Abstract: A method for adjusting a focus position of an inspection apparatus includes measuring, while varying a height position of a pattern forming surface of an evaluation substrate with thereon plural types of figure patterns, for each type of figure pattern, light amounts at front and back focus positions of a light transmitted through or reflected from the evaluation substrate irradiated with an inspection light, calculating an autofocus signal, for each type of figure pattern and for each height position of the pattern forming surface, by using the light amounts measured at the front and back focus positions, and specifying a value of an inspection autofocus signal such that a difference between autofocus signal values of plural type figure patterns calculated at the same height position of the pattern forming surface is equal to or less than a threshold value.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes: a sintered body that has a light incidence face, a light emission face, and a light reflecting face that is different from the light incidence face and the light emission face, wherein the sintered body contains phosphor particles. The light reflecting face of the sintered body has a plurality of recessed portions. A distribution of the phosphor particles at the light reflecting face is lower than a distribution of the phosphor particles at a cross-section inside the sintered body.

Abstract: A flying body identification system according to the present example embodiment includes: a flying body; a communication terminal configured to obtain an airframe ID of the flying body; and a control system configured to control an operation of the flying body. The control system is also configured to: manage the airframe ID and a plurality of pieces of information regarding the flying body indicated by the airframe ID so as to be associated with each other; select, in a case where an inquiry message containing the airframe ID and an authority level assigned to the communication terminal is received from the communication terminal, information to be transmitted to the communication terminal among the plurality of pieces of information regarding the flying body associated with the airframe ID in accordance with the authority level of the communication terminal; and transmit the selected information to the communication terminal.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member, includes: providing a wavelength conversion layer having a phosphor-containing portion and a light reflecting portion surrounding the phosphor-containing portion, and the wavelength conversion layer having an upper surface, a bottom surface and at least one side surface; forming a light-blocking film on the upper surface of the wavelength conversion layer; and removing a part of the light-blocking film by laser processing to expose at least a part of the phosphor-containing portion from the light-blocking film.

Abstract: An air traffic control system (31) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (4) configured to receive, from a communication terminal (40), an image including a flying object (2) captured by the communication terminal (40) and position information about the communication terminal (40), an estimation unit (8) configured to estimate a position of the flying object (2) using background information and the position information included in the image, and an identification unit (5) configured to identify the flying object (2) using the estimated position of the flying object (2). The communication unit (4) transmits information about the identified flying object (2) to the communication terminal (40).

Abstract: A flying object according to example embodiments includes an airframe ID control unit configured to hold an airframe ID of the flying object changed according to a predetermined change pattern, and a communication unit configured to transmit the airframe ID. An air traffic control system according to the example embodiments includes a communication unit configured to acquire a first airframe ID and position information transmitted from a flying object, and an identification unit configured to identify the flying object using the first airframe ID. When the communication unit acquires a second airframe ID different from the first airframe ID after acquiring the first airframe ID, the identification unit determines whether or not the second airframe ID indicates the flying object based on a change between the position information at the time of acquiring the first airframe ID and the position information at the time of acquiring the second airframe ID.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member that includes a sintered body having a light incidence face, a light emission face, and a light reflecting face different from the light incidence face and the light emission face, the method comprising: providing a sintered body containing inorganic particles and phosphor particles, and forming a plurality of recessed portions on the light reflecting face of the sintered body, which comprises acid treating the sintered body.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements, an optical member, and a wavelength conversion member. The optical member includes an optical action layer configured to reflect or transmit light in accordance with a wavelength of the light. The optical action layer is configured to reflect first emission light emitted from the first light-emitting element and second emission light emitted from the second light-emitting element. The wavelength conversion member is configured to receive the first emission light reflected by the optical action layer of the optical member, to convert a wavelength of the first emission light, and to emit a wavelength-converted light having a converted wavelength. The optical action layer of the optical member is configured to transmit the wavelength-converted light. The optical member is arranged so that the wavelength-converted light and the second emission light are emitted from an upward-facing surface of the optical action layer.

Abstract: A wire harness attachment structure for a vehicle seat capable of being flipped up from a usage position where the vehicle seat is disposed on a floor to a storage position where the vehicle seat is disposed along a standing wall portion of a vehicle body, includes: a rotation shaft that couples the vehicle seat to the standing wall portion; a guide member including a pair of wall portions arranged to face each other in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and being partly opened in a radial direction between the wall portions; and a wire harness that electrically couples the vehicle seat and the vehicle body. A portion of the wire harness is disposed between the wall portions and does not come into contact with a member other than the wall portions when the vehicle seat is flipped up from the usage position to the storage position.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes three or more light-emitting portions, and two or more light shielding layers. Each of the three or more light-emitting portions has a phosphor, is separated from each other, and is disposed to be aligned in a first direction. Each of the two or more light shielding layers is disposed between the two light-emitting portions adjacent to each other. The light-emitting portion and the light shielding layer are alternately aligned in the first direction. In the first direction, a length of each of the light-emitting portions is in a range of 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm. An interval in the first direction between the two light-emitting portions adjacent to each other is in a range of 0.1 mm to 2.0 mm.

Abstract: A light emission device includes: a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements; an optical element configured to collimate light emitted from each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements and output a plurality of collimated beams; and a paraboloid reflector configured to be irradiated with the plurality of collimated beams. The plurality of collimated beams reflected by the paraboloid reflector are converged.

Abstract: A laser light source includes: a submount; a semiconductor laser element fixed to the submount, the semiconductor laser element having a light-exiting surface through which laser light is to be emitted; a lens member having a light incident surface on which the laser light is incident and a bonding surface that extends laterally from the light incident surface; a supporting member connecting the lens member and the submount together so that the light incident surface of the lens member faces the light-exiting surface of the semiconductor laser element; and an inorganic bonding layer bonding the bonding surface of the lens member and the supporting member together. Between the light incident surface and the bonding surface, the lens member has a surface extending in a direction intersecting the light incident surface and the bonding surface.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical member includes: preparing a first light-transmissive member and a first molded body made of an inorganic material and surrounding at least one or more lateral surfaces of the first light-transmissive member; firing the first molded body at a first temperature to obtain a first light-reflective member; bonding an upper surface of the first light-transmissive member to a lower surface of a second light-transmissive member; forming, on an upper surface of the first light-reflective member, a second molded body made of an inorganic material and surrounding at least one or more lateral surfaces of the second light-transmissive member; and firing the second molded body at a second temperature lower than the first temperature to obtain a second light-reflective member.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor is provided that includes a stator having a vibrator and first to fourth piezoelectric elements, a rotor, and a wiring member including an insulating substrate and first and second wirings. The piezoelectric elements are dispersedly arranged along the circumferential direction of a traveling wave circulating around an axial direction so that the traveling wave is generated by the vibrator being vibrated. The first and third piezoelectric elements face each other across the center of a traveling wave. The first wiring is electrically connected to the first and third piezoelectric elements, and the second wiring is electrically connected to the second and fourth piezoelectric elements. The second wiring passes over the third piezoelectric element from the second piezoelectric element side and extends toward the side of fourth piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member includes: preparing a composite by layering a layered body and a ceramic sheet that includes a phosphor, the layered body including a pair of light-reflective green sheets each containing a reflective material, and a light-shielding green sheet containing a light shielding material with the light-shielding green sheet being layered between the pair of reflective green sheets; and pressurizing and firing the composite.

Abstract: A light emission device includes: a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements; an optical element configured to collimate light emitted from each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements and output a plurality of collimated beams; a converging portion having a surface of a hyperboloid or a paraboloid configured to converge the plurality of collimated beams; and a wavelength-converting portion including a transmissive region, and a reflective region that surrounds the transmissive region, the transmissive region including a light-incident surface at which the plurality of collimated beams that have been converged by the converging portion enter, wherein the transmissive region includes a phosphor adapted to be excited by the plurality of collimated beams that have been converged by the converging portion.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor is provided that includes a stator including first and second piezoelectric elements provided on a first main surface of a vibrator having a plate shape, a rotor in direct or indirect contact with a second main surface of the vibrator, and a wiring member connected to the first and second piezoelectric elements. Moreover, the wiring member includes first and second connection members connected to the first and second piezoelectric elements, a central wiring portion connected to the first and second connection members and provided in a region including a center of an axial direction, and an extended wiring portion connected to the central wiring portion. The central wiring portion is fixed to the first main surface of the vibrator and the extended wiring portion is lifted from the first main surface of the vibrator.

Abstract: A power supply information determination apparatus acquires, for each of one or a plurality of landing places each including equipment on which a battery-driven vertical take-off and landing aircraft capable of autonomously flying can land, aircraft information about the aircraft flying in a surrounding region of a landing place, and place information about the landing place. The place information includes facility information indicating a power supply facility and an attached power supply facility capable of supplying power in a landing state and a non-landing state, respectively. Both facilities are provided at the landing place. The apparatus determines a facility of at least one of a power supply facility and an attached power supply facility of each aircraft, a power supply start time to the facility, and a waiting period, based on the acquired information about each aircraft and each landing place, and transmits determined information to the corresponding aircraft.

Abstract: An ultrasonic motor is provided with increased torque without an increase in size. The ultrasonic motor includes a stator having a plate-shaped vibrating body including first and second main surfaces and a piezoelectric element on the first main surface; and a rotor in contact with the second main surface. The piezoelectric element is disposed along a circumferential direction of a traveling wave so as to generate the traveling wave circulating around an axial direction Z by vibrating the vibrating body. The piezoelectric element vibrates the vibrating body in a vibration mode including a nodal line extending in the circumferential direction. A mass addition portion is provided along the circumferential direction on at least one of the first and second main surfaces of the vibrating body 3, and the mass addition portion is located outside the nodal line in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction Z.

Abstract: A landing information determination apparatus according to this example embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a communication unit. The acquisition unit acquires, for each of a plurality of landing places each including a facility on which an aircraft capable of autonomously flying can land, aircraft information being information concerning the aircraft flying in a surrounding area of a landing place, and place information being information concerning the landing place. The determination unit determines a landing place for each of the aircrafts and a flight path to the landing place, based on the aircraft information for each of the aircrafts, and the place information for each of the landing places, which are acquired by the acquisition unit. The communication unit transmits information indicating the landing place and the flight path for each of the aircrafts, which are determined by the determination unit, to the corresponding aircraft.