Abstract: Disclosed is a noise suppression sheet 1 including a resin layer 2, a non-magnetic metal layer 3, and a metal magnetic layer 4 in this order.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element includes, in order, a substrate, a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, a second electrode layer, a first refractive index layer, and a second refractive index layer. The first refractive index layer and the second refractive index layer are in contact with each other at an interface. The light-emitting layer has a light-emitting region opposed to the first electrode layer. The interface has a recess opposed to the light-emitting region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.

Abstract: An antenna device to be mounted on a vehicle, including a ground plate having a planar shape; and an antenna element which is a resonant type, is provided at a position so as not to overlap with the ground conductor within a plane substantially parallel to the ground conductor, and is configured to transmit or receive a polarized wave parallel to the ground conductor. A rectangular notch is formed in the ground plate to have both a right and left edge portions with a predetermined width being left, and the antenna element is provided at a position overlapping with the notch in a plane substantially parallel to the ground plate.

Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of pixels and a first insulating film. The plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix in a first direction and a second direction. The first insulating film is provided between adjacent pixels of the pixels, and has first openings in light-emitting regions of the respective pixels. The first insulating film has, between pixels adjacent in the second direction of the pixels, a second opening extending in the first direction, and a remaining part inside the second opening.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and includes: a substrate; pixel electrode layers that are arranged on the substrate in the matrix; an insulating layer that is provided above the substrate and the pixel electrode layers, and has elongated openings and a grooved portion for each of the pixels, the openings extending in a column direction and being arranged in a row direction, the grooved portion having an upper opening and a bottom and being communicated with at least one of the openings in plan view; organic functional layers that are provided above the pixel electrode layers, and include light emitting layers in which organic electroluminescence occurs in the openings; and a light-transmissive counter electrode layer that is provided above the organic functional layers. Cross-sectional profiles of the openings taken along the row direction are uniform in the column direction.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The pixels each include a lower layer, an inner insulating layer, an application-type functional layer, and an upper electrode that are layered in this order. The lower layer includes a lower electrode. The functional layer includes a light-emitting layer. The inner insulating layer has one or more openings in which the lower layer is exposed. The openings each have a width increasing toward the upper electrode and have a slope toward a periphery of the pixel. In plan view, the openings are constituted from a plurality of elongated opening pieces.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing member including a heater as a heat source; and a hardware processor that uses pulse width modulation (PWM) control to control power supplied to the heater; wherein the hardware processor changes a duty of the PWM control within a half cycle of an input current of the PWM control.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide metal powder that can be used to form an external electrode, which is excellent in solder wettability and solder leach resistance while having a layer structure with fewer layers than in the related art and, furthermore, is excellent in electrical conductivity. This silver-coated alloy powder comprises a coating layer on a surface of an alloy core particle containing copper, nickel, zinc, and inevitable impurities, the coating layer containing silver.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns includes: a substrate; pixel electrode layers that are made of a light-reflective material and are arranged on the substrate in the matrix; an insulating layer that is provided above the substrate and the pixel electrode layers; organic functional layers that are provided above the pixel electrode layers; and a light-transmissive counter electrode layer that is provided above the organic functional layers, wherein the insulating layer has a first opening and second openings for each of the pixel electrode layers, the first opening being elongated in a column direction, the second openings each being shorter than the first opening in the column direction and being lined up adjacent to the first opening, and the organic functional layers include light-emitting layers in which organic electroluminescence occurs in the first opening and the second openings.

Abstract: A transformer is provided between a power supply, and a load with a resistance value R, and includes a two-terminal pair circuit composed of n-number of reactance elements that are mutually connected, where n is a natural number equal to or greater than 4. With respect to any value of the resistance value R of the load, an input impedance Zin of the two-terminal pair circuit has a real number component of k·R, where k is a constant, and an imaginary number component of 0. Such a transformer has a small size and a light weight, and does not need a coil, an iron core, and the like as used in a conventional transformer.

Abstract: A power generator 100 includes a power generating unit 10 and a supporting member 20 for supporting the power generating unit 10. The power generating unit 10 constitutes a two-degree-freedom vibration system including a first vibration system having a coil assembly 40 and a first spring portion 64 for coupling the coil assembly 40 with a housing 20 and a second vibration system having a magnet assembly 30 and a second spring portion 65 for coupling the magnet assembly 30 with the coil assembly 40. The power generating unit 10 is configured so that each of a first natural frequency ?1 of the first vibration system and a second natural frequency ?2 of the second vibration system is in the range of 14 to 42 Hz.

Abstract: A substrate is held in a substrate holder and accommodated in a treatment chamber. A positive electrode panel is arranged opposite to a surface of the substrate. Process gas is sent from a blower panel, toward the positive electrode panel and the substrate. A positive electrode of a high-frequency power source is connected to the positive electrode panel, and a negative electrode of the high-frequency power source is connected to the blower panel, to apply a high-frequency voltage. The process gas passes between the positive electrode panel and the blower panel which is the negative electrode, so that plasma is generated. The generated plasma removes contaminants on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An image forming system identifies a user's operation for changing a set value related to a processing of the image forming apparatus or the post-processing apparatus. When the set value is changed during a continuous output operation of the image forming system, the image forming system causes the image forming apparatus and the post-processing apparatus to continue the continuous output operation while reflecting the changed set value. The image forming system Detects a predetermined change related to the processing by referring back to a time when the user's operation is identified, and causes the image forming apparatus and the post-processing apparatus to re-output papers that have been output from a time when the predetermined change occurred to a time when the changed set value was reflected.

Abstract: A power transmission device of a work vehicle has an input shaft, an output shaft, a gear mechanism, and an electric motor. The gear mechanism has a planetary gear mechanism and transmits the rotation of the input shaft to the output shaft. The electric motor is connected to a rotating element of the planetary gear mechanism. The power transmission device is configured to change the rotation speed ratio of the output shaft with respect to the input shaft by changing the rotation speed of the electric motor. A control unit has a target torque determination unit and a target torque correcting unit. The target torque determination unit determines a target torque of the electric motor. The target torque correcting unit corrects the target torque according to a correction torque based on a moment of inertia of the electric motor.

Abstract: An exhaust-heat recovery apparatus includes: a circulation passage, through which a heat carrier circulates, that has a heat recovery unit evaporating the heat carrier and a condenser condensing the evaporated heat carrier; a heat carrier controller that supplies the heat carrier in a liquid phase to the circulation passage; and a determination unit, in which the heat carrier controller supplies or recovers the heat carrier when a changing rate of an internal pressure in the circulation passage or a changing rate of a temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage is within a predetermined range, determines a type of abnormality based on the changing rate of the internal pressure in the circulation passage or the changing rate of the temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage after the supplying or the recovering of the heat carrier.

Abstract: A control unit in a work vehicle executes an automatic downshift for shifting a transmission from a current speed range to a speed range that is lower than the current speed range when at least a first condition, a second condition, a third condition, and a fourth condition are satisfied. The first condition is that an operating amount of an accelerator operating member of the work vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined accelerator threshold. The second condition is that a vehicle speed of the work vehicle is less than a predetermined speed threshold. The third condition is that a vehicle acceleration of the work vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined acceleration threshold. The fourth condition is that that the hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic fluid supplied to a brake device of the work vehicle is less than a predetermined brake threshold.

Abstract: An insertion device which inserts a second recording medium into a conveyance path to convey a plurality of first recording media fed from a feeding device includes: a loading unit in which the second recording medium is loaded; a separating unit which separates the second recording medium, which is loaded in the loading unit; a detection unit which detects time of separation of the second recording medium performed by the separating unit; a calculation unit which calculates first feed timing to feed a following first recording medium, which is conveyed in the conveyance path after the second recording medium, to the conveyance path; a notification unit which notifies the first feed timing to the feeding device; and an inserting unit which conveys the second recording medium separated by the separating unit to a converging point in the conveyance path and to insert the second recording medium into the conveyance path.

Abstract: The plasma spraying apparatus includes a cathode, a first gas nozzle defining a first gas path between the cathode and itself, a second gas nozzle defining a second gas path between the first gas nozzle and itself, and a third gas nozzle disposed between the first and second gas nozzles to define a third gas path between the first and second gas paths. A wire is disposed at a distal end thereof in front of a nozzle opening of the second gas nozzle. A first gas sprayed through the first gas nozzle is turned into plasma flame, which melts the wire into droplets, and the droplets are sprayed onto a target by a second gas sprayed through the second gas nozzle. The third gas absorbs heat from the plasma flame to thereby turn into a high-temperature gas flow externally of the plasma flame.