Abstract: An image pickup apparatus performs a global electronic shutter operation in which exposure periods of a plurality of pixels coincide with one another. In a first period in which a photoelectric conversion unit of at least one of the pixels stores charge, signals based on charges stored in holding units of the pixels are successively output to output lines. In a second period after the output of the signals from the pixels is terminated, the holding units of the pixels hold charge.

Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion apparatus including charge storing portions in its imaging region, isolation regions for the charge storing portions include first isolation portion each having a PN junction, and second isolation portions each having an insulator. A second isolation portion is arranged between a charge storing portion and at least a part of a plurality of transistors.

Abstract: A gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) facility (10A) provided with a gas turbine unit (20), a heat recovery steam generator (30) for recovering heat and producing steam from exhaust gas produced by the gas turbine unit (20), and an exhaust duct (32) for guiding the exhaust gas of the gas turbine unit (20) to the heat recovery steam generator (30). At least a portion of the heat recovery steam generator (30) is disposed in the same plane as the gas turbine unit (20), and the heat recovery steam generator (30) is disposed side-by-side so that a direction in which exhaust gas flows in the heat recovery steam generator is parallel to a turbine axis direction of the gas turbine unit.

Abstract: Steps include splitting requirements related to use of resources of a physical network into split requirements for each of the subsections; calculating, for each of the subsections, a resource allocation that satisfies the split requirements for the subsection according to the policy applied to the subsection; integrating results of the resource allocations, to calculate multiple solution candidates for a resource allocation that satisfies the requirements for the physical network; calculating, for each of the solution candidates, for each of the subsections, a first evaluation value representing a degree to what extent the resource allocation by the solution candidate in the subsection conforms to the policy applied to the subsection; and calculating a second evaluation value obtained by giving weights to the first evaluation values calculated for the respective subsections for each of the solution candidates according to importance of the policies applied to the respective subsections, and scalarizing the w

Abstract: A variable-speed speed increaser includes: an electric driving device that generates a rotational driving force; and a transmission device that changes the speed of the rotational driving force generated by the electric driving device and transmits the changed rotation driving force to a driving target. The transmission device includes: a sun gear; a sun gear shaft fixed to the sun gear; a planetary gear that meshes with the sun gear; an internal gear; a planetary gear carrier that has a planetary gear carrier shaft; and an internal gear carrier that has an internal gear carrier shaft. The electric driving device includes: a constant-speed motor that has a constant-speed rotor; and a variable-speed motor that has a variable-speed rotor. The internal gear carrier includes a clutch mechanism that connects a cylindrical portion connected to the internal gear with the internal gear carrier shaft.

Abstract: A sensor has an image sensing unit including pixel blocks, and a readout unit for reading out a signal from the image sensing unit. The pixel block includes a photoelectric converter, first and second transistors, and a current source. First main electrodes of the first and second transistors are connected to a common node, and the current source is provided between the common node and a predetermined voltage. A signal readout operation includes an operation in which a voltage corresponding to charges in the photoelectric converter is supplied to a control electrode of the first transistor, and a temporally changing reference voltage is supplied to a control electrode of the second transistor. The readout unit reads out a signal from the image sensing unit via a second main electrode of the first transistor.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a blood pressure information measurement apparatus includes the following steps: forming a hole in a flexible resin sheet; inserting a connecting pipe into the hole; overlaying a first end portion and a second end portion of the flexible resin sheet such that an inner side of the first end portion contacts an outer side of the second portion; welding a location at which the first end portion and the second end portion overlap to form a first welded portion, such that the flexible resin sheet forms a tube-shaped body having a first end and a second end; flattening the tube-shaped body; welding the first end and the second to form two second welded portions, such that the tube-shaped body forms a bladder having two long sides and two short sides; and welding portions of the resin sheet which overlap along a first long side to form one or more partial welded portions.

Abstract: This compressor system is provided with: a driving machine having a rotary-driven first output shaft and a second shaft that is rotary driven so as to reach the same speed as the first output shaft; a working-fluid-compressing first compressor to which the rotation of the first output shaft is transmitted; a working-fluid-compressing second compressor to which the rotation of the second output shaft is transmitted; a variable-speed step-up gear for increasing the speed of the first output shaft and transmitting the increased speed to the first compressor, said step-up gear being capable of varying the increased speed; and a constant-speed step-up gear for increasing the speed of the second output shaft and transmitting the increased speed to the second compressor, said step-up gear keeping the increased speed constant.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Respective first signal holding units of a plurality of sets are commonly connected to an input node of an amplification unit of one set via a second transfer unit of a set to which the first signal holding unit corresponds, and respective second signal holding units of the plurality of sets are commonly connected to the input node of the amplification unit of one set via a fourth transfer unit of a set to which the second signal holding unit corresponds.

Abstract: An inventive solid-state imaging apparatus is provided which can improve the efficiency of the electric carrier transfer from a photoelectric conversion portion to an electric-carrier accumulation portion. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes an active region having the photoelectric conversion portion, the electric-carrier accumulation portion, and a floating diffusion, and an element isolation region having an insulator defining the active region. In planer view, the width of the active region in the electric-carrier accumulation portion under a gate of the first transfer transistor is larger than the width of the active region in the photoelectric conversion portion under the gate of the first transfer transistor.

Abstract: A detector includes a semiconductor layer included in a detection region and a peripheral region, and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a wiring structure included in at least the detection region, and disposed between a space on the first surface side with respect to the semiconductor layer and a space on the second surface side with respect to the semiconductor layer, wherein a thickness of the semiconductor layer in at least a part of the detection region is smaller than a thickness of the peripheral region including the semiconductor layer, and the thickness of the semiconductor layer is larger than a distance between the first surface in the detection region and the space on the first surface side, and a distance between the second surface in the detection region and the space on the second surface side.

Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion apparatus including charge storing portions in its imaging region, isolation regions for the charge storing portions include first isolation portion each having a PN junction, and second isolation portions each having an insulator. A second isolation portion is arranged between a charge storing portion and at least a part of a plurality of transistors.

Abstract: An imaging device includes pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit, a holding unit holding charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, and an amplifier unit outputting signal based on the charge. The pixels output a first signal based on charge generated in a first exposure period and a second signal based on charge generated in a second exposure period of different length. In the first exposure period, the photoelectric conversion unit accumulates the generated charge, and charge held by the holding unit is transferred to the amplifier unit. The second exposure period includes a period of accumulating the generated charge only in the photoelectric conversion unit and a period of holding the generated charge in the photoelectric conversion unit and the holding unit. In the period of accumulating the generated charge only in the photoelectric conversion unit, the charge held by the holding unit is transferred to the amplifier unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an on-vehicle emergency notification device The notification device is configured to allow a vehicle body number and an emergency notification phone number to be registered therein in the form of a set, so as to enable the notification to the emergency call center, wherein the notification device is configured such that: during execution of a factory mode for performing the registration of the vehicle body number and the emergency notification phone number, rewriting of the vehicle body number is permitted; after the registration of the vehicle body number and the emergency notification phone number is completed and then the factory mode is shifted to a market mode, the rewriting of the vehicle body number is prohibited; and, when it is in the factory mode, the switching to an auxiliary battery is prohibited.

Abstract: A variable-speed speed-up mechanism includes: an electric device which is configured to generate a rotational driving force and a planetary gear transmission device which is configured to change the speed of the rotational driving force transmitted from the electric device to a constant-speed input shaft and a variable-speed input shaft and transmit the rotational driving force to a target to be driven via an output shaft. The electric device includes a constant-speed electric motor including a constant-speed rotor which is configured to rotate the constant-speed input shaft of the planetary gear transmission device and a variable-speed electric motor including a variable-speed rotor which is configured to rotate the variable-speed input shaft of the planetary gear transmission device.

Abstract: A friction plate has a plurality of friction material segments circularly fixed on an annular core plate, wherein each of the friction material segments includes an oil groove having an opening that opens in the direction of an outer circumferential edge of the friction plate and an end portion that ends between an inner circumferential edge and the outer circumferential edge, oil passages in communication in the direction of the inner and the outer circumferential edges of the friction plate are provided among the friction material segments, and at least some of the oil passages have a first shape, the width of which in a circumferential direction decreases from the inner circumferential edge of the friction plate toward the outer circumferential edge thereof.

Abstract: This method for designing a transmission device includes: a body part design step for designing a body part having an internal gear in which a plurality of teeth are aligned in a ring shape; a gear unit part design step in which a plurality of gear unit parts, each having a planetary gear that meshes with a sun gear, that revolves about an axis line and rotates about its own center line, and that is capable of meshing with the internal gear, are designed so as to have different gear ratios and to have the same outside diameter; and a gear unit part selection step for selecting one gear unit part from the plurality of gear unit parts.

Abstract: A route calculation control device includes a calculator configured, among a plurality of nodes constituting a physical network having a plurality of sections to which respective policies different from each other are applied when allocating resources, based on a policy corresponding to a section including a start point node specified in a use request of the resources of the physical network, to calculate a route from the start point node to an end point node specified in the use request; and a controller configured to replace the start point node, among nodes constituting the route calculated by the calculator, with a first node included in a section different from the section including the start point node, so as to cause the calculator to calculate a route to the end point node. This enables to allocate resources to a network that includes multiple sections to which different policies are applied.

Abstract: An inventive solid-state imaging apparatus is provided which can improve the efficiency of the electric carrier transfer from a photoelectric conversion portion to an electric-carrier accumulation portion. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes an active region having the photoelectric conversion portion, the electric-carrier accumulation portion, and a floating diffusion, and an element isolation region having an insulator defining the active region. In planer view, the width of the active region in the electric-carrier accumulation portion under a gate of the first transfer transistor is larger than the width of the active region in the photoelectric conversion portion under the gate of the first transfer transistor.