Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type; an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer provided, in that order from a side on which the substrate is located, above the second nitride semiconductor layer and on an inner surface of a first opening; a gate electrode provided above the electron supply layer and covering the first opening; a source electrode provided in a second opening and connected to the second nitride semiconductor layer; a drain electrode; a third opening at an outermost edge part in a plan view of the substrate; and a potential fixing electrode provided in the third opening, the potential fixing electrode being connected to the second nitride semiconductor layer and in contact with neither the electron transport layer nor the electron supply layer.

Abstract: A head up display arrangement is for a motor vehicle having a human occupant. A light source emits a light field. An infrared camera detects infrared energy. A combiner is positioned and configured to reflect the light field such that the light field can be viewed by the human occupant as a virtual image. The combiner has a region configured to reflect infra-red energy emitted by a face of the occupant such that the infrared energy is received by the infrared camera.

Abstract: To provide a high-quality group III nitride semiconductor. A group III nitride semiconductor including an n-GaN layer composed of AlxGa1-xN (0?x<1), an InGaN layer disposed on the n-GaN layer and composed of InGaN, an n-AlGaN layer disposed on the InGaN layer and composed of n-type AlyGa1-yN (0?y<1), and a functional layer disposed on the n-AlGaN layer, wherein the concentration of Mg in the n-GaN layer is higher than the concentration of Mg in the n-AlGaN layer.

Abstract: A bit interleaving method applying a bit permutation process to a QC LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks of Q bits each, dividing the processed codeword into constellation words of M bits each, and applying an intra-cyclic-block permutation process to the cyclic blocks, where the codeword is divided into F×N/M folding sections of M/F cyclic blocks each and the constellation words are each associated with one of the folding sections, and the bit permutation process is applied such that the constellation words are each made up of F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in the associated section, after the permutation process.

Abstract: A semiconductor relay includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer of a direct transition type which is on the substrate and which has semi-insulating properties; a p-type semiconductor layer on at least part of the semiconductor layer; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer. The second electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode and at least partially in contact with one of the semiconductor layer and the substrate, and the first electrode includes a first opening part.

Abstract: An ultraviolet light-emitting element includes: a multilayer stack in which an n-type AlGaN layer, a light-emitting layer, a first p-type AlGaN layer, and a second p-type AlGaN layer are arranged in this order; a negative electrode; and a positive electrode. The first p-type AlGaN layer has a larger Al composition ratio than first AlGaN layers serving as well layers. The second p-type AlGaN layer has a larger Al composition ratio than the first AlGaN layers. The first p-type AlGaN layer and the second p-type AlGaN layer both contain Mg. The second p-type AlGaN layer has a higher maximum Mg concentration than the first p-type AlGaN layer. The second p-type AlGaN layer includes a region where an Mg concentration increases in a thickness direction thereof as a distance from the first p-type AlGaN layer increases in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A micro analysis chip comprises an inlet and a fluid flow path communicating thereto. The fluid flow path comprises a first flow path, a second flow path, and a third flow path arranged continuously along a longitudinal direction of the fluid flow path. An antibody is bound on at least one peripheral surface selected from the group consisting of peripheral surfaces of the second and third flow paths. A cross-sectional area of the third flow path is constant or increased monotonically along a direction X from the second flow path toward the third flow path. A cross-sectional area of the second flow path is increased monotonically along the direction X from the one end to the other end of the second flow path. A cross-sectional area of the first flow path is larger than a cross-sectional area at the one end of the second flow path.

Abstract: There are provided heating chamber, and reflection angle control device provided on upper wall configuring at least part of walls of heating chamber and configured to control a reflection angle of a microwave to control standing wave distribution in heating chamber. Reflection angle control device controls the reflection angle of the microwave when the microwave radiated from microwave radiation device is not directly absorbed into heating target but is reflected by the wall. Standing wave distribution in heating chamber can thus be controlled to be different from ordinary distribution for improvement in local heating performance.

Abstract: A sealed battery with a current breaking mechanism, and a conductor member that is, inside the battery, electrically connected to the current breaking mechanism, and that is, outside the battery, electrically connected to the positive electrode external terminal. The current breaking mechanism includes a thin plate-like inversion plate in which an outer peripheral portion thereof is connected to the positive electrode collector member, and an inner peripheral portion thereof is connected to the conductor member. The inversion plate is, upon an increase in pressure inside the battery, capable of having the inner peripheral portion become displaced so as to be separated from the conductor member. An accommodating recess that receives the inner peripheral portion of the inverted collector member separated and displaced from the conductor member is formed in the positive electrode collector member and in a thickness direction of the positive electrode collector member.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generator system according to the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric generator units, each including tubular thermoelectric generators. Each of the generators has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates electromotive force in an axial direction thereof based on a temperature difference between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. Each unit further includes: a container housing the generators inside; and electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside, and openings into which the generators are inserted. A buffer vessel is arranged between the first and second units, and has a first opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the first unit and a second opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the second unit.

Abstract: A display control device includes an operation information acquisition unit and a cursor coordinate controller. The cursor coordinate controller is configured to, in a state in which a cursor is set to a predetermined selection item, when operation information is acquired from the operation information acquisition unit, and when, based on a position of the cursor on a display surface of a display device, the selection item is included in a search area that is set in a direction corresponding to an operation direction included in the operation information on the display surface, select the selection item at a position closest to a reference point of the cursor in the direction corresponding to the operation direction as the selection item to be a movement destination of the cursor.

Abstract: A heat-insulation box, includes: a heat-insulation-box main body that has a space; a door that seals the space; and a partition plate that partitions the space, wherein the partition plate includes (i) a design plate that is placed at a side of the door, (ii) a first plate part and a second plate part that are each provided at both edges of the design plate, (iii) a heat-insulation material that is located in a region surrounded by the design plate, the first plate part, and the second plate part, and (iv) a heat-insulation member that is placed in at least one of a gap between the design plate and the first plate part, and a gap between the design plate and the second plate part.

Abstract: A fluoride ion conductor contains rubidium, magnesium, and fluorine. In an average composition of the fluoride ion conductor, the ratio of the number of moles of the magnesium to the total number of moles of the rubidium and the magnesium is less than 0.4.

Abstract: In order to prevent occurrence of the significantly frequent transmission of messages, a user terminal is configured such that, when a reception power of a target cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold value ThLOW, the user terminal starts preparation for a handover to the target cell, and when the reception power is equal to or greater than a second threshold value ThHIGH, the user terminal performs the handover to the target cell, and that, until a waiting time has elapsed after performing the handover, the user terminal, by using a timer, performs a timing control for maintaining an immediate handover state in which the user terminal can immediately perform a handover, and, when the waiting time has elapsed, the user terminal ends the immediate handover state.

Abstract: One embodiment can provide a system for detecting anomaly for high-dimensional sensor data associated with one or more machines. During operation, the system can obtain sensor data from a set of sensor associated with one or machines, apply data exploration techniques on the sensor data to automatically process sensor data to identify a subset of feature sensors from the available set of feature sensors, apply an unsupervised machine-learning technique to the identified subset of feature sensors and the target sensor to learn a set of pair-wise univariate models, and determine whether and how an anomaly occurs in the operation of the one or more machines based on the set of pair-wise univariate models.

Abstract: An electric power transmission device capable of efficiently performing contactless electric power transmission to an underwater vehicle in water is provided. The electric power transmission device, which is an electric power transmission device transmitting electric power to an electric power reception device including an electric power reception coil in water, includes one or more transmission coils including an electric power transmission coil which transmits electric power to an electric power reception coil via a magnetic field, an electric power transmission unit which transmits AC power to an electric power transmission coil, a capacitor which is connected to the transmission coil and forms a resonant circuit which resonates with the transmission coil, and a buoyant body connected to at least one of the transmission coils.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin strip component, including a processing step of processing an amorphous thin strip member into a dimension shape larger than a target shape, and a heat treating step of heat treating and contracting the amorphous thin strip member processed in the processing step to form the amorphous thin strip member into a thin strip component of the target shape. A thin strip component which is a magnetic laminate in which a plurality of plate-shaped thin strip component members of the same shape are laminated, and has a recess over an entire side surface of the magnetic laminate is used. A motor including the thin strip component, a plurality of coils disposed on the thin strip component, and a rotor disposed between the plurality of coils is used.

Abstract: Similar medical images having a predetermined similarity to a region of interest in a medical image to be interpreted are received from a case search system. A display screen on which the received similar medical images are displayed is displayed on a display. The display screen includes display frames within which similar medical images are displayed. In response to an instruction for enlarging the similar medical images, corresponding regions of interest in the similar medical images are enlarged and displayed with the sizes of the display frames maintained unchanged on the display screen. In response to an instruction for causing a selected similar medical image among the enlarged and displayed similar medical images to move within a corresponding display frame, the other unselected similar medical image(s) is caused to move within a corresponding display frame synchronously with the movement of the selected similar medical image in the same movement direction.

Abstract: In order to prospectively avoid communication failures or reduction in throughput of each user terminal, thereby improving users' satisfaction with communication service, a base station is configured to control wireless communication with a terminal device by using any of multiple transmission beams formed by the base station or those formed by another base station and includes a wireless communication device and a controller configured to acquire correction information used for correcting a measurement value for evaluating reception status of each transmission beam and cause the wireless communication device to transmit the correction information to the user terminal so as to thereby promote the user terminal to use, or inhibit the user terminal from using a specific transmission beam.

Abstract: Provided is a transmission coil which can inhibit reduction in transmission efficiency during underwater non-contact electric power transmission. A transmission coil configured to transmit electric power in water includes an annular electric wire through which an alternating current flows, and a first cover which includes non-conductive resin or non-magnetic resin and seals a periphery of the electric wire. The electric wire transmits the electric power via a magnetic field generated by flowing of the alternating current.