Abstract: A work machine includes: a first posture detection device which detects a posture of an upper slewing body with respect to a lower travelling body; a second posture detection device which detects a posture of a blade; a laser beam receiver which is provided to the upper slewing body and can receive a laser beam emitted from a laser beam emitter; and a calculation unit which calculates a height position of a cutting edge of the blade with respect to a surface to be constructed. The calculation unit calculates the height position of the cutting edge of the blade with respect to the surface to be constructed based on a laser beam receiving position where the laser beam is received by the laser beam receiver, a posture of the upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body, and a posture of the blade.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage configured to move in a width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a recording head mounted on the carriage, a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid to be supplied to the recording head, the liquid storage section including an injection port configured to receive the liquid from a refill container and a liquid-level visual-check section through which a liquid level of the liquid is visually checked, and a display section configured to accept various setting operations, in which the liquid-level visual-check section and the display section are disposed on an apparatus front surface side, and the display section is disposed above the liquid-level visual-check section.

Abstract: There is provided a technique by which when using a felt-based four-sides-processing material having a release paper-attached pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, not only a worker can release the release paper from a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer quickly and favorably but also breakage of a base material made of rock wool can be suppressed.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus in which noise caused by global shutter driving of an image pickup device can be suppressed. The image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup device including pixels each including a photoelectric conversion part that generates a charge by photoelectric conversion and charge storage parts that are connected to the photoelectric conversion part and store a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part, and a controller configured to control to switch a driving mode of the image pickup device according to exposure setting, wherein the driving mode includes a first mode in which the charge is transferred from the photoelectric conversion part to the charge storage part in multiple transfers in one frame period, and a second mode in which the charge is transferred from the photoelectric conversion part to the charge storage part only once in one frame period.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having a substrate, a drift layer, a base region, a source region, trench gate structures, an interlayer insulating film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The substrate is made of silicon carbide. The drift layer is disposed on the substrate and has an impurity concentration lower than the substrate. The base region is made of silicon carbide and disposed on the drift layer. The source region is made of silicon carbide having an impurity concentration higher than the drift layer. Each trench gate structure has a gate trench, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The interlayer insulating film covers the gate electrode and the gate insulating film. The source electrode is in ohmic-contact with the source region. The drain electrode is disposed on a rear surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing tank, a holder, an organic solvent supply, a drainage port, a gas supply, and an exhaust port. The processing tank stores an aqueous layer. The holder holds a substrate. The organic solvent supply supplies an organic solvent onto the aqueous layer to form a liquid layer of the organic solvent. The drainage port discharges the aqueous layer from a bottom wall of the processing tank and causes the liquid layer of the organic solvent to descend from above the substrate to below the substrate. The gas supply supplies a gas of a water repellent agent to the liquid layer from above the processing tank while the liquid layer descends. The exhaust port is exposed on a side wall of the processing tank by the descending of the liquid layer and discharges the gas of the water repellent gas.

Abstract: A photographing device includes: a processor; and a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire first partial binning data based on a first pixel group, in which the first pixel group is formed by binning at least one pixel in a unit pixel group composed of a plurality of grouped pixels; analyze a frequency characteristic of an image signal of a region composed of the unit pixel group based on a cross-correlation between the first partial binning data and second partial binning data based on a second pixel group composed of pixels other than the first pixel group in the unit pixel group; and remove Moire fringes in the region composed of the unit pixel group based on an analysis result.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition, particularly a compound suitable for preventing and/or treating an inflammatory disease and/or a neurodegenerative disease. The present inventors accomplished the present invention by conducting intensive studies to find a compound having an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation, with the result that a substituted triazine compound is found to have the inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation. The substituted triazine compound of the present invention is expected to serve as a preventive and/or therapeutic drug for an inflammatory disease and/or a neurodegenerative disease.

Abstract: A battery has a separator, a positive electrode active material layer, a positive electrode side current collector, an adhesive layer, a negative electrode side current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer, in that order. The negative electrode side current collector has a first through-holes that are provided at a non-formation portion at which the negative electrode active material layer is not formed, and a second through-holes that are provided at the region where the negative electrode active material layer is formed. A gap is provided between the adhesive layer and the negative electrode side current collector. The gap is provided so as to communicate the first through-hole and the second through-hole.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit for generating charge by photoelectric conversion, first to fourth charge holding portions configured to be transferred charge from the photoelectric conversion unit, and an output unit for outputting a signal corresponding to charge transferred from one of the first to fourth charge holding portions, and a control circuit for controlling the plurality of pixels. The control circuit performs, during one frame, transferring charge in the photoelectric conversion unit to the first or second charge holding portion a plural times for each of the first and second charge holding portions in each of the pixels at the same time, and performs, during the one frame, reading out from each pixel a signal corresponding to charge in the third charge holding portion and a signal corresponding to charge in the fourth charge holding portion.

Abstract: A power storage module comprises a plurality of bipolar electrodes, an outermost positive electrode, an outermost negative electrode, a first sealing part, a second sealing part, an inner sealing part, a first insulating member, a second insulating member, and an inner insulating member. At a periphery of each positive electrode current-collecting foil, a positive-electrode-free portion is formed, and at a periphery of each negative electrode current-collecting foil, a negative-electrode-free portion is formed. The first insulating member includes a first outer insulating part, the second insulating member includes a second outer insulating part, and the inner insulating member includes an inner insulating part. Each of a thickness of the first outer insulating part and a thickness of the second outer insulating part is more than a thickness of the inner insulating part.

Abstract: A power storage device includes power storage cells that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid electrolyte in a liquid-tight manner. The power storage device includes a cell stack in which the power storage cells are stacked in series. A side surface of the cell stack is covered with a seal portion made of a plastic. The terminal positive electrode current collector and the terminal negative electrode current collector located in the outermost layer of the cell stack are made of a high thermal conductivity material having a thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 100 W/(m·K). The power storage device includes a positive electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal negative electrode current collector. The liquid electrolyte contains an oxalate compound.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first main electrode, a second main electrode, and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a p-type semiconductor region disposed at a position exposed from the upper surface of the semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the second main electrode, and an n-type semiconductor region in contact with the p-type semiconductor region and separated from the second main electrode by the p-type semiconductor region. The n-type semiconductor region has a trap region provided at a position in contact with the p-type semiconductor region, and a hole trap is formed in the trap region.

Abstract: A power storage device includes power storage cells that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid electrolyte in a liquid-tight manner. The power storage device includes a cell stack in which the power storage cells are stacked in series. A side surface of the cell stack is covered with a seal portion made of a plastic. A terminal positive electrode current collector and a terminal negative electrode current collector located in the outermost layer of the cell stack are made of a high thermal conductivity material having a thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 100 W/(m·K). The power storage device includes a positive electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal positive electrode current collector, and a negative electrode cooling unit, which cools the terminal negative electrode current collector. The liquid electrolyte contains an ester compound.

Abstract: An image sensor comprises: a pixel region including a plurality of microlenses arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions provided for each of the microlenses; a plurality of amplifiers that apply a plurality of different gains to signals output from the pixel region; and a scanning circuit that scans the pixel region so that a partial signal and an added signal are read out, the partial signal being a signal from some of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and the added signal being a signal obtained by adding the signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage configured to move in a width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a recording head mounted on the carriage, a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid to be supplied to the recording head, the liquid storage section including an injection port configured to receive the liquid from a refill container and a liquid-level visual-check section through which a liquid level of the liquid is visually checked, and a display section configured to accept various setting operations, in which the liquid-level visual-check section and the display section are disposed on an apparatus front surface side, and the display section is disposed above the liquid-level visual-check section.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage configured to move in a width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a recording head mounted on the carriage, a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid to be supplied to the recording head, the liquid storage section including an injection port configured to receive the liquid from a refill container and a liquid-level visual-check section through which a liquid level of the liquid is visually checked, and a display section configured to accept various setting operations, in which the liquid-level visual-check section and the display section are disposed on an apparatus front surface side, and the display section is disposed above the liquid-level visual-check section.

Abstract: A device includes a conversion unit, a generation unit configured to generate a pulse signal based on a signal from the conversion unit, a counter circuit configured to count the generated pulse signal, and a time measurement circuit configured to measure a time wherein one of a count value counted by the counter circuit or a time measurement value measured by the time measurement circuit is selectively output.

Abstract: Methods for the removal of ionic contaminants from a hydrophilic organic solvent by a mixed bed of ion exchange resins are described. A mixed bed of ion exchange resins with gel-type strong-acid cationic ion exchange resin with a specific moisture holding capacity and gel-type anionic ion exchange resin is used in some embodiments of such methods.

Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a substrate, a drift layer disposed above the substrate, a base region disposed above the drift layer, a source region disposed above the base region, a gate trench formed deeper than the base region from a surface of the source region, a gate insulating film covering an inner wall surface of the gate trench, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the gate electrode and the gate insulating film and having a contact hole, a source electrode brought in ohmic contact with the source region through the contact hole, and a drain electrode disposed to a rear surface of the substrate. The source region has a lower impurity concentration on a side close to the base region than on a surface side brought in ohmic contact with the source region.