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Hiroki Sato

Nobuo Nakamura

Keiji Mabuchi

Takashi Abe

Eiichi Funatsu

Hiroaki Fujita

Tomoyuki Umeda

Tsutomu Kanno

Hiromasa Tamaki

Keiji Onishi

Shoji Kawahito

Mizuho Higashi

Yutaka Taguchi

Yuriko Kaneko

Tetsuya Iizuka

Kazuo Eda

Hiroshi Murakami

Yuichi Yoshikawa

Osamu Kawasaki

Sakae Tanaka

Shun-ichi Seki

Masato Hatanaka

Kensaku Wakuda

Ken Nakajima

Yoshihiro Tomita

Shigehisa Shimizu

Akihiko Namba

Kunihiro Sumida

Yosuke Matsuzaki

Yasushi Kamada

Tomoaki Matsumura

Hyunjeong Nam

Yosihiro Tomita

Takao Nakano

Takamasa Wada

Toshio Ohhoshi

Miho Uehara

Atsushi Toda

Daisuke Yoshida

Kenji Hirose

Yusuke Oike

Akihiro Sakai

Tadayuki Taura

Katsuhisa Hakoda

Yoshihiro Bessho

Atsushi Ono

Daisuke Iseki

Masanori Kasai

Katsunori Moritoki

Kohei Takahashi

Akihiko Watanabe

Akio Ohkoshi

Shinichi Yoshimura

Kiyomi Kawamura

Hu Li

Yuka Yoshida

Hiroaki Kawasaki

Takehisa Natori

Akihiro Sanda

Katsuaki Hirota

Nobuhiro Shimizu

Reiko Hagawa

Yuto Ishizu

Hideharu Hiwaki

Shinji Hikita

Kunihiro Fujii

Yoshiki Seto

Tetsuyosi Ogura

Shinjiro Komatani

Yukio Tobi

Hisayoshi Otaki

Yoshinori Isomura

Shingo Mouri

Nobuyuki Watabe

Tatsuo Maetani

Masayuki Saito

Kouzou Murakami

Noriyuki Mori

Hiroyuki Kitakawa

Ryuhei Yoshida

Nobuyuki Satou

Akihiro Nanba

Koichiro Togao

Hiroh Takahashi

Toshio Ohboshi

Ichi Nakamura

Masashige Kawabe

Kazuhiro Nakamura

Yasuaki Amemiya

Hironari Abe

Kousuke Abe

A thermoelectric conversion material is a polycrystalline material composed of a plurality of crystal grains and has a composition represented by formula (I): MgSbBiA. In the formula (I), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Se and Te, the value of m is greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.5, the value of a is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.0, and the value of c is greater than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 0.06. The thermoelectric conversion material has an Mg-rich region.

Thermoelectric conversion material and thermoelectric conversion device using same

Rechargeable battery

The present disclosure provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a composition represented by a chemical formula of LiMgSi. In this thermoelectric conversion material, either requirement (i) in which 0≤a≤0.0001 and 0.0001≤b≤0.25-or requirement (ii) in which 0.0001≤a≤0.25 and 0≤b≤0.25-is satisfied. The thermoelectric conversion material has an LiAlSitype crystalline structure.

Thermoelectric conversion technique

The thermoelectric conversion element according to the present disclosure comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and a thermoelectric conversion layer. The first intermediate layer is provided between the thermoelectric conversion layer and the first electrode. The first intermediate layer is in contact with the thermoelectric conversion layer. The first electrode is in contact with the first intermediate layer. The second intermediate layer is provided between the thermoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode. The second intermediate layer is in contact with the thermoelectric conversion layer. The second electrode is in contact with the second intermediate layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are composed of a CuZn alloy. The thermoelectric conversion layer is composed of a thermoelectric conversion material containing Mg. The thermoelectric conversion material contains at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi. The thermoelectric conversion material contains at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Se and Te. The thermoelectric conversion material has a LaO-type crystalline structure. A composition of the first intermediate layer is different from both a composition of the first electrode and a composition of the thermoelectric conversion layer. A composition of the second intermediate layer is different from both a composition of the second electrode and a composition of the thermoelectric conversion layer.

Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module

The present disclosure provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a composition represented by a chemical formula of BaSrCaKMgBiSb. In the chemical formula, the following relationships are satisfied: 0.002&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.1, 0&#x2264;b, 0&#x2264;c, a+b+c&#x2264;1, and 0&#x2264;d&#x2264;2. In addition, the thermoelectric conversion material has a LaO-type crystal structure.

Unmanned aerial vehicle

A communication system comprises a transmission apparatus configured to transmit data via a plurality of communication lines, and a reception apparatus configured to receive the data from the transmission apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate information regarding QoS of the plurality of communication lines. The processing circuitry is further configured to designate assignment of the data to communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of at least (i) the information regarding the QoS of the plurality of communication lines and (ii) assignment information indicating an assignment status of a data amount and a communication line transferred in the past. The transmission apparatus includes communication circuitry configured to allocate and transmit the data to the assigned communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of an instruction from the processing circuitry.

Communication system and transmission apparatus

A thermoelectric conversion material has a composition represented by the chemical formula LiBiSi, in which the range of values a and b is: 0&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.0001, and &#x2212;a+0.0003&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.023; 0.0001&#x2264;a&#x3c;0.0003, and &#x2212;a+0.0003&#x2264;b&#x2264;exp[&#x2212;0.046&#xd7;(ln(a))&#x2212;1.03&#xd7;ln(a)&#x2212;9.51]; or 0.0003&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.085, and 0&#x3c;b&#x2264;exp[&#x2212;0.046&#xd7;(ln(a))&#x2212;1.03&#xd7;ln(a)&#x2212;9.51], and in which the thermoelectric conversion material has a BiF-type crystal structure and has a p-type polarity.

Thermoelectric conversion material and method of obtaining electrical power using thermoelectric conversion material

A medical observation device that includes a microscope that images a surgical site, a holding section that holds the microscope, a base section to which the holding section is connected, and an operation section that receives operating input, the operation section being provided at the base section, the holding section being configured as a balance arm provided with a counterweight, when the base section is viewed from an upper side of the medical observation device, the base section having a first area inside a movable range of the counterweight and a second area outside the movable range of the counterweight, the base end of the holding section being connected to the base section at a location in the first area, and the operation section being arranged at another location in the second area.

Medical observation device and medical observation system

A thermoelectric conversion material has a composition represented by the chemical formula LiBiGe, in which the range of values a and b is: 0&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.0003, and &#x2212;a+0.0003&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.108; 0.0003&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.003, and 0&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.108; or 0.003&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.085, and 0&#x2264;b&#x2264;exp[&#x2212;0.157&#xd7;(ln(a))&#x2212;2.22&#xd7;ln(a)&#x2212;9.81], and in which the thermoelectric conversion material has a BiF-type crystal structure and has a p-type polarity.

The present technology relates to a communication system and a control apparatus that enable to properly find out a state of a network in which streaming is performed. A transmission apparatus performs streaming to a reception apparatus, and a control apparatus manages the state of a network that connects the reception apparatus and the transmission apparatus and includes a first communication line and a second communication line. The first communication line is unstable in connection state as compared with the second communication line, and the control apparatus manages the state of the network on the basis of a packet transmitted from the transmission apparatus to the reception apparatus. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs streaming by UDP.

Communication system and control apparatus

A thermoelectric conversion material has a composition represented by the chemical formula LiBiSn, in which the range of values a and b is: 0&#x2264;a&#x3c;0.0003, and &#x2212;a+0.0003&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.016; or 0.0003&#x2264;a&#x2264;0.085, and 0&#x3c;b&#x2264;exp[&#x2212;0.079&#xd7;(ln(a))&#x2212;1.43&#xd7;ln(a)&#x2212;10.5], and in which the thermoelectric conversion material has a BiF-type crystal structure and has a p-type polarity.

The present technology relates to a communication system and a transmission apparatus that enable highly reliable streaming using a plurality of wireless communication lines. In a transmission apparatus, a QoS module generates information regarding QoS of a plurality of communication lines, a load balancer designates assignment of data to the communication lines on the basis at least of the information regarding QoS, and a caster allocates and transmits the data to the assigned communication lines on the basis of an instruction from the QoS module. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs streaming by UDP.

An image sensor controls the gain of a pixel signal on a pixel-by-pixel basis and extends a dynamic range while maintaining a S/N ratio at a favorable level. A column unit in an image sensor is independently detects a level of each pixel signal and independently sets a gain for level of the signal. A photoelectric converting region unit has pixels arranged two-dimensionally with a vertical signal line for each pixel column to output each pixel signal. The column unit is on an output side of the vertical signal line. The column unit for each pixel column has a pixel signal level detecting circuit, a programmable gain control, a sample and hold (S/H) circuit. Gain correction is performed according to a result of a detected level of the pixel signal.

Solid-state image pickup device and control method thereof

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroki Sato