Abstract: A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a circuit board, a heat releasing plate, an adhesive member, and a conductive member. The circuit board transmits a signal of the semiconductor chip. The heat releasing plate has the semiconductor chip disposed thereon, and has an opening in a region on the outer side of a semiconductor chip placement region that is a region in which the semiconductor chip is disposed. The adhesive member is disposed in a region on the outer side of the opening on a different surface of the heat releasing plate from the surface on which the semiconductor chip is disposed, and bonds the circuit board and the heat releasing plate to each other. The conductive member connects the semiconductor chip and the circuit board to each other via the opening.

Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors, a first word line, a controller, and a storage circuit. Each of the plurality of memory cell transistors stores a plurality of pieces of bit data. The first word line is connected to a plurality of first memory cell transistors in the plurality of memory cell transistors. The controller performs a loop process including repetition of a program loop including a program operation and a first verification operation. The storage circuit stores status information. The controller performs the loop process, then performs a second verification operation, and stores first status data corresponding to a result of the loop process and second status data corresponding to a result of the second verification operation in the storage circuit, in a write operation using the plurality of first memory cell transistors as targets.

Abstract: The present embodiment is a tank having a liner and a first protective layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the liner and configured such that a resin-impregnated fiber bundle including a reinforcing fiber bundle and a first matrix resin is wound around the liner, wherein the resin-impregnated fiber bundle has a folded portion fixed in a bent state at a winding end portion of the resin-impregnated. fiber bundle.

Abstract: The present embodiment is a method of recycling reinforcing fibers, the method comprising: providing a tank having at least a first protective layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of a liner and a liner, the first protective layer being configured such that a resin-impregnated fiber bundle including a reinforcing fiber bundle and a first matrix resin is wound around the liner; and a second protective layer formed of the first matrix resin on the first protective layer; removing a portion of the second protective layer to expose a winding end portion of the resin-impregnated fiber bundle; peeling the exposed winding end portion; and pulling the peeled winding end portion to draw out the resin-impregnated fiber bundle.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator, and includes a first substrate and a second substrate mounted on the stator. The stator has a stator core in a ring shape and a first coil of a first phase and a second coil of a second phase wound around the stator core. The first substrate includes a first power supply wiring to supply electric power to the first coil. The second substrate has a second power supply wiring to supply electric power to the second coil.

Abstract: A game processing method executed by an information processing device, the game processing method includes executing a battle between a first game character and a second game character, determining whether the second game character is able to be brought into a predetermined state by an attack in a case of receiving an instruction input to cause the first game character to execute the attack on the second game character, and controlling a virtual camera for displaying images of the first game character and the second game character such that the virtual camera is in a predetermined position and a predetermined orientation when the first game character executes the attack in a case where the second game character is determined to be able to be brought into the predetermined state.

Abstract: Provided is a power control device that drives an electric motor including a rotor into which a rotary shaft is inserted and a stator, the stator being provided on an outer peripheral side of the rotor, the power control device including: a substrate having a through hole and disposed to face the rotor and the stator, the rotary shaft being caused to pass through the through hole; a power semiconductor module mounted on the substrate and including a drive circuit; and a microcomputer mounted on the substrate, and configured to control power supplied to the electric motor, wherein the substrate is integrally formed with the stator by using a molded resin, and a first part having a lower thermal conductivity than the molded resin is disposed on the substrate at a position between the power semiconductor module and the microcomputer.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a magnetic sensor. The stator has an iron core and a magnetic flux coil. The rotor has a rotary shaft and a cylindrical rotor magnet. The magnetic sensor has a sensor unit that outputs an electric signal based on an applied magnetic flux. The rotor magnet is disposed so as to face the iron core of the stator. The rotor magnet has a main magnet unit and a sensor magnet unit that is formed integrally with the main magnet unit and has an external diameter smaller than an external diameter of the main magnet unit. The magnetic sensor is disposed beside the sensor magnet unit. An outer circumferential edge of the sensor magnet unit is located farther away from the rotary shaft than a center of the sensor unit. The magnetic sensor is configured such that a center of the sensor unit and a center of the magnetic sensor do not match each other, and the center of the sensor unit is closer to the sensor magnet unit than the center of the magnetic sensor.

Abstract: A metal removal agent used when removing Mg from an aluminum alloy melt whose raw material is scrap or the like and used for formation of a molten salt layer that takes in Mg from an aluminum alloy melt. The metal removal agent contains: a specific metal element one or more of Cu, Zn, or Mn; a specific halogen element one or more of Cl or Br; and Mg. The metal removal agent may also contain: a base halide that serves as a base material of the molten salt layer; and a specific metal halide that is a compound of a specific metal element and a specific halogen element. When the molten salt layer formed using the agent and the aluminum alloy melt containing Mg are brought into contact with each other, Mg is taken into the molten salt layer side from the aluminum alloy melt side and efficiently removed.

Abstract: A mobile station UE includes a measurement unit 102 configured to measure radio quality of a cell during communication or a neighboring cell for each of the two or more carriers, a determination unit 104 configured to determine whether to notify the radio base station eNB of a measurement result regarding each of the two or more carriers in the measurement unit 102, and a transmission unit 106 configured to transmit the measurement result in the measurement unit 102 to the radio base station eNB, wherein the transmission unit 106 transmits, in addition to the measurement result regarding a carrier in which it is determined by the determination unit 104 to notify the radio base station eNB of the measurement result in the measurement unit 102, a measurement result regarding a carrier other than the carrier.

Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors, a first word line, a controller, and a storage circuit. Each of the plurality of memory cell transistors stores a plurality of pieces of bit data. The first word line is connected to a plurality of first memory cell transistors in the plurality of memory cell transistors. The controller performs a loop process including repetition of a program loop including a program operation and a first verification operation. The storage circuit stores status information. The controller performs the loop process, then performs a second verification operation, and stores first status data corresponding to a result of the loop process and second status data corresponding to a result of the second verification operation in the storage circuit, in a write operation using the plurality of first memory cell transistors as targets.

Abstract: A method with which Mg can be removed from aluminum alloy melt whose raw material is scrap or the like. Metal removal method includes processing step of forming molten salt layer in contact with aluminum alloy melt containing Mg which covers at least part of the surface of the aluminum alloy melt. This method allows Mg to be taken in from aluminum alloy melt to molten salt layer and removed. Molten salt layer contains specific halogen element that is one or more of Cl or Br and specific metal element that is one or more of Cu, Zn, or Mn. The specific metal element is supplied as an oxide of the specific metal element to the molten salt layer. At that time, the molten salt layer contains Mg. The step of removing Mg is performed by disposing a conductor that bridges the aluminum alloy melt and the molten salt layer.

Abstract: A Mg removal agent is composed of a chloride and copper oxide. The chloride contains at least Mg and one or more base metal elements selected from K, Na, and Ca. The chloride contains, for example, 0.2 to 60 mass % of MgCl2 and/or 40 to 99.8 mass % of KCl with respect to the chloride as a whole. The compounding ratio that is a mass ratio of the chloride to the copper oxide is, for example, 0.15 or more. The chloride may be a re-solidified salt or a mixed salt. At least a part of the chloride may be a mineral containing the base metal elements and Mg or a mineral-derived chloride. A preferred example of the Mg removal agent is granular flux introduced into the aluminum alloy molten metal.

Abstract: An optical circuit is provided in which electric circuit parts and optical circuit parts are integrated in a stack on a printed substrate. The optical circuit is provided with a lid having a temperature regulation function that uses a temperature control element and an optical fiber block capable of optical input and output. Temperature control of optical circuit elements can be efficiently performed by mounting electric circuit parts and optical circuit parts on a printed substrate in advance by a reflow step using OBO technology and subsequently attaching a lid that includes a temperature control element.

Abstract: An electric motor has a mechanism to detect an overcurrent in an inverter circuit. The electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a board. The board includes a power transistor, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a constant voltage diode. The power transistor is included in the inverter circuit, which is configured to change a direction of a current that flows through a winding of the stator. The first resistor is provided between the power transistor and a ground terminal, and configured to detect an overcurrent in the inverter circuit. The second resistor is provided between the power transistor and the first resistor, and configured to detect a current that flows through the winding of the stator. The constant voltage diode is connected parallel to the first resistor.

Abstract: Provided is a method of recycling carbon fibers that allows obtaining continuous carbon fibers. The present embodiment is a method of recycling carbon fibers that includes preparing a carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product including carbon fiber reinforced plastic containing carbon fibers and a resin and drawing the carbon fiber reinforced plastic while performing a heating treatment on the carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product. A temperature of the heating treatment is equal to or above a glass-transition temperature of the resin and below a thermal decomposition start temperature, and the temperature is below a thermal degradation temperature of the carbon fibers.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator to which a substrate can be stably secured without increasing the size of the substrate. An air-conditioning apparatus includes the motor. At an end portion of the stator in the axial direction thereof, a substrate on which electronic components are mounted is provided. The stator includes: a stator core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets, and including a plurality of teeth; insulators provided on the stator core; and a wire wound around the teeth, the teeth being coated with the insulators. The insulators have outer walls provided on respective core backs of the stator core.

Abstract: An optical module includes: a substrate; one or more light sources that produce light that is an optical signal; one or more light reflection units that change the direction of travel of the light to a direction substantially perpendicular to the substrate; one or more optical waveguides that optically connect the one or more light sources and the one or more light reflection units to each other; and a lid that is attached to the substrate to cover the one or more light sources, the one or more light reflection units and the one or more optical waveguides. The lid has one or more lenses that collimate light directed by the one or more light reflection units and transmit the light to the outside of the lid.

Abstract: A metal purifying method having: a local heating step of heating an aluminum-based molten metal in a first region on a molten metal surface of the aluminum-based molten metal; and a local low pressure step of lowering the pressure in a second region on the molten metal surface to a pressure lower than the pressure in the first region. The second region is different from the first region. This allows a specific element to be vaporized from the second region to purify the aluminum-based molten metal. The specific element is one or more of Zn, Mg, or Pb having a saturated vapor pressure higher than that of Al. This is effective not only in a purifying method for removing a specific element from an aluminum-based molten metal but also in a method of recovering a specific element, which can be a resource, from an aluminum-based molten metal.