Abstract: Three ROIs, ROI-c, ROI-d, and ROI-e, are set for an L? peak and an L? peak reflecting an electron state of a valance band. Accumulated values in the ROI-c, ROI-d, and ROI-e are respectively normalized with reference to an accumulated value in an ROI-a, to determine a sample vector. The sample vector is compared to a plurality of compound vectors corresponding to a plurality of compounds, and a compound forming the sample is estimated based on a compound vector having the highest similarity.

Abstract: Provided are high purity tungsten pentachloride, and a method for obtaining such high purity tungsten pentachloride at a high yield and in an efficient manner. Tungsten pentachloride in which a total content of metal impurities excluding Sb, Ti, and As is less than 10 wtppm is obtained by uniformly mixing one or more types of reducing agents selected from Sb, Ti, and As and tungsten hexachloride at a molar ratio of 1.0:2.0 to 1.0:5.0 (reducing agent/WCl6 ratio) in an inert atmosphere to obtain a mixture, heating and reducing the mixture for 1 to 100 hours in a temperature range in which a chloride of tungsten and the reducing agent becomes a liquid phase to obtain a reduced product, heating the reduced product for 1 to 100 hours at 100 Pa or less and in a temperature range of 90 to 130° C.

Abstract: A method comprises: annealing a steel sheet by conveying the steel sheet through a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone in the stated order in an annealing furnace; and then applying a hot-dip galvanized coating onto the steel sheet discharged from the cooling zone. Reducing or non-oxidizing humidified gas and reducing or non-oxidizing dry gas are supplied into the soaking zone. A CO gas concentration is measured using a CO gas concentration meter provided in an exhaust portion for gas in the soaking zone. A decarburized layer thickness of the steel sheet is calculated from the measured CO gas concentration. At least one of a flow rate and a dew point of the humidified gas is controlled so that the calculated decarburized layer thickness is less than or equal to a predetermined thickness.

Abstract: Provided are cobalt ferrite particles having a micrometer-order average particle diameter and similar particle diameters. When a cobalt ferrite precursor is treated at a high temperature and a high pressure, an oxidation reaction is caused in the presence of a complexing agent, thereby obtaining intended cobalt ferrite magnetic particles.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base material, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, an organic layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and including an opening portion overlapping with the second electrode, and a third electrode covering the second electrode and the second insulating layer. The first electrode, the organic layer, and the second electrode are separated for each pixel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first insulating layer disposed on a base material, a first electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and including an opening portion, a barrier wall disposed on the second insulating layer, an organic layer in contact with the first electrode through the opening portion and in contact with the second insulating layer between the opening portion and the barrier wall, a second electrode disposed on the organic layer, an insulator covering side surfaces of the barrier wall and edge portions of the organic layer and the second electrode, and a third electrode covering the second electrode, the barrier wall, and the insulator.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electroplated steel sheet by continuously performing electroplating on a steel sheet, the method including disposing a slit gas nozzle having an ejection port having a width wider than a width of the steel sheet in a width direction of the steel sheet on a side of an exit of an electroplating cell for the steel sheet to pass through, and ejecting a gas through the slit gas nozzle toward the steel sheet.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base, a first insulating layer, a first pixel electrode on the first insulating layer in a pixel, a second pixel electrode on the first insulating layer in a dummy pixel, a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, a first organic layer in the pixel and in contact with the first pixel electrode, a second organic layer in the dummy pixel, a partition wall on the second insulating layer and between the organic layers and a common electrode covering the organic layers and the partition wall. An end portion of the first organic layer is in contact with a side surface of the partition wall.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, first and second insulating layers, first and second pixel electrodes, first and second organic layers, first and second feed lines, first and second partitions, and a common electrode including first and second parts covering the first and second organic layers. The first organic layer is between the partitions. The second feed line and the second partition are located between the organic layers. The partitions are shaped such that a width of an upper part is greater than a width of a lower part. The first part is in contact with the first feed line between the first partition and the first organic layer.

Abstract: A cluster classification device includes an environmental condition acquisition unit, a classification unit, and a storage unit. The environmental condition acquisition unit acquires an environmental condition in order to generate a specific environment in a target space. The classification unit generates a cluster from a plurality of environmental conditions acquired by the environmental condition acquisition unit, based on features of the environmental conditions. The storage unit stores the cluster and a feature of the cluster in association with each other. An environment generation device generates, using an environmental condition classified by the cluster classification device, a predetermined environment in the target space. An environment generation system includes the cluster classification device and a control device that controls an environment generation device that generates a specific environment in the target space.

Abstract: A gas wiping nozzle configured to blow wiping gas onto a metal strip includes a first nozzle member and a second nozzle member provided to face each other, in which a slit as a gas blowing port is formed to extend in a length direction between end portions of the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member on the metal strip side; and a shim member configured to adjust a gap of the slit in a width direction orthogonal to the length direction, wherein the shim member is made of a ceramic material or a carbon material, each of the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member has a groove portion, and the shim member is fitted into both of the groove portions of the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member and fixes the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member.

Abstract: An environmental condition storage device is usable to store an environmental condition. The environmental condition storage device includes an environmental condition acquisition unit, a tactile information acquisition unit, and a storage unite. The environmental condition acquisition unit acquires an environmental condition including at least one of a temperature, humidity, wind, a picture, an image, and a sound. The tactile information acquisition unit acquires tactile information indicating a tactile sensation. The storage unit stores the environmental condition and the tactile information in association with each other.

Abstract: Provided is a method for nitriding a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which is very useful in obtaining excellent magnetic properties with no variation, that enables generating glow discharge between positive electrodes and negative electrodes disposed in a nitriding zone and irradiating the generated plasma to a strip to perform appropriate nitriding.

Abstract: A cluster classification device includes an environmental condition acquisition unit, a classification unit, and a storage unit. The environmental condition acquisition unit acquires an environmental condition in order to generate a specific environment in a target space. The classification unit generates a cluster from a plurality of environmental conditions acquired by the environmental condition acquisition unit, based on features of the environmental conditions. The storage unit stores the cluster and a feature of the cluster in association with each other. An environment generation device generates, using an environmental condition classified by the cluster classification device, a predetermined environment in the target space. An environment generation system includes the cluster classification device and a control device that controls an environment generation device that generates a specific environment in the target space.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a hot-dip metal coated steel strip with which a hot-dip metal coated steel strip of high quality can be produced by sufficiently suppressing edge overcoating. The method comprises spraying gas from a pair of gas wiping nozzles 20A and 20B onto a steel strip S while being pulled up from a molten metal bath 14, to adjust a coating weight of molten metal on both sides of the steel strip S, wherein a pair of baffle plates 40 and 42 are respectively placed outside of both transverse edges of the steel strip, and a height B of a lower end of each of the pair of baffle plates 40 and 42 with respect to a bath surface of the molten metal bath is set to +50 mm or less, where an upper side in a vertical direction is positive.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.

Abstract: A display control apparatus is configured to control a display of a head-up display provided in a vehicle configured to receive power by a wireless power transfer. The display control apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: acquiring power supply position information indicating a position of a power supply apparatus that is installed in a road and configured to perform power reception by the wireless power transfer; and causing the head-up display to display guidance information that guides the vehicle to the position indicated by the power supply position information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a hot-dip metal coated steel strip capable of sufficiently suppressing generation of bath wrinkles and producing high-quality hot-dip metal coated steel strip at low cost. The disclosed method of producing a hot-dip metal coated steel strip includes: blowing a gas from a pair of gas wiping nozzles 20A and 20B to a steel strip S while being pulled up from a molten metal bath 14 so as to adjust a coating weight of molten metal on both sides of the steel strip S, in which each of the gas wiping nozzles 20A and 20B includes an injection port portion that is installed downward with respect to a horizontal plane such that an angle formed by the injection port portion and the horizontal plane is 10° or more and 75° or less, and has a header pressure below 30 kPa.

Abstract: A sintered compact target containing an element(s) (A) and an element(s) (B) as defined below is provided. The sintered compact target is free from pores having an average diameter of 1 ?m or more, and the number of micropores having an average diameter of less than 1 ?m existing in 40000 ?m2 of the target surface is 100 micropores or less. The element(s) (A) is one or more chalcogenide elements selected from S, Se, and Te, and the element(s) (B) is one or more Vb group elements selected from Bi, Sb, As, P, and N. The provided technology is able to eliminate the source of grain dropping or generation of nodules in the target during sputtering, and additionally inhibit the generation of particles.