Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film, capable of connecting a terminal formed on a substrate having a wavy surface such as a ceramic module substrate with conduction characteristics stably maintained, includes an insulating adhesive layer, and conductive particles regularly arranged in the insulating adhesive layer as viewed in a plan view. The conductive particle diameter is 10 ?m or more, and the thickness of the film is 1 or more times and 3.5 or less times the conductive particle diameter. The variation range of the conductive particles in the film thickness direction is less than 10% of the conductive particle diameter.

Abstract: A power amplifier circuit includes a lower transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal connected to ground, and a third terminal, wherein a first power supply voltage is supplied to the first terminal, and an input signal is supplied to the third terminal; a first capacitor; an upper transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the lower transistor via the first capacitor, and a third terminal, wherein a second power supply voltage is supplied to the first terminal, an amplified signal is outputted to an output terminal from the first terminal, and a driving voltage is supplied to the third terminal; a first inductor that connects the second terminal of the upper transistor to ground; a voltage regulator circuit; and at least one termination circuit that short-circuits an even-order harmonic or odd-order harmonic of the amplified signal to ground potential.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus controls to determine an information amount to be used for a receipt acknowledgment response to packets to be transmitted to a second information processing apparatus on the basis of information relating to the packets and notifies the second information processing apparatus of that determined information amount. The second information processing apparatus controls to return the receipt acknowledgment response to the packets transmitted from the first information processing apparatus to the first information processing apparatus on the basis of the information amount notified from the first information processing apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a communication device that performs multi-link operation by synchronous transmission. The communication device includes a communication unit that performs communication by a plurality of links, and a control unit that controls a communication operation by the communication unit. The control unit performs control to transmit a signal including information regarding a period in which data transmission is performed by the plurality of links. The information regarding the period includes at least one piece of information of a start time of the period, a time length of the period, and a link for performing transmission is the period. The control unit controls description of information regarding the start time of the period and the time length of the period so that the periods overlap at each link used for the data transmission.

Abstract: A first access point comprises circuitry configured to perform a sounding procedure with one or more first stations associated with the first access point and configured to communicate with the first access point over a respective channel to determine resource unit allocation and beamforming configuration for use in subsequent communication with respective first stations, and to transmit a training data unit containing signaling information related to the determined resource unit allocation and related to the determined beamforming configuration, wherein the training data unit is transmitted with a beamforming configuration derived from the determined resource unit allocation and the determined beamforming configuration.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of imaging elements, wherein each of the plurality of imaging elements includes: a plurality of pixels containing impurities of a first conductivity type; an element separation wall surrounding the plurality of pixels and provided so as to penetrate a semiconductor substrate; an on-chip lens provided above a light receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate so as to be shared by the plurality of pixels; and a first separation portion provided in a region surrounded by the element separation wall and separating the plurality of pixels, the first separation portion is provided so as to extend in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate, and a first diffusion region containing impurities of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type is provided in a region positioned around the first separation portion and extending in the thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor having an emitter electrically connected to a common potential, a base to which a first high-frequency signal is input, and a collector from which a third high-frequency signal is output; a second transistor having an emitter electrically connected to the common potential, a base to which a second high-frequency signal is input, and a collector from which a fourth high-frequency signal is output; a first capacitance circuit electrically connected between the collector of the second transistor and the base of the first transistor; and a second capacitance circuit electrically connected between the collector of the first transistor and the base of the second transistor.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a tank including a chamber configured to store liquid to be supplied to a recording head that ejects the liquid and a filling port from which the liquid is injected into the chamber, and an injection auxiliary member configured to assist injecting of the liquid into the chamber from the filling port, the injection auxiliary member including a first and a second flow channels each defined by a first or a second upper end portion that opens toward outside of the tank and a first or a second lower end portion that opens toward inside of the tank, wherein the second flow channel has an expansion portion arranged in a middle portion between the second upper end portion and the second lower end portion and configured to form a step to expand a cross-sectional area.

Abstract: An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Memory openings and support openings are formed through the alternating stack. The memory openings are arranged in a first hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is parallel to a first horizontal direction, and the support openings are arranged in a second hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. Memory opening fill structures are formed within a respective one of the memory openings, and support pillar structures within a respective one of the support openings.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in a first direction toward a recording head for ejecting a liquid, a tank including a containing chamber containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, and an injection port through which the liquid is injected into the containing chamber, the tank being disposed downstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction, a rotatable lever that holds a tank cap for closing the injection port, and a cover that rotates about a rotation shaft between an open position for exposing the lever and a closed position for covering the lever, the rotation shaft being disposed upstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction. The cover includes a sliding portion that is provided on a surface facing the lever and comes into contact with the lever while the cover is rotating toward the closed position.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that are configured to suppress the occurrence of noise and white blemishes in an amplification transistor having an element separation region which is formed by ion implantation. An amplification transistor has an element separation region formed by ion implantation. A channel region insulating film which is at least a part of a gate insulating film above a channel region of the amplification transistor is thin compared to a gate insulating film of a selection transistor, and an element separation region insulating film which is at least a part of a gate insulating film above the element separation region of the amplification transistor is thick compared to the channel region insulating film. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor, etc.

Abstract: A wire-driven manipulator includes a first member and a second member into both of which a flexible member is inserted, the second member being disposed more on a base end side than the first member, wherein the first and the second members are bent by a drive of the flexible member, wherein the first member includes a bonding portion mechanically bonded with the member, wherein the second member is independent of the first member and the member, and wherein a variation of an average curvature of the first member caused by a drive of the members is larger than a variation of an average curvature of the second member.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head having discharge orifices arranged on a discharge orifice surface, a cap, a wiper, and a moving unit that moves the wiper in a first direction. When the cap covers the discharge orifice surface, a first member is disposed at an inside wall of the cap at a position near a first side of a region having the discharge orifices, and a second member is disposed at another inside wall of the cap at a position near a second side of the region having the discharge orifices. The first side faces in a direction opposite to the first direction and the second side faces in the first direction. In a direction normal to the discharge orifice surface, a distance between the second member and the discharge orifice surface is smaller than a distance between the first member and the discharge orifice surface.

Abstract: A communication device for observing a channel state in a plurality of links is provided. A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a first transmission unit that transmits a first signal including information regarding start of observation of a channel state in part of the plurality of links, and a second transmission unit that transmits a second signal inducing a signal including information regarding observation of a channel state in one or more links among the plurality of links. The first signal includes information regarding a link for performing the observation and information regarding a third signal for another communication device to observe a channel state.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of unit transistors that are arranged on a surface of a substrate in a first direction. Input capacitive elements are arranged so as to correspond to the unit transistors. An emitter common wiring line is connected to emitter layers of the unit transistors. A via-hole extending from the emitter common wiring line to a back surface of the substrate is disposed at a position overlapping the emitter common wiring line. A collector common wiring line is connected to collector layers of the unit transistors. The input capacitive elements, the emitter common wiring line, the unit transistors, and the collector common wiring line are arranged in this order in a second direction. Base wiring lines that connect the input capacitive elements to base layers of the corresponding unit transistors intersect the emitter common wiring line without physical contact.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a ferroelectric layer and a first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is electrically connected to a first electrode and a second electrode and includes an n-type oxide semiconductor. A third electrode is opposite the first semiconductor layer. The ferroelectric layer is between the third electrode and the first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor layer includes at least one of a Group IV semiconductor material or a p-type oxide semiconductor material. The first semiconductor layer is between the ferroelectric layer and the second semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.

Abstract: To provide a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of achieving both of a high dynamic range operation and an auto focus operation in a pixel configuration in which a plurality of unit pixels includes two or more subpixels. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a first pixel separation region that separates a plurality of unit pixels including two or more subpixels; a second pixel separation region that separates each of the plurality of unit pixels separated by the first pixel separation region; and an overflow region that causes signal charges accumulated in the subpixels to overflow to at least one of adjacent subpixels, in which the overflow region is formed between a first subpixel and a second subpixel.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film, capable of connecting a terminal formed on a substrate having a wavy surface such as a ceramic module substrate with conduction characteristics stably maintained, includes an insulating adhesive layer, and conductive particles regularly arranged in the insulating adhesive layer as viewed in a plan view. The conductive particle diameter is 10 ?m or more, and the thickness of the film is 1 or more times and 3.5 or less times the conductive particle diameter. The variation range of the conductive particles in the film thickness direction is less than 10% of the conductive particle diameter.

Abstract: A wire-driven manipulator includes a first member and a second member into both of which a flexible member is inserted, the second member being disposed more on a base end side than the first member, wherein the first and the second members are bent by a drive of the flexible member, wherein the first member includes a bonding portion mechanically bonded with the member, wherein the second member is independent of the first member and the member, and wherein a variation of an average curvature of the first member caused by a drive of the members is larger than a variation of an average curvature of the second member.