Abstract: A compressor includes an impeller having a rotational axis. An annular diffuser is provided around the rotational axis to surround the impeller in order to decelerate the fluid discharged from the impeller in a centrifugal direction with respect to the rotational axis. The annular diffuser includes first vanes and second vanes. The first vanes are arranged in a first blade row extending in a circumferential direction around the rotational axis such that two adjacent vanes among the first vanes do not define a throat therebetween viewed along the rotational axis. The second vanes are arranged in a second blade row which extends in the circumferential direction and which is provided farther than the first blade row in the centrifugal direction from the rotational axis. A number of the second vanes is two times or more as large as a number of first vanes.

Abstract: A method of compensating luminance of a display panel, the method including respectively measuring, at different time points, test luminances of the display panel driven by test data while a multi-time programming (MTP) operation for setting the luminance of the display panel respectively for one or more gray values is performed, and deriving a luminance equation representing a relationship between a driving time of the display panel and the luminance of the display panel from the time points and the test luminances.

Abstract: A seat moves along a rail in the front-back direction of a vehicle. A juxtaposed member (receiving member) extending in the front-back direction of the vehicle is joined to a floor or the seat so as to be located next to the rail. A detected portion is provided either to the juxtaposed member or to a member which is located on the floor side or the seat side which moves relative to the floor or the seat to which the juxtaposed member is coupled. A sensor that detects the detected portion is provided either to the juxtaposed member or to the member located on the floor side or the seat side. As a result of this configuration, the installation position of the sensor is less spatially restricted than the case in which the sensor is provided to the rail.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing liquid distributing member that partitions, by an inner wall surface, at least part of a processing liquid distribution passage communicating with a discharge port, a processing liquid supplying unit that supplies the high-temperature processing liquid having a higher temperature than a room temperature to the processing liquid distribution passage, a temperature changing unit arranged to heat or cool an outer wall surface of the processing liquid distributing member from the outside to change a temperature of the processing liquid distributing member, and a controller that executes an equilibrium temperature maintaining step of maintaining the inner wall surface of the processing liquid distributing member at a thermal equilibrium temperature by controlling the temperature changing unit in a state where no processing liquid is supplied from the processing liquid supplying unit to the processing liquid distribution passage.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes a housing, a driving device, and a detecting device. The housing internally includes an ultrasound transmitting/receiving unit, the housing sealing ultrasonic propagation liquid. The driving device includes a driving motor and an intermediate member. The driving device is configured to transmit a rotary driving force from the driving motor to swing the ultrasound transmitting/receiving unit. The detecting device includes a detecting member and is configured to detect an origin position serving as a reference in control of the swing of the ultrasound transmitting/receiving unit. The driving device is configured to transmit the rotary driving force to the intermediate member, extract a rotation of the intermediate member, decelerate the rotation of the intermediate member and transmit the rotation to the detecting member thereof in a route different from the driving device, and detect the rotation of the detecting member by a sensor to detect an origin position.

Abstract: The fluid pump according to the present invention has water storage means that is formed so as to communicate with a shaft hole in a pump case and stores fluid leaking from a mechanical seal. An electromagnetic clutch establishes or blocks the transmission of power to a drive shaft by switching between supply and non-supply of electricity to an excitation coil. The water storage means has a weep chamber that communicates with the shaft hole between the mechanical seal and a bearing and is opened to an end portion in the axial direction. An attachment member for attaching a core of the electromagnetic clutch to the pump case seals the opening of the weep chamber.

Abstract: N processing units (PU) each have an arithmetic unit (AU) that performs an operation on first, second and third inputs to generate a result to store in an accumulator having an output provided to the first input. A weight input is received by the AU second input. A multiplexed register has first, second, third and fourth data inputs and an output received by the third AU input. A first memory provides N weight words to the N weight inputs. A second memory provides N data words to the multiplexed register first data inputs. The multiplexed register output is also received by the second, third, and fourth data input of the multiplexed register one, 2{circumflex over (?)}J, and 2{circumflex over (?)}K PUs away, respectively. The N multiplexed registers collectively operate as an N-word rotater that rotates by one, 2{circumflex over (?)}J, or 2{circumflex over (?)}K words when the control input specifies the second, third, or fourth data input, respectively.

Abstract: According to the present exemplary aspect, provided is a liquid crystal display including a display panel, an LED package including a plurality of LEDs which emits light, a PCB in which the LED package is mounted, a backlight unit which includes a light guide plate which is disposed on a lower surface of the display panel and has a light entering plane opposite to the LED package and a back cover supporting a lower surface of the light guide plate, a housing in which a side surface is in contact with the PCB and an upper surface is in contact with one area of a lower surface of the back cover, and an upper case which applies force to an upper edge portion of the display panel and a lower edge portion of the housing. According to the present exemplary aspects, the light guide plate and the light source may be easily aligned without using separate equipment when the light guide plate and the display panel are brought into direct contact with each other.

Abstract: A transistor array panel includes a transistor which includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer on the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode on the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first portion overlapping the source electrode, a second portion overlapping the drain electrode, and a third portion between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion, the second portion, and the third portion have different minimum thicknesses.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a light emitting element and a fabrication method thereof. The light emitting element includes: an anode electrode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode electrode, all of the light emitting units are divided into a plurality of light emitting sets, each light emitting set includes at least two light emitting units and the light emitting units in a same light emitting set share a same electron transport layer and a same cathode electrode. In the technical solutions of the present invention, all of the light emitting units in a same light emitting set share a same electron transport layer and a same cathode electrode, thus effectively reducing the number of the cathode electrodes.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) video encoding method, decoding method, and related apparatus is disclosed. The decoding method may include decoding a video bitstream to obtain a single sample flag bit corresponding to a current image block in a current depth map, performing detection on a first adjacent prediction sampling point and a second adjacent prediction sampling point of the current image block in the current depth map if the single sample flag bit obtained by decoding indicates that a decoding mode corresponding to the current image block is a single depth intra-frame mode (SDM), and constructing a sample candidate set according to results of the detection on the first adjacent prediction sampling point and the second adjacent prediction sampling point, where the sample candidate set includes a first index location and a second index location, decoding the video bitstream to obtain a single sample index flag bit corresponding to the current image block.

Abstract: A system and method for obfuscating an optical signal is disclosed. Obfuscating the optical signal may make it more difficult for the optical signal to be detected by an interloper. In one embodiment, an optical signal is received at an optical transmitter, and an obfuscated optical signal is generated by performing a modification of the received optical signal. The obfuscated optical signal is then transmitted from the optical transmitter to an optical receiver. An at least partially deobfuscated optical signal is generated at the optical receiver by performing a modification of the obfuscated optical signal. The modification performed at the optical receiver corresponds to the modification performed at the optical transmitter.

Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle control method changes an output current of a fuel cell depending on a required generated power and adjusts an air supply flow rate depending on the change of the output current. The output current is reduced in response to a decrease of the required generated power when a gearshift operation of a transmission is under an inertia phase of an upshift operation. The air supply flow rate is controlled to an inertia phase supply flow rate higher than the air supply flow rate set in response to the decrease of the output current.

Abstract: A fuel gas supply path in a fuel cell stack includes in series a first path, a second path, and a third path. In the second path, two inlets of the fuel gas in each of power generating cells included in the second path are located at a first position PA and a second position PB, and the position of one outlet of the fuel gas in each power generating cell is located at a third position PC. In the third path, an inlet of the fuel gas in each of power generating cells included in the third path is located at a position coinciding with the third position PC when the power generating cells are viewed in the stacking direction, and an outlet of the fuel gas in each power generating cell is located at a position between the first position PA and the second position PB.

Abstract: A mask frame assembly through which a deposition material to be deposited on a substrate passes, the mask frame assembly includes a frame including an opening, and a mask having first and second ends in a length direction thereof coupled to the frame, in which the mask includes a main body part having a first thickness and including a pattern part, the pattern part including pattern holes through which the deposition material passes and a support part having a second thickness greater than the first thickness and extending away from first and second ends of the main body part.