Abstract: An axial flow fan includes a hub driven to rotate and configured to serve as a rotation axis of the axial flow fan and a blade connected to the hub. The blade has a leading edge and a trailing edge. The trailing edge has an indentation indenting toward the leading edge. The indentation narrows from the trailing edge to the leading edge, and has an apex being a point closest to the leading edge from among the points constituting the indentation. The blade has, at the indentation, a maximum thickness portion at which a thickness of the blade is maximum, and which is positioned radially inside of the apex.

Abstract: An electric vehicle drive system includes: a reactor; and electric vehicle control apparatuses that control electric motors for driving an electric vehicle. Each of the electric vehicle control apparatuses includes: a capacitor that defines a filter circuit together with the reactor; an inverter circuit that supplies power to the corresponding one of the electric motors; and a control unit that controls the inverter circuit. The inverter circuit is housed in a housing together with the capacitor and the control unit. The reactor is connectable to each of the housings through an electric wire having any desired length. At least one of the electric wires connecting the reactor and the housings has a length of 2 meters or more.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: an impeller having a back plate; and a scroll casing including a peripheral wall having a volute shape, a first side wall facing a virtual extension of the back plate and an inner end portion of the volute shape of the scroll casing, an expanded portion, and a first edge end portion being an end of a first edge defining the discharge port, of the first side wall, are arranged in a named order in the rotation direction, the first edge end portion being farther from the rotation shaft than an other end of the first edge and distance L1?distance LM>distance LS is satisfied where LS is a distance between the first side wall at the inner end portion of the volute shape and the virtual extension of the back plate, LM is a distance between the first side wall at the expanded portion and the virtual extension of the back plate, the expanded portion being a portion at which the distance between the first side wall and the virtual extension of the back plate is larger than LS, and L1 is a

Abstract: A network controller is configured to perform, to a new slice request, resource allocation from a resource of unallocated resource information managed by a resource information management unit, and to reallocate the resource to an existing slice request so that an unallocated resource increases based on unallocated resource information managed by the resource information management unit.

Abstract: When, out of adjacent two in a stacking direction of heat transfer plates, one heat transfer plate provided in front of the other heat transfer plate is referred to as a first heat transfer plate and the other heat transfer plate provided in rear of the one heat transfer plate is referred to as a second heat transfer plate, a header portion of each of the first heat transfer plates and a corresponding header portion of each of the second heat transfer plates partly form a non-flow path region where the header portions are in contact with each other not to allow fluid to pass through the non-flow path region. A peripheral edge part in the non-flow path region of each of the first heat transfer plates includes a convex portion projecting upward, and a peripheral edge part in the non-flow path region of each of the second heat transfer plates includes a concave portion recessed downward.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device according to the present disclosure includes: a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, a first expansion device, and a load-side heat exchanger, refrigerant cycling through the compressor, the heat-source-side heat exchanger, the first expansion device, and the load-side heat exchanger; a plurality of controllers configured to control the refrigerant circuit; a bypass pipe branching from a high pressure pipe on a discharge side of the compressor and connected to a low pressure pipe on a suction side of the compressor; a second expansion device provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to adjust a flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe; and a plurality of refrigerant coolers provided to the bypass pipe, and configured to cool the plurality of controllers by using the refrigerant the flow rate of which is adjusted by the second expansion device, each of the plurality of refrigerant coolers including a refrigerant coolin

Abstract: A first air-supply port and a first air-exhaust port each disposed in a first zone and used to ventilate the first zone are provided. Further, a second air-supply port and a second air-exhaust port each disposed in a second zone and used to ventilate the second zone are provided, and the second zone is adjacent to the first zone. The first air-supply port, the first air-exhaust port, the second air-supply port, and the second air-exhaust port are disposed on one plane. The first air-supply port, the first air-exhaust port, the second air-supply port, and the second air-exhaust port are disposed in order of the first air-exhaust port, the first air-supply port, the second air-supply port, and the second air-exhaust port in one direction, or in order of the first air-supply port, the first air-exhaust port, the second air-exhaust port, and the second air-supply port in one direction.

Abstract: A compressor includes a motor, a compression mechanism portion driven by the motor, and a rotation shaft connecting the motor and the compression mechanism portion. At least a part of the rotation shaft is composed of a material having a higher Young's modulus than that of cast iron, and having a higher thermal conductivity than that of cast iron.

Abstract: An outdoor unit includes a housing, a heat exchanger, an electric component box, a substrate, and a heat dissipator including multiple fins. The fins each have a first end situated in a windward side of an air passage formed between adjacent ones of the fins, and the first end faces the electric component box. When the heat dissipator and the electric component box are viewed from above, a first clearance gap having a first width and a second clearance gap having a second width greater than the first width are formed between the first end and the electric component box. The second clearance gap is situated closer to a back panel than the first clearance gap.

Abstract: A waveguide photodetector includes a first contact layer of a first conductivity type, a waveguide layer, and a second contact layer of a second conductivity type that are sequentially formed on the semiconductor substrate. The waveguide layer includes a first cladding layer of the first conductivity type disposed on a side of the first contact layer, a second cladding layer of the second conductivity type disposed on a side of the second contact layer, and the core layer disposed between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer. The core layer includes a light absorption layer and an impurity-doped light absorption layer that has a higher concentration of a p-type impurity than that of the light absorption layer and is disposed on a side of a light incident face.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus in which indoor units are connected, includes: a housing forming an outer casing of the outdoor unit; a terminal block located at a side of the housing; and a conduit plate to be attached to the terminal block. The conduit plate includes: a terminal block cover to be attached to the housing to cover the terminal block, and having an opening portion formed at a lower portion of the terminal block cover; an outer casing cover to be attached to the terminal block cover to cover the opening portion of the terminal block cover, and having an opening portion at a side of the outer casing cover; and a cable connection cover to be attached to the side of the outer casing cover, and having attachment holes for connection of a conduit cable to be connected to the terminal block.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a shaft that is rotatably supported for rotation around a rotation axis, a rotor that is located outwardly of the shaft in a radial direction and rotates integrally with the shaft, a stator that faces the rotor in the radial direction, and a tubular frame that has an inner peripheral surface to which the stator is fixed. The electric motor further includes a groove included in (i) the inner peripheral surface of the frame or (ii) an outer peripheral surface of the stator, and an insulating member disposed in the groove.

Abstract: A laser radar device performs control to make a focus distance of transmission light equal to a measurement distance by switching a plurality of laser light sources that emit beams of oscillation light having wavelengths different from each other to switch emission directions of the transmission light while maintaining the focus position of optical antennas, and changing the wavelength of the beams of oscillation light according to the measurement distance.

Abstract: An evaluation item generation unit (107) acquires a plurality of candidates for security evaluation items to be adopted to a plurality of apparatuses included in an information system. Further, the evaluation item generation unit (107) analyzes at least one of: whether or not each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses has a communication path with an outside communication apparatus being an apparatus which is in the information system and performs communication with the outside of the information system; and whether or not there exists in each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses, a security evaluation item an adoption of which is to be exempted due to an adoption of which to another apparatus in the information system, and selects for each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses, a security evaluation item to be adopted, from the plurality of candidates for the security evaluation items based on an analysis result.

Abstract: A noise elimination device includes a noise elimination unit to generate a noise-eliminated spectrum by performing noise elimination on the basis of symmetry of noise superimposed on a reception signal spectrum.

Abstract: A high frequency semiconductor amplifier according to the present disclosure includes: a transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate and including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a matching circuit for input-side fundamental wave matching of the transistor; a first inductor formed on the semiconductor substrate and having one end connected to the gate electrode of the transistor and the other end connected to the matching circuit; a capacitor formed on the semiconductor substrate and having one end being short-circuited; and a second inductor formed on the semiconductor substrate and having one end connected to the gate electrode of the transistor and the other end connected to the other end of the capacitor, wherein the second inductor resonates in series with the capacitor at second harmonic frequency, has a mutual inductance of subtractive polarity with the first inductor, and the first inductor and the second inductor form mutual inductive circuits for input-side second har

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes an analog transmitting unit that performs analog processing on a multiplex signal in which two or more signals are multiplexed and generates a transmission signal, and a signal multiplexing and learning unit that multiplexes the two or more signals with a neural network whose parameters have been adjusted based on the analog characteristics of the analog transmitting unit and constraints on the multiplex signal and generates the multiplex signal.

Abstract: To provide a map information output apparatus and a map information output method which can reduce a time lag of the positional shift correction of the map information acquired corresponding to the position coordinate of the ego vehicle, when traveling the curve road. A map information output apparatus acquires map information corresponding to a position coordinate of an ego vehicle from map data; acquires a map road shape corresponding to a road where the ego vehicle is traveling; detects a detection road shape where the ego vehicle is traveling based on detection information of a periphery monitoring apparatus; and corrects position information of the map information with respect to a position of the ego vehicle, based on map curvature information which is curvature information included in the map road shape, and detection curvature information which is curvature information included in the detection road shape.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor element includes a pinned layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a first magnetic layer, and a free layer. The pinned layer has a fixed magnetization direction. The first non-magnetic layer is laminated on the pinned layer. The first magnetic layer holds the first non-magnetic layer with the pinned layer. The free layer is disposed along a lamination direction in which the first non-magnetic layer is laminated on the pinned layer. Each of the first magnetic layer and the free layer has a magnetization direction more easily changed by an external magnetic field than that of the pinned layer. The pinned layer and the first magnetic layer are coupled by indirect exchange interaction.