Abstract: [Problem] To provide a solid-state imaging device enabling summed-readout mode and cyclic-readout mode. [Solution] A device includes virtual-pixel units implemented by pixels of transfer-route controlling-scheme, the virtual-pixel units having a shape of polygon, the polygons are tessellated. The virtual-pixel unit encompasses a photoelectric-conversion region, charge detectors to which ordinal numbers are labeled, configured to accumulate signal charges transferred from the photoelectric-conversion region, and transfer-control elements configured to control movement of signal charges from the photoelectric-conversion region to one of the charge detectors. N pieces of charge detectors of the same ordinal number are arranged in boundary between the photodiodes and the intersection-shared sites.

Abstract: A radio-frequency module includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a first switch including a first switch terminal connected to the first terminal and a second switch terminal connectable to the first switch terminal, a second switch including a third switch terminal connectable to the second terminal, a first filter connected between the second switch terminal and the third switch terminal, and a substrate. The first switch and the second switch are included in a single semiconductor chip. The first filter and the semiconductor chip are on the substrate. In a plan view of the substrate, a first distance between the third switch terminal and the first switch terminal or a second distance between the third switch terminal and the second switch terminal is greater than a third distance between the first switch terminal and the second switch terminal.

Abstract: The capacity of a MOS capacitor is increased. A semiconductor element includes a first semiconductor region, an insulation film, a gate electrode, and a second semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region is arranged on a semiconductor substrate and has a recess on the surface. The insulation film is arranged adjacent to the surface of the first semiconductor region. The gate electrode is arranged adjacent to the insulation film and constitutes a MOS capacitor with the first semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region is arranged adjacent to the first semiconductor region on the semiconductor substrate, formed in the same conductive type as the first semiconductor region, and supplies a carrier to the first semiconductor region when the MOS capacitor is charged and discharged.

Abstract: A secondary battery negative electrode according to the present invention is provided with a negative electrode mixture layer comprising: a negative electrode active material that contains an Si compound; and a binding material that includes cellulose nanofibers having a fiber diameter of 9 nm or less and a conductive material containing single-walled carbon nanotubes having a fiber diameter of less than 4 nm. The content of the cellulose nanofibers is greater than or equal to 0.005 mass % and less than 0.2 mass % in relation to the mass of the negative electrode active material.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to make it possible to simultaneously establish communication between many freely-selected radio terminals without using a complex relay network or a plurality of radio relays. The present disclosure is a communication network system including: a plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n that convert a radio signal and an optical fiber radio signal into each other; and a path controller that is connected to the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n through optical fiber transmission lines 531-1 to 531-n, receives input of an optical fiber radio signal transmitted from any optical-radio converter of the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n from the optical fiber transmission line connected to the optical-radio converter, and outputs the optical fiber radio signal to the optical fiber transmission line connected to a set optical-radio converter of the plurality of optical-radio converters 521-1 to 521-n.

Abstract: A radio-frequency module includes a module substrate having a major surface on which a ground electrode pattern is formed and an integrated circuit disposed on the major surface of the module substrate. The integrated circuit includes a control/power supply circuit having at least one of a control circuit and a power supply circuit and a second electrical circuit having at least one of an amplifier, a switch, and a filter. In plan view, the ground electrode pattern overlaps at least a part of the control/power supply circuit and does not overlap at least a part of the second electrical circuit.

Abstract: A liquid surface imaging device includes an irradiator including a plurality of lightings, the irradiator configured to irradiate a liquid surface in a nozzle of a liquid discharge head with lights emitted from the plurality of lightings, and an imaging device configured to image the liquid surface. The plurality of lightings is arranged point-symmetrically with a center of the irradiator as a point of symmetry.

Abstract: A video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, comprising an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-encoded block and number of the available blocks, an acquisition/selection module to select one selection block from the encoded available blocks, a selection information encoder to encode selection information specifying the selection block using a code table corresponding to the number of available blocks, and an image encoder to subject the to-be-encoded block to motion compensated prediction coding using a motion vector of the selection block.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a lower interconnect layer including a plurality of lower interconnects, and a plurality of lower pads provided on the lower interconnects. The device further includes a plurality of upper pads provided on the lower pads and being in contact with the lower pads, and an upper interconnect layer including a plurality of upper interconnects provided on the upper pads. The lower pads include a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads. The upper pads include a plurality of third pads provided on the second pads and a plurality of fourth pads provided on the first pads, a lower face of each third pad is larger in area than a upper face of each second pad, and a lower face of each fourth pad is smaller in area than a upper face of each first pad.

Abstract: The present invention provides processes for preparing 7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives, which are useful as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, intermediates thereof, and processes for preparing the intermediates. The present invention provides processes for preparing 3-[(3S,4R)-3-methyl-6-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octan-1-yl]-3-oxopropanenitrile using salts of (3S,4R)-1-benzyl-3-methyl-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octane with organic acids.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a substrate, a stacked body including conductive layers and insulating layers alternately stacked on the substrate, and first contact plugs individually connected to the conductive layers on an end of the stacked body. The semiconductor device includes, on the substrate, a lower layer three-dimensional structure including any of a lower layer inclined structure continuously inclined upward with respect to a flat surface of the substrate, a lower layer stepped structure inclined upward in a stepwise manner with respect to the flat surface, and a lower layer composite stepped structure in which planes parallel to the flat surface and slopes inclined upward with respect to the flat surface are alternately continuous. At least some of terrace regions being connection regions to the first contact plugs on top surfaces of the conductive layers are located on the lower layer three-dimensional structure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus contains an ink having a dynamic surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m at a life time of 15 msec at 25 degrees C., a container containing the ink and a head configured to discharge the ink to a fabric including a first fabric containing synthetic fiber in an amount of more than 50 percent by mass and a second fabric containing natural fiber in an amount of 50 percent by mass or greater, the head including a nozzle surface, wherein a first distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the first fabric is shorter than a second distance between positions of two consecutive droplets of the ink discharged from the head on the second fabric.

Abstract: Provided are crystals of 1-((2-(3,6-diazabicyclo[3.1.

Abstract: A device includes a first laser emitter, a second laser emitter, and a separating portion. The first laser emitter is configured to emit, in an outer circumferential portion of a bonded substrate including a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, a first laser beam into the first substrate from a side of the first substrate to form a modified layer. The second laser emitter is configured to emit a second laser beam to a material layer that is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and is provided on the second substrate from a side of the second substrate, to cause peeling between the second substrate and the material layer. The separating portion is configured to separate an outer circumferential portion of the first substrate and an outer circumferential portion of the material layer from the outer circumferential portion of the bonded substrate.

Abstract: A radio frequency module has a substrate, a first chip inductor, an integrated circuit, and a first amplifier connected to the first chip inductor. The first chip inductor is on a first main surface of the substrate and the integrated circuit is on a second main surface of the substrate, the second main surface being opposite the first main surface. The integrated circuit includes the first amplifier. When the substrate is viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface of the substrate, the first chip inductor at least partially overlaps the integrated circuit.

Abstract: A liquid discharging device is provided that includes: a first head (11) containing a pretreatment liquid, configured to discharge the pretreatment liquid onto a recording medium; a second head (12) disposed downstream of the first head (11) in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, configured to discharge an ink; an exhaust unit (14) disposed upstream of the first head (11) in the conveyance direction, configured to evacuate a gas present between the first head (11) and the recording medium from a downstream side to an upstream side in the conveyance direction; and a housing (30) internally containing the first head (11) and the second head (12), internally or externally containing the exhaust unit (14), and having an opening (32) downstream of the exhaust unit (14) in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes a substrate, a first terminal disposed on a first principal surface of the substrate, a second terminal disposed on the first principal surface, a first-surface mounted component disposed on the first principal surface or inside the substrate, and a second-surface mounted component disposed on a second principal surface of the substrate which is opposite the first principal surface. A radio-frequency signal, which is input to the first terminal, is transmitted, for output from the second terminal, so as to make at least one round trip between the first principal surface and the second-surface mounted component, which is disposed on the second principal surface, through wiring lines disposed in the substrate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an ink having a dynamic surface tension of from 30 to 50 mN/m at a life time of 15 msec at 25 degrees C., a container containing the ink, and a head configured to discharge the ink to a fabric including a first fabric containing synthetic fiber in an amount of more than 50 percent by mass and a second fabric containing natural fiber in an amount of 50 percent by mass or greater, wherein the droplet of the ink discharged to the first fabric is larger than the droplet of the ink discharged to the second fabric.

Abstract: Provided are 2-(piperidin-1-yl)pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, each characterized by having a 1,8-diazaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 1-oxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2,8-diazaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2-oxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]deca-3-ene, 2,9-diazaspiro[5.5]undeca-3-ene, 1-oxa-9-azaspiro[5.5]undeca-3-ene, 1,9-diazaspiro[5.5]undeca-4-ene, or 3,9-diazaspiro[5.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.