Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II): wherein, A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; X1 represents a halogeno group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkyl group and so on; m represents the number of X1 and is any integer of 0 to 5; any two of X1 may be bound together to form a bivalent hydrocarbon group; Y represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 alkenylene group; Q1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 arylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted 6- to 10-membered heteroarylene group; Q2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 6-membered heteroaryl group; Zq? represents a counter ion; and q represents a valence of the counter ion and is 1 or 2.

Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged separately from each other; and a plurality of dielectric layers laminated in a first direction with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes, in which the plurality of dielectric layers includes: a first dielectric layer that spreads over the plurality of pixel electrodes in a direction intersecting with the first direction; and a second dielectric layer that includes dielectric material having a refractive index higher than that of the first dielectric layer, sandwiches the first dielectric layer together with the plurality of pixel electrodes, and has a slit at a position overlapping space between pixel electrodes adjacent when viewed from the first direction.

Abstract: A light modulation device having a pixel arrangement region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to be opposed to the first substrate via a liquid crystal layer, and a cooling member disposed on the opposite side of the first substrate with respect to the second substrate and thermally connected to the second substrate. The cooling member includes a hollow space in which working fluid is encapsulated and changes the working fluid in a liquid phase to the working fluid in a gas phase to cool the liquid crystal layer via the second substrate.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that damps torsional vibration effectively in a low-speed range. In the torsional vibration damper, a spring holder is formed by apertures of an input element and an output element, and an elastic member is held in the spring holder. A first moveable range of a planetary element extending from an initial position in a drive direction is wider than a second movable range of the planetary element extending from the initial position in a counter direction.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II): wherein, A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; X1 represents a halogeno group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkyl group and so on; m represents the number of X1 and is any integer of 0 to 5; any two of X1 may be bound together to form a bivalent hydrocarbon group; Y represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 alkenylene group; Q1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 arylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted 6- to 10-membered heteroarylene group; Q2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- to 6-membered heteroaryl group; Zq? represents a counter ion; and q represents a valence of the counter ion and is 1 or 2.

Abstract: Provided is a high frequency power source allowing the user to arbitrarily set a temporal change pattern for the value of high frequency power to be outputted. A high frequency power source 10A according to the present invention includes an output portion 20 configured to output high frequency power to a load 40 via an impedance matching circuit 30, a data storage portion 13A configured to store command data created by a user, and a control portion 12A configured to control the output portion 20 and the impedance matching circuit 30 on the basis of the command data stored in the data storage portion 13A.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device including: forming an N-type region in a nitride semiconductor layer; implanting ions of an acceptor element into a region under the N-type region in the nitride semiconductor layer; and forming a first P-type region under the N-type region by subjecting the nitride semiconductor layer to heat treatment and activating the acceptor element. The forming the N-type region includes implanting ions of a donor element into the nitride semiconductor layer such that concentration of the donor element in the N-type region is equal to or greater than concentration of the acceptor element in the first P-type region. The implanting ions of the acceptor element into a region under the N-type region includes implanting ions of the acceptor element such that concentration of the acceptor element in the first P-type region is 1×1019 cm?3 or more and 1×1021 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device including: forming N-type regions in a nitride semiconductor layer; implanting ions of an acceptor element into a region sandwiched by the N-type regions in the nitride semiconductor layer; and forming a P-type region sandwiched by the N-type regions by subjecting the nitride semiconductor layer to heat treatment and activating the acceptor element. The forming the N-type regions includes implanting ions of a donor element to the nitride semiconductor layer such that concentration of the donor element in the N-type regions is equal to or greater than concentration of the acceptor element in the P-type region. The implanting ions of the acceptor element includes implanting ions of the acceptor element such that concentration of the acceptor element in the P-type region is 1×1019 cm?3 or more and 1×1021 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a novel artificial protein catalyst that enables the protection of a catalyst from substances in vivo and has potential usefulness in therapeutic in vivo synthetic chemistry. [Solution] Provided is a complex of a protein and a catalyst selected from a metal catalyst or organic catalyst. In the complex according to the present invention, the protein is a protein having a hydrophobic pocket in the three-dimensional structure thereof, and the catalyst is housed in the hydrophobic pocket so that the catalyst is not or substantially not exposed to a hydrophilic environment.

Abstract: Provided are compounds represented by, for example, formula (1) (wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a heteroaryl group, not all of R1, R2, R3 and R4 being hydrogen atoms), a luminescent material including at least one compound selected from among the compounds, and a luminescent element including the luminescent material.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper that a torsional vibration damper having a planetary gear unit, and a manufacturing method of the torsional vibration damper for limiting damages on gears of the planetary gear unit due to dimension errors. In the planetary gear unit, at least one of a sun gear, a ring gear, and a set of planetary gears is/are formed by a press forming method. The gear formed by the press forming method is engaged with the remaining gears in such a manner that a thinner portion of each tooth is individually engaged with a thicker portion of the adjacent teeth of the remaining gears.

Abstract: An inkjet printer has a nozzle surface on a head and having nozzle rows each having nozzles, manifolds suppling ink to the nozzles in each nozzle row, supply flow paths connected to the manifold and suppling the ink, circulation flow paths connected to the manifold and circulating the ink from the manifold to which the ink is supplied through the supply flow path, a cap to be in contact with the nozzle surface on an outside of the nozzles respectively in two nozzle rows, and a controller executing circulation processing where circulation of the ink through one supply flow path, one manifold and one circulation flow path is performed, and circulation of the ink through another supply flow path, another manifold and another circulation flow path is not performed, in a state where the ink or a cleaning liquid supplied in the cap is contacted with the nozzle surface.

Abstract: A lifespan diagnosis device for a motion guidance device including: a stress calculating means which calculates stresses during movement for each of virtual segments, the stresses during movement being stresses that occur in each segment during a movement of the moving member; a counting means which counts, for each of the segments, on the basis of the amount of displacement, the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement which repetitively occur with waving during a movement of the moving member along the track; and a diagnostic means which calculates, for each of the segments, a lifespan exhaustion ratio on the basis of magnitudes of the stresses during movement and the number of occurrences of the stresses during movement, and which diagnoses the lifespan of the motion guidance device on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratios of the respective segments.

Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a projection optical apparatus having an entrance optical path that image light enters and a passage optical path that is a deflected extension of the entrance optical path, an image generation apparatus that causes the image light to enter the entrance optical path, a light source apparatus that supplies the image generation apparatus with illumination light, and a first apparatus disposed on the opposite side of the projection optical apparatus from the light source apparatus, and the first apparatus is at least one of a controller and a power supply.

Abstract: A drive system of an electric vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a generating motor provided so as to be able to generate electricity by receiving motive force from the internal combustion engine; and a travel motor provided so as to be able to be driven by electric power generated by the generating motor, and the drive system is configured so as to be able to switch a series hybrid mode and an engine direct connected mode, the series hybrid mode being a mode in which, while the internal combustion engine and the drive wheel are linked via a first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, the travel motor and the drive wheel are linked via a second clutch different from the first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, and the travel motor is used as a drive power source such that the electric vehicle travels by transmitting motive force from the travel motor to the drive wheel, the engine direct connected mode being a mode in which at least one of the internal combustion engine and the generator

Abstract: An image generation apparatus includes a first reflective optical element that reflects at least part of the light outputted from a light source apparatus and a second reflective optical element disposed in the optical path of the light reflected off the first reflective optical element. A projection. optical apparatus has an entrance optical path located in the light exiting optical axis of the image generation apparatus, a deflection member that deflects light having traveled along the entrance optical path, and a passage optical path along which the light deflected by the deflection member travels. The light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus is parallel to the light incident optical axis of the projection optical apparatus, and the extension of the light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus intersects with the passage optical path.

Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a light source apparatus, a first reflective optical element that reflects the light outputted by the light source apparatus, a second reflective optical element that reflects the light reflected off the first reflective optical element, and a projection optical apparatus that enters the light from the second reflective optical element. The projection optical apparatus has an entrance optical path, a deflection member that deflects the direction of the light traveling along the entrance optical path, and a passage optical path along which the light that exits out of the deflection member travels. The extension of the light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus does not coincide with the extension of the optical axis of the entrance optical path and intersects with the extension containing the optical axis of the passage optical path.

Abstract: In a component mounter provided with a holding tool configured to hold leaded component, a moving device configured to move the holding tool, and an imaging device configured to image a leaded component held by the holding tool, the lengths of the pair of leads of leaded component are different. With respect to this, operation of the moving devices is controlled based on imaging data of the leaded component captured by the imaging device, and the tip section of long lead of the pair of leads of the leaded component held by the holding tool is inserted in a through-hole. Next, leaded component is moved such that short lead is positioned above a through-hole, and the short lead is inserted into the through-hole. That is, the pair of leads are inserted into the through-holes in order of proximity of the tips to circuit board, closer leads being inserted earlier.

Abstract: A power transmission device of the present invention is a power transmission device for a vehicle, including: a generator configured to be driven by power of an internal combustion engine; a travel motor configured to be driven by electric power generated by the generator and to drive a drive wheels; and the drive wheels configured to be driven by the power of the internal combustion engine or power of the travel motor. The power transmission device includes: a first power transmission path configured to transmit power between the travel motor and the drive wheels; and a first clutch mechanism configured to allow or interrupt power transmission through the first power transmission path.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I). In formula (I), each L independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, n indicates the number of L groups, and is either 1 or 2, each Q independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted 3,6-di-t-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, a substituted or unsubstituted 3,6-diphenyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted 3-phenyl-6-t-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl group, and in indicates the number of Q groups, and has a value of 5?n.