Abstract: This semiconductor device includes: a first insulation resin portion formed on the mounting surface side of a lead frame; a second insulation resin portion formed on the heat dissipation surface side of the lead frame; and a heatsink fixed to the heat dissipation surface of the second insulation resin portion, wherein the second insulation resin portion has a second skirt portion formed at an end of a thin molded portion, the first insulation resin portion has a first skirt portion covering the second skirt portion, and an outer peripheral surface part of the second skirt portion has a first end connected to the lead frame and the first skirt portion, a second end connected to the heatsink, and at least one bent portion formed between the first end and the second end.

Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a housing, a rotating member, and a motor. Part of fluid compressed by a compressor impeller is introduced into a motor accommodation space through an inlet-side flow passage that has an inlet-side fixed throttle, and is discharged from the motor accommodation space through an outlet-side flow passage that has an outlet-side fixed throttle. The outlet-side flow passage includes a connection part connecting to the motor accommodation space. The connection part is formed separately from a clearance between a second partition wall and a shaft, and is located opposite to a connection part of the inlet-side flow passage connecting to the motor accommodation space across the motor in an axial direction of the shaft. The inlet-side fixed throttle and the outlet-side fixed throttle are configured such that pressure in the motor accommodation space is higher than pressure in a turbine-wheel back pressure region.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a carriage that mounts a liquid ejecting head provided with a nozzle surface in which nozzles to eject a liquid are formed, and is configured to move the liquid ejecting head between an ejection area used to cause the liquid ejecting head to eject the liquid onto a medium and a maintenance area used to perform maintenance of the liquid ejecting head, and a liquid receiving portion that has a size equal to or larger than the nozzle surface, is opposed to the nozzle surface located at a detachment position defined in the maintenance area, and receives the liquid discharged from the nozzles when detaching a liquid supply coupling portion detachably coupled to the liquid ejecting head.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a fixation member that can be located at a fixation position where a liquid supply coupling portion is coupled to a liquid ejecting head mounted on a carriage and is fixed to the carriage and at a release position where the fixation is released, and a carriage cover provided to the carriage such that the carriage cover is located at a closed position and covers an upper part of the carriage when the liquid ejecting head ejects the liquid. The carriage cover includes a contact portion that comes into contact with the fixation member when the carriage cover is located at a position different from the closed position in a case in which the fixation member is located at the release position.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transporting unit configured to transport a medium, a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium, a cutting unit located downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction of the medium, and configured to cut the medium, and a blowing unit configured to deliver gas from upstream of the cutting unit in the transport direction of the medium toward downstream of the cutting unit.

Abstract: A device includes: N communication modules, a selector that selects one communication module, an obtainer that obtains a reception strength of a signal, a generator that generates an image that includes 2N display regions associated with the N communication modules in order of communication speed from slower to faster per two display regions counted from a reference position along one direction, and a display. The generator generates, as the image, an image displaying (i) a graphic of a first type in, among the two display regions associated with the one communication module, more display regions counted from proximity to the reference position along the one direction, with an increase in the reception strength of the one communication module, and (ii) the graphic of the first type in each of two display regions associated with a communication module that communicates at a slower speed than the one communication module.

Abstract: A device management method executed in a server communicatively connected, via a network, to a plurality of devices and a first operation device associated with a first user identifier identifying a first user, includes: receiving, from the first operation device, a request to associate the first user identifier and a first device identifier identifying a first device among the plurality of devices; and when, in correspondence information stored in a storage device and including device identifiers identifying devices associated with user identifiers identifying users, (i) the first device identifier is associated with a second user identifier different from the first user identifier and (ii) the first user identifier is associated with a second device identifier identifying a second device different from the first device among the plurality of devices, storing the second device identifier and the second user identifier in association with each other.

Abstract: A device management system includes: a server communicatively connected to a network; a base station for long-distance wireless communication that is communicatively connected to the network; and a device that is communicatively connected to the base station and transmits, to the server via the base station, state information indicating a state of the device. The server receives the state information from the device, generates notification information in accordance with the received state information, and transmits the generated notification information to the device.

Abstract: A turbomachine includes a housing, an impeller, a shaft, and first and second radial foil bearings that rotationally support the shaft. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The shaft includes a first inner ring and a second inner ring. The first inner ring is formed integrally with the shaft as a part of the shaft. The second inner ring is formed separately from the shaft. The first inner ring includes a first opposed end portion that is opposed to a first end portion of the rotor. The second inner ring includes a second opposed end portion that is opposed to a second end portion of the rotor. The second opposed end portion is fixed to the shaft such that the second opposed end portion and the first opposed end portion hold the rotor in between to apply preload in an axial direction to the rotor.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that is used by being adhered to the body of a user. The information processing apparatus includes a sound pickup sensor that has a sound pickup function, a communicating part that wirelessly transmits audio data picked up by the sound pickup sensor to the outside, a control part that controls the sound pickup sensor and the communicating part, a power source part that supplies a power source to at least one of the sound pickup sensor, the communicating part, or the control part, a housing part that accommodates therein at least one of the sound pickup sensor, the communicating part, the control part, or the power source part, and an adhering part that fixes the housing part to the user. The sound pickup part picks up a sound of the user using, for example, flesh conduction or bone conduction.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft accommodated in the housing, an electric motor including a motor rotor and a motor stator for rotating the rotary shaft, an impeller connected to one end of the rotary shaft and driven by rotation of the rotary shaft so as to compress fluid, a radial bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft in a radial direction of the rotary shaft, and a resolver including a resolver rotor and a resolver stator for detecting a rotation angle of the motor rotor. The resolver rotor is fixed to the other end of the rotary shaft opposite to the impeller. The rotary shaft includes a radial support member rotatably supported by the radial bearing, and a radius of the radial support member is larger than a radius of gyration of the resolver rotor.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine in which a controller and a heat sink are arranged in an extending direction of an output shaft of a motor, in order to provide a rotary electric machine which secures a heat rejection performance and an insulation performance of a semiconductor device to be mounted to the controller and is downsized as a whole, the controller includes a semiconductor device having a drive circuit provided so as to correspond to a stator winding of the motor, and the semiconductor device has a main face held in close contact with the heat sink. On a close contact face between the semiconductor device and the heat sink, a drive circuit is formed so as to extend along an outer edge portion of the heat sink to increase a cooling area.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transporting unit configured to transport a medium, a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium, a cutting unit located downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction of the medium, and configured to cut the medium, and a blowing unit configured to deliver gas from upstream of the cutting unit in the transport direction of the medium toward downstream of the cutting unit.

Abstract: A transport device provided in a printing apparatus includes a transport mechanism as an example of a first transport unit and a winding unit that is disposed on a downstream side of the transport mechanism in a transport direction. The transport device includes a tensile force applying unit that has a tension bar as an example of a tensile force applying member that is biased toward a medium between the transport mechanism and the winding unit and applies tensile force to the medium. Furthermore, the transport device includes a control unit that independently and intermittently drives the transport mechanism and the winding unit. The control unit controls transport start timing of the winding unit to take place later than transport start timing of the transport mechanism and causes the transport mechanism and the winding unit to transport the medium in parallel.

Abstract: To provide an audio playback device which allows a novel listening experience for a listener by bone conduction from a prescribed position of the head area. [Solution] Provided is the audio playback device including at least one bone conduction device. The bone conduction device is provided at a position to be worn at a prescribed position of a head area of a listener. The prescribed position is a position allowing the listener to feel that a sound source moves from a position to which the bone conduction device is attached and to feel the sound source from another position.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a thinly-molded portion covering a whole of a heat dissipating surface portion of a lead frame and a die pad space filled portion are integrally molded from a second mold resin, because of which adhesion between the thinly-molded portion and lead frame improves owing to the die pad space filled portion adhering to a side surface of the lead frame. Also, as the thinly-molded portion is partially thicker owing to the die pad space filled portion, strength of the thinly-molded portion increases, and a deficiency or cracking is unlikely to occur.

Abstract: This semiconductor device includes: a first insulation resin portion formed on the mounting surface side of a lead frame; a second insulation resin portion formed on the heat dissipation surface side of the lead frame; and a heatsink fixed to the heat dissipation surface of the second insulation resin portion, wherein the second insulation resin portion has a second skirt portion formed at an end of a thin molded portion, the first insulation resin portion has a first skirt portion covering the second skirt portion, and an outer peripheral surface part of the second skirt portion has a first end connected to the lead frame and the first skirt portion, a second end connected to the heatsink, and at least one bent portion formed between the first end and the second end.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a first skirt portion molded from a first mold resin and a second skirt portion molded from a second mold resin are provided on a heat dissipating surface of a lead frame. Also, a thinly-molded portion is molded integrally with the second skirt portion from the second mold resin. According to this kind of configuration, adhesion between the thinly-molded portion and lead frame is high, and the semiconductor device with excellent heat dissipation and insulation is obtained.

Abstract: A pattern-forming method comprises: forming a resist underlayer film on an upper face side of a substrate; forming a silicon-containing film on an upper face side of the resist underlayer film; and removing the silicon-containing film with a basic aqueous solution. The pattern-forming method does not include, after the forming of the silicon-containing film and before the removing of the silicon-containing film, treating the silicon-containing film with a treatment liquid comprising an acid or a fluorine compound. The silicon-containing film is preferably formed a hydrolytic condensation product of a composition containing a compound represented by formula (1) in an amount of no less than 60 mol % with respect to total silicon compounds. X represents a halogen atom or —OR2, and R2 represents a monovalent organic group.