Abstract: An optical module includes a temperature controller that performs a function of adjusting the temperature of a semiconductor laser, and an optical monitor that performs a function of monitoring an optical output from the semiconductor laser and monitoring an oscillation wavelength, the optical module includes a heater and a thermistor housed in a package, the heater and the thermistor are electrically connected in parallel, and one end of the heater and one end of the thermistor are connected to a heater-and-thermistor shared lead pin.

Abstract: An electric motor system includes a motor, a hydrodynamic air bearing that rotatably supports a shaft of the motor, a power conversion circuit that provides a drive current to the motor, and a controller including a life evaluation module that evaluates a life of the air bearing. The life evaluation module has a data input unit that obtains rotation speed history data which is a time history of a rotation speed of the motor, a sliding distance acquisition unit that obtains, using the rotation speed history data, a sliding distance when the shaft is in a state of rotating while being in contact with the air bearing, and an evaluation value calculation unit that evaluates the life of the air bearing using the sliding distance.

Abstract: An optical module includes: a semiconductor laser having a light emission coupler to emit a rear laser beam along with emission of a front laser beam from a front end; and an optical monitor having a light coupling coupler to receive and couple the rear laser beam emitted from the light emission coupler. The semiconductor laser and the optical monitor are superimposed in such a manner that the light emission coupler and the light coupling coupler face each other.

Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an optical member movable according to control by each of a plurality of operation units, moves the optical member according to information on at least one of a target position and a speed of the optical member set by the first operation unit, and determines an operation unit which transmits a signal regarding activation and deactivation of a predetermined function at an earliest timing among the plurality of operation units, as the first operation unit. Each of the plurality of operation units includes a first operation member configured to switch the activation and the deactivation of the predetermined function, a second operation member configured to change the target position, and a third operation member configured to change the speed.

Abstract: An optical module includes a semiconductor laser and an optical monitor to receive a laser beam from the semiconductor laser and output a first monitor value and a second monitor value for estimating intensity and a wavelength of the laser beam from the semiconductor laser. An optical monitor constitutes an optical interferometer including a first optical coupler to receive a laser beam from the semiconductor laser, a second optical coupler to receive the laser beam from the semiconductor laser, a first optical receiver to output the first monitor value, and a second optical receiver to output the second monitor value, and a first path from the first optical coupler to the first optical receiver and a second path from the second optical coupler to the second optical receiver are asymmetric.

Abstract: A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light emitting element for emitting first light, a wavelength conversion member for converting the first light into second light, and a support member. The wavelength conversion member has a first face and a second face crossing a longitudinal direction of the wavelength conversion member, a third face and a fourth face crossing the first face and the second face, and a fifth face and a sixth face crossing the first face and the second face and crossing the third face and the fourth face, and the second light is emitted from the first face. A light emitting surface of the light emitting element is opposed to the third face.

Abstract: In an air conditioning and sterilization system, air supply ports and exhaust ports are provided to rooms of a building, respectively, air supply pipes and exhaust pipes are connected to the air supply ports and the exhaust ports, an air conditioning room is between the air supply pipes and the exhaust pipes to adjust temperature and humidity of an air, and the air is circulated in each of the rooms. The air conditioning room includes ventilation means that introduces external air into the air conditioning room, sterilization means that irradiates the air inside the air conditioning room with an ultraviolet ray having a dominant wavelength of 254 nm to sterilize the air, and a blower that supplies the sterilized air to each of the rooms and discharges the air from the exhaust ports by making each room have a positive pressure and the air conditioning room have a negative pressure.

Abstract: An optical module includes a semiconductor laser, a first optical receiver receiving a laser beam from the semiconductor laser, an optical filter receiving the laser beam, and a second optical receiver receiving the laser beam via the optical filter, and a temperature adjuster adjusting a temperature in the semiconductor laser and a temperature in the optical monitor, and perform control to increase a temperature to be given to the semiconductor laser and the optical monitor when a wavelength monitor value I?/Ip being a ratio between an optical power monitor value Ip obtained by an output from the first optical receiver and a wavelength monitor value I? obtained by an output from the second optical receiver is larger than a wavelength set value, and change the temperature to be given to the semiconductor laser and the optical monitor when the wavelength monitor value I?/Ip deviates from the wavelength set value.

Abstract: A semiconductor nonvolatile memory device or the like capable of narrowing a cell voltage distribution range while suppressing write delay is provided. The semiconductor nonvolatile memory device includes: a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of bit lines intersecting the plurality of gate lines; and a plurality of memory cells connected to respectively intersection points between the gate lines and the bit lines. The plurality of memory cells are connected to one gate line selected from among the plurality of gate lines respectively via the different bit lines, and the semiconductor nonvolatile memory device further includes a plurality of write bit line current or voltage control circuits respectively controlling bit line currents in order to simultaneously perform writing into the plurality of memory cells.

Abstract: To reduce the time required for data writing. A semiconductor memory device is provided, comprising a memory cell having a gate electrode including a selection gate and a memory gate, a source line connected to a source, and a bit line connected to a drain, an extraction part that extracts a current flowing from the source side to the drain side during writing in the memory cell from the bit line, a discharge part that has a higher ability to pass current than the extraction part and lowers the voltage of the bit line, a charge part that has a higher ability to pass current than the discharge part and applies a voltage to the bit line, and a control part that, when starting to write to the memory cell, lowers the voltage of the bit line by the discharge part and applies a voltage to the bit line by the charge part.

Abstract: In each of n twin cells of n first sense amplifier, a current path is formed between a power supply line and one memory cell having a small or large cell current in a data readout state of two memory cells. A second sense amplifier generates erase verify information indicating whether all stored data in the memory cells of the n twin cells are in an erase state at the same level, based on a verify current flowing through a power supply line as a sum of currents of the n first sense amplifiers.

Abstract: A seat assembly for a vehicle having a vehicle body includes a seat bench adapted to be arranged inside the vehicle body and defines a passenger compartment and a service compartment inside the vehicle body. The seat bench includes a seat bottom to facilitate a seating of a one or more passengers, and a back support. The back support has a first support panel adapted to move between an upright position and a folded position relative to the seat bottom, and a second support panel arranged proximate to the seat bottom and removably coupled to the first support panel and the seat bottom. The first support panel is moved to the folded position from the upright position upon a disengagement of the second support panel from the first support panel and the seat bottom to provide an access of the service compartment.

Abstract: An optical receiver includes: a support base; a waveguide-type light receiving element fixed to a surface of the support base; and an optical circuit element fixed to the surface of the support base, wherein the waveguide-type light receiving element includes: a semi-insulating semiconductor substrate; a light absorbing layer formed on one main surface of the semiconductor substrate and has a pair of joint surfaces perpendicular to the one main surface of the semiconductor substrate and an incident end face on which light is incident and which has facing end sides of the joint surfaces as a pair of opposite sides, the incident end face having a layer thickness longer than a layer width; an n-type semiconductor layer joined to one of the joint surfaces of the light absorbing layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer joined to the other of the joint surfaces of the light absorbing layer.

Abstract: A first voltage application circuit applies a first voltage determined to have a first voltage value to a first wiring connected to an asymmetrical memory cell. A second voltage application circuit applies a second voltage determined to have a second voltage value to a second wiring connected to the asymmetrical memory cell. When receiving a first input value from a first terminal, a voltage control circuit fixes the second voltage value and changes the first voltage value with a positive inclination with respect to the first input value within a range equal to or higher than the second voltage value. When receiving a second input value from a second terminal, the voltage control circuit fixes the first voltage value and changes the second voltage value with a negative inclination with respect to the second input value within a range equal to or lower than the first voltage value.

Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle body including a side body component and a transverse body component, and a vehicle seat attached to the each of the side and transverse body components. The vehicle seat includes a seat main frame including an attached seat back, a side member attached to the seat main frame, the side member defining an outboard bolster for the seat back and an armrest, and a seat base attached to the seat main frame. A first connection bracket is secured to the transverse body component adjacent an outboard side edge portion of the seat back, and the outboard bolster of the side member is connected to the first connection bracket. A second connection bracket is secured to the side body component and extended toward the seat main frame, and the armrest of the side member is connected to the second connection bracket.

Abstract: A control apparatus is communicable with a unit including a display apparatus in an imaging system. The control apparatus includes a communication device configured to communicate with the unit, and a processor configured to make the communication device to transmit display data superimposed by the display apparatus to the unit based on specifying information for specifying the unit acquired by the communication device and information about a function of the display apparatus corresponding to the specifying information.

Abstract: An occupied area of the switch circuit electrically connected to a memory cell is reduced to reduce the size of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell on a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor chip in which a switch circuit electrically connected to the memory cell is formed, wherein the switch circuit includes a second transistor electrically connected to the memory cell, and the second transistor includes a second word gate formed on the semiconductor substrate through a third gate insulating film, and a second coupling gate formed on the semiconductor substrate through a fourth gate insulating film having a thickness greater than that of the third gate insulating film, wherein a voltage higher than a voltage applied to the second word gate is applied to the second coupling gate of the second transistor when a current is applied to the memory cell.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a first light source that emits first light belonging to a first wavelength band, a second light source that emits second light belonging to a second wavelength band, a wavelength converter that contains a phosphor and converts the first light into third light belonging to a third wavelength band different from the first, a first heat dissipation member that includes a plurality of first fins and dissipates heat generated by the first light source, a second heat dissipation member that includes a plurality of second fins and dissipates heat generated by the second light source, and a first direction wherein first channels, specified by the gaps between the first fins and along which a refrigerant is supplied, extend coincides with a second direction wherein second channels, specified by the gaps between the second fins and along which the refrigerant is supplied, extend.

Abstract: A lens array includes, on a surface which belongs to the lens array and which faces a flat surface of a base, a plurality of adhesive surfaces located side by side in a direction in which a plurality of lens elements is arranged in parallel, and includes an interference suppression portion for an adhesive between adjacent adhesive surfaces among the plurality of adhesive surfaces, and a plurality of adhesive layers is provided which glues the plurality of adhesive surfaces of the lens array to the flat surface of the base and thereby fixes the lens array to the flat surface of the base.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat main frame including a seat back attached to the seat main frame. The vehicle seat assembly also includes left and right side members in which each side member defines an outboard seat back bolster and an armrest. The armrest has a forward attachment bracket for attachment to the seat main frame. The vehicle seat assembly also includes a seat base including a seat base frame attached to the seat main frame and left and right corner cover members separate from the respective left and right side members and the seat base. Each corner cover member is adapted to cover the forward attachment bracket of the corresponding side member. Further, the left and right corner cover members conceal the attachment of the left and right side members to the seat main frame.