Abstract: Because power receiving and distributing equipment is configured with a plurality of devices combined together, it is sometimes difficult to perform inspection operation for the inspection items separated into those set for each individual device. Therefore, in the power receiving and distributing equipment, even if an attempt is made to associate each device with an inspection result, an inspection result of a plurality of devices that are grouped cannot be associated with each device. According to the present disclosure, an inspection result of the power receiving and distributing equipment can be associated with an inspection item of each device.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique that eliminates the need for an external circuit for enhancing the breakdown voltage. A switching element drive circuit includes a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, and an insulating element isolating the primary circuit and the secondary circuit from each other in terms of a direct current. The secondary circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, a detector provided on a portion of the semiconductor substrate, including a pn junction isolation portion, and configured to detect a voltage of a high voltage terminal, and a controller provided on a remaining portion of the semiconductor substrate and configured to control a control voltage of a semiconductor switching element based on a second signal and a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit including semiconductor switching elements, a power supply wiring electrically connected to the power conversion circuit, a capacitor element, and a first capacitor connection wiring electrically connected between the power supply wiring and one electrode of the capacitor element and including a first opposed wiring portion having one end electrically connected to the power supply wiring and a second opposed wiring portion having another end electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor element and disposed facing the first opposed wiring portion.

Abstract: A neutron flux measurement apparatus includes: a storage which records, as record data, a measured value indicating change in a neutron flux in a nuclear reactor corresponding to adjustment control for output of the nuclear reactor during a first set period; and a calculation circuitry which, on the basis of the record data, performs correction for a detector sensitivity to a neutron of a self-powered detector at a time point in accordance with the adjustment control during a second set period after the first set period, the time point being a time point when the second set period has elapsed, and derives the neutron flux at the time point using the corrected detector sensitivity.

Abstract: An optical communication module of the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped stem, a plurality of leads penetrating through the stem via an insulating member, a conductive member for connection formed on either a top surface or a side surface of at least one lead among the plurality of leads, a heat sink block provided on the stem, a sub-mount which is fixed to the heat sink block and is provided with a metal pattern on a flat surface thereof, a semiconductor light emitting element which is fixed to the metal pattern and emits laser light, and a wire in which a metal ball formed at one end thereof is bonded to the metal pattern and the other end thereof is bonded to the at least one lead through bonding to the conductive member for connection.

Abstract: A transistor and a diode are formed on a common semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate includes a transistor region and a diode region, the diode region includes an n type first semiconductor layer provided on a second main surface side of the semiconductor substrate, an n type second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a p type third semiconductor layer provided closer to a first main surface side of the semiconductor substrate than the second semiconductor layer, a first main electrode that applies a first potential to the diode, a second main electrode that applies a second potential to the diode, a plurality of diode trench gates that reach the second semiconductor layer from the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a contact region provided in an upper layer portion of the third semiconductor layer, and the contact region is composed of a conductor material.

Abstract: A power amplifier according to the present disclosure includes an input terminal that receives a high-frequency signal from an outside, an MMIC that receives the high-frequency signal via the input terminal and amplifies the high-frequency signal, an input matching circuit, a transistor that receives, via the input matching circuit, the high-frequency signal amplified by the MMIC and amplifies the high-frequency signal, an output matching circuit, an output terminal that receives a drain voltage of the transistor from the outside, receives, via the output matching circuit, the high-frequency signal amplified by the transistor, and outputs the high-frequency signal to the outside and a drain bias circuit board that connects a drain of the transistor and a drain of the MMIC, wherein the transistor and the MMIC are conjugately matched at impedance smaller than 50 ?.

Abstract: A propulsion control device includes: a first wire connectable to a power line supplied with direct-current power or a ground line connected to a reference potential; a second wire connectable to the power line or the ground line; and a brake chopper circuit in which a first switching element to which a first diode is connected in parallel and a second switching element to which a second diode is connected in parallel are connected in series, and in the brake chopper circuit, one end of the first switching element is connected to the first wire, another end of the first switching element is connected to one end of the second switching element at a connection point, another end of the second switching element is connected to the second wire, and the connection point is connected to the first wire or the second wire via a brake resistor.

Abstract: A MIMO radar signal processing device includes a plurality of matched filter banks to receive reception signals from a plurality of reception antennas and transmission signals from a plurality of transmission signal generating units, and output matched filter outputs serving as a vector element of a reception signal vector, a tentative angle measuring unit to assume the matched filter outputs from the plurality of matched filter banks as reception signals in a direct propagation mode and calculate a tentative measured angle value for a reception signal vector of interest, and a bidirectional angle measuring unit to obtain a bidirectional measured angle value for the reception signal vector of interest from the matched filter outputs from the plurality of matched filter banks and the tentative measured angle value calculated by the tentative angle measuring unit.

Abstract: The MEMS mirror device includes a fixed member, a movable member rotatably coupled to the fixed member, a mirror, and a wire. The movable member includes a movable plate, a twist beam, and a meander beam. The meander beam is arranged along the twist beam. The mirror is formed on the movable plate. The wire extends from the movable plate to the fixed member. The wire is formed on the meander beam.

Abstract: A physique determination device includes: an acquisition unit to acquire an image of a person; a detection unit to detect, from the acquired image, at least one of a plurality of physical feature points of the person; a determination unit to determine, on the basis of the at least one physical feature point that has been detected, a physique of the person; and a calculation unit to calculate, on the basis of the at least one physical feature point that has been detected, a degree of reliability of the determined physique of the person.

Abstract: An information collecting device to collect an image and position information to be transmitted from a vehicle to an external server via a communication network includes an image acquisition unit to acquire the image of the outside of the vehicle obtained by capturing by an image-capturing device mounted on the vehicle, a position-information acquisition unit to acquire position information indicating a capturing position of the image, a resource-status acquisition unit to acquire resource information indicating a status of a resource related to a load of processing on the image, a processing-method determination unit to determine a processing method of the image in accordance with the status of the resource, an image processing unit to process the image in accordance with the processing method, and an image analysis unit to perform analysis of the image processed and output the image processed in accordance with a result of the analysis.

Abstract: The electric-power conversion apparatus comprises: switching devices each permitting a current to flow therethrough or shutting off that current; a device temperature detector that detects a temperature of one or more of the switching devices; a cooler that cools down the switching devices; a cooling-medium state detector that detects a state of a cooling medium passing through the cooler; and a control unit that controls the switching devices to perform electric-power conversion, and performs overheat prevention control of the switching devices; wherein the control unit determines a temperature threshold value for judging whether the overheat prevention control is necessary or not, on the basis of the state of the cooling medium detected by the cooling-medium state detector, and performs the overheat prevention control by restricting operations of the switching devices, when the temperature detected by the device temperature detector is higher than the temperature threshold value.

Abstract: A travel support device includes processing circuitry configured to output a target speed of a merging vehicle that is going to change lanes; acquire a current speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a first control amount; acquire a position and a speed of a merging destination vehicle; acquire a current position of the merging vehicle and calculate a second control amount; acquire a speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a predicted position of the merging destination vehicle when the current speed of the merging vehicle has reached the target speed; and output one of the first or second control amount.

Abstract: Plural hollow structure bodies (3) are formed in a semiconductor substrate (1) in an array manner. The Plural hollow structure bodies (3) have a detection part (4) as a hollow structure and a getter part (5) as a hollow structure different from the detection part (4). A support body (6) demarcates the plural hollow structure bodies (3). The detection part (4) has a detection device (14) inside. The getter part (5) has a getter (16) inside. The detection part (4) and the getter part (5) are spatially joined together by a tunnel portion (7) formed in the support body (6).

Abstract: A gear shift adjusting mechanism includes: an adjustment unit including a first slider; an adjustment target module including a second slider; and a switch unit including a first rotation shaft and a link member supported rotatably with respect to a fixing member about the first rotation shaft. The link member includes a first engaged part that is engaged with a first engaging part of the first slider and a second engaged part that is engaged with a second engaging part of the second slider. The switch unit moves at least one of the first rotation shaft, the first engaging part, or the second engaging part so that at least one of a first distance between the first rotation shaft and the first engaging part or a second distance between the first rotation shaft and the second engaging part is changed.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technology capable of predicting fluctuation in electrical characteristics of vertical semiconductor transistors when operated in the market. The semiconductor device includes a vertical semiconductor transistor and a horizontal semiconductor transistor provided on the same semiconductor base. A gate electrode of the vertical semiconductor transistor and a gate electrode of the horizontal semiconductor transistor are electrically connected. A source electrode of the vertical semiconductor transistor and a source electrode of the horizontal semiconductor transistor are electrically connected.

Abstract: A surveillance satellite that has detected a significant high luminance generates launch sensing data indicating a launch time point corresponding to a detection time point, a launch coordinate value expressing a position at which the significant high luminance was detected, and a line-of-sight vector at the detection time point and containing surveillance data at the detection time point and transmits the launch sensing data. A communication satellite that passes through a point in a communication range with respect to the surveillance satellite to transmit the launch sensing data receives the launch sensing data and transmits the launch sensing data to remaining communication satellites via a satellite communication network.

Abstract: A backside conductors is configured such that an electrode for electrical connection to an outside is formed in addition to a heat sink in correspondence with each of a plurality of cavity structures, and a support member is formed so as to be at a position separated from dicing lines for dividing each of the cavity structures into an individual piece, arranged closer to the dicing lines than to the heat sink and the electrode, and interposed between a molding die and a board at a time of integral molding with the mold material.

Abstract: To provide a drive device for a self-propelled elevator which is capable of moving a car in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction with a simple configuration. The drive device for a self-propelled elevator includes: a rotating body which is rotatably coupled to a back face of a cab; and wheels which are provided on the rotating body so as to sandwich guide surfaces of a rail on a back face side of the cab, which generate, by friction between the wheels and the rail, a force that moves the cab in a vertical direction when a longitudinal direction of the rail is the vertical direction, and which generate, by a friction force between the wheels and the rail, a force that moves the cab in a horizontal direction when the longitudinal direction of the rail is the horizontal direction.