Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Tokyo Keiki Company Limited

Kentaro Tanaka

Toshiaki Setogawa

Masao Sasaki

Tsuyoshi Oda

Ayato Nakagawa

Nobuyuki Takasu

Kenji Mori

Kazuyasu Imahashi

Hirotoshi Yamada

Toshiyuki Hokodate

Mitsuhiko Shionoya

Makoto Sasaki

Yasushi Ito

Kazuyuki Matsumoto

Yoshihiro Kuwamura

Junichi Nishimae

Toshimasa Tanaka

Ryota Takahashi

Shunji Okada

Issaku Fujita

Miki Kurosawa

Hiroyuki Yamauchi

Hisataka Fukushima

Eiji Konishi

Akio Mito

Koichi Nakashima

Kazuomi Yamamoto

Yasuhiko Iwai

Naoto Omura

Yuzuru Yokokawa

Mitsuhiro Murayama

Jun Nozaki

Tohru Hirai

Takehisa Takaishi

Kenta Tohara

Yasuhiko Ueta

Yasuhiko Noguchi

Takafumi Natsume

A sealing device according to at least one embodiment includes not less than three arc-shaped fins arranged in an axial direction. The arc-shaped fins include: a first fin which is one of two outermost fins located on an outermost side in the axial direction; a second fin disposed adjacent to the first fin in the axial direction; and at least one third fin disposed opposite to the first fin across the second fin in the axial direction. It is preferable that the third fin is disposed to be inclined with respect to a radial direction such that a tip end portion is located on a side of the first fin in the axial direction relative to a base end portion, and the third fin has a larger inclination angle than the first fin or the second fin with respect to the radial direction.

Sealing device and rotary machine

A noise reduction apparatus, an aircraft, and a noise reduction method capable of increasing the amount of noise reduction are provided. The noise reduction apparatusincludes a porous platedisposed to face a fluid flow, the porous plateincluding a bend regionbent toward an upstream side of the fluid flow. The bend regionis provided at the end portionof the porous plate, and has a concave R-shape on an upstream side of the fluid flow.

Noise reduction apparatus, aircraft, and noise reduction method

In a rotary machine and a seal member, a casing, a rotor, a stator blade, a rotor blade, and a seal device disposed between the casing and a tip portion of the rotor blade are provided, in which a blade attachment groove is provided in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and a caulking groove is provided adjacent to the blade attachment groove, in which a base end portion of the stator blade is mounted in the blade attachment groove and a caulking member is locked to the caulking groove and a blade root portion of the stator blade, so that the stator blade is fixed to the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and in which a seal ring as a seal device is mounted in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and the seal ring covers at least a part of the caulking groove.

Rotary machine and seal member

A steam turbine plant includes a high-medium pressure turbine having a high-pressure turbine section provided at one end portion in an axial direction and a medium-pressure turbine section provided at the other end portion; a low-pressure turbine disposed coaxially with the high-medium pressure turbine; a condenser configured to cool steam used in the low-pressure turbine to condense the steam into condensate; and a feed-water heater configured to heat the condensate with steam discharged from the high-pressure turbine section. The plant also includes a low-pressure moisture separating and heating device configured to remove moisture of steam discharged from the medium-pressure turbine section, and to heat the steam with a part of steam to be sent to an inlet portion of the high-pressure turbine section and a part of steam to be sent to an inlet portion of the medium-pressure turbine section from an outlet portion of the high-pressure turbine section.

Steam turbine plant

A contact inspection device including contacts that contact with a test object for inspection, each contact having a base end portion, a needle tip portion having a needle tip that contacts with the test object, and an elastically deformable portion located between the base end portion and the needle tip portion, with the base end portion and the needle tip portion having axes which coincide with each other. The elastically deformable portion is deformable under a compressive force applied in the axial direction of the needle tip portion while the needle tip is pressed against the test object and converts the compressive force into a tilting motion of the needle tip portion about the needle tip through deformation. The needle tip portion is displaceable in a direction in which the needle tip portion is pivotally tilted while the needle tip is pressed against the test object.

Contact inspection device

There is provided an image pickup device including an image pickup unit, and a beam light control unit configured to control a state of a beam light based on living body detection information given by a living body detection unit.

Image pickup device, light projection device, beam light control method, and program

An electronic apparatus generates authentication data including information representing a time when authentication processing for identifying whether or not a battery in use is a genuine product is performed, and information representing a result of the authentication processing. Then, the electronic apparatus generates an image file that includes the authentication data based on image data obtained by shooting, and records the generated image file in at least one of a recording medium that is removable from the electronic apparatus and an external device with which the electronic apparatus is communicable.

Battery-operable electronic apparatus and method for controlling the same that effectively use information on battery usage

An exhaust pipe structure for a hybrid vehicle includes an exhaust pipe, which includes bent portions and is connected to an internal combustion engine. The exhaust pipe includes a front-rear direction extended part, a catalytic part, and a joint part. The front-rear direction extended part extends in a front-rear direction of the hybrid vehicle and is secured to the hybrid vehicle. The catalytic part is positioned between a driving battery pack disposed under a floor of a vehicle body of the hybrid vehicle and the internal combustion engine, adjacent to the driving battery pack, and is inclined with respect to the front-rear direction extended part. The joint part rotatably joints the catalytic part to the front-rear direction extended part.

Exhaust pipe structure of hybrid vehicle

An electrical connecting apparatus includes a wiring base plate having a first surface coupled with a reinforcing plate and provided on an opposite surface with first electrical connection portions, a probe base plate provided on a first surface with second electrical connection portions corresponding to the first electrical connection portions and provided on a second surface with probes electrically connected to the second electrical connection portions, anchor portions formed on the first surface of the probe base plate and provided with screw holes, cylindrical spacers having first ends removably coupled with the anchor portions, having screw grooves, and passing through the wiring base plate and the reinforcing plate, reference plates having reference planes to receive the spacers and removably coupled with the reinforcing plate, shims inserted between the respective reference plates and the reinforcing plate, and bolt screwed in the screw groove of the spacer.

Electrical connecting apparatus and method for assembling the same

Provided is a semiconductor device including: a first memory that stores multiple instructions; a second memory that stores multiple data items; first and second buses; a microprocessor that fetches, through the first bus, an instruction at a specified address among the multiple instructions stored in the first memory, executes the instruction, and accesses the second memory through the second bus based on a result of the execution; and a trace information output unit that acquires, when a branch instruction is generated in the microprocessor, address information of the first memory specified before branching, and outputs the information as trace information. The trace information output from the trace information output unit is written into the second memory through the second bus in a period in which the microprocessor does not access the second memory during execution of the branch instruction.

Semiconductor device and control method thereof

An information processing apparatus capable of preventing unintentional vibration from being erroneously recognized as vibration caused by a tapping operation is provided. The information processing apparatus detects acceleration caused by vibration applied thereto, determines whether the amplitude of acceleration data detected by the acceleration sensor is greater than or equal to a threshold, analyzes a frequency of the acceleration data when the amplitude is greater than or equal to the threshold, and executes processing assigned to the tapping operation when the frequency analysis result indicates the tapping operation.

Information processing apparatus which executes specific processing based on a specific condition and a detected specific vibration, and method for controlling the same

Provided is a power supply circuit generating a desired voltage by voltage multiplication, and satisfying both a demand to reduce current consumption and a demand to enable operation with a low power voltage at the same time. A power supply circuit of the present invention includes: a voltage generating circuit for generating internal voltages VIand VIfrom a power supply voltage VDD; a voltage step-up/down circuit for generating voltages VOto VOeach having a different level by multiplying the internal voltages VIand VI; and a voltage comparison circuit for comparing the voltage VOwith the power supply voltage VDD. The voltage generating circuit is configured to select one of the internal voltages VIand VIaccording to an output of the voltage comparison circuit. Additionally, a voltage multiplication rate of the voltage multiplication circuit is switched according to the output of the voltage comparison circuit.

Power supply circuit

There is provided a control unit of an optical apparatus and an image pickup apparatus, which can prevent a shift of an already controlled position of a member when an impact, etc. apply to the optical apparatus. A control unit for an optical apparatus that includes a first member that is movable, an actuator, and a drive mechanism that transmits a driving force of the actuator to the first member, includes a determination part for determining whether the optical apparatus or a second member provided to an apparatus attached to the optical apparatus is to move, and a controller for controlling, prior to a movement of the second member, the actuator from a first state at which the drive mechanism can transmit the driving force to a second state at which the drive mechanism cannot transmit the driving force, when the determination part determines that the second member is to move.

Control unit for optical apparatus and image pickup apparatus

A control method for an image processor having an operation member and an image display unit that displays images, wherein it is determined whether a touch wheel button has been operated according to a first operation method or whether it has been operated according to a second operation method, wherein functions executable by instructions from the touch wheel button include a first function allocated if it is determined to be the first operation method and a second function allocated if it is determined to be the second operation method, and wherein an image is displayed in the first display mode on the display unit if it is determined to be the first operation method and an image is displayed in the second display mode different from the first display mode if it is determined to be the second operation method.

Image processor and control method

In a still image shooting mode, when a user does not specify a position of an AF frame, an AF process is performed for an AF region of a comparatively large range whose center is in a center of a shooting frame. When the user taps on any position in an EVF area, a touch panel superimposed on a display detects its coordinates. An AF region smaller than the AF region when the user does not specify the position of the AF frame is arranged so that a center of the AF frame is on the coordinates. The AF process is carried out for the smaller AF region. When the user taps on the EVF areatwice at a short predetermined interval, a PDA returns the AF region to a state where the position of the AF frameis not specified by the user.

Apparatus, method, and computer program for imaging and automatic focusing

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kentaro Tanaka