Abstract: An electrical connection structure includes: a base unit; and a battery circuit bus bar which is detachably mounted to a battery connection terminal provided in the base unit. Further, the base unit includes: the battery connection terminal; a power source distribution circuit component constituting part of a power source distribution circuit; and one case in which the power source distribution circuit component and the battery connection terminal are held. The battery circuit bus bar includes: a normal bus bar without a relief terminal; and a relief terminal-provided bus bar having the relief terminal. At least one of the normal bus bar and the relief terminal-provided bus bar is selectively mounted to the battery connection terminal.

Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a stationary valve and a drive valve. The stationary valve is placed in a fluid passage of the housing. The stationary valve forms a first passage, which conducts fluid, and a penetrating chamber which penetrates through the stationary valve in the axial direction. The drive valve is placed on one axial side of the stationary valve in the fluid passage and forms a second passage which conducts the fluid. The drive valve communicates the second passage to the first passage through rotation of the drive valve. The housing has a bottom portion that covers the penetrating chamber from another axial side. An upstream passage of the fluid passage, which is located on an upstream side of the drive valve and the stationary valve in a flow direction of the fluid, is communicated with the penetrating chamber through a communication passage.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compressor housing that is provided with a refrigerant discharge portion and refrigerant suction portions, a compression unit that is arranged in the compressor housing and compresses a refrigerant, sucked from the suction portions, and discharges it from the discharge portion, a motor that is arranged in the compressor housing and drives the compression unit, an accumulator that is connected to the suction portions, and a mounting member that secures the accumulator to the compressor housing. The compressor housing and an accumulator container of the accumulator are made of a metal material. The mounting member is at least partially made of a resin material and has a first joint portion, which is joined to an outer peripheral surface of the compressor housing.

Abstract: This press-formed article includes: a top sheet portion; a sidewall continuing to the top sheet portion via a convex ridge line portion; a flange continuing to the sidewall via a concaved ridge line portion; and an outward flange continuing from an edge portion of the top sheet portion to an edge portion of the flange, via an edge portion of the convex ridge line portion, an edge portion of the sidewall, and an edge portion of the concaved ridge line portion, wherein in the same unit, an average thickness TAve, a minimum thickness TMin, and a maximum thickness TMax of the outward flange satisfy Equation 1 and Equation 2. 0.8×TAve?TMin<TAve??(Equation 1) TAve<TMax?1.

Abstract: A needle assembly includes an injection needle that includes a needle tube in which a blade surface is formed at a needle tip, and a needle hub that holds the injection needle. The needle hub includes a holding portion that has a penetration region through which the injection needle penetrates and that holds the injection needle penetrating the penetration region, and an insertion portion that is disposed on the distal end side of the holding portion and that guides a proximal end portion of the injection needle to the penetration region such that the puncture direction of the injection needle and the center line of the penetration region overlap with each other.

Abstract: An articulated robot includes a base; an end section; a plurality of links including a first link and a second link and connecting the base and the end section to each other; a first driving mechanism connecting the first link and the second link to each other and configured to rotate the second link about an axis as a first rotation axis relative to the first link, the axis as the first rotation axis forming an angle greater than a predetermined angle with a first direction in which the first link extends; a first moving mechanism configured to move the first driving mechanism relative to the first link along the first direction; and a second moving mechanism configured to move the second link relative to the first driving mechanism along a second direction in which the second link extends.

Abstract: Provided is a glass cloth fiber composite material having both an excellent electromagnetic wave shielding property and an excellent impact resistance, and is also superior in handling property since the material is a composite of a carbon nanotube unwoven cloth and a glass cloth, and employs no strongly acidic compound as being, for example, a protonating agent. The glass cloth composite material comprises one or more glass cloth layers and one or more carbon nanotube unwoven cloth layers, wherein at least one of the glass cloth and carbon nanotube unwoven cloth layers in the glass cloth composite material is impregnated with a heat-curable resin or has a heat-curable resin film laminated thereon.

Abstract: The patch of the present invention comprises a backing layer and an adhesive layer laminated on the backing layer, wherein a water vapor transmission rate of the backing layer is 400 g/m2·24 hours or more, and the adhesive layer comprises a drug, dimethylsulfoxide and an adhesive. Such a patch does not fall off easily even after long wear.

Abstract: A fuel supply device for a gas fuel includes a fuel passage through which the gas fuel is supplied to a fuel injection valve. A heat exchanger is connected to the fuel passage and configured to exchange heat with the gas fuel. The heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger in which a temperature of a heat medium is lower than that in the first heat exchanger. When an actual temperature of the gas fuel is lower than a target temperature of the gas fuel and a temperature difference between the actual temperature of the gas fuel and the target temperature of the gas fuel is greater than a threshold value, processing circuitry of the fuel supply device executes a process that increases a ratio of an amount of the gas fuel that undergoes heat exchange in the first heat exchanger.

Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the image capturing apparatus to perform operations including detecting coordinates indicating each of a plurality of parts of an object from an image captured by an image capturing unit, correcting the detected coordinates to corrected coordinates for each of the plurality of parts calculated based on a preset magnification and relative position, generating a tracking coordinate based on a plurality of the corrected coordinates each indicating different parts of the object and a distance of the plurality of the corrected coordinates, the distance being within a threshold, and controlling an image capturing range of the image capturing unit based on the generated tracking coordinates.

Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor device including a p-type region having a high concentration, and a method of manufacturing the same. The nitride semiconductor device includes a nitride crystal layer, and a p-type region provided in the nitride crystal layer. The p-type region includes Mg at a concentration in a range of 3×1018 cm?3 or greater and 1×1021 cm?3 or less, and at least either a group-13 element or an acceptor element at a concentration in a range of 3×1017 cm?3 or greater and 5×1021 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: The nitride semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor formed in a gallium nitride layer. The field effect transistor includes: a gate insulator film formed on a side of a first principal face of the gallium nitride layer; a p type region being in contact with the gate insulator film; an n type region being in contact with the p type region in a direction parallel to an interface between the p type region and the gate insulator film; a first electrode being in contact with the n type region. The p type region includes a first region that is in contact with the gate insulator film and a second region that is in contact with the gate insulator film and lies in the first direction between the first region and the n type region. The second region has a higher concentration of p type impurities than the first region.

Abstract: A processing method for a conference system is a processing method for a conference system including a controller including an operation element, a camera, and a processing controller. The camera obtains image data. The processing controller detects an object included in the image data, receives a selection operation to the detected object through the operation element of the controller, and performs image processing on the image data or control of the camera, with respect to the selected object.

Abstract: A liquid-repellent layer forming resin composition comprises a polyolefin resin (A), a silylated polyolefin (B), and a compatibilizer (C) having a site compatible with the polyolefin resin (A) and a site compatible with the silylated polyolefin (B), wherein a polyolefin site of the silylated polyolefin (B) is incompatible with the polyolefin resin (A).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a packaging material film including a first resin layer that contains a polyolefin resin and fillers. In a first embodiment, protrusions are formed on a surface of the first resin layer by the fillers, and a water sliding angle at room temperature of an oil film on the surface of the first resin layer is 20° or less. In a second embodiment, a ratio Y/X of a surface area ratio Y of a surface of the first resin layer with respect to an arithmetic mean height Sa X ?m of the surface of the first resin layer is 0.4 to 8.0 ?m?1.

Abstract: Provided are a PCCT apparatus and a control method of the same capable of detecting an abnormality occurring in a photon counting type detector. There is provided a PCCT apparatus including a photon counting type detector that counts X-ray photons, the PCCT apparatus including: a spectrum generation unit that generates a spectrum which is a distribution of photon counts for each energy bin; a calculation unit that calculates a photon count change rate for each energy bin from a spectrum at a first time and a spectrum at a second time; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of an abnormality in the photon counting type detector based on the photon count change rate.

Abstract: A circuit board having a circuit pattern on a base plate and an additional metal layer laid and bonded on the circuit pattern, wherein the additional metal layer comprises an attachment plane portion configured to fix a semiconductor chip using solder, and an engagement uneven portion provided adjacent to the attachment plane portion, wherein the attachment plane portion is a face having unevenness smaller than the engagement uneven portion.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a coil spring is formed of a wire which is helically wound, and includes an end turn portion and an effective portion, and a surface of the wire in the end turn portion includes an area which is softer than a surface of the wire in the effective portion.

Abstract: Provided is a high-strength electromagnetic wave shielding sheet exhibiting an excellent electromagnetic wave shielding performance irrespective of the oscillation directions of millimeter waves and terahertz waves. The electromagnetic wave shielding sheet may, for example, be a sheet containing a carbon nanotube unwoven cloth that has a thickness of not larger than 1 mm, a specific resistance of not larger than 0.005 $2·cm, and a longitudinal/lateral tensile strength ratio of 0.8 to 1.25; or a sheet with such carbon nanotube unwoven cloth being impregnated with a resin and/or with the resin being laminated on the carbon nanotube unwoven cloth.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for doing a setting of a capturing apparatus having a tracking function for tracking an object by pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) control, comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by the capturing apparatus; and a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to accept a setting of a target position in the captured image of an object that is a tracking target. The display control unit changes an icon indicating the target position in the GUI between a case where the target position in a first mode that permits zoom control in tracking is set and a case where the target position in a second mode that suppresses the zoom control in tracking is set.