Abstract: A break detection device includes a sensor, an abnormal variation detection unit (22), a storage unit (20), an arithmetic unit (23), and a break determination unit (24). The arithmetic unit (23) increases a determination score when the abnormal variation detection unit (22) detects occurrence of an abnormal variation when a car (1) passes a position stored in the storage unit (20). The arithmetic unit (23) decreases the determination score when the abnormal variation detection unit (22) does not detect the occurrence of the abnormal variation when the car (1) passes the position. The break determination unit (24) determines whether or not a broken portion is present in a rope on the basis of the determination score.

Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device including a plurality of light emitting elements (300) that is arranged in a matrix on a semiconductor substrate (200), in which each of the light emitting elements provided to be covered with a first protective film includes a stack that includes a first electrode (302), a light emitting layer (304) provided on the first electrode, a second electrode (306) provided on the light emitting layer, and a second protective film (308) provided on the second electrode, and a side wall (310) that is formed of a material having a refractive index different from that of a material forming the first protective film and covering at least part of a side surface of the stack, in which the side wall extends from a position above an upper surface of the second electrode to a position below an upper surface of the light emitting layer, downward in a stacking direction.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula: R1-[B]-[A]-O—CH2—R2—CH2—O-[C]-[D]-R3 (R1 is an organic group having 7 to 18 carbon atoms, including a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom in an amide bond and an aromatic hydrocarbon are directly bonded; R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain; R3 is Formula (2); X1 is a hydrogen atom or an organic group having 7 to 18 carbon atoms, including a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom in an amide bond and an aromatic hydrocarbon are directly bonded; [A] is Formula (3-1); [B] is Formula (3-2); [C] is Formula (4-1); [D] is Formula (4-2); and the number of hydroxyl groups in Formula (1) is 3 or more).

Abstract: This disclosure relates to compounds of formulae I, II and III useful for degrading ITK via a ubiquitin proteolytic pathway. This disclosure also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds, and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various diseases, conditions, and/or disorders.

Abstract: A display device including a substrate, a transistor, a leveling film, a display element, a dam, and a guide. The substrate has a display region and a periphery region surrounding the display region. The transistor is located over the display region. The leveling film is located over and covers the transistor. The display element is located over the leveling film and is electrically connected to the transistor. The dam is located over the peripheral region and surrounds the display region. The guide is located between the leveling film and the dam and surrounds the display region. The guide includes a first organic compound included in the leveling film.

Abstract: To provide a method capable of producing a fluorinated polyether with a number-average molecular weight as theoretically calculated from a number-average molecular weight of a raw material polyether compound in high yield. The method for producing a fluorinated polyether, characterized in including a step (1) of introducing the raw material compound represented by Formula (X) having a Mw/Mn representing a molecular weight distribution of 1.30 or smaller, an inert gas, a fluorine gas, and a solvent into a reactor to fluorinate the raw material compound. R4—O—(R1—O)x—R5??(X) wherein R1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms; R4 and R5 each independently represent a protecting group for a hydroxyl group; x represents an average degree of polymerization and is a real number of 2.7 to 15.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicle; and a server that is able to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles performs: generating a moving image in which a person outside the vehicle appears; and transmitting the moving image and an imaging time and an imaging position of the moving image to the server. The server performs: specifying two or more target moving images in which the same person appears out of a plurality of moving images received from the plurality of vehicles; detecting behavior of the person from the two or more target moving images; estimating attribute information of the person based on the detected behavior; and transmitting the estimated attribute information of the person and the imaging time and the imaging position of at least one of the target moving images to a client.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by following formula: R1—R2—CH2—R3[—CH2—R4—CH2R3?]n—CH2—R5—R6 (n is 1 or 2; R3 and R3? are a perfluoropolyether chain; R4 is a divalent linking group having one polar group; R2 and R5 are a divalent linking group having one or more polar groups; R2 has an oxygen atom at an end that is bonded to R1; R5 has an oxygen atom at an end that is bonded to R6; R1 and R6 in end group bonded to an oxygen atom at an end of R2 or R5; and R1 and R6 are an organic group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, and at least one of them is a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom constituting an amide bond is bonded to a carbon atom of an organic group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms).

Abstract: In a variable displacement oil pump (VP1) according to the present invention, a coil spring (SP) as an urging member is arranged at a position that does not overlap a first suction port (114), a first discharge port (115) and an inlet (124a) which correspond to a suction portion when viewed from an axial direction along a drive shaft (2). Therefore, in the variable displacement oil pump (VP1), there is no risk that during pump operation, flow of oil introduced into the pump chambers 30 located in a suction region through the first suction port (114), the first discharge port (115) and the inlet (124a) corresponding to the suction portion will be interrupted by the coil spring (SP). With this, in the variable displacement oil pump (VP1), a suction resistance during the pump operation is reduced, then a suction performance of the pump can be improved.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided. R2—CH2—R1—CH2OCH2CH(OH)—(CH2)n—CH(OH)CH2OCH2—R1—CH2—R2??(1) (in the formula (1), n is an integer of 2 to 6, R1 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R2 is —OCH2CH(OH)CH2O(CH2)mOH (m in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4)).

Abstract: The present invention provides: a semiconductor device which has higher resistance to bias at high temperatures and high humidities than ever before, while achieving good connection between a field limiting layer and a field plate; and a power conversion device which uses this semiconductor device. A semiconductor device according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a floating field limiting layer that is provided in a termination region and a field plate that is electrically connected to the field limiting layer, and is also characterized in that: the field plate is formed of a polysilicon; the field plate and the field limiting layer are connected to each other via an Al electrode; and the connection between the field limiting layer and the Al electrode and the connection between the field plate and the Al electrode are established at different contacts.

Abstract: In a variable displacement oil pump (VP1) according to the present invention, a stopper portion (45) that can come into contact with a cam ring contact portion (112e) provided at a pump accommodating portion (110) is provided at a position that does not overlap a first suction port (114), a second suction port (124) and an inlet (124a), which correspond to a suction portion, in a circumferential direction of rotation of a drive shaft (2) on a rotation center (Z). Therefore, there is no risk that flow of oil sucked into pump chambers (30) located in a suction region through the first suction port (114), the second suction port (124) and the inlet (124a) will be interrupted by the stopper portion (45), thereby improving a suction performance of the pump.

Abstract: An oil pump includes: a housing; a pump constituting section; a discharge opening portion; and a suction opening portion which includes a termination end portion including a termination end inner circumference portion, a termination end outer circumference portion provided radially outside the termination end inner circumference portion, and positioned radially outside the cam profile surface, a curved surface portion connecting the termination end inner circumference portion and the termination end outer circumference portion, and a cross portion at which the curved surface portion is crossed with the cam profile surface, and which is positioned at a position at which a radial length of a vane of the plurality of the vanes that confronts the suction opening portion is shorter than a half of an entire length of the vane.

Abstract: A break detection device includes an extraction unit (22), an extraction unit (23), a detection unit (24), and a determination unit (26). The extraction unit (22) extracts, from an output signal from a sensor, a vibration component in a specific frequency band. The extraction unit (23) attenuates, from the vibration component extracted by the extraction unit (22), a steady vibration component and a progressively increasing vibration component to extract a determination signal. The detection unit (24) detects, on the basis of the determination signal, occurrence of an abnormal variation in the output signal from the sensor. The determination unit (26) determines whether or not a rope has a broken portion.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer moving unit that circularly moves a developer, the developer moving unit including a one-direction transport member that transports the developer in one direction, and an opposite-direction transport member that is disposed below the one-direction transport member and that transports the developer in a direction opposite to the one direction; a facing member that is disposed at a location facing an image carrier and that supplies the image carrier with the developer supplied from the one-direction transport member; a lower transport member that is disposed below the facing member and that transports the developer that has separated from the facing member in the one direction to cause the developer to be supplied to one end portion side of the opposite-direction transport member; and a movement restricting portion that is disposed between the lower transport member and the opposite-direction transport member and that restricts a movement of the developer from the opposi

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing ether compound that can form a lubricating layer which can increase chemical substance resistance of a magnetic recording medium even if the thickness is thin, and can be suitably used as a material for a lubricant for a magnetic recording medium. The fluorine-containing ether compound is represented by the following formula. R1—CH2—R2—CH2—OCH2—CHR3—CH2O—CH2—R4—CH2—R5 (in the formula, R2 and R4 are a perfluoropolyether chain; R1 and R5 are terminal groups which contain two or three hydroxyl groups, and in which respective hydroxyl groups are bonded to different carbon atoms, and carbon atoms to which the hydroxyl groups are bonded are bonded to each other via a linking group containing a carbon atom to which no hydroxyl group is bonded; R3 is represented by the following formula; and —(CH2)a—OH (a is an integer of 2 to 8)).

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by a formula (1) shown below. R1—(O(CH2)a)b-[A]-[B]—O—CH2—R2—CH2—R3??(1) (In the formula (1), R1 is an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or an organic group having at least one double bond or triple bond. Further, a represents an integer of 2 to 4, and b is 0 or 1. [A] is represented by a formula (2): —(OCH2CH(OH)CH2)c— (wherein c is 1 or 2). [B] is represented by a formula (3): —(O(CH2)eCH(OH)CH2)d— (wherein d is 0 or 1, and e represents an integer of 2 to 4). However, the sum of c in the formula (2) and d in the formula (3) is 2. R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain. R3 is represented by a formula (4): —(OCH2CH(OH)CH2)2—O—CH2(CH2)fOH (wherein f represents an integer of 2 to 5).

Abstract: Provided is an air outlet structure capable of adjusting an air flow direction in a plurality of directions by a simple configuration and reducing the pressure loss of air to be flowed. The air outlet structure 1 includes first fins 41 capable of adjusting an air flow direction in the width direction of the vehicle 100, a second fin 42 capable of adjusting the air flow direction in a vehicle width direction, an operator 5, a first linker 6 provided to connect the first fins 41 and the operator 5 to each other and moving the first fins 41 based on movement of the operator 5, and a second linker 7 provided to connect the second fin 42 and the operator 5 to each other and moving the second fin 42 based on movement of the operator 5. The operator 5 is provided outside an outlet port 3a.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device includes a supporting substrate, a plurality of organic EL light emitting elements, a first barrier layer, a flattening layer, and a second barrier layer. The flattening layer exists sporadically and makes gentle in inclination steep elevation change present in the surface of the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer and the second barrier layer are made of moisture penetration preventive material.

Abstract: A subframe (100) includes a base member (110) and a first member (121). The base member (110) is a channel-shaped member that includes a base surface portion (111) and two wall portions (112) on both sides of the base surface portion (111) in a vehicle length direction and is open on its lower side in a vehicle height direction. The first member (121) includes a bottom wall portion (121g), a top wall portion (121t), and a side wall portion (121s). The bottom wall portion (121g) and the top wall portion (121t) are disposed in the same direction as the base surface portion (111). The top wall portion (121t) is overlapped on and joined to the base surface portion (111). The wall portions (112) and the bottom wall portion (121g) form the channel shape. The side wall portion (121s) is a wall that blocks a vehicle width direction between the bottom wall portion (121g) and the top wall portion (121t).