Abstract: A refrigeration cycle system includes a heat source apparatus and a controller. The heat source apparatus is configured to cool or heat a heat medium through refrigerant flowing through a refrigerant circuit and includes a heat medium heat exchanger, a flow rate acquisition device, and a compressor. The heat medium heat exchanger causes the heat medium and the refrigerant to exchange heat with each other. The flow rate acquisition device acquires flow rate information that is information regarding a flow rate of the heat medium that flows through the heat medium heat exchanger. The compressor compresses the refrigerant. The controller varies an operating capacity of the compressor and causes the compressor to operate at the operating capacity thus varied.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a pixel separation unit that partitions a first surface of a semiconductor substrate into a plurality of first regions arrayed in a matrix shape; an in-pixel separation unit that divides each of the first regions into at least two second regions; an etching stopper region disposed in at least a partial space between the pixel separation unit and the in-pixel separation unit in a plane parallel to the first surface and in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the at least two second regions divided by the in-pixel separation unit are arrayed; a photoelectric conversion unit disposed in each of the second regions; and a transfer transistor connected to each of the photoelectric conversion units.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a first speaker and a second speaker. The first speaker is disposed at a front part of the vehicle and toward a right side in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The first speaker is configured to output a notification sound that notifies the surroundings of the vehicle of an approach of the vehicle. The second speaker is disposed at the front part of the vehicle and toward a left side in the vehicle width direction. The second speaker is configured to output the notification sound. The first speaker and the second speaker have an integrated structure with respect to each other and are opposed to each other in the vehicle width direction. The first speaker and the second speaker are configured to simultaneously receive, from an amplifier, a same audio signal as each other on which the notification sound is based.

Abstract: An antiglare antireflection plate having excellent antireflection and antiglare properties is provided as following: the said plate is an antiglare antireflection plate including a hard coat layer, an antiglare layer, and an antireflection coat, in which the hard coat layer, the antiglare layer, and the antireflection coating are laminated in this order on a transparent resin base material, the antiglare layer is made of a cured product of a composition containing 0.1 to 15.0 parts by mass of inorganic particles having an average particle diameter (D50) of 500 nm to 700 nm relative to 100 parts by mass of a polymerizable acrylate compound, and line roughness characteristics defined in JIS B 0601 on a surface of the antiglare antireflection plate are as follows. An arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.03 ?m or more and 0.20 ?m or less, an average length (RSm) is 10 ?m or more and 70 ?m or less, a skewness (Rsk) is ?0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, a kurtosis (Rku) is 2.0 or more and 5.

Abstract: A heat pump system includes a heat pump apparatus, a communication device, an input device, and a controller. The heat pump apparatus controls the temperature of a substance. The communication device receives from the server, a signal including an operation signal regarding the operation of the heat pump apparatus. The input device is configured for a user to input an instruction for the heat pump apparatus. The controller causes the heat pump apparatus to perform a first operation based on an operation signal while the communication device is receiving a signal. When the communication device does not receive a signal for a predetermined first time period or longer, the controller causes the heat pump apparatus to perform a second operation based on the instruction input to the input device.

Abstract: A heat storage system control device includes a receiving unit configured to acquire power supply and demand information from a power control instruction device, an operation schedule determination unit configured to determine an operation schedule of a heat storage device based on the power supply and demand information, a transmission unit configured to transmit the operation schedule determined by the operation schedule determination unit to the power control instruction device, and a heat storage device control unit configured to control an operation of the heat storage device based on the operation schedule determined by the operation schedule determination unit.

Abstract: At a floor drain, a groove extending in an up-down direction is located at a peripheral edge of a drain opening, and a cap has a circular columnar body extending in the up-down direction, a flange disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the body and mounted on the peripheral edge, and a claw disposed lower than the flange at the outer peripheral surface of the body and having an upper surface inclined upward toward one side in a circumferential direction of the body. The upper surface of the claw and a lower surface of the peripheral edge contact each other to close the drain opening in such a manner that the body is rotated to the other side in the circumferential direction with the claw inserted downward into the groove.

Abstract: Provided is a prepreg in which gas barrier properties in a case of being molded into a molded product are improved. In the prepreg of the present invention, a thermoplastic resin with which a carbon fiber base material is impregnated, and the thermoplastic resin comprises a vinyl alcohol-based polymer.

Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine comprises: a stator including: a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth formed circumferentially; stator coils arranged in the respective bottoms of a plurality of stator slots formed between the stator teeth and wound on the stator teeth in a concentrated winding manner; and stator magnets arranged near the respective openings of the plurality of stator slots, a first rotor having a plurality of pole pieces and disposed coaxially with the stator to face the stator magnets; and a second rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and disposed coaxially with the first rotor to face the first rotor, wherein the circumferential width of stator teeth positioned between the adjacent two of the stator magnets is narrower than the circumferential width of the stator slots.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition which suppresses thermal degradation during melt molding is provided as follows. An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition contains: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A); at least one compound (B) selected from a group consisting of a metal compound belonging to period 4 d-block of along Periodic Table (other than a titanium compound) (B1), a specific polyolefin resin (B2), an olefin polymer (B3), a polyamide resin (B4), and a styrene derivative having a substituent at an ?-position (B5); and a titanium compound (C), wherein the amount of the titanium compound (C) on a metal basis is 0.00005 ppm or more and less than 5 ppm per mass of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition that allows suppression of thermal degradation during melt molding is provided as follows. A modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition contains a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer including an aliphatic polyester unit, and a titanium compound. The amount of the titanium compound on a metal basis is 0.001 ppm or more and less than 5 ppm per mass of the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition.

Abstract: A sensor device according to the present technology includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged for each pixel and a pixel separation portion having a trench formed between pixels to separate the pixels. The pixel separation portion of the semiconductor substrate is formed in directions different from cleavage directions of crystals of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A chilling unit includes a machine chamber unit formed in an elongated box shape; and air heat exchangers placed on the machine chamber unit. A pair of the air heat exchangers that is located opposite to each other in a short-side direction of the machine chamber unit is inclined such that a spacing between upper end portions of the pair is greater than a spacing between lower end portions of the pair, a machine chamber panel forming a side face of the machine chamber unit in the short-side direction includes a panel body positioned at a central portion of the machine chamber panel, and a fixing portion connected to a periphery of the panel body and fixed in contact with the machine chamber unit, and the panel body is located further outward from the machine chamber unit than is the fixing portion.

Abstract: A vehicle-approach notification device includes a sound emitter and at least two ducts. The sound emitter is provided in the vehicle, has an aperture, and is configured to emit a notification sound from the aperture to outside the vehicle. The at least two ducts are provided in the vehicle, have different lengths, and each have an end communicating with the aperture.

Abstract: A heat pump system regulates, by use of a heat medium, a temperature of an object and includes a flow-rate acquisition device acquiring a flow rate of the heat medium. A heat source apparatus regulates a temperature of the heat medium and includes a compressor, a heat medium heat exchanger, and a controller including adjustment calculation circuitry, and control calculation circuitry. The adjustment calculation circuitry calculates, when a first condition is met, an amount of adjustment by use of an operating frequency of the compressor. The amount of adjustment is used to adjust a first flow rate of the heat medium that is based on a measurement result acquired from the flow-rate acquisition device. The control calculation circuitry adjusts, by use of the amount of adjustment, the first flow rate.

Abstract: A chilling unit includes a machine room unit to accommodate a compressor and a heat exchanger, and a plurality of air heat exchangers placed on top of the machine room unit. The air heat exchangers include a pair of air heat exchangers including two air heat exchangers opposite to each other in a lateral direction. They are inclined such that respective upper end portions of the two air heat exchangers have a spacing between each other greater than a spacing between respective lower end portions of the two air heat exchangers. In the lateral direction, the machine room unit has a top width greater than a heat-exchanger bottom width, the top width is one between side walls in a top face portion of the machine room unit, the bottom width is defined as a width between outer side faces of the respective lower end portions of the two air heat exchangers.

Abstract: An electric passenger transport vehicle according an embodiment may include: a vehicle body including a floor, a first seat base, a second seat base provided on a rear side of the first seat base; a first seat including a first seat bottom attached to an upper surface of the first seat base; and a second seat including a second seat bottom attached to an upper surface of the second seat base. The second seat bottom is supported by the vehicle body such that the second seat bottom is movable between a first position in which a bottom surface of the second seat bottom is positioned above an upper surface of the second seat base and faces downward and a second position in which the bottom surface of the second seat bottom is positioned in front or back of the upper surface of the second seat base and faces upward.

Abstract: A buoyancy compensator jacket capable of following movements of a body of a diver and providing a stable holding feeling is provided. A harness in the buoyancy compensator jacket includes shoulder belts, a harness main body disposed to face a back side of the diver, and a size adjusting means that can change a back length of the harness main body in a plurality of stages.

Abstract: At a floor drain, a groove extending in an up-down direction is located at a peripheral edge of a drain opening, and a cap has a circular columnar body extending in the up-down direction, a flange disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the body and mounted on the peripheral edge, and a claw disposed lower than the flange at the outer peripheral surface of the body and having an upper surface inclined upward toward one side in a circumferential direction of the body. The upper surface of the claw and a lower surface of the peripheral edge contact each other to close the drain opening in such a manner that the body is rotated to the other side in the circumferential direction with the claw inserted downward into the groove.

Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a plurality of stator teeth, a plurality of stator slots, a plurality of stator magnets, and a stator coil. The first rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to the plurality of stator magnets. The second rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to a plurality of first pole pieces. The second rotor includes a plurality of second pole pieces. A proportion of the number of the plurality of stator slots to the number of poles of the plurality of second pole pieces of the second rotor is greater than 1.25 and less than 1.5, or greater than 1.5 and less than 3.0.