Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer in which a trench is formed having a side surface and a bottom surface; a second conductivity-type layer formed on the semiconductor layer on the side surface and the bottom surface of the trench; a first conductivity-type layer formed on the semiconductor layer so as to contact the second conductivity-type layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductivity-type layer; a second electrode embedded in the trench and electrically connected to the second conductivity-type layer; and a barrier-forming layer which is arranged between the second electrode and the side surface of the trench and which, between said barrier-forming layer and the second conductivity-type layer, forms a potential barrier higher than the potential barrier between the second conductivity-type layer and the second electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrodes formed in an image display area of a substrate, a common electrode formed in the image display area, inside signal lines formed inside the image display area, and electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, outside signal lines formed outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the inside signal lines, and a common line formed inside and outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the common electrode. An image is displayed under a control of a light using an electric field developed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. A coupling capacitance is formed between the inside signal lines and the common electrode. The outside signal lines each include a first portion, and a second portion higher in electric resistance than the first portion and the inside signal lines.

Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner has a softening point of at least 100° C. and not more than 150° C., and when Tgt represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of the toner during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, Tgf represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of the binder resin during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, and Tgk represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter of the binder resin during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, the toner satisfies Tgt>Tgf (1), Tgt>Tgk (2), and 35° C.?Tgf?70° C. (3).

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of checking defects of a rail for a vehicle with a high SN ratio. A detection device (2) for generating check data related to the defects of a railway rail RR (rail for a vehicle) is provided with an oscillating coil C1 (211) and an oscillating coil C2 (211) that are disposed on the surface opposite the railway rail RR and generate AC magnetic fields whose directions are opposite to each other, and a receiving coil (212) that is positioned between or in the vicinity the oscillation coils and that outputs a magnetic field waveform based on the magnetic fields received from the oscillating coils as the check data.

Abstract: A scan line to which a selection signal or a non-selection signal is input from its end, and a transistor in which a clock signal is input to a gate, the non-selection signal is input to a source, and a drain is connected to the scan line are provided. A signal input to the end of the scan line is switched from the selection signal to the non-selection signal at the same or substantially the same time as the transistor is turned on. The non-selection signal is input not only from one end but also from both ends of the scan line. This makes it possible to inhibit the potentials of portions in the scan line from being changed at different times.

Abstract: A display device comprises counter electrodes configured to be used as common electrodes for displaying and scan electrodes for touch sensing, a first scan circuit which scans gate lines, and a second scan circuit which scans the counter electrodes. In the display device, one frame period includes a write period for continuously scanning one screen and a touch sensing period existing between the write period and a write period in the next frame. The second scan circuit includes a shift register unit and a switch unit. The switch unit includes a seventh thin-film transistor which outputs a DC drive signal to an output node and an eighth thin-film transistor which outputs an AC drive signal to the output node. A second control signal for fixing the voltage of a third retention node to which the gate electrode of the seventh thin-film transistor is connected is inputted in the write period.

Abstract: Provided is an audio device, including: at least one processor; and at least one memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: play, with a given length of delay, a first-channel audio signal included in an audio signal; obtain one of operation information about operation of the audio device and setting information about playing of the audio signal; and transmit one of the operation information and the setting information, and at least a second-channel audio signal included in the audio signal, to another audio device.

Abstract: A resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin, a carbon fiber, a polyamide having at least one of a carboxy group and an amino group at a terminal thereof, in which a presence ratio of the carboxy group present on the terminal is higher than a presence ratio of the amino group present on the terminal, and a compatibilizer.

Abstract: There are provided a soybean disease control composition containing, as active ingredients, (a) fluazinam or a salt thereof and (b) at least one fungicide selected from the group consisting of carboxamide-based compounds and azole-based compounds; and a method for controlling a soybean disease, which includes applying the soybean disease control composition to a soybean plant or soil.

Abstract: When a multiple-board printed panel is defined as a panel with multiple boards of electronic circuit board patterns on which multiple electronic components are to be mounted, a work order is set such that electronic components to be held by multiple component holding tools together in one go are electronic components planned to be mounted on one circuit pattern among the multiple circuit patterns. In a case in which one of the electronic circuit board patterns of the multiple electronic circuit board patterns is a defective circuit pattern, because it is not necessary to hold electronic components planned to be mounted on that defective electronic circuit pattern, it is possible to eliminate a back and forth movement between the defective circuit pattern and a supply device of the electronic components, thereby improving throughput when performing mounting work on a multiple-board substrate that includes a defective circuit pattern.

Abstract: To highly accurately plan a load loading operation by a working machine so that a load after the load loading operation has a target shape. A working machine operation system is a working machine operation system with a bucket, including: an operation recording unit which records a loading operation of a hydraulic excavator when a load is loaded from the bucket onto a carrier; a shape acquiring unit which acquires a shape of the load loaded on the carrier after the loading operation; a correlation calculation unit which calculates a correlation of the loading operation and the shape of the load; and a loading operation calculation unit which calculates the loading operation based on the correlation and the target shape of the load.

Abstract: The point target can be easily and accurately instructed without disturbing the viewability of the point target and its neighboring display information. A touch panel type information terminal device comprises means for displaying on a display screen a touchable pointer comprising a pointer part for instructing a point target that is displayed on a display screen, and an operation part for a user to perform a touch operation, and means for integrally moving a display position of the operation part and the pointer part on the display screen in accordance with the touch operation of the user with respect to the operation part of the touchable pointer.

Abstract: An injection needle has an opening at a distal end thereof the injection needle and defines a hole. An optical fiber is configured to output a light from a light source and inserted in the hole. The optical fiber has a distal end positioned on an inner side of the opening. A protector is configured to transmit the light and is positioned further towards an opening side of the injection needle than the distal end. The protector is configured to prevent adherence of tissue to the optical fiber. The light emitted from the optical fiber is configured to irradiated onto a treatment target in a state in which the injection needle is inserted into skin, the distal end is positioned on an inner side of the opening, and the protector is positioned further towards the opening side of the injection needle than the distal end.

Abstract: A liquid immersion exposure apparatus and method expose a substrate with illumination light via liquid. A projection optical system has plural optical elements that include a lens contacting the liquid and a barrel supporting the optical elements, the lens provided on a front end part of the projection optical system and exposed from the barrel. A liquid immersion member around the lens forms a liquid immersion area between the lens and part of the substrate. A drive device having a magnetic floating type of motor moves a substrate stage below the projection optical system. The liquid immersion member has a supply port to supply the liquid below the projection optical system and a recovery port to recover the liquid. The supply port is outside the projection area, the recovery port surrounds the projection area and the supply port, and each of the supply and recovery ports faces the substrate stage.

Abstract: A signature to be used to verify whether or not an original version video captured by a camera has been altered is assigned in the camera to improve the evidential quality of the original version video captured by the camera. The camera (2) includes: an image pickup unit that captures a video of an area to be monitored; a CPU that generates, using a portion or the entirety of video data of the area to be monitored captured by the image pickup unit, a signature for verifying whether or not the video data have been altered; and a network communication unit that sequentially transmits, to a client terminal (4), signed video data obtained by assigning the signature generated by the CPU to the video data.

Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a first circuit substrate having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side, and a second circuit substrate having a third surface and a fourth surface on the opposite side such that the first circuit substrate is laminated on the third surface and that the first surface and the third surface are opposing each other. The second circuit substrate has a mounting area on the third surface and includes pads positioned to mount an electronic component in the mounting area and a connection wire structure connected to the pads, and the first circuit substrate includes through-hole conductors extending from the first surface to the second surface and connected to the pads through the connection wire structure and has an opening portion formed through the first circuit substrate such that the opening portion is exposing the pads formed in the mounting area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a display character string storage unit, an application control unit, and a search unit. The display character string storage unit stores language information indicating the kind of language which can be displayed by the image processing apparatus, and a character string corresponding to the language information. The application control unit executes an application for realizing an additional function of the image processing apparatus. The search unit acquires a character string of the kind of language which the application does not have from the display character string storage unit on the basis of a character string identifier for specifying a character string stored in the display character string storage unit.

Abstract: To provide a display device in which variation in luminance among pixels is suppressed. The display device includes a transistor including first and second gates, first to third switches, first and second capacitors, a light-emitting element, and first and second wirings. The first gate is electrically connected to the first wiring through the first switch, a terminal of the transistor is electrically connected to the first gate through the third switch, and the second gate is electrically connected to the second wiring through the second switch. An anode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the terminal of the transistor. The first capacitor holds the capacitance between the first gate and the terminal of the transistor. The second capacitor holds the capacitance between the second gate and the terminal of the transistor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is capable of accurately sensing a temperature of a semiconductor element incorporated in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor includes a first nitride semiconductor layer of p-type, a first sense electrode, and a second sense electrode. The first sense electrode and the second sense electrode are located to be capable of passing an electric current between the first sense electrode and the second sense electrode through the first nitride semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Provided are a brightness enhancement film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, in which the reflection polarizer includes at least two light reflection layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, one light reflection layer of the reflection layers is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a rod-like liquid crystal compound, and the other light reflection layer is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and an optical sheet member including the brightness enhancement film, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical sheet member. The brightness enhancement film of the present invention has high brightness and is able to suppress an oblique change in the shade at the time of being incorporated in a liquid crystal display device.