Abstract: There is provided an image sensor including a first substrate including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of vertical signal lines and a plurality of first wiring layers and a second substrate including a plurality of second wiring layers. The first and second substrates are secured together between the pluralities of first and second wiring layers. First pads are provided between one of the plurality of first wiring layers and one of the plurality of second wiring layers and second pads are provided between another of the plurality of first wiring layers and another of the plurality of second wiring layers. First vias and second vias connect the first pads and the one of the plurality of first wiring layers and the one of the plurality of second wiring layers together.

Abstract: To provide a technique for improving image quality. A light detection apparatus includes: a semiconductor layer including a first surface and a second surface mutually positioned on opposite sides in a thickness direction; a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions provided on the semiconductor layer so as to be adjacent to each other via a separation region that stretches in the thickness direction of the semiconductor layer; a transistor provided for each of the photoelectric conversion regions on the side of the first surface of the semiconductor layer; and a transparent electrode which is provided on the side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer and to which a potential is applied. In addition, the separation region includes a conductor which stretches in the thickness direction of the semiconductor layer and the conductor is electrically connected on the side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer to the transparent electrode.

Abstract: An article processing apparatus includes: a configuration determination unit configured to determine a configuration of at least one transport unit including articles and stacked article groups each including a pallet, and at least one of the articles placed on the pallet, wherein first article groups are article groups excluding uppermost one of the stacked article groups; a palletizing mechanism configured to place the at least one of the articles on the pallet so as to form each of the stacked article groups; and a stacking mechanism configured to stack the article groups formed by the palletizing mechanism so as to form the transport unit, wherein the configuration determination unit is configured to determine the configuration of the at least one transport unit such that a load applied to each of the first article groups is smaller than a load index set to each of the first article groups.

Abstract: A windshield for vehicle including: a laminated glass including: a first glass plate; and a glass plate with a terminal having a second glass plate, a conductor having a terminal joint portion, and a terminal joined onto the terminal joint portion with lead-free solder interposed therebetween, in which: in the conductor, a feeding portion including a terminal joint portion is formed directly on the second glass plate; a first light-shielding layer is formed on a first glass plate, the first light-shielding layer covering a feeding portion of a conductor; and a second light-shielding layer is formed on the glass plate with the terminal, the second light-shielding layer covering at least a part of the conductor except for the feeding portion.

Abstract: An image-based acceptance learning device (2) learns a result of determination as to whether a planar object (1) is acceptable or defective based on at least one of a three-dimensional shape or a color on a surface of the planar object (1). The device (2) includes a surface image receiver (3) to receive an inputted two-dimensional data being image data of the surface of the planar object (1), a determination information receiver (4) to receive an inputted determination information indicating the result of determination as to whether the planar object (1) corresponding to the two-dimensional data is acceptable or defective, and a learner (5) to learn, based on the two-dimensional data and the determination information, a relevant area (1R) including the three-dimensional shape or the color on the surface in the two-dimensional data. The relevant area is a basis for the determination information.

Abstract: A liquid droplet discharge apparatus includes: a metallic discharge head configured to discharge a liquid droplet onto a print medium; an electrode arranged facing the discharge head; a voltage source configured to generate a potential difference between the discharge head and the electrode; a current detection part configured to detect a current flowing between the discharge head and the electrode; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate a volume of the liquid droplet based on a current value detected by the current detection part, in a case that the liquid droplet is discharged from the discharge head in a state that the potential difference is generated between the discharge head and the electrode by the voltage source.

Abstract: A means for improving cycle durability of an electric device which uses a positive electrode active material containing sulfur is provided. The positive electrode material for an electric device includes, in the pores of a porous conductive material, a positive electrode active material containing sulfur and an electronic conductor.

Abstract: A curing device includes a light emitting member, and a control device. The light emitting member has a light source configured to emit light to cure liquid on a printing medium. The light source and the printing medium are configured to be located with a gap therebetween. The gap is variable among a plurality of distances including a first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance. The control device is configured to perform: controlling the light source to emit light of an intensity based on the gap so that the intensity when the gap is the second distance is greater than when the gap is the first distance.

Abstract: An electric device using a sulfur-containing positive electrode active material is capable of improving capacity characteristics and charge-discharge rate characteristics. Among positive electrode materials for an electric device including a sulfur-containing positive electrode active material and a sulfur-containing solid electrolyte, a positive electrode material for an electric device showing a peak in a range of 1400 to 1450 cm-1 in a Raman spectrum of microscopic Raman spectrometry using a laser with a wavelength of 532 nm is used.

Abstract: A back door that reduces noise in a vehicle interior by suppressing vibration of an outer panel while reducing the weight and costs includes an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel includes a horizontal frame part, vertical frame parts, merging parts, and connecting parts. The connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in a width direction of the horizontal frame part, the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part, and the connecting part extends only from one end part on an opening part side in the width direction of the vertical frame part. The connecting parts are respectively connected to the outer panel. The merging parts are formed with higher torsional rigidity than the horizontal frame part and the vertical frame parts.

Abstract: A biological signal measuring device that includes a light emitting unit that includes at least a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element that irradiate a biological surface, and a light receiving unit that includes at least one light receiving element that receives light scattered in a living body by light emitted from the light emitting unit, and outputs biological information that is a light intensity signal measured by the light receiving element. The biological signal measuring device is capable of performing both pulse measurement and blood flow measurement with high accuracy.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a head having a discharge surface in which a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid droplet in a first direction is opened; a light-emitter configured to emit light; a light-receiver configured to receive the light; a gradient adding member configured to add a gradient to a light intensity of an optical path of the light in each of second and third directions, the second and third directions intersecting the first direction, the second and third directions intersecting with each other; and a controller. The optical path intersects a flying area in which the liquid droplet from the nozzle flies at a position between the gradient adding member and the light-receiver. The controller is configured to detect a deviation of a flying direction of the liquid droplet based on an amount of the light received by the light-receiver.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a breakdown voltage holding insulating film; an element portion including a lower element and an upper element; a lead-out wire; a first electrode pad; a second electrode pad being one end portion of the upper element; and a top layer protective film covering the upper element so that the second electrode pad is exposed from a second contact hole. The breakdown voltage holding insulating film and the top layer protective film extend to a region outside the first electrode pad in a direction of extension of the lead-out wire. An electrically conductive pad double stack portion is disposed on an upper surface of the second electrode pad. The top layer protective film covers a peripheral portion of the pad double stack portion.

Abstract: There is provided an optical member and an optical apparatus capable of miniaturizing a device while illuminance on a multilayer film is uniform. The present technology provides an optical member including an angle selection film that transmits light incident at a predetermined angle among incident light, and a diffraction grating that diffracts the incident light and emits the light to the angle selection film, in which the diffraction grating and the angle selection film are disposed in an order of the diffraction grating and the angle selection film from an incident side of the light.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of further improving the cycle characteristics in a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which a silicon-based negative electrode active material and a carbon-based negative electrode active material are used in combination as a negative electrode active material, and constituent components of the electrode are not bound to each other via a binder. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention has a configuration in which a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a current collector. The negative electrode active material contains composite secondary particles in which silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and carbon-based negative electrode active material particles are bound to each other via a binder.

Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine which can detect current of the normal phase certainly when the short circuit failure of one phase occurs, in an apparatus that a current sensor is connected in series to the positive electrode side switching device or the negative electrode side switching device of an inverter. A controller for AC rotary machine, when determining that the short circuit failure of any one phase occurred, calculates voltage command values of normal n?1 phases, and changes the voltage command values of the normal n?1 phases so that on period of the detection object device of each phase of the normal n?1 phases become longer than or equal to a length necessary for current detection at least at a current detection timing.

Abstract: A power converter includes: a multiphase inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; a plurality of current sensors each configured to detect a current of the inverter circuit and output a value of the current detected; a terminal voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of each terminal of a load connected to the inverter circuit and output a value of the voltage detected; a switching element drive circuit configured to control the plurality of switching elements of the inverter circuit according to a switching pattern given; a fault detector configured to detect a fault in the inverter circuit or the plurality of current sensors; and a fault identifier configured to, after the fault detector detects the fault, switch the switching pattern to be given to the switching element drive circuit according to types of faults detectable by the fault detector, and perform identification processing of identifying a type and a location of the fault in the inverter circuit or the plurality of cu

Abstract: A driving assistance method includes: determining whether or not an autonomous travel control start condition for autonomous travel control, the autonomous travel control controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of a vehicle in an automated manner, to be performable is established; determining whether or not a destination to which the vehicle is caused to travel is set; notifying information prompting a start operation of the autonomous travel control in a more intense notification form when determining that the autonomous travel control start condition is established and determining that the destination is set than when determining that the autonomous travel control start condition is established and determining that the destination is not set; determining whether or not the start operation is received; and starting the autonomous travel control when determining that the start operation is received.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive composition capable of producing a pattern having a precise shape without causing curing defects of a coating film even when the time is required from exposure of the coating film to the next step. A photosensitive composition of the present invention contains a polymer (A), a polymerizable compound (B), a photoacid generator (C), and a solvent (D), in which the polymerizable compound (B) includes an epoxy compound (B-1) containing two or more groups represented by the following Formula (1) and a specific epoxy compound (B-2) other than the epoxy compound (B-1), and an epoxy compound containing an epoxy group fused to an alicyclic group is contained in an amount of 50 mass % or more with respect to a total of 100 mass % of the polymerizable compound (B).

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conductive portion provided on a part of a second semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, a second conductive portion provided on a part of a third semiconductor layer via a second insulating film, a first main electrode, and a second main electrode. When an ON control signal is input to one of the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion, conduction is established between the first main electrode and the second main electrode by a bipolar operation, and when the ON control signal is input to both the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion, conduction is established between the first main electrode and the second main electrode by a unipolar operation.