Abstract: On receiving simplified settlement data generated form settlement data and ID data for downloading electronic-receipt data from an electronic-receipt server, both from a settlement-processing apparatus, a portable terminal records the simplified settlement data in association with the ID data. The display unit of the portable terminal displays the simplified settlement data thus recorded. The portable terminal downloads electronic-receipt data from the electronic-receipt server by using the ID data recorded in association with the simplified settlement data, when the input unit is operated, thereby commanding that the electronic receipt related to the simplified settlement data displayed by the display unit should be downloaded. The electronic-receipt data is recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit. The display unit displays the electronic receipt on the basis the electronic-receipt data recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus to which a lens unit is attachable includes at least one processor and a memory holding a program which makes the processor function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about the attached lens unit; a setting unit capable of setting an adjustment value for setting, from a plurality of values, an adjustment amount for adjusting a focal point shift amount of the lens unit; and a control unit configured to acquire the adjustment amount based on the adjustment value set by the setting unit and information about the lens unit acquired by the acquisition unit, and adjust the focal point shift amount of the lens unit by using the adjustment amount. The setting unit changes a first range according to the information about the lens unit acquired by the acquisition unit, the first range being a range of settable adjustment values.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is able to prevent thermal deformation of a fixing member fixed to an image pickup device package through solder joining with a circuit substrate sandwiched therebetween, and also align the image pickup device package and the fixing member with high accuracy. The image pickup device package holds an image pickup device. The circuit substrate is electrically connected to the image pickup device via the image pickup device package. The fixing member has at least one arm portion provided with a joint portion that is solder-joined to the image pickup device package. The arm portion has a heat supply unit to which heat is externally supplied and which transfers the supplied heat to the joint portion. An area with a smaller plate thickness than that of other areas is provided around an area that transfers heat from the heat supply unit to the joint portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide high-performance highly-reliable power semiconductor device.

Abstract: An ejector has an interior nozzle, an exterior nozzle, a suction part, a mixing part and a diffuser part. The interior nozzle and the exterior nozzle are arranged coaxially with each other. A driving fluid is supplied to the interior nozzle and/or the exterior nozzle. The suction part is arranged on an outer periphery of the exterior nozzle and sucks a suction fluid by a driving fluid jet ejected from the interior nozzle and/or the exterior nozzle. A mixing part mixes the driving fluid jet with the suction fluid, and supplies a mixture fluid. The diffuser part reduces a flow speed of the mixture fluid and ejects the mixture fluid outside. An outlet part of the interior nozzle is arranged at an upstream side of the ejector more than an outlet part of the exterior nozzle along the axial direction of the ejector.

Abstract: A method may be executed by one or more active capacitive styluses and a sensor controller connected to sensor electrodes. The method includes: a discovery step, executed by the sensor controller, of repeatedly sending out a discovery packet for detecting any of the active capacitive styluses; a discovery response step, executed by a first active capacitive stylus among the one or more active capacitive styluses, by which the discovery packet is detected, of returning a response packet to the discovery packet; a configuration step, executed by the sensor controller, of transmitting a configuration packet including time slot designation information that designates a first time slot to the first active capacitive stylus; and a data transmission step, executed by the first active capacitive stylus, of transmitting operation state data indicative of an operation state of the first active capacitive stylus using the designated first time slot.

Abstract: An N-way Doherty Amplifier (N>3) is disclosed. The Doherty Amplifier includes an N-way power divider that evenly divides an input signal, a delay adjustor, one carrier amplifier and N-1 peak amplifiers each including offset lines for converting output impedance thereof to be substantially short circuit when the amplifiers are turned off, and an output combiner including a common node. The carrier amplifier, the first peak amplifier, and the rest peak amplifiers are coupled with the common node directly, through one ?/4 line, and respective ?/4 lines connected in series to the common node, respectively. The delay adjustor makes up a number of ?/4 lines in respective paths.

Abstract: An inverted three-stage Doherty amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier provides an input power divider, a carrier amplifier, two peak amplifiers, and an output combiner. The output combiner includes five quarter-wavelength (?/4) lines, three of which correspond to three amplifiers, one of rest two ?/4 lines combines an output of the carrier amplifier with an output of the first peak amplifier, the last ?/4 line combines the combined output of the carrier amplifier and the first peak amplifier with an output of the second peak amplifier. The five ?/4 lines have respective impedance to optionally adjust output impedance of the respective amplifiers.

Abstract: On receiving simplified settlement data generated form settlement data and ID data for downloading electronic-receipt data from an electronic-receipt server, both from a settlement-processing apparatus, a portable terminal records the simplified settlement data in association with the ID data. The display unit of the portable terminal displays the simplified settlement data thus recorded. The portable terminal downloads electronic-receipt data from the electronic-receipt server by using the ID data recorded in association with the simplified settlement data, when the input unit is operated, thereby commanding that the electronic receipt related to the simplified settlement data displayed by the display unit should be downloaded. The electronic-receipt data is recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit. The display unit displays the electronic receipt on the basis the electronic-receipt data recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit.

Abstract: Provided are an accommodating device that performs appropriate processing in order to discard an empty paper pack remaining in the accommodating device and an image forming apparatus including the accommodating device. The accommodating device includes an accommodating unit, a processing unit, and a discarding unit. The accommodating unit accommodates a paper pack including a bundle of stacked sheets of printer paper wrapped with wrapping paper in such a manner that the printer paper is freely taken out. The processing unit flatly crushes and conveys an empty paper pack from which all of the sheets of the printer paper have been taken out and in which only the wrapping paper has remained. The discarding unit stores a flatly crashed empty paper pack conveyed from the processing unit in order to discard them.

Abstract: There is provided a method for performing a pre-treatment to form a copper wiring in a recess formed in a substrate, which includes forming a barrier layer on a surface of the substrate that defines the recess, and forming a seed layer on the barrier layer. The method further includes at least one of etching the barrier layer and etching the seed layer. In the at least one of etching the barrier layer and etching the seed layer, the substrate is inclined with respect to an irradiation direction of ions while rotating the substrate.

Abstract: A magneto-caloric-effect element has a plurality of element units. The element units have lengths, respectively. The element units have different Curie temperatures, respectively. The element units demonstrate magneto-caloric effects. Two adjoining performance distribution crosses at a cross temperature. A temperature in the rated operational status between two adjoining element units is called a boundary temperature. The lengths and/or Curie temperatures are set so that the boundary temperatures and the cross temperatures coincide each other. Thereby, a plurality of element units can function at high effectiveness in the rated operational status.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet; conveyance guides disposed on an image forming surface side and a rear surface side of the sheet at a position on a downstream side of the image forming section in a sheet conveyance direction, and configured to form a sheet feeding path for conveying the sheet; a conveyance rolling part disposed to protrude from the conveyance guide into the sheet feeding path at a curving part of the sheet feeding path; and a rolling member moving section configured to move the conveyance rolling part along the sheet feeding path until a state where an image forming surface of a sheet being conveyed does not make contact with the conveyance guide is ensured.

Abstract: To provide SOFC and method for manufacturing same, capable of preventing breakage of fuel cell electrodes, and of securing an electrical connection between fuel cells and a current collector. SOFC 1 comprising a cell array composed of fuel cells 16, and current collector 82 connected to electrodes formed on fuel cells 16, wherein current collector 82 is a metal plate on which attaching holes 84 are formed; elastic pieces 84a are provided on each attaching hole 84; current collector 82 is attached to the cell array using elastic pieces 84a, by the insertion of fuel cell 16 into attaching holes 84; and elastic pieces 84a are affixed to fuel cells 16 by electrode protective layer 152 so that the positions of elastic pieces 84a are not displaced relative to the electrodes on fuel cells 16.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell array has pairs of a first connection member and a second connection member. Each pair electrically connects two adjacent first and second fuel cells to electrically connect the plurality of fuel cells in series. The second fuel cell has the first connection member connected to the outer side electrode layer of the second fuel cell at a distance D1 measured from the upper terminal end of the outer side electrode layer of the second fuel cell and has the second connection member connected to the outside side electrode layer of the second fuel cell at a distance D2 measured from the lower terminal end of the outer side electrode of the second fuel cell. The distance D2 is longer than the distance D1.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell stack includes a support, a plurality of power generation elements provided on a surface of the support, the plurality of power generation elements connected in series, each including at least a fuel electrode, a solid electrolyte, and an air electrode stacked in that order, and an interconnector that electrically connects an air electrode in one of adjacent power generation elements to a fuel electrode in the other power generation element. A solid electrolyte in adjacent one power generation element is provided between a fuel electrode in the adjacent one power generation element and the fuel electrode in the adjacent other power generation element, and an insulating member is provided at a position that is on the solid electrolyte in the adjacent one power generation element and between the air electrode in the adjacent one power generation element and the solid electrolyte therein.

Abstract: A magnetic refrigeration system constructed in such a way that a refrigerant transfer part transfers refrigerant from a first refrigerant discharge part of one refrigerant port to a first refrigerant circulation circuit after a magnetic field is applied to a magnetic working material by a magnetic field applying and removing part and that the refrigerant transfer part transfers refrigerant from a second refrigerant discharge part of other refrigerant port to a second refrigerant circulation circuit after the magnetic field is removed from the magnetic working material by the magnetic field applying and removing part.

Abstract: To provide a fuel cell stack device that is applicable to miniaturization of the device and does not require a pipe for discharging off-gas up to a combustion section. A fuel cell stack device including: a first manifold 2a for supplying fuel gas supplied from a reformer 12 to a plurality of fuel cells provided in a first cell stack from above, the first manifold being connected to upper ends of the plurality of fuel cells provided in the first cell stack 10a; and a second manifold 2b for recovering fuel gas discharged from the first cell stack, and supplying the recovered fuel gas to the plurality of fuel cells provided in the second cell stack from below, the second manifold being connected to lower ends of the plurality of fuel cells provided in the second cell stack 10b.

Abstract: An n-type drift layer DRL formed on a buffer layer BUF in a semiconductor device (SiC-IGBT) is configured so as to have (c1) an n-type first drift region DRL1 formed on the buffer layer BUF and (c2) an n-type second drift region DRL2 formed on the first drift region DRL1, (c3) an impurity concentration of the first drift region DRL1 is made lower than an impurity concentration of the buffer layer BUF and higher than an impurity concentration of the second drift region DRL2, and (c4) the first drift region DRL1 is made thinner than the second drift region DRL2. By forming the drift layer DRL so as to have a stacked structure as described above, an electric field on a surface on an emitter region side can be lowered at the OFF time of the semiconductor device even if a high voltage is applied. Moreover, at the time of switching, noises can be reduced since a carrier-stored region can be ensured.

Abstract: An inverted symmetrical four-stage Doherty amplifier is disclosed. The Doherty amplifier includes a carrier amplifier and a plurality of peak amplifiers. Outputs of the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifiers are provided to the combining unit through the offset unit including offset transmission lines each connected with the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifiers. The offset transmission lines have characteristic impedance and electrical lengths equal to each other such that the impedance seeing the amplifiers at the ends of the offset transmission lines become substantially short-circuited.