Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a depth measurer that acquires depth information indicating a depth to a subject in an image indicated by the image data; a detector that acquires subject detection information on a region where the subject is located in the image; and a recognizer that recognizes a subject region having a shape along the subject in the image, based on the depth information and the subject detection information.

Abstract: A method for regenerating a cryopump, in which the cryopump includes a cryopanel and a cryopump container that accommodates the cryopanel, the method includes: raising a temperature of the cryopanel from a cryogenic temperature to a temperature rising completion temperature; and completing regeneration of the cryopump in a state where the temperature of the cryopanel is raised to the temperature rising completion temperature, in which the completion includes acquiring a history of a pressure rise rate in the cryopump container by repeating supply of a purge gas to the cryopump container, rough pumping of the cryopump container, and measurement of the pressure rise rate, and determining whether or not to complete the regeneration of the cryopump, based on the acquired history of the pressure rise rate.

Abstract: A high pressure gas container includes a resin liner that is formed with a hollow portion for filling gas in an interior thereof, a boss that is provided at the resin liner to fill gas through an interior thereof, a reinforcement layer that covers the resin liner, and a seal ring that is provided at the boss and that contacts the resin liner and seals against the resin liner. The resin liner includes a portion that faces the hollow portion and that is formed from a first resin material, and a location where the seal ring contacts that is formed from a second resin material less liable to undergo compression deformation than the first resin material.

Abstract: A water-sliding membrane includes a base layer formed on a glass substrate and a lubricating layer retained to the base layer. The base layer is formed by modifying a reactive functional-group to a surface of the substrate, the lubricating layer is configured of a polymer including a reactive functional-group that can form a covalent bond with the reactive functional-group of the base layer, and a portion of the reactive functional-group of the base layer and a portion of the reactive functional-group of the lubricating layer form the covalent bond. Moreover, the base layer includes a cyclic conjugated functional-group modified to the surface of the substrate, the lubricating layer includes a polymer having a hydrogen atom charged to ?+, and a portion of the cyclic conjugated functional-group of the base layer and a portion of the hydrogen atom charged to ?+ of the lubricating layer have ?-electron interaction.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell unit according to the present disclosure includes a flat plate type membrane electrode assembly having a structure in which an electrolyte membrane, a first electrode layer disposed on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane, and a second electrode layer disposed on a second surface of the electrolyte membrane are laminated; a first current collector in contact with the first electrode layer of the membrane electrode assembly; an interconnector electrically connected to the first current collector, a second current collector in contact with the second electrode layer of the membrane electrode assembly; and an outer peripheral part made of a metal material that surrounds an outer periphery of the first electrode layer together with the interconnector and the electrolyte membrane to form a gas introduction space for guiding internal gas to the first electrode layer.

Abstract: A connector mating structure includes a male connector and a female connector mated with each other. The female connector includes a mating securing member. In a state where the male connector and the female connector of the connector mating structure are in a mating state and the mating securing member is positioned in a mating securing position, a forward end of a female locking section is positioned between an upper locking protrusion and a protrusion of an upper locking section. In this manner, assembling instability between a male housing, a female housing and the mating securing member in a forward-rearward direction is suppressed. Furthermore, a short circuit spring is in elastic contact with a short circuit release section and thus presses the female housing upward. In this manner, assembling instability between the male housing, the female housing and the mating securing member in an upward-downward direction is suppressed.

Abstract: A flow rate control device capable of suppressing overshoot while improving responsiveness at the beginning of flow rate control includes: a flow rate meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path; a flow rate regulating valve that regulates the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path; and a control part that controls an opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve based on a measurement result of the flow rate meter, the flow rate control device has: a low flow rate rapid valve opening function that accelerates an outflow of the fluid by forcibly opening the opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve from fully closed degree to a designated opening degree when the opening degree of the flow regulating valve is fully closed and a flow rate control is started; and an overshoot suppressing function that is used for suppressing the overshoot by making the flow rate control stand by until a preset standby time or a preset flow rate threshold is reached immediately a

Abstract: A connector mating structure includes a male connector and a female connector mated with each other. The female connector includes a mating securing member. In a state where the male connector and the female connector of the connector mating structure are in a mating state and the mating securing member is positioned in a mating securing position, a forward end of a female locking section is positioned between an upper locking protrusion and a protrusion of an upper locking section. In this manner, assembling instability between a male housing, a female housing and the mating securing member in a forward-rearward direction is suppressed. Furthermore, a short circuit spring is in elastic contact with a short circuit release section and thus presses the female housing upward. In this manner, assembling instability between the male housing, the female housing and the mating securing member in an upward-downward direction is suppressed.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a first depth measurer that acquires first depth information indicating a depth at a first spatial resolution, the depth showing a distance between the imaging apparatus and a subject in an image indicated by the image data; a second depth measurer that acquires second depth information indicating the depth in the image at a second spatial resolution different from the first spatial resolution; and a controller that acquires third depth information indicating the depth at the first or second spatial resolution for each region of different regions in the image, based on the first depth information and the second depth information.

Abstract: A flow rate control device capable of suppressing overshoot while improving responsiveness at the beginning of flow rate control includes: a flow rate meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path; a flow rate regulating valve that regulates the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path; and a control part that controls an opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve based on a measurement result of the flow rate meter, the flow rate control device has: a low flow rate rapid valve opening function that accelerates an outflow of the fluid by forcibly opening the opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve from fully closed degree to a designated opening degree when the opening degree of the flow regulating valve is fully closed and a flow rate control is started; and an overshoot suppressing function that is used for suppressing the overshoot by making the flow rate control stand by until a preset standby time or a preset flow rate threshold is reached immediately a

Abstract: Provided is a flow rate control device capable of improving accumulated flow rate error. The flow rate control device of the present disclosure includes: a flow rate meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path; a flow rate regulating valve that regulates the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path; and a control part that controls an opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve based on a measurement result of the flow rate meter, includes: a closing function that controls the opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve with an instantaneous flow rate value and closes with a set accumulated flow rate value; and an accumulated value prediction function that monitors the current opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve and the instantaneous flow rate value all the time, and starts a closing operation of the flow rate regulating valve at a time point when the accumulated flow rate value reaches an early closing flow rate value.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing fitted into or detached from a mating housing, and a fitting detection member assembled to a member housing section of the housing and detecting a fitting completion. The fitting detection member includes a locked portion locked to or detached from a lock section of a flexible lock arm, and a flexible arm section provided with a slip-off prevention locking section locked to or detached from a locking protrusion of the member housing section, and when fitting of both the housings is released, the flexible arm section is bent and deformed in a direction in which a locking margin between the locking protrusion of the member housing section and the slip-off prevention locking section of the flexible arm section increases.

Abstract: A rotary connector includes: a first housing; a second housing; a bayonet ring including a locked portion to be locked to a locking portion of the first housing, which forms a bonded state by rotating by a predetermined angle in a ready state, so that its rotation is prevented; and a connector position assurance that is prevented from moving from a first position in the ready state, and in the bonded state, that is moveable to a second position and maintains a state in which the locked portion is locked to the locking portion.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a depth measurer that acquires depth information indicating a depth to a subject in an image indicated by the image data; a detector that acquires subject detection information on a region where the subject is located in the image; and a recognizer that recognizes a subject region having a shape along the subject in the image, based on the depth information and the subject detection information.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a first depth measurer that acquires first depth information indicating a depth at a first spatial resolution, the depth showing a distance between the imaging apparatus and a subject in an image indicated by the image data; a second depth measurer that acquires second depth information indicating the depth in the image at a second spatial resolution different from the first spatial resolution; and a controller that acquires third depth information indicating the depth at the first or second spatial resolution for each region of different regions in the image, based on the first depth information and the second depth information.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated battery is a method for manufacturing a laminated battery in which a plurality of unit battery cells each having a negative-electrode layer, a positive-electrode layer are laminated, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the negative-electrode layer and the positive-electrode layer. The method includes laminating the plurality of unit battery cells and collectively compressing, in a direction of laminating, the plurality of unit cells laminated in the laminating. In the laminating, the plurality of unit battery cells are laminated in such an arrangement that two unit battery cells located at both ends in the direction of laminating are both lower in degree of compression than a unit battery cell located between the two unit battery cells.

Abstract: A lever-type connector includes: a first housing; a second housing capable of fitted to and removed from the first housing; a lever rotatably supported by the second housing for fitted to and removed the first housing and the second housing by a rotation operation; a support shaft provided on the second housing; a bearing portion provided on the lever and comprising a shaft sliding groove for sliding the support shaft; a cam follower provided on the lever; a cam groove provided on the first housing, the cam groove to which the cam follower is engageable; a guide protrusion provided on the second housing, and a guide groove provided on the lever, the guide groove to which the guide protrusion is engageable. When the first housing and the second housing are completely fitted by the rotation operation of the lever, the lever becomes slidable with respect to the second housing.

Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a left eyepiece display unit including a left-eye image display device and a left eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed left-eye display image to a left eye; and a right eyepiece display unit including a right-eye image display device and a right eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed right-eye display image to a right eye, and an image magnification upon observation by both eyes is twice or more. The left eyepiece optical system and the right eyepiece optical system each include a plurality of single lenses, and at least one of the single lenses is a free-form surface lens including a resin material. At least one of the single lenses is arranged in at least one of an eccentric state or a rotated state with respect to an optical axis of the left-eye image display device or the right-eye image display device.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell including unit cells, including: a pair of interconnectors for electrically connecting the unit cells; a membrane-electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane and a pair of electrode layers disposed with the electrolyte membrane therebetween; a pair of current collectors disposed between the electrode layers and the interconnectors so as to be in contact with the pair of electrode layers and the pair of interconnectors, respectively, and electrically connecting the pair of electrode layers and the pair of interconnectors; and elastic bodies biasing at least one current collector of the pair of current collectors toward a corresponding electrode layer and made of austenitic stainless steel.

Abstract: A connector includes a female housing and a male housing. An arm portion of the female housing engages with an engagement projection of the male housing. In a state where the engagement projection is fitted to an opening of the arm portion, a gap for insertion of a jig exists in the opening at a lateral side of the engagement projection. A groove-shaped release operation portion is formed on the male housing at a lateral side of the engagement projection. An inclined surface is formed at a rear end of the release operation portion, and a wall portion is formed on a rear side of the inclined surface. The arm portion engaged with the engagement projection can be released with a simple operation including inserting the jig into the release operation portion from the gap in the opening and pushing the jig in the same direction as the insertion direction.