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: 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.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that can cool an image sensor without interfering with an anti-vibration movement of the image sensor. An image sensor substrate implements an image sensor. A control circuit substrate controls an entire apparatus. An anti-vibration mechanism moves the image sensor substrate in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of a lens. A cooling fan and a first duct are arranged behind the control circuit substrate in an optical axis direction opposite to the lens. A second duct is branched from the first duct and dissipates heat of the image sensor substrate. Inside spaces of the first and second ducts are spatially separated from the substrates. The second duct is arranged at a position that partially overlaps with the image sensor substrate in viewing from a top and that does not touch the image sensor substrate even when the image sensor substrate moves to a closest position.

Abstract: In a radio communication device, a radio communication module transmits a radio signal, and a CPU sets a phase, a modulation depth, and transmission power of the radio signal based on a resonance frequency in the radio communication module, a received signal strength indicator in the radio communication module, and a temperature in the radio communication device.

Abstract: A power conversion device having a multi-phase converter in which a plurality of chopper circuits each including a switching element and a reactor connected to the switching element are connected in parallel is provided. The power conversion device includes a single current sensor that is provided on a primary side of the chopper circuit, and detects a phase current flowing through each of the reactors when the switching elements are in both an on state and an off state, and a drift current detection unit configured to detect a drift current of a phase current in the multi-phase converter on the basis of the phase current detected by the current sensor, wherein the current sensor detects a phase current such that directions of phase currents flowing through each of the reactors are the same as each other.

Abstract: An imaging device with a compact design allows illumination with a light source and imaging with an image sensor. An imaging device includes a front case having a front surface including a window and a lens-holder receptacle aligned with each other in a width direction (X-direction), a lens holder including a lens and attachable inside the lens-holder receptacle in the front case, a first circuit board on which an image sensor to receive light through the lens in the lens holder is mounted, and a second circuit board on which an LED to emit light through the window in the front case is mounted. The first and second circuit boards extend entirely in the width direction. The second circuit board is located frontward from the first circuit board.

Abstract: An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, two or more types of organic solvents, and a surfactant, wherein the ink is horizontally discharged to a substrate.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that can efficiently solve problems caused by heat generated by a heat generating element. The image pickup apparatus including a sensor substrate configured to implement an image sensor, and a main circuit board configured to implement a heat generating element. A length of the main circuit board is longer than a length of the sensor substrate in a width direction of the image pickup apparatus. The main circuit board is aslant arranged to an optical axis of the image pickup apparatus so that a first space part will be provided between the sensor substrate and the main circuit board. A cross section of the first space part in a plane that is parallel to both the optical axis and the width direction is approximately triangle.

Abstract: A working machine may include a first ground-contact part, a driving part configured to drive the first ground-contact part, a clutch mechanism configured to be switched between a transmission state and a non-transmission state, a clutch operation part configured to switch a state of the clutch mechanism, a braking mechanism configured to be switched between a braking state and a non-braking state, and a braking operation part configured to switch a state of the braking mechanism. In a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the braking state, the clutch mechanism may be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state by operating the clutch operation part, and in a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the non-braking state, the clutch mechanism may not be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state even by operating the clutch operation part.

Abstract: A touch panel comprises: a first electrode substrate having a first conductive film; a second electrode substrate having a decorative portion facing the first conductive film; and a case configured to contain the first electrode substrate, wherein the first electrode substrate has a larger area than the second electrode substrate, and wherein the case is configured to cover an outer peripheral portion of the first electrode substrate outside the second electrode substrate, and not to cover the second electrode substrate.

Abstract: The present power conversion device includes an inverter, a step-up/down converter, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a voltage sensor, a control device, and a backup power supply. The auxiliary device is connected between the first DC power supply and the step-up/down converter, and the control device includes an abnormality determination unit configured to determine that an abnormality has occurred when a control voltage is equal to or lower than a first threshold value, and a control unit configured to execute discharge control when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality has occurred and an inter-terminal voltage measured by the voltage sensor is equal to or lower than a second threshold value.

Abstract: An energy storage device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a positive electrode including a positive active material layer; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the positive active material layer includes boron and aluminum, and a maximum voltage width that is a difference between a charge upper limit voltage and a discharge lower limit voltage under normal usage is 1.1 V or less.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element (100) includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit (600). The first and second photoelectric conversion units (500, 600) are joined at joint surfaces facing each other, and include an upper electrode (502, 602), a lower electrode (508A, 608), a photoelectric conversion film (504, 604), and a storage electrode (510, 610). The lower electrode (508A) of the first photoelectric conversion unit (500) is connected to a charge storage unit (314) via a first through electrode (460A, 460B) penetrating a semiconductor substrate (300).

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a luminescent thin film, a luminescent multilayered film, and an organic electroluminescent element that have luminescence properties with excellent storage stability in atmospheric air; and a production method therefor. This luminescent thin film contains a luminescent compound A, and is characterized by containing 0.0001 mass % or more of an oxide B of luminescent compound A in terms of the luminescent compound A.

Abstract: ink includes water, an alcohol having a boiling point of 240 degrees C. or lower, and an infrared absorbent, wherein the alcohol accounts for 5.0 percent by mass or more of the total amount of the ink and the ink is free of an alcohol having a boiling point higher than 240 degrees C.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a high operability irrespective of whether an accessory is attached to an apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a first connection section connected to the accessory, a first operation member disposed in a surface different from a surface where the first connection section is provided, and a second operation member disposed in the surface where the first connection section is provided. The accessory includes a second connection section which can be connected to the first connection section, and a third operation section disposed in a surface different from the surface where the second connection section is provided and is located in the vicinity of the second operation member in a state in which the accessory is attached to the apparatus body. The second operation member and the third operation member have at least one same function.