Abstract: In an imaging element obtained by stacking a plurality of semiconductor substrates, connection between semiconductor substrates is facilitated. The imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer, connection sections, and a recess. The first semiconductor substrate includes photoelectric conversion sections that perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. The second semiconductor substrate includes pixel circuits that generate an image signal corresponding to a charge generated by the photoelectric conversion, and the first semiconductor substrate is stacked on the back side of the second semiconductor substrate. The insulating layer is disposed between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate. A connection section penetrates through the insulating layer and connects the first semiconductor substrate and the back side of the second semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; and a robot that has a base portion and an arm portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a first printing operation of causing the head to print an image to a three-dimensional first medium, and a second printing operation of causing the head to print a test pattern while causing the robot to change a position of the head with respect to the second medium, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the first printing operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the second printing operation are different from each other.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light source including: a plurality of light-emitting parts, each having a first main surface serving as a light-exiting surface, and a second main surface on a side opposite the first main surface, and each comprising a first electrode and a second electrode at the second main surface, and a covering member integrally holding the plurality of light-emitting parts such that the first electrode and the second electrode are exposed from the covering member; and a substrate having an upper surface and comprising, at the upper surface: a plurality of first wiring portions, each of which is opposed to a corresponding one of the first electrodes of the light-emitting parts, and a plurality of second wiring portions, each of which is opposed to a corresponding one of the second electrodes of the light-emitting parts.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition according to the present disclosure, contains an acid-modified vinyl group-containing resin (A), a thermosetting resin (B), a photopolymerization initiator (C), and a photopolymerizable compound (D), in which the photopolymerizable compound includes a photopolymerizable compound having a polyoxyalkylene chain and an ethylenically unsaturated group.

Abstract: A speed reducing mechanism according to the present invention includes: a speed reducing unit for decelerating input rotation; an accelerating unit for accelerating rotation output from the speed reducing unit; and a brake unit for applying a braking force for braking the accelerating unit.

Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.

Abstract: A balloon has an inflatable portion that forms a tube shape extending in an extending direction in an inflated state, a distal end connecting portion provided to an end portion of the inflatable portion on one side thereof, and a proximal end connecting portion provided to an end portion of the inflatable portion on the other side thereof. At least the inflatable portion includes a plurality of first portions that forms wings in the deflated state and a plurality of second portions that is adjacent to the plurality of first portions in a circumferential direction centered on the center axis. In the process of changing shape from the inflated state to the deflated state, the plurality of second portions moves towards the center axis in advance of the plurality of first portions and thereby forms, in the inflatable portion, indentations recessed toward the center axis.

Abstract: An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, and an organic solvent, wherein the dried layer of the ink has a surface free energy ?S having a polar component ?Sp of from 3.5 to 20 J/m2 at 25 degrees C.

Abstract: A drive device protection structure has a rotary electric machine, a gearbox connected the rotary electric machine, an undercover disposed underneath the drive device and a protecting plate provided to the undercover. The rotary electric machine has a rotary electric machine housing that has a rotary electric machine flange. The gearbox has a gearbox housing that has a gearbox flange. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are connected together. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are formed such that a lower surface of the gearbox flange is positioned lower than a lower surface of the rotary electric machine flange. The protecting plate is formed of a material more rigid than a material of the undercover. The protecting plate is provided beneath connecting part between the rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange so as to face the connecting part.

Abstract: A balloon catheter includes a balloon that is inflatable and deflatable, includes a straight tube portion and a linear protrusion that protrudes from an outer surface of the straight tube portion and extends in an axial direction of the straight tube portion. The linear protrusion includes a slope portion wherein a ridge slopes down to the outer surface, the slope portion includes a first slope portion in which the ridge slopes down to the outer surface toward a tip-end side, and the linear protrusion has a projection height from the outer surface that becomes lower toward the tip-end side in the axial direction within a region between a base-end side edge of the first slope portion and a tip-end side edge of the linear protrusion.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a fatigue state detector, an information provider, and a processor. The fatigue state detector is configured to detect a fatigue degree of an occupant of the vehicle. The information provider is configured to provide various pieces of information related to traveling of the vehicle to the occupant. The processor is configured to change a frequency of providing the various pieces of the information by the information provider, depending on the fatigue degree of the occupant.

Abstract: A backup power supply control system includes: a first semiconductor switch that switches a main power supply line to an electrically conductive state or an electrically non-conductive state; and an auxiliary power supply switch that switches an auxiliary power supply line to the electrically conductive state or the electrically non-conductive state. A first driving unit controls, in a non-failure state, a second semiconductor switch, connected between a gate and source of a first semiconductor switch, OFF and thereby controls the first semiconductor switch ON. The first driving unit ensures, in the failure state, at least a gate-plateau voltage of the first semiconductor switch as a drive voltage for the second semiconductor switch. When a failure detection unit detects the failure state, the first driving unit controls the first semiconductor switch OFF by controlling the second semiconductor switch ON and a second driving unit controls the auxiliary power supply switch ON.

Abstract: A gate driving power source device can be miniaturized by sharing power source units, and a large current can be prevented from locally flowing in a single chip even when a short-circuit failure occurs in a multi-phase conversion circuit included in a power conversion device. There is provided a shared power source unit supplying a shared DC power source to a gate drive circuit provided in any one of a plurality of lower arms of multi-phase conversion circuits or any one of a plurality of upper arms of the multi-phase conversion circuit and gate drive circuits provided in upper arms or lower arms of other conversion circuits.

Abstract: A travel sickness estimation system includes an estimation unit and an output unit. The estimation unit is configured to perform estimation processing of estimating, based on person information indicating conditions of a person who is on board a moving vehicle, whether or not the person is in circumstances that would cause travel sickness for him or her. The output unit is configured to output a result of the estimation processing performed by the estimation unit.

Abstract: An electrical storage device control system includes a plurality of electrical storage devices and a plurality of charger circuits. The plurality of electrical storage devices are charged by a main power supply. The plurality of charger circuits are connected between the main power supply and the plurality of electrical storage devices. A mode of connection between the plurality of electrical storage devices being charged is switched to either a first connection mode or a second connection mode, depending on a voltage difference between an input voltage for the main power supply and a charging voltage based on respective voltages at the plurality of electrical storage devices. In the first connection mode, the plurality of electrical storage devices are connected together in series. In the second connection mode, the plurality of electrical storage devices are connected in parallel to the main power supply.

Abstract: An alloy member includes a base member that includes a recess in a surface of the base member and is constituted by an alloy material containing chromium, an anchor portion is disposed in the recess and contains an oxide containing manganese and a covering layer is connected to the anchor portion and contains a low-equilibrium oxygen pressure element whose equilibrium oxygen pressure is lower than that of chromium.

Abstract: A luminescent film includes a host compound, a blue phosphorescent compound, and a blue fluorescent compound, in which an emission spectrum of the blue phosphorescent compound and an absorption spectrum of the blue fluorescent compound have portions overlapping with each other; shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelengths of the blue phosphorescent compound (abbreviated as “BPM” in the expression) and the blue fluorescent compound (abbreviated as “BFM” in the expression) satisfy the following expression (1): ?BFM??BPM: expression (1) in which ?BFM represents the shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelength of the blue fluorescent compound and ?BPM represents the shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelength of the blue phosphorescent compound; and light emission derived from the blue fluorescent compound is detected.

Abstract: A primer is provided that includes water, a cationic resin, a polyvalent metal salt, and a diethylene glycol alkyl ether-based organic solvent.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensor including: a light polarizing unit configured to transmit light in a specific light polarization direction out of incident light; a pixel configured to generate an image signal corresponding to the light transmitted through the light polarizing unit; and a signal transfer unit formed simultaneously with the light polarizing unit and configured to transfer either of the image signal and a control signal that controls generation of the image signal.