Abstract: The electroluminescent element includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a quantum dot (QD) layer including quantum dots and arranged between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The quantum dots are Cd-free quantum dots that include at least Zn and Se, and do not include Cd at a mass ratio of 1/30 or greater in relation to Zn. The particle size of each quantum dot is within a range from 3 nm to 20 nm.

Abstract: -- A high-voltage connector of a novel structure is disclosed which achieves an improvement in electrical conductivity, a reduced amount of heat generation and the like while realizing stable connection to a mating terminal by a simple structure having a small number of components. A high-voltage connector 10 is provided with a terminal fitting 16 including a terminal body portion 34 in the form of a flat plate to be overlapped on a mating terminal 76 in the form of a flat plate in a plate thickness direction, and a resilient contact portion 38 integrally provided to the terminal body portion 34 and inclined to an overlapping side with the mating terminal 76.

Abstract: A bidirectional switch element includes: a substrate; an AlzGa1-zN layer; an AlbGa1-bN layer; a first source electrode; a first gate electrode; a second gate electrode; a second source electrode; a p-type Alx1Ga1-x1N layer; a p-type Alx2Ga1-x2N layer; an AlyGa1-yN layer; and an AlwGa1-wN layer. The AlzGa1-zN layer is formed over the substrate. The AlbGa1-bN layer is formed on the AlzGa1-zN layer. The AlyGa1-yN layer is interposed between the substrate and the AlzGa1-zN layer. The AlwGa1-wN layer is interposed between the substrate and the AlyGa1-yN layer and has a higher C concentration than the AlyGa1-yN layer.

Abstract: To surely fix an optical fiber cable including a nonmetallic tension member in a closure without damaging the tension member and a core. An optical fiber cable holding device according to the present disclosure includes: a thin plate portion configured, by bending a rectangular thin plate in a length direction thereof into a shape of a rough circle, to hold an outer periphery of an optical fiber cable; a binding mechanism portion fixed on one end of the thin plate portion and configured to bind and fix the thin plate portion wound around the optical fiber cable; protrusion fitting holes provided on the other end of the thin plate portion wound around the optical fiber cable; and a band-diameter adjuster fixed to the binding mechanism portion, including a protrusion to fittable into each of the protrusion fitting holes, and configured to adjust a diameter of the rough circle by changing from one hole to another hole of the protrusion fitting holes to be fitted onto the protrusion.

Abstract: A method of laying an optical cable according to the present disclosure includes: installing a laying strip, in which the optical cable is to be embedded, on a road surface or a wall surface; forming a cut line, for embedding the optical cable, on the installed laying strip; and embedding the optical cable in the formed cut line.

Abstract: A condition determination system includes: an operation condition data obtaining unit that obtains operation condition data indicating an operation condition of a facility; and a determination unit that determines, based on the operation condition data, a level of a phenomenon that occurs due to the operation condition of the facility.

Abstract: An image display method for a terminal device that includes a display section having an input section includes displaying a plurality of images including a first image, a second image adjacent to the first image, and a third image adjacent to the second image along a predetermined axis, receiving selection of the first image based on touch input, performing, when a first movement instruction to move the first image to a gap between the second image and the third image is received, display in a first display form indicating that the first image has been moved to the gap between the second image and the third image, and performing, when a second movement instruction to move the first image to a position different from the gap between the second image and the third image is received, display in a second display form different from the first display form.

Abstract: A control system includes a control unit. When turning a bidirectional switch element ON, the control unit controls the bidirectional switch element to cause a time lag between a first timing and a second timing. The first timing is a timing when a voltage equal to or higher than a threshold voltage is applied to one gate electrode selected from a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode. The one gate electrode is associated with one source electrode selected from a first source electrode and a second source electrode and having a lower potential than the other source electrode. The second timing is a timing when a voltage equal to or higher than a threshold voltage is applied to the other gate electrode associated with the other source electrode having a higher potential than the one source electrode.

Abstract: Please replace the currently pending Abstract with the following amended A parasitic capacitance of a wiring arranged on a back surface side of a semiconductor substrate is reduced. A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a back surface side wiring, a through wiring, and a separation region. In the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor element and a front surface side wiring connected to the semiconductor element are arranged on a front surface side. The back surface side wiring is arranged on a back surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The through wiring is arranged in a through hole formed in the semiconductor substrate to connect the front surface side wiring and the back surface side wiring. The separation region is arranged between the semiconductor substrate and the back surface side wiring.

Abstract: A side-filling resin composition is used to form a side-filling member to be interposed between a base member and a peripheral edge portion of a surface, facing the base member, of a mounted component that is surface-mounted on the base member. The side-filling resin composition has photocurability.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock structure includes: a housing; an active lever supported by the housing to be displaceable relative to the housing between locked position where the active lever prohibits opening of a vehicle door by a door opening operation of a door operation handle provided on the vehicle door and an unlocked position where the active lever allows the opening of the vehicle door by the door opening operation of the door operation handle; and a spring configured to selectively hold the active lever at either the locked or unlocked position. The housing includes a held portion held by the spring. The spring includes: locked-position and unlocked-position holders respectively holding the held portion such that the active lever is held at the locked and unlocked positions. The active lever includes a spring holder that holds the spring.

Abstract: Disclosed are: an electric shock prevention cap having a novel structure such that the cap can be easily attached to a pair of terminal body parts so that a large holding force can be obtained and contact with opposing surfaces of the pair of terminal body parts can be prevented; and a connector equipped with the electric shock prevention cap. The electric shock prevention cap 10 includes: a pair of periphery-covering parts 12, 12 for covering, when attached to a pair of flat plate-like terminal body parts 42, 42 arranged side by side in a plate thickness direction, the peripheries of tip parts of the pair of terminal body parts 42, 42; and inner intrusion prevention parts 18 disposed between the pair of periphery-covering parts 12, 12 and connecting the pair of periphery-covering parts 12, 12 to each other.

Abstract: A display method of causing a display apparatus having a display screen to display a document is provided. The method includes a displaying step of causing a page image that is an image of a page of the document and thumbnail images of pages to be displayed on the display screen, a first receiving step of receiving a first operation for issuing an instruction for enlarging the page image, and an enlarging step of, in response to receiving the first operation, causing the page image displayed in the display area to be enlarged and displayed and causing the thumbnail images to be moved in a first direction in the display area. In the enlarging step, the thumbnail images are enlarged compared to those before the execution of the enlarging step with some portions of the thumbnail images being hidden, and the display in the display area is updated.

Abstract: A user personal computer (PC) serves as a transmission device for transmitting data to a terminal device. The user PC includes a user PC communicator, an inputter configured to receive an input of a selection instruction for selecting data to be transmitted by the user PC communicator and an input of a transmission instruction for transmitting data, and a transmission controller configured to control the user PC communicator to transmit data selected by an input received by the inputter and a notification regarding the selected data. The data and the notification regarding the data are transmitted through different communication paths to the terminal device.

Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure provides an optical wavelength conversion member including a polycrystalline ceramic sintered body containing, as main components, Al2O3 crystal grains and crystal grains represented by formula (Y,A)3B5O12:Ce. In the optical wavelength conversion member, a (Y,A)3B5O12:Ce crystal grain has a region wherein the A concentration of a peripheral portion of the (Y,A)3B5O12:Ce crystal grain is higher than that of an interior portion of the (Y,A)3B5O12:Ce crystal grain. Thus, the optical wavelength conversion member exhibits high fluorescence intensity (i.e., high emission intensity) and high heat resistance (i.e., low likelihood of temperature quenching). The optical wavelength conversion member has a structure wherein the element A concentration of a peripheral portion of a (Y,A)3B5O12:Ce crystal grain differs from that in an interior portion of the crystal grain.

Abstract: A trail recording system includes a trail recording apparatus and a report receiving apparatus, the trail recording apparatus: holds a plurality of measurement. values measured by a sensor, and trail data generated based on at least. some of the plurality of measurement values; and transmits the trail data to the report receiving apparatus, the report receiving apparatus transmit, to the trail recording apparatus, a request indicating the trail data of the sensor that is an audit target, the trail recording apparatus transmits, to the report receiving apparatus, out of the plurality of measurement values, measurement values that have been used to generate the indicated trail data, the report receiving apparatus verifies, based on the trail data a.n.d the measurement values received from the trail recording apparatus, whether the at least some of the plurality of measurement values measured by the sensor are tampered is verified.

Abstract: An optical fiber array includes a V-groove substrate in which a V-groove for optical fiber alignment is formed, a pressing plate laminated and bonded on the V-groove substrate, and an optical fiber bonded and fixed in the V-groove of the V-groove substrate, wherein a distance between the optical fiber and the V-groove is less than 20 ?m.

Abstract: An optical circuit module in which an optical fiber array and an optical circuit substrate are connected, the optical fiber array including a groove substrate in which a groove for optical fiber alignment is formed, a pressing plate stacked on and bonded to the groove substrate, and an optical fiber bonded to and fixed in the groove of the groove substrate, and the optical circuit substrate including an input/output waveguide. In a connection surface of the optical circuit module, an area of a common portion in a cross section of the optical circuit substrate and the pressing plate is larger than an area of a common portion in a cross section of the optical circuit substrate and the groove substrate.

Abstract: To enable an appropriate and quick detection of a change in an internal structure of a patient, a computer program causes a computer to detect a change in an internal structure of a patient. The process includes calculating a second water equivalent thickness obtained from a second three-dimensional image being a three-dimensional image of a patient, which is newly obtained; a process of calculating a change of a first water equivalent thickness from the second water equivalent thickness, the first water equivalent thickness being obtained from a first three-dimensional image being a three-dimensional image of the patient in treatment planning; and a process of calculating a dose volume histogram change for calculating a change in a dose volume histogram from the treatment plan, based on the calculated water equivalent thickness change and correlation information indicating a correlation between a water equivalent thickness change value and dose distribution information.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an ink-jet application type composition for wiring-line protection which can form layers that are excellent in terms of pattern retentivity and moisture resistance at high temperatures, have satisfactory adhesiveness to the circuits or metal wiring lines of the semiconductor device over a long period, and are less apt to suffer ion migration. The ink-jet application type composition for wiring-line protection comprises (A) one or more cationic photopolymerizable compounds including an alicyclic epoxy compound, (B) a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a silane coupling agent, wherein the silane coupling agent is contained in an amount of 1-50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the cationic photopolymerizable compounds. The ink-jet application type composition for wiring-line protection has a viscosity, as measured with an E-type viscometer at 25° C. and 20 rpm, of 5-50 mPa·s.