Abstract: A timing adjustment method for a drive circuit, including: a rise detector for a rise start when a voltage-driven semiconductor element is turned off; a timing signal output unit outputting a speed change timing signal after a set delay time has elapsed from the rise start; and a conduction controller for a conduction control terminal of the semiconductor element using the timing signal, comprises: defining an estimated terminal voltage of the conduction control terminal when a rise completion time elapses; increasing a delay time by a predetermined unit time, and changing the drive signal to a turning off level again, when the conduction control terminal doesn't fall below the estimated terminal voltage after the drive signal is changed to a turning off level before the level is inverted; and determining a delay time, when the conduction control terminal falls below the estimated terminal voltage initially, as a set value.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes an ejection portion, a base stage, a movement portion, and a controller. The ejection portion configured to eject a fused thermoplastic resin. The movement portion configured to change relative positions of the ejection portion and the base stage. The controller configured to control the movement portion and the ejection portion such that a wall is formed by ejecting a fused thermoplastic resin from the ejection portion while relatively moving the ejection portion with respect to the base stage to provide a space surrounded by the wall in a horizontal direction and open in an upward direction, and such that a filling portion is formed by injecting a fused thermoplastic resin into the space from above.

Abstract: A drive device for controlling a power switching element to turn on and off includes: an on-side circuit performing an on operation of the power switching element; an off-side circuit performing an off operation of the power switching element; and a temperature detector detecting a temperature. At least one of the on-side and off-side circuits includes a current path for supplying or drawing a gate current of the power switching element and a switch circuit for switching the gate current. The switch circuit transitionally changes the gate current based on the temperature of the power switching element when the switching circuit switches the gate current.

Abstract: A drive device for controlling a power switching element includes: an on-side circuit that performs an on operation of the power switching element; and an off-side circuit that performs an off operation of the power switching element. The on-side circuit or the off-side circuit includes: multiple main MOS transistors; a sense MOS transistor that define a drain current of each main MOS transistor; and a sense current control circuit that controls a drain current of the sense MOS transistor to be constant; and a switch circuit that is connected to the gate of each main MOS transistor, and controls each main MOS transistor to turn on and off so as to switch a gate current in the power switching element.

Abstract: Provided is a respiratory state estimating device including a pulse wave signal acquiring unit that acquires a pulse wave signal from a portion of a living subject, a pulse rate calculating unit that calculates a pulse rate of the living subject based on the pulse wave signal, and a respiratory state estimating unit that estimates a respiratory state of the living subject based on the pulse rate. Also, provided is a respiratory state estimating method including optically acquiring a pulse wave signal from a portion of a living subject, calculating a pulse rate of the living subject based on the pulse wave signal, estimating a respiratory state of the living subject from the pulse rate.

Abstract: Provided is a resin cage for a tapered roller bearing in which a mold parting line which is extended in an axial direction is formed in a pillar portion defining a pocket. On facing surfaces of adjacent pillar portions, on an outer diameter side from the mold parting line, a first conical surface which slides in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a tapered roller is formed, and a first flat surface in a radial direction is formed in a portion on the outer diameter side from the first conical surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substituted biaryl compound of general formula (I): wherein, R1, W, R2, and Z are as defined in the claims and the description, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The compound according to the present invention has an excellent inhibition effect of pulmonary fibroblast proliferation, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent and/or a prophylactic agent for interstitial pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis.

Abstract: A drive device for controlling a power switching element to turn on and off includes: an on-side circuit performing an on operation of the power switching element; an off-side circuit performing an off operation of the power switching element; and a temperature detector detecting a temperature. At least one of the on-side and off-side circuits includes a current path for supplying or drawing a gate current of the power switching element and a switch circuit for switching the gate current. The switch circuit transitionally changes the gate current based on the temperature of the power switching element when the switching circuit switches the gate current.

Abstract: A timing adjustment method for a drive circuit, including: a rise detector for a rise start when a voltage-driven semiconductor element is turned off; a timing signal output unit outputting a speed change timing signal after a set delay time has elapsed from the rise start; and a conduction controller for a conduction control terminal of the semiconductor element using the timing signal, comprises: defining an estimated terminal voltage of the conduction control terminal when a rise completion time elapses; increasing a delay time by a predetermined unit time, and changing the drive signal to a turning off level again, when the conduction control terminal doesn't fall below the estimated terminal voltage after the drive signal is changed to a turning off level before the level is inverted; and determining a delay time, when the conduction control terminal falls below the estimated terminal voltage initially, as a set value.

Abstract: A superconducting wire rod connection structure can comprise first and second superconducting wire rods, wherein the first and second superconducting wire rods are formed by layering a base material, an intermediate layer, and a superconducting conductor layer. The base materials of the first and second superconducting wire rods can be joined to each other, and the superconducting conductor layers of the first and second superconducting wire rods can be connected by a connection wire rod including a superconducting conductor layer. Further, the superconducting wire rod connection structure can comprise a separating portion in which connection ends of the first and second superconducting wire rods with the base materials joined to each other are separated from the connection wire rod.

Abstract: A drive device for controlling a power switching element includes: an on-side circuit that performs an on operation of the power switching element; and an off-side circuit that performs an off operation of the power switching element. The on-side circuit or the off-side circuit includes: multiple main MOS transistors; a sense MOS transistor that define a drain current of each main MOS transistor; and a sense current control circuit that controls a drain current of the sense MOS transistor to be constant; and a switch circuit that is connected to the gate of each main MOS transistor, and controls each main MOS transistor to turn on and off so as to switch a gate current in the power switching element.

Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient thereof, a substituted biaryl compound represented by general formula (I), wherein, R1, W, R2 and Z are as defined in the claims and description, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is useful as a therapeutic drug and/or prophylactic drug for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to having an excellent anti-inflammatory effect.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substituted biaryl compound of general formula (I): wherein, R1, W, R2, and Z are as defined in the claims and the description, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The compound according to the present invention has an excellent inhibition effect of pulmonary fibroblast proliferation, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent and/or a prophylactic agent for interstitial pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis.

Abstract: Provided is a resin cage for a tapered roller bearing in which a mold parting line which is extended in an axial direction is formed in a pillar portion defining a pocket. On facing surfaces of adjacent pillar portions, on an outer diameter side from the mold parting line, a first conical surface which slides in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a tapered roller is formed, and a first flat surface in a radial direction is formed in a portion on the outer diameter side from the conical surface. On an inner diameter side from the mold parting line, a second conical surface which slides in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller is formed, and a second flat surface in a radial direction is formed in a portion on the inner diameter side from the second conical surface.

Abstract: A method capable of forming a sufficiently thick low alkali concentration region without heating glass to a high temperature and even in an atmosphere which is not an atmosphere of plasma formation gas such as helium and argon, is provided. A glass substrate having a pair of main surfaces and being made of glass containing an alkali oxide in its composition, is disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode so that one main surface is separated from the first electrode and the other main surface is brought into contact with the second electrode, and a corona discharge is generated by applying a direct-current voltage to the first electrode as a positive electrode and the second electrode as a negative electrode, in a positive-electrode-side surface layer portion of the glass substrate, at least one positive ion including an alkali ion migrate toward the negative-electrode-side.

Abstract: Provided is an optical glass having homogeneous optical characteristics such that striae and devitrification hardly occur at the time of producing a gob. The optical glass includes cationic components having the following composition, provided that a total of the cationic components is 95 cat %, and has a refractive index (nd) of 1.6 or more and less than 1.7 and an Abbe number (vd) of 50 or more and 56 or less, Si4+ 3 cat % or more and 13 cat % or less B3+ 40 cat % or more and 55 cat % or less La3+ 4 cat % or more and 9 cat % or less Ca2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Li+ 11 cat % or more and 18 cat % or less Zn2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Zr4+ 1 cat % or more and 4 cat % or less provided that Si4+/B3+ is 0.05 or more and 0.3 or less, and Li+/Zn2+ is 1.3 or more and 2.0 or less.

Abstract: Provided is an optical glass having homogeneous optical characteristics such that striae and devitrification hardly occur at the time of producing a gob. The optical glass includes cationic components having the following composition, provided that a total of the cationic components is 95 cat %, and has a refractive index (nd) of 1.6 or more and less than 1.7 and an Abbe number (vd) of 50 or more and 56 or less, Si4+ 3 cat % or more and 13 cat % or less B3+ 40 cat % or more and 55 cat % or less La3+ 4 cat % or more and 9 cat % or less Ca2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Li+ 11 cat % or more and 18 cat % or less Zn2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Zr4+ 1 cat % or more and 4 cat % or less provided that Si4+/B3+ is 0.05 or more and 0.3 or less, and Li+/Zn2+ is 1.3 or more and 2.0 or less.

Abstract: A booster circuit is incorporated in a one-chip microcomputer. In a test mode, a burn-in test is performed by switching power supply systems so that a power supply voltage of 5V is supplied to a 3.3V-type circuit section that normally operates on a power supply voltage of 3.3V in an ordinary state and a boosted voltage of a 5V booster circuit is supplied to a 5V-type circuit section that normally operates on a power supply voltage of 5V in the ordinary state.

Abstract: A method for producing sodium hydrogencarbonate crystal particles having a low caking property, which comprises lowering the potassium concentration in sodium hydrogencarbonate crystal particles having a mean particle diameter of from 50 to 500 ?m to a level of at most 50 mass ppm.

Abstract: A transmission device includes a transmission line composed of first and second transmission lines. A first circuit block outputs a non-inverted transmission signal to the first transmission line, and a second output circuit outputs an inverted transmission signal to the second transmission line. The second circuit block comprises an impedance element and a comparison circuit for comparing voltages. The same types of impedance elements as the impedance element are interposed in the first and second transmission lines between the first circuit block and the second circuit block.