Abstract: A spectacle lens according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the arrangement of the dot portions is non-uniform. A spectacle lens according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the dot-portion group includes dot portions each having an aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the length in the short-axis direction to the length in the long-axis direction in the plan-view shape, of less than 1.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic analyzer that keeps a temperature of alight emitting element of alight source constant and has high accuracy analysis performance. A light source for an automatic analyzer includes: a substrate including a light source; a temperature adjustment unit configured to adjust a temperature of the light source; a first optical element configured to emit light from the light source to an outside; and a member configured to cover the light source, in which the temperature adjustment unit, the substrate, the member, and the first optical element are arranged in this order, the optical element is assembled so as to be accommodated in the member, and the temperature adjustment unit puts the light source, the member, and the optical element under the same temperature control.

Abstract: Provided are a spectacle lens and a technique associated therewith, wherein, when ? is a wavelength, r is a ratio of a total area of defocus regions to an overall area in plan view of a portion in which a plurality of defocus regions are provided in the spectacle lens, w is an amount of progression of a wavefront in each of the defocus regions relative to a base region, an average value of cos(2?w/?) in one defocus region is obtained in each of the plurality of defocus regions, c(?) is a gross average of the plurality of average values, an average value of sin(2?w/?) in one defocus region is obtained in each of the plurality of defocus regions, s(?) is a gross average of the plurality of average values, and f(?) is equal to{1-r+r·c(?)}2 + {s(?)}2, a sign of {f(?×1.01)-f(?)} is inverted at least once when the wavelength ? is increased within a range of 0.45 µm ? ? ? 0.65 µm.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for a battery module including a plurality of electric cells includes a displacement detector configured to detect a displacement of at least one of the electric cells during charging, and an electronic control unit configured to determine whether the battery module is a genuine product. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether the battery module is the genuine product based on the displacement detected by the displacement detector.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for a secondary battery includes a ripple current circuit configured to apply a ripple current of a predetermined frequency to the secondary battery, a strain gauge configured to acquire strain of the secondary battery in association with the application of the ripple current of the predetermined frequency, and an electronic control unit configured to diagnose whether or not the secondary battery is a regular product.

Abstract: Provided is an eyeglass lens including: a first region formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a predetermined position in an eye; and a plurality of second regions formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a position defocused from the predetermined position, wherein the plurality of second regions have negative spherical aberration.

Abstract: An amount obtained by multiplying a vector amount obtained by Fourier transform of a wavefront of a spectacle lens by a preset predetermined vector amount is adopted as an evaluation index of the spectacle lens, and the evaluation index is evaluated based on the evaluation index.

Abstract: Provided is an eyeglass lens including: a first region formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a predetermined position in an eye; and a plurality of second regions formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a position defocused from the predetermined position, wherein the plurality of second regions are formed to have a size and an arrangement interval such that light perceived in peripheral vision is perceived as pseudo-focusing at a position other than the predetermined position.

Abstract: Provided are an ophthalmic lens and a technique related thereto, the ophthalmic lens including two lens elements 1 and 2 having powers with different signs, in which when the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the lens element 1 having a power with a smaller absolute value is ve1, and the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the other lens element 2 is ve2, Formula 1 below is satisfied, and ve1<ve2??(Formula 1) when a partial dispersion ratio PgF?1 between the g-line and F?-line in the lens element 1 having the power with the smaller absolute value, and a partial dispersion ratio PgF?2 between the g-line and F?-line in the other lens element 2 are set, the following Formula 2 is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided are ophthalmic lens and a technique related thereto, the ophthalmic lens having a prescription frequency of zero or less, a diffraction structure for which a blaze wavelength is set on the short wavelength side of visible light being provided on at least one of an object-side surface side and an eyeball-side surface side, and the ophthalmic lens having positive longitudinal chromatic aberration.

Abstract: A technology that makes a change in the amount of aberration in a spectacle lens worn by wearer relative to a change in at least one of the aberration in the eye or spectacle lens. A method for designing a spectacle lens wherein, when a degree of change caused by a physical feature of wearer in at least one of an aberration distribution of an eye of wearer and an aberration distribution of a spectacle lens worn by the wearer is large, a spectacle lens that has an aberration distribution of which rotational asymmetry is weak in a region having a predetermined width and a center at any point on a main meridian of the spectacle lens is obtained as a design solution, and when the degree of the change is small, a spectacle lens of which rotational asymmetry is strong in the region is obtained as a design solution.

Abstract: Provided is a technology that makes a change in the amount of aberration that is a combination of aberration in an eye and aberration in a spectacle lens robust with respect to rotation. Provided are a method for designing a spectacle lens and related technologies in which, when rotational asymmetry of an aberration distribution of an eye of a wearer about an optical axis is strong, a spectacle lens that has an aberration distribution of which rotational asymmetry is weak in a region having a predetermined width and a center at any point on a main meridian of the spectacle lens is obtained as a design solution, and when rotational asymmetry of the aberration distribution of the eye of the wearer about the optical axis is weak, a spectacle lens of which rotational asymmetry is strong in the region is obtained as a design solution.

Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmological lens configured to provide a near-sightedness progression suppression effect using a monochromatic aberration of a pencil that is a bundle of rays passing through the ophthalmological lens and passing through a pupil, the ophthalmological lens including a wavelength filter for attenuating light of a long wavelength longer than a set dominant wavelength, and technology related thereto.

Abstract: A spectacle lens according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the arrangement of the dot portions is non-uniform. A spectacle lens according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the dot-portion group includes dot portions each having an aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the length in the short-axis direction to the length in the long-axis direction in the plan-view shape, of less than 1.

Abstract: In the rotating electric machine, a first terminal and a second terminal extend from two of the slots and a third terminal extends from one of the slots, which is located between the two slots. The first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other with use of a bus bar. The bus bar has: a first end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the first terminal; a second end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the second terminal; and an interconnecting portion configured to couple the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, which is arranged in the circumferential direction on the stator core side of the first end portion and the second end portion so as to pass on the slot side of the third terminal.

Abstract: In a stator of the present invention, oblique-side portions of a pair of terminal wires to be welded to each other extend so as to approach each other and are located at different positions in a radial direction of a stator core, and straight portions of the pair of the terminal wires to be welded to each other are parallel to each other when viewed in the radial direction, and one of the straight portions is inclined in a direction toward another one of the straight portions through a boundary portion between the one straight portion and the oblique-side portion corresponding to the one straight portion as a bent portion in the radial direction so that a distal end portion of the one straight portion and a distal end portion of the another one of the straight portions overlap with each other when viewed in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: In a composite optical device having a resin layer on a surface of a glass serving as a base, the resin layer has a first area corresponding to an effective diameter range and a second area disposed outside of the first area, a surface of the first area includes a concave surface of aspheric shape at least in part, and a surface of the second area is continuous with the surface of the first area, and includes an inflection point.

Abstract: In the rotating electric machine, a first terminal and a second terminal extend from two of the slots and a third terminal extends from one of the slots, which is located between the two slots. The first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other with use of a bus bar. The bus bar has: a first end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the first terminal; a second end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the second terminal; and an interconnecting portion configured to couple the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, which is arranged in the circumferential direction on the stator core side of the first end portion and the second end portion so as to pass on the slot side of the third terminal.

Abstract: A secondary battery system includes a battery having an electrode body impregnated with an electrolyte containing lithium ions; and an ECU configured to permit charge and discharge of the battery when battery temperature is equal to or more than a threshold temperature and to restrict the charge and discharge of the battery when the battery temperature is less than the threshold temperature. The ECU is configured to obtain a value related to minimum concentration of the lithium ions (minimum salt concentration) caused by a deviation of concentration distribution of the lithium ions in the electrode body, and to set the threshold temperature to be higher as the related value representing the minimum salt concentration becomes lower.

Abstract: A light scanning apparatus includes a laser light source, an anamorphic element converging a laser beam from the laser light source in a sub-scan direction, a deflector deflecting and scanning the laser beam, an image-forming optical system converging the deflected laser beam in a scan direction onto a scan target surface, and a reflective member between the image-forming optical system and the scan target surface to reflect the laser beam onto the scan target surface. When an F value of axial beam in the scan direction is Fno, an F value of beam at a maximum image height in the scan direction is Fno?, and an incidence angle of beam at the maximum image height onto the scan target surface in the scan direction is ?, the following Equation (1) is satisfied: {1-(1-cos ?4)/?M}/cos ?4?Fno?2/Fno2?1/cos ?4 ??(1) where M is an arbitrary real number that is ?2 or greater and 2 or smaller.