Abstract: A connector device has a constitution in a connector in which a plurality of terminals protrude into a connector opening. The plurality of terminals are respectively provided with a plurality of switches that have independent states of supplying power to the terminals and are switchable in between. A plurality of conductor plates are provided in the connector opening in an attachable and detachable state, and are each configured to electrically connect at least two of the plurality of terminals. The plurality of conductor plates are coupled by an insulating member.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric junction box for vehicle. The electric junction box includes a housing including a connector housing configured to be fitted to a counterpart connector, a plurality of connector terminals being provided in the connector housing, a joint busbar accommodated in the housing, the joint busbar integrally including a plurality of terminals configured to be respectively connected to ground terminals of the counterpart connector, the plurality of terminals being provided as a part of the plurality of connector terminals, and a conductive member supported by the housing and configured to be grounded to a vehicle body. The joint busbar includes a plate-shaped connection piece connected to the conductive member. The conductive member includes an elastic connection portion that is in elastic contact with the connection piece.

Abstract: A disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a flexible printed circuit board, an electronic component, and a wall. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected to the magnetic head. The electronic component is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board. The wall has rigidity higher than the flexible printed circuit board and is attached to the flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board with a first through hole includes a first surface facing the electronic component with a gap, and a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the wall, the first through hole being open to the first surface and the second surface to communicate with the gap. The wall is provided with a second through hole penetrating the wall to communicate with the first through hole.

Abstract: In a moving-object power supply system, a control unit selects, as a power transmission segment, one of segments included in at least one power transmission section. The control unit supplies, through a power supply circuit, power to the power transmission segment to thereby generate a magnetic field through a power transmission coil of the power transmission segment. The control unit determines, based on an ascertained first electrical characteristic of the power transmission segment and an ascertained second electrical characteristic of at least one power non-transmission segment, whether there is a malfunction in each of the power transmission segment and the at least one power non-transmission segment.

Abstract: An electrical device body connectable to a battery pack, includes a drive part, and a terminal part. The terminal part having a positive input terminal electrically connected to the drive part, a negative input terminal electrically connected to the drive part, and a short circuit element having a first terminal part, a second terminal part, and a connection part connecting the first terminal part and the second terminal part, wherein the positive input terminal and the negative input terminal are disposed on an upper side of the terminal part and the short circuit element is disposed on a lower side of the terminal part in an upper-lower direction, the positive input terminal and the negative input terminal being apart from each other in a left-right direction crossing the upper-lower direction.

Abstract: A polishing composition eliminating protrusions around a laser mark in wafer polishing processes, the manufacturing method therefor and a polishing method using the composition. The polishing composition including silica particles and water, wherein: the composition includes a tetraalkylammonium ion such that the mass ratio of the ion to SiO2 of the silica particles is 0.400 to 1.500:1, and the mass ratio of SiO2 dissolved in the polishing composition to SiO2 is 0.100 to 1.500:1; the tetraalkylammonium ion is derived from a compound selected from the group made of an alkali silicate, a hydroxide, a carbonate, a sulfate, and a halide while the ion is contained in the polishing composition in 0.2% by mass to 8.0% by mass; and the dissolved SiO2 is derived from a tetraalkylammonium silicate, a potassium silicate, a sodium silicate, or a mixture of any of these.

Abstract: A battery pack houses first and second cell units that are composed of a plurality of cells, and has a positive electrode power source terminal and a negative electrode power source terminal. This battery pack is provided with a series connector capable of connecting, in series, the first and second cell units and a parallel connector capable of connecting, in parallel, the first and second cell units, and is capable of switching between a parallel connection voltage and a series connection voltage. In the case of attachment to the high voltage electrical device body, the series connector becomes conductive and the parallel connector pair is cut off by the action of the series/parallel switching terminal. In the case of attachment to a low voltage electrical device body, the state is returned to an initial state, the series connector is cut off, and the parallel connector pair becomes conductive.

Abstract: In order that the output voltage of a battery pack can be switched and the battery pack can be shared among different voltage electric appliances, this battery pack has a switching mechanism that switches outputting a low voltage by parallel connection of two cell units or outputting a high voltage by series connection of the two cell units, said two cell units each being composed of a plurality of cells connected in series, wherein the switching mechanism is configured from a change-over switch having an operation lever (452). The change-over switch is embedded in a battery pack (400), and an operator is able to manually switch outputting 18 V by setting the operation lever (452) at a first position or outputting 36 V by setting the operation lever (452) at a second position.

Abstract: The present invention achieves an electric device system having: a low/intermediate-voltage battery pack 201 capable of outputting a low voltage (18 V) or an intermediate voltage (36 V); an intermediate/high-voltage battery pack 301 capable of outputting the intermediate voltage or a high voltage (72 V); a low-voltage device main body 1 configured to be connected to the low/intermediate-voltage battery pack and supplied with the low voltage; an intermediate-voltage device main body 31 configured to be connected to the low/intermediate-voltage battery pack and the intermediate/high-voltage battery pack and supplied with the intermediate voltage; and a high-voltage device main body 61 configured to be connected to the intermediate/high-voltage battery pack and supplied with the high voltage.

Abstract: Provided is a method that is for polishing a silicon wafer by a polishing device using a carrier holding the silicon wafer, and that can reduce wear on the carrier. In this polishing method, a polishing liquid used in the polishing device contains 0.1-5 mass %, in terms of the concentration of silica, silica particles comprising: silica particles (A) having an average primary particle size of 4-30 nm as measured by BET, and having an (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.8, where X2 (nm) represents an average particle size along the major axis thereof as calculated from a perspective projection image obtained using an electron beam, and X1 (nm) represents the average primary particle size as measured by BET; and silica particles (B) having an average primary particle size of more than 30 nm but not more than 50 nm as measured by BET, and having a (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.

Abstract: A state prediction system includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a current state value indicating a current state of a targeted individual in a group. The controller is configured to acquire a state propagation amount indicating a state amount propagated from another person in the group to the targeted individual by communication between the targeted individual and the other person. The controller is configured to predict a future state value indicating a future state of the targeted individual from the acquired current state value of the targeted individual and the acquired state propagation amount.

Abstract: Provided is a method that is for polishing a silicon wafer by a polishing device using a carrier holding the silicon wafer, and that can reduce wear on the carrier. In this polishing method, a polishing liquid used in the polishing device contains 0.1-5 mass %, in terms of the concentration of silica, silica particles comprising: silica particles (A) having an average primary particle size of 4-30 nm as measured by BET, and having an (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.8, where X2 (nm) represents an average particle size along the major axis thereof as calculated from a perspective projection image obtained using an electron beam, and X1 (nm) represents the average primary particle size as measured by BET; and silica particles (B) having an average primary particle size of more than 30 nm but not more than 50 nm as measured by BET, and having a (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.

Abstract: A disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a flexible printed circuit board, an electronic component, and a wall. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected to the magnetic head. The electronic component is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board. The wall has rigidity higher than the flexible printed circuit board and is attached to the flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board with a first through hole includes a first surface facing the electronic component with a gap, and a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the wall, the first through hole being open to the first surface and the second surface to communicate with the gap. The wall is provided with a second through hole penetrating the wall to communicate with the first through hole.

Abstract: An electrical circuit board on which an electronic component forming an electronic control unit disposed between an upstream power supply and a downstream power supply trunk line is mounted. The electrical circuit board includes a first circuit pattern that forms an electrical circuit corresponding to a single power supply voltage of the upstream power supply, a second circuit pattern that forms an electrical circuit corresponding to a plurality of power supply voltages of the upstream power supply, a single power supply connection portion corresponding to connection with an external circuit that supplies the upstream power supply, and an inter-board connection portion corresponding to inter-board connection with another circuit board that supplies the upstream power supply.

Abstract: A control device includes a standard substrate on which a first input/output circuit and a control circuit configured to control the first input/output circuit are mounted, and a power supply substrate on which a connection portion and a power supply circuit are mounted. The first input/output circuit is at least one of an input circuit or an output circuit for a standard electrical equipment. The connection portion is configured to be connected to a power supply line for supplying electric power. The power supply circuit is configured to generate electric power for operating the standard substrate from the electric power supplied from the power supply line.

Abstract: A current detecting device includes a sense resistor through which a sense current corresponding to a consumption current supplied to a load flows, and an A/D converter configured to perform A/D conversion on a voltage drop generated by the sense current flowing through the sense resistor to detect the consumption current. A resistance value of the sense resistor is variably provided.

Abstract: A joint connector includes a circuit board that is located behind a back wall of the connector housing through a component space, an independent male terminal jointed to the circuit board, and a joint terminal. The joint terminal includes a bridge portion fixed to the connector housing, a plurality of male terminal portions conducted to each other and protruding into a fitting space of the connector housing to serve as connector terminals, and one contact conduction piece extending to a back of the back wall of the connector housing and elastically brought into conductive contact with one of the independent male terminals via a spring portion.

Abstract: In the work device that has a self-holding circuit (61) maintaining power supply from a power supply circuit (12) by output from a microcomputer (40) and has a structure in which stopping output to the self-holding circuit (61) causes interruption of power supply from the power supply circuit (12) to the microcomputer (40), the firmware of the microcomputer (40) is made to be rewritable and a power holding unit (condenser C1) for temporarily continuing power supply to the microcomputer (40) is provided, thereby realizing a so-called “off-delay timer function” for restarting the microcomputer (40). This configuration enables maintenance of power to the microcomputer (40) after update of the firmware even in a work device that cannot be restarted once power has been turned off unless trigger operation is performed, thereby enabling automatic restart of the microcomputer 40 after resetting is enabled.

Abstract: A polishing composition eliminating protrusions around a laser mark in wafer polishing processes, the manufacturing method therefor and a polishing method using the composition. The polishing composition including silica particles and water, wherein: the composition includes a tetraalkylammonium ion such that the mass ratio of the ion to SiO2 of the silica particles is 0.400 to 1.500:1, and the mass ratio of SiO2 dissolved in the polishing composition to SiO2 is 0.100 to 1.500:1; the tetraalkylammonium ion is derived from a compound selected from the group made of an alkali silicate, a hydroxide, a carbonate, a sulfate, and a halide while the ion is contained in the polishing composition in 0.2% by mass to 8.0% by mass; and the dissolved SiO2 is derived from a tetraalkylammonium silicate, a potassium silicate, a sodium silicate, or a mixture of any of these.

Abstract: A vehicle circuit body is provided. The vehicle circuit body includes a bent portion which is formed by bending a plurality of conductor plates with a convex shape toward one side of a lamination direction in which the plurality of conductor plates are laminated, the plurality of conductor plates being laminated such that adjacent conductor plates are spaced apart from each other; and a rigid portion where the plurality of conductor plates extending from the bent portion are joined together to form a single layer. The bent portion is arranged at a position which faces an inner corner or outer corner of a concave-convex shape formed on a body panel.