Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor including at least a photosensitive layer and a protective layer in sequence on a conductive support, and the protective layer contains a cured product of a curable compound, conductive particles having a band gap of 2.0 eV or more and 3.6 eV or less, and particles having a band gap of 8.0 eV or more.

Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip including a first surface, a second surface, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode; a first conductor including a first portion and a first intermediate portion, a second conductor including a third portion, a second intermediate portion, and a fourth portion, and a length of the first intermediate portion in a second direction being longer than a length of the third portion in the second direction; a third conductor provided on a first surface side of the semiconductor chip; a conductive first connector provided between the first intermediate portion of the first conductor and the third portion of the second conductor; a conductive second connector provided between the second electrode and the first portion; and a conductive third connector provided between the third conductor and the first electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first frame, a second frame spaced apart from the first frame in a first direction, and a first joint terminal provided above a second chip provided on the second frame. The first frame includes a first terminal portion extending toward the second frame. The first joint terminal includes a second terminal portion extending toward the first frame. The second terminal portion includes a plane portion, a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion each branching out from the plane portion. An end portion of the first projecting portion and an end portion of the second projecting portion are respectively joined on the first terminal portion. The first projecting portion is different in a length in a first direction from the second projecting portion.

Abstract: A biometric information authenticating device includes a biometric information sensor to detect contact of an operating finger with a reading surface and to read biometric information of the operating finger, an illumination unit including at least one light source, and a control unit to indicate completion of reading of the biometric information by an illumination pattern including a combination of turning on and off of the at least one light source.

Abstract: In a vehicle lid seal structure, one of a housing and a lid is provided with an annular sealing member on a face facing the other. A cross-sectional structure of the annular sealing member includes a base portion and a lip portion. The base portion is attached to one of the housing and the lid. The lip portion extends from the base portion toward the other of the housing and the lid. The lip portion includes a connecting end between the lip portion and the base portion, and a free end that is an end portion opposite to the connecting end of the lip portion. Further, the lip portion is provided with a folding starting point between the connecting end and the free end. The folding starting point is provided for causing folding deformation of the lip portion toward a radially-outward side of the annular sealing member.

Abstract: A heat insulating material for a battery having appropriate deformability and a battery including the heat insulating material. The heat insulating material for a battery is a heat insulating material for a battery, which is arranged so as to cover a surface included in a battery, the heat insulating material for a battery including: a heat insulating portion that is arranged so as to face the surface of the battery; and a buffering portion that is more deformable by compression than the heat insulating portion, wherein at least part of the buffering portion is arranged at a position closer to the surface of the battery than the heat insulating portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a simulation apparatus is disclosed. The simulation apparatus includes a storage device storing data relating to a thermal equivalent circuit of a semiconductor device. The simulation apparatus further includes an estimation device estimating a time-dependent change in thermal characteristics of the semiconductor device by using the data. The thermal equivalent circuit includes a first thermal equivalent circuit corresponding to a lower-surface-side part of the semiconductor device. The thermal equivalent circuit further includes a second thermal equivalent circuit connected to the first thermal equivalent circuit and corresponding to an upper-surface-side part of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection device includes an engaging claw extending in a first direction from a first member, and a receiving portion provided in a second member. The engaging claw includes a pair of first side surfaces, and a pair of engaging protrusions projecting out from the respective side surface. Each engaging protrusion includes an inclined surface continuous from the first side surface and inclined to the first direction. The receiving portion includes a pair of slopes extending in the first direction and each including a second side surface engaging the first side surface, and an engaging projection connected to the second side surface, the engaging projection engaging the engaging protrusion.

Abstract: A soundproofing material including a porous body having a cell structure and including inorganic fibers other than asbestos, wherein an average cell diameter is more than 300 ?m and 1000 ?m or less, a bulk density is 0.007 to 0.024 g/cm3, and a flow resistivity is 170,000 to 2,000,000 Ns/m4.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection device includes an engaging claw extending in a first direction from a first member, and a receiving portion provided in a second member. The engaging claw includes a pair of first side surfaces, and a pair of engaging protrusions projecting out from the respective side surface. Each engaging protrusion includes an inclined surface continuous from the first side surface and inclined to the first direction. The receiving portion includes a pair of slopes extending in the first direction and each including a second side surface engaging the first side surface, and an engaging projection connected to the second side surface, the engaging projection engaging the engaging protrusion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection device includes an engaging claw extending in a first direction from a first member, and a receiving portion provided in a second member. The engaging claw includes a pair of first side surfaces, and a pair of engaging protrusions projecting out from the respective side surface. Each engaging protrusion includes an inclined surface continuous from the first side surface and inclined to the first direction. The receiving portion includes a pair of slopes extending in the first direction and each including a second side surface engaging the first side surface, and an engaging projection connected to the second side surface, the engaging projection engaging the engaging protrusion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection device includes an engaging claw extending in a first direction from a first member, and a receiving portion provided in a second member. The engaging claw includes a pair of first side surfaces, and a pair of engaging protrusions projecting out from the respective side surface. Each engaging protrusion includes an inclined surface continuous from the first side surface and inclined to the first direction. The receiving portion includes a pair of slopes extending in the first direction and each including a second side surface engaging the first side surface, and an engaging projection connected to the second side surface, the engaging projection engaging the engaging protrusion.

Abstract: To make it possible to set a shift direction of phases of illuminance distributions of pattern lights to an appropriate direction and perform an inspection at high accuracy while improving setting flexibility of an illuminating section and an imaging section. A phase shift direction of pattern light irradiated from a pattern light illuminating section is determined according to moving direction information concerning a moving direction of an inspection target object with respect to an array direction of light receiving elements and positional relation information concerning a positional relation between the light receiving elements and the pattern light illuminating section.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes an imaging section including a light-condensing optical system configured to condense reflected light of illumination light and a line camera for receiving the reflected light, an imaging inclination sensor capable of outputting, a direction orthogonal to a Z axis and parallel to an arranging direction of imaging elements is represented as an X axis, and a direction orthogonal to the X axis and the Z axis is represented as a Y axis, values indicating inclinations of the X axis, the Y axis, and the Z axis of the imaging section with respect to a horizontal direction or a gravity direction, and a display control section for causing a display section to display figures or values indicating degrees of at least any two inclinations among the inclinations of the X axis, the Y axis, and the Z axis of the imaging section.

Abstract: To facilitate setting of a parameter at the time of generating an inspection image from an image acquired by using a photometric stereo principle. A photometric processing part generates an inspection image based on a plurality of luminance images acquired by a camera. A display control part and a display part switch and display the luminance image and the inspection image, or simultaneously display these images. An inspection tool setting part adjusts a control parameter of the camera and a control parameter of an illumination apparatus. Further, when the control parameter is adjusted, the display control part updates the image being displayed on the display part to an image where the control parameter after the change has been reflected.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with an interface layer that minimizes interdiffusion between a silicon substrate and copper electrode wiring that are used as a solar cell, that improves the adhesive properties of copper wiring, and that is used to obtain ohmic contact characteristics. This silicon solar cell comprises a silicon substrate and is provided with a metal oxide layer that is formed on the silicon substrate and wiring that is formed on the metal oxide layer and that comprises mainly copper. The metal oxide layer contains (a) one of either titanium or manganese, (b) one of vanadium, niobium, tantalum, or silicon, and (c) at least one of copper and nickel. In addition, the metal oxide layer comprises copper or nickel as metal particles that are diffused in the interior of the metal oxide layer.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes an illuminating section for irradiating illumination light, a line camera in which a plurality of imaging elements are arrayed to be linearly arranged, the line camera receiving the light irradiated from the illuminating section and reflected on the inspection target object, a display section for displaying an image captured by the line camera, an optical axis adjusting section for adjusting an optical axis of the line camera, a trigger setting section for specifying a trigger that specifies timing when the inspection target object is imaged by the line camera, an aspect ratio adjusting section for adjusting longitudinal and lateral pixel resolutions of the image captured by the line camera, and a display control section for displaying the optical axis adjusting section, the trigger setting section, and the aspect ratio adjusting section on the display section in order.

Abstract: To facilitate setting of a parameter at the time of generating an inspection image from an image acquired by using a photometric stereo principle. A photometric processing part generates an inspection image based on a plurality of luminance images acquired by a camera. A display control part and a display part switch and display the luminance image and the inspection image, or simultaneously display these images. An inspection tool setting part adjusts a control parameter of the camera and a control parameter of an illumination apparatus. Further, when the control parameter is adjusted, the display control part updates the image being displayed on the display part to an image where the control parameter after the change has been reflected.

Abstract: A soundproofing material including a porous body having a cell structure and including inorganic fibers other than asbestos, wherein an average cell diameter is more than 300 ?m and 1000 ?m or less, a bulk density is 0.007 to 0.024 g/cm3, and a flow resistivity is 170,000 to 2,000,000 Ns/m4.