Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a converting portion having a plurality of electrical conductors to be arranged in mutual separation and a medium arranged so as to mutually connect the plurality of electrical conductors, wherein the converting portion is the information processing apparatus to convert an input signal to an output signal. The medium includes the electrolyte and is configured to be capable of controlling an electrical conductivity of an electrically conductive path mutually electrically connecting the plurality of electrical conductors, and the medium is selected such that the electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive path changes over time with the input signal not being present.

Abstract: A malfunction detection method detects a malfunction in an electronic control device. The electronic control device includes a normal power supply terminal connected to a normal power supply mounted on a vehicle, a starting power supply terminal connected to a starting power supply, a controller activated by supply of a normal voltage, and a wake-up circuit having a wake-up switch to open and close a power supply path from the normal power supply terminal to the controller. The wake-up circuit turns on the wake-up switch when a starting voltage input to the starting power supply terminal is equal to or greater than an ON threshold. The malfunction detection method includes determining by the controller that the wake-up switch has an ON sticking malfunction when the normal voltage is equal to or greater than a threshold and the starting voltage is less than the ON threshold.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a component body, a metal terminal, and a bonding material. The component body includes an element body and an external electrode. The metal terminal includes a first main surface and a second main surface, and a side surface. The bonding material electrically and physically connects the external electrode and the metal terminal. The metal terminal includes a first metal layer including the first main surface, a second metal layer including the second main surface, and a terminal body including the side surface. The terminal body is exposed at the side surface, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are separated from each other on the side surface. Each of the first metal layer and the second metal layer includes a Ni plated layer. The terminal body includes Cu. The bonding material includes solder.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first electrode on a first surface, a metal plate, and a first conductive bonding sheet that is disposed between the first surface of the semiconductor chip and the metal plate and bonds the first electrode to the metal plate.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic device comprises an element body including a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer, and an external electrode electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The element body includes an interface part at least at a part of a boundary between the external electrode and the ceramic layer. The interface part includes an oxide containing aluminium and an oxide containing boron.

Abstract: A fin according to the present disclosure is a corrugated fin formed of a metal plate by bending into a corrugated shape, and the corrugated fin includes peak portions extending in a first direction, valley portions extending in the first direction, and inclined portions connecting the peak portions and the valley portions adjacent to each other. The peak portions and the valley portions are alternately arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a thickness of the metal plate at each apex of the peak portions and the valley portions is larger than a thickness of the inclined portions of the metal plate.

Abstract: A pressurized cavity is provided around at least a portion or all of a regenerator, within which gas such as flue gas is maintained at a pressure in excess of the pressure within the regenerator, to protect against leakage of gas through the walls of the regenerator.

Abstract: A pressurized cavity is provided around at least a portion or all of a regenerator, within which gas such as flue gas is maintained at a pressure in excess of the pressure within the regenerator, to protect against leakage of gas through the walls of the regenerator.

Abstract: An electronic component with a metal terminal includes an electronic component having an element body, and external electrodes respectively provided on end surfaces facing each other in an X direction in the element body; and plate-shaped metal terminals having joint portions joined to the external electrodes, and leg portions provided to protrude beyond the electronic component in a Z direction. The leg portion of the metal terminal has an extending part continuously extending in the Z direction from the joint portion, a first bent part bent from a tip of the extending part to the electronic component side at a first angle formed to be an acute angle with respect to the extending part, and a second bent part bent from a tip of the first bent part at a second angle larger than the first angle with respect to the extending part.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic device comprises an element body including a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer, and an external electrode electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The element body includes an interface part at least at a part of a boundary between the external electrode and the ceramic layer. The interface part includes an oxide containing aluminium and an oxide containing boron.

Abstract: In a thermochemical regenerator wherein gaseous combustion products that are formed by combustion in a furnace are passed from the furnace into and through a first regenerator, the combustion products are combined with gaseous fuel, and the resulting mixture is passed into and through a second regenerator wherein the mixture undergoes an endothermic reaction to form syngas, the thermochemical regeneration is enhanced by injecting fuel gas into a recycle stream comprising the combustion products from the first regenerator to entrain recycled flue gas that passes out of the first regenerator and to impel the mixture into the other regenerator.

Abstract: Efficiency of the combustion that is carried out in the forehearth of a glass manufacturing facility is improved by replacing air-fuel burners with a smaller number of air-fuel injectors and oxygen injectors.

Abstract: A driving tool comprising: a plunger; a motor configured to move the plunger from a bottom dead center to a top dead center; a driving unit configured to use the plunger to drive a fastener by moving the plunger from the top dead center to the bottom dead center; a voltage fluctuation information acquisition unit configured to acquire voltage fluctuation information indicating a fluctuation amount of a voltage applied to the motor during movement of the plunger; and a control unit configured to control the motor based on the voltage fluctuation information.

Abstract: Employing furnace combustion gases for both thermochemical regeneration and heating of regenerators to preheat oxidant for the furnace provides synergistic efficiencies and other advantages.

Abstract: An object is to expand the capacity of storage of a luggage box and thereby to increase the efficiency of component transportation. A tray for vehicle storage space is formed from a fiber board that includes a bottom portion, side portions and flat portions extended from the side portions and that has a thickness of 2 to 6 mm, a total weight of 450 to 1000 g/m2, and a tensile strength of 850 to 2150 N/25.4 mm. The fiber board has linear first cuts provided on a surface side to divide boundaries between the side portions and the flat portions, linear second cuts provided on a rear face side to divide boundaries between the bottom portion and the side portions, linear third cuts provided on the surface side to fold back the side portions, and linear third cuts provided on the rear face side.

Abstract: A combustion method in which heated flue gas heats a regenerator through which a mixture of fuel and flue gas is then passed to undergo endothermic reactions that produce syngas which is fed into a furnace together with a motive gas stream, wherein fuel is combusted with the motive gas stream to provide heat in alternate cycles.

Abstract: A pressurized cavity is provided around at least a portion or all of a regenerator, within which gas such as flue gas is maintained at a pressure in excess of the pressure within the regenerator, to protect against leakage of gas through the walls of the regenerator.

Abstract: A camera housing is provided which prevents dust and mist from adhering to a camera lens and which makes it possible to secure clear imaging despite continuous use. The camera housing comprises a front portion provided at a position opposite of the lens surface of an internally provided camera lens, a rear portion provided at a position opposite of the front portion, and another side portion. The front portion has an opening, and the rear portion and/or side portion has an air ejection port. The diameter of the inscribed circle of the opening is 0.9 time or less the diameter of the inscribed circle of the front portion, and the area of the air ejection port is 0.1 time or more the area of the opening.

Abstract: A pressurized cavity is provided around at least a portion or all of a regenerator, within which gas such as flue gas is maintained at a pressure in excess of the pressure within the regenerator, to protect against leakage of gas through the walls of the regenerator.

Abstract: A thermochemical regenerator system is operated without encountering accumulation of unwanted solids on the interior surfaces of the passages through which flue gas passes.