Abstract: The present invention has an object to develop and provide a target nucleic acid detection device having a low copy number of IPC nucleic acids placed therein, and a method for producing the device, to avoid a decrease caused in the detection sensitivity to a target nucleic acid through competitive inhibition of the target nucleic acid by addition of an internal positive control (IPC) nucleic acid. Provided is a target nucleic acid detection device in which a low copy number of IPC nucleic acids that do not inhibit the amplification reaction of a target nucleic acid is preliminarily placed in a reaction well.

Abstract: An electronic device package comprises an electrical device disposed on a base substrate, a conductive column in electrical communication with the electrical device and having a first end bonded to the base substrate, a cap substrate disposed over the electrical device and bonded to a second end of the conductive column, a layer of organic dielectric buffer coat material on the lower surface of the base substrate, a through substrate via in electrical communication with the conductive column and passing through the base substrate and the layer of organic dielectric buffer coat material, a redistribution layer disposed on the layer of organic dielectric buffer coat material, and a contact pad formed on the redistribution layer and in electrical communication with the through substrate via through the redistribution layer, the contact pad being horizontally displaced from a position directly below the through substrate via.

Abstract: A joined article including: a resin (1) having a linear expansion coefficient at 30° C. to 200° C. of 17 ppm/° C. or higher and a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m; and a metal joined to a surface of the resin (1) and having a thickness of 5 to 50 ?m. The resin (1) includes a heat-affected layer that is close to the metal and that occupies 80% or less of the thickness of the resin (1), and the joined article is a dielectric material for a substrate. Also disclosed is a substrate including the joined article and a resin (2) stacked on the joined article.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first electrode, a second electrode, an oxide semiconductor disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first oxide layer containing a predetermined element, oxygen, and an additional element and disposed between the first electrode and the oxide semiconductor, wherein the predetermined element is at least one of tantalum, boron, hafnium, silicon, zirconium, or niobium, and the additional element is at least one of phosphorus, sulfur, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium, arsenic, selenium, silver, indium, tin, antimony, tellurium, or bismuth.

Abstract: A first power semiconductor element and a second power semiconductor element of a power semiconductor device are such that, when heat generated by the first power semiconductor element is larger than heat generated by the second power semiconductor element, a first distance from an end of the first power semiconductor element to an end of the conductor plate is larger than a second distance from an end of the second power semiconductor element to an end, connected to the second power semiconductor element, of a second conductor plate.

Abstract: In order to ensure isolation between a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a narrow space while reducing a size of an antenna device for a vehicle, an antenna device (100) for a vehicle includes an antenna case (101), a base (102) forming an accommodation space together with the antenna case (101), and a first antenna element (122) and a second antenna element (123) that are accommodated in the accommodation space. The first antenna element (122) and the second antenna element (123) at least transmit or receive radio waves in different frequency bands. The first antenna element (122) at least partially has a meandering shape in a first direction that intersects polarization of radio waves transmitted or received by the second antenna element (123).

Abstract: A signal transmission device is constituted by a transformer chip having, for example, a first wiring layer, a second wiring layer different from the first wiring layer, a primary winding formed in the first wiring layer, a secondary winding formed in the second wiring layer to be magnetically coupled with the primary winding, and a shield electrode formed to be interposed between the primary and secondary windings.

Abstract: This wound core is a wound core including a wound core main body obtained by stacking a plurality of polygonal annular grain-oriented electrical steel sheets in a side view, and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has planar portions and bent portions that are alternately continuous in a longitudinal direction, and in at least one bent portion, the crystal grain size Dpx (mm) of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is FL/4 or more. Here, FL the an average length (mm) of the planar portions.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a magnetic head, a piezoelectric element and a flexure. The piezoelectric element includes two electrodes. The flexure includes a first part and a second part that swings. The first part has a first surface to which a first electrode is joined. The second part has a second surface to which the magnetic head is joined. The magnetic head has a third surface facing the first surface and the second surface. The first electrode is spaced apart from a second electrode in a first direction. The first surface and an end of the third surface face each other. The second surface and another end of the third surface face each other. A distance between the first surface and the one end of the third surface is longer than a distance between the second surface and the other end of the third surface.

Abstract: To provide a thin touch panel, a touch panel having a simple structure, a touch panel which can be easily incorporated into an electronic device, or a touch panel with a small number of components. The touch panel includes pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of first wirings extending in a direction parallel to the signal lines, and a plurality of second wirings extending in a direction parallel to the scan line. Part of the first wiring and part of the second wiring function as a pair of electrodes included in a touch sensor. The first wiring and the second wiring each have a stripe shape or form a mesh shape and are each provided between two adjacent pixel electrodes in a plan view.

Abstract: A route generation system includes a diagnosis unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. The diagnosis unit performs a diagnosis to estimate a deterioration degree of a road surface from an image to be monitored. The generation unit generates a travel route based on the deterioration degree of the road surface for each point diagnosed by the diagnosis unit and information regarding a road environment affecting the diagnosis for each point, the travel route being generated for capturing another image used for another diagnosis. The output unit outputs the generated travel route.

Abstract: A wireless apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a reception unit configured to receive, on a frequency channel, a frame including first identification information for identifying the priority level of the frame, and a carrier sensing control unit configured to determine a threshold based on the first identification information, and determine a usage state of the frequency channel based on a comparison between received power of the frame and the determined threshold.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an isolator includes a first coil, a second coil, a plate-shaped first magnet, and a first insulator. The second coil is aligned with the first coil along a first axis and faces the first coil. The first magnet is provided on a side of the second coil and faces the second coil, the side being opposite to a side where the first coil is located. The first magnet extends along a first plane intersecting the first axis. The first insulator seals the first coil, the second coil, and the first magnet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to form an image, transmit the image to a server that generates a processed image of the image by executing a designated image process on the image and is on an outside of a firewall, and, in a case where the image includes designation information designating the processed image to be transmitted to an instructed transmission destination via a fax line, request an alternative apparatus to fax-transmit the processed image to the transmission destination, the alternative apparatus being on an inside of the firewall together and having a fax function.

Abstract: A servo controller calculates a base assist command so that a steering torque follows a target steering torque. An estimated load torque calculation section calculates an estimated load torque based on a target steering torque and a base assist command. A target steering torque calculation section calculates a target steering torque using a map that defines a relationship between the estimated load torque and the target steering torque. The servo controller has a low-pass filter for removing high-frequency components of a predetermined frequency or higher in the input target steering torque at least in a differential control calculation, and calculates a differential control amount according to a steering torque deviation between the target steering torque after the low-pass filter and the steering torque.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and a control circuit. The magnetic disk has a plurality of first storage regions disposed in the radial direction. The recording method is changeable for each of the plurality of first storage regions. The control circuit operates such that, when having received a first command instructing to change the recording method of one first storage region out of a plurality of first storage regions, the control circuit changes the recording method of the one first storage region in accordance with the first command, and moves a magnetic head onto the second storage region before receiving a second command.

Abstract: A transmission line assembly is configured such that (i) a first target inner layer is one of second to (N?1)-th pattern layers selected therefrom, and (ii) a second target inner layer is another one of the second to (N?1)-th pattern layers selected therefrom; the second to (N?1)-th pattern layers except for the first and second target inner layers are referred to as inner layers. The transmission line assembly includes band-like first and second slits formed through the ground pattern of a corresponding one of the first and second target inner layers to expose a part of one of dielectric layers; the one of the dielectric layers is adjacent to the corresponding one of the first and second target inner layers. Each of the first and second slits has an edge facing the interlayer line, and the edge of each of the first and second slits is concavely curved toward the interlayer line.

Abstract: Provided is an unmanned aircraft which is capable of stably taking off. In one example, the unmanned aircraft has an aircraft body which includes an information acquisition device, a plurality of rotary wings, and a protective member disposed around the rotary wings. Each of the rotary wings has a rotation axis which is tilted with respect to a vertical direction by a given angle, such that the rotary wings generate a forward thrust force. The aircraft body has a lower edge which includes a middle lower edge and a forward lower edge, wherein the protective member has a lower edge including the forward lower edge. The forward lower edge is located above the middle lower edge, and the forward lower edge has a rear end located backward of a rear end of the rotary wing.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, an information processing unit, and a switching unit. The information processing unit is configured to encrypt information which is received from a terminal device and to transmit the encrypted information to a network and configured to decrypt information which is received from the network and to transmit the decrypted information to the terminal device. The information processing device includes a switching unit configured to directly connect a communication line between the first communication unit and the terminal device to another communication line between the second communication unit and the network, when the information processing unit comes into an inoperable state including at least electric power supply stop state, and to switch into a pass-through mode in which the terminal device and the network communicate directly with each other without through the information processing unit.

Abstract: There is provided an optical connection structure in which an optical fiber and an optical semiconductor waveguide are easily connected with low loss. The present invention relates to an optical connection structure configured to connect an optical waveguide device and an optical fiber including cores having different refractive indexes, wherein an optical connection component using a planar lightwave circuit is bonded and fixed on an end surface of an input/output waveguide of the optical waveguide device, a value of a refractive index of a core of the planar lightwave circuit is between a value of the refractive index of the core of the optical waveguide device and a value of the refractive index of the core of the optical fiber, and the optical waveguide device and the optical fiber are optically connected via the planar lightwave circuit.