Abstract: Provided is a novel chalcogen-containing organic semiconductor compound having excellent carrier mobility. The compound is represented by Formula (1a) or (1b): [Chem. 1] where in Formulas (1a) and (1b), X represents S, O, or Se, and R1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a pyridyl group, a furyl group, a thienyl group, or a thiazolyl group.

Abstract: The present disclosure promotes distribution of sensor data among a plurality of business operators. A controller that an information processing system according to the present disclosure includes collects first data including a plurality of items and personal information from mobile bodies belonging to a first business operator. The controller converts the first data to second data not being usable to identify individuals. The controller provides data in a range decided based on content of a predetermined data use contract, among the second data, to a second business operator. The controller calculates a consideration for the data that is to be paid by the second business operator, based on a data use record of the second business operator.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser including: a first mirror layer; a second mirror layer; an active layer, a current confinement layer, a first region, and a second region, in which the first mirror layer, the second mirror layer, the active layer, the current confinement layer, the first region, and the second region constitute a laminated body, the first region and the second region constitute an oxidized region of the laminated body, in a plan view, the laminated body includes a first part, a second part, and a third part disposed between the first part and the second part and resonating light generated in the active layer, and in a plan view, at least at a part of the third part, W1>W3 and W2>W3, W1 is a width of the oxidized region of the first part, W2 is a width of the oxidized region of the second part, and W3 is a width of the oxidized region of the third part.

Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor laser including: a first mirror layer; a second mirror layer; an active layer; a current confinement layer; a first region including a plurality of first oxidized layers; and a second region including a plurality of second oxidized layers, in which, in a plan view, the laminated body includes a first part including the first region and the second region, a second part including the first region and the second region, and a third part disposed between the first part and the second part and resonating light generated in the active layer, the third part includes a fourth part including the first region and the second region and having a first groove, a fifth part including the first region and the second region and having a second groove, and a sixth part disposed between the fourth part and the fifth part and sandwiched between the first part and the second part, in a plan view.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser including: a first mirror layer; a second mirror layer; an active layer, a current confinement layer, a first region, and a second region, in which the first mirror layer, the second mirror layer, the active layer, the current confinement layer, the first region, and the second region constitute a laminated body, the first region and the second region constitute an oxidized region of the laminated body, in a plan view, the laminated body includes a first part, a second part, and a third part disposed between the first part and the second part and resonating light generated in the active layer, and in a plan view, at least at a part of the third part, W1>W3 and W2>W3, W1 is a width of the oxidized region of the first part, W2 is a width of the oxidized region of the second part, and W3 is a width of the oxidized region of the third part.

Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor laser including: a first mirror layer; a second mirror layer; an active layer; a current confinement layer; a first region including a plurality of first oxidized layers; and a second region including a plurality of second oxidized layers, in which, in a plan view, the laminated body includes a first part including the first region and the second region, a second part including the first region and the second region, and a third part disposed between the first part and the second part and resonating light generated in the active layer, the third part includes a fourth part including the first region and the second region and having a first groove, a fifth part including the first region and the second region and having a second groove, and a sixth part disposed between the fourth part and the fifth part and sandwiched between the first part and the second part, in a plan view.

Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes: a first piezoelectric element that moves a head in a first direction; a second piezoelectric element that moves the head in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a movement unit that moves a medium in the first direction in accordance with a predetermined target movement amount; a transport amount measurement unit as a movement amount measurement unit that measures a movement amount of the medium in the first direction; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element. The drive control unit drives either one of the first piezoelectric element or the second piezoelectric element according to a difference B?A between a target transport amount A as the target movement amount and a transport amount B as the movement amount measured from the transport amount measurement unit.

Abstract: A robot includes two links, a joint portion that connects the two links so as to be rotatable relative to each other, a control unit that controls an operation of the joint portion, and an optical transmission device that transmits an optical signal between the two links, and in which the optical transmission device includes an optical wiring that passes through the joint portion and allows the optical signal to propagate, and a light source unit that is disposed on one of the two links and emits the optical signal, and the control unit transmits a signal for adjusting intensity of the optical signal according to a bending amount of the joint portion to the optical transmission device.

Abstract: An optical connection device includes a light source section configured to emit light, a light guide section configured to guide the light emitted from the light source section and including an emitting section configured to emit the guided light to the outside, and a light receiving section configured to receive the light emitted from the emitting section. At least one of the light source section and the light receiving section turns around a turning axis. Therefore, a transmission distance of the light from the light source section to the light receiving section changes.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes a first mirror layer, a second mirror layer, an active layer disposed between the first mirror layer and the second mirror layer, a semiconductor layer disposed in the second mirror layer, an insulation region configured to insulate the second mirror layer and the semiconductor layer from each other, a first electrode connected to the first mirror layer, a second electrode connected to the second mirror layer, and a third electrode connected to the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A robot includes two links, a joint portion that connects the two links so as to be rotatable relative to each other, a control unit that controls an operation of the joint portion, and an optical transmission device that transmits an optical signal between the two links, and in which the optical transmission device includes an optical wiring that passes through the joint portion and allows the optical signal to propagate, and a light source unit that is disposed on one of the two links and emits the optical signal, and the control unit transmits a signal for adjusting intensity of the optical signal according to a bending amount of the joint portion to the optical transmission device.

Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes: a first piezoelectric element that moves a head in a first direction; a second piezoelectric element that moves the head in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a movement unit that moves a medium in the first direction in accordance with a predetermined target movement amount; a transport amount measurement unit as a movement amount measurement unit that measures a movement amount of the medium in the first direction; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element. The drive control unit drives either one of the first piezoelectric element or the second piezoelectric element according to a difference B?A between a target transport amount A as the target movement amount and a transport amount B as the movement amount measured from the transport amount measurement unit.

Abstract: A robot includes: a first arm that has a first light guide path, a second arm that has a second light guide path, a joint portion that has a rotation axis and connects the first arm and the second arm to each other so as to be rotatable about the rotation axis and a light rotary joint that is provided between the first light guide path and the second light guide path inside the joint portion and that optically connects the first light guide path and the second light guide path to each other. In addition, the light rotary joint has a first light guide portion which is fixed to the first light guide path and has a tubular shape about the rotation axis and an end portion of the second light guide path on the light rotary joint side faces the first light guide portion.

Abstract: A projector capable of reliably reducing speckle noise includes a light modulation element which modulates laser light, and a projection optical system on which light emitted from the light modulation element is incident. When the center coordinates of an illumination distribution of laser light in an exit pupil of the projection optical system are x=0 and y=0, normalized illumination at each coordinate is P(x,y), and a calculation range of integration is r (mm), the value of EP determined from a specific numerical expression is set in a range according to the color of laser light.

Abstract: A robot includes: a first arm that has a first light guide path, a second arm that has a second light guide path, a joint portion that has a rotation axis and connects the first arm and the second arm to each other so as to be rotatable about the rotation axis and a light rotary joint that is provided between the first light guide path and the second light guide path inside the joint portion and that optically connects the first light guide path and the second light guide path to each other. In addition, the light rotary joint has a first light guide portion which is fixed to the first light guide path and has a tubular shape about the rotation axis and an end portion of the second light guide path on the light rotary joint side faces the first light guide portion.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light output part that outputs modulated lights and a light scanning part that performs scanning with the modulated lights in first directions and second directions. Scanning with the respective modulated lights is performed only in ones of outward paths and return paths in the first directions, in an image plane, irradiated points of the modulated lights are arranged side by side in directions crossing the first directions, the scanning of the modulated lights is performed in the second directions for two scanning lines extending in the first directions at a time, and one of the irradiated points at a certain time is located in a position different from those of scanning tracks of the other.

Abstract: An optical connection device includes a light source section configured to emit light, a light guide section configured to guide the light emitted from the light source section and including an emitting section configured to emit the guided light to the outside, and a light receiving section configured to receive the light emitted from the emitting section. At least one of the light source section and the light receiving section turns around a turning axis. Therefore, a transmission distance of the light from the light source section to the light receiving section changes.

Abstract: A light modulator includes a substrate providing an electro-optical effect and provided with first to third optical waveguides, a first modulation section that modulates a blue light flux passing through the first optical waveguide, a second modulation section that modulates a green light flux passing through the second optical waveguide, and a third modulation section that modulates a red light flux passing through the third optical waveguide, and L1<L2<L3 and S1>S2>S3 are satisfied, where L1 represents the length of the first modulation section, S1 represents the distance between a first reference line and a first exit section, L2 represents the length of the second modulation section, S2 represents the distance between a second reference line and a second exit section, L3 represents the length of the third modulation section, and S3 represents the distance between a third reference line and a third exit section.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes light sources that output red light, green light, and blue light, a light modulation part, in which the red light, green light, and blue light are entered, that can respectively independently modulate the red light, green light, and blue light, a lens that condenses the red light, green light, and blue light modulated by the light modulation part, and a light scanning part that performs scanning with the red light, green light, and blue light condensed by the lens, wherein a center axis of the green light passes closer to a center side of the lens than center axes of the red light and the blue light.

Abstract: [Problem] The invention is intended to improve the galling resistance of the hot-dip Al-based alloy coated layer of a hot-dip Al-based alloy coated steel sheet. [Solution] Provided is a hot-dip Al-based alloy coated steel sheet excellent in workability that comprises a hot-dip Al-based alloy coated layer of a composition containing 1.0 to 12.0 mass % of silicon and 0.002 to 0.080 mass % of boron and formed on a surface of a substrate steel sheet, the coated layer having an IMAX/I0 ratio of 2.0 or more as measured by GDS (glow discharge optical emission spectrometry) analysis from the outermost surface into the depth of the coated layer, where IMAX is the maximum detection intensity of boron in regions with a sputter depth of 0 to 1.0 ?m, and I0 is the average detection intensity of boron within a sputter depth of 1.0 to 5.0 ?m.