Abstract: There is provided a medical observation device that includes an imaging unit (200) that can image an environment inside an abdominal cavity of a living body, and the imaging unit includes a plurality of first pixels (302) that are aligned in a matrix, and an event detection unit (308) that detects that a luminance change amount of light incident on each of the plurality of first pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A brake light activation determining device has a processor configured to detect decrease in the speed of a vehicle ahead, which is located ahead of one's own vehicle, based on output information from a sensor that acquires information relating to the vehicle ahead, to discriminate whether the brake light of the vehicle ahead is activated based on an image representing the vehicle ahead, and to determine that the vehicle ahead is braking, when it has been discriminated that the brake light of the vehicle ahead has been activated, when the speed decrease timing at which reduction in the speed of the vehicle ahead has been detected and the activation timing at which brake light activation by the vehicle ahead was discriminated are synchronized for the vehicle ahead.

Abstract: To provide a coating liquid for release layer with which a release layer having a small variation in the performance difference can be stably formed, to provide a method for producing a thermal transfer sheet using this coating liquid for release layer, and to provide a thermal transfer sheet having stable releasability. A thermal transfer sheet having a substrate, a release layer provided on the substrate, and a transfer layer provided on the release layer, wherein the transfer layer is provided peelably from the release layer, and the release layer contains a silsesquioxane.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element that includes: a piezoelectric ceramic containing, as a main component thereof, a composite oxide having a perovskite crystal structure; a first electrode on a first face of the piezoelectric ceramic; and a second electrode on a second face of the piezoelectric ceramic opposite the first face. The piezoelectric ceramic mainly has a rhombohedral crystal structure. The crystal axis of the piezoelectric ceramic is {100} oriented, and the direction of the {100} orientation is orthogonal to the direction in which the first electrode and the second electrode face each other.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a storage battery and supplies a voltage from the battery to an electric load. The power supply apparatus includes first and second energizing paths connected in parallel between the battery and the load, a first switch making the first energizing path conductive and interrupting the first energizing path, and a second switch making the second energizing path conductive and interrupting the second energizing path. The power supply apparatus includes a first drive circuit that operates when a voltage is supplied and drives the first switch, a second drive circuit that operates when a voltage is supplied and drives the second switch into a conductive state in a case where the first switch is driven into a conductive state by the first drive circuit, first and second supply paths respectively supplying a voltage to the first and second drive circuits.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a sound receiving hole that guides a sound outside the housing into the housing, a substrate that is disposed in the housing and on which a microphone is mounted, an elastic member that is disposed so as to fill a gap between the substrate and an inner wall of the housing excluding a portion of the inner wall that is located around the sound receiving hole and so as to form a space between the substrate and the portion of the inner wall of the housing, which is located around the sound receiving hole, and a first member that is disposed so as to partially occupy the space.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes an inverter connected to a power supply unit via a positive electrode side electrical path and a negative electrode side electrical path and including switching elements, a rotary electric machine including windings connected to each other at a neutral point and inputting and outputting power from and to the power supply unit via the inverter, a connection path electrically connecting an intermediate point between the storage batteries of the power supply unit to the neutral point of the windings, and a device including a first terminal and a second terminal enabling energization between the power supply unit and the device. The first terminal is connected to the connection path, and the second terminal is connected to at least one of the positive electrode side electrical path and the negative electrode side electrical path.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a sound receiving hole that guides a sound outside the housing into the housing, a substrate that is disposed in the housing and on which a microphone is mounted, an elastic member that is disposed so as to fill a gap between the substrate and an inner wall of the housing excluding a portion of the inner wall that is located around the sound receiving hole and so as to form a space between the substrate and the portion of the inner wall of the housing, which is located around the sound receiving hole, and a first member that is disposed so as to partially occupy the space.

Abstract: An optical non-destructive inspection method includes: a heating laser emission step; an information acquisition step of acquiring measurement point information and heating laser information; a joint state determination step of determining the joint state on the basis of the measurement point information and the heating laser information; and a preliminary heating step, which is performed before the heating laser emission step, of causing thermal distortion in a first member by irradiating a measurement point, or a preliminary heating range that includes the measurement point, or a preliminary heating point set in the preliminary heating range, with preliminary heating laser adjusted to a thermal distortion generation intensity, which is a constant output intensity, and an irradiation time such that the thermal distortion is caused without destroying the first member.

Abstract: A conductive sheet has a structure in which a conductive adhesive layer laminated on one side of a base substrate and a light-shielding insulating layer laminated on another side of the base substrate. The base substrate has a structure in which the same kind of metal layers are formed on respective sides of a resin film. The light-shielding insulating layer of the conductive sheet has a surface having a surface resistivity of 1.0×108 ?/square or more, a gloss value of 80% or less, and an optical density of 1 or more.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a storage battery and supplies a voltage from the battery to an electric load. The power supply apparatus includes first and second energizing paths connected in parallel between the battery and the load, a first switch making the first energizing path conductive and interrupting the first energizing path, and a second switch making the second energizing path conductive and interrupting the second energizing path. The power supply apparatus includes a first drive circuit that operates when a voltage is supplied and drives the first switch, a second drive circuit that operates when a voltage is supplied and drives the second switch into a conductive state in a case where the first switch is driven into a conductive state by the first drive circuit, first and second supply paths respectively supplying a voltage to the first and second drive circuits.

Abstract: An optical non-destructive inspection method includes: a heating laser emission step; an information acquisition step of acquiring measurement point information and heating laser information; a joint state determination step of determining the joint state on the basis of the measurement point information and the heating laser information; and a preliminary heating step, which is performed before the heating laser emission step, of causing thermal distortion in a first member by irradiating a measurement point, or a preliminary heating range that includes the measurement point, or a preliminary heating point set in the preliminary heating range, with preliminary heating laser adjusted to a thermal distortion generation intensity, which is a constant output intensity, and an irradiation time such that the thermal distortion is caused without destroying the first member.

Abstract: A conductive sheet has a structure in which a conductive adhesive layer laminated on one side of a base substrate and a light-shielding insulating layer laminated on another side of the base substrate. The base substrate has a structure in which the same kind of metal layers are formed on respective sides of a resin film. The light-shielding insulating layer of the conductive sheet has a surface having a surface resistivity of 1.0×108 ?/square or more, a gloss value of 80% or less, and an optical density of 1 or more.

Abstract: A conductive sheet has a structure in which a conductive adhesive layer laminated on one side of a base substrate and a light-shielding insulating layer laminated on another side of the base substrate. The base substrate has a structure in which the same kind of metal layers are formed on respective sides of a resin film. The light-shielding insulating layer of the conductive sheet has a surface having a surface resistivity of 1.0×108 ?/square or more, a gloss value of 80% or less, and an optical density of 1 or more.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens group having a negative refractive power. The zoom lens varies the interval between the lens groups to perform zooming; shifts the second lens group in a direction substantially orthogonal to the optical axis to correct image blur occurring with optical system vibrations; and satisfies given conditions, enabling a compact size and a high zoom ratio to be achieved while improving imaging performance.

Abstract: A conductive sheet has a structure in which a conductive adhesive layer laminated on one side of a base substrate and a light-shielding insulating layer laminated on another side of the base substrate. The base substrate has a structure in which the same kind of metal layers are formed on respective sides of a resin film. The light-shielding insulating layer of the conductive sheet has a surface having a surface resistivity of 1.0×108 ?/square or more, a gloss value of 80% or less, and an optical density of 1 or more.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens group having a negative refractive power. The zoom lens varies the interval between the lens groups to perform zooming; shifts the second lens group in a direction substantially orthogonal to the optical axis to correct image blur occurring with optical system vibrations; and satisfies given conditions, enabling a compact size and a high zoom ratio to be achieved while improving imaging performance.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lens barrel, including: plural barrel cases having holding frame portions holding optical members, respectively, and coupled to one another in a predetermined direction; and plural abutment portions made to abut against one another in a state in which the plural barrel cases are coupled to the holding frame portions, respectively, wherein the abutment portion of at least one of the plural barrel cases coupled to one another is formed in a shape protruding to the abutment portion side of the other of the plural barrel cases coupled to one another.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having positive power and fixed during zooming operation; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; and a fifth lens group having positive power sequentially arranged from a side where an object is present, wherein the zooming operation is performed by moving at least the second lens group and the fourth lens group, the first lens group includes a reflective member that deflects an optical path, the fifth lens group includes a first lens partial group having negative power and a second lens partial group having positive power sequentially arranged from the object side, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions. 1.1<?5<1.56 ??(1) 0.

Abstract: During use of a secondary battery, a concentration change ratio estimating unit estimates a ratio of change in electrolytic solution concentration based on a charging/discharging current. According to the estimated ratio of change, a concentration estimated value calculating unit sequentially calculates an electrolytic solution concentration estimated value during the use of the secondary battery. Based on the estimated electrolytic solution concentration estimated value, a determining unit determines whether or not the electrolytic solution concentration is within a normal range. When the electrolytic solution concentration is outside the normal range, a charging/discharging condition modifying unit modifies a charging/discharging condition of the secondary battery to bring the electrolytic solution concentration back to the normal range, thus avoiding a tendency of overcharge or a tendency of overdischarge.