Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a conducting layer and an insulating layer that are disposed above a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of pillars that extend in a direction which crosses a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plate that is disposed between the plurality of pillars and extends in the same direction as the pillars. A surface of the plate, which faces the pillars, has convex portions and non-convex portions.

Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid crystal diffraction element that has small wavelength dependence of diffraction efficiency and diffracts light having the same wavelength at the same angle, an optical element including the liquid crystal diffraction element, and an image display unit, a head-mounted display, a beam steering, and a sensor including the liquid crystal diffraction element or the optical element.

Abstract: A cathode active material in the present disclosure has a monoclinic crystal structure that belongs to a space group C2/m, and has a composition shown as a composition formula: AxMn1-yBiyO2·zH2O (A: one or both of Na and K, 0<x<1, 0<y<1, 0<z<2).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus selects an excluded element set that is a subset of a tentative element set, from the tentative element set that is at least a part of a solution target element set constituting an optimization problem as a solution target, determines whether or not a tentative mathematical model that is a mathematical model in which an element set excluding the excluded element set from the tentative element set and a constraint condition are formulated, is feasible, in a case where the tentative mathematical model is determined to be infeasible, extracts a list of constraint conditions conflicting with each other from the tentative mathematical model, converts each constraint condition of the extracted list into a name of the constraint condition, and outputs the name of the constraint condition obtained by conversion.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a first process configured to process a substrate with a top plate disposed nearer an upper surface of the substrate, the substrate being held by a substrate holding unit of a first substrate holding apparatus, a second process configured to raise the substrate with the top plate disposed on the first substrate holding apparatus to make a space between the substrate holding unit and the substrate, a third process configured to insert a substrate conveyance apparatus for conveying the substrate with the top plate disposed on the first substrate holding apparatus to a second substrate holding apparatus into the space, and a fourth process configured to convey the substrate to the second substrate holding apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention includes a roller brush provided in a frame main body. The roller brush includes a rigid shaft, a pair of guide rollers, which are arranged concentrically with a shaft center line of the rigid shaft, and are mounted to shaft ends of the rigid shaft, and a cleaning brush cloth including cut piles raised from a cloth front surface of a foundation cloth. The cleaning brush cloth is helically wound around a shaft outer-peripheral surface of the rigid shaft with a cloth back surface of the foundation cloth being in contact with the shaft outer-peripheral surface, and is fixed to the rigid shaft.

Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat on which a seated occupant can spend time comfortably in an interior space (cabin) of a conveyance. A conveyance seat S1 includes a seat cushion 1, a rail device 50 (base member) that supports the seat cushion from a downward side, and connecting links 41 and 42 (connecting members) which are interposed between the seat cushion 1 and the rail device 50 in an up to down direction, and connect the seat cushion 1 and the rail device 50. Downward portions of the connecting links 41 and 42 are attached to the rail device 50 through a connecting bracket 60, or are attached to the rail device 50. Lower end portions of the connecting links 41 and 42 are disposed on a downward side as compared with an upper end portion of the rail device 50.

Abstract: A warehouse entry/exit management system 1 is a system that inspects and manages a working machine 10 at warehouse entry/exit of the working machine 10. The warehouse entry/exit management system 1 includes a server device 20 that manages information of the working machine 10 and a terminal 30 that is communicatively connected to the server device 20. The server device 20 includes a storage section that stores inspection report information that records an inspection item and a maintenance item of the working machine 10. The server device 20 identifies the inspection report information based on a request from the terminal 30 and transmits the identified inspection report information. The server device 20 manages an inspection result transmitted from the terminal 30. The terminal 30 includes a display section 32 that displays the inspection report information and accepts an input of the inspection result and a photographing section 33 that takes a photograph of an inspection portion.

Abstract: Provided are: an image display apparatus in which the utilization efficiency of a virtual image is high and the virtual image having high brightness uniformity can be displayed to be superimposed on a real image; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes: a display element; one or more cholesteric liquid crystal layers that reflect a display image of the display element; and a transparent reflection element that reflects the image reflected by the cholesteric liquid crystal layer to the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which at least one of the cholesteric liquid crystal layers has a structure having a region where a surface pitch changes in a thickness direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray variable diaphragm, an X-ray detector, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube irradiates X-rays. The X-ray variable diaphragm limits an irradiation region of the X-rays. The X-ray detector detects the X-rays that have passed through an object. The processing circuitry controls a movement of the X-ray tube, the X-ray detector, and an aperture of the X-ray variable diaphragm such that, when the irradiation region on the X-ray detector moves within an imaging range, a movement velocity of the irradiation region relative to the imaging range is maintained constant.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a temperature sensing unit provided on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate; an anode pad and a cathode pad electrically connected with the temperature sensing unit; a front surface electrode being set to a predetermined reference potential; and a bidirectional diode unit electrically connected in a serial bidirectional way between the cathode pad and the front surface electrode is provided. The bidirectional diode unit may be arranged between the anode pad and the cathode pad on the front surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.

Abstract: A change in switching time due to temperature change is suppressed. A switching circuitry is provided with a resistance component having opposite characteristics to temperature dependence of a gate current of a power transistor which is switching-controlled by the switching circuitry, and a change in a gate current due to the temperature change is suppressed by a change in the above-described resistance component due to the temperature change.

Abstract: An adhesive of the present invention satisfies the following requirements: the turbidity is 5.0 or less; the dissolution rate of the adhesive is 10% or more and 70% or less; the logarithmic viscosity number of a dissolved component of an adhesive solution is 0.5 dL/g or more and less than 2.5 dL/g; A1735 cm?1/A3025 cm?1 of the dissolved component of the adhesive solution is 0.20 or more and 0.80 or less; and the logarithmic viscosity number of the adhesive is greater than that of the dissolved component of the adhesive solution.

Abstract: A system for co-owning a watercraft having a unique watercraft ID includes a computer configured or programmed to obtain and store information regarding co-owning the watercraft, and a communication module having a unique communication module ID. The communication module is attachable to the watercraft and operable to communicate with the computer and store information regarding the watercraft. The computer is configured or programmed to store the watercraft ID and the communication module ID in association with each other, to communicate with communication terminals used by co-owners of the watercraft, and provide one of the communication terminals with the information regarding the watercraft received from the communication module in response to a request from the one of the communication terminals.

Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a first expander lens that expands beams emitted from a plurality of laser diodes in a main scanning direction. The beams emitted from the plurality of laser diodes are incident on the first expander lens, the first expander lens being a single lens. The plurality of laser diodes are disposed with optical paths of the beams from the plurality of light sources to a polygon mirror (rotary polygon mirror) overlapping each other in the main scanning direction when viewed from a direction along a rotary shaft of the polygon mirror.

Abstract: Provide are an optical element that can improve a utilization efficiency of light while increasing an optical path length, an image display unit, and a head-mounted display. The optical element includes, in the following order: a first absorptive linearly polarizing plate; a first reflective linearly polarizing plate; a first retardation plate; a partially reflecting mirror; a second retardation plate; and a second reflective linearly polarizing plate, in which a turning direction of circularly polarized light that is reflected from the first reflective linearly polarizing plate in a case where light transmits through the first retardation plate and is incident into the first reflective linearly polarizing plate is opposite to a turning direction of circularly polarized light that is reflected from the second reflective linearly polarizing plate in a case where light transmits through the second retardation plate and is incident into the second reflective linearly polarizing plate.

Abstract: An object is to provide a light deflection device and an optical device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The light deflection device includes: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one in-plane direction to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; a light collecting element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element; and an angle increasing optical element consisting of a diffraction element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection of the light deflection element toward an outer side.

Abstract: Voice recognition performance is improved. A voice signal processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention acquires an output value indicating whether to perform voice enhancement on an observation signal in which a voice or noise of another speaker overlaps a voice of a target speaker, or a degree of necessity of performing the voice enhancement. The ratio between the observation signal and the enhancement signal generated by the voice enhancement is decided under a predetermined condition using the acquired output value, and the input signal used for the voice recognition is determined.

Abstract: Provided are: a light guide element in which the occurrence of multiple images can be suppressed and a wide viewing angle can be obtained; and an image display apparatus including this light guide element.