Abstract: A capacity control valve V includes a valve housing provided with a Pc port, a Pd port and a Ps port; a main valve body that includes a main valve portion which comes into contact with and separates from a main valve seat 10a to close and open a communication between a Pd port and the Pc port using a driving force of a solenoid; a pressure-sensitive valve capable of opening and closing, depending on a surrounding pressure, a first communication passage through which the Pc port and the Ps port are communicable with each other; and a differential pressure valve capable of opening and closing, depending on a pressure difference, a second communication passage through which the Pc port and the Ps port are communicable with each other.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack and a control device that controls operation of the fuel cell system based on a measured voltage value measured by a voltage sensor. When the fuel cell system is started and a value measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or less than a temperature determined in advance, the control device raises the voltage of the fuel cell stack until a voltage condition determined in advance is met, by supplying a cathode with an oxidant gas before current sweep is started. The control device sets a voltage command value and a current command value such that an operation point of the fuel cell stack is on an equal power line of the fuel cell stack when the operation point is caused to transition in at least a part of a transition period.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including at least one inversion channel region includes an oxide semiconductor film containing a crystal that has a corundum structure at the inversion channel region.

Abstract: A layered structure includes an oxide semiconductor film containing as a major component gallium oxide or a mixed crystal thereof, and an oxide film containing at least one element selected from elements of Group 15 in the periodic table and arranged on the oxide semiconductor film.

Abstract: A brake control device includes an electronic controller that executes an ABS control on a rotating body of a human-powered vehicle. The electronic controller executes the ABS control based on a relationship between a first speed and a second speed related to the human-powered vehicle. The first speed includes a speed of the human-powered vehicle based on information of a traveling environment. The second speed includes a speed of the human-powered vehicle based on a rotational speed of the rotating body.

Abstract: A crystalline oxide semiconductor with excellent crystalline qualities that is useful for semiconductors requiring heat dissipation is provided. A crystalline oxide semiconductor including a first crystal axis, a second crystal axis, a first side, and a second side that is shorter than the first side, a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the first crystal axis is smaller than a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second crystal axis, a direction of the first side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the first crystal axis, and a direction of the second side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the second crystal axis.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material which can improve cycle characteristics of a secondary battery is provided. Two kinds of regions are provided in a superficial portion of a positive electrode active material such as lithium cobaltate which has a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The inner region is a non-stoichiometric compound containing a transition metal such as titanium, and the outer region is a compound of representative elements such as magnesium oxide. The two kinds of regions each have a rock-salt crystal structure. The inner layered rock-salt crystal structure and the two kinds of regions in the superficial portion are topotaxy; thus, a change of the crystal structure of the positive electrode active material generated by charging and discharging can be effectively suppressed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with enhanced semiconductor characteristics that is useful for power devices. A semiconductor device, including: an n-type semiconductor layer; one or more p-type semiconductors; an electrode, the one or more p-type semiconductors that are provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the electrode, and at least a part of the one or more p-type semiconductors is protruded in the electrode.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with enhanced semiconductor characteristics that is useful for power devices. A semiconductor device, including: an n-type semiconductor layer; an electrode; two or more p-type semiconductors that is provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the electrode, the n-type semiconductor layer containing gallium, a number of the two or more p-type semiconductors that is equal to or more than three, and the two or more p-type semiconductors that are embedded in the n-type semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A highly reliable semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; a first conductor and a second conductor over the first insulator; an oxide provided between the first conductor and the second conductor; a second insulator over the first conductor, the second conductor, and the oxide; and a third conductor over the second insulator. A side surface of the first conductor includes a region in contact with one side surface of the oxide, a side surface of the second conductor includes a region in contact with the other side surface of the oxide. The level of a top surface of the first conductor, the level of a top surface of the second conductor, and the level of a top surface of the oxide arc substantially the same. The conductivity of the first conductor is higher than that of the oxide, and the conductivity of the second conductor is higher than that of the oxide.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a steering assistance device that has a single line of final output, thereby to achieve downsizing. The assistance device of the present application includes a speed reducer configured to decelerate a driving force from a motor and output the decelerated driving force, wherein the speed reducer is configured to receive an operation force produced by an operation of a human.

Abstract: A brake control device includes an electronic controller that controls a brake unit configured to brake a rotation body of a human-powered vehicle. The electronic controller limits ABS control in a case where a first predetermined condition for executing ABS control and a second predetermined condition for limiting ABS control are satisfied. The second predetermined condition is set based on limitation information that differs from information related to a traveling speed of the human-powered vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image capturing element including a semiconductor substrate and first and second photoelectric conversion parts configured to convert light into electric charge. The first and the second photoelectric conversion parts each have a laminated structure including an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion film sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, and an accumulation electrode facing the upper electrode through the photoelectric conversion film and an insulating film.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material which suppresses a reduction in capacity due to charge and discharge cycles when used in a lithium ion secondary battery. A covering layer is formed by segregation on a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a first region and a second region. The first region exists in an inner portion of the positive electrode active material. The second region exists in a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material and part of the inner portion thereof. The first region includes lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen. The second region includes magnesium, fluorine, and oxygen.

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency, or a light-emitting element with a long lifetime. The light-emitting element includes, between a pair of electrodes, a light-emitting layer including a guest material and a host material, in which an emission spectrum of the host material overlaps with an absorption spectrum of the guest material, and phosphorescence is emitted by conversion of an excitation energy of the host material into an excitation energy of the guest material. By using the overlap between the emission spectrum of the host material and the absorption spectrum of the guest material, the energy smoothly transfers from the host material to the guest material, so that the energy transfer efficiency of the light-emitting element is high. Accordingly, a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency can be achieved.

Abstract: The present disclosure appropriately encourages provision of a service according to a location or provision of a location according to a service. A controller of a server apparatus that is an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure acquires, from an apparatus of a location provider, attribute information of a location that the location provider is able to provide. The controller acquires, from an apparatus of a service provider, attribute information of a service that the service provider is able to provide. The controller performs, at least one of transmission, to the apparatus of the location provider, of a notification encouraging rental of the location to the service provider and transmission, to the apparatus of the service provider, of a notification encouraging use of the location when the attribute information of the location and the attribute information of the service satisfy a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with enhanced semiconductor characteristics that is useful for power devices. A semiconductor device, including: an n-type semiconductor layer; an electrode; two or more p-type semiconductors provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the electrode, the n-type semiconductor layer containing a corundum-structured crystallin oxide semiconductor as a major component, a number of the two or more p-type semiconductor that is equal to or more than three, and the two or more p-type semiconductors that are embedded in the n-type semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A transparent display device includes a pixel region, a first transparent region and a second transparent region. The pixel region includes at least three sub-pixels arranged along a direction. The first transparent region and the second transparent region are disposed along the direction and the pixel region is disposed between the first transparent region and the second transparent region. The first transparent region has a first width in maximum along the direction. One of the at least three sub-pixels has a second width in maximum along the direction, and the first width is different from the second width.