Abstract: An R—Fe—B base sintered magnet is prepared through the steps of providing an alloy fine powder having a predetermined composition, compression shaping the alloy fine powder in an applied magnetic field into a compact, sintering the compact at a temperature of 900-1,250° C. into a sintered body, cooling the sintered body to 400° C. or below, high-temperature heat treatment including placing a metal, compound or intermetallic compound containing HR which is Dy, Tb and/or Ho, on the surface of the sintered body, heating at a temperature from more than 950° C. to 1,100° C., for causing grain boundary diffusion of HR into the sintered body, and cooling to 400° C. or below, and low-temperature heat treatment including heating at a temperature of 400-600° C. and cooling to 300° C. or below. The sintered magnet produces a high coercivity despite a low content of Dy, Tb and Ho.

Abstract: Provided are a sheath-integrated magnetic refrigeration member capable of preventing degradation of a magnetic refrigeration material with time in a magnetic refrigeration system without lowering the magnetocaloric effect and the thermal conductivity of the magnetic refrigeration material and its production method, and a magnetic refrigeration system using the sheath-integrated magnetic refrigeration member. The invention is a linear or thin band-like sheath-integrated magnetic refrigeration member including a sheath part 1 containing a non-ferromagnetic metal material and a core part 2 containing a magnetic refrigeration material.

Abstract: A spectrometry device includes a controller that: causes first irradiated light and second irradiated light to be irradiated from a first light emitter and a second light emitter at mutually different timings; stores information relating to a first light reception signal and information relating to a second light reception signal in a storage at mutually different timings, in synchronization with irradiation timings of the first irradiation light and the second irradiation light; acquires information relating to a first optical spectrum based on the information relating to the first light reception signal stored in the storage during a first time period; and acquires information relating to a second optical spectrum based on the information relating to the second reception signal stored in the storage during a second time period.

Abstract: Provided is a passenger imaging device which is capable of reliably imaging the face of a passenger without spoiling an aesthetic property of an instrument panel. The passenger imaging device (12) is designed to image a passenger in a vehicle in which a display device (10) is provided on an instrument panel (4), and comprises a camera lens (22) which is built in the display device and whose entrance surface is oriented toward the passenger. The display device is provided to stand upwardly from an upper surface of the instrument panel. The display device comprises a display (16) and an outer frame (18) adjacent to at least a part of an outer edge of the display, and the camera lens is provided inside the outer frame.

Abstract: An R—Fe—B base sintered magnet is provided comprising a main phase containing an HR rich phase of (R?,HR)2(Fe,(Co))14B wherein R? is an element selected from yttrium and rare earth elements exclusive of Dy, Tb and Ho, and essentially contains Nd, and HR is an element selected from Dy, Tb and Ho, and a grain boundary phase containing a (R?,HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase in the form of an amorphous phase and/or nanocrystalline phase, the (R?,HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase consisting essentially of 25-35 at % of (R?,HR), 2-8 at % of M1 which is at least one element selected from Si, Al, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Pt, Au, Hg, Pb, and Bi, up to 8 at % of Co, and the balance of Fe. The HR rich phase has a higher HR content than the HR content of the main phase at its center. The magnet produces a high coercivity despite a low content of Dy, Tb and Ho.

Abstract: An R—Fe—B base sintered magnet is provided comprising a main phase containing an HR rich phase of (R?, HR)2(Fe,(Co))14B wherein R? is an element selected from yttrium and rare earth elements exclusive of Dy, Tb and Ho, and essentially contains Nd, and HR is an element selected from Dy, Tb and Ho, and a grain boundary phase containing a (R?, HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase in the form of an amorphous phase and/or nanocrystalline phase, the (R?, HR)—Fe(Co)-M1 phase consisting essentially of 25-35 at % of (R?, HR), 2-8 at % of M1 which is at least one element selected from Si, Al, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Pt, Au, Hg, Pb, and Bi, up to 8 at % of Co, and the balance of Fe. The HR rich phase has a higher HR content than the HR content of the main phase at its center. The magnet produces a high coercivity despite a low content of Dy, Tb and Ho.

Abstract: Provided is a rare earth sintered magnet in which a multi-layer main phase particle having multiple layers including a layer 1 having R2 concentration, represented by at %, higher than that of a center of the particle, a layer 2 which is formed on the outside of the layer 1 and has R2 concentration lower than that of the layer 1, and a layer 3 which is formed on the outside of the layer 2 and has R2 concentration higher than that of the layer 2 is present at least in a portion in the vicinity of a surface of the main phase particle within at least 500 ?m from a surface of the sintered magnet body.

Abstract: R—Fe—B sintered magnet has a main phase containing R2(Fe,(Co))14B intermetallic compound and a grain boundary phase. The inter-particle grain boundary includes an expanded width part that is surrounded by a narrow width part at which the inter-particle width is 10 nm or less and that has a structure distended in the inter-particle width direction as compared with the grain boundary width of the narrow width part; the inter-particle width at the expanded width part is at least 30 nm; Fe/R ratio in the expanded width part is 0.01-2.5; the main phase includes, in the surface part thereof, an HR-rich phase represented by (R?,HR)2(Fe,(Co))14B (R? represents rare-earth elements excluding Dy, Tb, and Ho, and that essentially include Nd; and HR represents Dy, Tb, and Ho); the contained amount of HR in the HR-rich phase is higher than that in the central part of the main phase.

Abstract: An R—(Fe,Co)—B base sintered magnet consisting essentially of 12-17 at % of R containing Nd and Pr, 0.1-3 at % of M1 (typically Si), 0.05-0.5 at % of M2 (typically Ti), B, and the balance of Fe, and containing R2(Fe,Co)14B as a main phase has a coercivity of at least 10 kOe. The magnet contains a M2 boride phase at a grain boundary triple junction, and has a core/shell structure that the main phase is covered with a grain boundary phase. The grain boundary phase is composed of an amorphous and/or nanocrystalline R?—(Fe,Co)—M1? phase consisting essentially of 25-35 at % of R? containing Pr, 2-8 at % of M1? (typically Si), up to 8 at % of Co, and the balance of Fe. A coverage of the main phase with the R?—(Fe,Co)—M1? phase is at least 50%, and the bi-granular grain boundary phase has a width of at least 50 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle suspension member securing a strength against external force in a vehicle longitudinal direction. A lower arm includes an arm body, a front bush support part, a rear bush support part, a ball joint support part, a first rib, a second rib, and a third rib. The third rib is disposed in a lateral part connecting the ball joint support part to the rear bush support part. An S-shaped rib center curve of the third rib intersects with a straight line at an intersection. |(1?S2/S1)|?0.2 is satisfied, where S1 is area of a first region defined by the rib center curve and the first straight line, and S2 is area of a second region.

Abstract: The invention provides an R—Fe—B sintered magnet consisting essentially of 12-17 at % of Nd, Pr and R, 0.1-3 at % of M1, 0.05-0.5 at % of M2, 4.8+2*m to 5.9+2*m at % of B, and the balance of Fe, containing R2(Fe,(Co))14B intermetallic compound as a main phase, and having a core/shell structure that the main phase is covered with a grain boundary phases. The sintered magnet has an average grain size of less than 6 ?m, a crystal orientation of more than 98%, and a degree of magnetization of more than 96%, and exhibits a coercivity of at least 10 kOe despite a low or nil content of Dy, Tb, and Ho.

Abstract: Provided is a measurement method whereby the amount of unbound bilirubin (UB) can be exactly reflected whether a specimen contains a large amount of conjugated bilirubin or not. The measurement method for UB according to the present invention comprises decomposition step (i), decomposition stopping step (ii), contact step (iii) and detection step (iv). In decomposition step (i), a blood sample containing unconjugated bilirubin (iD-Bil) and conjugated bilirubin (D-Bil) is subjected to an oxidative decomposition reaction of UB in iD-Bil and D-Bil. In decomposition stopping step (ii), the oxidative decomposition reaction is stopped to give a decomposition product of the sample. In contact step (iii), the decomposition product of the sample is contacted with UnaG that is capable of specifically binding to iD-Bil. Separately, an unreacted sample, which is the blood sample not subjected to decomposition step (i), is contacted with UnaG too.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a stacker that stacks sheets of paper; a suction conveyor disposed vertically above the sheets stacked in the stacker for sucking and conveying the sheets; a blower that blows air onto the sheets; and a regulating member disposed on a downstream side of the suction conveyor in a conveyance direction, facing an outlet of the sheets of the suction conveyor and projecting vertically upward, wherein the suction conveyor includes: horizontal portions provided on both ends in a width direction; and a recess provided in an intermediate portion and recessed vertically above the horizontal portions, and a lower limit of a projection height of the regulating member is set so that, when there is a vertical gap between a vertical upper end portion of the regulating member and the horizontal portions, a length of the gap is less than twice a thickness of the sheets.

Abstract: The invention provides an R—Fe—B sintered magnet consisting essentially of 12-17 at % of Nd, Pr and R, 0.1-3 at % of M1, 0.05-0.5 at % of M2, 4.8+2*m to 5.9+2*m at % of B, and the balance of Fe, containing R2(Fe,(Co))14B intermetallic compound as a main phase, and having a core/shell structure that the main phase is covered with grain boundary phases. The sintered magnet exhibits a coercivity of at least 10 kOe despite a low or nil content of Dy, Tb and Ho.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a front edge air part that blows front edge air, along a conveying direction of a sheet stacked, to a front edge side of the sheet; side edge air parts that are provided to face each other along an orthogonal direction to the conveying direction of the sheet and blow side edge air, along the orthogonal direction, to respective side edge sides of the sheet; a suction part that suctions, by a negative pressure, the sheet to which the front edge air and the side edge air are blown; and a conveyer that suctions and conveys the sheet suctioned by the suction part, wherein the front edge air and the side edge air are blown to the sheet to float the sheet in a posture in which a portion protruding from the conveyer of the sheet is lower than a conveying surface of the conveyer.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for predicting chemical structures. The method includes receiving, at a user interface, intended structural feature values and intended chemical property values, as vectors. The method further includes constructing, by a hardware processor, a prediction model, wherein the prediction model predicts other structural feature values from the intended structural feature values and the intended chemical property values, and automatically configuring, by the hardware processor, at least one chemical structure candidate from the other structural feature vectors.

Abstract: A screw compressor is provided with: a compressor body in which a screw rotor is accommodated in a rotor casing; a motor in which a rotator and a stator are accommodated in a motor chamber, the motor for rotationally driving a rotor shaft through use of a motor shaft; axial liquid supplying parts, provided on an anti-rotor side of the motor shaft; a motor shaft cooling part which is a cavity extending in the axial direction inside the motor shaft, the motor shaft cooling part for cooling the motor shaft by circulating a cooling liquid through the inside of the cavity thereof; and a liquid outlet part positioned on a rotor side of the motor shaft or a motor side of the rotor shaft and fluidically connected to the motor shaft cooling part so as to extend radially inward from an outlet opening formed in an outer surface of the motor shaft or the rotor shaft.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet stacker that stores a sheet in a stacked state; a separating air blower that blows air to a sheet from a leading end side in a sheet feeding direction of the stacked sheet; a floating air blower that blows air to a sheet from both sides of a sheet end orthogonal to the sheet feeding direction of the stacked sheet; an attractor that attracts an uppermost sheet that has been floated; a blow direction switcher that changes a blow direction of the floating air blower to an arbitrary direction; and a hardware processor that controls change in the blow direction of the floating air blower by the blow direction switcher in accordance with at least one of a basis weight, a size, and a floating property of a sheet.

Abstract: A rare earth sintered magnet is an anisotropic sintered body comprising Nd2Fe14 B crystal phase as primary phase and having the composition R1aTbMcSidBe wherein R1 is a rare earth element inclusive of Sc and Y, T is Fe and/or Co, M is Al, Cu, Zn, In, P, S, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Ga, Ge, Zr, Nb, Mo, Pd, Ag, Cd, Sn, Sb, Hf, Ta, or W, “a” to “e” are 12?a?17, 0?c?10, 0.3?d?7, 5?e?10, and the balance of b, wherein Dy and/or Tb is diffused into the sintered body from its surface.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a stacker that stacks sheets of paper; a suction conveyor disposed vertically above the sheets stacked in the stacker for sucking and conveying the sheets; a blower that blows air onto the sheets; and a regulating member disposed on a downstream side of the suction conveyor in a conveyance direction, facing an outlet of the sheets of the suction conveyor and projecting vertically upward, wherein the suction conveyor includes: horizontal portions provided on both ends in a width direction; and a recess provided in an intermediate portion and recessed vertically above the horizontal portions, and a lower limit of a projection height of the regulating member is set so that, when there is a vertical gap between a vertical upper end portion of the regulating member and the horizontal portions, a length of the gap is less than twice a thickness of the sheets.