Abstract: Separate structural units for an inner gear and a housing of a planetary gear device include an inner gear with a first raised portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear, where the first raised portion extends towards in a direction that is inclined with respect to the axial direction of the inner gear. A housing includes a second raised portion formed on an inner peripheral surface, where the second raised portion extends in a direction that is inclined in respect to the axial direction. The housing contains the inner gear such that there is a gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear. Movement of the inner gear within the interior of the housing is limited through linear contact of the first raised portion and the second raised portion.

Abstract: Separate structural units for an inner gear and a housing of a planetary gear device include an inner gear with a first raised portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear, where the first raised portion extends towards in a direction that is inclined with respect to the axial direction of the inner gear. A housing includes a second raised portion formed on an inner peripheral surface, where the second raised portion extends in a direction that is inclined in respect to the axial direction. The housing contains the inner gear such that there is a gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear. Movement of the inner gear within the interior of the housing is limited through linear contact of the first raised portion and the second raised portion.

Abstract: A filter includes: parallel resonators connected in parallel between input and output terminals; series resonators connected in series between the input and output terminals; nodes at which the parallel resonators connect to a series pathway between the input and output terminals; first and second resonators included in the series resonators and connected in series in a first section of sections each being the series pathway between adjacent nodes of the nodes, the input terminal, and the output terminal, a difference in antiresonant frequency between the first and second resonators being a first difference; and third and fourth resonators included in the series resonators and connected in series in a second section of the sections, a difference in antiresonant frequency between the third and fourth resonators being a second difference, a third difference in antiresonant frequency between the first and third resonators being less than the first and second differences.

Abstract: An electronic circuit in an ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of sub beamformers and a control unit. Each sub beamformer includes M delay circuits and an adding circuit. Each delay circuit includes a memory cell array which is formed of N memory cells. Conditions of cyclic operations of the M memory cell arrays (for example, timings of start triggers) are made irregular, such that use starting stage numbers in the M memory cell arrays are different.

Abstract: A motor includes a shaft that extends in an axial direction, a rotor including a field magnet, a stator, a resolver positioned farther toward one side of the motor in the axial direction than the rotor and the stator, and a shield including at least a portion is between the rotor and the resolver in the axial direction. The shield includes a bottom portion of which at least a portion is between the rotor and the resolver in the axial direction and which includes a through-hole through which the shaft passes, and a convex portion that extends from the bottom portion toward the other side in the axial direction. A front end portion of the convex portion is positioned farther toward an inner side of the motor in a radial direction than an outer circumferential portion of the field magnet when viewed in the axial direction.

Abstract: A filter includes: parallel resonators connected in parallel between input and output terminals; series resonators connected in series between the input and output terminals; nodes at which the parallel resonators connect to a series pathway between the input and output terminals; first and second resonators included in the series resonators and connected in series in a first section of sections each being the series pathway between adjacent nodes of the nodes, the input terminal, and the output terminal, a difference in antiresonant frequency between the first and second resonators being a first difference; and third and fourth resonators included in the series resonators and connected in series in a second section of the sections, a difference in antiresonant frequency between the third and fourth resonators being a second difference, a third difference in antiresonant frequency between the first and third resonators being less than the first and second differences.

Abstract: A 2D array transducer (10) is separated into a plurality of sub-arrays. Four representative sub-arrays SA1 to SA4 are shown in an enlarged manner. In addition, the 2D array transducer (10) is segmented into a plurality of transducer regions. Four regions of (I)-(IV) segmented by dot-and-chain lines represent four transducer regions. A grouping process is executed for each sub-array to group the plurality of transducer elements belonging to the sub-array into a plurality of element groups. In this process, for each transducer region, a common grouping pattern is set for the plurality of sub-arrays belonging to the transducer region. For example, because sub-arrays SA1 and SA2 belong to the same transducer region (IV), a common grouping pattern is set for the sub-arrays SA1 and SA2.

Abstract: A 2D array transducer (10) is separated into a plurality of sub-arrays. Four representative sub-arrays SA1 to SA4 are shown in an enlarged manner. In addition, the 2D array transducer (10) is segmented into a plurality of transducer regions. Four regions of (I)-(IV) segmented by dot-and-chain lines represent four transducer regions. A grouping process is executed for each sub-array to group the plurality of transducer elements belonging to the sub-array into a plurality of element groups. In this process, for each transducer region, a common grouping pattern is set for the plurality of sub-arrays belonging to the transducer region. For example, because sub-arrays SA1 and SA2 belong to the same transducer region (IV), a common grouping pattern is set for the sub-arrays SA1 and SA2.