Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a converter, a DC link capacitor, a plurality of inverters, a diagnosis command unit configured to give a command to one of the plurality of inverters to perform power conversion, an AC voltage detection unit configured to detect a peak value of AC voltage on an AC input side of the converter, a DC voltage detection unit configured to detect a value of DC voltage across the DC link capacitor, a calculation unit to calculate a difference between the value of DC voltage and the peak value of AC voltage, a storage unit configured to store the difference in association with the inverters, and a leakage current determination unit configured to determine that the inverter associated with the largest of the differences stored in the storage unit is the inverter that has caused the largest leakage current.

Abstract: A MEMS device includes a wire that is formed of a conductive portion embedded into a recess opened in a first face of a substrate and a bump electrode that is electrically connected to the wire. A total width, in a second direction intersecting a first direction along which the wire extends on the first face, of an opening of the recess in a connection region where the wire and the bump electrode are electrically connected to each other is narrower than a width, in the second direction, of an opening of the recess in a region outside the connection region.

Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a converter configured to convert AC power of an AC power supply into DC power and outputs the DC power, a DC link unit including capacitors connected in series with each other, an inverter connected in parallel with the DC link unit, and configured to convert the DC power of the DC link unit into AC power for driving a motor, and outputs the AC power, and a short-circuit judgment unit configured to judge that at least one of the capacitors in the DC link unit has shorted in the case where, when the value of a voltage applied to a positive and negative bipolar terminal of the DC link unit is smaller than a first threshold, the value of an input current flowing from the AC power supply into the DC link unit via the converter is larger than a second threshold.

Abstract: There are provided a driving control portion configured to output a closing command for bringing a contact to a closed state to a first driving portion, and also to output to the first driving portion an opening command for bringing the contact to an open state and the closing command in an alternate and repeated manner until the current runs through the contact; a number-of-retries obtaining portion configured to obtain, as a number of retries, the number of times that the driving control portion repeated the opening command and the closing command until the current runs through the contact after the driving control portion outputted the closing command to the first driving portion; and a usable period estimating portion configured to estimate a usable period from the present time of a first relay in accordance with the number of retries.

Abstract: A motor drive device is capable of allowing a user to surely recognize that effect when a cutting fluid adheres to a casing. The motor drive device includes an electronic component and a casing that houses the electronic component. A part of the casing changes color when coming in contact with a cutting fluid and the casing may change to different colors based on the concentration of the cutting fluid.

Abstract: A motor drive system enabling detection of cutting fluid deposited at a housing of electronic components. A housing holding electronic components of a motor drive system has top faces slanted with respect to the horizontal plane so as to guide the deposited cutting fluid. The housing further includes storage parts collecting the cutting fluid guided along the top faces. The storage parts may be graduated so as to enable the collected amount of the cutting fluid to be measured. The storage parts may be configured to be detachable from the housing.

Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a converter, a DC link capacitor, a plurality of inverters, a diagnosis command unit configured to give a command to one of the plurality of inverters to perform power conversion, an AC voltage detection unit configured to detect a peak value of AC voltage on an AC input side of the converter, a DC voltage detection unit configured to detect a value of DC voltage across the DC link capacitor, a calculation unit to calculate a difference between the value of DC voltage and the peak value of AC voltage, a storage unit configured to store the difference in association with the inverters, and a leakage current determination unit configured to determine that the inverter associated with the largest of the differences stored in the storage unit is the inverter that has caused the largest leakage current.

Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a converter configured to convert AC power inputted by an AC power supply to DC power and to output the same to a DC link, a DC link capacitor provided for the DC link, an inverter configured to convert the DC power in the DC link to AC power for driving a motor and to output the AC power, a DC voltage detection unit configured to detect a value of DC voltage applied across the DC link capacitor, an AC voltage detection unit configured to detect a peak value of AC voltage on an AC input side of the converter, and a leakage current detection unit configured to detect a leakage current caused by driving the motor, based on the value of DC voltage detected by the DC voltage detection unit and the peak value of AC voltage detected by the AC voltage detection unit.

Abstract: A motor driving apparatus of the present invention includes a converter unit configured to convert an AC voltage into a DC voltage, a DC link unit configured to smooth the DC voltage by a capacitor to generate a DC link voltage, an inverter unit configured to convert the DC link voltage into a multiphase AC voltage for motor driving, short bars configured to electrically interconnect terminals of the DC link unit and terminals of the inverter unit, and a DC link voltage detection unit configured to detect the DC link voltage. At least parts of the short bars are located between the terminals of the DC link unit and terminals of the DC link voltage detection unit.

Abstract: A motor drive apparatus in which a main power supply used for motor drive is supplied via a magnetic contactor includes: a monitoring unit that monitors a main power supply voltage at an AC power supply input side of the magnetic contactor in a state in which contacts of the magnetic contactor are opened; a determination unit that determines whether the main power supply voltage monitored by the monitoring unit is normal; and a magnetic contactor control unit that outputs a command that controls opening and closing of contacts of the magnetic contactor, wherein when it is determined by the determination unit that the main power supply voltage is abnormal, the magnetic contactor control unit maintains an output of an open command such that the contacts of the magnetic contactor are opened.

Abstract: A machine learning apparatus that learns predicted life of a power device of a motor driving apparatus converting DC power into AC power by a switching operation of the power device to supply the AC power to an AC motor includes: a state observation unit that observes a state variable constituted by data regarding the number of times of switching of the power device, data regarding junction temperature of the power device, and data regarding presence or absence of a failure of the power device; and a learning unit that learns the predicted life of the power device in accordance with a training data set defined by the state variable.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device (an actuator unit) includes the following: a first substrate (a pressure chamber forming substrate, a diaphragm) having a piezoelectric layer and a first wiring conductor (a top electrode layer) that is at least partially stacked on the piezoelectric layer; and a second substrate (a sealing substrate) having a second wiring conductor (a bottom wiring conductor) that faces and is separated from the first wiring conductor (a top electrode layer) and to which an electrical signal different from an electrical signal that is applied to the first wiring conductor (a top electrode layer) is applied. At least one of the first wiring conductor (a top electrode layer) and the second wiring conductor (a bottom wiring conductor) is at least partially covered with an electrically insulating protective layer.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of substrates joined together in a stacked state, a space formed in one substrate out of the plurality of substrates, and a movable region configured by one face out of faces bounding the space. The movable region includes a recess indented from a space side to partway along a thickness direction of the movable region. An internal dimension of the recess in a direction perpendicular to a substrate stacking direction is larger than an internal dimension of the space in the direction perpendicular to the substrate stacking direction, and a wall bounding the space in the one substrate, and at least a portion of a bottom face of the recess, are adhered together by an adhesive.

Abstract: A wiring substrate is provided with a surface wiring on at least one surface, a through hole which passes through the wiring substrate, and a through wiring which is formed in the through hole and is connected to a surface wiring, in which an inner surface of the through hole is a rough surface, and electric resistance of the through wiring is equal to or less than the electric resistance of the surface wiring.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber formation substrate having a pressure chamber formed therein, a flow path formation substrate that is connected to the pressure chamber formation substrate, and that has a flow path in communication with the pressure chamber formed in a state penetrating through the flow path formation substrate in a thickness direction thereof, and a nozzle plate that is connected to the flow path formation substrate on an opposite side to the pressure chamber formation substrate, and that has a nozzle in communication with the flow path opened therein. The flow path formation substrate is configured from a single substrate, and an opening area on a pressure chamber side of the flow path is formed wider than an opening area on a nozzle side of the flow path.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a first substrate in which a piezoelectric element is provided; and a second substrate on which the first substrate is connected to a first surface, in which the second substrate is provided with a penetration hole, which penetrates through the second substrate in a plate thickness direction, and penetration wiring, which is formed from a conductor that is formed in an inner portion of the penetration hole, the penetration wiring is formed from a first end portion, which is provided on a first surface side, a second end portion, which is provided on a second surface side, which is a surface that is on an opposite side to the first surface, and connection wiring, which connects the first end portion and the second end portion, and a cross-sectional area of the connection wiring in a planar direction of the first surface is smaller than cross-sectional areas of the first end portion and the second end portion in the planar direction.

Abstract: A controller that makes an electric motor efficiently operate in accordance with an ambient temperature. The controller includes a machine learning apparatus learning an operating command to the electric motor. The machine learning apparatus includes a status observing part and learning part. The status observing part observes an ambient temperature of an electric motor apparatus and a cycle time of the electric motor as status variables. The learning part learns an operating command to the electric motor in accordance with a training data set prepared based on a combination of the judgment data acquired by a judgment data acquiring part and the status variables.

Abstract: A MEMS device includes a wire that is formed of a conductive portion embedded into a recess opened in a first face of a substrate and a bump electrode that is electrically connected to the wire. A total width, in a second direction intersecting a first direction along which the wire extends on the first face, of an opening of the recess in a connection region where the wire and the bump electrode are electrically connected to each other is narrower than a width, in the second direction, of an opening of the recess in a region outside the connection region.

Abstract: A motor driving device includes: a rectifier that rectifies an AC current and outputs a DC current to a DC link; an inverter unit that converts the DC current to an AC current for a motor; an initial charging unit that initially charges a smoothing capacitor with the DC current that flows through a charging resistor; a storage unit that stores a load capability of the charging resistor; a power calculation unit that calculates an amount of power generated in the charging resistor in response to the DC current flowing therethrough; and an opening/closing unit that shuts off the DC current from flowing in the smoothing capacitor when the amount of power reaches the load capability during an initial charging period and allows the DC current to flow in the smoothing capacitor after the shutoff when the amount of power is smaller than or equal to a threshold value.

Abstract: A machine learning apparatus according to the present invention, which learns the operation conditions of a cooling device for cooling a motor or a motor control apparatus, includes a state observer for observing a state variable including at least one of temperature data of the motor and the motor control apparatus at a specific position during operation of the cooling device; a determination data acquisition unit for acquiring determination data that determines a margin of acceptable value of a loss in each of the motor, the motor control apparatus, and the cooling device and a margin of acceptable value of the temperature of each of the motor and the motor control apparatus at the specific position; and a learner for learning the operation conditions of the cooling device in accordance with a training data set constituted of a combination of the state variable and the determination data.