Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes: a multilayer stack including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductor layers stacked together; a plurality of terminals integrated with the multilayer stack; and a shield formed of a conductor and integrated with the multilayer stack. The multilayer stack has a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The plurality of terminals are provided on the bottom surface of the multilayer stack. The shield entirely covers the top surface and the four side surfaces of the multilayer stack. The shield includes a portion that is thicker than the other portions of the shield.

Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes: a multilayer stack including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductor layers stacked together; a plurality of terminals integrated with the multilayer stack; and a shield formed of a conductor and integrated with the multilayer stack. The multilayer stack has a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The plurality of terminals are provided on the bottom surface of the multilayer stack. The shield entirely covers the top surface and the four side surfaces of the multilayer stack. The shield includes a portion that is thicker than the other portions of the shield.

Abstract: A database system including: a database server for storing registration information including encrypted data encrypted using a probabilistic encryption method; and a terminal. The terminal includes: an encryption unit; a decryption unit; an encrypted search query generating unit for generating an encrypted search query obtained by encrypting a search query used for retrieving the encrypted data; and an additional processing unit for encrypting a search condition of a plaintext and transmitting a data acquisition request including the encrypted search condition. The database server holds database operation command definition information and search additional information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image reading device, a storage device, and a control unit. The image reading device reads an image on a sheet. The storage device stores information. The control unit that determines a detection area of an encoded image based on a teacher image which is an image read from a predetermined teacher sheet by the image reading device, records information indicating the detection area in the storage device, detects an encoded image in the detection area among the images read from a sheet to be read after the teacher sheet, and decodes the detected encoded image.

Abstract: A machine vision system comprising receiving means configured to receive image data indicative of an object to be classified where there is provided processing means with an initial neural network, the processing means configured to determine a differential equation describing the initial neural network algorithm based on the neural network parameters, and to determine a solution to the differential equation in the form of a series expansion; and to convert the series expansion to a finite series expansion by limiting the number of terms in the series expansion to a finite number; and to determine the output classification in dependence on the finite series expansion.

Abstract: A power control device that acts as a principal controlling agent in an isolating switching power supply has a controller configured to monitor a first output detection signal commensurate with a direct-current output voltage to a load and a second output detection signal commensurate with the difference between the direct-current output voltage and its target value switch among a plurality of operating modes with varying power consumption according to the results of monitoring of the two output detection signals. The power control device may instead have a peak current switch configured to raise the peak current value of a primary current passing in an output switch on detecting a light load.

Abstract: The polyimide resin precursor in the present embodiment is a polyimide resin precursor obtained by allowing a diamine component and a tetracarboxylic acid anhydride component to react with each other, wherein based on the whole of the diamine component, the content of p-phenylenediamine is 75 mol % or more; the tetracarboxylic acid anhydride component includes an ester-containing tetracarboxylic acid anhydride represented by formula (1), and at least one biphenyltetracarboxylic acid anhydride selected from the group consisting of 3,4,3?,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, 2,3,3?,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and 2,3,2?,3?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride; and based on the whole of the tetracarboxylic acid anhydride component, (i) the total of the content of the ester-containing tetracarboxylic acid anhydride and the content of the biphenyltetracarboxylic acid anhydride is 75 mol % or more, and (ii) the content of the ester-containing tetracarboxylic acid anhydride is 15 to 80 mo

Abstract: This power supply IC is a semiconductor integrated circuit device serving as a main part for controlling a switching power supply and is formed by integrating a feedback resistor and an output feedback control unit on a single semiconductor substrate, said feedback resistor generating a feedback voltage by dividing the output voltage of the switching power supply (or the induced voltage appearing across an auxiliary winding provided on the primary side of a transformer included in an insulation-type switching power supply), said output feedback control unit performing output feedback control of the switching power supply in accordance with the feedback voltage. The feedback resistor is a polysilicon resistor having a withstand voltage of 100 V or more. A high-voltage region having higher withstand voltage in the substrate thickness direction than the other region is formed in the semiconductor substrate, and the feedback resistor is formed on the high-voltage region.

Abstract: A blow molding machine is subjected to a sterilizing treatment in a simple manner. A liquid sterilizer is filled into preforms of at least the same number as the number of spindles. In a heating unit that heats the preforms to a molding temperature, some of the liquid sterilizer is caused to diffuse, and blow air is blasted into preforms in which the liquid sterilizer remains to cause the liquid sterilizer to diffuse in a molding unit, and molded bottles are discharged.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a separator for an electrochemical element, comprising a fibrous structure, wherein the fibrous structure has a first fibrous layer part in which short fibers and/or pulp-like fibers are intertwined with each other, and a second fibrous layer part; some of the short fibers and/or the pulp-like fibers constituting the first fibrous layer part penetrates the second fibrous layer part; and a pore diameter distribution of the fibrous structure satisfies the following formula: 0 ?m<D max<18 ?m, and 0 ?m?(D max?Dave)<13 ?m, wherein D max is a maximum pore diameter (?m) of the fibrous structure, and Dave is an average pore diameter (?m) of the fibrous structure.

Abstract: Provided is a resin including both a structural unit derived from a monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond at a terminal thereof and a structural unit derived from a polyrotaxane compound, wherein the polyrotaxane compound is a compound substituted with a (meth)acryloyl group or a group containing a (meth)acryloyl group, the polyrotaxane includes optionally substituted cyclodextrin, a linear molecule clathrated in the optionally substituted cyclodextrin in a skewer shape, and a capping group for preventing the optionally substituted cyclodextrin from leaving, the capping group being located at a terminal of the linear molecule clathrated in the optionally substituted cyclodextrin in a skewer shape, and the weight average molecular weight of the linear molecule clathrated in the optionally substituted cyclodextrin in a skewer shape is greater than or equal to 21000 and less than or equal to 500000.

Abstract: There is provided a power supply control device as a control main entity of a switching power supply. The power supply control device includes a minimum ON width setting part configured to set a minimum ON width of an output switch according to a load.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a degradation degree of a secondary battery includes a pulse current applying unit that applies a pulse current; a voltage acquiring unit that acquires a charge voltage and a discharge voltage which are produced at the secondary battery by applying the pulse current; a relative value calculation unit that calculates a relative value between the charge voltage and the discharge voltage; a correlation storage unit that stores a correlation between a relative value between the charge voltage and the discharge voltage, and a degradation degree of the secondary battery; and a degradation degree estimation unit that obtains a degradation degree of the secondary battery from the correlation storage unit, based on the relative value calculated by the relative value calculation unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronous memories and synchronous memory operation are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device is disclosed comprising memory circuitry having a memory output, the memory circuitry including a sense amplifier having a first output and a second output, a first data path coupled to the first output of the sense amplifier, the first data path including 2 latches/registers, and a second data path coupled to the second output of the sense amplifier, the second data path including a plurality latches/registers. In further implementations, various control circuitry, connections and control signals may be utilized to operate the latches/registers in the first and second data paths according to specified configurations, control, modes, latency and/or timing domain information, to achieve, for example, pipelined output latching and/or double data rate output.

Abstract: A temperature detection device, includes a base material and a temperature indicator, which is provided on the base material, which contains a reversible heat discoloration composition material having color change temperature hysteresis in a normal temperature environment, and which changes color when a detected temperature reaches a threshold value or lower.

Abstract: The transparent conductor includes a transparent resin substrate, a first metal oxide layer, a metal layer containing a silver alloy, and a second metal oxide layer in the order presented. The first metal oxide layer contains zinc oxide, indium oxide, and titanium oxide, and the content of SnO2 in the first metal oxide layer is 40 mol % or less with respect to the total of four components of zinc oxide, indium oxide, titanium oxide, and tin oxide in terms of ZnO, In2O3, TiO2, and SnO2, respectively. The second metal oxide layer contains the four components, and the content of SnO2 in the second metal oxide layer is 12 to 40 mol % with respect to the total of the four components in terms of ZnO, In2O3, TiO2, and SnO2, respectively.

Abstract: A reading processing apparatus includes an obtaining device configured to obtain a picked-up image in which an image of a display device provided with at least two color display portions is picked up, and an estimation device configured to estimate an elapsed time elapsed since a start of exposure of the display device to an environment that has a predetermined environment temperature, based on the picked-up image obtained by the obtaining device. When the at least two color display portions are irradiated with light in a predetermined wavelength range, respective colors of the at least two color display portions fade with time at color fading rates different from each other and dependent on an ambient temperature.

Abstract: A searchable encryption processing system includes a server including: a communication device to communicate with another device; a storage device configured to store as search target data, secret data obtained by concealing plaintext data, and a secret index obtained by concealing a plaintext index to classify the plaintext data; and an arithmetic device to execute a process including receiving, from a search client, a secret data query obtained by concealing a plaintext query, and a secret index query obtained by concealing a plaintext index, searching the storage device for a secret index matching the secret index query based on a predetermined searchable encryption technique, searching a secret data group classified by the matching secret index for secret data matching the secret data query, and returning the searched secret data to the search client.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image reading device, a storage device, and a control unit. The image reading device reads an image on a sheet. The storage device stores information. The control unit that determines a detection area of an encoded image based on a teacher image which is an image read from a predetermined teacher sheet by the image reading device, records information indicating the detection area in the storage device, detects an encoded image in the detection area among the images read from a sheet to be read after the teacher sheet, and decodes the detected encoded image.

Abstract: Provided is a molded article comprising a resin, wherein the resin comprises a methacrylic resin comprising a structural unit derived from a methacrylic acid ester and a structural unit derived from a silica particle having an average primary particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 50 nm or less and comprising at least one polymerizable functional group, and the molded article has an absolute value of degree of orientation in the thickness direction of 0.02 or more and satisfies the requirement (I): (I) When the free induction decay curve (X) obtained by measuring the molded article by a solid echo method at 150° C. using a pulse nuclear magnetic resonance measurement apparatus is approximated by the least square method using the formula (F1), the sum (B+C) of the component fractions of two components having different spin-spin relaxation times in the free induction decay curve (X) is 4% or more.