Abstract: To provide a sensor apparatus and sensor system using a low-power input source such as a microbial fuel cell, provided is a sensor apparatus including a microbial fuel cell; a boosting DC-DC circuit that operates based on an input voltage from the microbial fuel cell and boosts the input voltage; a power storage element that stores power output from the boosting DC-DC circuit; and a sensor element that operates based on power output from the power storage element, as well as a sensor system that includes this sensor apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus.

Abstract: In-package temperature is controlled with higher accuracy. To this end, a temperature control circuit includes a temperature sensor arranged in a package and detecting temperature in the package, a heater current detection circuit detecting a driving amount of a heater, a target temperature generation circuit generating a target temperature from an intended temperature of a resonator and a detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit, a heater current driver controlling the heater so that the detection temperature detected by the temperature sensor coincides with the target temperature, and an Nth-order correction circuit receiving the detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit or a signal based on the target temperature and cancelling influence of a second or higher order fluctuation component generated in the heater current detection circuit on temperature of the resonator.

Abstract: An optical waveguide includes a core layer which extends along a longitudinal direction and through which light can propagate; and a protective film that is formed on at least a portion of a surface of the core layer and has a smaller refractive index than the core layer. At least a portion of the protective film is provided in a manner allowing contact with a gas or a liquid. In a cross-section of at least a portion perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the core layer, the protective film is formed around the entire surface of the core layer.

Abstract: An object is to provide a magnetic sensor module that suppresses a size of a magnetic sensor chip while applying a uniform calibration magnetic field to a magneto-resistive element. Provided is a magnetic sensor module comprising an IC chip having a first coil; and a magnetic sensor chip that is disposed on a surface of the IC chip and includes a first magnetic sensor that detects magnetism in a direction of first axis, wherein a planar shape of the IC chip encompasses a planar shape of the magnetic sensor chip, and the first coil has a planar shape including three or more sides, and is, when seen in a cross section along at least one side of the planar shape, is formed so as to cover a region, in a direction of the one side, of the first magnetic sensor.

Abstract: A driving apparatus, a lens unit, a device, a correction method, and a computer readable recording medium are provided, the driving apparatus including an actuator that changes a relative position between a lens section and an imaging device; a magnetic field detection section that detects magnetic field information corresponding to the relative position between the lens section and the imaging device; a storage section that stores reference information that is based on an output of the magnetic field detection section when the lens section or the imaging device is positioned at the reference position; and a control section that controls a driving amount of the actuator based on the magnetic field information and the reference information.

Abstract: Obtaining control conditions through trial and error is inefficient. Provided is a learning processor including a control condition acquiring section that acquires control condition data indicating a control condition of a film deposition apparatus; a film characteristic acquiring section that acquires film characteristic data indicating a characteristic of a film deposited by the film deposition apparatus that has been caused to operate according to the control condition indicated by the control condition data; and a learning processing section that performs learning processing of a model that outputs recommended control condition data indicating the control condition of the film deposition apparatus that is recommended in response to input of target film characteristic data indicating a target film characteristic, using learning data that includes the acquired control condition data and film characteristic data.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a highly accurate NDIR gas sensor and a highly accurate optical device even using a simplified optical filter. The NDIR gas sensor and the optical device include: an optical filter having a substrate and a multilayer film on the substrate; and an infrared light emitting and receiving device; where the multilayer film has a structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked; the active layer contains AlxIn1-xSb or InAsySb1-y; and the optical filter includes a wavelength range having an average transmittance of 70% or more with a width of 50 nm or more in 2400-6000 nm, and has a maximum transmittance of 5% or more in 6000-8000 nm and an average transmittance of 2% or more and 60% or less in 6000-8000 nm.

Abstract: In a transmission system of an audio signal etc., circuit enlargement is suppressed and deterioration of transmitting signal is reduced. A transmission system including a transmitting apparatus including a first delta-sigma modulator outputting first multi-bit delta-sigma modulated signals of three or more bits and a first code modulator code-modulating first signals of two or more bits located in bit positions higher than a predetermined bit position of the first multi-bit delta-sigma modulated signals based on at least part of a second signal located in one or more bit positions not higher than the predetermined bit position and outputting a plurality of modulated signals; a transmission path transmitting the second signal and the plurality of modulated signals; and a receiving apparatus including a first demodulator demodulating the plurality of the received modulated signals based on at least part of the received second signal is provided.

Abstract: To provide a frame control apparatus for controlling communication frames of a power feeding system, provided is a frame control apparatus that controls communication frames of a wireless power feeding system, the frame control apparatus including a reference clock generating section that generates a predetermined reference clock signal; a demodulating section that operates according to the reference clock signal and demodulates a synchronization command for synchronizing the communication frames; a rate calculating section that counts pieces of rate reference data having a predetermined length and included in the synchronization command, based on the reference clock signal, to calculate a rate reference value used for reference; and a frame control section that controls the communication frames based on the rate reference value.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a NDIR gas sensor comprising: an optical filter having a substrate and a multilayer film; and an infrared light emitting and receiving device having a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer of a second conductive type; where the multilayer film has a structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked; the active layer contains InAsySb1-y (0.1?y?0.2); and the optical filter includes a wavelength range having an average transmittance of 70% or more with a width of 50 nm or more in a wavelength range of 6 ?m to 10 ?m, and has a maximum transmittance of 10% or more in a wavelength range of 12.5 ?m to 20 ?m and an average transmittance of 5% or more and 60% or less in a wavelength range of 12.5 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: The gas detection apparatus comprises a figure of all or a part of n ellipsoids. When a region inside the ellipsoid Ei and not including the ellipsoid Esi is defined as a region Ri, the ellipsoid Ei including a light source region of the light emitting part is defined as an ellipsoid Es, the ellipsoid Ei including a light receiving region of the light receiving part is defined as an ellipsoid Ed, the region Ri of the ellipsoid Es is defined as a region Rin, and the region Ri of the ellipsoid Ed is defined as a region Rout, 60% or more of the light source region is present in the region Rin and 60% or more of the light receiving region is present in the region Rout.

Abstract: An optical waveguide (10) includes a substrate (15), a core layer (11) that extends along the longitudinal direction and through which infrared light IR can propagate, and a support (17) formed from a material with a smaller refractive index than the core layer (11) and configured to connect at least a portion of the substrate (15) and at least a portion of the core layer (11) to support the core layer with respect to the substrate (15). A connecting portion (171) of the support (17) connected to the core layer (11) is shifted from the position having the shortest distance from the center to the outer surface in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the core layer (11).

Abstract: Provided are an optical device that is a small and thin optical device including a redistribution layer and has high light emitting efficiency and light receiving efficiency, and a method for manufacturing the optical device. An optical device includes: a photoelectric conversion element configured to include a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer capable of receiving or emitting light, and electrodes; a sealing portion configured to expose a surface of the photoelectric conversion element on the opposite side to an electrode-formed surface of the photoelectric conversion element on which the electrodes are formed; a redistribution layer configured to include a reflecting portion disposed in a region in which, when viewed in plan, the semiconductor layer and the electrodes do not overlap each other and configured to reflect the light to a side on which the semiconductor layer is located; and external connection terminals configured to be coupled to the redistributions.

Abstract: Sticking of core layer is suppressed, and deterioration of sensitivity of a sensor is prevented. An optical waveguide (10) includes a substrate (15), a core layer (11), a support, and a protrusion (18). The core layer (11) can transmit light. The support connects at least a portion of the substrate (15) and a portion of the core layer (11) together. The support supports the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) is arranged at a position different from a position of the support in a space between the substrate (15) and the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) has a maximum height at a position deviated from a central position cp of the core layer (11) in a width direction. The protrusion (18) protrudes toward the core layer (11) from the substrate (15).

Abstract: An object is to provide a signal output apparatus and a concentration measurement system capable of correcting a deviation caused by a characteristic variation of each apparatus and realizing concentration measurement with high accuracy.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a light receiving element, a light emitting element, an integrated circuit, a lead frame, and a sealing member configured to seal these into a package. The lead frame includes at least one die pad portion and a plurality of terminal portions, the die pad portion includes a first region having a first thickness and a second region having a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, the integrated circuit is arranged on the second region of the die pad portion, the light emitting element is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions, the light receiving element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit and is arranged on the opposite side to the light emitting element with the integrated circuit interposed therebetween, and the integrated circuit is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of terminal portions.

Abstract: A gas sensor module (100) includes an infrared light emitting diode (10) configured to emit infrared light in accordance with a drive current, a quantum infrared sensor (20) configured to detect infrared light that passes through a detection target gas, a drive circuit (30) configured to output the drive current to the infrared light emitting diode (10), a charging circuit (50) to be connected to a power source and configured to output a charge current having a smaller current amount than the drive current, and a capacitor (40) configured to charge by the charge current being supplied from the charging circuit (50) and discharge by supplying the drive current to the drive circuit (30).

Abstract: A successive approximation ADC includes: a comparator generating a judge signal related to an input analog and a reference signals; a SAR successively generating a register signal including a first and a second bit signals based on the judge signal and generating an AD conversion value of the input analog signal; a thermometer decoder switching different thermometer code conversion rules and converting the first bit signal to thermometer codes corresponding to the different thermometer code conversion rules in one AD conversion cycle; a first and a second DA converters respectively converting the thermometer codes to a first analog signal and the second bit signal to a second analog signal; an average value calculator averaging the AD conversion values by the thermometer codes. Two of the different thermometer codes have values that a high-order bit and a low-order bit groups by dividing total bits of the thermometer code equally are exchanged.

Abstract: An optical chemical analysis apparatus (14) includes an optical waveguide (15) and a light source (17). The optical waveguide (15) has a core layer (12) that includes a light propagator (10), through which light can propagate in an extension direction, and a diffraction grating (first diffraction grating (11)) that connects optically to the light propagator (10). The light source (17) is configured to inject the light into the diffraction grating by emitting incoherent light. The diffraction grating further includes a light intake region for introduction of light from the light source, and the light source includes at least one light emitting point at a position such that the difference between the shortest optical distance Lab to the light intake region and the longest optical distance Lac to the light intake region is less than half of the wavelength, in a vacuum, of the light.

Abstract: A successive approximation (SA) AD converter includes a SA control circuit generating a digital output signal based on an output from a comparator; a first capacitor coupled to an input of the comparator, receiving an analog input signal, and capable of storing electric charges; a second and a third capacitor groups coupling to a reference voltage and storing electric charges previously. The SA control circuit operates for each SA step that the second or the third capacitor group is coupled to a non-inverting input of the comparator and the other is coupled to an inverting input of the comparator based on the output from the comparator. The SA control circuit operates that capacitor terminals of the second and the third capacitor groups coupled to the input of the comparator have the same potential when the reference voltage is stored previously in the second and the third capacitor groups.