Abstract: The present invention includes: an electric component; a compression component driven by the electric component; and a sealed container accommodating the electric component and the compression component. The compression component includes: a shaft part rotated by the electric component; and a bearing part slidingly contacting the shaft part. A film having hardness equal to or more than hardness of a sliding surface of the bearing part is provided on a sliding surface of the shaft part. The sliding surface of the bearing part includes a curved-surface portion having an inner diameter that continuously increases, or the sliding surface of the shaft part includes a curved-surface portion having an outer diameter that continuously decreases.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member that achieves satisfactory transferability. An electrophotographic photosensitive member including a charge generating layer, a charge transporting layer, and a protection layer laminated on a support in the stated order, wherein the protection layer contains a binder resin and particles, and wherein when an average thickness of the protection layer in a site free of the particles is represented by T and a volume-average particle diameter of the particles is represented by Dm in a cross-section of the protection layer, the following formula (a) is satisfied.

Abstract: The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a photosensitive layer on the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a particle, the surface layer has a particle partially exposed from the surface layer among the particle contained in the surface layer, the particle has a volume average particle diameter of 50.0 nm or more and 350.0 nm or less; in a cross-section of the surface layer, the number of the particle partially exposed from the surface layer is 80% by number or more based on a total number of the particle contained in the surface layer; and a total volume of an exposed portion of the particle partially exposed from the surface layer is 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less based on an entire volume of the particle contained in the surface layer.

Abstract: To suppress deformation of a mounting portion, a coil component includes a drum core including a winding core portion, a first flange portion, and a second flange portion. The coil component includes a first metal terminal. The first metal terminal includes a joining portion, a mounting portion, and an extending portion. A first wire end of the first wire is connected to a surface of the joining portion facing a first positive direction. The mounting portion is located closest to the first positive direction in the first metal terminal. The extending portion connects the mounting portion and the joining portion. The extending portion includes a second portion having a thickness dimension smaller than the thickness dimension of the mounting portion.

Abstract: A wire-wound coil component is an electronic component including a core main body, such as a molded body, containing a magnetic powder resin in which a resin serves as a binder, and an oxide film covering at least a portion of the surface, such as the lower surface, of the core main body. The electronic component further includes an external electrode including a base layer formed on the surface of the oxide film. The base layer is a metal layer having high affinity for oxygen.

Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a polishing composition that enables polishing a resin object to be polished at a high polishing removal rate and enables polishing the surface of a resin object to be polished into a flat and smooth surface. The polishing composition includes abrasives, a surfactant, and water, and the surfactant includes an acetylene compound having a carbon-carbon triple bond and represented by Chemical Formula (1). In Chemical Formula (1), R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms; R5 and R6 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having 1 or more and 5 or less carbon atoms; m is an integer of 1 or more; n is an integer of 0 or more; and m+n is 50 or less. The polishing composition is used to polish a resin object to be polished.

Abstract: A wire coil component includes a shaped article, a wire wound around the shaped article, and terminal electrodes to which the ends of the wire are connected. The shaped article is formed from a magnetic resin containing a binder resin and a magnetic metal powder and has a thermal expansion coefficient of about 12 ppm/K or more and about 16 ppm/K or less (i.e., from about 12 ppm/K to about 16 ppm/K) from ?55° C. to 150° C.

Abstract: A current sensor includes a magnetic core that can be arranged to surround a conducting wire through which a current to be measured flows, magnetic sensors each configured to detect magnetic flux in a predetermined portion of the magnetic core, amplifiers arranged in correspondence with the magnetic sensors, feedback coils arranged in correspondence with the magnetic sensors, and a current detector that detects the current to be measured based on a current yielded by combining currents flowing through each of the feedback coils. Each of the amplifiers amplifies an output of the corresponding magnetic sensor and outputs a current corresponding to the output of the corresponding magnetic sensor. Each feedback coil is wound around the magnetic core and passes the current outputted by the corresponding amplifier in a direction that cancels the corresponding magnetic flux in the predetermined portion of the magnetic core.

Abstract: A current detection apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes an annular magnetic core (13), a first coil group (14) including a plurality of first coils (La) connected in series, a second coil group (15) including a plurality of second coils (Lb) connected in series, and a detector (12). The first coil group (14) and the second coil group (15) are connected in parallel between a first node (21) and a second node (22), a count of the plurality of first coils (La) and a count of the plurality of second coils (Lb) are identical, and a first coil (La), among the plurality of first coils (La), in ith place from the first node (21) and a second coil (Lb), among the plurality of second coils (Lb), in ith place from the first node (21) are arranged at opposing positions, where i is an integer.

Abstract: A magnetic detection apparatus includes a core to which magnetism to be detected is applied, an exciter configured to excite the core with an excitation signal, a detector configured to detect induced voltage according to a time change of magnetic flux generated by the core, a wave detector configured to detect a wave from a signal corresponding to the induced voltage by using a detection signal corresponding to the excitation signal and to generate a signal according to the magnetism to be detected, and a signal converter configured to generate and output to the exciter an excitation signal that has a spread spectrum of a signal having an excitation frequency and to generate and output to the wave detector a detection signal that has a spread spectrum of a signal having a detection frequency of twice the excitation frequency.

Abstract: A vehicle headlight system that can be used together with a vehicle control unit (3) that switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode on the basis of external information about a vehicle (1), wherein the system has a headlight (100) mounted on the vehicle (1), and a lamp control unit (4) that controls the headlight (100), the lamp control unit (4): controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a first light distribution pattern (P) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the autonomous driving mode; controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a second light distribution pattern (Q) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the manual driving mode; and controlling the headlight so as to form a third light distribution pattern (R) that irradiates at an illuminance equal to or greater than the illuminance of the first light distribution pattern (P) and/or irradiates a range equal to or greater than the irradiation region of the first light distribution pattern (P), when transi

Abstract: A host vehicle position estimation device includes a target recognition unit configured to recognize a relative position of the vertical position target relative to a host vehicle on the basis of a detection result of an external sensor of the host vehicle, an amount-of-position error calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of position error, an amount-of-steady error calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of steady error from a distribution of the amount of position error when it is determined that the distribution of the amount of position error satisfies a steady condition, and a host vehicle position estimation unit configured to perform estimation of a vertical position of the host vehicle using the amount of steady error when the relative position of the vertical position target relative to the host vehicle is not recognized.

Abstract: Provided is a mask blank wherein, even when a defect is present on the main surface of a substrate of the mask blank, the defect can be made to not affect a transfer image formed by a transfer mask, such that the mask blank is deemed acceptable. This mask blank is provided with a thin film that is for transfer pattern formation and provided on the main surface of a transparent substrate, wherein a defect is present on the main surface of the transparent substrate, and the defect satisfies the relationship L?97.9×w?0.4, where w is the width as viewed from the main surface side, and L is the length from the main surface to the tip of the defect in a direction perpendicular to the main surface.

Abstract: There is provided a polishing composition which can be more suitably used for polishing a synthetic resin product or the like, and a polishing method for polishing a polishing object using a polishing composition. There is provided a polishing composition containing abrasives, 0.01% by mass or more and 15% by mass or less of a monovalent acid-aluminum salt, a pyrrolidone compound or a caprolactam compound, and water and having a pH of 7.0 or less.

Abstract: A vehicle headlight system that can he used together with a vehicle control unit (3) that switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode on the basis of external information about a vehicle (1), wherein the system has a headlight (100) mounted on the vehicle (1), and a lamp control unit (4) that controls the headlight (100), the lamp control unit (4): controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a first light distribution pattern (P) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the autonomous driving mode; controlling the headlight (100) so as to form a second light distribution pattern (Q) when the vehicle control unit (3) is executing the manual driving mode; and controlling the headlight so as to form a third light distribution pattern (R) that irradiates at an illuminance equal to or greater than the illuminance of the first light distribution pattern (P) and/or irradiates a range equal to or greater than the irradiation region of the first light distribution pattern (P), when transi

Abstract: A water-flow power generating apparatus for generating electricity by a force of a water flow in water includes a main body including one rotor configured to rotate by a force received by blades from a water flow, a generator generating electricity by a rotation force of the rotor, and a pod accommodating the generator; a mooring cable for mooring the main body to a bottom of water; and a connecting mechanism for connecting the mooring cable to the pod. The mooring cable and the pod are relatively movable along a vertical plane orthogonal to a center axis of the rotor. A center of buoyancy of the apparatus main body is on a vertical upper side with respect to a center of gravity of the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp forms an additional high-beam light distribution pattern with light emitted though a projection lens from a plurality of light emitting elements. The plurality of light emitting elements are disposed to be aligned in a transverse direction below a rear focal point of the projection lens and can be lit individually. The vehicle lamp forms an additional light distribution pattern by lighting the plurality of light emitting elements at the same time to form a high-beam light distribution pattern. In addition, the vehicle lamp forms another additional light distribution pattern where a part of the additional light distribution pattern is omitted by selectively lighting a part of the plurality of light emitting elements so as to form an intermediate light distribution pattern.