Abstract: Provided is a motor control device capable of improving efficiency in real time by a neural network structure that directly derives, in a learning manner, an output signal providing optimal efficiency. A motor control device 1 is adapted to control a motor 6, and includes a neural network compensator 11 that receives input signals and repeats learning based on forward propagation and backpropagation thereby to derive an output signal providing optimal efficiency. Input signals are a motor current, a motor parameter and torque, and the like, and output signals are a current command value and a current phase command value. The motor 6 is controlled on the basis of an output signal derived by the neural network compensator 11.

Abstract: An actuator includes a control part, a first rotation sensor, and a second rotation sensor able to detect rotation of an output shaft. The control part performs a first rotation angle acquisition control for acquiring a target rotation angle of the output shaft when a movable part is moved from the second position to the first position as a first rotation angle. The first rotation angle is a rotation angle of the output shaft that is closer to the second position side than when the movable part abuts the first wall part. In the first rotation angle acquisition control, the control part causes the movable part abuts the first wall part, acquires a rotation angle of the output shaft when the movable part has abutted the first wall part, and calculates the first rotation angle based on the rotation angle of the output shaft that has been acquired.

Abstract: To provide a control device that causes a neural network to perform learning without any effects of dead time even for a dead-time system and that has the capability of improving transient characteristics for a command input. A control device includes a feedback controller configured to control a control target including a dead-time component, a reference model unit including a dead-time component and configured to output a desired response waveform for an input. A learning based controller is configured to perform learning in a manner that a change in an output from the learning based controller minimizes an error between an output of the control target and an output of the reference model unit or causes the error to be a predetermined threshold or smaller, the output from the learning based controller being added to an output of the feedback controller and input to the control target.

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: A connector device that includes a circuit board; a connector attached to the circuit board; and a molded resin that covers the entire circuit board and part of the connector, wherein: a housing of the connector contains a resin material and fibrous inorganic fillers, a groove is formed in a region of a surface of the housing that is covered with the molded resin, the groove being formed by removing the resin material with the inorganic fillers remaining, and extending in a direction that intersects a mounting direction in which a counterpart connector is to be mounted to the connector, the groove has a depth and a width in a range from 50 ?m to 150 ?m inclusive, and the groove is filled with the molded resin.

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: A connector device that includes: a circuit board; a connector attached to the circuit board; and a molded resin that covers the entire circuit board and part of the connector, wherein: a housing of the connector is made of a liquid crystal polymer or a poly phenylene sulfide resin, and the molded resin is made of a polyamide resin or a polyester resin whose melting point or softening point is 230° C. or less.

Abstract: A connector device that includes a circuit board; a connector attached to the circuit board; and a molded resin that covers the entire circuit board and part of the connector, wherein: a housing of the connector contains a resin material and fibrous inorganic fillers, a groove is formed in a region of a surface of the housing that is covered with the molded resin, the groove being formed by removing the resin material with the inorganic fillers remaining, and extending in a direction that intersects a mounting direction in which a counterpart connector is to be mounted to the connector, the groove has a depth and a width in a range from 50 ?m to 150 ?m inclusive, and the groove is filled with the molded resin.

Abstract: An actuator includes a control part, a first rotation sensor, and a second rotation sensor able to detect rotation of an output shaft. The control part performs a first rotation angle acquisition control for acquiring a target rotation angle of the output shaft when a movable part is moved from the second position to the first position as a first rotation angle. The first rotation angle is a rotation angle of the output shaft that is closer to the second position side than when the movable part abuts the first wall part. In the first rotation angle acquisition control, the control part causes the movable part abuts the first wall part, acquires a rotation angle of the output shaft when the movable part has abutted the first wall part, and calculates the first rotation angle based on the rotation angle of the output shaft that has been acquired.

Abstract: Provided is a sewing machine including: a cylinder unit 3 configured to support two materials Fi and Fo having annular edges by being inserted therethrough while they are stacked, with one being located on the inner wheel side and the other being located on the outer wheel side; a stitch plate 12 configured to support the material Fi on the inner wheel side supported by the cylinder unit 3 by abutting it from below; a material presser 13 configured to press the material Fo on the outer wheel side supported by the cylinder unit 3 above the stitch plate 12; and a material sandwiching unit 41 provided on the near side of the stitch plate 12 and the material presser 13 and configured to sandwich, from above and below, the two materials Fi and Fo stacked, with the material Fi on the inner wheel side being located on the lower side and the material Fo on the outer wheel side being located on the upper side.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a material sandwiching unit to sandwich two materials having annular edges from above and below while they are stacked so that the material on an inner wheel side is located on the lower side and the material on an outer wheel side is located on the upper side, wherein a part of the material sandwiching unit located above the two materials is vertically movable, the material sandwiching unit includes a curl-removing mechanism to straighten curls occurring on the edges of the two materials, the material sandwiching unit includes inclined parts that serve as the curl-removing mechanism and have edges extending backward from a farther side of the edges toward the edge side at a position where the two materials pass therethrough, and the inclined parts have air ejectors to eject air so as to form airflows that straighten portions of the materials where curls have occurred.

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: In a first sensitivity level, an AD converter performs AD conversion selectively using, in accordance with the level of the analog signal, any one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal that have mutually different slopes, and in a second sensitivity level that is different from the first sensitivity level, the AD converter performs AD conversion only using a third reference signal.

Abstract: A improving agent for improving aftertaste having high-intensity sweeteners according to the present disclosure contains isobutyl angelate as an active ingredient. A method for improving a sweet taste according to the present disclosure includes adding 0.001 to 1 ppm of isobutyl angelate to an oral composition containing a high-intensity sweetener.

Abstract: A bitter taste inhibitor according to the present disclosure contains isobutyl angelate as an active and a given solvent or a given excipient.

Abstract: In a first sensitivity level, an AD converter performs AD conversion selectively using, in accordance with the level of the analog signal, any one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal that have mutually different slopes, and in a second sensitivity level that is different from the first sensitivity level, the AD converter performs AD conversion only using a third reference signal.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, driving method of the imaging apparatus, and an imaging system, are provided, wherein pixels output at least two image signals with different viable signal ranges, and the pixel signal with a larger signal range is converted to a digital signal during a first period, and the pixel signal with a smaller signal range is converted to a digital signal during a second period shorter than the first period.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units each of which includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer which accumulates signal charges and which is disposed between the first and second electrodes, and an insulating layer disposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode, an amplification unit configured to receive optical signals and output signals each based on one of the optical signals, each of the optical signals being based on one of the signal charges, each of the signal charges being accumulated in one of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, and a capacitive element having a first node and a second node, the first node being connected to the second electrodes of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units and the amplification unit and the second node selectively receiving each one of a plurality of potentials having different values.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a material sandwiching unit to sandwich two materials having annular edges from above and below while they are stacked so that the material on an inner wheel side is located on the lower side and the material on an outer wheel side is located on the upper side, wherein a part of the material sandwiching unit located above the two materials is vertically movable, the material sandwiching unit includes a curl-removing mechanism to straighten curls occurring on the edges of the two materials, the material sandwiching unit includes inclined parts that serve as the curl-removing mechanism and have edges extending backward from a farther side of the edges toward the edge side at a position where the two materials pass therethrough, and the inclined parts have air ejectors to eject air so as to form airflows that straighten portions of the materials where curls have occurred.