Abstract: A capacitive isolation type power conversion device includes a primary side circuit, which includes switching elements, a first connection line and a second connection line, which are connected to the primary side circuit, a first capacitor provided on the first connection line, a second capacitor provided on the second connection line, a third connection line, an excitation inductor provided on the third connection line, a secondary side circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls a switching frequency, thereby controlling an output voltage, which is a voltage of DC power output from the secondary side circuit.

Abstract: To provide a control board for efficiently generating electric energy in a power generating device from heat generated from an electronic device. A control board includes a board including a first heat dissipating pad; an electronic device including a second heat dissipating pad to dissipate heat; a power generating device including a Peltier device which converts heat energy generated from the electronic device into electric energy, wherein the power generating device is sandwiched between the first heat dissipating pad and the second heat dissipating pad; and a power supply circuit configured to reuse the electric energy.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to manufacture a metal-resin composite by press-molding a metal plate and a resin material. The apparatus includes an upper mold and a lower mold for sandwiching the metal plate and the resin material, and an elastic member attached to a molding surface of the lower mold. A cavity for disposing the resin material is provided by the upper mold and the lower mold. The elastic member is disposed to seal the resin material into the cavity by pressing the metal plate against the upper mold.

Abstract: A controller includes a plurality of communication interfaces, a first arbiter, and a second arbiter. The first arbiter arbitrates access to a memory. The second arbiter is disposed between the plurality of communication interfaces and the first arbiter. In response to reception of a plurality of outstanding read requests to the memory from one of the plurality of communication interfaces, the second arbiter limits the number of outstanding read requests to transmit to the first arbiter.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a joint structure formed by joining a first plate-shaped member and a second plate-shaped member having a shape that is longer in a longitudinal direction than in a lateral direction includes overlapping the first plate-shaped member and the second plate-shaped member, after the overlapping, joining each of both edge portions of the second plate-shaped member by forming a weld metal along the longitudinal direction to the first plate-shaped member. The weld metal extends further outward in the lateral direction than the edge portions of the second plate-shaped member, in which the weld metal is formed by a hybrid welding in which a laser is added as a heat source during arc welding such that the weld metal extends around both of the edge portions of the second plate-shaped member along the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: first and second wiring patterns extending in a first direction, first and second transistors arranged adjacent to each other, and third to sixth wiring patterns extending in a second direction. The third wiring pattern is connected between the first wiring pattern and one of source/drain regions of the first transistor, the fourth wiring pattern is connected between the second wiring pattern and other of source/drain regions of the first transistor, the fifth wiring pattern is connected to one of source/drain regions of the second transistor, the fifth wiring pattern overlapping with the first wiring pattern, the sixth wiring pattern is connected to other of source/drain regions of the second transistor, the sixth wiring pattern overlapping with the second wiring pattern. The third and fourth wiring patterns are greater in width in the first direction than the fifth and sixth wiring patterns.

Abstract: A molding method of an overlapped blank includes: preparing an overlapped blank including a first metal plate including a bulged excess portion, a first flat portion provided adjacent to the excess portion, and a second flat portion provided adjacent to the excess portion on an opposite side to the first flat portion, a flat second metal plate overlapped on the first flat portion and the second flat portion, a first joint portion where the first flat portion and the second metal plate are joined to each other, and a second joint portion where the second flat portion and the second metal plate are joined to each other; and bending the overlapped blank with the first metal plate being directed to an outer side of the bending of the overlapped blank.

Abstract: Molding accuracy of a metal member is improved in an apparatus, a mold set, and a method for producing a metal-resin composite with a set of molds. An apparatus for manufacturing a metal-resin composite by press molding a metal member and a resin material, the apparatus including a mold including an upper mold and a lower mold sandwiching the metal member and the resin material, a molding auxiliary component detachably fixed to the upper mold so as to fill at least a part of a cavity C for arranging the resin material formed by the upper mold and the lower mold, and a drive unit that moves at least one of the upper mold and the lower mold in a vertical direction. The molding auxiliary component has a first press surface for molding the metal member. The upper mold has a second press surface for integrally molding the metal member and the resin material.

Abstract: A prediction device includes a first prediction unit that outputs first prediction information regarding a joint at a second point in time after a predetermined period of time from a first point in time, from a medical image showing the joint of a subject at the first point in time. The first prediction unit includes a first prediction model capable of estimating the first prediction information from the medical image.

Abstract: A joint body includes first and second metal members and a joint portion including a welded portion where the first and second metal members are joined together, the welded portion having a line shape. The joint portion includes first and second longitudinal portions and a plurality of connecting portions. The first longitudinal portion has first intersecting portions arranged in a first direction and extends in the first direction. The second longitudinal portion has second intersecting portions arranged in the first direction and extends in the first direction. The welded portion intersects itself at the first and second intersecting portions. The connecting portions are arranged in the first direction. The connecting portions extend in a first direction and connect the first and second longitudinal portions.

Abstract: A frying oil ordering device 60 comprises a remaining amount recognition unit 61 that recognizes an amount of frying oil 17 remaining in a storage tank 33, and an ordering timing determination unit 62 that determines an ordering timing for the storage tank 33 to be replenished with the frying oil 17 based on the remaining amount and at least one of information regarding replacing the frying oil 17 in a fryer 14 in a facility 32, and parameters that affect future sales of fried foods 19 in the facility 32.

Abstract: The apparatus includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal member and the resin material, and a drive unit that vertically moves an elastic member attached to a molding surface of the upper mold and at least one of the upper mold and the lower mold. A cavity for arranging the resin material is provided by the upper mold 110 and the lower mold. The elastic member is arranged so as to seal the resin material in the cavity.

Abstract: A mold is for press molding a metal plate and a resin material to produce a metal-resin composite. The mold includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal plate and the resin material. A cavity for arranging the resin material is provided by the upper mold and the lower mold. The upper mold has a recess into which the resin material leaking from the cavity is caused to flow.

Abstract: A mold for producing a metal-resin composite by press-forming a metal member and integrally molding the metal member that is press-formed and a resin material includes an upper mold and a lower mold that sandwich the metal member and the resin material. The upper mold includes a first press surface for press-forming the metal member and a second press surface for integrally molding the metal member and the resin material. A distance between the first press surface and the lower mold is shorter than a distance between the second press surface and the lower mold.

Abstract: Apparatuses with a signal line in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes one or more power supply voltage lines in a first conductive layer, a plurality of transistors and a signal line in a second conductive layer. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors includes an active region disposed in a substrate and a gate electrode above the active region. The signal line in the second conductive layer is below the first conductive layer and above the active regions of the plurality of transistors. The signal line is coupled to the gate electrodes of the plurality of transistors. The signal line has electrical resistance higher than electrical resistance of the power supply voltage line.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a phosphorus adsorbent that is inexpensive and can exert high phosphorus adsorption performance. The present invention relates to a phosphorus adsorbent comprising incinerator ash, cement, and lanthanum.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure for an electric vehicle includes: a battery disposed at a center lower portion of a vehicle body; a side sill being hollow and extending in a vehicle body front-rear direction outside in a vehicle width direction of the battery; a bridge beam member being hollow, disposed below the side sill and outside in the vehicle width direction of the battery, extending in the vehicle body front-rear direction, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle body front-rear direction formed as a closed cross section; and at least one bridge pier member made of steel, extending in the vehicle width direction from the battery toward the bridge beam member, and having a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle width direction forming at least a part of a closed cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A fried food display management apparatus 60 comprises: a first recognition unit 61 configured to recognize quantities of fried foods 19 according to type displayed in a display case 40 in a shop 32; a cooking schedule formulation unit 62 configured to, based on the quantities of the fried foods 19 according to type as recognized by the first recognition unit 61, formulate a cooking schedule for the types and quantities of fried foods 19 to be cooked in frying oil 17 in a fryer 14 installed in the shop 32; and a reporting unit 63 configured to report information relating to the cooking schedule in a display 25 provided in the shop 32.

Abstract: Provided is a system for reporting frying oil processing work information, with which frying oil processing work can be appropriately carried out. The frying oil processing work information reporting system comprises a deterioration state analysis unit 55 that analyzes a state of deterioration of frying oil 17 in a fryer 14, a processing work information recognition unit 56 that recognizes information about processing work for the frying oil 17 on the basis of the result of the analysis performed on the state of deterioration of the frying oil 17, and a first reporting unit 57 that is set up in a shop 32 and that reports the processing work information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is made by: forming an ohmic electrode including Al on a semiconductor substrate; forming a SiN film covering the ohmic electrode; forming a first photoresist on the SiN film, the first photoresist having an opening pattern overlapping the ohmic electrode; performing ultraviolet curing of the first photoresist; forming an opening in the SiN film exposed through the opening pattern and causing a surface of the ohmic electrode to be exposed inside the opening; forming a barrier metal layer on the first photoresist and on the ohmic electrode exposed through the opening; forming a second photoresist in the opening pattern; performing a heat treatment on the second photoresist and covering the barrier metal layer overlapping the opening with the second photoresist; and etching the barrier metal layer using the second photoresist.