Abstract: A camshaft is equipped with an inner shaft which is arranged rotatably inside a cylindrical outer shaft. Further, in the inner shaft, a plurality of pin holes extend along diametrical directions thereof, and are disposed at intervals along the axial direction of the inner shaft. The directions in which adjacent pin holes extend are arranged at angles obtained by dividing 360 degrees by the number of cylinders. The inner shaft and the inner cams are fixed in a state in which large diameter portions of pins, each of which is provided with a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, are press-fitted through insertion holes of the inner cams and notches of the outer shaft, and are press-fitted into the pin holes.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate; a trench formed within the substrate; a gate insulating film formed conformally along a portion of a surface of the trench; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film and filling a portion of the trench; a capping film formed on the gate electrode and filling the trench; and an air gap formed between the capping film and the gate insulating film.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an upper interlayer insulating layer disposed on a substrate. A first electrode spaced apart from the upper interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. A contact structure penetrating the upper interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. An upper support layer having a first portion covering an upper surface of the upper interlayer insulating layer, to surround an upper side surface of the contact structure, and a second portion extending in a horizontal direction from the first portion and surrounding an upper side surface of the first electrode, is disposed. A dielectric conformally covering the first electrode and a second electrode on the dielectric are disposed.

Abstract: A piezoelectric fan is provided that can effectively supply airflow to a subject to be cooled. The piezoelectric fan includes an air blower having a free end and a fixed end, and a planar piezoelectric element fixed to the air blower. The piezoelectric element causes vibration of the free end of the air blower. The air blower includes a first plate to which the piezoelectric element is fixed, and a second plate and a third plate which are orthogonal to the first plate and parallel to each other. In this structure, the free end of the air blower is H-shaped. The H-shaped blowing end of the air blower effectively prevents lateral airflow and improves the directivity of airflow.

Abstract: A fuel cell system sets the larger one of a stack request compressor supply flow rate calculated based on a request of a fuel cell stack and a system request compressor supply flow rate calculated based on a request by the fuel cell system as a target compressor supply flow rate and controls a compressor according to the target compressor supply flow rate. The fuel cell system also controls a bypass valve based on a stack supply flow rate and a target stack supply flow rate to be supplied to the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell system fixes the bypass valve or limits the drive of the bypass valve when the system request compressor supply flow rate is set as the target compressor supply flow rate and the stack supply flow rate becomes smaller than the target stack supply flow rate.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an air supplier, an air passage connected to the fuel cell, air supplied from the air supplier flowing in the air passage, a bleed passage branched off from the air passage on a side upstream of the fuel cell and joining the air passage on a side downstream of the fuel cell, part of the air supplied by the air supplier flowing in the bleed passage in such a manner as to circumvent the fuel cell, a bleed valve provided in the bleed passage, the bleed valve regulating the amount of air flowing in the bleed passage, an air supplier control unit which controls the air supplier to supply a predetermined amount of air, a wetness reduction determination unit which determines whether or not it is necessary to reduce a degree of wetness of the fuel cell, and a bleed amount control unit which reduces an opening of the bleed valve when the degree of wetness of the fuel cell needs to be reduced.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a supply unit configured to supply cathode gas to a fuel cell, a bypass valve configured to bypass the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell by the supply unit, a detection unit configured to detect a state of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell without being bypassed by the bypass valve, a pressure adjusting unit configured to adjust a pressure of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell, a calculation unit configured to calculate a target flow rate and a target pressure of the cathode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell according to an operating state of the fuel cell, an operating state control unit configured to control an operation amount of at least one of the pressure adjusting unit and the supply unit on the basis of a flow rate and the pressure of the cathode gas detected by the detection unit and the target flow rate and the target pressure calculated by the calculation unit, a bypass valve control unit configured to open and close the bypass valv

Abstract: An inner cam has a substantially C-shaped cross section, an arcuately shaped inner circumferential surface of which is ground with high precision by such a honing method. The inner circumferential surface has a discontinuous portion. The honing method includes a fixing step and a grinding step. A plurality of inner cams, in which openings are provided between both ends thereof in the circumferential direction, are stacked, and the arcuately shaped inner circumferential surfaces thereof are subjected to grinding. In the fixing step, the relative positions of the plurality of inner cams are fixed such that a resultant force against the inner cams arranged on both end sides in the stacking direction, and a resultant force against the inner cams arranged on a central side in the stacking direction are opposed to each other mutually at a center location of the stacking direction.

Abstract: A camshaft is equipped with an inner shaft which is arranged rotatably inside a cylindrical outer shaft. Further, in the inner shaft, a plurality of pin holes extend along diametrical directions thereof, and are disposed at intervals along the axial direction of the inner shaft. The directions in which adjacent pin holes extend are arranged at angles obtained by dividing 360 degrees by the number of cylinders. The inner shaft and the inner cams are fixed in a state in which large diameter portions of pins, each of which is provided with a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion, are press-fitted through insertion holes of the inner cams and notches of the outer shaft, and are press-fitted into the pin holes.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a compressor, a cathode flow passage, a bypass flow passage branching from the cathode flow passage, thereby bypassing the stack, a bypass valve adjusting a bypass flow rate, a stack flow rate sensor detecting a flow rate to the stack, and a compressor flow rate sensor detecting a flow rate into the compressor. A flow rate for the stack depending on a state of a fuel cell and a flow rate the compressor controls depending on a requirement different from that of the stack are calculated. A control unit controls, when the flow rate required from the compressor is more than that required by the stack, the compressor based on the flow rate required from the compressor and a detected compressor flow rate, and controls the bypass valve based on the flow rate required by the stack and a detected stack flow rate.

Abstract: A fuel cell system is configured to: calculate a target stack supply flow rate; calculate a compressor supply flow rate based on a stack supply flow rate and the target stack supply flow rate; set a larger one of the compressor supply flow rate and a lower limit flow rate, determined depending on an operation state of the fuel cell system, as a target compressor supply flow rate; control a bypass valve based on the stack supply flow rate and the target stack supply flow rate; fix the bypass valve when the stack supply flow rate is in a predetermined bypass valve fixing range, and the stack supply flow rate becomes less than the target stack supply flow rate; and release the fixation of the bypass valve when the target compressor supply flow rate becomes more than the lower limit flow rate after the bypass valve is fixed.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a battery, a fuel cell configured to generate power in accordance with a load, an inverter configured to convert power output from the fuel cell into alternating-current power and supply the alternating-current power to a motor, and a converter configured to control voltage between the inverter and the fuel cell using power output from the battery. The fuel cell system includes a voltage control unit configured to control the converter such that the voltage between the inverter and the fuel cell does not fall below a voltage lower limit of the inverter, and a lower limit voltage control unit configured to, when power required by the motor increases, cause the voltage between the inverter and the fuel cell to fall below the voltage lower limit of the inverter.

Abstract: A control system for a radiant heater device includes a radiant heater device, a heater ECU that controls an energization and a deenergization of a heat generation unit, and an integrated ECU that transmits an operation prohibition command for prohibiting the energization of the heat generation unit and an operation permission command for permitting the energization of the heat generation unit to the heater ECU. The integrated ECU transmits the operation prohibition command when receiving a collision signal indicative of a vehicle collision or a prediction of the vehicle collision, and transmits the operation permission command when not receiving the collision signal. The heater ECU performs the deenergization control when a non-reception state in which the operation permission command is not received from the integrated ECU is continued for a predetermined time or more. As a result, the energization can be interrupted before an occupant is adversely affected.

Abstract: To provide information useful to a variety of users engaged in real estate transactions. Provided is an information processing device including a graph rendering unit that renders a graph expressing an anticipated transaction price of a second real estate property, based on actual transaction prices and required transaction times of a first real estate property already bought or sold, and a display control unit that causes the graph to be displayed on a client device, wherein the graph includes an element expressing a probability distribution of the anticipated transaction price, and an element expressing an anticipated required transaction time corresponding to the anticipated transaction price.

Abstract: To provide information useful to a variety of users engaged in real estate transactions. Provided is an information processing device, including an appraisal value calculation unit that calculates an appraisal value of a real estate property by using a function which includes appraisal factors of the real estate property as variables and which is different depending on a location of the real estate property, an appropriate price calculation unit that calculates an appropriate price of the real estate property based on the appraisal value, an assessment creation unit that creates an assessment of the real estate property that includes the appropriate price, and a display control unit that causes the assessment to be displayed on a client device.

Abstract: A piezoelectric fan is provided that can effectively supply airflow to a subject to be cooled. The piezoelectric fan includes an air blower having a free end and a fixed end, and a planar piezoelectric element fixed to the air blower. The piezoelectric element causes vibration of the free end of the air blower. The air blower includes a first plate to which the piezoelectric element is fixed, and a second plate and a third plate which are orthogonal to the first plate and parallel to each other. In this structure, the free end of the air blower is H-shaped. The H-shaped blowing end of the air blower effectively prevents lateral airflow and improves the directivity of airflow.

Abstract: A fuel cell system that generates power by supplying anode and cathode gases to a fuel cell, comprising a compressor configured to adjust a flow rate of the cathode gas supplied to the fuel cell, a relief valve configured to adjust a pressure of the cathode gas supplied to the fuel cell, a pulsation operation unit configured to pulsate an anode gas pressure, a target flow rate setting unit configured to set a target flow rate of the cathode gas on the basis of a request from the fuel cell, a first target pressure setting unit configured to set a first target pressure of the cathode gas on the basis of a request from the fuel cell, a second target pressure setting unit configured to set a second target pressure of the cathode gas for maintaining a pressure difference between an anode and a cathode of the fuel cell within a predetermined allowable pressure difference range, a target pressure setting unit configured to set the higher one of the first and second target pressures as a target pressure, and a contro

Abstract: A first contact, a second impurity region, and a second low-concentration impurity region form a Schottky barrier diode. The second impurity region has the same impurity concentration as those of first impurity regions, and thus can be formed in the same process as forming the first impurity regions. In addition, the second low-concentration impurity region has the same impurity concentration as those of first low-concentration impurity regions, and thus can be formed in the same process as forming the first low-concentration impurity regions.

Abstract: To realize a transistor of normally-off type having a high mobility and a high breakdown voltage. A compound semiconductor layer is formed over a substrate, has both a concentration of p-type impurities and a concentration of n-type impurities less than 1×1016/cm3, and includes a group III nitride compound. A well is a p-type impurity layer and formed in the compound semiconductor layer. A source region is formed within the well and is an n-type impurity layer. A low-concentration n-type region is formed in the compound semiconductor layer and is linked to the well. A drain region is formed in the compound semiconductor layer and is located on a side opposite to the well via the low-concentration n-type region. The drain region is an n-type impurity layer.

Abstract: A radiant heater device includes: a heater main body having a heating portion that generates heat by being supplied with electric power to radiate radiation heat due to the heat supplied from the heating portion; an output control unit that controls an output of the heating portion; and a maximum output determination unit that determines an upper limit of the output of the heating portion depending on a heat load around the heater main body. The output control unit controls the output of the heating portion depending on the heat load not to exceed the upper limit of the output determined by the maximum output determination unit.