Abstract: A gas generator includes an elongated cylindrical housing main body and a plug which closes an axial end portion of the housing main body. The plug made of a metal includes a substantially columnar body portion, a first flange portion located on a side of a first end surface, and a second flange portion located on a side of a second end surface. An annular groove portion defined by the body portion, the first flange portion, and the second flange portion is located in a circumferential surface of the plug. A metal flow in a portion which appears in a surface layer of the circumferential surface of the plug including a surface of the annular groove portion continuously extends to reach the second end surface from the first end surface along the circumferential surface without discontinuity in the circumferential surface.

Abstract: Hollow structure particles which contain titanium oxide and silica, in which the crystal type of the titanium oxide is rutile type; a method for producing the hollow structure particles; a white ink which contains these hollow structure particles as a coloring agent; use of the white ink in inkjet recording; and an inkjet recording method which uses the white ink.

Abstract: A cleaning liquid including a compound represented by the following formula (1): (CH3)3C—R—O(C4H8O)L—(C3H6O)m—(C2H4O)n—H??(1) and water; and a method of cleaning an ink-jet printer using the cleaning liquid. In the formula (1), R represents a linear or branched C1 to C5 hydrocarbon group, and L, m, and n each represent the average number of repeats, and L?0, m?0, n>0, and (L+m)/n=1.5/1 to 1/1.5.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is a demand for novel platinum(IV) complex which has sufficient water-solubility, stability, antitumor activity, and the like that are required as a medicine, and may be used clinically. Thus, provided is a platinum(IV) complex represented by the following General Formula (I) [wherein X1 and X2 each represent a halogen atom or are bonded together to form a dicarboxylate selected from the group consisting of oxalate, malonate, succinate, and o-phthalate; and Y represents a halogen atom.

Abstract: Provided is a polymeric micelle type DDS preparation that may efficiently exhibit pharmacological activity effects by enhancing migration characteristics, penetrability, and retention characteristics toward a diseased target tissue such as a tumor tissue or an inflammation-affected tissue, and thereby enhancing the action of a pharmacologically active substance. Disclosed is a block copolymer (A) having a hydrophilic polymer segment linked to a hydrophobic polymer segment, the hydrophilic polymer segment containing a polyethylene glycol chain, and the hydrophobic polymer segment containing a polyamino acid chain having a hydrophobic substituent in a side chain, wherein the hydrophilic polymer segment has a target binding site bonded thereto, and the main chain polymer combining the polyethylene glycol chain and the polyamino acid chain has a molecular weight of not less than 2 kilodaltons and not more than 10 kilodaltons.

Abstract: A gas generator includes an elongated cylindrical housing, an accommodation chamber defining member arranged in the housing, a gas generating agent, and an autoignition agent. The accommodation chamber defining member includes a cylindrical portion which extends in a direction in parallel to an axial direction of the housing and accommodates the gas generating agent therein. A heat insulating layer is located between the housing and the cylindrical portion. The autoignition agent is arranged in a portion inside the housing in the axial direction of the housing where no heat insulating layer is provided, as being in contact with the housing with a member made of a metal being interposed.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to obtain a preparation which shows enhanced effectiveness and safety compared to tacrolimus, has the concentration in blood maintained at a constant level without individual differences, whereby the control of the amount of administration depending on the blood kinetics (blood trough concentration) becomes unnecessary. The present invention relates to a polymeric derivative of tacrolimus, in which a polyethylene glycol segment and an alcoholic hydroxy group of tacrolimus are bonded to side-chain carboxy groups of a polyaspartic acid derivative.

Abstract: A DDS preparation of a platinum complex, which exhibits a superior antitumor effect required as a medicine and reduced side effects, that is, a clinically usable DDS preparation of a platinum complex, which is conjugated to a polymer carrier that is different from conventional carriers, is desired. Provided is a polymer conjugate of a platinum(II) complex, the polymer conjugate including: a block copolymer having a polyethylene glycol structural moiety and a polyaspartic acid moiety or a polyglutamic acid moiety; a sulfoxide derivative introduced into a side-chain carboxyl group of the block copolymer; and a platinum(II) complex coordinate-bonded to a sulfoxide group of the sulfoxide derivative.

Abstract: The present invention clarifies the characteristic of the hygroscopicity of the catalyst for producing acrylic acid and finds out a relationship between the water amount of the catalyst and the catalytic performance as the catalyst for producing acrylic acid, and provides an excellent catalyst. Provided is a catalyst for producing acrylic acid, which contains molybdenum and vanadium as essential active components, in which the amount of water contained in the catalyst is 0.01 mass % or more and 0.53 mass % or less.

Abstract: An optical film for eyewear includes a light control layer and at least one light reflection layer laminated in this order from an outer side with respect to a viewer. The light reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that reflects left-handed circularly polarized light or right-handed circularly polarized light in a visible light range, and the light control layer is a quarter wave plate.

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst for producing an unsaturated carboxylic acid, in which a ratio of a diffraction line intensity of 2?=19.1±0.3° with respect to a diffraction line intensity of 2?=10.7±0.3° in X-ray diffraction measurement is 0.20 or more and less than 0.

Abstract: The content of compound(s) having a molecular weight of 650-670, typically a molecular weight of 660, as measured by mass spectrometry, is reduced to 0.5 mass % or less in a heat-sensitive recording material comprising 3,3?-diallyl-4,4?-dihydroxy diphenylsulfone, or in a diphenylsulfone or a color-developing agent. Provided is, thereby, a heat-sensitive recording material, a color-developing agent, or a diphenylsulfone which cause less background fogging under moisture and heat conditions and which has excellent preservation stability of a colored image.

Abstract: A heat ray shielding structure including a heat ray shielding layer (2) between a first resin layer and a second resin layer, wherein the heat ray shielding layer (2) is a heat ray reflecting layer which is a first heat ray reflecting layer having a repeated multilayer structure of a high-refractive-index layer and a low-refractive-index layer or which is a second heat ray reflecting layer containing at least any one of Au, Ag, Cu and Al, a heat ray absorbing layer containing at least one of an inorganic oxide and a coloring matter and containing a binder resin, or a layer including the heat ray reflecting layer and the heat ray absorbing layer.

Abstract: Provided are a block copolymer having an enhanced effect of imaging the interior of a tumor compared to known block copolymers and imaging probes using the known block copolymers; and an imaging probe using the block copolymer.

Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing, a partition member which divides a space in the housing into a combustion chamber where a gas generating agent is accommodated and a filter chamber where a filter is accommodated, and a sealed container which externally seals the gas generating agent. The filter has a hollow portion which reaches an axial end surface located on a side of the combustion chamber. The sealed container is made of a member relatively low in mechanical strength so as to burst or melt as a result of burning of the gas generating agent. The partition member is made of a member relatively high in mechanical strength such that only a portion opposed to the hollow portion bursts as a result of burning of the gas generating agent to provide a communication hole which allows communication between the combustion chamber and the filter chamber with each other.

Abstract: An optical film for eyewear includes a first light control layer, at least one light reflection layer, a second light control layer, and a linear polarization element layer in this order from an outer side with respect to a viewer. The light reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that reflects left-handed circularly polarized light or right-handed circularly polarized light in a visible light range, and the first light control layer and the second light control layer are each a quarter wave plate.

Abstract: A method for producing at least one oxidation product selected from the group consisting of acrolein and acrylic acid is provided. This method can alleviate concerns about deterioration of a gas-phase oxidation catalyst and reaction runaway in a restart period after a shutdown, and can allow the reaction to proceed in a stable state. Using a fixed-bed reactor filled with a gas-phase oxidation catalyst, at least one source gas selected from the group consisting of propylene and acrolein is subjected to a gas-phase contact oxidation reaction while a heating medium is caused to contact with or circulate through the fixed-bed reactor and thereby to heat the fixed-bed reactor. The temperature of the heating medium when the load is maximum in the restart period after the shutdown is controlled to be lower than the temperature of the heating medium when the load is maximum in an initial start-up period.

Abstract: A dibenzopyrromethene boron chelate compound is represented by the following formula (1): in which X1 to X6 in the above formula (1) are each independently of one another a sulfur atom, a carbon atom having a hydrogen atom, or a carbon atom having a substituent R0, and the substituent R0 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an aromatic group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, a nitro group, a substituted amino group, an unsubstituted amino group, a cyano group, a sulfo group, an acyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, or an alkylcarbamoyl group; and adjacent groups of X1 to X6 may be connected to each other to form a ring structure. The compound has an absorption band in a near-infrared light region, and a B—O chelate structure due to a thiophene ring.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, and a sensitivity marker for the SGLT2 inhibitor. The present invention provides a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, comprising measuring a biomarker in the biological sample of a subject, and determining the sensitivity of the subject to the SGLT2 inhibitor using the measured biomarker value as an indicator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a material for photoelectric conversion elements for use in imaging elements which comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1). The material for photoelectric conversion elements for use in imaging elements, which comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1), is used to produce a photoelectric conversion element which is excellent in terms of hole- or electron-leakage prevention, thermal resistance to processing temperatures, transparency to visible light, etc. In formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group.