Abstract: A liquid sterilization device includes: an outer tube through which a fluid to be sterilized flows from one end side to the other end side in the axial direction; a flow-regulating plate that has a plurality of tapered holes having diameters thereof increasing from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction; and a light source that applies ultraviolet light to a sterilization space on the other end side relative to the flow-regulating plate.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device that have a new structure are provided, in which memory cells are laminated in a three dimensional state so that the chip area may be reduced. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device that has a plurality of the memory strings, in which a plurality of electrically programmable memory cells is connected in series. The memory strings comprise a pillar shaped semiconductor; a first insulation film formed around the pillar shaped semiconductor; a charge storage layer formed around the first insulation film; the second insulation film formed around the charge storage layer; and first or nth electrodes formed around the second insulation film (n is natural number more than 1). The first or nth electrodes of the memory strings and the other first or nth electrodes of the memory strings are respectively the first or nth conductor layers that are spread in a two dimensional state.

Abstract: An information takeover system includes: a first board that includes a first control unit and a first storage unit storing first information about an air conditioning apparatus; and a second board that includes a second control unit and is connectable to the first board in an information exchangeable manner. The first control unit is configured to perform first control to transmit the first information to the second board with the first board and the second board connected to each other in the information exchangeable manner.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in a first direction toward a recording head for ejecting a liquid, a tank including a containing chamber containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, and an injection port through which the liquid is injected into the containing chamber, the tank being disposed downstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction, a rotatable lever that holds a tank cap for closing the injection port, and a cover that rotates about a rotation shaft between an open position for exposing the lever and a closed position for covering the lever, the rotation shaft being disposed upstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction. The cover includes a sliding portion that is provided on a surface facing the lever and comes into contact with the lever while the cover is rotating toward the closed position.

Abstract: A system for detecting a presence of a person in a hoistway, having: one or more controllers configured to authenticate the person in the hoistway; the one or more controllers being operationally connected to an elevator car in the hoistway and configured to determine whether the person is within a predetermined distance of the elevator car from a signal emitter on the person; wherein when the person is within the predetermined distance of the elevator car, the one or more controllers is configured to transmit a feedback request to the person and stop the elevator car unless the one or more controllers receives feedback to the feedback request within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip includes a first electrode connected to a gate of a power device, a second electrode connected to an emitter or a source of the power device, a third electrode, and a gate protection element. The gate protection element includes a first node and a second node, and a plurality of stages of p-n junctions formed between the first node and the second node. When one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a target electrode and the other is a non-target electrode, and the first node is connected to the third electrode and the second node is connected to the target electrode. Then, the first electrode, the second electrode, the third electrode and the gate protection element are formed in the same semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a tank including a chamber configured to store liquid to be supplied to a recording head that ejects the liquid and a filling port from which the liquid is injected into the chamber, and an injection auxiliary member configured to assist injecting of the liquid into the chamber from the filling port, the injection auxiliary member including a first and a second flow channels each defined by a first or a second upper end portion that opens toward outside of the tank and a first or a second lower end portion that opens toward inside of the tank, wherein the second flow channel has an expansion portion arranged in a middle portion between the second upper end portion and the second lower end portion and configured to form a step to expand a cross-sectional area.

Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy adhesive composition capable of reducing re-aggregation of an adhesive layer modifier, maintaining favorable viscosity for a long period of time, exhibiting high adhesiveness, and reducing process failures during application of the adhesive. Provided is an epoxy adhesive composition containing: a modified polyvinyl acetal resin having a constitutional unit with an acid-modified group; an adhesive layer modifier; and an epoxy resin, the epoxy adhesive composition having a ratio of an acid-modified group equivalent of the modified polyvinyl acetal resin to an epoxy equivalent of the epoxy resin (acid-modified group equivalent/epoxy equivalent) of 5.0 to 150.0, the epoxy adhesive composition having a number ratio of the acid-modified group to an epoxy group (acid-modified group number/epoxy group number) of 0.0005 to 0.5.

Abstract: A battery pack case which is used for forming a battery pack that is mounted at an electric vehicle, the battery pack case comprising: a tray that is attached to a body of an electric vehicle; a battery-holding member for holding a battery, the battery-holding member being attached onto at least a part of the tray; and a cover that covers the tray and the battery-holding member from above, wherein at least two of the tray, the battery-holding member, or the cover contain a fiber-reinforced plastic.

Abstract: An ink tank that enables to check whether a cover of an ink tank is normally bonded to the ink tank includes a first chamber having a supply port for supplying ink to a printing head that ejects ink, a second chamber having an external air introduction port capable of introducing external air, a partition wall configured to separate the first chamber and the second chamber, a communication path provided in the partition wall and configured to place the first chamber and the second chamber in communication with each other, a first cover member configured to cover an opening of the first chamber without extending over an opening of the second chamber, and a second cover member configured to cover the opening of the second chamber without extending over the opening of the first chamber.

Abstract: A fluid sterilizing apparatus includes: a cylindrical inner pipe which has cutouts penetrating in a radial direction and an outlet pipe projecting in the radial direction; an outer pipe which has, between itself and the inner pipe, an annular space in communication with the cutouts and which houses the inner pipe; an inflow pipe which allows a fluid to flow into the outer pipe; an outflow pipe which is provided coaxially with the inflow pipe and which is connected with the outlet pipe to allow the fluid having passed through the annular space to flow out; and a light source which irradiates the fluid passing through the interior of the inner pipe with ultraviolet light via an ultraviolet light transmitting window.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transformer having a high degree of design freedom for adjusting leakage inductance, while conforming to arrangement constraints between components in order to ensure the insulating properties of the transformer. This transformer has a core formed of a magnetic body, a primary coil wound around the core and being connected to a high-voltage side, the primary coil having two coil layers of an inner primary coil and an outer primary coil arranged more toward an outer peripheral side than the inner primary coil, and a second primary coil wound around the core and connected to a low-voltage side, the outer primary coil being arranged offset with respect to the inner primary coil in the longitudinal direction of the axis of the core.

Abstract: In a piezoelectric element including, on a substrate in the following order, a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode layer, the upper electrode layer includes an oxide conductive layer, has an interface layer containing a constituent element of the oxide conductive layer and an OH group, between the piezoelectric film and the oxide conductive layer of the upper electrode layer, where the interface layer has an amorphous structure and has a thickness of 1 nm or more and 5 nm or less, and in a case where a peak intensity of binding energy derived from a 1s orbital of oxygen bonded to a metal is denoted as ?, and a peak intensity of binding energy derived from a 1s orbital of oxygen constituting the OH group is denoted as ?, a peak intensity ratio ?/? is 0.35 or more.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body and first and second external electrodes respectively on both end surfaces of the laminated body. When regions where first internal electrodes or second internal electrodes are not present are regarded as side margin portions in a cross section of the laminated body as viewed from the laminating direction, the side margin portions include multiple side margin layers, and the content of Si in the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode is lower than that in the side margin layer other than the side margin layer closest to the internal electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a running device including a frame (11) and a first wheel part (15) and a second wheel part (35) arranged with an appropriate distance therebetween along a running direction (R). The first wheel part (15) includes a first left support arm (17) and a first right support arm (26) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane extending along the running direction (R). The second wheel part (35) includes a second support arm (36) arranged on the frame (11) in a manner to be swingable within a plane perpendicular to the running direction (R). The first left support arm (17) has first left wheels (19, 21) respectively on both sides thereof, and the first right support arm (26) has first right wheels (28, 30) respectively on both sides thereof. The second support arm (36) has a second left wheel (38) and a second right wheel (40) respectively on both sides thereof.

Abstract: In a system (1) including a robot (25), a transportation device (35) moving with the robot (25) mounted thereon, and a controller, an operating pose of the robot (25) and an operation position of the transportation device (35) in a three-dimensional space formed by first, second, and third axes orthogonal to one another are set by a teaching operation. The transportation device (35) is moved to a predetermined operation position and this operation position is stored as a provisional operation position, and the robot (25) is brought into a predetermined operating pose and this operating pose is stored as a provisional operating pose. Subsequently, an acting part (29) of the robot (25) is moved along the first axis and the second axis to confirm whether movable amounts of the acting part (29) exceed positioning error amounts in the same directions of the transportation device (35).

Abstract: Provided is an electrode mixture used for an all-solid-state sodium storage battery that can maintain a high discharging capacity in a room temperature environment and exhibit excellent charge-discharge cycle characteristics. Further provided is a storage battery comprising the same. An object of the present invention is to provide an electrode mixture used for an all-solid-state sodium storage battery, the electrode mixture comprising an active material, wherein the active material is a cluster formed of polyphosphate acid transition metal oxide with a plurality of individual particles connected together, each particle having a particle size within the range of 0.1 ?m to 100 ?m.

Abstract: A self-propelled device includes a wheel-driven traveling body and a laser sensor. The laser sensor emits laser light while rotating the laser light around the laser sensor and receives reflected light of the laser light to output two-dimensional distance data representing a distance to an object located around the laser sensor for each angle around the laser sensor. The traveling body includes a controller that controls traveling of the traveling body on the basis of the two-dimensional distance data output from the laser sensor. The laser sensor is provided on the traveling body such that a scan plane that is a region through which the laser light passes during rotation of the laser light has a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A method for producing a carbon material may include: granulating a raw carbon material by applying mechanical energy comprising impact, compression, friction, and/or shear force. The granulating may be carried out in the presence of a granulating agent. The granulating agent may be liquid during the granulating of the raw carbon material. Alternatively or in addition, the granulating agent may include no organic solvent, an organic solvent having no flash point, or no organic solvent having a flash point of 5° C. or higher.