Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring device which includes: a first container and a second container that are arranged adjacent to each other; and a partition wall provided between the first and second containers, the partition wall having a through hole(s) for forming a lipid bilayer(s). In this measuring device, a gas flow path(s) having a hydrophobic surface is/are formed in at least one of the first and second containers; the gas flow path(s) has/have an inlet and an outlet; the inlet and the outlet each communicate with the exterior of the measuring device; the gas flow path(s) open(s) into the container in which it/they is/are formed; and a gas flowing in the gas flow path(s) contacts the droplet filled in the container.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer reduced in background light and reduced in size is provided. The optical multiplexer takes a plurality of light beams having different wavelengths as input from respective waveguides, and outputs multiple light obtained by multiplexing the plurality of light beams by a directional coupler. Background light is reduced by a reflection groove which reflects excess light outputted from a discard port of the directional coupler, and downsizing of the optical multiplexer is achieved.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a fan, a heat exchanger, and a drain receiver. The interior of the housing is partitioned into a first space and a second space in an axial direction of the rotating shaft of the fan. In the first space, a first opening is provided to allow air to flow out toward a region located outward of the fan in the first space in a radial direction of the fan. In the second space, no opening is provided and a region located outward of the fan in the second space is closed in the radial direction of the fan. In at least part of a space between the fan in the first space and the heat exchanger, a first water receiving device is provided at a higher position than the drain receiver.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer and an optical multiplexing method capable of multiplexing light of four or more types of wavelengths are provided. An optical multiplexer capable of multiplexing light of a plurality of wavelengths includes a plurality of coupling parts each including a pair of main entrance paths, a pair of main exit paths, and a main coupler arranged between the main entrance paths and the main exit paths, the main coupler causing light entering from the main entrance paths to be coupled and exit from the main exit paths, in which one of the main entrance paths of the coupling parts is joined to one of the main exit paths of anther coupling parts and the main coupler has coupling length different from at least one other main coupler.

Abstract: Provided is a light beam emission device and a light beam projection device, that are downsizable, have a simple configuration, and simplify complicated processing of video signals, such as the timing adjustment of video output signals, without generating color irregularity. The devices include: a plurality of light sources; and a condensing member. A range in the light source array direction, in which emission spots of the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources respectively exist, is within a size in the array direction of a light beam, immediately after the light beam emitted from an emission spot located most closely to the center of the plurality of light sources, with respect to the condensing member, passed through the condensing member.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer and an optical multiplexing method capable of multiplexing light of four or more types of wavelengths are provided. An optical multiplexer 1 capable of multiplexing light of a plurality of wavelengths includes a plurality of coupling parts 10 each including a pair of main entrance paths 110, 120, a pair of main exit paths 130, 140, and a main coupler 150 arranged between the main entrance paths 110, 120 and the main exit paths 130, 140, the main coupler 150 causing light entering from the main entrance paths 110, 120 to be coupled and exit from the main exit paths 130, 140, in which one of the main entrance paths 110, 120 of the coupling parts 10 is joined to one of the main exit paths 130, 140 of anther coupling parts 10, and the main coupler 150 each has coupling characteristics different from those of at least one other main coupler 150.

Abstract: An underrun protection mounted on a vehicle body frame includes: a main body that is hollow in shape and has a longitudinal direction along the width direction of a vehicle; a connecting part connected to the vehicle body frame; a bracket provided farther toward a distal end in the longitudinal direction than the connecting part, inside the main body. The bracket includes a vertical panel disposed along the vertical direction, and a horizontal panel that is connected to a lower end of the vertical panel and is disposed along the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer including a first and a second optical waveguides, and a multiplexing unit. The first and second optical waveguides have a first and a second mode coupling regions being proximate to each other with a predetermined gap width, the optical waveguides in the first and second mode coupling regions form the multiplexing unit. Light transfers between the optical waveguides in the first and second mode coupling regions, first light in the optical waveguide in the first mode coupling region and second light in the optical waveguide in the first or second mode coupling regions having the wavelength different from the first light are multiplexed to one of the waveguides in the first and second mode coupling regions, and the core cross-section of the optical waveguide at least in the first and second mode coupling regions in the first and second optical waveguides is asymmetric in the height direction.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface and having a drift region of a first conductivity type; a first main terminal provided above the upper surface; a second main terminal provided below the lower surface; a control terminal configured to control whether or not to cause a current to flow between the first main terminal and the second main terminal; and a buffer region provided between the drift region and the lower surface and having a higher doping concentration than the drift region. In a C-V characteristic indicating a relationship between a power supply voltage applied between the first main terminal and the second main terminal and an inter-terminal capacitance between the control terminal and the second main terminal, a region where the power supply voltage is 500 V or more has a peak of the inter-terminal capacitance.

Abstract: Provided is an analyzing apparatus including a charge amount analyzing unit configured to analyze, by using a device simulator configured to simulate a transient change of a charge in a semiconductor device having a first main terminal and a second main terminal, a change of a charge amount at any one of the terminals when a power source voltage applied between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is changed by a displacement voltage smaller than an initial voltage after a current flowing between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is stabilized with the semiconductor device being set to an ON state and the power source voltage being set to the initial voltage, and a capacitance calculating unit configured to compute a terminal capacitance at any one of the terminals based on the change of the charge amount analyzed by the charge amount analyzing unit.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer reduced in background light and reduced in size is provided. The optical multiplexer takes a plurality of light beams having different wavelengths as input from respective waveguides, and outputs multiple light obtained by multiplexing the plurality of light beams by a directional coupler. Background light is reduced by a reflection groove which reflects excess light outputted from a discard port of the directional coupler, and downsizing of the optical multiplexer is achieved.

Abstract: Provided is an analyzing apparatus including a charge amount analyzing unit configured to analyze, by using a device simulator configured to simulate a transient change of a charge in a semiconductor device having a first main terminal and a second main terminal, a change of a charge amount at any one of the terminals when a power source voltage applied between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is changed by a displacement voltage smaller than an initial voltage after a current flowing between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is stabilized with the semiconductor device being set to an ON state and the power source voltage being set to the initial voltage, and a capacitance calculating unit configured to compute a terminal capacitance at any one of the terminals based on the change of the charge amount analyzed by the charge amount analyzing unit.

Abstract: A retinal scanning display device including an optical system emits laser light to a pupil of a user, an optical multiplexer individually receives types of laser light having different wavelengths emitted from a plurality of semiconductor lasers, which combines the types of laser light coaxially to output the combined laser light. On the optical multiplexer, a beam shaper shapes the combined laser light into a light beam having a predetermined divergence or convergence angle, and a direction-of-emission changer changes image signal corresponding to an image to be formed, the direction of emission of the light beam output through the beam shaper within at least a plane intersecting the direction of emission. Then, an optical engine formed with the semiconductor lasers, the optical multiplexer, the beam shaper and the direction-of-emission changer guides the laser light emitted from the direction-of-emission changer to the position of the pupil of the user.

Abstract: This invention is provided with: a light source; a light scanning mirror; a measurement mechanism for measuring a change in the intensity of light reflected from an eyeball as time elapses through the scanning of at least a surface of the pupil with a light beam by means of the light scanning mirror; a sampling mechanism for sampling the intensity of light reflected from the pupil from the measured change in the intensity of the reflected light as time elapses; and a mechanism for detecting the size and the position of the pupil by synchronizing the sampled intensity of light reflected from the pupil, and the scanning time during which the surface of the eyeball is scanned; and an image generating mechanism for forming an image on the retina of the eyeball by projecting a light beam for generating an image onto the pupil in the detected position while scanning.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a fan, a heat exchanger, and a drain receiver. The interior of the housing is partitioned into a first space and a second space in an axial direction of the rotating shaft of the fan. In the first space, a first opening is provided to allow air to flow out toward a region located outward of the fan in the first space in a radial direction of the fan. In the second space, no opening is provided and a region located outward of the fan in the second space is closed in the radial direction of the fan. In at least part of a space between the fan in the first space and the heat exchanger, a first water receiving device is provided at a higher position than the drain receiver.

Abstract: Provided is a light beam emission device and a light beam projection device, that are downsizable, have a simple configuration, and simplify complicated processing of video signals, such as the timing adjustment of video output signals, without generating color irregularity. The devices include: a plurality of light sources; and a condensing member. A range in the light source array direction, in which emission spots of the light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources respectively exist, is within a size in the array direction of a light beam, immediately after the light beam emitted from an emission spot located most closely to the center of the plurality of light sources, with respect to the condensing member, passed through the condensing member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical scanning type video projection device that decreases the height of the optical scanning type video projection device by improving the disposition of a light source module device and an optical scanning mirror device. The optical scanning type video projection device has: a first substrate on which an optical waveguide type multiplexer having a plurality of optical waveguides and a light multiplexer is provided; a second substrate on which an optical scanning mirror device having a movable mirror is provided; and an optical member configured to guide a light beam emitted from the optical waveguide type multiplexer to the movable mirror in a direction that is different from an emitting direction of the light beam. The first substrate and the second substrate are disposed in parallel with each other.

Abstract: When a predetermined image is displayed for a user such that the user is able to visually recognize the image, the user sight line direction is detected, a part assumed to be present in the detected user sight line direction is set to a first image, an image complementary to the first image for the predetermined image is set to a second image, the positions of the retinas of the eyes of the user are scanned with laser light from a retinal scanning display unit fitted to the head of the user and the first image is focused on a position away from the position of the eyes of the user by a first distance and is displayed. The second image is displayed on the surface of the panel of a panel display unit in a position away from the user by a second distance shorter than the first.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical multiplexer, a light source module, a two-dimensional optical scanning device and an image projection device, where the effects of stray light that has failed to enter into an input optical waveguide can be reduced. Light that is in or below the range of 2.5 times greater than the full width at half maximum of the light intensity distribution of a light beam that has not been inputted into an optical waveguide from among the respective light beams that have been inputted into the input ends of the plurality of input optical waveguides is prevented from overlapping with the multiplexed light outputted from the output optical waveguide in the output end of the output optical waveguide.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical multiplexer, a light source module, a two-dimensional optical scanning device and an image projection device, where the light beam intensity from a plurality of light sources can be attenuated to a desired value without installing an additional optical attenuator element. The optical coupling ratio of an optical coupling part provided in an optical multiplexing unit is set in such a manner that the total intensity of light beams that have been inputted into individual input optical waveguides from the light sources is attenuated by a value in a range from 5 dB to 40 dB at a stage of being outputted as multiplexed light from an output optical waveguide.