Abstract: A hair iron includes a first hair holding part including a first hair holding surface and a second hair holding part including a second hair holding surface configured to face the first hair holding surface. The hair iron holds hair with the first hair holding surface and the second hair holding surface facing each other. The hair iron further includes a discharge device that generates ions and an ion ejection port that ejects the ions thus generated. The discharge device is disposed at a portion of the first hair holding part that does not overlap the first hair holding surface. This can provide the hair iron that can be downsized in the thickness direction while increasing hair care effects.

Abstract: A magnetically coupled reactor and a DC/DC converter are provided between a DC power supply and an inverter. A first smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC power supply and the coupled reactor. A second smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC/DC converter and the inverter. A controller is provided in order to control switching operations of the inverter and the DC/DC converter. The controller causes semiconductor switching elements composing upper and lower arms of the DC/DC converter to perform complementary operations so as to be alternately turned on/off, and causes left and right legs to operate with their switching phases shifted from each other, thereby electric charges stored in both smoothing capacitors are discharged by energy loss in the coupled reactor and the DC/DC converter.

Abstract: Provided is an X-ray analysis system with which it is possible to set appropriate conditions for vapor phase decomposition with ease. The X-ray analysis system includes an X-ray spectrometer and a vapor phase decomposition apparatus. The X-ray spectrometer includes: an X-ray source configured to irradiate a measurement sample having a thin film present on its surface with primary X-rays; a detector configured to measure an intensity of reflected X-rays, or an intensity of fluorescent X-rays; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a film thickness or a coating mass of the thin film based on the intensity of the reflected X-rays or the fluorescent X-rays. The vapor phase decomposition apparatus includes: a vapor phase decomposition portion configured to perform vapor phase decomposition on the thin film; and a control portion configured to determine a vapor phase decomposition time based on the film thickness or the coating mass.

Abstract: A display device including a semiconductor element is provided.

Abstract: A period from when switching elements S1, S4 at first diagonal positions in a full-bridge inverter are turned off at the same time to when switching elements S2, S3 at second diagonal positions are turned on at the same time, is defined as T1, and a period from when the switching elements S2, S3 at the second diagonal positions are turned off at the same time to when the switching elements S1, S4 at the first diagonal positions are turned on at the same time, is defined as T2. With a total length of T1 and T2 set to be constant, the lengths of T1 and T2 are controlled to be changed every switching cycle.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a main body including a substrate to which a power conversion unit and a coil are provided; and a first heat dissipation portion which holds the substrate and dissipates heat of the substrate, wherein the substrate is formed by one sheet, the coil is formed integrally with the substrate, the first heat dissipation portion is fixed to a substrate first surface of the substrate, a heat dissipation second surface of the first heat dissipation portion has a coil cooling portion opposed to and abutting on a part where the coil is formed, of the substrate.

Abstract: An electric storage device according to the present invention includes: an electrode assembly including positive and negative electrode plates that are insulated from each other, at least one of the electrode plates having an active material layer formed part and an active material layer non-formed part; positive and negative current collectors; and a metal material abutted against the active material layer non-formed part, wherein the metal material includes a curled part in which an edge of the metal material is curved in a direction away from the active material layer non-formed part, and the active material layer non-formed part, each of the current collectors, and the metal material are integrally coupled.

Abstract: A display device including a semiconductor element is provided.

Abstract: A structure for preventing deteriorations of a light-emitting device and retaining sufficient capacitor elements (condenser) required by each pixel is provided. A first passivation film, a second metal layer, a flattening film, a barrier film, and a third metal layer are stacked in this order over a transistor. A side face of a first opening provided with the flattening film is covered by the barrier film, a second opening is formed inside the first opening, and a third metal layer is connected to a semiconductor via the first opening and the second opening. A capacitor element that is formed of a lamination of a semiconductor of a transistor, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, the first passivation film, and the second metal layer is provided.

Abstract: A resonant inverter includes: an input capacitor; an inverter; a snubber circuit; a transformer having a primary winding connected to an AC end of the inverter; a resonant coil, a resonant capacitor, and a current sensor on the secondary winding side of the transformer; and a control unit, wherein, on the basis of current detected by the current sensor, the control unit controls switching elements so as to perform zero voltage switching at the time of turning-on, at a frequency at which a load including the resonant coil and the resonant capacitor becomes capacitive, and performs power regeneration of energy stored in a snubber capacitor to a DC voltage source.

Abstract: The X-ray reflectometer of the present invention includes: an irradiation angle variable unit (10) configured to vary an irradiation angle of a focused X-ray beam (6) with a sample surface (8a); a position sensitive detector (14) which is fixed; and a reflection intensity calculation unit (15) configured to, per reflection angle of reflected X-rays (13) constituting a reflected X-ray beam (12), integrate a detected intensity by a corresponding detection element (11), for only the detection elements (11) positioned within a divergence angle width of the reflected X-ray beam (12) in the position sensitive detector (14), in synchronization of variation in the irradiation angle (?) of the focused X-ray beam (6) by the irradiation angle variable unit (10).

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a highly reliable display device at a low cost with high yield. According to the present invention, a step due to an opening in a contact is covered with an insulating layer to reduce the step, and is processed into a gentle shape. A wiring or the like is formed to be in contact with the insulating layer and thus the coverage of the wiring or the like is enhanced. In addition, deterioration of a light-emitting element due to contaminants such as water can be prevented by sealing a layer including an organic material that has water permeability in a display device with a sealing material. Since the sealing material is formed in a portion of a driver circuit region in the display device, the frame margin of the display device can be narrowed.

Abstract: A power conversion device including: a reactor formed such that a DC winding and a plurality of coupled windings are wound around one magnetic body, one end of the DC winding is connected to a voltage source, one end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to another end of the DC winding, another end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to each intermediate connection point between a plurality of upper and lower arms composed of switching elements, and magnetic fluxes generated by currents flowing through the DC winding and the coupled windings merge with each other in the same direction; and a control device for controlling the switching elements, wherein the upper arms or the lower arms are controlled by in-phase driving or interleave driving on the basis of the duty of switching operation.

Abstract: A structure for preventing deteriorations of a light-emitting device and retaining sufficient capacitor elements (condenser) required by each pixel is provided. A first passivation film, a second metal layer, a flattening film, a barrier film, and a third metal layer are stacked in this order over a transistor. A side face of a first opening provided with the flattening film is covered by the barrier film, a second opening is formed inside the first opening, and a third metal layer is connected to a semiconductor via the first opening and the second opening. A capacitor element that is formed of a lamination of a semiconductor of a transistor, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, the first passivation film, and the second metal layer is provided.

Abstract: A tablet printing device includes a first conveying disk that conveys a tablet while sucking and supporting a side surface of the tablet and an inkjet head capable of applying print processing to the front and back surfaces of the tablet conveyed by the conveying disk. The tablet is conveyed while being supported by a second conveying disk at its front and back surfaces and subjected to inspection of the side surface by a side surface inspection device. The tablet is transferred from the second conveying disk to the first conveying disk at a tablet delivery part and then supported by a suction hole formed in an end surface of the first conveying disk with the front and back surfaces fully exposed. The front and back surfaces are subjected to print processing ead, followed by print inspection, and only a non-defective tablet is discharged through a non-defective tablet discharge part.

Abstract: The light-emitting apparatus comprising thin film transistors and light emitting elements, comprises; a second inorganic insulation layer on a gate electrode, a first organic insulation layer on the second inorganic insulation layer, a third inorganic insulation layer on the first organic insulation layer, an anode on the third inorganic insulation layer, a second organic insulation layer overlapping with the end of the anode and having an inclination angle of 35 to 45 degrees, a fourth inorganic insulation layer on the upper and side surfaces of the second organic insulation layer and having an opening over the anode, an organic compound layer in contact with the anode and the fourth inorganic insulation layer and containing light-emitting material, and a cathode in contact with the organic compound layer, wherein the third and the fourth inorganic insulation layers comprise silicon nitride or aluminum nitride.

Abstract: A display device including a semiconductor element is provided.

Abstract: A power conversion device including: a reactor formed such that a DC winding and a plurality of coupled windings are wound around one magnetic body, one end of the DC winding is connected to a voltage source, one end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to another end of the DC winding, another end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to each intermediate connection point between a plurality of upper and lower arms composed of switching elements, and a control device for controlling the switching elements, wherein switching of the upper arms or the lower arms is controlled in accordance with a magnitude of a duty of the switching operation and a magnitude relationship between DC current ripple and AC current ripple composing current ripple in the coupled windings.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electric storage apparatus includes an electric storage device, an abutment arranged in alignment with the electric storage device, wherein the abutment includes at least three members stacked together, each of the members has a positioning part having a first surface forming a recess and a back surface of the first surface forming a projection, the positioning parts of the members are arranged at positions corresponding to one another, and adjacent members are relatively positioned by inserting a positioning part of one of the adjacent members into a positioning part of the other of the adjacent members.

Abstract: A power conversion device including: a reactor formed such that a DC winding and a plurality of coupled windings are wound around one magnetic body, one end of the DC winding is connected to a voltage source, one end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to another end of the DC winding, another end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to each intermediate connection point between a plurality of upper and lower arms composed of switching elements, and a control device for controlling the switching elements, wherein switching of the upper arms or the lower arms is controlled in accordance with a magnitude of a duty of the switching operation and a magnitude relationship between DC current ripple and AC current ripple composing current ripple in the coupled windings.