Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a multilayer substrate including an optical element; a light-transmitting plate provided on the substrate to cover the optical element; and a lens of an inorganic material provided between the substrate and the light-transmitting plate. A structure having a same strength as a strength per unit area of the lens is provided at a portion outside an effective photosensitive region where the optical element is formed, when the substrate is viewed in plan.

Abstract: A water heater includes a primary heat exchanger, a secondary heat exchanger disposed above the primary heat exchanger, a flow path member, and a flow restriction member. The secondary heat exchanger includes a case and heat transfer pipes arranged in the case. The case includes a wall having a gas inlet through which combustion exhaust gas discharged from the primary heat exchanger is introduced into the case. The flow path member connects the primary heat exchanger and the secondary heat exchanger and is disposed adjacent to the gas inlet and is configured to introduce the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the primary heat exchanger into the secondary heat exchanger through the gas inlet. The flow restriction member is disposed on the wall of the case to suppress upward flowing of the combustion exhaust gas that is introduced into the case through the gas inlet.

Abstract: A lifting magnet including a plurality of electromagnetic coils that are disposed in a nesting arrangement and capable of being independently ON/OFF-controlled and voltage-controlled. By using the plurality of electromagnetic coils in a selective or appropriately combined manner, the lifting magnet secures a sufficient magnetic flux penetration depth during conveyance of steel plates, and can easily and highly precisely control the magnetic flux penetration depth in accordance with the number of steel plates to be lifted.

Abstract: A decorative sheet is provided that includes a paper substrate, a printed pattern layer arranged to face a major surface of the paper substrate, and a single-layer or multilayered surface protective layer arranged to face the pattern layer, the surface protective layer comprising a coating layer as an outermost layer of the decorative sheet, the coating layer being comprised of a coating containing antiviral additive particles (e.g., antiviral agent), the antiviral additive particles comprising finely divided silver. Further, the coating layer may contain a silicone-based component or a fluorine-based component, which imparts contamination resistance to the coating layer; the amount of the antiviral additive particles in the coating layer may be 0.2 mass % or more and 12 mass % or less relative to the total solid content of the coating layer; and the thickness of the coating layer may be 3 ?m or more.

Abstract: To provide a communication device for transmitting a common response signal including data acquisition success/failure information of a plurality of links. A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a common data processing unit that includes a common storage unit of a cache type storing success/failure of acquisition of packets received on the plurality of links, and that performs common data processing on packets received on individual links, and a control unit that controls transmission of a response signal to the packets received. The control unit generates a common response signal including acquisition success/failure information received on the plurality of links on the basis of acquisition success/failure information held in the common storage unit.

Abstract: An attack reproduction support apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a plurality of pieces of attack information for causing an attack reproduction apparatus that reproduces a targeted attack to reproduce a targeted attack, and sequence information indicating a sequence of transmitting the plurality of pieces of attack information to the attack reproduction apparatus; and a responding unit configured to, upon receiving a request for transmitting the attack information from the attack reproduction apparatus, transmitting the attack information to the attack reproduction apparatus based on the sequence information, in order to respond to the request.

Abstract: A housing for a circuit includes a top wall that defines an aperture configured for receiving a fastener, and a bottom wall integrally formed with the top wall, positioned directly below the aperture in a height direction, and extended across the aperture with respect to the height direction. The circuit is mounted on a bottom side of the bottom wall. The top wall and the bottom wall define an interior of the housing, and cooperate to obstruct egress of debris from the interior of the housing to the circuit at the bottom side of the bottom wall.

Abstract: A driving control apparatus is configured to control a driving unit that moves relative to each other a vibrator that is excited to vibrate by applying a first driving signal and a second driving signal that have a phase difference with each other, and a contact member that contacts the vibrator. The driving control apparatus includes a first control unit configured to control the phase difference, and a second control unit configured to control a voltage amplitude of each of the first driving signal and the second driving signal. The second control unit controls the voltage amplitude so that a change rate of the voltage amplitude increases as an absolute value of the phase difference decreases.

Abstract: Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below, an organic light-emitting device including the same, and an electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device: wherein, Formula 1 is the same as described in the present specification.

Abstract: A brake pad for a bicycle includes a friction member and a support plate. The friction member configured to contact a disc in a state in which the brake pad is installed in a caliper on the bicycle. The support plate supports the friction member and includes a mounting hole. The mounting hole has a first dimension in a first direction parallel to a radial direction of the disc in a state in which the brake pad is installed in the caliper on the bicycle. The mounting hole has a second dimension in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the second dimension is larger than the first dimension.

Abstract: Provided is a method that is for polishing a silicon wafer by a polishing device using a carrier holding the silicon wafer, and that can reduce wear on the carrier. In this polishing method, a polishing liquid used in the polishing device contains 0.1-5 mass %, in terms of the concentration of silica, silica particles comprising: silica particles (A) having an average primary particle size of 4-30 nm as measured by BET, and having an (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.8, where X2 (nm) represents an average particle size along the major axis thereof as calculated from a perspective projection image obtained using an electron beam, and X1 (nm) represents the average primary particle size as measured by BET; and silica particles (B) having an average primary particle size of more than 30 nm but not more than 50 nm as measured by BET, and having a (X2/X1) ratio of 1.2-1.

Abstract: An estimation result determination unit determines, for each of the objects, a correct estimation result or one of a plurality of false estimation types, which indicate types of false estimation results using ground truth data that corresponds to a video image and output data indicating the result of the estimation made on the video image by the algorithm. The evaluation value calculation unit adds false estimation coefficients that correspond to the plurality of respective false estimation types and are provided so as to become higher in accordance with a degree of impact of the false estimation type for a number of objects that correspond to the false estimation type and thus calculates an evaluation value of the algorithm based on the total value of the added values of the false estimation coefficients obtained for each of the plurality of false estimation types.

Abstract: The invention provides a compound capable of improving more the capabilities of organic EL devices, an organic electroluminescent device having more improved device capabilities, and an electronic device including such an organic electroluminescent device. The compound is represented by the following formula (1): wherein N*, *a1 to *a3, *b1 to *b3, m1 to m3, n1 to n3, R1A to R5A, R1B to R5B, R11A to R15A, R11B to R15B, R21A to R25A, R21B to R25B, R31 to R35, R36 to R38, R39 to R42, R43 to R47, Ar1 and Ar2 are as defined in the specification; the organic electroluminescent device includes the compound; and the electronic device includes such an organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of operating at high speed is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, image data obtained by an imaging operation is binarized in a pixel unit, and a product-sum operation is performed using the binarized data. A memory circuit is provided in the pixel unit and retains a weight coefficient used for the product-sum operation. Thus, an arithmetic operation can be performed without the weight coefficient read from the outside every time, whereby power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, a pixel circuit, a memory circuit, and the like and a product-sum operation circuit and the like are stacked, so that the lengths of wirings between the circuits can be reduced, and high-speed operation with low power consumption can be performed.

Abstract: A vacuum valve includes: an insulation container; a fixed-side electrode including a fixed-side contact, a fixed-side longitudinal magnetic-field coil generating a magnetic field on a surface of the fixed-side contact in an axial direction, and a fixed-side spacer; and a movable-side electrode including a movable-side contact, a movable-side longitudinal magnetic-field coil generating a magnetic field on a surface of the movable-side contact in the axial direction, and a movable-side spacer. The fixed-side longitudinal magnetic-field coil and the movable-side longitudinal magnetic-field coil each include an outer ring portion having an arc shape and a power feeding portion protruding from an end of the outer ring portion. The fixed-side or movable-side contact is brazed to the power feeding portion. The fixed-side and movable-side spacers are made of a material with lower conductivity than materials of the fixed-side and movable-side longitudinal magnetic-field coils, or made of an insulator.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to prevent a deterioration in communication performance A shielded electrically conductive path (A) is provided with a shielded terminal (25) including an inner conductor (26), and an outer conductor (28) enclosing the inner conductor (26), a shielded electric cable (10) including a core wire (12) affixed to a rear end portion of the inner conductor (26), a braided wire (15) enclosing the core wire (12), and a sheath (18) enclosing the braided wire (15), and a sleeve (20) attached to the outer circumference of a front end portion of the sheath (18), wherein, in the front end portion of the shielded electric cable (10): the braided wire (15) extending from a front end (18F) of the sheath (18) is folded back toward the rear to cover the outer circumference of the sleeve (20); a crimping portion (30) of the rear end portion of the outer conductor (28) is crimped to the sleeve (20) while enclosing the outer circumference of a folded back portion (17) of the braided wire (

Abstract: A video analysis apparatus and the like with improved video analysis accuracy are provided. The video analysis apparatus includes a first video analysis unit and a second video analysis unit. The first video analysis unit is configured to distribute frames to the first video analysis unit or the second video analysis unit, detect a target object in frames which are distributed to be analyzed in the first video analysis unit, and acquire information on movement associated with the detected target object, and transmitting the information on the movement and a detection result in the first detection unit to the second video analysis unit. The second video analysis unit is configured to detect a target object in frames from the distribution unit, and adjust the detection result of the first detection unit based on a detection result in the second detection unit and the information on the movement.

Abstract: A debris remover includes an air nozzle that blows air from one side toward a processing point at which a workpiece is irradiated with a laser beam, a suction duct having a suction opening for sucking debris that has scattered to another side due to the air blown from the air nozzle, vortex generators formed on the processing point side of the suction opening for guiding the scattering debris into the suction duct, and a C-shaped sealing plate that is formed in such a manner as to surround the vortex generators from a rear side and reduces a space defined between the suction opening and the workpiece.

Abstract: In a base sequence determination system that performs a complementary strand synthesis reaction of a template DNA strand using DNA polymerase, a complementary strand synthesized by DNA polymerase is degraded by exonuclease in a solution.

Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance, a separation layer containing a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds that form an exciplex and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that a light-emitting element in which light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission spectrum peak on the shorter wavelength side than an emission spectrum peak of the second light-emitting layer is more effective.