Abstract: An output control unit configured to set an amplitude of a signal output to a signal line to be smaller as compared with a case where an amplification unit outputs a signal on the basis of a potential of the input node or put the amplification unit into a non-operating state is provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion apparatus which includes a semiconductor substrate, signal output units disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion layers disposed on a surface of the substrate, and an upper electrode in this order. The photoelectric conversion apparatus further includes insulation layers which are disposed between the plurality of photoelectric conversion layers and which have lines connected to power supply units. The upper electrode and the lines are electrically connected to each other on side surfaces of the insulation layers.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second faces. The sensor includes a plurality of pixel groups each including pixels, each pixel having a photoelectric converter and a wiring pattern, the converter including a region whose major carriers are the same with charges to be accumulated in the photoelectric converter. The sensor also includes a microlenses which are located so that one microlens is arranged for each pixel group. The wiring patterns are located at a side of the first face, and the plurality of microlenses are located at a side of the second face. Light-incidence faces of the regions of the photoelectric converters of each pixel group are arranged along the second face such that the light-incidence faces are apart from each other in a direction along the second face.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a data accumulation determination program is disclosed. A first cost and a second cost are calculated from a process content pertinent to a process for acquiring a final result by a plurality of processes. The process content includes a plurality of process contents respective to a plurality sets of output data generated in paths until the final result is acquired by the plurality of processes from subject data. The first cost corresponds to a cost for accumulating the output data in a repository. The second cost corresponds to a cost for generating the output data that are not accumulated in the repository. An accumulation necessity is determined for each of the plurality of sets of the output data based on the first cost and the second cost.

Abstract: A pixel electrode includes a first electrode, a second electrode arranged so as to face the first electrode in a first direction, and a third electrode. A counter electrode is provided in an upper portion of the pixel electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer is arranged so as to be sandwiched by the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. A length of the third electrode in a predetermined direction is shorter than a length of the first electrode and a length of the second electrode.

Abstract: A time at which a potential magnitude relationship between a first electrode and a second electrode is changed from a first relationship to a second relationship in a part of the plurality of pixels and a time at which a potential magnitude relationship between the first electrode and the second electrode is changed from the second relationship to the first relationship in the other part of the plurality of pixels overlap each other.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a pixel which includes a photoelectric conversion unit, an amplifier transistor that outputs a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, and a reset transistor that supplies a reset voltage to the amplifier transistor. The photoelectric conversion unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected to the amplifier transistor, a photoelectric conversion layer, and an insulating layer disposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode. The pixel includes a first capacitor electrically connected to the second electrode. The capacitance value of the first capacitor, the capacitance value of a second capacitor between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a voltage supplied to the pixel satisfy a certain relationship.

Abstract: A mechanical seal (100) that seals an annular gap between a rotating shaft (200) and a housing (300) includes: a rotating ring (110) which rotates with the rotating shaft (200); a stationary ring (120) which is fixed to the housing (300); and a floating ring (130) which is provided between the rotating ring (110) and the stationary ring (120) in an axial direction of the rotating shaft (200) and which has a sliding portion (131) that slides on the rotating ring (110). The mechanical seal (100) seals a sealed fluid via the sliding portion (131) of the floating ring (130) that slides on a sliding portion (111) of the rotating ring (110), and the sliding portion (131) has a plurality of carbon fibers and silicon carbide provided between the plurality of carbon fibers.

Abstract: A rotary joint for maintaining a cryogenic supplying refrigerant comprises a vacuum use cylindrical shaft supported in rotatable condition, a rotary seal ring fitted to an outer circumferential face with a space, a stationary seal ring provided at both sides of the respective rotary seal rings, a resilient bellows to press the stationary ring resiliently to the rotary seal ring side, a spaced fluid passage formed between the respective resilient bellows, a second fluid passage communicating with the spaced fluid passage, a connecting fluid passage communicating with the second fluid passage, a first pipe communicating through the spaced fluid passage, a connecting cover having a suction bore for vacuumizing and a magnetic fluid seal device having a projection constituted as multiple gaps corresponding to a pressure of the vacuumizing.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged thereon and a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes an amplification transistor configured to output a signal based on charge generated in the semiconductor layer. The charge generated in the semiconductor layer is transferred in a first direction parallel to a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A mechanical seal (100) includes: a rotating ring (110); a stationary ring (120); a floating ring having an annular sliding portion (131) in which a sliding surface (131a) slides on the rotating ring (120), and a pressed portion (132) in which a pressed surface (132a) makes contact with the stationary ring (120), the floating ring sealing a sealed fluid via the sliding surface (131a) of the sliding portion (131) and the pressed surface (132a) of the pressed portion (132), wherein in the floating ring (130), a size of an area of an end surface in the axial direction on a fluid side L which is a surface that receives fluid pressure of the sealed fluid in a direction toward a side of the rotating ring (110), and a size of an area of an end surface in the axial direction on the fluid side L differ from each other.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a pixel which includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a reset transistor, and an amplifier transistor that outputs a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and an insulating layer disposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode. The photoelectric conversion unit alternately performs an accumulation operation and a discharge operation in accordance with the voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. In a period between two consecutive discharge operations among a plurality of discharge operations, a reset operation in which the reset transistor resets the voltage on the second electrode is performed a plurality of times.

Abstract: A magnetic air conditioner includes heat generation disks of a hollow shape each having a magneto-caloric material and a thermal switch, and magnetic field application disks of a hollow shape each having a magnetic field application unit that applies a magnetic field to the magneto-caloric material, the heat generation disks and the magnetic field application disks being alternately stacked. At least either of the heat generation disks and the magnetic field application disks is made to relatively rotate so as to transport heat in a direction intersecting the rotating direction. The magnetic air conditioner also includes an outer-rotor motor that causes at least one of the heat generation disks and the magnetic field application disks to rotate, and a clutch that transmits a driving force collectively to the plurality of heat generation disks or to the plurality of magnetic field application disks, or separately.

Abstract: A mechanical seal device 1 comprises a seal case 30 attached to the device main body, a rotary seal ring 60 attached to the rotary shaft 100, a stationary seal ring 50 arranged in an axial direction opposing to the rotary seal ring 60, and a bellows 40 attached extendably in the axial direction between the stationary seal ring 50 and the seal case 30. A static pressure fluid supplying hole 56, supplying a static pressure fluid to a static pressure fluid chamber C arranged at an inner circumferential side of the bellows, is formed on the seal case 30. A communication hole, guiding the static pressure fluid of the static pressure fluid chamber C to sealing surfaces between the stationary seal ring 50 and the rotary seal ring 60 is formed on the stationary seal ring 50. The sealed fluid is arranged at an outer circumferential side of the bellows 40.

Abstract: Each of slave nodes acquires data distribution information that is data distribution for each portion of processing target data that is subjected to distributed processing performed by each of the plurality of nodes. Then, each of the slave nodes monitors a process state of the distributed processing with respect to divided data obtained by dividing processing target data. Thereafter, each of the slave nodes that performs the monitoring changes, on the basis of the process state of the distributed processing and the data distribution information, the processing order of the divided data that is the processing target.

Abstract: A bellows type mechanical seal including a sealing ring and a mating ring, wherein either one of the sealing ring or the mating ring is retained in a housing and the other one is mounted on a shaft and wherein the sealing ring is supported by a bellows and the bellows has a retainer welded thereto on one of the sides for retaining the sealing ring and a collar welded on the other side to form a bellows assembly, is characterized in that the entire surface of the bellows assembly is covered by an erosion-resistant film formed by the physical vapor deposition, such as ion-plating.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a pixel which includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a reset transistor, and an amplifier transistor that outputs a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and an insulating layer disposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode. The photoelectric conversion unit alternately performs an accumulation operation and a discharge operation in accordance with the voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. In a period between two consecutive discharge operations among a plurality of discharge operations, a reset operation in which the reset transistor resets the voltage on the second electrode is performed a plurality of times.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a first control unit performs current-feedback control, and a second control unit performs torque-feedback control. The torque-feedback control samples values of each output current at phases. The sampled values of each output current at the phases are referred to as phase-related sampled values of the corresponding output current. The apparatus causes the second control unit to sample values of each output current at the predetermined phases while the first control unit is performing the current-feedback control when switching the current-feedback control to the torque-feedback control. The second control unit uses the values of each output current sampled by the first control unit as the phase-related sampled values of the corresponding output current to start the torque-feedback control when the current-feedback control is switched to the torque-feedback control.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to improve the production efficiency in sealing a thin film integrated circuit and to prevent the damage and break. Further, it is another object of the invention to prevent a thin film integrated circuit from being damaged in shipment and to make it easier to handle the thin film integrated circuit. The invention provides a laminating system in which rollers are used for supplying a substrate for sealing, receiving IC chips, separating, and sealing. The separation, sealing, and reception of a plurality of thin film integrated circuits can be carried out continuously by rotating the rollers; thus, the production efficiency can be extremely improved. Further, the thin film integrated circuits can be easily sealed since a pair of rollers opposite to each other is used.

Abstract: A specification unit specifies a cycle in which data to be processed by queries is distributed, the queries being arranged at a node and movable between the nodes and performing a processing when the data matches with a set condition. An instruction unit instructs a node as a movement source to move the queries during a period when the data to be processed by the queries to be moved is not distributed on the basis of the specified cycle.