Abstract: A valve capable of maintaining a stable fixed state between a retainer and a casing for a long period of time and a method of assembling the valve are provided. A retainer includes a cylindrical portion which has a seat surface for a biasing member and an expanded diameter portion which expands radially outward in a tapered shape from one axial end of the cylindrical portion on a side of a casing, and a caulking end is locked to an outer peripheral portion of the expanded diameter portion while a connection portion between the cylindrical portion and the expanded diameter portion is elastically deformable.

Abstract: A gate drive circuit includes: a first circuit configured to convert a gate control signal into a differential signal including a positive signal and a negative signal; a first pulse transformer including primary and secondary windings that have neutral points respectively, the primary winding including the neutral point set to have the potential of the first ground, the primary winding having both ends to which the positive and negative signals are input respectively; a second circuit configured to generate a pair of input difference voltages at both ends of a pair of resistance elements on the basis of the voltage at both ends of the secondary winding ; a third circuit configured to differentially amplify the input difference voltages and output a pair of output difference voltages; and a fourth circuit configured to generate a gate drive signal on the basis of the output difference voltages.

Abstract: An object is to provide a power semiconductor module having a small ON-resistance and capable of operating at a high frequency. Included are: a semiconductor chip 2 configured to supply a power source, and including a voltage-driven switching element, and a gate electrode 20G provided on a main surface of the semiconductor chip 2; a heat dissipation sheet 3 disposed opposite the main surface of the semiconductor chip 2, and configured to dissipate heat of the semiconductor chip 2; a wiring board 4 disposed between the semiconductor chip 2 and the heat dissipation sheet 3, and including a gate wiring pattern 40G connected to an external terminal 6G; an interposer 5 including a sheet-like base material disposed between the semiconductor chip 2 and the wiring board 4, and a gate resistor 50G in the sheet-like base material and interposed between the gate electrode 20G and the gate wiring pattern 40G; and a resin housing 7 that seals the semiconductor chip 2, the wiring board 4, and the interposer 5.

Abstract: A valve includes: a casing; a valve body that is operable inside the casing; a biasing member that biases the valve body; and a retainer that holds the biasing member, wherein the retainer is provided with a flange portion caulked and fixed to the casing by a caulking end provided at one axial end of the casing, and wherein an elastic member is sandwiched between the flange portion and the casing to be axially elastically deformable.

Abstract: A current density measuring apparatus includes an underwater electric field sensor including a pair of electrode portions and a potential difference measuring unit to measure a potential difference between the pair of electrode portions without contacting a test object placed in water, a conductivity meter to measure a conductivity in the water, and a controller configured or programmed to acquire a current density of a current flowing from the test object into the water using the potential difference measured by the underwater electric field sensor and the conductivity measured by the conductivity meter.

Abstract: An offset correction method for a potential difference measuring apparatus includes placing a pair of electrode portions including a first electrode and a second electrode at a predetermined first position and measuring a first potential difference, placing the pair of electrode portions at a second position at which positions of the first electrode and the second electrode at the first position are reversed, and measuring a second potential difference, and calculating an underwater electric potential in which at least an offset of a potential difference caused by a factor other than a test object has been corrected, based on the first potential difference and the second potential difference.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes located on the substrate, a plurality of organic layers located on the first electrodes, and a second electrode that is located on the organic layers and that spreads so as to overlap the plurality of the first electrodes in planar view. The second electrode located in the second display area has a plurality of apertures formed in such positions as not to overlap the first electrodes in planar view and is divided into a plurality of unit regions on the basis of the plurality of first electrodes. The plurality of unit regions includes aperture regions including the apertures and non-aperture regions not including the apertures.

Abstract: A first color electrodes and a third color electrodes may be arrayed in an alternating manner following a first direction, and may also be arrayed in an alternating manner following a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. A first color electrodes that are situated in a first display region and a second display region may be arrayed at a first pitch following each of the first direction and the second direction. The first color electrodes and the third color electrodes that are situated in the second display region may be arrayed so as to alternate between a second pitch and a third pitch, following each of the first direction and the second direction. The second pitch may differ from the third pitch.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes located on a first surface of the substrate, a plurality of organic layers located on top of the first electrodes, and a second electrode, located on top of the organic layers, that spreads so as to overlap the plurality of first electrodes in planar view. The second electrode may include a plurality of unit regions demarcated based on the plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of apertures, located in the unit regions, that do not overlap the first electrodes in planar view. Each unit region includes a unit region center point located in a center of the unit region in planar view. Each aperture includes an aperture center point located in a center of the aperture in planar view.

Abstract: A switching valve capable of rotating a rotor without being influenced by a pressure in a rear space is provided. A rotor is provided with a discharge path for discharging a fluid present in a valve chamber to the outside of the valve chamber between rotation positions.

Abstract: An inertial sensor includes a dual atom interferometer. A moving standing light wave generation device in the dual atom interferometer generates M (3?M) moving standing light waves. Each of the M moving standing light waves is generated by a pair of counter-propagating laser beams. The moving standing light wave generation device adjusts two-photon detuning of a pair of counter-propagating laser beams corresponding to each of N (2?N<M) moving standing light waves out of the M moving standing light waves such that the difference between an interferometric phase corresponding to one atomic beam obtained by interfering with the M moving standing light waves and an interferometric phase corresponding to the other atomic beam obtained by interfering with the M moving standing light waves stays constant.

Abstract: A solenoid valve capable of stably controlling the flow rate or pressure of a fluid includes: a valve body; a valve seat on which the valve body is to be seated; a solenoid including a movable iron core, a rod, and a fixed iron core, and exerting a driving force on the valve body in a valve closing direction; a spring biasing the valve body in a valve opening direction; and a valve housing partially defining a valve chamber in which the valve body and the valve seat are disposed. A spring chamber in which the spring is disposed is formed between the valve chamber and the fixed iron core, and the valve body isolates the valve chamber and the spring chamber from each other when the valve is opened.

Abstract: An autonomous driving system connected communicably to a mobile device of a driver or to a mobile device case attached to the mobile device, and configured to perform autonomous driving control. the autonomous driving system comprises a display cover of the mobile device case, capable of switching a display of the mobile device between a visible state and a shielded state. The display of the mobile device is switched from the visible state to the shielded state by controlling the mobile device or the mobile device case, when the driver is requested to perform a driving operation of a vehicle during the autonomous driving control.

Abstract: Provided is a switching valve capable of maintaining a satisfactory contact state between a contact surface of a rotor and a seat surface of a stator in a rotation range of the rotor. A stator is provided with a plurality of inlet ports and outlet ports through which a working fluid passes, a rotor is provided with at least two through-holes and communication grooves which are able to selectively communicate between the inlet ports and the outlet ports, a casing is provided with a fluid inlet opening which communicates with each of the through-holes, and at least one of the through-holes always communicates with any of the outlet ports of in a rotation range of the rotor.

Abstract: There is provided a seat cushion including: a seat frame; and a cushion body divided into three elements that are a top plate main portion forming a central portion in a seat width direction, and top plate side portions each forming a side portion in the seat width direction. The seat frame includes a frame front portion supporting a main front portion from the seat back surface side, and a frame rear portion supporting a main rear portion and each of the top plate side portions from the seat back surface side. The seat cushion further includes: a cushion length variable mechanism configured to extend a cushion length of the top plate main portion; and a first protruding portion protruding from one of the frame front portion and the frame rear portion to the other to planarly cover a gap formed between the one and the other.

Abstract: A display device includes an image generation unit configured to generate a status image presented to a driver of the vehicle, the status image representing to a current status of the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire the map information and recognize an acquisition status of the map information; a display mode setting unit configured to set a display mode; and a display control unit configured to display the status image on a display unit in the display mode. The acquisition status includes a first case, a second case, and a third case in which the map information is temporarily unavailable. The display mode setting unit sets the display mode so that the display mode of the first case, the second case and the third case are different from each other.

Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a sliding door operation device configured to move a sliding door on a side portion of a vehicle. The device includes a motor unit and a moving member operating mechanism portion including a belt or a wire-shaped moving member coupled to the sliding door and a driven rotary member that receives a rotational driving force from the motor unit. The motor unit and the driven rotary member are provided with a serration shaft portion and a serration hole that are fitted to each other. The vehicle structure further includes a rotation operation unit configured to rotate the motor unit about centers of the serration shaft portion and the serration hole when the motor unit is pushed toward the driven rotary member to fit the serration shaft portion and the serration hole to each other.

Abstract: An organic device includes an outer edge, a wiring area and a display area that includes a first electrode, an organic layer on the first electrode and a second electrode on the organic layer. The wiring area includes a reference electrode connected to the second electrode and defining a reference potential. The display area includes a first area and a second area bordering the first area. The second area includes a normal area including the second electrode and transmission areas not including the second electrode and arranged in a first direction. The second electrode of the normal area includes connecting portions connected to the second electrode of the first area. The connecting portions include a first connecting portion located on the side of the first side in a second direction. The first connecting portion includes a facing connecting portion located between the transmission areas in the first direction.

Abstract: A mask group may include two or more masks. When a section in a normal direction is viewed, a region-defining straight line may be defined as a straight line that forms an angle ? together with a first surface. The region-defining straight line may intersect the first surface at a first intersection point. An effective region may be defined as a region inside the first intersection point in the through-hole, and a peripheral region may be defined as a region outside the first intersection point in the through-hole. The angle ? may be 35° or more and 70° or less. The penetration region in the second mask region may include a hole overlapping region in which the through-holes of two masks overlap. The hole overlapping region may include a first hole overlapping region in which the peripheral regions of the through-holes of the two masks overlap.

Abstract: A driver monitoring system includes an automated driving controller that allows hands-off operation in which a driver releases hands from a steering wheel of a vehicle, and controls an automated steering driving in which the vehicle is automatically steered, and a request notification controller that notifies a hands-on request for prompting the driver of the vehicle to perform a hands-on operation to hold the steering wheel, or a surrounding confirmation request for prompting the driver to perform a surrounding confirmation operation to confirm a surrounding condition. During the automated steering driving, the request notification controller is configured to notify the hands-on request or the surrounding confirmation request again when an elapsed time from notification of the hands-on request or the surrounding confirmation request exceeds a criterion time.