis.

Abstract: A step of forming an on-chip lens of a phase difference pixel is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel array unit, an individual on-chip lens, a common on-chip lens, and an adjacent on-chip lens. In the pixel array unit, pixels that performs photoelectric conversion according to incident light components, a plurality of phase difference pixels that is included in the pixels, is arranged adjacent to each other, and detects a phase difference, and phase difference pixel adjacent pixels that are included in the pixels and are adjacent to the phase difference pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. The individual on-chip lens is arranged for each of the pixels and individually condenses the incident light components on corresponding one of the pixels. The common on-chip lens is commonly arranged in the plurality of phase difference pixels and commonly condenses the incident light component.

Abstract: A step of forming an on-chip lens of a phase difference pixel is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel array unit, an individual on-chip lens, a common on-chip lens, and an adjacent on-chip lens. In the pixel array unit, pixels that performs photoelectric conversion according to incident light components, a plurality of phase difference pixels that is included in the pixels, is arranged adjacent to each other, and detects a phase difference, and phase difference pixel adjacent pixels that are included in the pixels and are adjacent to the phase difference pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. The individual on-chip lens is arranged for each of the pixels and individually condenses the incident light components on corresponding one of the pixels. The common on-chip lens is commonly arranged in the plurality of phase difference pixels and commonly condenses the incident light component.

Abstract: The weight and size of a lead-acid battery is reduced and the energy density per mass by forming base members of components of the lead-acid battery is improved by using aluminum or aluminum alloy and forming multiple plating layers on a surface of each base member. In order to prevent formation of pinholes in the multiple plating layers, the surface of the base member 22 is subjected to flattening processing, a solder plating layer with a film thickness of 10 ?m or more is formed, or many layers of group 4 metals with similar chemical properties are laminated. Moreover, in a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, an active material layer 24 is formed on the outermost lead plating layer by an electrolytic formation treatment to improve the charging and discharging efficiencies of the lead-acid battery and to greatly reduce fall-off the active material layer 24.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides light-responsive polypeptides, and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the light-responsive polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling the activity of a cell expressing a light-responsive polypeptide of the present disclosure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new carbon dioxide fixation apparatus. The carbon dioxide fixation apparatus (1) of the present invention includes: a first reaction vessel (10); a carbon dioxide fixing agent feeding unit (110); and a gas-liquid mixing unit. The first reaction vessel (10) can contain a carbon dioxide fixing agent, the carbon dioxide fixing agent feeding unit (110) can feed the carbon dioxide fixing agent into the first reaction vessel (10), and the gas-liquid mixing unit can mix a gas containing carbon dioxide into the carbon dioxide fixing agent.

Abstract: A step of forming an on-chip lens of a phase difference pixel is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel array unit, an individual on-chip lens, a common on-chip lens, and an adjacent on-chip lens. In the pixel array unit, pixels that performs photoelectric conversion according to incident light components, a plurality of phase difference pixels that is included in the pixels, is arranged adjacent to each other, and detects a phase difference, and phase difference pixel adjacent pixels that are included in the pixels and are adjacent to the phase difference pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. The individual on-chip lens is arranged for each of the pixels and individually condenses the incident light components on corresponding one of the pixels. The common on-chip lens is commonly arranged in the plurality of phase difference pixels and commonly condenses the incident light component.