Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate provided with a drift region of a first conductivity type, wherein the substrate includes: an active portion; and a trench portion provided in the active portion at an upper surface of the substrate, the active portion includes: a first region in which trench portions including the trench portion are arrayed at a first trench interval in an array direction; and a second region in which trench portions including the trench portion are arrayed at a second trench interval greater than the first trench interval in the array direction, the first region includes a first bottom region of a second conductivity type provided over bottoms of at least two trench portions of the trench portions, and the second region includes a second bottom region of the second conductivity type provided at a bottom of one trench portion of the trench portions.

Abstract: A tire observation apparatus includes a computer and an imaging device including a camera and range sensors positioned at different angles relative to a ground surface. The computer is configured or programmed to calculate a position of a tire relative to the camera by using various distances to the tire calculated by the range sensors. By using the position of the tire, the computer is configured or programmed to calculate an amount of adjustment usable by the imaging device to adjust the position and an angle of the camera such that an imaging center of the camera is directed at a center of the tire or at a surface of the tire that is to be measured.

Abstract: A multilayer body for an image display device includes a wiring substrate including a substrate having transparency, and a mesh wiring layer disposed on the substrate; and a dielectric layer stacked on the wiring substrate. The dielectric layer and the substrate have a total thickness of 50 ?m or more and 500 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising: a plurality of trench portions; a first lower end region of a second conductivity type that is provided to be in contact with lower ends of two or more trench portions which include the gate trench portion; a well region of the second conductivity type that is arranged in a different location from the first lower end region in a top view, and a second lower end region of the second conductivity type that is provided between the first lower end region and the well region in a top view being separated from the first lower end region and the well region, and provided to be in contact with lower ends of one or more trench portions including the gate trench portion.

Abstract: A component supply device is configured to feed a component having a through hole to a target position. The component supply includes: a rod including at its distal end a holding portion to be inserted into the through hole; an actuator; a valve mounted on the rod; and a fixing portion by which the valve that advances with the rod passes. The rod includes a gas outlet located in an outer periphery of the holding portion and configured to blow gas rearward, and a gas passage extending inside the rod and configured to send gas supplied from a gas source to the gas outlet. The valve includes a push switch configured to be switched between an advanced attitude and a withdrawn attitude, and a biasing unit configured to bias the push switch to the withdrawn attitude. The fixing portion includes a pressing wall portion facing the push switch.

Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a phycocyanin pigment composition insoluble in water and provide food, cosmetics, a coating material or a printing marker for pharmaceuticals or agricultural chemicals, a stationery product, a writing tool, a printing ink, an inkjet ink, a metal ink, a paint, a plastic coloring agent, a color toner, a fluorescent labeling agent, a fluorescent probe, or a chemical sensor, each containing the pigment composition. It was found that the phycocyanin pigment composition containing phycocyanin and a metal or a metal compound was insoluble in water, and thus the present invention was accomplished.

Abstract: There is provided a laminate having excellent partial discharge resistance. A laminate of a conductor and an insulating coating comprising a conductor and an insulating coating formed on the conductor, wherein the insulating coating is formed of a resin composition containing a metal oxide hydrate, and an inorganic insulating layer is formed on the insulating coating when the laminate is exposed to partial discharge caused by inverter surges.

Abstract: A power transmission device is provided, which includes a main-drive-wheel drive part, and an auxiliary-drive-wheel drive part having a power extraction part which has a transfer gear set comprised of a transfer drive gear connected to the main-drive-wheel drive part and a transfer driven gear meshing with the transfer drive gear and configured to transmit power to the auxiliary drive wheels. In a power transmission path from the main-drive-wheel drive part to the transfer drive gear, an input shaft connected to the main-drive-wheel drive part and a power transmission shaft connected to the transfer drive gear are coupled to each other in a radial direction through a first spline having a first backlash. A first shear damper without backlash and a second shear damper provided with a second spline having a second backlash smaller than the first backlash are provided between the input shaft and the power transmission shaft.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a negative electrode material that can improve the charge-discharge efficiency of a battery. A negative electrode material includes a reduced form of a first solid electrolyte material and a conductive auxiliary. The first solid electrolyte material is denoted by Formula (1): Li60M?X?. Herein, in Formula (1), each of ?, ?, and ? is a value greater than 0, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal elements except Li and semimetals, and X represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.

Abstract: [Problem to be solved] Provided is a method for processing a substrate having high etching selectivity of silicon with respect to silicon-germanium and further having a high selection ratio of silicon with respect to a silicon oxide film and/or a silicon nitride film in surface processing when manufacturing various types of silicon devices, particularly various types of silicon composite semiconductor devices containing silicon-germanium. [Solution] A method for processing a substrate includes: bringing an etching solution into contact with a substrate including a silicon film and a silicon-germanium film to perform etching; and selectively removing the silicon film, in which the etching solution contains an organic alkali and water and has a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.20 ppm or less.

Abstract: There is provided medical devices and methods of use. The medical device comprising: an elongated tube; a balloon disposed over the elongate tube having at least one drug and at least one fluorescent agent on an outer surface of the balloon; an optical probe at the distal end of the elongate tube comprising an optical fiber configured to guide illumination light coming from a light source and an optical member configured for fluorescence imaging; and one or more detectors configured for fluorescence detection. The probe may comprise an optical probe for fluorescence imaging, and optionally an additional probe component for structural imaging or physiological sensing. The method can be particularly useful for determining whether sufficient dose of a drug has been transferred from a balloon to the lumen.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method that has less number of steps, improves the yield of terephthalic acid, and can inexpensively produce terephthalic acid from a biomass resource, while reducing the amount of energy consumption, and a method for producing polyester. The method for producing terephthalic acid comprises a step of converting a biomass resource or a compound derived from the biomass resource to p-tolualdehyde with a microbe. The method for producing polyester comprises a step of reacting terephthalic acid produced from a biomass resource with a diol compound to produce polyester.

Abstract: Provided is a work machine capable of achieving both low fuel consumption and ensuring of workability. The work machine is configured to, in a state where an output of an engine or hydraulic pump has increased to an increase threshold (S12: Yes) with the rotational speed being at a first rotational speed (S11: Yes), raise the rotational speed from the first rotational speed to a second rotational speed (S13); in a process of raising the rotational speed to the second rotational speed, output, to a regulator, a signal instructing reduction in the discharge rate (S14) so as to keep the output of the engine or hydraulic pump constant; and after the rotational speed has reached the second rotational speed, output, to the regulator, a signal instructing increase in the discharge rate (S16) so as to make the output of the engine or hydraulic pump have a value corresponding to a request load.

Abstract: A work machine includes: a hydraulic actuator that is driven by a hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump; an open-center directional control valve that is arranged on a center bypass line, and controls a flow of the hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the hydraulic actuator; a CB cut valve arranged between a directional control valve and a hydraulic working fluid tank on the center bypass line; and a machine controller that controls an opening of the CB cut valve. The machine controller restricts the opening of the CB cut valve when operation on the hydraulic actuator is in a fine operation state in which the operation on the hydraulic actuator is within a predetermined range representing a region of fine operation, and the fine operation state is continued longer than a predetermined period, and fully opens the CB cut valve otherwise.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a negative electrode material that can improve the cycle characteristics of a battery. The negative electrode material according to the present disclosure contains a reduced form of a solid electrolyte material. The solid electrolyte material is denoted by Formula (1): Li?M?X?. Herein, in Formula (1), each of ?, ?, and ? is a value greater than 0, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal dements except Li and semimetals, and X represents at least one dement selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.

Abstract: A gasification gas treatment facility for treating a gasification gas obtained by gasification of a fuel includes: a first heat exchanger for performing heat exchange between a purified gas obtained by removing at least ammonia and hydrogen chloride from the gasification gas and steam at a saturation temperature; a second heat exchanger for performing heat exchange between the gasification gas and at least condensed water produced by the heat exchange in the first heat exchanger to produce the steam at the saturation temperature; and a circulation system for circulating a circulating fluid including at least one of the steam or the condensed water between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. The circulation system is configured to supply the circulating fluid including at least the condensed water at the saturation temperature produced in the first heat exchanger to the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a light source, an optical waveguide element, a light detector, and an optical system. The light source emits a light beam. The optical waveguide element includes first and second gratings. The first grating causes part of the light beam to propagate in the optical waveguide element as a guided light beam. The second grating causes part of the guided light beam to exit from the optical waveguide element. The optical system causes the light beam to enter the first grating and causes a reflected light beam from an object to enter the second grating. Part of the reflected light beam entering the second grating propagates in the optical waveguide element and exits from the first grating as an optical feedback beam. The optical system causes part of the optical feedback beam to enter the light detector as separated light beams separated depending on wavelength.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a conveying path, a discharge port, a stacking portion, a manual setting portion, a binding device which binds a sheet bundle formed by the stacking portion and a sheet bundle set at the manual setting portion by a staple, a first regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle at a rear side of the apparatus in a width direction, and a second regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction. The binding device is formed to be movable back and forth to a front side and the rear side of the apparatus. When a staple is replenished to the binding device, the binding device is positioned at the third position so that a cartridge of the staple is loaded into the binding device from the front side of the apparatus.

Abstract: The object of the present invention resides in provision of a construction machine in which a hydraulic cylinder can be driven in a high efficiency by an accumulator. To this end, the construction machine including: a hydraulic cylinder; a first accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic cylinder with a first set pressure; a tank that stores hydraulic fluid therein; a first hydraulic pump that delivers the hydraulic fluid sucked from the tank; a hydraulic actuator that is driven by the first hydraulic pump; and a second accumulator that accumulates return fluid from the hydraulic actuator with a second set pressure, includes a first control valve placed in a first hydraulic line that connects the first accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other, and a second control valve placed in a second hydraulic line that connects the second accumulator and the hydraulic cylinder to each other. The second set pressure is set to a value higher than that of the first set pressure.