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A semiconductor device allows a second seal portion 8 made of a conductive resin to function as an electromagnetic wave shield for a photodetector 3 and a control IC chip 5 sealed with a first seal portion 7 made of a light-transmitting resin, when a third lead 1c for grounding of a lead frame 1 is connected to a ground terminal on a board. Conductive portions 21, 22 of the second seal portion 8 fill through holes 16, 17 provided for projecting portions 10, 11 of the lead frame 1 so as to be in close contact with peripheral surfaces 16A, 17A of the through holes 16, 17. The through holes 16, 17 have peripheral surfaces 16A, 17A of a rectangular-columnar shape. The semiconductor device is capable of obtaining a sufficient electromagnetic shielding effect, while it is small and low-cost, having a high degree of mounting freedom on a board.

The human body detection device comprises a pyroelectric-type sensor 7 for detecting presence of a human body and an infrared distance-measuring sensor 2 for detecting a distance to a human body H detected by the pyroelectric-type sensor 7 in combination. The infrared distance-measuring sensor 2 is provided with a plurality of infrared-ray emitting devices 3-0, . . . , 3-4 arranged in various directions of infrared-ray emission I1 for covering the whole detection range of the pyroelectric-type sensor 7. There are also provided a light receiving surface for making infrared rays I1′ reflected by a detection object H incident thereon and position sensing devices 4 for outputting a signal indicating a distance to the object H according to a position of the incident light on the light receiving surface. The position sensing device 4 corresponding to a plurality of the infrared-ray emitting devices are housed in one housing 20. This human body detection device is small and low-cost.

An inductor comprising one or more windings disposed on opposed first and second surfaces of a flat-plate substrate. The windings are applied to the substrate by plating or photoresistive deposition techniques, with through-holes through the plate accommodating the windings from opposed surfaces. Windings of more than one layer are obtainable with insulation between adjacent layers. The resulting inductor is usable, for example, as a component of an EMI filter in a power converter circuit.

To provide a high-brightness, small, low-cost optical apparatus which covers a wide-angle to super-wide-angle region and which reliably corrects various aberrations with a small number of lenses.At least one negative lens unit 1, a meniscus lens 2 that is convex on an object side, an aperture stop S, and a double-convex positive lens 3 are arranged in order from the object side. At least one of the lenses positioned on the object side of the aperture stop S and the positive lens 3 include respective aspherical surfaces. When va is an average Abbe number of all of the lenses excluding the meniscus lens, vb is an Abbe number of the meniscus lens, f is a focal length of the entire system, f12 is a combined focal length of the negative lens unit and the meniscus lens, ts is a distance between the aperture stop and the positive lens along an axis, L is a distance between a vertex of a lens surface nearest to the object side and a vertex of a lens surface nearest to the image side, t2 is a central thickness of the meniscus lens, θs is an incident angle of a chief ray that passes through the aperture stop at a maximum angle of view, 1.4<va / vb, 0<ts / L<0.1, 0.2<t2 / L<0.5, −10<f12 / f<−1.0, and 25°<θs<40° are satisfied.

A lens module (7) that includes a plurality of lenses (1a, 1b), a plurality of optical filters (2a, 2b) corresponding to the individual lenses (1a, 1b), an imaging device (4) that includes a plurality of imaging regions (4a, 4b) corresponding to the individual optical filters (2a, 2b), and a light-shielding wall (61a to 61d) that is provided perpendicularly to the imaging device (4) are provided. The adjacent imaging regions (4a, 4b) are partitioned by the light-shielding wall (61a). The light-shielding wall (61a) includes a plurality of inclined surfaces (63) that are inclined with respect to an imaging plane of the imaging regions (4a, 4b), and the plurality of inclined surfaces (63) are disposed sequentially from a side of the lens module (7) to a side of the imaging regions (4a, 4b). Each of the inclined surfaces (63) is inclined toward the side of the imaging regions (4a, 4b) with increasing distance from the light-shielding wall (61a).

Circuit configurations for controlling an AC motor drive system wherein the control systems include redundancy features to compensate for possible failed system components.

In an inverter device, a first three-level circuit includes first to fourth preceding-stage switch elements connected in series between a first input end and a ground and a first charging and discharging capacitor. A second three-level circuit includes fifth to eighth preceding-stage switch elements connected in series between a second input end and the ground and a second charging and discharging capacitor. The first and second two three-level circuits define a five-level circuit that is subjected to switching with the carrier frequency of PWM modulation. The output polarity of a subsequent-stage bridge clamping circuit is inverted between the anterior half cycle and the posterior half cycle of a power supply frequency.