Abstract: Provided is an electrode substrate that has a transparent conductive layer, a current-collecting metal layer that is provided on the transparent conductive layer, and an insulating layer that covers the current-collecting metal layer on a base plate, wherein, when a thermal expansion coefficient of the base plate is defined as ?, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the insulating layer is defined as ?, ?>? is satisfied, and in which the thickness of the transparent conductive layer is 0.05 to 5 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention is a garnet-type single crystal represented by the following general formula: (Tb3-xScx) (Sc2-yAly)Al3O12-z ??(1) (wherein, x satisfies 0<x<0.1).

Abstract: Provided is a printed wiring board capable of inhibiting a reinforcing plate from peeling off even when a bending radius is small. The printed wiring board includes a wiring board main body which includes a bending subject portion which is to be bent about a bending line, and a reinforcing plate which is attached to the wiring board main body, the reinforcing plate includes first and second reinforcing portions which are attached to first and second adjacent portions which are adjacent to the bending subject portion in the wiring board main body, and a connecting portion which is attached to the bending subject portion and integrally connects the first reinforcing portion with the second reinforcing portion, and an opening is formed in the connecting portion.

Abstract: Provided is a printed wiring board capable of inhibiting a reinforcing plate from peeling off even when a bending radius is small. The printed wiring board includes a wiring board main body, and a reinforcing plate attached to the wiring board main body, the reinforcing plate includes first and second reinforcing portions which are arranged to be mutually spaced apart, and a connecting portion which integrally connects the first reinforcing portion with the second reinforcing portion, and the connecting portion includes a first portion which has a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first reinforcing portion and smaller than a cross-sectional area of the second reinforcing portion, and a second portion of which a cross-sectional area increases along a direction from the first portion to at least one of the first reinforcing portion and the second reinforcing portion.

Abstract: An optical modulation system has a function to compensate an operating point drift, which occurs in an MZ optical modulator, by carrying out feedback control with use of a low frequency signal. A judgment section judges stability of feedback control. In a case where the feedback control is determined to be unstable, a low frequency signal generating section switches a frequency of the low frequency signal from a first frequency to a second frequency.

Abstract: A cutting device for cutting an optical fiber running in a first direction is comprised of a supporting piece having a free end and a fixed end and having resilience; a cutting blade supported by the supporting piece and so disposed as to come in contact with the optical fiber to make a right angle with the optical fiber at a point of the contact; and a driving device configured to press the supporting piece in a second direction in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction being not intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: A device for applying electric discharge on an optical fiber by electrodes is comprised of a first driving mechanism for controllably driving the electrodes in a first direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the optical fiber; and a second driving mechanism for controllably and synchronously driving the electrodes in a second direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the optical fiber but not identical to the first direction.

Abstract: A device for setting an optical fiber in place is comprised of: a pedestal capable of supporting the optical fiber; a clamper having the optical fiber gripped between the clamper and the pedestal; and a pressure device having a first elastic member bearing a first load area, a second elastic member bearing a second load area distinct from the first load area, and a limiter device limiting a deformation range of the second elastic member, the pressure device being so linked with the clamper as to, in the deformation range, cause the second elastic member to pressurize the clamper, and, after reaching a limit of the deformation range, cause the first elastic member to pressurize the clamper.

Abstract: There is provided a planar optical waveguide element including a core, the core including first and second portions and a gap portion that is positioned in a center of a width direction of the core between the first and second portions so as to extend in a light waveguide direction. The gap portion has a lower refractive index than that of the first and second portions, and a single mode propagated in the waveguide element has a span crossing the first and second portions.

Abstract: The present invention is a production method of an electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell, comprising: a first step of providing current collector wiring on an electrically conductive substrate; and a second step of producing an electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell by sequentially forming a plurality of thermoplastic wiring protective layers on the current collector wiring so that softening points of the thermoplastic wiring protective layers become lower as the thermoplastic wiring protective layers move away from the current collector wiring, and by heat-treating the second and subsequent thermoplastic wiring protective layers from the current collector wiring at a heat treatment temperature lower than a softening point of the thermoplastic wiring protective layer formed immediately prior thereto.

Abstract: A laminated wiring board, includes: a first substrate in which a conductor circuit is formed on one surface of an insulating layer and an adhesive layer is formed on an other surface of the insulating layer, and conductors are formed in via holes that pass through the insulating layer and the adhesive layer so that the conductor circuit is partially exposed therefrom; an electronic component electrically connected to the conductor circuit by allowing electrodes of the electronic component to be connected to the conductors; an embedding member arranged around the electronic components so that the electronic component is embedded therein; and a second substrate having an adhesive layer laminated to face the adhesive layer of the first substrate and sandwich the electronic component and the embedding member, wherein each of the electrodes of the electronic component is continuous with the conductor circuit through two or more of the conductors.

Abstract: This optical fiber manufacturing method includes: forming a bare optical fiber by drawing an optical fiber preform; forming an intermediate optical fiber by providing a coating layer, which is formed of resin, on the outer periphery of the bare optical fiber; performing primary curing of the coating layer which forms the intermediate optical fiber; pressing the outer periphery of the intermediate optical fiber; and performing secondary curing of the pressed coating layer of the intermediate optical fiber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest position adjusting device provided with a distance measuring device and drive motor units. The distance measuring device is provided with a plurality of detection electrodes and a detection circuit including a plurality of capacitance detection circuits and a computation circuit. The computation circuit uses capacitance values, position information from the detection electrodes, and a high-degree function with a degree of at least 3 to compute a high-degree curve in a two-dimensional coordinate system with capacitance on the y-axis and detection-electrode position on the x-axis. The computation circuit computes the highest-degree coefficient of the high-degree curve and determines the distance between a head and a front part of a headrest on the basis of the computed highest-degree coefficient. On the basis of the measurement result, the headrest position adjusting device moves the front part of the headrest towards the front or back of a vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention is an automotive wire provided with a conductor including at least one solid wire composed of a core and a metal film that covers the surface of the core, and an insulator that covers the conductor, wherein the core is composed of carbon steel, and the metal film has a thickness of 12.4 ?m to 29.6 ?m.

Abstract: A muffle tube inspection method inspects a muffle tube used for dehydrating and sintering a silica glass-based optical fiber preform, the muffle tube includes a sintering furnace provided with a furnace body covering a heater disposed around a periphery of the muffle tube. The method detects a crack generated at the muffle tube by measuring a pressure inside the furnace body while varying a pressure inside the muffle tube.

Abstract: A multi-layer circuit board having a connector portion of an inner layer substrate being exposed, the multi-layer circuit board comprising: an inner layer substrate in which an inner layer circuit is formed, the inner layer circuit including the connector portion; and an outer layer substrate having an outer layer circuit formed on an insulating layer and having a region corresponding to the connector portion peeled off, an inner layer circuit side of the inner layer substrate and an insulating layer side of the outer layer substrate being adhered to one another via an adhesive layer so as to face one another, and a conductor layer other than the connector portion of the inner layer circuit being adhered to the outer layer substrate directly by the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board including: a base substrate; a pad formed on one surface side of the base substrate; and a ground plane layer formed on the other surface side of the base substrate, the ground plane layer including a ground-removed portion, the ground-removed portion being formed at a position facing the pad via the base substrate so as to be of similar shape to the pad and have an outer shape extended 100±50 ?m outwardly from an outer shape of the pad.

Abstract: A laser device that can prevent abnormal oscillations in the amplifier is provided. The laser device includes: a seed light source (10) that outputs seed light; a pumping light source (20); an amplification optical fiber (30) as the amplifier that amplifies the seed light with an element pumped by the pumping light source (20); a monitor unit (50) that is provided between the seed light source (10) and the amplification optical fiber (30), and monitors the intensity of the light output from the amplification optical fiber (30); and a light source controller (61) that controls the seed light source (10). In this laser device, when the light input to the monitor unit (50) has an intensity equal to or higher than a predetermined intensity while the seed light is not input to the amplification optical fiber (30), the light source controller (61) forces to output the seed light from the seed light source (10).

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an optical fiber base material by an inside mounting method, including: a step of rotating and heating a glass tube fixed at two positions and supplying a gas into a through-hole of the glass tube, wherein in the step, the glass tube is warped so that an axis between respective fixed portions of the glass tube has a shape in which a catenary curve is reversed in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An optical fiber core having a primary layer and a secondary layer, which are laminated on a bare optical fiber. The primary layer is formed by curing an ultraviolet-curable resin composition containing a first silane coupling agent, which can be incorporated into a resin skeleton, and a second silane coupling agent, which cannot be incorporated into a resin skeleton. The first silane coupling agent contains a compound having a methoxy group, and the second silane coupling agent contains a compound having an ethoxy group.