Abstract: A battery packaging material including a laminate that is provided with a barrier layer, a heat-fusible resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. When the infrared absorption spectrum on the surface of the polyester film in 18 directions at intervals of 10° from 0° to 180° is obtained using the total reflection method of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the ratio (surface orientation degree, Ymax/Ymin) of the maximum value Ymax and the minimum value Ymin of the ratio (Y1340/Y1410) of the absorption peak intensity Y1340 in 1340 cm?1 and the absorption peak intensity Y1410 in 1410 cm?1 in the infrared absorption spectrum is in the range of 1.4-2.7.

Abstract: A device of the disclosure comprises pixels including photoelectric converters generating charge, transistors having nodes receiving signals based on the charge, and transistors supplying reset voltage; and lines along the columns, wherein: in a first period, the node is disconnected from the converter, and signals based on the reset voltage is output from a pixel in a first row to a line, in a second period, signals based on the reset voltage and the charge transferred to the node are output from the pixel in the first row to a line, in a third period, signals based on the charge is output from a pixel in a second row to a line, in a fourth period, signals based on the charge is output from a pixel in a third row to a line, and the first period is prior to the second period, and between the third and fourth periods.

Abstract: A battery packaging material including a laminate that is provided with a barrier layer, a heat-fusible resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. When the infrared absorption spectrum on the surface of the polyester film in 18 directions at intervals of 10° from 0° to 180° is obtained using the total reflection method of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the ratio (surface orientation degree, Ymax/Ymin) of the maximum value Ymax and the minimum value Ymin of the ratio (Y1340/Y1410) of the absorption peak intensity Y1340 in 1340 cm?1 and the absorption peak intensity Y1410 in 1410 cm?1 in the infrared absorption spectrum is in the range of 1.4-2.7.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a readout line, and a plurality of pixel cells each including a conversion unit, an output unit configured to output a signal corresponding to a charge generated by the conversion unit, and a selection switch provided on a pathway between the output unit and the readout line. The apparatus includes a first switch provided on a pathway between the readout line and a first potential line, a second switch provided on a pathway between the pixel cell and the readout line, and a control unit configured to bring the second switch into an off state during a first period during which the first switch is in an on state.

Abstract: A battery packaging material including a laminate including at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, in which crushing of the adhesive layer is effectively prevented when the heat-sealable resin layer is heat-sealed with itself, and a high sealing strength is achieved in a high-temperature environment. The battery packaging material includes a laminate including at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, an adhesive layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order, wherein the adhesive layer has a logarithmic decrement ?E of 2.0 or less at 120° C. according to rigid-body pendulum measurement.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel, an amplifier circuit, a voltage output circuit, and a setting circuit. The setting circuit sets the signal level of a predetermined signal used to acquire a correction value in accordance with an amplification factor set by an amplifier circuit.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material includes a laminate having at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer sequentially from an outer side, wherein the base material layer includes a polyester film and a polyamide film, the polyester film has a thickness of 10 ?m or more and 14 ?m or less, and the polyamide film has a thickness of 18 ?m or more and 22 ?m or less.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel region in which unit pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit are arranged to form rows and columns, output lines arranged at least two in each column and each connected to the unit pixel of the corresponding column, column circuits provided corresponding to each of the output lines, and a control circuit configured to control connections between the output lines and the column circuits. The control circuit is configured to connect a first output line to a corresponding first column circuit and disconnect a second output line arranged in the same column as the first output line from a corresponding second column circuit when no pixel signal is output to the second output line at a timing when a pixel signal is output to the first output line.

Abstract: A technology for improving molding properties while minimizing curling after molding in a battery packaging material comprising a laminate that is provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. This battery packaging material is configured from at least a laminate provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. The birefringence of the polyester film is in the range of 0.016-0.056.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a first substrate and a second substrate overlaid on each other and including electrically conductive portions is provided. The first substrate includes a photoelectric conversion element, a first portion configured to form part of a first surface, a second portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern closest to the first portion, and a third portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern second closest to the first portion. The second substrate includes a fourth portion configured to form part of a second surface, and a circuit. In a planar view with respect to the first surface, an area of the first portion is smaller than an area of the second portion and larger than an area of a portion of the third portion overlaying the second portion.

Abstract: The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, an output line, a readout circuit unit connected to the output line, and a control unit. The readout circuit unit includes an amplifier circuit, a first switch for resetting the amplifier circuit, a sample-and-hold circuit, a second switch provided between the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit, and a gain switching circuit. The control unit performs a first period of resetting the amplifier circuit by first switch, and a second period of connecting the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit by the second switch. The first and second periods at least partially overlap with each other, and a timing at which the second switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the second period is later than a timing at which the first switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the first period.

Abstract: The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, a first switch, a charge holding portion, and an output unit, an output line, a readout circuit unit connected to the output line, and a control unit. The readout circuit unit includes an amplifier circuit, a second switch between the output line and the amplifier circuit, and a comparator comparing the amplified pixel signal with a reference signal. The control unit performs outputting a pixel signal by transferring the charge in the photoelectric converter to the charge holding portion, determining a level of the pixel signal amplified by the amplifier circuit, and setting a gain of the amplifier circuit in accordance with a result of determination, and sets the second switch to off during the first switch is in on and until the output unit is settled after the first switch transitions from on to off.

Abstract: A battery packaging material is configured from a laminate including, at a minimum, a polyester film layer, an aluminum alloy foil layer, and a heat fusible resin layer in the stated order. The thickness of the polyester film layer is 23-27 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the aluminum alloy foil layer is 27-43 ?m (inclusive), the thickness of the heat fusible resin layer is 70-100 ?m (inclusive), and the insulation breakdown voltage of the surface of the polyester film layer side is 13 kV or greater.

Abstract: A technology for improving molding properties while minimizing curling after molding in a battery packaging material comprising a laminate that is provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. This battery packaging material is configured from at least a laminate provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. The birefringence of the polyester film is in the range of 0.016-0.056.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material including a heat-sealable resin layer containing polypropylene and polyethylene, in which whitening and a decrease in the insulation properties due to molding are prevented. A laminate with at least a base material layer, a barrier layer, and a heat-sealable resin layer in this order from an outer side toward an inner side, wherein the heat-sealable resin layer contains polypropylene and polyethylene; a cross section of the heat-sealable resin layer in a thickness direction parallel to TD, a sea-island structure is observed in a cross-sectional image obtained with scanning electron microscope; the cross-sectional image is such that when the total thickness of a layer positioned closer to inner side than the barrier layer is taken as 100%, the cross-sectional image is obtained within a range of thicknesses of up to 12.5% from a surface opposite to the barrier layer side of the heat-sealable resin layer.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a ramp voltage generation circuit having a first period for outputting an offset voltage that sets a reference voltage for the comparator circuit, and a second period for outputting a reference voltage having a slope-shaped voltage waveform that varies with time, wherein the generation circuit has a first drive state in which a voltage change amount per unit time of the reference voltage in the second period is a first voltage amount, and a second drive state in which the voltage change amount per unit time of the reference voltage in the second period is a second voltage amount that is less than the first voltage amount, and wherein the offset voltage in the second drive state is less than a value obtained by multiplying the offset voltage in the first drive state by a ratio of the second voltage amount to the first voltage amount.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: pixels each including a photoelectric converter, and an output unit that outputs a pixel signal based on charge in a holding portion; an output line to which signals from the pixels are output; a clip circuit that limits a signal level of the output line to a range whose upper or lower limit is a predetermined clip level; and an amplifier unit that amplifies a signal of the output line. The amplifier unit outputs first and second signals amplified at first and second amplification factors, respectively, for the same pixel signal. The clip circuit limits a signal level of the output line to a first clip level in a first period in which the pixel signal is amplified at a first amplification factor and to a second clip level in a second period in which the pixel signal is amplified at a second amplification factor.

Abstract: A technology for improving molding properties while minimizing curling after molding in a battery packaging material comprising a laminate that is provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. This battery packaging material is configured from at least a laminate provided with a barrier layer, a heat-sealable resin layer positioned on one surface side of the barrier layer, and a polyester film positioned on the other surface side of the barrier layer. The birefringence of the polyester film is in the range of 0.016-0.056.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel, an amplifier circuit, a voltage output circuit, and a setting circuit. The setting circuit sets the signal level of a predetermined signal used to acquire a correction value in accordance with an amplification factor set by an amplifier circuit.

Abstract: The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, an output line, a readout circuit unit connected to the output line, and a control unit. The readout circuit unit includes an amplifier circuit, a first switch for resetting the amplifier circuit, a sample-and-hold circuit, a second switch provided between the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit, and a gain switching circuit. The control unit performs a first period of resetting the amplifier circuit by first switch, and a second period of connecting the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit by the second switch. The first and second periods at least partially overlap with each other, and a timing at which the second switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the second period is later than a timing at which the first switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the first period.