Abstract: A long-fiber nonwoven fabric of the present invention contains a resin having a polyethylene terephthalate component of 99% or more. The long-fiber nonwoven fabric has a dry heat area shrinkage rate of 30% or more at 100° C. for 3 minutes, and constituent fibers of the long-fiber nonwoven fabric have a birefringence index (?n) of 10×10?3 to 60×10?3 and a specific gravity of 1.335 to 1.340 g/cm3.

Abstract: A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.

Abstract: A sliding member of the present invention includes a base material and a coating layer that is formed on the base material. The coating layer includes a particle aggregate that contains precipitation hardened copper alloy particles. The precipitation hardened copper alloy particles contain cobalt (Co) and silicon (Si). The sliding member has high coating strength and superior wear resistance.

Abstract: A memory system including: a nonvolatile memory; first and second decoders configured to execute first and second error correction for correcting data read from the nonvolatile memory; and a controller configured to receive a first command issued by a host device, the first command being a command that requests neither reading nor writing data from or to the nonvolatile memory and that includes information indicative of acceptable latency of error correction, in response to receiving the first command, select one of the first decoder and the second decoder based on the received first command, and after receiving the first command, output data read from the nonvolatile memory through the selected one of the first decoder and the second decoder to the host device.

Abstract: An information processing device (2) includes an acquisition unit (22) that acquires detection results of a plurality of sensors (1) that detects skill acquisition operation, and a processing unit (24) that processes the detection results of the plurality of sensors (1) which results are acquired by the acquisition unit (22).

Abstract: A simulation control apparatus includes a control stick that rotates about an axis X1 in both directions, and a reaction force generator including a tension spring that is deformed by rotation of the control stick and generates an operating reaction force of the control stick. The reaction force generator includes a transferer that is connected to the control stick and rotates together with the control stick, a first arm that rotates about an axis X2 and deforms the tension spring when rotation of the control stick in one direction is transferred to the first arm through the transferer, and a second arm that rotates about an axis X2 and deforms the tension spring when rotation of the control stick in another direction is transferred to the second arm through the transferer.

Abstract: Provided is a nickel brazing filler metal which is capable of brazing and joining various stainless steel members at relatively low temperature, and has excellent corrosion resistance, and is used for brazing of a heat exchanger and the like. The nickel brazing filler metal is characterized by having a melting temperature of 1000° C. or less, exhibiting excellent Wettability, having corrosion resistance against acid, and containing 8.0 to 19.0 mass % of Cr, 7.0 to 10.5 mass % of P, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of B, and 2.0 to 8.0 mass % of Cu, wherein a content of Mo is 10.0 mass % or less, a content of Si is 2.5 mass % or less, and the remainders are is Ni and unavoidable impurities. In addition, the nickel brazing filler metal may contain one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe and Mn, where the content of Co is 5.0 mass % or less, the content of Fe is 3.0 mass % or less, the content of Mn is 3.0 mass % or less, and the total content of these elements is 8.0 mass % or less.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: an endless belt; a heater; a stay; a holder having a heater supporting surface and a contacting surface in contact with the stay; and a pressure roller having a diameter that becomes smaller from each end of the pressure roller in an axial direction toward a center of the pressure roller in the axial direction. In a state prior to assembling the holder with both the stay and the heater, a distance in an orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at a center of the holder in the axial direction is longer than a distance in the orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at each end of the holder in the axial direction. The orthogonal direction is orthogonal to the axial direction.

Abstract: Provided is a viewing angle control system and an image display device which are capable of controlling the viewing angle of a display screen in a longitudinal direction and improving the visibility in a specific lateral direction. The viewing angle control system includes a polarizer, and a light absorption anisotropic layer, in which the polarizer has an in-plane absorption axis in a film, an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of the film is in a range of 0.1° to 45°, and an angle ? between a direction in which the transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer is orthographically projected onto the film surface and the absorption axis of the polarizer is 0° or greater and less than 85°, greater than 95° and less than 265°, or greater than 275° and 360° or less.

Abstract: A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.

Abstract: A sliding member of the present invention includes a base material and a coating layer that is formed on the base material. The coating layer includes a particle aggregate, and the particle aggregate contains two or more kinds of precipitation hardened copper alloy particles that have different compositions. The sliding member has high coating strength and superior wear resistance.

Abstract: A laminate includes a base substrate, and a coating layer formed on the base substrate. The coating layer includes a copper alloy portions derived from precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particle portions which are harder than the copper alloy portions, the hard particle portions are derived from hard particles, and the parts bond with each other via an interface. Each of the hard particle portions has a non-spherical shape. A sliding member includes the laminate in at least one sliding portion. A method for manufacturing a laminate includes a step of spraying a mixture in a non-molten state including precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particles having a non-spherical shape and being harder than the copper alloy particles onto a base substrate, to form a coating layer on the base substrate.

Abstract: In the present invention, a high-voltage side electrode component further includes a conductive film disposed on an upper surface of a dielectric electrode independently of a metal electrode. The conductive film is disposed between at least one gas ejection port and the metal electrode in plan view, and the conductive film is set to ground potential.

Abstract: An electric discharge generator and power supply device of electric discharge generator includes a radical gas generation apparatus, a process chamber apparatus, and an n-phase inverter power supply device. The radical gas generation apparatus is located adjacent to the process chamber apparatus. The radical gas generation apparatus includes a plurality of (n) discharge cells. The n-phase inverter power supply device includes a power supply circuit configuration offering a means to control output of n-phase alternating current voltages and variably controls, according to positions of the plurality of discharge cells, the alternating current voltages of different phases.

Abstract: A gas ejector of a gas supply apparatus includes a nozzle portion. The opening of a first-stage restricting cylinder constituting the nozzle portion has a circular cross-sectional shape with a diameter r1. A second-stage restricting cylinder is continuously formed with the first-stage restricting cylinder along a Z direction. The opening of the second-stage restricting cylinder has a circular cross-sectional shape with a diameter r2, and supplies a source gas supplied from the first-stage restricting cylinder to a low-vacuum processing chamber below. At this time, the diameter r2 is set to satisfy “r2>r1”.

Abstract: In the present invention, a gas passing groove, a high-voltage electrode groove and a ground electrode groove formed in an electrode unit base are each spiral in plan view. A high-voltage electrode is embedded in the high-voltage electrode grove, and a ground electrode is embedded in the ground electrode groove. The high-voltage electrode and the ground electrode are arranged on sides of opposite side surfaces of the gas passing groove in the electrode unit base to oppose each other with a portion of the electrode unit base and the gas passing groove therebetween, and are spiral in plan view along with the gas passing groove.

Abstract: The present invention has features (1) to (3). The feature (1) is that “an active gas generation electrode group is formed in such a manner that a ground side electrode component supports a high-voltage side electrode component”. The feature (2) is that “stepped parts are provided in a discharge space outside region of a dielectric electrode in the high-voltage side electrode component, and project downward, and by a formation height of these stepped parts, the gap length of a discharge space is defined”. The feature (3) is that “the high-voltage side electrode component and the ground side electrode component are formed to have the thickness of a discharge space formation region relatively thin and the thickness of a discharge space outside region relatively thick”.

Abstract: A sliding member of the present invention includes a base material and a coating layer that is formed on the base material. The coating layer includes a particle aggregate, and the particle aggregate contains two or more kinds of precipitation hardened copper alloy particles that have different compositions. The sliding member has high coating strength and superior wear resistance.

Abstract: A laminate includes a base substrate, and a coating layer formed on the base substrate. The coating layer includes a copper alloy portions derived from precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particle portions which are harder than the copper alloy portions, the hard particle portions are derived from hard particles, and the parts bond with each other via an interface. Each of the hard particle portions has a non-spherical shape. A sliding member includes the laminate in at least one sliding portion. A method for manufacturing a laminate includes a step of spraying a mixture in a non-molten state including precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particles having a non-spherical shape and being harder than the copper alloy particles onto a base substrate, to form a coating layer on the base substrate.

Abstract: A laminate includes a base substrate, and a coating layer formed on the base substrate. The coating layer includes a copper alloy portions derived from precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particle portions which are harder than the copper alloy portions, the hard particle portions are derived from hard particles, and the parts bond with each other via an interface. Each of the hard particle portions has a non-spherical shape. A sliding member includes the laminate in at least one sliding portion. A method for manufacturing a laminate includes a step of spraying a mixture in a non-molten state including precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particles having a non-spherical shape and being harder than the copper alloy particles onto a base substrate, to form a coating layer on the base substrate.