Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric driving device for a motor including: a vibrating plate which includes a fixed portion and a vibrator portion in which a piezoelectric element is provided and which is supported by the fixed portion; and a contact portion which comes into contact with a driven body and transmits motion of the vibrating plate to the driven body, in which the fixed portion, the vibrator portion, and the contact portion are provided along an X direction in this order, when seen in a Y direction, when two directions parallel to a main surface of the vibrating plate and orthogonal to each other are set as the X direction and the Y direction and a direction orthogonal to the main surface of the vibrating plate is set as a Z direction.

Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device includes a piezoelectric vibration module including a vibration portion and a transmission portion which abuts a driven portion and transmits vibration of the vibration portion to the driven portion and a control unit, and the vibration portion includes a first vibration portion and a second vibration portion disposed to be stacked in a second direction intersecting a first direction which is a direction in which the vibration portion is aligned with the driven portion, and the control unit causes the first vibration portion to vibrate in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction and causes the second vibration portion to vibrate in the first direction.

Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device includes first and second piezoelectric vibration modules pressed toward a driven portion and including a vibration portion and a transmission portion abutting the driven portion and transmitting vibration to the driven portion and a controller. A pressing force of the second module to the driven portion is greater than that of the first module. The controller drives the second module so that the transmission portion of the second module performs longitudinal vibration vibrating in the pressing direction while driving the first module so that the transmission portion of the first module performs bending vibration that is a composite of longitudinal vibration in a pressing direction and lateral vibration intersecting the pressing direction.

Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device includes piezoelectric vibration modules that each include a vibration portion and a transmission unit abutting a driven portion and transmitting longitudinal vibration in an alignment direction of the vibration portion with the driven portion and bending vibration which is a composite of the longitudinal vibration and lateral vibration of the vibration portion intersecting the alignment direction to the driven portion and a controller controlling the modules. The controller controls the modules in a first drive mode wherein the transmission portions of all the modules are driven to perform the bending vibration in a first direction and a second drive mode wherein the transmission portions of some of the modules are driven to perform the bending vibration in the first direction and the transmission portions of other modules are driven to perform the longitudinal or bending vibrations in a second direction opposite the first direction.

Abstract: A joined component comprises a first heated body, a second heated body, a brazing material, a first heated portion and a second heated portion. The first body comprises an insertion opening and an inserted portion coupled with the insertion opening. The second body comprises an insertion portion inserted into the inserted portion through the insertion opening. The first heated portion is provided at a first position including at least a part of the inserted portion and at least a part of the insertion portion. The second heated portion is provided at a second position separate from the insertion portion where a ratio “L/D” satisfies being 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less, where “L” is a length from the insertion opening to the second portion and “D” is an outer diameter of the second heated body.

Abstract: A method comprises: a step of disposing a coil end connection portion of a first stator coil end and a solid connection at mutually adjacent positions after the solid connection and the cooling water pipe are brazed together; a step of disposing a heating coil around the solid connection and the first stator coil end in such a way as to bypass the cooling water pipe connection portion; and a step of supplying the heating coil with alternating current, so that the solid connection and the first stator coil end are induce-heated and then connected.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a finder unit configured to enable visual confirmation of an object image; a display unit located outside of the finder unit; and a control unit configured to control a display time for a first image acquired in a first shooting operation to be longer than a display time for a second image acquired in a second shooting operation in a case where a plurality of images is sequentially displayed on the display unit as a review display after continuous shooting is performed, the plurality of images being captured in the continuous shooting for continuously performing a plurality of shooting operations including at least the first shooting operation and the second shooting operation in response to a shooting instruction, the second shooting operation being performed after the first shooting operation.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display region, a peripheral region, an insulating layer which is disposed on a gate signal line and a conductor, a conductive layer which is disposed on the insulating layer and crosses a plurality of gate signal lines and the conductor in the peripheral region, a first semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer, and a second semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer and which is separated from the first semiconductor film. The conductive layer is connected to the plurality of gate signal lines via a plurality of diodes, and the plurality of gate signal lines are arranged in the display region and the peripheral region. A length of the conductor differs from a length of the gate signal line in the display region and the peripheral region.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a control unit configured to perform control to present a first 2-area enlargement display of displaying live view images captured by two imaging regions that are separated in a width direction while arranging them on a display unit if an orientation of the imaging apparatus is a first orientation, and present a second 2-area enlargement display of displaying live view images captured by two imaging regions that are separated in a height direction while arranging them on the display unit if the orientation of the imaging apparatus is a second orientation. The control unit is configured to perform control to end the first 2-area enlargement display based on the orientation of the imaging apparatus changed from the first orientation in a manner satisfying a predetermined condition when the first 2-area enlargement display is presented.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibrating plate having a piezoelectric material, and a contact part provided in an end portion of the vibrating plate in contact with a driven part, wherein the contact part has a first portion in contact with the driven part and a second portion provided between the first portion and the vibrating plate and having lower rigidity than the first portion. Further, a width of the second portion in a direction crossing an arrangement direction of the first portion and the second portion is smaller than a width of the first portion in the crossing direction.

Abstract: The redox flow secondary battery includes an electrolytic cell including a positive electrode cell, a negative electrode cell, and a separation membrane that separates the positive electrode cell and the negative electrode cell. Moreover, the above described redox flow secondary battery is configured as follows. That is, the separation membrane has a microporous membrane and an ion-exchange resin layer contacting the microporous membrane, and the air resistance of the separation membrane per thickness of 200 ?m is 10000 sec/100 cc or more. Furthermore, the microporous membrane includes a polyolefin resin or a vinylidene fluoride resin and an inorganic filler. Further, the smoothness of at least a surface of the microporous membrane contacting the ion-exchange resin layer is 16000 seconds or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an optically active compound of formula (2), which contains bringing hydrogen into contact with a compound of formula (1) in the presence of a transition metal catalyst having an optically active ligand. In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an acetyl group, R2, R3, R4, and R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, a nitro group, an amino group, or an acyl group, R6 represents an alkyl group, R7 and R8 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and a carbon atom marked with an asterisk (*) represents an asymmetric carbon atom.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes, a reception unit that receives an operation on a display object displayed in a display area, a changing unit that changes the display area to a second size smaller than a first size, and a control unit that controls to, in a case where the operation is not received while the display area is displayed in the first size, when the display area is changed from the first size to the second size, display a first range of the display object, and in a case where the operation is received while the display area is displayed in the first size, when the display area is changed from the first size to the second size, move the display object to display a second range.

Abstract: A method for producing (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane includes the following steps (A), (B), and (C). Step (A) is a step of optically resolving 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane to obtain (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane and (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane, step (B) is a step of racemizing the (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane obtained in the step (A) or (C) to obtain 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane, and step (C) is a step of optically resolving the 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane obtained in the step (B) to obtain (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane and (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane.

Abstract: A joined component comprises a first heated body, a second heated body, a brazing material, a first heated portion and a second heated portion. The first body comprises an insertion opening and an inserted portion coupled with the insertion opening. The second body comprises an insertion portion inserted into the inserted portion through the insertion opening. The first heated portion is provided at a first position including at least a part of the inserted portion and at least a part of the insertion portion. The second heated portion is provided at a second position separate from the insertion portion where a ratio “L/D” satisfies being 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less, where “L” is a length from the insertion opening to the second portion and “D” is an outer diameter of the second heated body.

Abstract: An ion exchange membrane having a structure that an ion exchange resin is filled in spaces of a porous base film, the porous base film has a structure that at least two porous olefin resin layers are laminated with a bonding strength of 100 gf/cm or more to less than 700 gf/cm and a Gurley air permeance of 500 sec/100 ml or less in terms of a 100 ?m thick film. In this ion exchange membrane, base film has high air permeability though it has a multi-layer structure that a plurality of porous resin films are bonded together, and therefore a rise in electric resistance caused by the lamination of the base sheets is effectively suppressed.

Abstract: A method for producing (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane includes the following steps (A), (B), and (C). Step (A) is a step of optically resolving 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane to obtain (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane and (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane, step (B) is a step of racemizing the (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane obtained in the step (A) or (C) to obtain 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane, and step (C) is a step of optically resolving the 1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane obtained in the step (B) to obtain (R)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane and (S)-1,1,3-trimethyl-4-aminoindane.

Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes: a substrate including a fixed portion, and a vibrating body portion which is provided with a piezoelectric element and is supported by the fixed portion; and a contact portion which comes into contact with a driven body, and transmits movement of the vibrating body portion to the driven body, the contact portion is provided at an end portion in the longitudinal direction of the vibrating body portion, and a difference between a distance between the end portion when the contact portion is not pressed against the driven body and a tip end of the contact portion, and a distance between the end portion when the contact portion is pressed against the driven body and the tip end, is smaller than a total amplitude in the longitudinal direction in a case where the vibrating body portion is driven.

Abstract: A piezoelectric drive apparatus for a motor, the apparatus including a substrate having a longitudinal direction and a widthwise direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a piezoelectric element provided on the substrate and having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric body positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a contact section that is attached to a front end section of the substrate in the longitudinal direction thereof or in contact with the front end section of the substrate in the longitudinal direction thereof and comes into contact with a driven body, wherein the longitudinal direction of the substrate roughly coincides with a direction in which Young's modulus is minimized in a plane of the substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display region, a peripheral region, an insulating layer which is disposed on a gate signal line and a conductor, a conductive layer which is disposed on the insulating layer and crosses a plurality of gate signal lines and the conductor in the peripheral region, a first semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer, and a second semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer and which is separated from the first semiconductor film. The conductive layer is connected to the plurality of gate signal lines via a plurality of diodes, and the plurality of gate signal lines are arranged in the display region and the peripheral region. A length of the conductor differs from a length of the gate signal line in the display region and the peripheral region.