Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate, first and second electrodes, and a movable body having a first mass and a torque generator. A first to n-th regions having a first to n-th ends are provided at the first mass. A first straight line having a smallest angle with an X axis passes through two ends of the first to n-th ends. A second straight line extends along the first electrode. A first normal line with the first electrode intersects with a proximal end of the first electrode. A second normal line with the first electrode intersects with a distal end of the first electrode. The first and second straight lines do not intersect with each other in a region between the first normal line and the second normal line. The first and second straight lines and the second normal line pass through the torque generator.

Abstract: A control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to an overview of a structure, and a flight information generating unit configured to generate flight information of a flying body being caused to fly over a periphery of the structure to image the structure on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit. The control device generates information used to cause the flying body to image the structure, and thereby makes it possible to make more efficient the inspection performed by the flying body capable of performing imaging.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate that has a first fixed electrode and a movable body that has a first mass portion facing the first fixed electrode. The first mass portion includes a first region, and a second region farther from the rotation axis than the first region, a first through-hole group is provided in the first region, and a second through-hole group is provided in the second region, and the movable body has a first surface on a substrate side, and a second surface. The first surface of the first mass portion is provided with a step or a slope such that a first gap distance of a first gap between the first mass portion and the first fixed electrode in the first region is smaller than a second gap distance of a second gap between the first mass portion and the first fixed electrode in the second region. A depth of through-holes of the first through-hole group and the second through-hole group is smaller than a maximum thickness of the movable body.

Abstract: A data migration device (10) extracts, from a migration source database (201) in which node information managed in a target record and link information representing a link to another record are managed together in the same table, a record that can be traced based on the link information using origin data as a starting point, and writes the record to an intermediate table (212). The data migration device (10) reads the record from the intermediate table, and separates data of the record into the node information and the link information. The data migration device (10) registers the node information and the link information that have been separated in a migration destination database (202) in which the node information and the link information are managed separately.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate that has a first fixed electrode and a movable body that has a first mass portion facing the first fixed electrode. The first mass portion includes a first region, and a second region farther from the rotation axis than the first region, a first through-hole group is provided in the first region, and a second through-hole group is provided in the second region, and the movable body has a first surface on a substrate side, and a second surface. The first surface of the first mass portion is provided with a step or a slope such that a first gap distance of a first gap between the first mass portion and the first fixed electrode in the first region is smaller than a second gap distance of a second gap between the first mass portion and the first fixed electrode in the second region. A depth of through-holes of the first through-hole group and the second through-hole group is smaller than a maximum thickness of the movable body.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement value measured regarding control target equipment, a first control unit configured to output an operation amount of the control target equipment according to the measurement value by at least one of feedback control or feed-forward control, a second control unit configured to output an operation amount of the control target equipment according to the measurement value using a model learnt by using learning data, and a switching unit configured to perform switching between the first control unit and the second control unit by which the control target equipment is controlled.

Abstract: A MEMS device of an embodiment includes a substrate, fixed electrode portions, a movable body, fixed electrode fixing portions, a wiring structure, and a first wire. The fixed electrode portions are fixed relative to the substrate. The movable body is movable relative to the substrate. The fixed electrode fixing portions are electrically coupled to the fixed electrode portions. The wiring structure is provided in the same layer as those of the movable body and the fixed electrode portions with respect to the substrate. The first wire has one end coupled to the fixed electrode fixing portion. The wiring structure is at least provided in an opening part of the movable body, and the first wire is wired on the wiring structure via an insulating film and routed out of the movable body through the opening part of the movable body.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement value measured regarding control target equipment, a first control unit configured to output an operation amount of the control target equipment according to the measurement value by at least one of feedback control or feed-forward control, a second control unit configured to output an operation amount of the control target equipment according to the measurement value using a model learnt by using learning data, and a switching unit configured to perform switching between the first control unit and the second control unit by which the control target equipment is controlled.

Abstract: The physical quantity sensor includes, a first support beam, a movable body, a first stationary electrode fixation part, a first stationary electrode unit, a second stationary electrode unit, and a first wiring line. The first stationary electrode unit is disposed at the first direction side of the first support beam and the second stationary electrode unit is disposed at a fourth direction side of the first support beam. A rotary torque of the second movable electrode unit is lower than a rotary torque of the first movable electrode unit. The movable body has an opening at a fourth direction side with respect to the first support beam, and the first wiring line is extracted from the first stationary electrode fixation part to an outside of the movable body through the opening.

Abstract: A vehicle for spraying an agrochemical to an object to be controlled. The vehicle includes: a photographing device configured to photograph the object around the vehicle; a control device configured to make a determination as to whether or not the agrochemical needs to sprayed to the object, based on an image of the object acquired when the object was photographed; and a spraying device configured to spray the agrochemical to the object when determining that the agrochemical needs to be sprayed to the object. The photographing device is configured to photograph the object from a lower end of the object to an upper end of the object in a vertical direction of the object.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a fixed portion, a support beam, a movable body, a first fixed electrode portion, and a second fixed electrode portion. The movable body includes a first coupling portion, a first base portion, a first movable electrode portion, a second coupling portion, a second base portion, and a second movable electrode portion. The first base portion is coupled to the first coupling portion. A first movable electrode of the first movable electrode portion extends from the first base portion in a first direction, and faces a first fixed electrode of the first fixed electrode portion in a second direction. The second base portion is coupled to the second coupling portion. A second movable electrode of the second movable electrode portion extends from the second base portion in the first direction, and faces a second fixed electrode of the second fixed electrode portion in the second direction.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a fixed portion, a support beam, a movable body, a first fixed electrode group, and a second fixed electrode group. The support beam has one end coupled to the fixed portion and is provided along a second direction. The movable body is coupled to the other end of the support beam. The first fixed electrode group and the second fixed electrode group are provided at a substrate. The movable body includes a first coupling portion, a first base portion, a first movable electrode group, a second coupling portion, a second base portion, a second movable electrode group, and a mass portion. The first coupling portion is coupled to the other end of the support beam, and the first base portion is coupled to the first coupling portion. The second coupling portion is coupled to the other end of the support beam, and the second base portion is coupled to the second coupling portion.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a fixed portion, a support beam, a movable body, and a first fixed electrode group. The movable body is coupled to the other end of the support beam, and the first fixed electrode group is provided at a substrate and arranged in a first direction of the support beam. The movable body includes a first coupling portion, a first base portion, and a first movable electrode group. The first movable electrode group faces the first fixed electrode group in a second direction. Further, hm=hr, where hm is a height of a gravity center position of the movable body in a third direction and hr is a height of a rotation center of the support beam in the third direction.

Abstract: A battery for high-rate discharging is provided that achieves a further increased battery capacity and is free from an internal short circuit. A negative electrode includes, on a negative electrode foil having a band shape, a negative electrode active material covered part covered with a negative electrode active material layer, a first negative electrode active material uncovered part extending in a longitudinal direction of the negative electrode foil, a second negative electrode active material uncovered part provided at an end part in the longitudinal direction on a beginning side of winding, and an insulating resin part provided between the negative electrode active material covered part and the first negative electrode active material uncovered part. A positive electrode active material uncovered part is coupled to a positive electrode current collector at one of end parts of an electrode wound body.

Abstract: An inertial sensor includes, provided that axes X, Y, and Z are three axes perpendicular to one another, a substrate, a fixed section fixed to the substrate, a movable element that swings around a swing axis extending along the axis Y, a first beam and a second beam that link the fixed section to the movable element and are torsionally deformed by the swing motion of the movable element, and a detection electrode that is disposed on the substrate and overlaps with the movable element in the plan view along the axis-Z direction, and the first beam and the second beams differ in shape from each other and have the same torsional spring constant.

Abstract: The physical quantity sensor includes a substrate having several areas, a movable body, and a detection electrode. The detection electrode straddles the several areas. When setting a first imaginary straight line which is the smallest in an angle formed with an X-axis direction of imaginary straight lines connecting two of end parts on respective areas of the detection electrode, and a second imaginary straight line extending along a principal surface of the movable body in a maximum displacement state around the oscillation axis, the first and second imaginary straight lines fail to cross each other in an area between a first normal line which passes the end part of the first one of the several areas and a second normal line which passes the end part of the last one of the several areas.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor detects a physical quantity in a third direction, and includes a fixer fixed to a substrate, a support beam having one end coupled to the fixer, and a movable body. The movable body includes a movable electrode unit and a frame unit. The fixed electrode unit includes a first fixed electrode group and a second fixed electrode group. The movable electrode unit includes a first movable electrode group and a second movable electrode group. A first recess recessed in the third direction is provided in the first movable electrode group, a second recess recessed in the third direction is provided in the second fixed electrode group, and a third recess recessed in the third direction is provided in a region of the frame unit on a second movable electrode group side.

Abstract: In an inertial sensor, a first movable body configured to swing around a first rotation axisrotation axis along a first direction has an opening; the opening includes a second movable body configured to swing around a second rotation axisrotation axis along a second direction, a second support beam supporting the second movable body as the second rotation axisrotation axis, a third movable body configured to swing around a third rotation axisrotation axis along the second direction, and a third support beam supporting the third movable body as the third rotation axisrotation axis; and a protrusion is provided at a surface facing the second movable body and the third movable body, or at the second movable body and the third movable body, the protrusion protruding toward the second movable body and the third movable body or the surface.

Abstract: An optical device is provided which does not need a collimate lens, and which has a high available efficiency of light. The optical device includes a light source unit 1 emitting light with a wavelength ?, and an optical element 2 with a concavo-convex structure including periodical lenses. When n is a natural number equal to or greater than 1, and the size of a k-th (where k is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) pitch from the smallest one among the pitches of the concavo-convex structure is Pk, a distance L1 between the light source unit and the optical element satisfies the following formula 1 for equal to or greater than any one pitch Pk. ( n - 0 . 1 ) ? P k 2 2 ? ? ? L 1 ? ( n + 0 .

Abstract: An inertial sensor includes a substrate, a first supporting beam being a first rotation axis extending along a first direction, a first movable member swingable around the first rotation axis, a second supporting beam being a second rotation axis extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, a second movable member swingable around the second rotation axis, a third rotation axis extending along a second direction, a third movable member swingable around the third rotation axis, and a projection, wherein the second and third movable members are line-symmetrically placed with a center line of the first movable member along the second direction as an axis of symmetry, a center of gravity of the second movable member is closer to the center line than the second supporting beam, and a center of gravity of the third movable member is closer to the center line than the third supporting beam.