Abstract: A hydrogel is formed by a reaction which is induced, in an electrolytic solution, by an electrode product electrochemically generated by electrodes installed in the electrolytic solution. An apparatus including an electrolytic tank with a bottom surface on which a two-dimensional array of working electrodes is provided and a counter electrode installed in the electrolytic tank is prepared. An electrolytic solution containing a dissolved substance that causes electrolytic deposition of a hydrogel is housed in the electrolytic tank. By applying a predetermined voltage to one or more selected working electrodes of the two-dimensional array, a hydrogel with a two-dimensional pattern corresponding to the arrangement of the selected working electrodes is formed.

Abstract: A connector device comprises a connector and a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing and a slider having a second regulated portion. The mating connector comprises a mating housing having a second regulation portion. The connector is movable between an open position and a closed position. The slider is held by the housing to be movable between a first position and a second position. When the connector is moved to a predetermined position together with the slider which is located at the second position upon a movement of the connector from the closed position toward the open position, the second regulated portion is brought into abutment with the second regulation portion, and a movement of the connector toward the open position beyond the predetermined position is regulated. When the slider is moved to the first position, the connector is movable to the open position.

Abstract: A hydrogel is formed by a reaction which is induced, in an electrolytic solution, by an electrode product electrochemically generated by electrodes installed in the electrolytic solution. An apparatus including an electrolytic tank with a bottom surface on which a two-dimensional array of working electrodes is provided and a counter electrode installed in the electrolytic tank is prepared. An electrolytic solution containing a dissolved substance that causes electrolytic deposition of a hydrogel is housed in the electrolytic tank. By applying a predetermined voltage to one or more selected working electrodes of the two-dimensional array, a hydrogel with a two-dimensional pattern corresponding to the arrangement of the selected working electrodes is formed.

Abstract: A touch panel includes an electrode layer made of a conductive mesh, and provided with a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dummy electrode. The first electrode has a first facing part, which is formed in a first region. The second electrode has a second facing part, which is formed in a second region. The first and second facing parts face each other and are separated from each other in a predetermined direction. The dummy electrode has an interposition part located at least partially between the first and second facing parts. The interposition part is formed in a dummy region, which has a first end portion region and a second end portion region as both end regions in a predetermined direction. The first region and the first end portion region overlap each other, and the second region and the second end portion region overlap each other.

Abstract: A connector includes a rectangular flat-plate housing including a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole, and a contact row and a contact row held on the housing. The housing includes a first pitch side surface and a second pitch side surface on an opposite side of the first pitch side surface. The contact row and the contact row extend from the first pitch side surface to the second pitch side surface. The first positioning hole is disposed between the first pitch side surface and the contact row, and the second positioning hole is disposed between the first pitch side surface and the contact row.

Abstract: A plug connector is attachable with an optical fiber cable and is connectable with a receptacle connector. The receptacle connector comprises a receptacle shell. The plug connector comprises a front holder, a cable holding portion, a rear holder and a coupling member. The front holder is made of metal. The front holder is mated with the receptacle shell when the plug connector is connected with the receptacle connector. The cable holding portion is made of metal. The cable holding portion is configured to hold the optical fiber cable. The rear holder guards the cable holding portion. The rear holder comprises, at least in part, a thermal insulating portion made of non-metal material. The coupling member couples the front holder and the rear holder with each other. Each of the coupling member and the front holder is in contact with the rear holder only on the thermal insulating portion.

Abstract: A device comprises a first sealing member basically comprising a first film formed of a film, a second sealing member, a first circuit member comprising a first contact point and a second circuit member comprising a second contact point. The device is formed with a closed space which is enclosed by the first sealing member and the second sealing member and is shut off from an outer space outside the device. The first circuit member and the second circuit member are shut in the closed space. At least one of the first sealing member and the second sealing member is provided with an uneven portion. The uneven portion is in contact with at least one of the first circuit member and the second circuit member and covers a predetermined region which corresponds to at least one of the first contact point and the second contact point.

Abstract: A connector that is attachable to an end of a flat cable and is connectable to a counterpart connector includes a housing having a plate-shaped portion and a terminal accommodating portion, and a socket terminal housed in the terminal accommodating portion. The socket terminal has a box portion in which a pin terminal of the counterpart connector is to be inserted, and a spring portion having a cantilever shape, the spring portion extending from the box portion and protruding onto the plate-shaped portion. The end of the flat cable is to be interposed between the plate-shaped portion and the spring portion of the socket terminal. The terminal accommodating portion receives part of force that the spring portion receives from the flat cable.

Abstract: A first housing of a first connector has a first end wall which is located downward of a first accommodation portion in an up-down direction. When viewed from beneath along the up-down direction, the first end wall hides, in part, a first contact located in the first accommodation portion. A second housing has a second end wall which is located upward of a second accommodation portion in the up-down direction. When viewed from above along the up-down direction, the second end wall hides a second contact located in the second accommodation portion. The first end wall prevents a finger of an operator from coming into contact with the first contact, and the second end wall prevents the finger of the operator from coming into contact with the second contact.

Abstract: Provided is a wiring board including a fine-wire pattern made of cured conductive ink formed on a board surface, wherein assuming that two orthogonal directions on the board surface are directions X and Y, a line width of another fine wire that is included in the fine-wire pattern, passes through another point on the board surface not aligned in the direction X but aligned in the direction Y with one intersection where three or more fine wires included in the fine-wire pattern are centered at one spot, and does not form another intersection where three or more fine wires are centered at one spot at said another point is 1.5 times or more a minimum line width of the fine wires included in the fine-wire pattern.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises a first housing provided with a stopper. The second connector comprises a second housing, a mating detecting member and a shift mechanism. The second housing is mateable with the first housing along a front-rear direction. The mating detecting member has an abutment portion. The abutment portion is movable in a direction intersecting with the front-rear direction by an operation of the shift mechanism. When the second housing is mated with the first housing under a state where the mating detecting member is positioned at a regulating position, the abutment portion abuts against the stopper, and the mating detecting member is moved from the regulating position toward an allowable position. The mating detecting member is positioned at the allowable position when a mating of the second housing with the first housing is completed.

Abstract: The attitude of an excavating part during excavation is accurately measured. A measuring apparatus of the present invention executes an attitude estimating processing and a phase correction amount calculating processing. The phase correction amount calculating processing calculates an offset between a gravity tool face and a magnetic force tool face, and sets the calculated offset as an estimated offset. The attitude estimating processing sets the gravity tool face based on the acceleration data as a measured gravity tool face, the magnetic force tool face based on the magnetic field data as a measured magnetic force tool face, a difference between an offset between the measured gravity tool face and the measured magnetic force tool face and the estimated offset as a phase correction amount, and data obtained by correcting the magnetic field data with the phase correction amount as corrected magnetic field data, and determines the attitude based on the acceleration data and the corrected magnetic field data.

Abstract: A multiband antenna comprises a slot antenna and a radiation element. The slot antenna has a conductive plate. The conductive plate is formed with an opening portion and a slot. The slot partially opens through the opening portion. The slot extends long in a first direction. The radiation element has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from the conductive plate toward an orientation away from the slot in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first portion has a first length in the second direction. The second portion extends in the first direction from the first portion. The second portion has a second length in the first direction. The second length is greater than the first length.

Abstract: A connector includes a flat-plate housing made of insulating resin and a contact held on a housing by press-fitting. The housing includes a press-fitting space and a solder connection checking hole. The contact includes a press-fit part to be press-fit into the press-fitting space, and a soldering part that extends from the press-fit part and is connected by soldering to a pad of an input-output board. The solder connection checking hole is formed to penetrate the housing in the vertical direction and allow a solder fillet, which is formed when the soldering part is soldered to the pad of the input-output board, to be checked through the solder connection checking hole. The housing includes a separating wall that separates the press-fitting space from the solder connection checking hole.

Abstract: A connector comprises a plurality of signal terminals, a plurality of ground terminals which are configured to be connected to outer conductors of cables, and a ground member which is configured to be connected to the outer conductors. The ground member has a ground portion. The signal terminals and the ground terminals are alternately arranged in a pitch direction (Y-direction) to form one terminal row. Each of the signal terminals has a first adjustment portion. Each of the ground terminals has a second adjustment portion. The signal terminals include an outer signal terminal located at an end of the terminal row. The first adjustment portion of the outer signal terminal protrudes toward the ground portion. A position of the first adjustment portion of the outer signal terminal in a perpendicular plane (XZ-plane) is equal to or overlaps with a position of the ground portion in the perpendicular plane.

Abstract: A method for producing an at least partially transparent optical component including a laminate including fabricating a precursor laminate by bonding a transparent substrate and a transparent film to each other with a transparent photocurable adhesive layer interposed therebetween; curing the transparent photocurable adhesive layer by applying light thereto to change the precursor laminate into the laminate thereby, such that a shear modulus G? of the transparent photocurable adhesive layer of the laminate measured under a condition of a temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz reaches a value within a range of 3×105 Pa?G??3×107 Pa; and forming a flush and surface of the laminate by cutting the laminate in a thickness direction, such that the flush end surface includes respective cut surfaces of the transparent film, the transparent photocurable adhesive layer, and the transparent substrate.