Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual electrode that is individually provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode that is commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode for applying pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and applies a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first layer that is provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the pressure chamber substrate in the detection resistor, and has a lower thermal conductivity than the detection resistor.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric body that is driven to apply pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, an upper electrode that is provided above the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a lower electrode that is provided below the piezoelectric body for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is provided below the piezoelectric body for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a first wiring portion that is electrically coupled to the detection resistor. The first wiring portion includes a first part that is extended above the piezoelectric body, and a second part that is provided in at least a part of a through hole penetrating the piezoelectric body and electrically coupled to the detection resistor.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual electrode, a common electrode, a piezoelectric body that is provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode for applying pressure to liquid in the pressure chambers, a drive wiring that applies a voltage so as to drive the piezoelectric body, a detection resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring for detecting temperature of the liquid in the pressure chambers, and a sealing substrate that has a wall portion and a ceiling portion, and protects the piezoelectric body by the wall portion and the ceiling portion. The detection resistor is provided to have a part overlapping the wall portion which is shorter than a part not overlapping the wall portion when viewed along a lamination direction of the piezoelectric body, the individual electrode, and the common electrode.

Abstract: A wireless power-feeding apparatus that enables efficient wireless feeding to a power-receiving coil embedded at the center of a spherical power-receiving device. The apparatus includes: a holding member for holding the power-receiving device; a power-transmitting coil; a driver circuit for supplying the power-transmitting coil with high-frequency current to generate a magnetic flux for wireless power-feeding to the power-receiving coil; and a wireless data receiver for receiving data transmitted regularly from a wireless data transmitter, the power-transmitting coil being positioned relative to the holding member in such a manner that the axes of the power-receiving coil and the power-transmitting coil are parallel to each other when the power-receiving device is held by the holding member in such a manner that a mark provided on the surface of the power-receiving device faces a predetermined direction.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a head having nozzles aligned in a first direction, a manifold, and a driving element; a first temperature sensor configured to detect, in the manifold, a temperature difference between a temperature of the ink at an upstream in the first direction and a temperature of the ink at a downstream in the first direction; and a controller. The nozzles have a first nozzle and a second nozzle. The controller is configured to execute: causing of the head to perform printing, and performing of position correction of correcting a discharge timing of the ink from the nozzles based on the temperature difference so that a distance between a landing position of the ink discharged from the first nozzle and a landing position of the ink discharged from the second nozzle becomes short in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid, and a driver element configured to apply a pressure to the liquid; a tank configured to store the liquid; a circulation channel configured to circulate the liquid between the head and the tank; a pump; and a controller. The controller is configured to carry out: a non-discharge flushing process of performing a non-discharge flushing by driving the driver element such that the liquid is not discharged from the nozzle; a switching process of switching the pump between ON and OFF; and a determining process of determining a frequency of driving the driver element in the non-discharge flushing process according to a circulation flow amount of the liquid changing due to the switching of the pump between ON and OFF in the switching process.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid includes a piezoelectric body, a first electrode layer disposed at least partly on the piezoelectric body in a stacking direction, and a first wiring disposed on the first electrode layer in the stacking direction, the first wiring being more likely to cause ion migration than the first electrode layer, in which the piezoelectric body, the first electrode layer, and the first wiring are stacked in the stacking direction. When a predetermined area on the piezoelectric body is a first area, and a predetermined area adjacent to the first area on the piezoelectric body is a second area, both the first wiring and the first electrode layer are disposed in the first area, and the first wiring is not disposed while the first electrode layer is disposed in the second area.

Abstract: A distance between the first circuit and the second circuit is a first distance, a distance between the first circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a second distance longer than the first distance, and a distance between the second circuit and the temperature detection circuit is a third distance longer than the first distance.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head unit includes a liquid discharge head that has a first detection resistor that is provided to correspond to a first piezoelectric element group, a second detection resistor that is provided to correspond to a second piezoelectric element group, a power supply circuit that causes a current to flow through the first detection resistor and the second detection resistor, a voltage detection circuit that detects a voltage, and a switching circuit that is configured to switch between a first state in which the voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a voltage generated in the first detection resistor due to the current flowing from the power supply circuit and a second state in which the voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a voltage generated in the second detection resistor due to the current flowing from the power supply circuit.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber substrate that has a plurality of pressure chambers, a piezoelectric element that is laminated at the pressure chamber substrate, and has an individual electrode individually provided for each of the plurality of pressure chambers, a common electrode commonly provided for the plurality of pressure chambers, and a piezoelectric body provided between the individual electrode and the common electrode in a lamination direction of the piezoelectric element and provided to apply pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber, a drive wiring that is electrically coupled to the individual electrode and the common electrode, and provided to apply a voltage for driving the piezoelectric body to the piezoelectric body, and a heating resistor that is formed of the same material as any of the individual electrode, the common electrode, and the drive wiring, and provided to heat the liquid in the pressure chamber.

Abstract: There are included a toilet body including a bowl part that receives waste; a function unit that is arranged in a rear portion of the toilet body; a panel member that covers a side surface of the function unit; a magnet that is provided to the panel member; and a magnetic material that is provided to an attachment part of the toilet body, wherein the magnetic material is elastically deformable, and is attached to the attachment part to put the attachment part therebetween.

Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated on each other; a rotor disposed inside the stator core so as to be rotated about an axis; and a housing storing therein the tubular-shaped stator core and the rotor, and including a circumferential wall and axially opposite end walls that are opposed to each other in a direction parallel with the axis. The stator core is fixed at one of its axially end portions to one of the axially opposite end walls of the housing. The housing includes a stator-core-inclination restraining portion that protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the housing toward a part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, wherein the part is located on a side of the other of the axially end portions of the stator core.

Abstract: What is provided is a transistor including a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, in which the gate insulating film is a laminated film in which a SiOx film and a SiCyNz film are alternately formed, the total number of films constituting the laminated film is 3 or more and 18 or less, and the thickness of each film constituting the laminated film is 25 nm or more and 150 nm or less.

Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body, and a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, where at least one of the panel member and the toilet body includes an attachment part that includes a recessed part for attaching the magnet or the magnetic body to the attachment part.

Abstract: There are included a toilet body including a bowl part that receives waste; a function unit that is arranged in a rear portion of the toilet body; a panel member that covers a side surface of the function unit; a magnet that is provided to the panel member; and a magnetic material that is provided to an attachment part of the toilet body, wherein the magnetic material is elastically deformable, and is attached to the attachment part to put the attachment part therebetween.

Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a first holding part that adsorbs and holds the toilet body and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force, and a second holding part that adsorbs and holds the functional part and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force. The panel member is capable of being slid frontward, backward, upward, and downward in a state where the panel member is adsorbed and held by the first holding part and the second holding part.

Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body, a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, and a holding part that holds one of the magnet and the magnetic body so as to be capable of being moved or deformed toward another of the magnet and the magnetic body.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a diaphragm, a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode in this order in a first direction, and ejects liquid. The second electrode includes a first portion that is next to the piezoelectric layer in the first direction and is electrically conductive. A length in the first direction is defined as a thickness. One position in a second direction intersecting with the first direction is defined as a first position. Another one position is defined as a second position that is closer to an end of the second electrode in the second direction than the first position is. Given the definition, the thickness of the first portion at the second position is less than the thickness of the first portion at the first position.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nucleic acid medication for cancer treatment, the medication being capable of suppressing the growth of cancer stem cells and thus effectively treating cancer. hsa-miR-136-5p, hsa-miR-3065-3p, hsa-miR-4727-5p, hsa-miR-378g, hsa-miR-181a-5p, hsa-miR-362-5p, and hsa-miR-608 have remarkably excellent growth inhibitory action on cancer stem cells and are thus useful as a nucleic acid medication for the treatment of various cancers.

Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by laminated steel sheets; a casing including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein an axial end portion of the stator core; a casing cover including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein another axial end portion of the stator core, and a rotor disposed inside the stator core. The stator core includes fastened portions protruding radially outwardly from respective portions of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core which are circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The stator core is fastened at the fastened portions to the bottom wall of one of the casing and the casing cover. The other of the casing and the casing cover includes protrusion portions protruding from its inner wall surface toward the stator core so as to restrain inclination of the stator core.