Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer coil component includes forming, on a main face of a substrate, a first coil conductor extending along the main face having conductivity, forming a second coil conductor and a third coil conductor apart from each other in a direction in which the first coil conductor extends and each extending from the first coil conductor in a first direction orthogonal to the main face, and forming a fourth coil conductor electrically connected to an end of the second coil conductor opposite to the first coil conductor and extending along the main face. The forming the first coil conductor includes forming, on the main face, a first insulator layer provided with a first penetration portion having a shape corresponding to the first coil conductor and exposing a part of the main face, and forming, by plating, the first coil conductor in the first penetration portion.

Abstract: A coil spring includes a wire rod and an elastic coat provided on the wire rod. The coil spring includes a coil section including a plurality of coil portions. The wire rod includes a round cross-sectional portion, a cross-section varying portion, and a rectangular cross-sectional portion along the longitudinal direction of the wire rod. The cross section of the rectangular cross-sectional portion is substantially square and has a first plane and a second plane. The first plane and the second plane oppose each other in the coil section. The elastic coat is provided on at least one of the first plane and the second plane. The elastic coat is continuous from the round cross-sectional portion to the cross-sectional variation portion and the rectangular cross-sectional portion.

Abstract: A sliding spline shaft device of the present invention includes a male spline and a female spline that is fitted to the male spline in an axially slidable manner, and at least one of the splines has a surface processed layer. The surface processed layer includes an undercoat layer, an intermediate layer containing phosphate, and a topcoat layer containing solid lubricant, in this order. The undercoat layer contains iron nitride and/or iron carbide. Thus, the surface of a base material has high hardness. As a result, microscopic deformation of the sliding surface is reduced, and increase in a real contact area is suppressed, whereby stick-slip is prevented.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a robotic arm; a passive arm which is coupled to and uncoupled from the robotic arm and is operated by the robotic arm; and a controller which controls first and second operations of the robotic arm. The first operation of the robotic arm is an operation that acts on a target object. The second operation of the robotic arm is an operation of causing the passive arm to act on the target object. In the second operation, the controller executes: coupling the robotic arm and the passive arm; causing the robotic arm to operate the passive arm to engage the passive arm with the target object; and causing the robotic arm to operate the passive arm, which has engaged with the target object, to operate the target object.

Abstract: An electronic component according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an element body and a terminal electrode. The element body includes an outer surface provided with a depression. The terminal electrode is disposed on the element body. The terminal electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is disposed in the depression. The second electrode portion protrudes from the depression. The second electrode portion is thicker than the first electrode portion.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat-radiating fin group having a plurality of heat-radiating fins that are arranged parallel to each other in a first direction; first heat pipes, one end of each first heat pipe being configured to be thermally connected to a first heat-generating element, another end of each first heat pipe being thermally connected to the heat-radiating fin group; and second heat pipes, one end of each second heat pipe being configured to be thermally connected to a second heat-generating element, another end of each second heat pipe being thermally connected to the heat-radiating fin group, wherein respective inserted another ends of the first and second heat pipes are disposed on a plane parallel to the first direction and defined in the heat-radiating fin group and have portions parallel to the first direction.

Abstract: The indoor unit has an air passage formed therein to allow the indoor air drawn in the indoor unit to pass therethrough. The first indoor heat exchanger, the adsorption and desorption device, and the second indoor heat exchanger are arranged in the air passage. The second indoor heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger, and the adsorption and desorption device is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger and upstream of the second indoor heat exchanger. To perform dehumidifying control, the controller controls the opening degree of the first expansion valve and the second expansion valve to enable switching between cooling adsorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device adsorbs moisture in the indoor air and cooling desorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device desorbs the adsorbed moisture.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, a switch 48 that switches between an Internal path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is transmitted to the measurement unit 6 and an External path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is output from an output terminal 10, and a control unit 7 that obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, and 44 with the Internal path and obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuator 46 with the External path.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 that attenuate an analog signal converted by the DA converter 3, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, and a control unit 7 that obtains a value of a step error, which is a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 in each of a plurality of steps obtained by dividing a maximum value of the attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 by a variation amount, which is a predetermined attenuation amount are included.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 that attenuate the analog signal converted by the DA converter 3, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, and a control unit 7 that obtains a value of a step error, which is a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 in each of a plurality of steps obtained by dividing a maximum value of the attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 by a variation amount, which is a predetermined attenuation amount are included.

Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a sound production information generator that generates sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys, a control information generator that generates control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation, and a musical sound signal generator that generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.

Abstract: A first heat exchanger, a desiccant block, and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series. In a dehumidifying operation, a first operation mode and a second operation mode are alternately repeated. In the first operation mode, the first heat exchanger is operated as a condensor or a radiator and the second heat exchanger is operated as an evaporator. In the second operation mode, the first heat exchanger is operated as the evaporator and the second heat exchanger is operated as the condensor or radiator. A pressure reducing amount in the first operation mode is controlled to be smaller than in the second operation mode so that a degree of superheat in the evaporator (second heat exchanger in the first operation mode, first heat exchanger in the second operation mode) in each of the first operation mode and the second operation mode is appropriately controlled to increase a dehumidifying amount.

Abstract: A coating layer for a substrate includes a coating material. The coating material includes graphene and/or graphene derivatives that reflect and/or absorb an electromagnetic (EM) wave having a frequency of above 20 GHz. The coating layer is deposited on a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: The indoor unit has an air passage formed therein to allow the indoor air drawn in the indoor unit to pass therethrough. The first indoor heat exchanger, the adsorption and desorption device, and the second indoor heat exchanger are arranged in the air passage. The second indoor heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger, and the adsorption and desorption device is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger and upstream of the second indoor heat exchanger. To perform dehumidifying control, the controller controls the opening degree of the first expansion valve and the second expansion valve to enable switching between cooling adsorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device adsorbs moisture in the indoor air and cooling desorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device desorbs the adsorbed moisture.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a sound production information generator that generates sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys, a control information generator that generates control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation, and a musical sound signal generator that generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.

Abstract: A signal analysis apparatus includes a frequency conversion unit 10 that includes a first local oscillator 11 which outputs a first local oscillation signal SLO1 of a frequency fLO1, a first mixer 12 which generates a first spurious signal of a frequency fSP1, a first BPF 13 of a passed center frequency f0, a second local oscillator 14 which outputs a second local oscillation signal SLO2 of a frequency fLO2, and a second BPF 16 of a passed bandwidth W, and that performs frequency conversion of a measured signal SRF of a frequency fRF (center frequency fc), in which the frequency fLO1 and the frequency fLO2 are shifted using a frequency shift amount ?f that does not establish a relationship of ?W/2?|fSP1?f0±fIF2??f|?fIF2?+W/2.

Abstract: A sound production control apparatus has a position detector that detects, in accordance with a playing operation of a musical instrument, a position of a key displaceable within a movement range from a start position to an end position. The movement range includes a sounding range including a sounding position and a setting range that is closer to the start position than the sounding range. The apparatus causes a played sound associated with the key to be produced upon the detected position of the key reaching the sounding position, while controlling a characteristic of the played sound depending on a displacement characteristic of the key within the setting range before the key is positioned in the sounding range.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.