Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a housing including a motor, a power transmission unit, a parking mechanism, and a gear accommodation portion. The parking mechanism includes a parking gear, a pawl, a transmission unit, and a sleeve. The transmission unit includes a cam rod and a cam attached to the cam rod to operate the pawl. The cam is guided by the sleeve. The gear accommodation portion has first and second housing members, a breather, and a dividing wall partitioning a space where the breather opens inside the gear accommodation portion. The second housing member is provided with a holding recess that opens to a first side in an axial direction and holds the sleeve. The first housing member is provided with a retaining wall that covers a surface facing a second side in the axial direction of the sleeve. The retaining wall is a part of the dividing wall.

Abstract: A sensor element includes: an element body that includes a base part in an elongated plate shape and a measurement-object gas flow part; and a porous protective layer that is formed from one end and covers at least a part in the longitudinal direction of a surface of the element body. The protective layer include: an inner layer; and an outer layer covering the inner layer and a region where the inner layer is not formed. On one principal surface in a region where the inner layer is formed, a first space exists in at least a part between the inner and outer layers, and on the one principal surface in a region where the inner layer is not formed on the one principal surface on which the first space exists, a second space exists in at least a part between the one principal surface and the outer layer.

Abstract: A control device including: a program management unit that manages a process of installing a program for operating electronic equipment, onto a program execution unit for executing the program, and the execution of the program by the program execution unit; and a detection unit that detects a use state of the electronic equipment, wherein the program management unit executes, based on the use state of the electronic equipment detected by the detection unit, a restriction operation at least either when the program is installed or when the program is executed, and the restriction operation includes any one of outputting a notification, restricting the installation of the program, and restricting the execution of the program.

Abstract: A control apparatus controls a charging device that is connected to a secondary battery having a negative electrode which is a mixture of graphite and silicon monoxide and supplies a current to the secondary battery, wherein when a calculated SOC (State of Charge) of the secondary battery is less than 15%, a magnitude of the current supplied to the secondary battery by the charging device is controlled to a first value, and when the calculated SOC of the secondary battery is equal to or more than 15%, the magnitude of the current supplied to the secondary battery by the charging device is controlled to a second value that is larger than the first value.

Abstract: An amplifier module includes a Doherty amplifier circuit, and the Doherty amplifier circuit includes a first transistor chip constituting a carrier amplifier, a first output signal line configured to transmit a first amplified signal outputted from the carrier amplifier, a second transistor chip constituting a peak amplifier, and a second output signal line configured to transmit a synthetic signal of the first amplified signal and a second amplified signal outputted from the peak amplifier. A direction from a drain terminal of the second transistor chip to a connection, of the first conductor of the first output signal line, with the first bonding wire is the same direction as a direction from the drain terminal of the second transistor chip to a connection, of the second conductor of the second output signal line, with the second bonding wire.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a beam introduction section, a plate member, a raw material supply section, and a radiation extraction section. The beam introduction section introduces an energy beam. The plate member has a front surface and a back surface, is disposed at a location where the introduced energy beam is incident onto the front surface, and is rotatable around a direction orthogonal to the front surface as its rotation axis direction. The raw material supply section supplies plasma raw material to an incident area in the front surface to generate plasma. The radiation extraction section extracts and emits radiation from the generated plasma. The plate member is disposed such that the normal axis of the incident area in the front surface is off from a between-axes area configured between an incident axis of the energy beam incident onto the incident area and an emission axis of the radiation.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical honeycomb fired body including: preparing a cylindrical honeycomb formed body; obtaining a cylindrical honeycomb dried body by drying the cylindrical honeycomb formed body; calculating predetermined parameters (EAVE1, EAVE2, EAVE3 and EAVE4) from average values of distance between a center of gravity position O and an outer peripheral contour in a plurality of predetermined angle ranges; specifying a minimum value of the predetermined parameters; obtaining a cylindrical honeycomb fired body by placing the cylindrical honeycomb dried body on a shelf plate and firing it while passing it through a continuous firing furnace, such that the direction in which the cells of the cylindrical honeycomb dried body extend vertically, and a particular location on the outer peripheral side surface determined according to the minimum value is positioned at the front.

Abstract: An electric power conversion device of an embodiment includes: a primary side negative electrode terminal; a secondary side negative electrode terminal; a negative electrode terminal of a switching element connected between the primary side negative electrode terminal and the secondary side negative electrode terminal; a first conductive member connected to the primary side negative electrode terminal; a second conductive member connected to the negative electrode terminal of the switching element; and a third conductive member connected to the secondary side negative electrode terminal, wherein the first conductive member, the second conductive member, and the third conductive member are connected to one another, and the first conductive member is formed as a separate body separately from the second conductive member and the third conductive member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a 6-hydroxy-3-hexenyl alkoxymethyl ether compound of the following general formula (1): HOCH2CH2CH=CHCH2CH2OCH2OCH2R1 (1), R1 representing a hydrogen atom, an n-alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group; and also relates to a process for preparing a 3,13-octadecadien-1-ol compound of the following formula (6): CH3(CH2)3CH=CH(CH2)8CH=CHCH2CH2OH (6) from the 6-hydroxy-3-hexenyl alkoxymethyl ether compound (1).

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1): The R1 to R9, L1 to L3, and Ar1 to Ar2 in the formula (1) are as defined in the description. An organic electroluminescence device contains the compound, and an electronic instrument includes the organic electroluminescence device.

Abstract: A microphone module according to the present disclosure includes a housing, a vibration sensor, and a subtractor. The vibration sensor outputs electric signals. The electric signals each represent collected sound and vibration. The subtractor outputs a subtraction signal on the basis of differential signals. The differential signals correspond to an output difference between the electric signals output by the vibration sensor.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes: a curved transport path for a sheet; and multiple endless belt pairs arranged along the transport path and having transport surfaces that are in contact with each other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chain that is easy to assemble, has a longer life and smaller size, and allows larger tolerance for misalignment. The object is achieved by a chain including a plurality of outer links each having a pair of outer plates and pins, and a plurality of inner links each having a pair of inner plates and bushings, alternately and pivotably coupled together in the longitudinal direction of the chain by the pins rotatably inserted into the bushings, with a position restricting part positioned between each pair of the inner plates to restrict inward movement of each pair of inner plates in the chain width direction. The bushings are rotatably inserted in respective bushing holes of each pair of inner plates.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes: a curved sheet transport path; multiple transport roller pairs disposed in the sheet transport path; multiple driving sources that drive the multiple transport roller pairs; multiple load detectors that detect the loads of the multiple driving sources; and a control unit that controls the driving speed of at least one of the driving sources such that detection results obtained by the load detectors are within a predetermined range in accordance with the position of the leading end of a sheet.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a stacked body in which a gate electrode layer and a first insulating layer are alternately stacked in a first direction, a semiconductor layer in the stacked body and extending in the first direction, a second insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the stacked body, a third insulating layer provided between the second insulating layer and the stacked body, and a first layer between the second insulating layer and the third insulating layer. The first layer contains silicon and nitrogen and includes a first region between the gate electrode layer and the semiconductor layer and a second region between the first insulating layer and the semiconductor layer, the first region contains or does not contain fluorine, the second region contains fluorine, and a fluorine concentration of the second region is higher than a fluorine concentration of the first region.

Abstract: A vehicle door structure that suppresses a situation in which the door window detaches from the above-mentioned guide rail includes a front guide rail that holds a door window while allowing a raising and lowering operation of the door window, and a guide rail support portion that fixes the front guide rail to a door inner panel, wherein the guide rail support portion includes a first section that is fixed to a front face portion of a door inner panel, a second section that extends rearward from a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the first section, and a third section that is provided at a rear end portion of the second section and that is fixed to the front guide rail, and the second section and the third section are configured to be supported in a cantilever manner with respect to the first section.

Abstract: A path switcher is provided at a point where a transport path along which a medium is to be transported branches out into a first branch path and a second branch path that are to be switched between by the path switcher. The path switcher includes: a switching component including a first arm and a second arm, the first arm being swingable at the point of branching of the transport path, the second arm being connected to a distal end of the first arm with an aid of a motion-allowing part, the switching component being configured to close one of the first branch path and the second branch path while opening an other of the first branch path and the second branch path; an elastic retaining component provided around the motion-allowing part and configured to elastically retain the first arm and the second arm in a predetermined positional relationship; and a rotary component rotatably provided at a distal end of the second arm and that is to come into contact with the medium.

Abstract: A secondary battery and a positive electrode active material each having high energy density per weight and per volume are provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, the positive electrode includes lithium cobalt oxide, and the lithium cobalt oxide has a projection containing at least one or two or more selected from Hf, V, Nb, Ce, and Sm. The projection may further contain Mg, F, Ni, or Al as an additive element. The secondary battery is manufactured through a step of forming a mixed solution by mixing the lithium cobalt oxide and a metal alkoxide containing one or two or more selected from Hf, V, Nb, Ce, and Sm. With such a positive electrode active material, a secondary battery with a high charge voltage can be provided.

Abstract: The cell of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a porous carbon sheet and a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material that is held in pores of the porous carbon sheet. It is preferable that the positive electrode active material layer covers the surface of the porous carbon sheet facing the separator, that a part of the positive electrode active material layer is held in the pores of the porous carbon sheet, and that the surface of the positive electrode active material layer facing the separator has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 10 ?m or less or a maximum height roughness (Rz) of 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a first outlet and a second outlet, a first channel communicating with the first outlet, a second channel communicating with the second outlet, a sensible heat exchanger to exchange sensible heat between a first air flowing through the first channel and a second air flowing through the second channel, a first vaporization filter to cool the first air by latent heat of water and a second vaporization filter to cool the second air by latent heat of water. The first vaporization filter is disposed downstream of the sensible heat exchanger in a flow direction of the first air. The second vaporization filter is disposed upstream of the sensible heat exchanger in a flow direction of the second air.