Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a plurality of scan lines and signal lines on one of a pair of substrates arranged to be opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, the scan lines and signal lines extending in different directions; and an orientation film, pixel electrode, insulating layer and common electrode, the orientation film being rubbed in a rubbing direction having a given inclination with respect to a pixel arrangement direction. The pixel electrode is partitioned by the scan lines and signal lines and has subpixels made up of first and second regions. The first region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a first direction with respect to the rubbing direction. The second region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a second direction with respect to the rubbing direction.

Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes an optical-system module (20) configured to apply laser light (L1) to an object to be irradiated, a shield plate (51) in which a slit (54) is formed, through which the laser light (L1) passes, and a reflected-light receiving component (61) disposed between the optical-system module (20) and the shield plate (51), in which the reflected-light receiving component (61) is able to receive, out of the laser light (L1), reflected light (R1) reflected by the shield plate (51).

Abstract: In a heat exchanger, each of a plurality of heat exchange members includes: a flat pipe; and a heat transfer plate integrated with the flat pipe along a longitudinal direction of the flat pipe. A width direction of each of the flat pipes intersects with a direction in which the plurality of heat exchange members are arranged side by side. Each of the heat transfer plates includes an extending portion extending outward in the width direction of each of the flat pipes from at least one of one end of a corresponding one of the flat pipes in the width direction and another end of the corresponding one of the flat pipes in the width direction. Each of the flat pipes has one or more flat pipe bent portions, each forming a groove extending along the longitudinal direction of the flat pipes.

Abstract: Driving a display of an input-display device includes generating, during a first display frame, a first touch sensing waveform to be applied to a touch screen of the display, and generating, during a second display frame, a second touch sensing waveform to be applied to the touch screen. The first touch sensing waveform generates on the display a first touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch sensing waveform generates on the display a second touch-to-display noise pattern of touch-to-display noise artifacts. The second touch-to-display noise pattern mitigates the first touch-to-display noise pattern.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of imaging elements, wherein each of the plurality of imaging elements includes: a plurality of pixels containing impurities of a first conductivity type; an element separation wall surrounding the plurality of pixels and provided so as to penetrate a semiconductor substrate; an on-chip lens provided above a light receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to be shared by the plurality of pixels; and a first separation portion provided in a region surrounded by the element separation wall and separating the plurality of pixels, the first separation portion is provided so as to extend in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate, and a first diffusion region containing impurities of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type is provided in a region positioned around the first separation portion and extending in the thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer parts arranged in a first direction and spaced apart from each other, the plurality of heat transfer parts extending in a second direction and allowing refrigerant to flow through inside the plurality of heat transfer parts; a first header extending in the first direction and connected to one end of each of the plurality of heat transfer parts; a second header extending in the first direction and connected to an other end of each of the plurality of heat transfer parts; and a support extending along the first direction and the second direction and having an opening, the support being located at at least one face of the plurality of heat transfer parts in a third direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, the support being fixed to the first header and the second header.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes a matrix including at least a first element selected from the group consisting of silicon, tin, and germanium, at least a second element selected from the group consisting of copper, boron, phosphorous, aluminum, gallium, arsenic, antimony, lithium, and sodium, and oxygen. The second element bonds with oxygen; and a cluster includes the first element and is dispersed in the matrix.

Abstract: A digital twin management system manages a virtual model that represents an actual physical system in a virtual space on a real-time basis. To generate an integrated virtual model by adding a second virtual model to a first virtual model, a processor of the digital twin system extracts multiple parts that can be used in common in the first virtual model and the second virtual model, generates multiple integrated virtual models that are candidates of an integrated virtual model by changing the extracted parts that can be used in common, calculates an evaluation of each of the generated integrated virtual models, and outputs configuration information regarding each of the integrated virtual model candidates and an evaluation of the integrated virtual model candidate in association with each other.

Abstract: A touchscreen display device include a display device and a touch sensor. The display device is configured to output image data during a display operation of the touchscreen display device. The touch sensor configured to perform touch sensing using a step-and-wait sensing scheme, wherein performing touch sensing includes: generating a driving waveform during the display operation of the touchscreen display device, wherein the driving waveform is a quadrature trapezoidal waveform, a triangular waveform, or a harmonic reject waveform; obtaining resulting signals based on the generated driving waveform; and determining presence and/or movement of an input object in a sensing region of the touchscreen display device based on the obtained resulting signals.

Abstract: A spindle motor configured to be used for a hard disk drive device with a gas having a density lower than a density of air sealed in an internal space includes a rotor magnet. The rotor magnet has a radial thickness of 1.0 to 1.4 mm and a density of 5.6 to 6.0 g/cm3.

Abstract: A display controller includes a touch sensing controller configured to drive sensing electrodes with a touch sensing waveform that includes multiple modulations. The touch sensing controller is further configured to halt driving the plurality of sensing electrodes when a number of the modulations satisfies a selected sub-burst size. The touch sensing waveform is synchronized to an instance of a horizontal sync signal.

Abstract: Provided is a curable composition having excellent workability and being capable of forming a cured product having super heat resistance by curing. The curable composition of the present disclosure includes a curable compound represented by Formula (1) below and a radical polymerization initiator. In the following formula, R1 and R2 each represent a curable functional group, and D1 and D2 each represent a single bond or a linking group. L represents a divalent group having a repeating unit containing a structure represented by Formula (I) below and a structure represented by Formula (II) below. Ar1 to A3 each represent an arylene group or a group in which two or more arylene groups are bonded via a single bond or a linking group. X represents —CO—, —S—, or —SO2—, and Y represents —S—, —SO2—, —O—, —CO—, —COO—, or —CONH—. n represents an integer of 0 or greater.

Abstract: Meta data is provided flexibly according to an application A related data extraction apparatus for extracting related data which is given to data collected from a target system and is related to the data includes: a configuration data accumulation unit that manages configuration information of the target system; a configuration data input unit that accepts input of registration or update of the configuration information; an application linkage unit that accepts a request for the related data given to the data by an application for analyzing the data; and a related data extraction unit that extracts the related data from the configuration information on the basis of the request.

Abstract: There are provided a heat exchanger having a flat tube and a fin bonded together, without causing melting of a coating material covering the fin, and a method of manufacturing thereof. A heat exchanger includes: a flat tube having a flat cross-sectional shape and covered with an anticorrosive layer; and a fin bonded to the flat tube with a bonding agent on a first surface of the anticorrosive layer interposed therebetween, and covered with a coating material, the first surface of the anticorrosive layer having been roughened, and the bonding agent being fixed to the roughened first surface.

Abstract: A lens barrel having one end and the other end includes: a first frame that is movable and holds optical members; a second frame that is arranged to be relatively movable toward the other end with respect to the first frame, and holds optical members; and a third frame that is mounted on the first frame so as to be movable, and holds an optical member. The first frame includes a first stopper portion that comes into contact with the third frame to limit movement toward the one end. The first frame includes a second stopper portion that comes into contact with, when the first frame is most distant from the second frame, the third frame to limit movement toward the other end. The second frame includes a third stopper portion that has a contact surface located close to the one end with respect to the second stopper portion, and that comes into contact with, when the second frame is located within a range on the optical axis where the third frame is movable, the third frame to limit movement toward the other end.

Abstract: An input-display device includes a display screen on a display substrate and capacitive sensing electrodes for capacitive sensing in a sensing region of the display screen. The input-display device also includes a touch and display driver integration (TDDI) circuit on the display substrate, the TDDI circuit including a source driver circuit driving a subset of display pixels of the display screen based on a processed image signal, and an analog frontend for the capacitive sensing, interfacing with the capacitive sensing electrodes to obtain touch signals. The input-display device also includes an image processing circuit generating the processed image signal based on a received image signal and a display parameter, a touch processing circuit generating a touch output signal by processing the touch signals based on instructions of a touch firmware, and a memory physically separate from the display substrate, the memory storing the display parameter and the touch firmware.

Abstract: An information device including a capturing function uses the capturing function to capture an image of a disc wheel to which a plurality of wheel fasteners are fastened. Then, the information device inspects whether any of the wheel fasteners appearing in the captured image is loose by comparing the captured image with a reference image in consideration of a reference point of the disc wheel appearing in the captured image.

Abstract: A device management system comprises a data collection server and edge server including an adapter that transfers a device-related data set of an industrial device. Upon receipt of the device-related data set and when the data collection server is unable to specify a row that both adapter identification information of the device-related data set and device identification information match, in a devices list table and when the data collection server is able to specify a location name of a row that only the adapter identification information matches, in the devices list table, the data collection server is configured to generate/assign a new unique device identification ID based on the specified location name, the locations list table, and the devices list table. The data collection server associates the new unique device identification ID with the received device-related data set, and then stores the device-related data set in the data accumulation section.

Abstract: A touch detection device is provided and includes a plurality of driving electrodes for detecting an external proximity object in a detection area; a first driving circuit to drive the plurality of driving electrodes; and a second driving circuit to drive the plurality of driving electrodes, wherein the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit sandwich the detection area in a plan view.

Abstract: This electrical storage device comprises: an electrode body; a bottomed cylindrical outer can; a sealing plate to which a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are attached; and a functional part placed near the positive electrode terminal or the negative electrode terminal on the inner surface of the sealing plate. The electrode body has a positive electrode tab group for which a plurality of positive electrode tabs are laminated, and a negative electrode tab group for which a plurality of negative electrode tabs are laminated, and each tab group functions as a spring that connects the electrode body and the sealing plate. Of the positive electrode tab group and the negative electrode tab group, the spring constant of one tab group near the functional part is greater than the spring constant of the other tab group.