Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact pin to be connected to a core wire of a coaxial cable, an insulating housing for holding the contact pin therein, a cylindrical outer contact covering the housing and a crimping member for attaching the outer contact to the coaxial cable. A base end portion of the outer contact is located between an inner insulator layer and an outer conductor layer of the coaxial cable. The outer contact is attached to the coaxial cable by crimping the crimping member onto the outer conductor layer of the coaxial cable located on the base end portion of the outer contact.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having an active portion and a gate pad portion on a semiconductor substrate includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type. The active portion has: first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type; a first electrode provided on the first semiconductor regions; and first trenches. The gate pad portion has: a gate electrode pad provided above the second semiconductor layer; second trenches provided beneath the gate electrode pad; and second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, each provided in the first semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with a respective one of bottoms of the second trenches. Each of the second trenches is continuous with a respective one of the first trenches. The second semiconductor layer is continuous from the active portion to the gate pad portion.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic material concentration measuring device including: a bobbin having an outer circumference around which an exciting coil, an output coil, and a further exciting coil are wound; an eccentric hole formed in the bobbin; a rotor that is rotatably fitted in the eccentric hole about an eccentric axis line; a first cutout part that forms a first flow passage on one end side in an eccentric axis line direction of the rotor; a second cutout part that forms a second flow passage whose angle is shifted in a rotor rotation direction with respect to the first cutout part, on another end side in the eccentric axis line direction of the rotor; and a communication passage that connects the first flow passage and the second flow passage.

Abstract: A waveguide based wavelength-tunable laser formed on a semiconductor substrate includes a first reflector from which laser light is output, a second reflector configuring a laser resonator together with the first reflector, a gain portion that is provided between the first reflector and the second reflector, at least two wavelength filters that can adjust wavelength characteristics and adjust a wavelength of the laser light, and a phase adjuster that adjusts an optical path length in the laser resonator, and a waveguide is formed to fold back an optical path by an angle of substantially 180 degrees between the first reflector and the second reflector.

Abstract: A resin formed body obtained from a resin composition that contains a polypropylene resin and a cellulose fiber, the polypropylene resin partially containing an acid modified polypropylene resin, wherein the resin formed body has a diffraction peak derived from a polypropylene ?-crystal (040) plane at a position of a scattering vector s of 1.92±0.1 nm?1, a diffraction peak derived from a polypropylene ?-crystal (300) plane at a position of a scattering vector s of 1.83±0.1 nm?1, and a diffraction peak derived from a cellulose I? type crystal (004) plane at a position of a scattering vector s of 3.86±0.1 nm?1, observed in a wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement, and wherein an orientation degree of the cellulose fiber in the resin formed body is larger than 0.1 and less than 0.8.

Abstract: A reflection filter device includes: a ring resonator filter including a ring-shaped waveguide and two arms, each of the two arms being optically coupled to the ring-shaped waveguide; and a dual-branch portion including a light input/output port and two branch ports, the light input/output port being configured to allow input and output of light, the two branch ports being configured to allow output of the light input from the light input/output port, the light being split into two, the two arms being connected to the two branch ports, respectively, at least one of the two arms being equipped with a phase adjuster.

Abstract: Housings have blade receiving portions for blade insertion formed in a peripheral wall by two side walls facing each other in the through-thickness direction of the blades and two end walls; the multiple connecting units include end connecting units located at the opposite ends in the through-thickness direction of the blades and intermediate connecting units located between the end connecting units; engagement grooves engaging with counterpart connect bodies formed in the intermediate connecting units between the side walls and the end walls of the housing to extend in the through-thickness direction of the blades and be open toward the counterpart connect bodies; and no grooves are formed in end connecting units to an extent equal to or greater than the depth of the engagement grooves of the intermediate connecting units between the end walls and the outer side walls located on the outside in the through-thickness direction of the blades.

Abstract: A liquid crystal element includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate, a first pixel electrode corresponding to a first pixel region arranged on the first substrate on the second substrate side, a second pixel electrode corresponding to a second pixel region arranged on the first substrate on the second substrate side, a common electrode arranged on the first substrate side of the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between a group of the first and second pixel electrodes and the common electrode, where the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are provided on different layers on the first substrate, and their ends are arranged so as to partially overlap each other in a plan view.

Abstract: A push switch contains a case including a containing portion and a sealing groove; a pair of contacts disposed in the containing portion so as to be spaced apart from each other; a movable contact which is disposed above the pair of contacts in the containing portion; a cap including a base portion disposed on the case and a sealing protrusion protruding from a peripheral edge portion of the base portion toward a lower side for liquid-tightly sealing the sealing groove of the case; and a cover attached to the case from an upper side so as to hold the cap on the case. The sealing protrusion of the cap is compressively deformed in the sealing groove of the case, and thereby the sealing groove of the case is liquid-tightly sealed.

Abstract: A rotary reciprocating drive actuator reciprocally and rotationally driving the movable body about the shaft part in relation to the fixed body by the electromagnetic mutual effect of the coil and the movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet is magnetized in the radial direction of the shaft part, the two magnetic poles are disposed facing each other across an air gap in the radial direction of the movable magnet and the shaft part, and the fixed body has a rotation-angle-holding part disposed facing the movable magnet across the air gap, the rotation-angle-holding part holding the rotation angle position of the movable magnet by the magnetic attraction force generated with the movable magnet.

Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and a connector. The rotation body is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the fixed body. The connector includes a cover, a conductor, and a holding member. The cover includes a first wall and a space therein. The first wall extends from the rotation body in an axial direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis. The holding member is attached to the cover in the space and holds the conductor. The holding member includes, in the first wall, an exposed portion exposed to an outside of the space. The cover and the holding member include a restriction structure to restrict foreign matter from entering the space through the exposed portion. The restriction structure includes a first protrusion that protrudes in a direction substantially orthogonal to the first wall and a first recess in which the first protrusion is fitted.

Abstract: An earth leakage detecting device comprises following elements. A first end of coupling capacitor is connected to a current path of power storage connected to load in a state of being insulated from a ground. Voltage output unit generates a periodic voltage that changes periodically, and applies the periodic voltage to a second end of coupling capacitor via impedance element. Voltage measurer measures a voltage at a connection point between coupling capacitor and impedance element. Earth leakage determiner determines presence or absence of an earth leakage between the current path of power storage and the ground on the basis of the measured voltage. Voltage output unit has a preparation period for constantly outputting a potential between a high-side potential and a low-side potential of the periodic voltage before a measurement period for outputting the periodic voltage.

Abstract: A catalyst structure includes a carrier having a porous structure composed of a zeolite type compound and at least one catalytic material existing in the carrier. The carrier has channels communicating with each other, and the catalytic material is a metal fine particle and exists at least in the channel of the carrier.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor module including a semiconductor device and a cooling apparatus, wherein the semiconductor device includes semiconductor chips, circuit boards where the semiconductor chips are implemented, and a resin structure for sealing the semiconductor chips; the cooling apparatus includes a top plate, a side wall, a bottom plate, a coolant flow portion, a plurality of fins and reinforcement pins; the metal layer has a part overlapped with the cooling region, and other parts other than the part overlapped with one communication region of the first communication region and the second communication region in planar view; and the reinforcement pins are arranged in the one communication region.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor module includes: placing, on a lower hot plate, an insulating wiring substrate having an electrically-conductive pattern formed on an insulating substrate; placing sintered materials on the electrically-conductive pattern; placing semiconductor chips on the sintered materials; placing a cushioning material over the semiconductor chips; placing an upper hot plate on the cushioning material; and sintering the sintered materials by pressurizing and heating the sintered materials via the cushioning material and the electronic components by the upper hot plate in a state where a space is provided between the upper hot plate and a part of the insulating substrate.

Abstract: A switching control circuit for a power supply circuit generating an output voltage from an AC voltage. The power supply circuit includes an inductor receiving a first rectified voltage corresponding to the AC voltage, and a transistor controlling an inductor current flowing through the inductor. The switching control circuit controls switching of the transistor, and comprises: an identification circuit identifying whether an effective value of the AC voltage is a first or second level; a first comparator circuit comparing the inductor current with a first current value and a second current value, respectively when the effective value is the first level and the second level; and a driver circuit driving the transistor based on the inductor current and the output voltage. The driver circuit turns off the transistor in response to the inductor current exceeding the first current value or the second current value as a result of comparison.

Abstract: A vehicle has a function of drawing a notification display on a road surface with light. In a case where a shift position of the vehicle is a P range and a switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display. As another condition, in a case where there is no approaching object around the vehicle when the vehicle moves rearward and the switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: epitaxially growing a drift layer of a first conductivity-type on a silicon carbide substrate of the first conductivity-type; forming a base region of a second conductivity-type on the drift layer; forming a main region of the first conductivity-type on the drift layer so as to be in contact with the base region; forming a gate insulating film so as to be in contact with the base region and the main region; forming a gate electrode so as to be in contact with the base region and the main region with the gate insulating film interposed; and forming a lifetime killer region at a depth covering a bottom surface of the drift layer by irradiating the top surface side of the drift layer with a lifetime killer after epitaxially growing the drift layer and before forming the gate insulating film.

Abstract: An AlSi electrode containing an aluminum alloy that contains silicon is sputtered on a surface of a semiconductor substrate that contains silicon carbide. Si nodules having a dendrite structure precipitate in AlSi electrode. At least some of the Si nodules have a dendrite structure, and the rest of the Si nodules have a prismatic structure. A height of the Si nodules having either dendrite structures or prismatic structures in the AlSi electrode in a thickness direction of the AlSi electrode is not more than 2 ?m. A height of the Si nodules having the dendrite structures in the AlSi electrode, preferably, may be 1 ?m or less. A solid solubility of silicon in the AlSi electrode is in a range of 0.3 wt % to 1.59 wt %. A sputtering temperature of the AlSi electrode is in a range of 430 degrees C. to 577 degrees C.

Abstract: A fluid fillable cartridge, a method for preventing contamination of nozzle holes in a fluid ejector chip and a method for making an adhesive sealing tape. The fluid fillable cartridge has an open fluid reservoir therein and a fluid ejector chip attached to an exposed surface of the fluid fillable cartridge opposite to the open fluid reservoir. An adhesive sealing tape is attached to the fluid fillable cartridge, wherein the adhesive sealing tape has an adhesive pattern on a first end of the adhesive sealing tape that is configured to attach the adhesive sealing tape adjacent to the fluid ejector chip while being devoid of adhesive in nozzle hole areas of the fluid ejector chip.