Abstract: A semiconductor device is preferably excellent in characteristics such as a loss characteristic. Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, including an upper-surface electrode provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; an lower-surface electrode provided on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate; a transistor portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode; a first diode portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode; and a second diode portion provided in the semiconductor substrate and connected to the upper-surface electrode and the lower-surface electrode, wherein the first diode portion and the second diode portion have different resistivities in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a balun having a first unbalanced terminal, a second unbalanced terminal, a first balanced terminal, and a second balanced terminal, a grounded vacuum container, a first electrode electrically connected to the first balanced terminal, a second electrode electrically connected to the second balanced terminal, an impedance matching circuit, a first power supply connected to the balun via the impedance matching circuit, and configured to supply a high frequency to the first electrode via the impedance matching circuit and the balun, a low-pass filter, and a second power supply configured to supply a voltage to the first electrode via the low-pass filter.

Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.

Abstract: A cartridge attachment structure includes: a cover whose one end is attached to a pivot shaft for opening and closing a storage space; a support member attached to the pivot shaft and supporting a cartridge; and a pair of lifting-up members attached to the cover such that the cartridge can be sandwiched along the side surface of the cartridge. A groove is formed on each of the opposing inner surfaces of the lifting-up members to receive a projection 16 formed on the side surface of the cartridge. The groove is curved such that the bottom surface of the cartridge moves away from the support member when the protrusion slides along the groove as the cover rotates about the pivot shaft.

Abstract: Movement control of a player character in a field in a virtual space is performed based on a user's operation input. At least one first type of object is disposed in the field. Lightness for the first type of object is set such that the first type of object is visually recognized even when the field is dark. When the player character satisfies a first condition at a location where one of the at least one first type of object is disposed, lighting is set in the virtual space such that a range in the field including the location is lighter than before the first condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An electronic watch includes an including a package in which an oscillator and a watch control integrated circuit are housed, a circuit board having an elastic function, the circuit board including a first face and a second face, a first member provided with a plurality of first protrusions, and a second member provided with a second protrusion facing the first protrusion with the circuit board interposed therebetween, in which a plurality of clamping positions are clamped between the first protrusion and the second protrusion, A1>P1>A2>0, where A1 is a length of the first protrusion, A2 is a length of the second protrusion, and P1 is a thickness of the oscillation device.

Abstract: An electric field stirring apparatus, in which a droplet as a liquid disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to face each other is vibrated and stirred by an electric field generated between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second electrode having a groove formed along a first direction on an electrode surface facing the first electrode, includes a movement mechanism that reciprocally moves the first electrode relative to the second electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction in a state in which the first electrode and the second electrode face each other during a period in which the electric field is generated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: accumulate a document received by FAX in a storage; control output of the accumulated document based on an operation of a user; and set a state of the document to unread in response to the document being accumulated in the storage, and set the state of the document to already read on condition that output of all pages of the document is completed.

Abstract: An escape lever suppresses energy loss and provides strong resistance to external shocks. An escape lever has a pallet fork; a pallet formed in unison with the pallet fork for engaging the escape wheel; and a pallet staff that is a pivot of the pallet fork and passes through the pallet fork. The pallet has a locking surface that the locking corner of the escape wheel contacts in the unlocking period when the escape wheel is released by the pallet and freed to move. The locking surface is shaped so that the draw angle formed by a normal to the contact point with the locking corner of the escape wheel, and a line through the contact point and the axis of the pallet staff, remains constant during the unlocking period.

Abstract: A pathological specimen preparation device includes a stage portion including a stage, a reagent supply portion 150 capable of supplying a reagent to a substrate W mounted on the stage, a washing portion capable of supplying a washing solution to the substrate, an electric field stirring portion capable of stirring the reagent or the washing solution supplied to the substrate by applying an electric field to the reagent or the washing solution, and a control unit, wherein the washing portion, the reagent supply portion, and the electric field stirring portion are sequentially disposed in a Y direction as a first direction, and the device includes a stage transport mechanism that moves the stage in the Y direction, and a stage tilting mechanism that tilts the stage in an X direction as a second direction crossing the Y direction when the stage is positioned in the washing portion.

Abstract: An electronic watch includes an including a package in which an oscillator and a watch control integrated circuit are housed, a circuit board having an elastic function, the circuit board including a first face and a second face, a first member provided with a plurality of first protrusions, and a second member provided with a second protrusion facing the first protrusion with the circuit board interposed therebetween, in which a plurality of clamping positions are clamped between the first protrusion and the second protrusion, A1>P1>A2>0, where A1 is a length of the first protrusion, A2 is a length of the second protrusion, and P1 is a thickness of the oscillation device.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure of a four-wheeled vehicle includes a pair of side members (8) extending in a fore and aft direction along either side of the vehicle body, a plurality of cross members (41, 42, 43) extending laterally between the side members, and a floor panel (58) attached to an upper side of the cross members. One of the cross members (42) passes through an intersection point of diagonal lines of a rectangular formation of supporting points of the four wheels, and at least one of the seat mounts (72) is positioned on the one cross member.

Abstract: An insulation-type switching power supply according to the present invention includes: a PWM control circuit that generates and outputs a PWM pulse and a PWM pulse respectively by alternately extracting pulses of a PWM control pulse signal at a field-effect transistor in a flyback converter circuit; a pulse transformer; a bidirectional excitation circuit that excites a primary winding of the pulse transformer in the forward direction using the PWM pulse and excites the primary winding of the pulse transformer in the reverse direction using the PWM pulse; and a switching circuit that generates a pulse signal by inverting a negative pulse of a pulse signal, induced in a secondary winding of the pulse transformer, to a positive pulse and switches the field-effect transistor by using the generated pulse signal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: accumulate a document received by FAX in a storage; control output of the accumulated document based on an operation of a user; and set a state of the document to unread in response to the document being accumulated in the storage, and set the state of the document to already read on condition that output of all pages of the document is completed.

Abstract: An insulation-type switching power supply according to the present invention includes: a PWM control circuit that generates and outputs a PWM pulse and a PWM pulse respectively by alternately extracting pulses of a PWM control pulse signal at a field-effect transistor in a flyback converter circuit; a pulse transformer; a bidirectional excitation circuit that excites a primary winding of the pulse transformer in the forward direction using the PWM pulse and excites the primary winding of the pulse transformer in the reverse direction using the PWM pulse; and a switching circuit that generates a pulse signal by inverting a negative pulse of a pulse signal, induced in a secondary winding of the pulse transformer, to a positive pulse and switches the field-effect transistor by using the generated pulse signal.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for enabling a liquid of microbial cells having an enzymatic activity to be easily stored and used. The technique is a method for killing a microorganism while maintaining the enzyme titer of a microbial cell liquid, characterized by including adjusting the pH of a liquid of microbial cells having an enzymatic activity, and then performing a heating treatment of the liquid, and also the technique is a method for killing a microorganism while maintaining the enzyme titer of a microbial cell liquid, characterized by including adding a carbohydrate to a liquid of microbial cells having an enzymatic activity, and then performing a heating treatment of the liquid.

Abstract: A switching power supply includes an insulated transformer, a full-bridge circuit which converts input DC power into AC power and outputs the AC power to a primary-side coil, an output circuit which converts AC power input from secondary-side coils into DC power and outputs the DC power, and a control circuit which controls the full-bridge circuit by using a phase shift method based on voltage output by the output circuit. When a measured value of the amount of phase shift determined from at least one of the voltage and current output by the output circuit is smaller than a theoretical value of the amount of phase shift corresponding to the switching power supply operating in a continuous current mode, the control circuit prolongs dead time used in the full-bridge circuit in accordance with the difference between the measured value and the theoretical value.

Abstract: An electric field stirring apparatus, in which a droplet as a liquid disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to face each other is vibrated and stirred by an electric field generated between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second electrode having a groove formed along a first direction on an electrode surface facing the first electrode, includes a movement mechanism that reciprocally moves the first electrode relative to the second electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction in a state in which the first electrode and the second electrode face each other during a period in which the electric field is generated.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure of a four-wheeled vehicle includes a pair of side members (8) extending in a fore and aft direction along either side of the vehicle body, a plurality of cross members (41, 42, 43) extending laterally between the side members, and a floor panel (58) attached to an upper side of the cross members. One of the cross members (42) passes through an intersection point of diagonal lines of a rectangular formation of supporting points of the four wheels, and at least one of the seat mounts (72) is positioned on the one cross member.