The present disclosure provides a polarizing plate for an optical laminate, including a polarizer and a protective film formed on one surface of the polarizer, wherein the protective film has a thickness of 100 μm to 300 μm. Also provided is an optical laminate including the polarizing plate. Accordingly, the present disclosure relates to a smart window in which defects due to the level difference between a liquid crystal layer and a sealant are prevented and which has excellent visibility, and an automobile or a window for a building using the same.
The average refractive index of a core of this optical fiber is higher than the average refractive index of an inner cladding and the minimum refractive index of an outer cladding; and the average refractive index of a trench is lower than the average refractive index of the inner cladding and the minimum refractive index of the outer cladding. The core contains germanium dioxide; the relative refractive index difference of the core with respect to the refractive index of pure silica glass is 0.12% to 0.30%; the value obtained by subtracting the relative refractive index difference of the outer cladding with respect to the refractive index of pure silica glass from the relative refractive index difference of the core is 0.25% or more; and the diameter of the core is 4.0 μm to 9.2 μm.
An optical waveguide component includes a base member, and a plurality of optical waveguides extending in a first direction inside the base member and being arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each of the plurality of optical waveguides has a pair of end portions. The base member includes a positioning structure configured to position the base member and has a surface at which the pairs of end portions are exposed. Each of the plurality of optical waveguides includes a curved portion curved in the second direction. The positioning structure is disposed at a position overlapping with the curved portions in the second direction.
An inspection method for an optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel and intermittently coupled in a longitudinal direction by a coupling resin. The inspection method includes emitting light toward the optical fiber ribbon that travels on a roller, from a direction along a tangent line of a surface of the roller with which the optical fiber ribbon comes into contact and parallel to a direction in which the optical fiber ribbon travels, to acquire an image in which the optical fiber ribbon is projected as a shadow, based on light that passed around the optical fiber ribbon, detecting an interval between the optical fibers, based on the image, and detecting a position of the coupling resin, based on the image.
A resin composition containing a propylene-based resin and at least one selected from the group of a rubber material and an elastomer, the rubber material and the elastomer each including at least two units from among ethylene, propylene, butylene, hexene, isoprene, octene, and styrene, the resin composition having a viscosity of 200 Pa·s or more and 5000 Pa·s or less at a high shear rate with a shear rate of 100 s−1 at a temperature of 190° C., and a viscosity of 7000 Pa·s or more and 50000 Pa·s or less at a low shear rate with a shear rate of 1 s−1 at a temperature of 190° C., the resin composition having an elastic modulus of 150 MPa or more and 700 MPa or less.
H01B 3/28 - Insulators or insulating bodies characterised by the insulating materialsSelection of materials for their insulating or dielectric properties mainly consisting of organic substances natural or synthetic rubbers
A semiconductor device for a Doherty amplifier includes a main amplifier including a first field effect transistor, and includes a peak amplifier including a second field effect transistor. A first drain conductance of the first field effect transistor when applying a gate voltage obtained by adding a predetermined voltage to a pinch-off voltage and a predetermined drain voltage is larger than a second drain conductance of the second field effect transistor when applying both a gate voltage and the predetermined drain voltage, such that when measuring the first drain conductance, a drain current having a same value as a drain current flowing through the first field effect transistor flows through the second field effect transistor.
H03F 1/02 - Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation
H03F 1/56 - Modifications of input or output impedances, not otherwise provided for
H10D 30/47 - FETs having zero-dimensional [0D], one-dimensional [1D] or two-dimensional [2D] charge carrier gas channels having 2D charge carrier gas channels, e.g. nanoribbon FETs or high electron mobility transistors [HEMT]
H10D 62/85 - Semiconductor bodies, or regions thereof, of devices having potential barriers characterised by the materials being Group III-V materials, e.g. GaAs
H10D 64/00 - Electrodes of devices having potential barriers
A wiring module is to be coupled to a battery stack member including power storage elements that have electrode terminals and are stacked. The wiring module includes an electric wire and a protector including an electric wire housing portion that has a groove shape extending in a first direction and in which the electric wire is arranged. The electric wire housing portion includes a bottom wall, a pair of side walls that extend upward from two side edges of the bottom wall and that are opposite each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and at least one stopper piece that extends from one of the pair of side walls toward other one of the pair of side walls and with which the electric wire is less likely to be out of the electric wire housing portion.
H01M 50/503 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
H01M 50/298 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by the wiring of battery packs
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC. (Japan)
Inventor
Usami, Kunihiro
Abstract
A bias supply circuit includes a first inductor connected between a bias supply terminal that supplies a bias voltage to an amplifier and a power supply terminal connected to a power supply, a second inductor connected in series with the first inductor between the bias supply terminal and the power supply terminal and connected between the first inductor and the power supply terminal, a first capacitor shunt-connected to a first node between the first inductor and the second inductor, and a second capacitor shunt-connected to a second node between the second inductor and the power supply terminal.
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC. (Japan)
Inventor
Watanabe, Kenichi
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a first inorganic insulating film covering a first metal layer over a substrate and having a first opening exposing a central area of an upper surface of the first metal layer, a second metal layer on the first metal layer and having a lower surface, a central area of the lower surface contacting the first metal layer through the first opening, a peripheral area of the lower surface contacting the first inorganic insulating film around the first opening, a second inorganic insulating film covering the second metal layer and having a second opening exposing a central area of an upper surface of the second metal layer, and an organic insulating film covering the second inorganic insulating film and having an opening exposing a central area of the upper surface of the second metal layer and overlapping with the second opening when viewed from a thickness direction.
H10D 64/00 - Electrodes of devices having potential barriers
H10D 30/47 - FETs having zero-dimensional [0D], one-dimensional [1D] or two-dimensional [2D] charge carrier gas channels having 2D charge carrier gas channels, e.g. nanoribbon FETs or high electron mobility transistors [HEMT]
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COPOLYMER, LAMINATE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE
This laminate is a copolymer for bonding molded bodies that contain a fluororesin, the copolymer containing a monomer unit that is derived from an olefin monomer having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and a monomer unit that has a glycidyl group. The proportion of the monomer unit that has a glycidyl group in the copolymer is 10 mass% or more based on the total mass of the copolymer. The present invention is provided with a resin layer that contains a fluororesin, and an adhesive layer that is formed on the surface of a molded body, and the adhesive layer contains the above-described copolymer.
C09J 7/30 - Adhesives in the form of films or foils characterised by the adhesive composition
C09J 123/02 - Adhesives based on homopolymers or copolymers of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having only one carbon-to-carbon double bondAdhesives based on derivatives of such polymers not modified by chemical after-treatment
KANAGAWA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Japan)
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED (Japan)
Inventor
Azuma Masaki
Ono Daiki
Miyake Jun
Hatayama Kano
Nishikubo Takumi
Abstract
1-x1-xA2+x1-x1-xM4+x31-x1-xA+x1-x1-xM5+x31-2x1-2xA2+2x1-x1-xM5+x33 ... (3) (In the formula, A is Mg, Ca, or Sr, and M is a 4d element or a 5d element that can form a pentavalent ion. x satisfies 0.02 ≤ x ≤ 0.15.)
H01F 1/10 - Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of hard-magnetic materials non-metallic substances, e.g. ferrites
C04B 35/26 - Shaped ceramic products characterised by their compositionCeramic compositionsProcessing powders of inorganic compounds preparatory to the manufacturing of ceramic products based on oxides based on ferrites
H01F 10/18 - Thin magnetic films, e.g. of one-domain structure characterised by magnetic layers characterised by the composition being compounds
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PROPYLENE HOMOPOLYMER, UNSTRETCHED SHEET, UNIAXIALLY STRETCHED FILM, BIAXIALLY STRETCHED FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE HOMOPOLYMER, AND PELLET
C08F 4/658 - Pretreating with metals or metal-containing compounds with metals or metal-containing compounds, not provided for in a single group of groups
A porous body according to the present disclosure is provided with a skeleton having a three-dimensional network structure. The copper content of the skeleton is 99.9 mass% or more. A plurality of monovalent copper compound nanoparticles are supported on the outer surface of the skeleton. The porosity of the porous body is 90% or more.
This cubic boron nitride sintered compact comprises 40-80 vol% of cubic boron nitride particles and 20-60 vol% of a binder phase. The average particle diameter d of the cubic boron nitride particles is 0.1-3 µm. The binder phase contains: at least one selected from a second group consisting of elementary substances of one element selected from a first group consisting of aluminum, group-4 elements, group-5 elements, and group-6 elements in the periodic table, alloys formed of two or more elements selected from the first group, and intermetallic compounds formed of two or more elements selected from the first group; or at least one selected from a fourth group consisting of first compounds formed of at least one element selected from the first group and at least one element selected from a third group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron, and oxygen, and solid solutions derived from the first compounds. In a cross section of the cubic boron nitride sintered compact, the coefficient of variation Z of area ratios of the cubic boron nitride particles is 0.25 or less. The coefficient of variation Z is obtained by: providing, in a binarized image of a backscattered electron image obtained by imaging the cross section of the cubic boron nitride sintered compact by using a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 5000, a total of 260 unit regions each in a shape of a square in which the length of one side is two-fold of the average particle diameter d of the cubic boron nitride particles; calculating, on the basis of the total of 260 unit regions, the average of the area ratios and the standard deviation of the area ratios of the cubic boron nitride particles in each of the unit regions; and dividing the standard deviation by the average.
C04B 35/5831 - Shaped ceramic products characterised by their compositionCeramic compositionsProcessing powders of inorganic compounds preparatory to the manufacturing of ceramic products based on non-oxides based on borides, nitrides or silicides based on boron nitride based on cubic boron nitride
A herbicidal composition and a method for controlling weeds, including one or more uracil compounds of formula (I) and a compound of formula (II), and a herbicide compound of group B and a safener of group C. A weight ratio of the uracil compounds to the herbicide compound group B and the safener group C is 1:0.02 to 1:50, and the herbicide compound of group B is one or more of compounds B-1 to B-12: B-1, acetolactate synthase inhibitors; B-2, acetyl CoA carboxylase inhibitors; B-3, protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibitors; B-4, 4-hydrophenylpyrubic acid dioxygenase inhibitors; B-5, phytoene desaturase inhibitors; B-6, photosystem II inhibitors; B-7, very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis inhibitors; B-8, microtubule formation inhibitors; B-9, auxin-type herbicides; B-10, enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase inhibitors; B-11, glutamine synthase inhibitors; and B-12, other herbicides; or agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives thereof
A herbicidal composition and a method for controlling weeds, including one or more uracil compounds of formula (I) and a compound of formula (II), and a herbicide compound of group B and a safener of group C. A weight ratio of the uracil compounds to the herbicide compound group B and the safener group C is 1:0.02 to 1:50, and the herbicide compound of group B is one or more of compounds B-1 to B-12: B-1, acetolactate synthase inhibitors; B-2, acetyl CoA carboxylase inhibitors; B-3, protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibitors; B-4, 4-hydrophenylpyrubic acid dioxygenase inhibitors; B-5, phytoene desaturase inhibitors; B-6, photosystem II inhibitors; B-7, very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis inhibitors; B-8, microtubule formation inhibitors; B-9, auxin-type herbicides; B-10, enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase inhibitors; B-11, glutamine synthase inhibitors; and B-12, other herbicides; or agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives thereof
A pointing device operating sleeve 2 includes a palm cover 4 and an arm cover 6. The palm cover 4 includes a back-side panel 10, a palm-side panel 12, and a first opening 14. The first opening 14 includes an outside end 16, an inside end 18, a back-side edge 20, and a palm-side edge 22. The palm-side edge 22 is positioned on a bottom side with respect to the back-side edge 20. The palm-side panel 12 has an area that is less than an area of the back-side panel 10.
When viewed along a central axis, a start point phase of a first discharge flute falls within a range of not less than +10° and not more than +90° with respect to a central edge, an end point phase of the first discharge flute falls within a range of not less than −40° and not more than 0° with respect to the central edge, a start point phase of a second discharge flute falls within a range of not less than +10° and not more than +90° with respect to an outer peripheral edge, and an end point phase of the second discharge flute falls within a range of not less than −40° and not more than 0° with respect to the outer peripheral edge. The first discharge flute includes a first front flute portion, and a first rear flute portion contiguous to the first front flute portion.
A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: 40 to 80 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and 20 to 60 volume % of a binder phase, wherein an average grain size d of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.1 to 3 μm, the binder phase includes at least one selected from a second group consisting of a simple substance of one element selected from a first group, an alloy consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, and an intermetallic compound consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, or at least one selected from a fourth group consisting of a first compound and a solid solution originated from the first compound, and in a cross section of the cubic boron nitride sintered material, a variation coefficient Z of an area ratio of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.25 or less.
C04B 35/5831 - Shaped ceramic products characterised by their compositionCeramic compositionsProcessing powders of inorganic compounds preparatory to the manufacturing of ceramic products based on non-oxides based on borides, nitrides or silicides based on boron nitride based on cubic boron nitride
It is aimed to protect tabs. A stack connector (A) includes a plurality of housings (21, 22, 23, 24) to be assembled in a stacked state, male terminal fittings (40) each including an elongated tab (42) and to be mounted into the housings (21, 22, 23, 24) with the tabs projecting forward from the housings (21, 22, 23, 24), and covers (50) including covering portions (51) for covering the tabs (42). With the covers (50) attached to the housings (21, 22, 23, 24), the tabs (42) can be protected by the covering portions (51).
H01R 13/514 - BasesCases formed as a modular block or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them
An optical modulator includes an optical waveguide structure extending along a first direction. The optical waveguide structure includes a first III-V compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second III-V compound semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a core layer disposed between the first III-V compound semiconductor layer and the second III-V compound semiconductor layer, and a periodic structure layer. The first III-V compound semiconductor layer is disposed between the periodic structure layer and the core layer. The periodic structure layer includes a first portion and a second portion that are alternately disposed in the first direction. The first portion has a refractive index larger than a refractive index of the first III-V compound semiconductor layer. The second portion has a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the first portion.
G02F 1/225 - Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulatingNon-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour by interference in an optical waveguide structure
G02F 1/21 - Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulatingNon-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour by interference
An electrical junction box includes a case; a circuit unit; a wire harness for connecting another device with the circuit unit; a first terminal supporting a first electric wire electrically connected to the circuit unit; and a second terminal supporting a second electric wire electrically connected to the circuit unit. When a direction along one side of the first surface is defined as a left-right direction and a direction along the other side of the first surface is defined as an up-down direction, the first terminal and the second terminal are located in a first region on one side in the left-right direction with the part of the wire harness as reference, and the first terminal and the second terminal are at different positions from each other in the up-down direction in the first region.
H02G 3/16 - Distribution boxesConnection or junction boxes structurally associated with support for line-connecting terminals within the box
B60R 16/033 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided forArrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries
H02G 3/08 - Distribution boxesConnection or junction boxes
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD
An information management system configured to calculate a length of a duct in which a cable is to be installed. The system includes: an acquisition circuitry configured to acquire first position information after the duct is installed; and a calculator configured to calculate the length of the installed duct based on the first position information. A first code is attached to a first end in a longitudinal direction of the duct. The first position information indicates a position of the first end, and the first code stores the first position information.
H02G 1/08 - Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing, or dismantling electric cables or lines for laying cables, e.g. laying apparatus on vehicle through tubing or conduit, e.g. rod or draw wire for pushing or pulling
A connector 1 includes a connector body 2 mounted with a busbar 6 to be electrically connected to a terminal of a mating connector 4. The connector 1 includes an opening forming portion 12 integrally provided to the connector body 2 and a cover member 3 to be mounted on the connector body 2. The opening forming portion 12 forms a part of an opening 5, in which a tip portion 8 of the busbar 6 is arranged and which serves as a fitting location of the mating connector 4, in the connector body 2. The cover member 3 is formed separately from the connector body 2 and forms the opening 5 together with the opening forming portion 12 when being mounted on the connector body 2.
H01R 13/506 - BasesCases composed of different pieces assembled by snap action of the parts
H01R 13/424 - Securing in a demountable manner in base or case composed of a plurality of insulating parts having at least one resilient insulating part
H01R 25/16 - Rails or bus-bars provided with a plurality of discrete connecting locations for counterparts
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MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FUNCTION UNIT, VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
A management device for use in a vehicle-mounted network that includes at least one vehicle-mounted function unit, the management device includes: a detection unit configured to detect addition of a function unit to the vehicle-mounted network; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the vehicle-mounted function unit satisfies a requirement for the vehicle-mounted function unit and a new function unit being the function unit whose addition has been detected by the detection unit to communicate, based on requirement information transmitted from the new function unit and indicating the requirement; and an update request unit configured to transmit update request information requesting updating of the vehicle-mounted function unit to an external device other than the vehicle-mounted function unit, if the determination unit determines that the vehicle-mounted function unit does not satisfy the requirement.
H04L 41/082 - Configuration setting characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
An on-board device includes a control unit performing processing relevant to a frame transmitted/received between the on-board ECUs, in which the control unit acquires information relevant to software executed in each of the plurality of on-board ECUs, specifies the frame transmitted/received when the software is executed, on the basis of the acquired information relevant to software, specifies a transmission ECU transmitting the specified frame and a reception ECU receiving the specified frame, acquires definition information of the frame of the transmission ECU, acquires definition information of the frame of the reception ECU, creates a conversion rule of the frame, on the basis of the definition information of the frame of the transmission ECU and the definition information of the frame of the reception ECU, converts the frame from the transmission ECU by using the created conversion rule of the frame, and outputs the converted frame to the reception ECU.
H04L 67/12 - Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
C08G 69/26 - Polyamides derived from amino carboxylic acids or from polyamines and polycarboxylic acids derived from polyamines and polycarboxylic acids
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PROPYLENE OXIDE PURIFICATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PURIFIED PROPYLENE OXIDE, AND METHOD FOR RESTARTING PROPYLENE OXIDE PURIFICATION DEVICE
This propylene oxide purification device is provided with a line LX and/or a line LY. The line LX is configured so as to supply a liquid in a first drum D10 to a first distillation column T10 via a feed inlet 10i of the first distillation column T10, and the line LY is configured so as to supply a liquid in a third drum D30 to the first distillation column T10 via the feed inlet 10i of the first distillation column T10.
The present invention provides an efficient method for producing a nucleic acid oligomer, in particular, the method for efficiently deprotecting a triisopropylsilyloxymethyl group of a ribose in which a hydroxyl group at a 2'-position in a nucleic acid oligomer has been protected by the triisopropylsilyloxymethyl group. Additionally, the present invention provides the method for producing a nucleic acid oligomer, the method including a step for contacting, with fluoride ions, in the presence of a specific additive, a nucleic acid oligomer that contains ribose having the hydroxyl group at the 2'-position protected by the triisopropylsilyloxymethyl group, to deprotect the triisopropylsilyloxymethyl group, wherein the additive is a compound, etc. represented by formula (A).
C07H 21/02 - Compounds containing two or more mononucleotide units having separate phosphate or polyphosphate groups linked by saccharide radicals of nucleoside groups, e.g. nucleic acids with ribosyl as saccharide radical
C07H 21/04 - Compounds containing two or more mononucleotide units having separate phosphate or polyphosphate groups linked by saccharide radicals of nucleoside groups, e.g. nucleic acids with deoxyribosyl as saccharide radical
30.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM, TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
This traffic signal control system comprises: a first acquisition unit that acquires specific vehicle information indicating the traffic state of a specific vehicle traveling on a major road toward an intersection where the major road and a minor road intersect; and a control device. The control device comprises a processing unit that executes a selection process for selecting, on the basis of the specific vehicle information, a control process to be executed by the control device from among a first control process for controlling a signal light installed at the intersection and a second control process for controlling the signal light such that the priority degree for prioritizing passage of vehicles on the major road over passage of vehicles on the minor road is higher than that in the first control process.
A printed wiring board comprises an insulating part and a first wiring part. The insulating part has a bottom surface, a first side wall surface, and a second side wall surface. The first wiring part has a seed layer and a plating layer. In a cross section perpendicular to the direction in which the first wiring part extends, a third thickness is less than each of a first thickness and a second thickness, where the first thickness is the first-direction thickness of the seed layer in contact with the first side wall surface, the first direction being the depth direction of a first groove, the second thickness is the first-direction thickness of the seed layer in contact with the second side wall surface, and the third thickness is the first-direction thickness of the seed layer at an intermediate position between the first side wall surface and the second side wall surface.
H05K 1/11 - Printed elements for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits
H05K 3/10 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern
H05K 3/18 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern using precipitation techniques to apply the conductive material
An optical fiber cable (1) comprises at least one coated optical fiber (10), a fiber-reinforced plastic (20) that encloses the coated optical fiber, and a sheath (30) that covers the fiber-reinforced plastic from the outside. In cross-section, the coated optical fiber (10) is embedded in the fiber-reinforced plastic (20).
A relay device to be used in an in-vehicle system that includes three or more in-vehicle devices, the relay device includes: a state transition unit configured to cause the relay device in a sleep state to transition to a wake-up state when receiving a first wake-up request from a first in-vehicle device of the three or more in-vehicle devices; and a sleep control unit configured to select a second in-vehicle device from among the in-vehicle devices other than the first in-vehicle device and transmit a second wake-up request to the second in-vehicle device to cause the second in-vehicle device to transition to the wake-up state.
B60R 16/023 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided forArrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric for transmission of signals between vehicle parts or subsystems
A ferrite core built-in connector is disclosed which suppresses the damage of a ferrite core and has an excellent degree of freedom in selecting a resin material to be used. A ferrite core built-in connector includes a plurality of terminal fittings each configured such that a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion are coupled by an intermediate portion having a strip plate shape, a ferrite core arranged to collectively surround the intermediate portions of the plurality of terminal fittings, and a connector housing for accommodating parts of the plurality of terminal fittings except the first and second connecting portions, and the ferrite core in an embedded state. The intermediate portions of the plurality of terminal fittings are separated from each other across a gap in a plate thickness direction and arranged to overlap each other in projection in the plate thickness direction.
H01R 13/7193 - Structural association with built-in electrical component specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters with ferrite filters
H01R 13/52 - Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
H01R 13/7197 - Structural association with built-in electrical component specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters with filters integral with or fitted onto contacts, e.g. tubular filters
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OPTICAL CONNECTION COMPONENT AND OPTICAL CONNECTION METHOD
An optical connection component according to one embodiment comprises: an adapter to which an optical connector that has a ferrule holding an optical fiber is connected; and a lever member which is attached to the adapter rotatably about a central axis that extends along a first direction intersecting with the optical axis direction of the optical fiber. The adapter has a latch with which the optical connector that moves along the optical axis direction engages. The lever member has a movement mechanism which rotates about the central axis toward the optical connector so as to cause the optical connector to move along the optical axis direction.
A wiring module is to be coupled to a battery stack member that includes laminated type batteries having electrode leads and being stacked and the electrode leads of the laminated type batteries are overlapped and connected and configured as connection portions. The wiring module is to be coupled to the battery stack member that includes the connection portions in a coupling direction that is perpendicular to a plate thickness direction of the connection portions. The wiring module includes terminals, electric wires connected to the terminals, and a protector holding the terminals and the electric wires. The protector includes terminal housing portions in which the terminals are disposed, and protector side fitting portions that hold the terminals so as to be movable in the plate thickness direction with respect to the terminal housing portions between a first position and a second position.
H01M 50/503 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
H01M 50/209 - Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells characterised by their shape adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells
H01M 50/298 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by the wiring of battery packs
A wiring module is to be coupled to a power storage component group including power storage components that are arranged. The wiring module includes a connector, electric wires extending from the connector, and a protector having insulating properties and to be attached to the power storage component group. The electric wires include an extra length portion. The extra length portion includes an extending end portion that is disposed close to the connector, a basal portion that is positioned on the protector, and a body portion that is between the extending end portion and the basal portion. The protector includes an extra length portion housing portion in which the body portion is arranged so as to be moved out therefrom and a holder portion that detachably holds the extending end portion or the connector.
H01B 7/00 - Insulated conductors or cables characterised by their form
H01M 50/503 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
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LIGHT RECEIVING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT RECEIVING ELEMENT
A light receiving element is used to receive an optical signal. The light receiving element includes a substrate having a silicon layer, and a photodiode formed of a III-V compound semiconductor and bonded to the silicon layer. The silicon layer includes a waveguide, a recess, an air gap, and a wall, the wall is provided between the recess and the air gap, the waveguide is connected to the wall, the waveguide and the recess are provided outside the photodiode, and the air gap is provided at a position overlapping the photodiode. The substrate includes a silicon substrate and a silicon oxide layer. The photodiode includes a light-absorbing layer.
G02B 6/122 - Basic optical elements, e.g. light-guiding paths
G02B 6/12 - Light guidesStructural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings of the optical waveguide type of the integrated circuit kind
H10F 30/223 - Individual radiation-sensitive semiconductor devices in which radiation controls the flow of current through the devices, e.g. photodetectors the devices having potential barriers, e.g. phototransistors the devices being sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation the devices having only one potential barrier, e.g. photodiodes the potential barrier being a PIN barrier
H10F 71/00 - Manufacture or treatment of devices covered by this subclass
H10F 77/124 - Active materials comprising only Group III-V materials, e.g. GaAs
An optical fiber ribbon includes: a plurality of optical fibers; and an adhesive resin coupling the plurality of optical fibers, in which the adhesive resin has viscosity higher than 35 mPa·s and lower than 147 mPa·s in at least a part of a temperature range from 50° C. to 75° C. before curing.
Provided are: a nitrous oxide decomposition method comprising a nitrous oxide decomposition step for bringing a specific catalyst into contact with a nitrous oxide-containing gas containing nitrous oxide, nitrogen monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide, the total content of nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide in the nitrous oxide-containing gas being 0.0001-0.35 mol%; a nitrous oxide decomposition method and decomposition system, the nitrous oxide decomposition method being applied to a nitric acid production plant and involving executing a nitrous oxide decomposition step for bringing a specific catalyst into contact with a nitrous oxide-containing gas discharged from a nitric acid synthesis step; and a nitric acid production method and plant in which said nitrous oxide decomposition method and decomposition system are used.
A fluctuation detection sensor 200 of the present invention comprises: a nonlinear response layer 202 having nonlinear electric response characteristics with respect to input of external energy along a first direction; and a pair of electrodes 207a and 207b for extracting an electric response signal generated in the nonlinear response layer 202 due to energy fluctuation that is input from outside along the first direction to the nonlinear response layer 202.
G01R 15/20 - Adaptations providing voltage or current isolation, e.g. for high-voltage or high-current networks using galvano-magnetic devices, e.g. Hall-effect devices
G01N 25/18 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of thermal means by investigating thermal conductivity
The present invention provides a compound having exceptional efficacy in controlling plant disease. Compounds represented by formula (1) can be used for controlling plant disease.
C07D 401/12 - Heterocyclic compounds containing two or more hetero rings, having nitrogen atoms as the only ring hetero atoms, at least one ring being a six-membered ring with only one nitrogen atom containing two hetero rings linked by a chain containing hetero atoms as chain links
The present invention provides an optical module provided with a first optical waveguide assembly in which light exits from an optical waveguide at a first end face, a second optical waveguide assembly in which light enters an optical waveguide at a second end face, a first relay lens system which is provided with a first lens and a second lens and in which the first lens has a first focal plane on the first end face, while the first lens and the second lens share a second focal plane, a second relay lens system which is provided with a third lens and a fourth lens and in which the third lens has a third focal plane on the second end face, while the third lens and the fourth lens share a fourth focal plane, and an optical functional element which is disposed midway between the second lens and the fourth lens and includes a first polarization separation element, a Faraday rotator, a half-wave plate including two types of regions in which directions of fast axes are different from each other by 45 degrees, and a second polarization separation element.
G02B 27/28 - Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups , for polarising
G02F 1/09 - Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulatingNon-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour based on magneto-optical elements, e.g. exhibiting Faraday effect
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Optical fiber fusion splicers; hand held optical fiber
cutters, power operated; optical fiber cutters, power
operated; power-driven hand-held tools for stripping optical
fibers; power-driven tools for stripping optical fibers;
optical fiber strippers (power-driven hand-held tools);
optical fiber strippers (power-driven tools); machines for
laying optical fiber cables; power-driven hand-held tools
for cutting or splicing optical fibers; power-driven tools
for cutting or splicing optical fibers. Advertising and publicity services; presentation of
companies and their goods and services on the Internet;
providing commercial information and advice for consumers in
the choice of products and services; business management
services; sales promotion for others; marketing services;
retail services or wholesale services for optical fibers,
optical fiber cables, optical fiber cable connectors, fiber
optic splice closures, terminal boxes for optical fibers and
optical fiber fusion splicers; retail services or wholesale
services for hand held optical fiber cutters, power
operated, power-driven hand-held tools for stripping optical
fibers and optical fiber stripper (power-driven hand-held
tools); retail services or wholesale services for optical
fiber cutters, power operated, power-driven tools for
stripping optical fibers and optical fiber stripper
(power-driven tools); retail services or wholesale services
for light source devices for optical communication and other
optical communication machines and apparatus; retail
services or wholesale services for edge tools [hand tools]
for stripping, cutting, or splicing optical fibers; retail
services or wholesale services for bladed or pointed hand
tools and swords for stripping, cutting, or splicing optical
fibers; retail services or wholesale services for hand tools
for stripping, cutting, or splicing optical fibers; retail
services or wholesale services for telecommunication
machines and apparatus; retail services or wholesale
services for electrical machinery and apparatuses; retail
services or wholesale services for bladed or pointed hand
tools, hand tools and metal hardware. Repair or maintenance of optical fiber fusion splicers;
providing information relating to the repair or maintenance
of optical fiber fusion splicers; repair or maintenance of
hand held optical fiber cutters, power operated; providing
information relating to the repair or maintenance of hand
held optical fiber cutters, power operated; repair or
maintenance of power-driven hand-held tools for stripping
optical fibers; providing information relating to the repair
or maintenance of power-driven hand-held tools for stripping
optical fibers; repair or maintenance of optical fiber
stripper (power-driven hand-held tools); providing
information relating to the repair or maintenance of optical
fiber stripper (power-driven hand-held tools); repair or
maintenance of power-driven hand-held tools for cutting or
splicing optical fibers; providing information relating to
the repair or maintenance of power-driven hand-held tools
for cutting or splicing optical fibers; repair or
maintenance of power-driven hand-held tools; providing
information relating to the repair or maintenance of
power-driven hand-held tools; repair or maintenance of
optical fiber cutters, power operated; providing information
relating to the repair or maintenance of optical fiber
cutters, power operated; repair or maintenance of
power-driven tools for stripping optical fibers; providing
information relating to the repair or maintenance of
power-driven tools for stripping optical fibers; repair or
maintenance of optical fiber stripper (power-driven tools);
providing information relating to the repair or maintenance
of optical fiber stripper (power-driven tools); repair or
maintenance of power-driven tools for cutting or splicing
optical fibers; providing information relating to the repair
or maintenance of power-driven tools for cutting or splicing
optical fibers; repair or maintenance of edge tools [hand
tools] and hand tools, hand operated; providing information
relating to the repair or maintenance of edge tools [hand
tools] and hand tools, hand operated; repair or maintenance
of electronic machines and apparatus; providing information
relating to the repair or maintenance of electronic machines
and apparatus; repair or maintenance of telecommunication
machines and apparatus; providing information relating to
the repair or maintenance of telecommunication machines and
apparatus; repair or maintenance of power distribution or
control machines and apparatus; providing information
relating to the repair or maintenance of power distribution
or control machines and apparatus; repair or maintenance of
measuring and testing machines and instruments; providing
information relating to the repair or maintenance of
measuring and testing machines and instruments.
47.
OPTICAL CONNECTION COMPONENT AND OPTICAL CONNECTION METHOD
An optical connection component according to one embodiment comprises: an optical connector that has a ferrule which holds an optical fiber; a rotation member that has an insertion hole into which the optical connector is inserted along the optical axis direction of the optical fiber; and an adapter that the optical connector inserted into the insertion hole connects to. The adapter has a latch with which the optical connector that moves along the optical axis direction engages. The rotation member has a movement mechanism that moves the optical connector along the optical axis direction by rotating with respect to the adapter about a center axis which extends along the optical axis direction.
A wiring module is to be coupled to a battery stack member that includes laminated type batteries having electrode leads being stacked and the electrode leads of the laminated type batteries are overlapped and connected and configured as connection portions. The wiring module is to be coupled to the battery stack member including the connection portions in a coupling direction that is perpendicular to a plate thickness direction of the connection portions. The wiring module includes terminals, electric wires connected to the terminals, and a protector holding the terminals and the electric wires. The electrode leads include connection electrode leads that are configured as the connection portions. The terminals include electrode connection portions that are electrically connected to the connection electrode leads. The protector includes a protector body and terminal housing portions in which the terminals are disposed with being positioned.
H01M 50/503 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
H01M 50/209 - Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells characterised by their shape adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells
H01M 50/298 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by the wiring of battery packs
A wiring module includes detection terminals, detection wires, first and second housing portions, a third housing portion receiving a curved portion and including a corner portion on an inner circumferential side and including two third side walls, two outer holding pieces corresponding to two end portions of the curved portion and protruding from an outer circumferential side toward the inner circumferential side and holding the curved portion, and two inner holding pieces corresponding to the two end portions of the curved portion and protruding from the inner circumferential side toward the outer circumferential side and holding the curved portion. The inner holding pieces at least protrude from one of the two third side walls on the inner circumferential side to a tangent line with respect to the corner portion, the tangent line extending at an angle of 45° with respect to the one of the two third side walls.
H01M 50/503 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing characterised by the shape of the interconnectors
A cover unit includes a columnar rubber plug press-fittable into a communication hole of a connector housing, and a plate-like cover including a fixing hole and fixable to the connector housing. The rubber plug includes a rubber plug body portion, a first large-diameter portion for contacting a first principal surface of the cover in an assembled state where the rubber plug is assembled in the fixing hole, a fixing shaft portion to be fit in the fixing hole in the assembled state, a second large-diameter portion projecting in a direction intersecting a press-fit axis while being sized to be passable through the fixing hole by being resiliently deformed, the cover being sandwiched along the press-fit axis by the first large-diameter portion and the second large-diameter portion in the assembled state.
A tire 2 includes a tread 4. The tread 4 includes a plurality of land portions 16 separated by a circumferential main groove 10. At least one of the land portions 16 includes a first narrow land portion 28a and a second narrow land portion 28b separated by a circumferential sub groove 26. A top 32 of the first narrow land portion 28a includes a serration 46 having irregularities and a land 48 having no irregularities. The serration 46 is located between a width center of the first narrow land portion 28a and a first edge 30a of the first narrow land portion 28a. The serration 46 includes a plurality of ridges 50. A narrow shallow groove 56 is located between the two adjacent ridges 50 of the plurality of ridges 50.
A golf club head includes a face portion that includes a striking face, a sole portion, and a hosel portion. The striking face is divided into a central region, a toe region located on a toe side of the central region, and a heel region located on a heel side of the central region. The central region includes first processed surfaces formed by a first surface texturing. The toe region and the heel region each include the first processed surfaces formed by the first surface texturing, second processed surfaces formed by a second surface texturing, and overlapping processed surfaces formed by the first surface texturing and the second surface texturing overlapping each other. The first processed surfaces are covered by a coating layer.
A laminated body whereby it is possible to obtain a recycled material that, after recycling, is relatively favorable in terms of tensile fracture strength, tensile fracture elongation, and heat-sealing peel strength; a melt-kneaded product obtained by melt-kneading the laminated body; and a method for obtaining the melt-kneaded product are provided. The laminated body is formed by laminating a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, and a sealant layer in this order. The elastic modulus of the adhesive layer is 10,000 Pa at a temperature of 60° C. or higher and 200° C. or less. The substrate layer includes polyethylene having a density of 936 kg/m3 or higher and 980 kg/m3 or less, and is subjected to orientation processing. The sealant layer includes polyethylene having a density of 880 kg/m3 or higher and less than 910 kg/m3.
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
B32B 37/06 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by the heating method
B32B 37/12 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by using adhesives
54.
NEGATIVE RESIST COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RESIST PATTERN
A negative resist composition includes a resin (A1) including a structural unit represented by formula (a2-1) and a structural unit represented by formula (a2-4), a novolak resin (A2), a resin (A3) including a structural unit represented by formula (a3-1) and a structural unit represented by formula (a3-2), a crosslinking agent (E) and an acid generator (B):
A negative resist composition includes a resin (A1) including a structural unit represented by formula (a2-1) and a structural unit represented by formula (a2-4), a novolak resin (A2), a resin (A3) including a structural unit represented by formula (a3-1) and a structural unit represented by formula (a3-2), a crosslinking agent (E) and an acid generator (B):
The present invention addresses the problem of providing: polyethylene pellets with which it is possible to obtain a film having an excellent appearance, that is, a film having a relatively small arithmetic mean height and a relatively small thickness variation coefficient in the MD direction; and a film. Polyethylene pellets according to the present invention contain a polyethylene-based resin, and have an average major axis of 3.60 mm to 7.00 mm inclusive and a cross-sectional parameter S of 1.20 mm2to 5.00 mm2 inclusive. Here, the cross-sectional parameter S is the area of a triangle formed by connecting a point A (xA, yA), a point B (xB, yB), and a point M (xM, yM) on a cross-sectional curve taking the major axis direction on the x-axis while taking the height direction on the y-axis.
C07C 4/00 - Preparation of hydrocarbons from hydrocarbons containing a larger number of carbon atoms
C07C 4/22 - Preparation of hydrocarbons from hydrocarbons containing a larger number of carbon atoms by depolymerisation to the original monomer, e.g. dicyclopentadiene to cyclopentadiene
C08J 11/12 - Recovery or working-up of waste materials of polymers by chemically breaking down the molecular chains of polymers or breaking of crosslinks, e.g. devulcanisation by dry-heat treatment only
C10G 1/10 - Production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures from oil shale, oil-sand, or non-melting solid carbonaceous or similar materials, e.g. wood, coal from rubber or rubber waste
57.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION FILM AND WINDOW STRUCTURE
An electromagnetic wave transmission film, according to embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a substrate; a conductive pattern disposed on the substrate and comprising first sub-patterns which are periodically arranged and are connected to each other, and a first separation area which is formed between the first sub-patterns; and a dummy pattern disposed on the substrate so as to be spaced apart from the conductive pattern. A window structure, according to embodiments of the present invention, comprises the electromagnetic wave transmission film according to the embodiments described above.
This processing device includes a communication unit and a processing unit for processing data received by the communication unit, in which the communication unit receives sensor data, which is an output value of a sensor mounted on a cutting tool, from the cutting tool used for cutting during the cutting, receives position data indicating a position of a cutting edge of the cutting tool from a machine tool which performs the cutting by using the cutting tool, and the processing unit synchronizes the position data with the sensor data or calculates a physical quantity related to the cutting from the sensor data received by the communication unit and synchronizes the position data with the physical quantity.
G05B 19/4065 - Monitoring tool breakage, life or condition
B23Q 17/09 - Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools for indicating or measuring cutting pressure or cutting-tool condition, e.g. cutting ability, load on tool
One embodiment according to the present disclosure provides an electric junction box that can be reduced in weight while suppressing electromagnetic noise radiation. An electrical junction box (1) comprises: a negative-side bus bar (20) that has a cylindrical part (21) which extends along a first axis (X), and a negative-side connection tab (22) and a bus bar-side male tab (23) which protrude along the first axis (X) from a part of the cylindrical part (21) in the circumferential direction; a plurality of fuses (41) that are accommodated inside the cylindrical part (21); a positive-side connection tab (32) and a male tab (43) that are electrically connected to the plurality of fuses (41) and that protrude to the outside of the cylindrical part (21) along the first axis (X); a resin housing (10) that accommodates the negative-side bus bar (20); and a first magnetic body (101) and a second magnetic body (102) that are provided to the portions of the housing (10) corresponding to the peripheries of the positive-side connection tab (32) and the male tab (43) which protrude to the outside of the cylindrical part (21).
This optical fiber core comprises a plurality of cores, a cladding, and a coating layer. The plurality of cores extend along the fiber axis. The cladding has the plurality of cores included therein. The coating layer covers the outer periphery of the cladding. The optical fiber core has a first end face and a second end face. The first end face and the second end face intersect with the fiber axis. The coating layer includes a plurality of identification markings. The plurality of identification markings are separated from each other in the fiber axis direction from the first end face to the second end face. The optical fiber core has an asymmetric appearance in the fiber axis direction due to the plurality of identification markings.
A single-ion conducting material comprising a plurality of units of formula (I): (I) wherein X is Al or B; M is a cation; the single-ion conducting material comprises X groups of formula (I) linked by a group of formula (II) wherein n is greater than 1 and each R1 independently is an organic residue: (II) and the single-ion conducting material comprises X groups of formula (I) substituted with at least one group of formula OR2 wherein R2 is an organic substituent which is not bound a further X. The single-ion conductive material may be used in a metal battery or metal ion battery.
A single-ion conducting material comprising a plurality of units of formula (I): (I) wherein X is Al or B; M is a cation; the single-ion conducting material comprises X groups of formula (I) linked by a group of formula (II) wherein n is greater than 1 and each R1 independently is an organic residue: (II) and the single-ion conducting material comprises X groups of formula (I) substituted with at least one group of formula OR2 wherein R2 is an organic substituent which is not bound a further X. The single-ion conductive material may be used in a metal battery or metal ion battery.
C08G 77/60 - Macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions forming in the main chain of the macromolecule a linkage containing silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon in which all the silicon atoms are connected by linkages other than oxygen atoms
H01M 10/054 - Accumulators with insertion or intercalation of metals other than lithium, e.g. with magnesium or aluminium
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC. (Japan)
Inventor
Tsutsumi, Yuya
Emori, Masaomi
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a first conductive layer including a first metal layer and a second metal layer, the first metal layer covering the second main surface, the second metal layer covering the first metal layer and including dendrites, wherein a via hole extending through the substrate and having an inner wall surface is formed in the substrate, and wherein the first metal layer, which is covered with the second metal layer, covers the inner wall surface.
A wiring board includes a board portion and a conductor portion. The board portion includes a conductor layer having a wiring pattern (first wiring pattern) and an insulation layer having an insulation film for covering a part of the wiring pattern, and a partial region of the wiring pattern is configured as a land portion. The conductor portion includes a base material and a plating layer. The base material has a facing surface, a pair of first surfaces and a pair of second surfaces. The facing surface and the pair of facing surfaces are covered by the plating layer. The pair of second surfaces have exposing surfaces. The plating layer covering the pair of first surfaces is joined to the land portion. The pair of second surfaces are arranged to overlap the land portion in a thickness direction.
A connector includes a first housing and a second housing, which are fittable to each other. The first housing has a fitting section in which the second housing is accommodated, the fitting section being open forward in a fitting direction in which the first housing is fitted to the second housing. Of walls of the first housing that demarcate the fitting section, a first wall located on a lower side has, in a wall surface facing an interior of the fitting section, an inclined section that is inclined downward while extending forward and forms a gap (water discharge path) with the second housing accommodated in the fitting section. A second wall intersecting and adjacent to the first wall is positioned so as to shield the circuit board and the inclined section from each other on a side facing a board surface of the circuit.
In the first step, a first buffer layer is formed on a first silicon carbide substrate by epitaxial growth using a first dopant gas that contains ammonia. In the second step, a first drift layer is formed on the first buffer layer by epitaxial growth using a second dopant gas. In the third step after the second step, a second buffer layer is formed on a second silicon carbide substrate by epitaxial growth using a third dopant gas that contains ammonia. In the fourth step, a second drift layer is formed on the second buffer layer by epitaxial growth using a fourth dopant gas. The value obtained by dividing the flow rate of the second dopant gas by the flow rate of the fourth dopant gas is 0.95 to 1.05 inclusive.
H01L 21/205 - Deposition of semiconductor materials on a substrate, e.g. epitaxial growth using reduction or decomposition of a gaseous compound yielding a solid condensate, i.e. chemical deposition
70.
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE, DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND PROGRAM
This method for manufacturing a silicon carbide epitaxial substrate comprises the following steps. Using a first dopant gas that includes ammonia, a buffer layer is formed on a silicon carbide substrate by epitaxial growth. Using a second dopant gas, a drift layer is formed on the buffer layer by epitaxial growth. The nitrogen concentration of the buffer layer is at least 3 × 1018cm−3.
H01L 21/205 - Deposition of semiconductor materials on a substrate, e.g. epitaxial growth using reduction or decomposition of a gaseous compound yielding a solid condensate, i.e. chemical deposition
71.
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STATION-SIDE DEVICE, HOME-SIDE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD
This optical communication system comprises: a station-side device that has an optical transceiver of a subcarrier multiplexing scheme; a plurality of home-side devices that each have an optical transceiver of a subcarrier multiplexing scheme; and an optical distribution network that connects the station-side device and the plurality of home-side devices. The station-side device transmits a plurality of downlink subcarriers to the plurality of home-side devices via a time division scheme, receives an uplink subcarrier from at least one of the plurality of home-side devices via the subcarrier multiplexing scheme, and demodulates the uplink subcarrier. At least one of the plurality of home-side devices receives the plurality of downlink subcarriers from the station-side device, demodulates a demodulatable downlink subcarrier among the plurality of downlink subcarriers, and transmits the uplink subcarrier to the station-side device. The total number of downlink subcarriers that the station-side device can transmit is less than the total number of uplink subcarriers that the station-side device can receive.
A connector assembly according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a first housing and a first terminal. The second connector includes a second housing and a second terminal. The first housing includes a locking-target portion and an abutting-target portion. The second housing includes a lock arm that is engaged with the locking-target portion. The lock arm includes an abutting portion that, when the second housing is moved relative to the first housing with the second housing being inclined relative to the first housing, abuts against the abutting-target portion to prevent the second housing from coming into contact with the first terminal. The lock arm is provided on a side of the second housing in a first width direction that extends along a width direction of the second housing.
A composition includes the following active components: component (1): at least one selected from the group consisting of Ligustrum fruit, yerbadetajo herb, Lilium bulb, Polygonatum Rhizome, Lycium fruit, Sesamum indicum, and black soybean; component (2): at least one selected from the group consisting of Suberect spatholobus stem, Longan aril, wild turmeric, zedoary root, Luffa vegetable sponge, Sparganium rhizome, safflower, Artemisia anomala, common fenugreek seed, Dipsacus japonicus root, Drynaria herb, sea horse, Cynomorium herb, and Astragalus Seed; component (3): at least one selected from the group consisting of tea leaf, plantago seed, plantago herb, coix seed, small red-bean, corn silk, Lophatherum herb, Benincasa seed, mallow seed, knotgrass, and Lygodium spore; and component (4): at least one selected from the group consisting of Dioscorea japonica Thunberg, Eleutherococcus senticosus Rhizome, honey, oriental bush cherry, ginger root, ripe tangerine peel, unripe tangerine peel, immature orange, malt starch syrup, jujube fruit, and non-glutinous rice.
A compound of formula (I) or an N-oxide thereof, a composition for controlling harmful arthropods including the compound, and a method for controlling harmful arthropods by applying the compound,
A compound of formula (I) or an N-oxide thereof, a composition for controlling harmful arthropods including the compound, and a method for controlling harmful arthropods by applying the compound,
A compound of formula (I) or an N-oxide thereof, a composition for controlling harmful arthropods including the compound, and a method for controlling harmful arthropods by applying the compound,
where Q represents a group represented by formula Q1 etc., Z represents an oxygen atom etc., A1 represents CR4a etc., A2 represents a nitrogen atom etc., B1 represents a nitrogen atom or CR6a etc., B2 represents CR1 etc., B3 represents a nitrogen atom or CR6c etc., B4 represents a nitrogen atom or CR6d etc., R1 represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group etc., R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group etc., R3a, R3b and R3d are identical to or different from each other and each represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group etc., R4a, R6a, R6c and R6d are identical to or different from each other and each represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group etc., and n is 0, 1 or 2.
A01N 43/90 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing heterocyclic compounds having two or more relevant hetero rings, condensed among themselves or with a common carbocyclic ring system
C07D 401/04 - Heterocyclic compounds containing two or more hetero rings, having nitrogen atoms as the only ring hetero atoms, at least one ring being a six-membered ring with only one nitrogen atom containing two hetero rings directly linked by a ring-member-to-ring- member bond
C07D 519/00 - Heterocyclic compounds containing more than one system of two or more relevant hetero rings condensed among themselves or condensed with a common carbocyclic ring system not provided for in groups or
A01N 43/84 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing heterocyclic compounds having rings with nitrogen atoms and oxygen or sulfur atoms, as ring hetero atoms six-membered rings with one nitrogen atom and either one oxygen atom or one sulfur atom in positions 1,4
This silicon carbide epitaxial substrate manufacturing apparatus includes a chamber, a main piping unit, a first ammonia gas supply unit, a second ammonia gas supply unit, a carrier gas supply unit, and a raw material gas supply unit. In the chamber, a silicon carbide substrate is disposed. The main piping unit is connected to the chamber. The first ammonia gas supply unit is connected to the main piping unit. The second ammonia gas supply unit is connected to the main piping unit. The carrier gas supply unit is connected to the main piping unit. The raw material gas supply unit is connected to the main piping unit. The concentration of ammonia gas in the first ammonia gas supply unit is higher than that of ammonia gas in the second ammonia gas supply unit.
H01L 21/205 - Deposition of semiconductor materials on a substrate, e.g. epitaxial growth using reduction or decomposition of a gaseous compound yielding a solid condensate, i.e. chemical deposition
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Pharmaceutical preparations for use in cancer testing; diagnostic kits consisting primarily of reagents for use in cancer testing; diagnostic kits comprised of medical diagnostic reagents and assays for testing of bodily fluids for use in disease detection, namely cancer; diagnostic kits comprising diagnostic agents, preparations and substances for medical purposes Medical apparatus for detecting cancer Testing, inspection or research of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or foodstuffs; medical research services in the field of cancer; medical and scientific research in the field of cancer treatment and diagnosis; medical research services; development of pharmaceutical preparations and medicines; design, maintenance, development and updating of computer software Medical analysis services for the diagnosis of cancer; medical diagnosis of cancer; providing cancer screening services; providing information in the field of cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment; providing medical information; rental of medical apparatus for detecting cancer; rental of medical apparatus and instruments
National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University (Japan)
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Japan)
Inventor
Higashino, Takahiro
Okuno, Kazuki
Tawarayama, Hiromasa
Hosoe, Akihisa
Mitsushima, Shigenori
Kuroda, Yoshiyuki
Abstract
An alkaline water electrolysis apparatus includes: a separation membrane including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; a first electrode including a third main surface and a fourth main surface opposite to the third main surface, the third main surface being provided to face the first main surface of the separation membrane; and a first bipolar plate including a fifth main surface, the fifth main surface being provided in contact with the fourth main surface of the first electrode, wherein the first electrode consists of a first metal porous body having a three-dimensional mesh structure.
A plurality of wires each including an electromagnetic shield member are electrically connected to a plurality of terminals arranged in a first direction. A plurality of shell rings respectively mounted on the plurality of wires are arranged in the first direction. An electrically conductive attachment is arranged between the shell rings adjacent in the first direction. Each shell ring electrically connects the electromagnetic shield member of the wire having the shell ring mounted thereon and a shield shell for covering the plurality of terminals. The attachment includes a covering portion for covering a gap between the shell rings adjacent in the first direction. Further, the attachment includes first and second pressing portions to be held in contact with contact surfaces adjacent to the attachment in the first direction and configured to press the contact surfaces with forces including components in a direction.
An on-board backup control apparatus includes: a first supply circuit that can output power based on a first power storage portion to a load via a first conductive path; a second supply circuit that can output power based on a second power storage portion to a load via a second conductive path; and a first control unit and a second control unit that cause the first supply circuit and the second supply circuit to perform a backup operation during an external state. During the external state, the first control unit and the second control unit execute predetermined prioritizing control for prioritizing a first backup operation of supplying power based on the second power storage portion to the load over a second backup operation of supplying power based on the second power storage portion to the load.
H02J 9/06 - Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting in which the distribution system is disconnected from the normal source and connected to a standby source with automatic change-over
B60L 3/00 - Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposesMonitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
82.
RETROREFLECTIVE ANTENNA, AND OBJECT DETECTING SYSTEM
A retroreflective antenna according to one embodiment includes: an antenna main body for retroreflecting incoming radio waves; and a passive notch filter, in which the antenna main body includes a plurality of pairs of antenna elements, and a plurality of transmission lines provided corresponding to the plurality of pairs of antenna elements, each pair of antenna elements in the plurality of pairs of antenna elements is disposed point-symmetrically with respect to a reference point in the antenna main body, each of the plurality of transmission lines connects corresponding pair of antenna elements among the plurality of pairs of antenna elements, electrical lengths of the plurality of transmission lines are the same, and the passive notch filter is provided in at least one transmission line among the plurality of transmission lines.
H01Q 3/26 - Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elementsArrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture
G01S 13/82 - Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systemsAnalogous systems wherein continuous-type signals are transmitted
83.
ELECTRICALLY INSULATING RESIN FILM FOR LEAD, LEAD WITH ELECTRICALLY INSULATING RESIN FILM
An electrically insulating resin film for a lead includes a first layer having a first surface and a second surface located opposite to the first surface, and a second layer stacked on the second surface of the first layer. A ratio obtained by dividing a first loss factor by a second loss factor is greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 7.0. The first loss factor is a loss factor of the first layer at a first temperature that is 10° C. higher than a melting peak temperature of the first layer. The second loss factor is a loss factor of the first layer at a second temperature that is 50° C.
A case (22) includes a first divided case (31) and a second divided case (32) installed in parallel along an X direction. The first divided case (31) includes a first coupling portion (60). The second divided case (32) includes a second coupling portion (70) to be coupled to the first coupling portion (60). A coupling direction of the first coupling portion (60) and the second coupling portion (70) is a direction along an assembly direction (D) of the first divided case (31) and the second divided case (32) with a battery.
H01M 50/569 - Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals
H01M 50/204 - Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells
H01M 50/242 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by physical properties of casings or racks, e.g. dimensions adapted for protecting batteries against vibrations, collision impact or swelling
H01M 50/289 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by spacing elements or positioning means within frames, racks or packs
H01M 50/298 - MountingsSecondary casings or framesRacks, modules or packsSuspension devicesShock absorbersTransport or carrying devicesHolders characterised by the wiring of battery packs
H01M 50/507 - Interconnectors for connecting terminals of adjacent batteriesInterconnectors for connecting cells outside a battery casing comprising an arrangement of two or more busbars within a container structure, e.g. busbar modules
A protector that is configured to be fixed to an attachment target, integrally with a wire, the protector including: a housing that is configured to accommodate the wire and includes an opening into which the wire is fit, wherein: the housing includes: (i) a support wall that is configured to support the wire that is accommodated in the housing, and (ii) a retaining section that is elastically deformable so as to retain the wire; the protector further includes a leg that is a plate protrusion protruding from the housing and extending in a longitudinal direction of the housing; and the support wall and the retaining section are configured to sandwich the wire therebetween so as to retain the wire.
H02G 3/04 - Protective tubing or conduits, e.g. cable ladders or cable troughs
B60R 16/02 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided forArrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric
H01B 7/00 - Insulated conductors or cables characterised by their form
86.
LEVER-EQUIPPED CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY AND ASSEMBLY METHOD
A gear mechanism provided in a lever-equipped connector includes an inner gear and an outer gear formed in a lever. In the gear mechanism, the inner gear is meshed with a first gear rotatably or pivotably provided in a connector housing and the outer gear is meshed with a second gear rotatably or pivotably provided in the connector housing. The first gear includes a first engaging piece to be meshed and engaged with an inner side of a first engaged portion of a mating connector when the lever is rotated to a connection position. The second gear includes a second engaging piece to be meshed and engaged with an inner side of a second engaged portion of the mating connector when the lever is rotated to the connection position.
H01R 13/629 - Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure
H01R 43/26 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for engaging or disengaging the two parts of a coupling device
An alumina composition contains alumina particles and oxide particles composed of an oxide other than alumina. The oxide particles are composed of an oxide that contains cations having an ionic radius in hexacoordination of 0.41-1.2Å. The cumulative 50% particle diameter D50 from the fine-particle side of the volume-based cumulative particle size distribution is 5.0 μm or less, and the D50 of the alumina particles is 0.40 μm or less.
Provided is a separation membrane module having excellent pressure resistance. A separation membrane module according to the present disclosure comprises a housing in which a plate-and-frame type separation membrane element is accommodated. The separation membrane element comprises a container and a separation membrane disposed in the container. The housing has a housing supply port for supplying a raw material fluid into the housing, a first housing discharge port for discharging the retentate out of the housing, and a second housing discharge port for discharging the permeate out of the housing.
B01D 53/22 - Separation of gases or vapoursRecovering vapours of volatile solvents from gasesChemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases or aerosols by diffusion
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cancer inspection technology in which an olfactory receptor is used. The problem is solved by a cancer test agent containing an insect olfactory receptor protein B' which demonstrates reactivity to multiple types of cancer with the same reactivity direction.
G01N 33/567 - ImmunoassayBiospecific binding assayMaterials therefor using specific carrier or receptor proteins as ligand binding reagent utilising isolate of tissue or organ as binding agent
Provided is an EO compound including an acceptor part capable of improving the degree of orientation during electric field poling. The compound is represented by formula (1). In formula (1), A represents a group represented by formula (1-A) (excluding a group in which R1and R2each are a fluoro group, and both m and n are 1). In formula (1-A), R1and R2each independently represent a substituent other than a hydrogen atom. m and n each independently represent an integer of 0-5, provided that m+n is not 0. When m is 2-5, a plurality of R1may be the same or different. When n is 2-5, a plurality of R2 may be the same or different. L represents a single bond or a divalent conjugated linking group, and D represents an electron-donating group.
G02F 1/061 - Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulatingNon-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour based on electro-optical organic material
The present invention relates to a laminate which comprises a polyimide-based film that contains a polyimide-based resin and metal layers that are provided on both surfaces of the film, wherein when the Vickers hardness and the Martens hardness are determined on both surfaces of the laminate in accordance with ISO 14577 under the conditions in which if an indenter is pressed into the laminate from the surface of one metal layer of the laminate in the thickness direction of the laminate, the maximum indentation depth exceeds the thickness of the metal layer on the side where the indenter is pressed into the laminate and is 10% to 50% inclusive of the thickness of the polyimide-based film, formula (I) PV/PM ≤ 0.135 is satisfied. (In the formula, PV represents the difference between the Vickers hardness determined on one surface of the laminate and the Vickers hardness determined on the other surface, and PM represents the difference between the Martens hardness determined on one surface of the laminate and the Martens hardness determined on the other surface.)
B32B 15/08 - Layered products essentially comprising metal comprising metal as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin
C08G 73/10 - PolyimidesPolyester-imidesPolyamide-imidesPolyamide acids or similar polyimide precursors
Provided is, for example, an information processing method capable of using a biosensor to determine the possibility of a disease. In the information processing method, a computer performs a process for acquiring sensor data obtained by a biosensor with respect to a sample taken from a subject, storing the acquired sensor data and identification information of the subject in association with each other, determining, on the basis of the sensor data, the possibility of a disease in the subject, and outputting the determined possibility of the disease, to an output destination corresponding to the identification information of the subject.
Provided is a determination method with which it is possible to determine the possibility of cancer using a receptor. The determination method involves a computer executing processing in which: a response signal is acquired for a target sample derived from a determination target, the response signal being detected by using a receptor that indicates the reactivity corresponding to the possibility of cancer in a target; and the possibility of cancer is determined in the determination target on the basis of the acquired response signal for the target sample.
G01N 33/574 - ImmunoassayBiospecific binding assayMaterials therefor for cancer
C12M 1/34 - Measuring or testing with condition measuring or sensing means, e.g. colony counters
C12Q 1/04 - Determining presence or kind of microorganismUse of selective media for testing antibiotics or bacteriocidesCompositions containing a chemical indicator therefor
G01N 33/566 - ImmunoassayBiospecific binding assayMaterials therefor using specific carrier or receptor proteins as ligand binding reagent
G16C 20/00 - Chemoinformatics, i.e. ICT specially adapted for the handling of physicochemical or structural data of chemical particles, elements, compounds or mixtures
94.
DETERMINATION METHOD, DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Provided is a determination method with which it is possible to improve the accuracy of determining the health condition of a target using a response profile detected by a sensor. The determination method comprises: acquiring a response profile for a target subject derived from a determination target of a first sensor element indicating a reactivity according to a health condition of a target, and a response profile for the target subject of a second sensor element having a reactivity according to the health condition of the target which is lower than that of the first sensor element; correcting the response profile of the first sensor element corresponding to identification information of the target subject on the basis of a comparison between the response profile of the second sensor element corresponding to identification information of the target subject and a reference profile indicating a reference response of the second sensor element; determining the health condition of the determination target on the basis of a comparison between the corrected response profile of the first sensor element and a reference profile indicating a reference response of the first sensor element; and storing the response profile and a determination result.
G01N 33/497 - Physical analysis of biological material of gaseous biological material, e.g. breath
C12M 1/34 - Measuring or testing with condition measuring or sensing means, e.g. colony counters
C12Q 1/04 - Determining presence or kind of microorganismUse of selective media for testing antibiotics or bacteriocidesCompositions containing a chemical indicator therefor
G01N 33/48 - Biological material, e.g. blood, urineHaemocytometers
G01N 33/483 - Physical analysis of biological material
G06F 18/2135 - Feature extraction, e.g. by transforming the feature spaceSummarisationMappings, e.g. subspace methods based on approximation criteria, e.g. principal component analysis
G16H 10/00 - ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data
95.
MAGNETIC MEMORY ELEMENT, MAGNETIC MEMORY, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MAGNETIC MEMORY
This magnetic memory element comprises: a ferromagnetic layer having reversible magnetization; and a ferroelectric layer laminated with the ferromagnetic layer and having a polarization direction component in a lamination direction, wherein the ease of magnetization reversal of the ferromagnetic layer differs between a state in which the polarization direction of the ferroelectric layer is in a first polarization direction and a state in which the polarization direction is in a second polarization direction different from the first polarization direction.
A display device according to the present invention includes: a communication unit that receives first data representing a state of a machine tool and second data representing a state of a cutting tool used for cutting by the machine tool; an operation state determination unit that determines the operation state of the machine tool from the first data received by the communication unit; a machining state determination unit that determines the state of machining by the cutting tool on the basis of the second data received by the communication unit; and a display unit that displays the operation state and the machining state.
B23Q 17/22 - Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools for indicating or measuring existing or desired position of tool or work
B23Q 17/09 - Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools for indicating or measuring cutting pressure or cutting-tool condition, e.g. cutting ability, load on tool
B23Q 17/12 - Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools for indicating or measuring vibration
This cemented carbide includes a plurality of tungsten carbide particles and a binder phase. The cemented carbide contains the tungsten carbide particles and the binder phase in a total of 89 vol.% to 100 vol.%. The cemented carbide contains 0.5 vol.% to 25 vol.% of the binder phase. The binder phase contains cobalt of 40 mass% or more. The binder phase further contains at least one first element selected from the group consisting of boron, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, nickel, gallium, germanium, arsenic, and selenium, and the lattice constant of the cobalt is 3.560 Å or less.
C22C 29/08 - Alloys based on carbides, oxides, borides, nitrides or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e. g. oxynitrides, sulfides based on carbides or carbonitrides based on carbides, but not containing other metal compounds based on tungsten carbide
B23B 27/14 - Cutting tools of which the bits or tips are of special material
C22C 1/051 - Making hard metals based on borides, carbides, nitrides, oxides or silicidesPreparation of the powder mixture used as the starting material therefor
This insulated electric wire comprises: a conductor; a first insulating layer covering the conductor; and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer has: a resin matrix primarily comprising polyimide; and a plurality of holes. The second insulating layer has: a resin matrix primarily comprising polyimide; and silica particles. The ratio of the average thickness of the first insulating layer to the total of the average thickness of the first insulating layer and the average thickness of the second insulating layer is between 50% and 95%, inclusive. The porosity of the first insulating layer is between 25% and 60% by volume, inclusive. The silica particles are surface-treated with dimethyldichlorosilane or the like. The silica particle content in the second insulating layer is between 15 parts and 30 parts by mass, inclusive, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin matrix. The average primary particle size of the silica particles is between 0.008 μm and 0.04 μm, inclusive.
A cladding 20 of an optical fiber 1 includes four individual claddings 21 and a common cladding 22. Each of the four individual claddings 21 includes a low-refractive-index layer 23. The four individual claddings 21 include a plurality of types of structures that, in a cross-section orthogonal to a central axis AX, differ in terms of at least one from among the inner diameter of the low-refractive-index layer 23, the outer diameter of the low-refractive-index layer 23, the difference between the outer diameter of the low-refractive-index layer 23 and the inner diameter of the low-refractive-index layer 23, and the difference between the inner diameter of the individual cladding 21 and the inner diameter of the low-refractive-index layer 23. In a cross-section orthogonal to the central axis AX, the arrangement pattern of the plurality of types of structures of the individual claddings 21 is not rotationally symmetric about an axis GC which passes through the geometric center of the positions of four cores 10.
According to the present disclosure, the positional relationship of a plurality of cores can be determined with high accuracy. A fusion splicing device (1) according to one embodiment comprises: a pair of discharge electrodes (15); a rotating mechanism (20A, 20B) that rotates a multicore fiber; a light source (19) that irradiates the multicore fiber with light; a camera (18) that receives light emitted from an end surface of the multicore fiber and captures an image of the end surface; and a core detection unit (31) that detects a plurality of cores (C) of the multicore fiber from the image of the end surface captured by the camera (18). The core detection unit (31) detects the positions of the plurality of cores (C) in the end surface, and applies distinguishing information for distinguishing the plurality of cores (C) to each of the plurality of cores (C) in accordance with specified rules set in advance. The core detection unit (31) performs the detection of the positions of the plurality of cores (C) with respect to a pair of multicore fibers, and communicates information regarding fusion splicing of the pair of multicore fibers.