Abstract: Provided are: a power supply control system to simply and safely charge a power source for a sensor installed in a machine tool. Power supply control system 1 supplies power to an electronic device 30 and comprises: the electronic device 30 which comprises a battery 33 to drive the electronic device 30, a power reception antenna 31 that acquires a radio wave for transmitting power to the electronic device 30, a conversion unit 34 that converts the radio wave received by the power reception antenna 31 into power, and a charging unit 35 that charges the battery 33 with the power converted by the conversion unit 34; and a power supply control unit 44 which controls the conditions in which power is transmitted to the power reception antenna 31 such that the operation of the electronic device 30 is not affected.

Abstract: A transmission device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to sample a first transmission signal obtained by performing baseband processing on a baseband signal, output the sampled first transmission signal; generate a peak reduction signal that reduces a signal level of all samples in such a manner that the signal level of all the samples of a peak of the first transmission signal with the signal level equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold is reduced to be lower than the threshold, output a second transmission signal obtained by reducing the peak of the first transmission signal with the peak reduction signal, and transmit the second transmission signal.

Abstract: An image sensor includes pixels arrayed on a substrate and a data line that transmits a signal read from each of the pixels. The pixel includes a photodetector and an N-type switch thin film transistor between the photodetector and the data line. The switch thin film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor part, a gate electrode, a drain electrode towards the data line, and a source electrode towards the photodetector. An overlap region where the gate electrode and the drain electrode overlap in a plan view is smaller than an overlap region where the gate electrode and the source electrode overlap in a plan view.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate. The recording element substrate includes a recording element, a circuit wiring driving the recording element to eject liquid, a protective film, an electrode area, a plating bump, and a resin film having elastic properties. The electrode area electrically connects the circuit wiring to an external circuit through an opening in the protective film. The protective film covers the circuit wiring in an outer adjacent region to the opening to define a step in the protective film. The protective film protects the circuit wiring against the liquid. The plating bump is electrically connected to the electrode area. The resin film covers the step and extends from an inner peripheral region of the opening onto the protective film beyond an edge of the opening. The plating bump includes a part projecting from the electrode area onto an upper surface of the resin film.

Abstract: The check valve (1) is of straight pipe joint type and oblique lift type. It includes: a valve seat (12a); a moving body (2) capable of linearly reciprocating between a closed state where it is in close contact with the valve seat and an open state where it is separated from the valve seat; a primary flow path (inflow path (12c)) on an upstream side of the moving body; and a secondary flow path (outflow path (12d)) on a downstream side of the moving body. The moving body includes a valve body (6) and a valve shaft (7) extending from the valve body. The valve seat supporting the valve body is formed to straddle the center line (CL) of the connection flow path that linearly extends including the primary flow path (inflow path) and the secondary flow path (outflow path 12d) in a cross section including the center line thereon.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid storing container including a storage chamber configured to store a liquid supplied to a printing unit that prints an image by discharging the liquid, an outlet portion of the liquid, and a channel configured to connect the storage chamber and the outlet portion. The liquid storing container includes a first side portion on a side of a print region where printing is executed by the printing unit, and a second side portion on an opposite side of the first side portion, and the channel is formed in the second side portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus including: a first substrate; a first wiring structure; a second substrate; and a second wiring structure, wherein the first wiring structure has a first wiring layer bonded to wiring of the second wiring structure, a second wiring layer connected to the first wiring layer by a first via, and a third wiring layer connected to the second wiring layer by a second via, at least part of the second via is located at a range distanced, by at least a width of the first via, from an axis of the first via, a thickness of the second wiring layer is less than the width of the first via, a major constituent of the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer and the first via is copper, and a layer that is made from a material different from copper is disposed between the first via and the second wiring layer.

Abstract: To reduce a variation in the characteristics of avalanche photodiode sensors. An avalanche photodiode sensor includes a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a low-impurity-concentration region, a first contact region, and a second contact region. The first semiconductor region is disposed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor region is disposed below the first semiconductor region and has a different conductivity type from the first semiconductor region. The low-impurity-concentration region is disposed adjacent to the second semiconductor region. The first contact region is disposed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate to be adjacent to the first semiconductor region and has electrodes connected thereto. The second contact region is disposed adjacent to the low-impurity-concentration region and has electrodes connected thereto.

Abstract: A scan area setting unit of an exemplary ophthalmic apparatus sets a scan area in a region passing through an iris outer edge. A first scan controller controls an OCT optical system to apply an OCT scan to the scan area. An image quality evaluating unit calculates an image quality evaluation value of an image from the OCT scan. A corner angle image detecting unit analyzes the image to detect a corner angle image. A position judging unit judges whether the corner angle image is located within a first area in an image frame. A second scan controller controls the OCT optical system to apply an OCT scan of a predetermined pattern to the anterior segment, if the image quality evaluation value is equal to or greater than a threshold and the corner angle image is located within the first area.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reducing software development man-hours when vehicle models are developed. In an in-vehicle equipment controller, a control section has, as a software configuration: an application layer in which an application for in-vehicle equipment is implemented; a device driver; and a middleware layer in which a communication path is generated between the application and the device driver. The middleware layer includes a physical quantity conversion module that converts physical quantity data according to a specified conversion rule, the physical quantity data being included in data transferred through the communication path.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device and a distance measuring method that can improve the accuracy of distance measurement. A control unit controls a light emitting operation by supplying a light emitting unit with a light emission timing signal for controlling the light emitting operation for emitting irradiation light and controls the light receiving operation by supplying a light receiving unit with a light reception timing signal for controlling the light receiving operation for receiving reflected light. A measuring unit measures a deviation time between the light emission timing at which the light emitting unit emits the irradiation light and the light reception timing at which the light receiving unit receives the reflected light, using the light emission timing signal and the light reception timing signal. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a case where distance measurement is performed by using the ToF method.

Abstract: An electricity storage device includes an electricity storage module and a cooling device disposed adjacent to the electricity storage module. The cooling device includes a first cooling layer that is adjacent to the electricity storage module and a second cooling layer that is located on the opposite side of the first cooling layer from the electricity storage module. In the first cooling layer, a plurality of first cooling channels that is disposed at intervals in an array direction and first walls that are located between the first cooling channels are formed. In the second cooling layer, a plurality of second cooling channels that is disposed at intervals in the array direction and second walls that are located between the second cooling channels are formed. At least some of the first walls are disposed so as to be offset from the second walls.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an oscillatory actuator which includes a case in a cylindrical shape; an electromagnetic driver provided inside the case; a mover oscillated by the electromagnetic driver along an oscillation axis of the case; and a first leaf spring and a second leaf spring arranged on one side and the other side with the mover interposed therebetween, each of the first leaf spring and the second leaf spring including a support to which the mover is attached, an annular frame attached to an inner surface of the case, and a plurality of arms each having a spiral shape and connecting the support and the annular frame, wherein at least one of the first leaf spring and the second leaf spring is provided with an elastic member which is made of an elastic material that bridges the arm and a portion adjacent to the arm with a gap.

Abstract: An illumination device that simulates the sky, includes a light source that emits first light; a light-emitting part that allows the first light to enter, guides the entered first light by means of total reflection while scattering the first light, and emits the scattered light from a light emission surface; a back surface reflective part that is provided to face a back surface as a surface of the light-emitting part on a side opposite to the light emission surface and reflects light emitted from the back surface of the light-emitting part; a frame that includes a part situated at least in front of the light emission surface of the light-emitting part; and an optical member that is provided between the light emission surface of the light-emitting part and the part of the frame and reflects a part of the light emitted from the light emission surface of the light-emitting part.

Abstract: A cutting tool, including a cutting edge portion composed of a cubic boron nitride sintered material, wherein the cutting edge portion has: a flank face; a rake face contiguous to the flank face; and a cutting edge positioned on a ridgeline of the flank face and the rake face, an arithmetical mean height Sa of the flank face is 0.5 ?m or more and 3.0 ?m or less, the Sa is measured in accordance with ISO25178-2:2012, and an oxygen concentration of the flank face is 10 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less.

Abstract: Emission efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved. The light-emitting element has a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a host material. The second light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound. An emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer has a peak in a yellow wavelength region. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.

Abstract: There is provided a control method of performing communication using a first and second communication method includes: searching for, by the first and second communication method, communication apparatus; receiving a selection of one of the communication apparatus discovered by the first and second communication method, as a target; and if the target discovered by the first communication method is selected, transmitting first setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the first communication method to the target, and transmitting second setting information to cause the target to establish connection by the second communication method to the target, and if the target discovered by the second communication method is selected, transmitting the second setting information to the target by the second communication method, and transmitting the first setting information to the target.

Abstract: A drive recorder includes: a recording control unit that records vehicle information in a first recording medium; a deterioration detection unit that detects deterioration of the first recording medium; a backup processing unit that performs a backup process of transferring at least a portion of the vehicle information recorded in the first recording medium to a second recording medium in response to detection of deterioration of the first recording medium; a suspension determination unit that determines whether it is possible to suspend recording the vehicle information in the first recording medium, based on the vehicle information; and an initialization processing unit that initializes the first recording medium when it is determined that the backup process is completed and it is possible to suspend recording the vehicle information.

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 covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and having a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less, P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, and one or more elements selected from Ni, Al, Cr and Co in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less in total, with a balance being Cu and impurities.