Abstract: A driver circuit includes a drive circuit, a monitoring circuit, and a control circuit. The drive circuit includes a first current source and drives a switching element when the first current source is connected to a control terminal of the switching element. The monitoring circuit monitors a period of time from a start to an end of a change in a voltage drop across the switching element. The control circuit controls a current value of the first current source based on the monitored period of time such that a slew rate of the voltage drop across the switching element approaches a target value.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pre-filled syringe formulation with staked needle, which contains an antibody at a high concentration and can be produced on an industrial scale in a simple manner without causing clogging. A pre-filled syringe formulation with staked needle, in which a protein solution is packed. The pre-filled syringe formulation is characterized in that a cap formed with a material having low water vapor permeability is provided at the needle.

Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes an imaging unit (140) configured to capture an image of a target object while the imaging unit (140) being mounted on a movable apparatus (500); and an exposure condition determination unit (161) configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on a distance detected between the movable apparatus (500) and the target object.

Abstract: A syringe is provided with a barrel having a distal end part provided with an outlet opening; a filter disposed closer to a proximal side than the outlet opening inside the barrel; and a holding member. A proximal side part disposed closer to the proximal side than the filter of the holding member has a flow path, a proximal side space into which the medicine flows through the flow path is provided on the proximal side of the filter, a distal side space into which the medicine flows from the proximal side space via the filter is provided on the distal side of the filter, and an area of the outlet opening is smaller than an area of the proximal side space, smaller than an area of the distal side space, and smaller than an area of the flow path.

Abstract: Provided is a syringe cap including a projection extending in the circumferential direction of a cap body, wherein the projection includes an apex located radially outward of the cap body from the outer circumferential surface of the cap body, a first inclined surface having a starting end located at the apex and having a terminal end located at a position on the side closer to the proximal end of the cap body than the starting end is, and a second inclined surface having a starting end located at the apex and on the outer circumferential surface of the cap body having a terminal end located at a position on the side closer to the distal end of the cap body than the starting end is, on the outer circumferential surface of the cap body, and the shortest distance from the starting end to the terminal end of the first inclined surface is smaller than the shortest distance from the starting end to the terminal end of the second inclined surface.

Abstract: A driver circuit includes a drive circuit, a monitoring circuit, and a control circuit. The drive circuit includes a first current source and drives a switching element when the first current source is connected to a control terminal of the switching element. The monitoring circuit monitors a period of time from a start to an end of a change in a voltage drop across the switching element. The control circuit controls a current value of the first current source based on the monitored period of time such that a slew rate of the voltage drop across the switching element approaches a target value.

Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide copolymer has a glass transition temperature of 95° C. or higher and 190° C. or lower and has a melting point of 300° C. or lower or does not have a melting point, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, and the copolymer containing as a structural unit arylene sulfide units having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 or more and 10,000 or less. The polyarylene sulfide copolymer can be provided with high physical stability such as in rigidity at high temperature and excellent moldability and chemical resistance.

Abstract: An imaging system (100) includes an imaging unit (140) configured to capture an image of a target object while the imaging unit (140) being mounted on a movable apparatus (500); and an exposure condition determination unit (161) configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on a distance detected between the movable apparatus (500) and the target object.

Abstract: According to one aspect of embodiments, a driver circuit having an overcurrent protection function includes a control signal generating circuit that outputs a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control signal for controlling turning ON and OFF of the output transistor that supplies output current to a load; and a control circuit that generates a signal indicating an overcurrent state when a count value of an overcurrent detecting signal exceeds a predetermined number, which indicates that a value of an output current of the output transistor within the predetermined time interval exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A driver circuit having an overcurrent protection function is configured to: output, when a current value of an output transistor exceeds a threshold value, a shut-off signal for turning OFF the output transistor; output an interval signal for turning ON the output transistor after a predetermined time interval has elapsed from a timing at which the shut-off signal is output when the control signal is in a control state for turning ON the output transistor; and turn OFF the output transistor when any one of the interval signal and the shut-off signal is in a state for turning OFF the output transistor.

Abstract: According to one aspect of embodiments, a driver circuit having an overcurrent protection function includes a control signal generating circuit that outputs a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control signal for controlling turning ON and OFF of the output transistor that supplies output current to a load; and a control circuit that generates a signal indicating an overcurrent state when a count value of an overcurrent detecting signal exceeds a predetermined number, which indicates that a value of an output current of the output transistor within the predetermined time interval exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide copolymer has a glass transition temperature of 95° C. or higher and 190° C. or lower and has a melting point of 300° C. or lower or does not have a melting point, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, and the copolymer containing as a structural unit arylene sulfide units having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 or more and 10,000 or less. The polyarylene sulfide copolymer can be provided with high physical stability such as in rigidity at high temperature and excellent moldability and chemical resistance.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power circuit supplying a voltage or a current from an output terminal to a load comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, an inductor, a fifth switching element, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to bring the fifth switching element into conduction when switching control on at least two of the first to fourth switching elements is to be executed according to an output to the load connected via the output terminal, and bring the fifth switching element into non-conduction after a delay time passes from a time the first to fourth switching elements have been brought into non-conduction when the first to fourth switching elements are to be brought into non-conduction.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power source circuit has first, second, and third one-conductivity-type transistors with commonly connected emitters, wherein the first transistor has an emitter area that is N times those of the second and third transistors. The power source circuit outputs a reference voltage that is set by a voltage drop that is caused at a resistance between bases of the first and second transistors and a forward voltage of a PN-junction diode, and outputs a BG_OK signal in response to a potential at a collector of the third transistor.

Abstract: There is provided a fish egg processing apparatus capable of performing a predetermined processing on fertilized eggs with higher efficiency. A gene injection device 1 which is a fish egg processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a processing water tank 8 which processes collected fish eggs e and a processing device for injecting a predetermined substance into the fish eggs e positioned in the processing water tank 8, wherein the processing water tank 8 includes: a region prior to processing 81 where the width dimension is set such that a plurality of the fish eggs e are not allowed to lie side by side and form a line in order to house the fish eggs e prior to processing; and a region after processing 82 for housing the fish eggs e on which a predetermined processing has been performed.