Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if the crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet. Provided is an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet having a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; and an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, where the crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50% at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: Thicknesses of a light control layer in measurement positions are within the range of 0.8 times to 1.2 times the median value of the thicknesses. In a characteristic curve obtained by measuring a change of a linear transmittance of visible light when a drive voltage applied to transparent electrode layers is changed, first voltage is a lower limit drive voltage in the range in which a change ratio of a linear transmittance is 0.5%/V or more, second voltage is an upper limit drive voltage, and a middle value is between the first voltage and the second voltage. The variance in the middle value is 35.0% or less. The variance is obtained by dividing a difference between the minimum value and the maximum value of middle values obtained from the characteristic curves of the measurement positions, by an average value of the middle values.

Abstract: A classification device includes: a sorting mechanism that sorts a group of powder particles using an airflow; a dust collector that generates the airflow; a measuring instrument that measures a measurement value related to a speed of the airflow; and a control device that performs wind speed control that controls the speed of the airflow so that the measurement value is maintained within a control range.

Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device capable of reducing energy consumption. Provided is a semiconductor device including: an input unit that inputs a charge; a computing unit that accumulates a charge from the input unit and performs an arithmetic operation; and an output unit that detects and outputs the charge accumulated in the computing unit, in which the computing unit includes an accumulation unit to which a plurality of pair units, each of which is a pair of the input unit and a gate unit, is connected, each of the plurality of pair units makes a charge input from the input unit to the accumulation unit variable, and the accumulation unit accumulates a charge input from each of the connected plurality of pair units. The present disclosure is, for example, applicable to an analog computing device.

Abstract: A transmitting station includes a first wireless signal processing unit, a second wireless signal processing unit, and a link management unit. The first and second wireless signal processing units are configured to transmit wireless signals using different channels. The link management unit manages link states of the first and second wireless signal processing units. The link management unit is configured to: generate, when first data input is of a specific type, second data that is a duplicate of the first data; attach, first identification information indicating that the first data is original data, to the first data and attach, second identification information indicating that the second data is replicated data, to the second data; and output the first data with the first identification information attached to the first wireless signal processing unit and output the second data with the second identification information attached to the second wireless signal processing unit.

Abstract: A medical device that is configured to stably hold and expand biological tissue through a certain amount of pulling operation by ways of an expansion body includes: an expansion body expandable and contractible in a radial direction; an elongated shaft portion that includes a distal end part including a proximal end fixing portion to which a proximal end of the expansion body is fixed; and a hand operation unit disposed on a proximal side of the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes a pulling shaft that moves in an axial direction to compress the expansion body in an axial direction. The hand operation unit includes a pulling operation unit that moves the pulling shaft in the axial direction. The pulling shaft and the pulling operation unit are connected to each other with a buffer portion therebetween, the buffer portion being elastically deformable along the axial direction of the pulling shaft.

Abstract: Provided is a laminated piezoelectric element capable of suppressing heat generation while maintaining satisfactory piezoelectric characteristics. The laminated piezoelectric element is a laminated piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric film, in which the laminated piezoelectric element is obtained by laminating a plurality of layers of piezoelectric films each including a piezoelectric layer containing a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material that contains piezoelectric particles in a matrix containing a polymer material, and electrode layers formed on both surfaces of the piezoelectric layer, and in a case where a value obtained by dividing a capacitive reactance Xc of the piezoelectric film at a frequency of 1 kHz by an equivalent series resistance ESR is set to 1, a value XE20 obtained by dividing the capacitive reactance Xc at a frequency of 20 kHz by the equivalent series resistance ESR is in a range of 0.6 to 1.5.

Abstract: A gate drive circuit includes: an input terminal; a first circuit path inserted into a line connecting the input terminal and a gate of a power transistor; a second circuit path connected in parallel to the first circuit path; and a third circuit path connected in parallel to the second circuit path. The first circuit path includes a gate resistor (Rgon). The second circuit path includes a first capacitor and a first resistor connected in series. The third circuit path includes a second capacitor and a second resistor connected in series. The second capacitor has a capacitance value greater than a capacitance value of the first capacitor. The second resistor has a resistance value greater than a resistance value of the first resistor. The gate resistor (Rgon) has a resistance value greater than the resistance value of the second resistor.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a light irradiating unit that irradiates light to a living body, a ranging unit that measures a distance to the living body, a plurality of lenses having respectively different focal lengths at which an image of a living body to which the light is irradiated is formed, an imaging device that generates a plurality of living body images that are images of the living body by respectively capturing an image of the living body through the lenses, and an image selecting unit that selects one out of the living body images based on the measured distance to the living body.

Abstract: Disclosed is a galvannealed steel sheet including: a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet; and a galvannealed layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, ISi,Fe/ISi,bulk is 0.30 or more, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m in the thickness direction from the interface between the galvannealed layer and the Fe-based electroplating layer towards the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.

Abstract: An electrostatic separator separates conductive particles from raw materials includes: a container with a raw material layer; a gas dispersion plate at the bottom of the raw material layer; at least one vibrating body in the raw material layer flush with the gas dispersion plate or above it; a fluidization gas supplier introduced from the container bottom into the raw material layer flows upward through the gas dispersion plate; an upper electrode above the raw material layer; a lower electrode in the raw material layer, the lower electrode being flush with the gas dispersion plate or above it; a power supply applies a voltage between the upper and lower electrode wherein one becomes a negative electrode, the other becomes a positive electrode, and an electric field is generated between them; and a capturer captures conductive particles that have flown out of the raw material layer surface toward the upper electrode.

Abstract: Thicknesses of a light control layer measured in multiple measurement positions are within the range of 0.8 times to 1.2 times the median value of the thicknesses. In a characteristic curve obtained by measuring a change in haze when a drive voltage applied to transparent electrode layers is changed, a first voltage is a lower limit drive voltage in the range in which the change ratio in haze is 0.5%/V or more, a second voltage is the upper limit drive voltage, and the middle value is a value between the first voltage and the second voltage. The variance in the middle value is 40% or less, in which the variance is obtained by dividing a difference between the minimum value and the maximum value, among middle values obtained from the characteristic curves in multiple measurement positions, by an average value of the middle values.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element and a control unit thereof. The sensor element includes: a base part; a measurement-object gas flow cavity formed from one end part in a longitudinal direction of the base part; a pump cell including an intracavity electrode disposed in the measurement-object gas flow cavity; and a reference electrode disposed in a reference gas chamber formed inside the base part. The control unit includes: a driving control part; a storing part storing in advance, a standard correspondence relationship at a standard time at which a reference potential of the reference electrode is at a predetermined value; and a diagnosing part obtaining a diagnostic correspondence relationship, and comparing the obtained diagnostic correspondence relationship with the standard correspondence relationship to diagnose a deviation of a reference potential of the reference electrode at the diagnostic time from the predetermined value at the standard time.

Abstract: A developer supply container is detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus, the developer receiving apparatus including a developer receiving portion provided with a receiving port for receiving a developer and including a portion-to-be-engaged of displacing integrally with the developer receiving portion. The developer supply container includes a discharging portion provided with a shutter opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion, and an engaging portion. The engaging portion engages with the portion-to-be-engaged with a mounting operation of the developer supply container to displace the developer receiving portion so as to bring the receiving opening into fluid communication with the shutter opening. The engaging portion includes a curved portion having an angle relative to a mounting direction of the developer supply container, the angle decreasing with approach toward an upstream side in the mounting direction.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes composite particles containing a lithium silicate phase, a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a crystalline phase of silicon dioxide dispersed in the lithium silicate phase. The crystalline phase of silicon dioxide contains ?-cristobalite and quartz.

Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a continuous fiber reinforced resin composite material having good acoustic emission signals, high strength, elastic modulus, and water absorption characteristics, and a method of producing the same. The continuous fiber reinforced resin composite material contains continuous reinforcing fibers and thermoplastic resin, wherein an acoustic emission (AE) count A determined by the following formula is 0.30 or less: (AE count A)=(number of AE signals having amplitude of 40 dB or more and duration of 3500 ?seconds or shorter)/(total number of AE signals).

Abstract: An electronic device has a primary loop circuit that includes a main circuit causing a current to flow in a loop shape; and a secondary loop circuit that is disposed to face the primary loop circuit at a predetermined distance, and causes an induced current generated by a magnetic field generated in the primary loop circuit to flow in a loop shape.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for forming a casting mold, the composition containing heat-resistant inorganic particles; a waterglass-based binder; a surfactant; a silicon-containing compound; activated carbon powder and grain; and water; and the silicon-containing compound contains at least one of metal silicon and ferrosilicon.

Abstract: An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.