Abstract: A shield connector includes a braided conductor through which an electric wire is inserted; a shield shell formed in a tubular shape that has conductivity; and a ring formed in a tubular shape in which a pressing surface that faces the shield shell in an axial direction of the shield shell is formed on an inner surface side over an entire periphery. The pressing surface is inclined in a direction intersecting with the axial direction on a section in the axial direction. The ring is fixed to the shield shell while maintaining a state in which the pressing surface presses the braided conductor against the shield shell in the axial direction over the entire periphery.

Abstract: A terminal connecting structure includes a male terminal having a rod-shaped portion, a female terminal having a cylindrical portion, and an elastic member provided in the cylindrical portion. The female terminal has indented portions. A projecting portion is provided on one of the rod-shaped portion and a central portion of the cylindrical portion. A cut-out portion is provided on the other of the rod-shaped portion and the central portion of the cylindrical portion. The projecting portion fits the cut-out portion when the male terminal fits in the female terminal.

Abstract: A shield connector includes a braided conductor through which an electric wire is inserted; a shield shell formed in a tubular shape that has conductivity; and a ring formed in a tubular shape in which a pressing surface that faces the shield shell in an axial direction of the shield shell is formed on an inner surface side over an entire periphery. The pressing surface is inclined in a direction intersecting with the axial direction on a section in the axial direction. The ring is fixed to the shield shell while maintaining a state in which the pressing surface presses the braided conductor against the shield shell in the axial direction over the entire periphery.

Abstract: An optical transceiver including a MDIO interface, a logic device, a first memory, a first bus, a second bus, and a microcontroller. The logic device includes configuration data and an internal circuit reconfigurable according to the configuration data, and is electrically connected to the second bus. The first memory is configured to store the configuration data and electrically connected to the first bus. The microcontroller is configured to receive new configuration data from the external device through the MDIO interface and write the new configuration data to the first memory through the first bus for rewriting the configuration data in the case of receiving an update command from the external device, and configured to read the new configuration data stored in the first memory through the first bus and send the new configuration data to the logic device through the second bus in the case that the optical transmitter is activated.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body having a female connector with an internal space into which a male connector is inserted and a contact member accommodated into the internal space of the female connector. The contact member has a first contact electrically connected to the female connector, a second contact coupled to the first contact and pushed outward in a radial direction by the male connector in the internal space to be electrically connected to the male connector, and a floating inhibiting part that applies a pressing force to the female connector, generates a force in a pressing direction toward an inner circumferential face of the female connector by a reaction force from the female connector against the pressing force, and inhibits the floating of the first contact relative to the inner circumferential face of the female connector by the force in the pressing direction.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body having a female connector with an internal space into which a male connector is inserted and a contact member accommodated into the internal space of the female connector. The contact member has a first contact electrically connected to the female connector, a second contact coupled to the first contact and pushed outward in a radial direction by the male connector in the internal space to be electrically connected to the male connector, and a floating inhibiting part that applies a pressing force to the female connector, generates a force in a pressing direction toward an inner circumferential face of the female connector by a reaction force from the female connector against the pressing force, and inhibits the floating of the first contact relative to the inner circumferential face of the female connector by the force in the pressing direction.

Abstract: A user identification system is provided, which includes an in-vehicle apparatus used by multiple users and a vehicular portable device carried by a user acting as a driver and associated with the in-vehicle apparatus. The vehicular portable device detects received signal strength of signals received from the portable terminals at multiple time points, and based on the received signal strength detected by the received signal strength detector, determines a driver terminal which is the portable terminal carried by the user acting as the driver. The vehicular portable device determines as the driver terminal the portable terminal that provides a smallest degree of change of the received signal strength detected multiple times.

Abstract: A male terminal metal fitting including a male connector, a female terminal metal fitting including a female connector, and a holding structure that generates holding force therebetween are included. The holding structure includes two first holding bodies that are arranged between the male connector and the female connector in a region and that become contact points therebetween, two second holding bodies that are arranged between the male connector and the female connector in a region and that become contact points therebetween, and a third holding body that is arranged on an opposite side of the first holding bodies in a cylinder axis direction with respect to the second holding bodies and that becomes a contact point between the male connector and the female terminal metal fitting.

Abstract: A terminal connecting structure includes a male terminal having a plated columnar rod portion, a female terminal having a cylindrical portion configured to receive the rod portion of the male terminal therein, and an elastic member attached to the cylindrical portion of the female terminal. The elastic member energizes the rod portion toward an inner surface of the cylindrical portion when the rod portion is inserted into the cylindrical portion. The female terminal has a plurality of projection portions protruding inward from respective regions located at both sides of a central portion of the inner surface of the cylindrical portion as seen from a front view. A tip end of each of the plurality of projection portions has a curved surface which is concave toward an outer side of the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A method of controlling an optical transmitter includes steps of amplifying, by an EDFA, a main signal output from an optical modulator, attenuating and outputting, by a VOA, the main signal amplified and output by the EDFA, and maintaining an output power of the main signal output from the VOA at a predetermined value, suspending the phase modulation in the optical modulator to output continuous wave light from the optical modulator, disabling feedback control of the VOA that is performed by the VOA controller and maintaining a constant control signal of the VOA, disabling feedback control of a pump laser that is performed by a pump laser controller, and controlling the pump laser to modulate an intensity of the excitation light and generate an auxiliary signal having a cycle longer than a cycle of the main signal.

Abstract: Provided is an optically transparent conductive material which does not cause moire or grain even when placed over a liquid crystal display, that is, has a favorably low visibility (moire and grain are less recognizable), and has a high reliability. The optically transparent conductive material has, on an optically transparent base material, an optically transparent conductive layer having sensor parts and dummy parts, the sensor parts and/or the dummy parts being formed of a metal mesh pattern consisting of Voronoi edges formed based on a plurality of generators arranged in a plane tiled using polygons longer in the first direction than in the second direction, the mesh pattern being characterized in that each polygon has only one generator arranged in the polygon and that the generator is at an arbitrary position within a reduced polygon formed by connecting points at 90% or less of the direct distance from the center of gravity of the polygon to each vertex of the polygon.

Abstract: An evaluation method for insulation performance includes: a step ? of applying a DC voltage to a first insulator and measuring an integration value of a current flowing through the first insulator from a start of application of the DC voltage after a prescribed time period; a step ? of applying a DC voltage to the second insulator on an applying condition that is identical to that in the step ? and measuring an integration value of a current flowing through the second insulator from a start of application of the DC voltage after a prescribed time period; and a step ? of comparing (i) a first graph obtained in the step ? and (ii) a second graph obtained in the step ?, to evaluate a difference between insulation performances of the insulators.

Abstract: In a step of pressing a laminate, the laminate is first pressed while being heated to a temperature lower than a melting point of a thermoplastic resin so as to elastically deform the thermoplastic resin and apply a pressure in a direction perpendicular to a laminating direction to thereby allow first and second conductive pastes to tightly adhere to front and rear surface patterns. Next, the laminate is pressed while being heated to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the thermoplastic resin so as to fluidize the thermoplastic resin while allowing the thermoplastic resin to flow out from the laminate and apply a pressure in the direction perpendicular to the laminating direction to thereby allow the first and second conductive pastes are solid-sintered.

Abstract: An attachment structure for directly attaching a shield connector to an opening formed in a metal casing is provided. A shield connector for directly mounting on a device is attached to an opening formed in a metal casing. A connector housing is fastened to the casing with bolts from outside the casing. The opening of the metal casing has a diameter-enlarged portion formed in an end portion of the opening in an outside direction of the casing to be enlarged toward the outside direction. The shield shell has a contact piece at an end portion of the shield shell, and the contact piece is housed in and contacts with the diameter-enlarged portion in a state that the shield connector is attached to the opening.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body, a contact member, a locking structure, and a position adjustment structure. The terminal main body is electrically conductive and includes a female connector. The contact member is disposed, in a first region of an internal space of the female connector, to face an inner circumferential surface of the female connector. The locking structure holds the contact member at a position thereof after completion of housing of the contact member in the internal space. The position adjustment structure adjusts the position of the contact member in the internal space. The position adjustment structure includes a locked holder disposed in the contact member and a locking holder disposed in the terminal main body.

Abstract: A heat flux sensor is installed in such a way that heat flux emanating from a biological object present at a predetermined position is detectable. It is determined whether or not a biological object is present at the predetermined position by comparing sensing results of the heat flux sensor with determination criteria. The determination criteria is preset according to heat flux that can be sensed when a biological object is present at the predetermined position. When the sensing results of the heat flux sensor satisfy the determination criteria, in other words, when the heat flux sensed by the heat flux sensor is the heat flux emanating from a biological object, it is determined that a biological object is present at the predetermined position. Consequently, it is possible to realize accurate detection of a biological object.

Abstract: A device direct-mounting shield connector configured to be installed in an opening section in a metal casing, includes a nonconductive connector housing and a metal shield shell. The connector housing has a cylindrical hood section which includes a terminal housing section. The metal shield shell is installed in the connector housing and covers a circumference of the terminal housing section. The shield shell integrally has an exposed section and a fastening section. The exposed section is configured to contact to a shield shell of the mating connector when the mating connector is fitted with the connector housing. The fastening section has a through hole at a rear end side of the connector housing. The shield shell is fastened to the casing by passing a bolt into the through hole and a bolt hole in the casing and by tightening the bolt.

Abstract: An attachment structure for directly attaching a shield connector to an opening formed in a metal casing is provided. A shield connector for directly mounting on a device is attached to an opening formed in a metal casing. A connector housing is fastened to the casing with bolts from outside the casing. The opening of the metal casing has a diameter-enlarged portion formed in an end portion of the opening in an outside direction of the casing to be enlarged toward the outside direction. The shield shell has a contact piece at an end portion of the shield shell, and the contact piece is housed in and contacts with the diameter-enlarged portion in a state that the shield connector is attached to the opening.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a contact member including a first contact unit having an arcuate outer periphery that is formed along an inner periphery of the female connector and is electrically connected to a female connector, and a second contact unit that is connected to the first contact unit and pushed outward in a radial direction by the male connector inside the internal space so as to be electrically connected to the male connector, and an uplift prevention unit that is locked not to move inward in the radial direction at an outer wall surface of the female connector and is configured to prevent an uplift of the first contact unit from the inner periphery of the female connector.

Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body having a female connector provided with an internal space into which a male connector is inserted and a contact member accommodated into the internal space. The contact member has at least one first locked part and at least one second locked part. The female connector has a first locking part that is arranged on a side in an insertion direction of the male connector and locks the movement of the first locked part in the insertion direction, and a second locking part that is arranged on a side opposite to the side in the insertion direction relative to the second locked part of the contact member after the completion of being accommodated and locks the movement of the second locked part in a removal direction in order to maintain the accommodated state of the contact member.