Abstract: A copper alloy disclosed in the present description has a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100?(x+y)SnxAly (where 8?x?12 and 8?y?9 are satisfied), in which a main phase is a ?CuSn phase with Al dissolved therein, and the ?CuSn phase undergoes martensitic transformation when heat-treated or worked. A method for producing a copper alloy disclosed in the present description is a casting step of melting and casting a raw material containing Cu, Sn, and Al and having a basic alloy composition represented by Cu100?(x+y)SnxAly (where 8?x?12 and 8?y?9 are satisfied) so as to obtain a cast material, and a homogenization step of homogenizing the cast material in a temperature range of a ?CuSn phase so as to obtain a homogenized material, the method includes at least the casting step.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxidation-induced highly-functional self-healing ceramic composition, a method for producing the ceramic composition, a use of the ceramic composition and a method for achieving the enhancement of the functionality of the ceramic composition, by focusing on a repairing stage and a remodeling state in a self-healing process and by carrying out elemental and structural designing of an oxidation-induced self-healing ceramic composition for the purpose of speeding up these stages.

Abstract: A carburization device includes a heating furnace which heats a material, a transfer mechanism, an alcohol vapor generator, an alcohol vapor spraying portion, a quenching tank, and an exhaust heat intake tube. The transfer mechanism moves a plurality of materials. The alcohol vapor generator uses part of heat generated by the heating furnace as a heat source. As the alcohol vapor spraying portion repeats a vapor spraying step and a diffusion step a plurality of times in the heating furnace. In the vapor spraying step, by spraying alcohol vapor on the material which moves inside the heating furnace, carbon in the alcohol is adsorbed to the material. In the diffusion step, an interval for diffusing the carbon adsorbed to the material is taken.

Abstract: A production process for a crystal oriented ceramics includes: a first step of preparing composite particles formed of particles having magnetic anisotropy having magnetic susceptibility anisotropy and seed particles having magnetic susceptibility anisotropy less than or equal to 1/10 of the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy of the particles having magnetic anisotropy and are formed of an inorganic compound having an anisotropic shape in which a crystal axis intended to be corresponds to a minor axis or a major axis; a second step of adding raw material powder including the composite particles to a solvent to prepare a slurry a third step of preparing a green compact by disposing the slurry in a static magnetic field of >0.1 tesla and drying the slurry in a state in which crystal axes of the seed particles in a major axis direction are in one direction; and a fourth step of sintering the green compact.

Abstract: Provided is a program of calculating a tool path that processes a workpiece having a complicated shape with use of an apparatus enabling multiaxial control in a program including a robot or the like with simple information input. A path calculation program for calculating a tool path for processing a curved processed part formed by a hole provided in a curved-surface-shaped workpiece functions as a workpiece shape information inputter configured to input workpiece shape information about a shape of the workpiece and a shape of the curve, a tool shape information inputter configured to input tool shape information about a shape of the tool, and a tool position calculator configured to calculate a tool position enabling a specified point on the curve to be processed by the tool based on the input workpiece shape information and tool shape information.

Abstract: An anode for oxygen evolution that operates at a small overpotential and in a stable manner, and can be used favorably in an organic chemical hydride electrolytic synthesis apparatus. An anode 10 for oxygen evolution that evolves oxygen in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution containing a substance to be hydrogenated dissolved at a concentration higher than 1 mg/L, wherein an anode substrate 10a is composed of a valve metal, and an anode catalyst layer 10b containing at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of iridium, and at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to groups 4, 5 and 13 of the periodic table is formed on the surface of the anode substrate 10a.

Abstract: A production method for a cathode material of a lithium sulfur battery includes, in sequence: a step of preparing a first dispersed solution in which a carbon particle is dispersed in a lithium sulfate solution; a step of adding a solvent in the first dispersed solution, the solvent being a solvent in which lithium sulfate is insoluble; a step of separating a precursor particle from the first dispersed solution in which the solvent is added; and a step of changing the precursor particle into a cathode active material particle by heating the precursor particle under an inert atmosphere.

Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus that enables the reduction reaction at the cathode of an organic compound having an unsaturated bond to proceed at high current efficiency and at a low electric power consumption rate, and a method for producing an organic hydride that uses this production apparatus.

Abstract: To provide an electrolysis cell for producing an organic chemical hydride capable of advancing a reduction reaction in a cathode of an organic compound having an unsaturated bond with high current efficiency and a small electric power consumption unit.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing agent comprising a metallocene and a dispersion medium, the metallocene being dispersed in the dispersion medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel oxygen reduction catalyst having a good stability and a high oxygen reduction performance. The oxygen reduction catalyst includes: a conductive oxide; and an oxide(s), having oxygen holes and provided at least on the surface of the conductive oxide, of at least one or more transition metals selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb and Ta.

Abstract: Provided are a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic having fluorescence and optical transparency; and a method of producing the same. Such a transparent fluorescent sialon ceramic includes a sialon phosphor which contains a matrix formed of a silicon nitride compound represented by the formula Mx(Si,Ai)y(N,O)z (here, M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals, 0?x/z<3, and 0<y/z<1) and a luminescent center element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for detecting an attack, which includes a server and a plurality of vehicles capable of wirelessly communicating with each other. Each of the vehicles has a sensor, a sensor information acquisition unit, a traffic information reception unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the sensor information and the traffic information to the server. The server has a reception unit that receives the sensor information and the traffic information from the vehicles, a verification unit that verifies whether the sensor information and the traffic information are inconsistent with each other, and a notification unit that notifies, when the sensor information and the traffic information are inconsistent with each other, the vehicles of the inconsistency.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing hexagonal boron nitride, including a heating step of heating a mixture containing boron carbide and an alkaline earth metal compound under an ammonia atmosphere at 1300-1500° C. to obtain a product containing hexagonal boron nitride, wherein a molar ratio of the boron carbide to the alkaline earth metal compound in the mixture is 0.5-2.0.

Abstract: A water absorption property of a concrete surface of an actual structure is measured in situ for clarification and evaluation of causative factors and so forth related to densification of surface layer concrete. An apparatus for a water absorption test has a position-fixing device, a detecting device and a measuring device. A device for water absorption test having vent means is positionally fixed on the concrete surface by the position-fixing device, with use of negative pressure or a mechanical connection. The detecting device detects an amount of water held in a chamber, and results detected by the detecting device are input into the measuring device. A water absorption rate is measured by the detecting device and the measuring device. On the basis of the water absorption rate measured at predetermined elapsed time, identification or comparison of causative or evaluative factors related to densification of the surface layer concrete is carried out.

Abstract: An image synthesis device includes a real image acquisition unit configured to acquire a real image, a post-substitution object image acquisition unit configured to acquire a post-substitution object image that is substituted for a pre-substitution object image included in the real image and synthesized with the real image, a masking object image region detection unit configured to detect a region of a masking object image that masks the pre-substitution object image in the real image, a masked portion cut-out unit configured to cut out a portion corresponding to the region of the masking object image from the post-substitution object image, and a synthesis execution unit configured to perform the synthesis of the post-substitution object image which the portion corresponding to the region of the masking object image has been cut out from the real image.

Abstract: An alkali metal-sulfur-based secondary battery, in which coulombic efficiency is improved by suppressing a side reaction during charge, and a reduction in discharge capacity by repetition of charge and discharge is suppressed and which has a long battery life and an improved input/output density, includes a positive electrode or a negative electrode containing a sulfur-based electrode active material; an electrolyte solution containing an ether compound such as THF and glyme and a solvent such as a fluorine-based solvent, wherein at least a part of the ether compound and the alkali metal salt forms a complex; and a counter electrode.

Abstract: Each of ECUs counts the number of messages transmitted for each of CAN IDs. A transmission node that has transmitted a main message produces an MAC from a data field and the CAN ID in the main message and a counter value corresponding to the CAN ID, and transmits the MAC as an MAC message. A reception node that has received the main message produces an MAC from the data field and the CAN ID contained in the main message and the counter value corresponding to the CAN ID, and determines whether the MAC matches the MAC contained in the MAC message. By so doing, verification whether the main message is valid or not can be made. According to this configuration, message authentication by the MAC can be made without changing a CAN protocol.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing agent comprising a metallocene and a dispersion medium, the metallocene being dispersed in the dispersion medium.

Abstract: A gas detector (10) includes a cell internal space (130) into which a target gas is supplied, the target gas exhibiting an absorption peak in an absorption spectrum; a light source (410) configured to generate light having at least a wavelength belonging to the absorption peak; and a photodetector (420) configured to detect the light that has emitted from the light source (410) and has propagated through the cell internal space (130). The gas detector (10) further includes a conductive thin film (220) in which a plurality of optical apertures (222) are regularly arranged such that a transmission peak in a transmission spectrum is superimposed over the absorption peak in the absorption spectrum along a wavelength axis. The conductive thin film (220) is provided on an optical path extending from the light source (410) to the photodetector (420), and is provided so as to be contactable with the target gas within the cell internal space (130).