Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.

Abstract: A control system, adapted for a boat including a motor driving a propeller; a battery supplying electricity to the motor; an actuator moving the battery in a front-rear direction of a boat; a rail guiding a movement of the battery; a sensor detecting a travel speed of the boat, or detecting an electricity consumption amount of the battery. The control system includes a control unit, including a processor, configured to control the actuator to change a position of the battery based on the travel speed of the boat, or based on the electricity consumption amount of the battery.

Abstract: A battery mounting case includes a case main body, a connector, a temporary placing table, and an exchange preparation mechanism. The case main body has a battery storage part that stores a battery, and a battery mounting port that opens to an upper side of the battery storage part. The connector is conductively connected to the battery stored in the case main body. The temporary placing table is movable between a battery storage position in the battery storage part and a battery extracting position outside the battery storage part. The exchange preparation mechanism moves the connector to a detachment position where the connector is separated from the battery and moves the temporary placing table to a position where the battery is able to be supported before moving the temporary placing table from the battery storage position to the battery extracting position.

Abstract: Provided is a steering apparatus 1 including: a wheel 2; and a steering unit 5 configured to steer the wheel 2, the steering apparatus 1 being fixable to a vehicle body, wherein the steering unit 5 includes: a steering drive source (an electric motor incorporated in an electric motor unit 61) configured to steer the wheel 2 with a steering rotation axis 63a as an axis, the steering rotation axis 63a being a rotation axis when the wheel 2 is steered; and a manual toe angle adjustment mechanism 7 different from the steering drive source, the manual toe angle adjustment mechanism 7 enabling a toe angle of the wheel 2 to be manually adjusted around the steering rotation axis 63a.

Abstract: Provided is a steering apparatus 1 including: a wheel 2; and a steering unit 5 configured to steer the wheel 2, the steering apparatus 1 being fixable to a vehicle body, wherein the steering unit 5 includes: a steering drive source (an electric motor incorporated in an electric motor unit 61) configured to steer the wheel 2 with a steering rotation axis 63a as an axis, the steering rotation axis 63a being a rotation axis when the wheel 2 is steered; and a manual toe angle adjustment mechanism 7 different from the steering drive source, the manual toe angle adjustment mechanism 7 enabling a toe angle of the wheel 2 to be manually adjusted around the steering rotation axis 63a.

Abstract: An ECU includes a boosting circuit that boosts an input power supply voltage, a backup capacitor that charges a backup power supply in accordance with a boosted voltage boosted by the boosting circuit, an airbag ignition circuit that drives an airbag with the backup power supply charged by the backup capacitor as a driving power supply, and a bidirectional current limiting unit that limits a charging current flowing from the boosting circuit to the backup capacitor and limits a backflow current flowing from the backup capacitor to the boosting circuit.

Abstract: An electromagnetic valve as a fluid device is provided with a valve seat and a valve body midway of a flow path where a liquid flows, and closes the valve with the valve body pressed onto the valve seat and opens the valve by causing a gap between the valve seat and the valve body. The electromagnetic valve includes, as electrodes for measuring a degree of electrical conductivity between a liquid on an upstream side and a liquid on a downstream side of the valve seat and the valve body in the flow path, a first electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the upstream side and a second electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the downstream side. By using the first and second electrodes, detection of liquid leakage can be easily performed.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin material includes a thermoplastic resin and a bundle of reinforced fibers arranged in one direction, the thermoplastic resin being a reactive resin. The thermoplastic resin may be an epoxy resin. The reinforced fibers may be carbon fibers. A molded fiber-reinforced resin body is obtained using the fiber-reinforced resin material. The molded fiber-reinforced resin body may be formed by the application of heat and pressure.

Abstract: An electromagnetic valve as a fluid device is provided with a valve seat and a valve body midway of a flow path where a liquid flows, and closes the valve with the valve body pressed onto the valve seat and opens the valve by causing a gap between the valve seat and the valve body. The electromagnetic valve includes, as electrodes for measuring a degree of electrical conductivity between a liquid on an upstream side and a liquid on a downstream side of the valve seat and the valve body in the flow path, a first electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the upstream side and a second electrode electrically conductive to the liquid on the downstream side. By using the first and second electrodes, detection of liquid leakage can be easily performed.

Abstract: A joint system includes flow paths coupled to a fluid device which handles a fluid, first and second electrodes separately provided to the flow paths to electrically make contact with the fluid in the flow paths, and a detection circuit which detects whether the fluid passing through the fluid device is present or absent. The detection circuit measures a degree of electrical conductivity between the flow paths by using the first and second electrodes and detects whether the fluid passing through the fluid device is present or absent in accordance with the degree of electrical conductivity between the flow paths.

Abstract: There is to provide a power circuit capable of stabilizing an internal power source voltage and assuring a normal operation of a load circuit. According to one embodiment, the power circuit includes a regulator which generates an output voltage using an entered input voltage, a voltage detecting circuit which detects the output voltage, and a clamp circuit which outputs an internal power source voltage based on the output voltage and in a first failure that the output voltage is larger than a predetermined first voltage, outputs the internal power source voltage suppressed to the first voltage and less, in which the clamp circuit outputs the internal power source voltage to the logic circuit which operates with the internal power source voltage of the first voltage and less and the voltage detecting circuit outputs the first failure to the logic circuit when detecting the first failure.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump device is provided with a tube allowing the passage of a fluid, a tube holder holding the tube, and a base to which the tube holder is fitted. A rotor is attached rotatably onto the base, and rollers are pivotally supported on the rotor and configured to rotate while pressing and crushing the tube. A substantially U-shaped tube holding groove is formed on a bonded surface of the tube holder on the base side. A depth of the tube holding groove is formed to be shorter than an outer diameter of the tube. When the tube is inserted into the tube holding groove, the tube is held inside the tube holding groove by a frictional resistance caused by a restoring elastic force of the tube.

Abstract: There is to provide a power circuit capable of stabilizing an internal power source voltage and assuring a normal operation of a load circuit. According to one embodiment, the power circuit includes a regulator which generates an output voltage using an entered input voltage, a voltage detecting circuit which detects the output voltage, and a clamp circuit which outputs an internal power source voltage based on the output voltage and in a first failure that the output voltage is larger than a predetermined first voltage, outputs the internal power source voltage suppressed to the first voltage and less, in which the clamp circuit outputs the internal power source voltage to the logic circuit which operates with the internal power source voltage of the first voltage and less and the voltage detecting circuit outputs the first failure to the logic circuit when detecting the first failure.

Abstract: An ECU includes a boosting circuit that boosts an input power supply voltage, a backup capacitor that charges a backup power supply in accordance with a boosted voltage boosted by the boosting circuit, an airbag ignition circuit that drives an airbag with the backup power supply charged by the backup capacitor as a driving power supply, and a bidirectional current limiting unit that limits a charging current flowing from the boosting circuit to the backup capacitor and limits a backflow current flowing from the backup capacitor to the boosting circuit.

Abstract: An ECU includes a boosting circuit that boosts an input power supply voltage, a backup capacitor that charges a backup power supply in accordance with a boosted voltage boosted by the boosting circuit, an airbag ignition circuit that drives an airbag with the backup power supply charged by the backup capacitor as a driving power supply, and a bidirectional current limiting unit that limits a charging current flowing from the boosting circuit to the backup capacitor and limits a backflow current flowing from the backup capacitor to the boosting circuit.

Abstract: A molded object includes: a first layer formed using a fiber-reinforced resin material including thermoplastic resin and strip-shaped reinforcement fiber bundles each composed of a plurality of reinforcement fibers aligned unidirectionally, the strip-shaped reinforcement fiber bundles being three-dimensionally and randomly stacked; and a second layer made of a fiber-reinforced resin material including thermoplastic resin and reinforcement fibers of filaments, and formed on at least one surface of the first layer.

Abstract: Expansion of the dynamic range was difficult in conventional amplifying photoelectric conversion devices designed to have a large gain because, when used for high input light intensity, the electric current exceeds the electric current capacity of a near-minimum sized transistor obtained with the design rules. Also, in conventional photoelectric conversion devices, techniques for varying the electric signal outputs in real-time at the device level are necessary for real-time import of observation targets or images having a high contrast ratio and for visualization of local areas in real-time. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a gain varying method, a variable gain photoelectric conversion device, a photoelectric conversion cell, a photoelectric conversion array, a read-out method thereof, and a circuit therefor in which amplifying photoelectric conversion devices and field-effect transistors are combined.

Abstract: Provided is an ESD protection circuit including: a power MOS transistor provided between an external connection terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a clamping circuit that is provided between the external connection terminal and a gate of the power MOS transistor and clamps a voltage between the external connection terminal and the gate of the power MOS transistor at a predetermined value or less; a first resistive element provided between the gate and a source of the power MOS transistor; and a MOS transistor that is provided in series with the power MOS transistor and has a gate and a source which are commonly connected to each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit that is used for a stabilizing power supply circuit which supplies an output power supply voltage to a parallel connection of a smoothing capacitor and a load, from an input power supply voltage, includes an error amplifier that detects an error of the output power supply voltage, an output control circuit that is connected between the input terminal and the output terminal, a phase compensation circuit that is connected to the error amplifier, and a detection control circuit that is connected to the phase compensation circuit.

Abstract: A sense circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit including an inverting input section, a non-inverting input section and an output section, an electrical capacitor connected between the inverting input section and the output section, and a field effect transistor including a source, a drain, and a gate. One of the source and the drain is connected to the inverting input section, and the other of the source and the drain is connected to the output section. A reference potential is supplied to the non-inverting input section, and an output section of a photoelectric conversion cell having an added switching function is connected to the inverting input section.