Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprinting method comprises forming a carbon film on a substrate. The carbon film being oxygen in an amount of less than or equal to 15% by weight. A transfer material is dispensed over the carbon film. A patterned template is brought into contact with the transfer material. The transfer material is cured with light passing through the patterned template. The patterned template is then detached from the cured transfer material.

Abstract: A control method of a heat medium includes a flow rate control process and a supply stop process. In the flow rate control process, a flow rate of the heat medium is decreased in a state where the heat medium is being supplied from a temperature controller configured to supply the heat medium whose temperature is controlled into a flow path formed in a heat exchange member configured to exchange heat with a temperature control target object. In the supply stop process, a supply of the heat medium into the flow path is stopped by controlling a supply valve provided at a supply line that connects the temperature controller and the flow path of the heat exchange member.

Abstract: A temperature controlling apparatus includes a member having a member flow path within the member, and includes a first temperature controller configured to control a temperature of a first temperature-controlled medium to a first temperature. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a second temperature controller configured to control a temperature of a second temperature-controlled medium to a second temperature, the second temperature differing from the first temperature. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a first flow path of the first temperature-controlled medium, between the member flow path and the first temperature controller. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a second flow path of the second temperature-controlled medium, between the member flow path and the second temperature controller, and includes a third flow path of the first temperature-controlled medium that flows to the first temperature controller, without using the member flow path.

Abstract: A temperature control system includes a first pump, a second pump, a temperature adjusting unit, a first flow passage, a second flow passage, a first valve disposed in the first flow passage, a second valve disposed in the second flow passage, a first bypass flow passage connecting the first flow passage to the second flow passage on the temperature adjusting unit side of the first and second valves, a second bypass flow passage connecting the first flow passage to the second flow passage on the flow passage side of the first and second valves, a third valve disposed in the first bypass flow passage, and a fourth valve disposed in the second bypass flow passage. At least one of a pair of the first valve and the second valve, and a pair of the third valve and the fourth valve is a pair of flow rate adjustable valves.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus that presses a fine pattern of an original plate against a photo-curable resin dropped onto a substrate, and transfers the fine pattern to the photo-curable resin by applying light, includes a dropping unit that drops the photo-curable resin onto a shot region obtained by dividing the substrate into a plurality of sections, an original plate supporting unit that stamps the original plate on the photo-curable resin on the substrate, the original plate being supported the fine pattern towards the substrate side, and a substrate supporting unit that supports the substrate and moves the substrate such that a position of a predetermined shot region of the substrate is a dropping position of the dropping unit or a stamping position of the original plate, in which the dropping unit is controlled such that the photo-curable resin is sequentially dropped onto the plurality of shot regions of the substrate, and the original plate supporting unit is controlled such that

Abstract: A method of controlling a flow rate of fluid flowing through a passage formed in a member of a system is provided. The system includes the member, a first pipe connected to one side of the passage, a second pipe connected to another side of the passage, a third pipe connecting the first pipe and the second pipe at a side opposite the passage, a bypass pipe connecting the first pipe and the second pipe at a location closer to the member relative to the third pipe, a first valve provided at the first pipe, a bypass valve provided at the bypass pipe, and a pump provided at the third pipe, which is configured to supply the fluid to the passage. The method includes controlling the first valve, controlling the bypass valve, and controlling an operating frequency of the pump.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a resist material to be used in an imprint process includes a diluent monomer having a hydroxyl group and at least one functional group selected from a vinyl ether group, an epoxy group and an oxetanyl group. The material further includes a dendrimer having at least two reactive groups for photo-cationic polymerization. The material further includes a photo-acid generator as a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a tobacco raw material in which the green color of the tobacco raw material is maintained and a browning-involved enzyme included in tobacco leaves is deactivated. Specifically, a method of manufacturing a tobacco raw material is provided that includes a step for heating a tobacco leaf material, which has an a* value of 1.0 or less, the a* value being expressed by the L*a*b* method, and which has a moisture content of 8 wt % or less, at a temperature of 75° C. or higher and under a humidity-controlled environment so that the a* value is 1.0 or less and the content of the browning-involved enzyme is 0.1 U/g or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a template for imprint patterning processes comprises a template substrate having a first surface and a pedestal on the first surface of the template substrate, the pedestal having a second surface spaced from the first surface in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface. A pattern is disposed on the second surface. The pedestal has a sidewall between the first surface and the second surface that is at an angle of less than 90° to the second surface.

Abstract: An age verification system includes a management apparatus and a mobile terminal. The management apparatus transmits a request signal including image data. The mobile terminal includes a communication unit, a display unit, an operation unit, and a response processing unit. The communication unit receives the request signal from the management apparatus. The display unit displays an age verification screen by using the image data included in the request signal. The operation unit receives an operation input by a confirmer when the age verification screen is viewed by the confirmer, as an age verification result. The response processing unit transmits a response signal including the age verification result to the management apparatus.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one example of an embodiment includes: a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with at least one separator interposed therebetween. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a negative electrode lead is bonded to an inner surface X of a negative electrode collector facing the inside in a radial direction, and an insulating tape is adhered to, among surfaces of an overlapping portion of the negative electrode lead and the negative electrode collector, at least a surface at an outer side in the radial direction of the electrode assembly. The insulating tape includes a base material layer, an adhesive layer, and an inorganic particle-containing layer formed therebetween, and the inorganic particle-containing layer contains 20 percent by weight or more of inorganic particles with respect to the weight of the layer described above.

Abstract: The shopping assistance system includes a basket body, a management system and a packing machine. The shopping basket includes a basket body, a goods information receiver and a transmitter. The basket body allows goods to be put in. The goods information receiver is configured to read respective goods information from each of the goods to acquire pieces of goods information on the goods. The transmitter is configured to transmit the pieces of goods information acquired through the goods information receiver. The management system includes a receiver configured to receive the pieces of goods information from the transmitter. The packing machine is configured to transfer the goods put in the basket body together from the basket body to a container.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a resist material to be used in an imprint process includes a diluent monomer having a hydroxyl group and at least one functional group selected from a vinyl ether group, an epoxy group and an oxetanyl group. The material further includes a dendrimer having at least two reactive groups for photo-cationic polymerization. The material further includes a photo-acid generator as a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a resist material to be used in an imprint process includes a diluent monomer having a hydroxyl group and at least one functional group selected from a vinyl ether group, an epoxy group and an oxetanyl group. The material further includes a dendrimer having at least two reactive groups for photo-cationic polymerization. The material further includes a photo-acid generator as a polymerization initiator.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a photosensitive composition is provided. The photosensitive composition contains a photosensitive material. The photosensitive composition, when a whole amount of the composition is 100 pts. mass, a sum total of values each obtained by multiplying a SP value, which is a solubility parameter, by a mass percentage of a photopolymerizable monomer contained in the composition is any value within a range of 17 to 20 [(J/cm3)1/2].

Abstract: It is an object to improve the initial charge-discharge efficiency of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium. There is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte, and a negative electrode which includes, as negative electrode active materials, a carbon material and a metal or metal oxide that forms an alloy with lithium and in which at least part of a surface of the carbon material is coated with a polymer material that does not react with lithium. The mass percentage of the polymer material that does not react with lithium relative to the carbon material is preferably 0.5 to 2 mass %.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary battery wherein the electrode includes a collector and a positive electrode active material layer which is stacked upon the collector, and which includes a positive electrode active material, a conductive agent, and a binder; the binder includes a first polymer and a second polymer; the first polymer is a fluorine-containing polymer; the second polymer includes a polymerized moiety having a nitrile group, a polymerized moiety having a hydrophilic group, a polymerized (meth)acrylic acid ester moiety, and a straight-chain polymerized alkylene moiety having a carbon number of at least 4; the proportion of the first polymer and the second polymer in the binder, expressed as a mass ratio, is in the range of 95:5 to 5:95.

Abstract: A planar patch clamp device comprising: an electrical insulating substrate (2) having a first surface having a cell arrangement region and a second surface of the opposite surface and having a through hole (3) in the cell arrangement region which does not pass cells, but pass liquid; a first reservoir (6) provided at the first surface side (2S) of the electrical insulating substrate (2) to be able to communicate with the through hole (3) and hold a first conductive liquid; a first electrode part (7) arranged to be able to be electrically conductive with the first reservoir (6) through the first conductive liquid; a second reservoir (6?) provided at the second surface side (2S?) of the electrical insulating substrate to be able to communicate with the through hole (3) and hold a second conductive liquid; a second electrode part (7?) arranged to be able to be electrically conductive with the second reservoir (6?) through the second conductive liquid; a supply path (8) connected to the second reservoir (6?) and

Abstract: A tinnitus masking system for use by a person having tinnitus. The system comprises a sound delivery system having left and right ear-level audio delivery devices and is configured to deliver a masking sound to the person via the audio delivery devices such that the masking sound appears to originate from a virtual sound source location that substantially corresponds to the spatial location in 3D auditory space of the source of the tinnitus as perceived by the person. The masking sound being represented by left and right audio signals that are converted to audible sound by the respective audio delivery devices.

Abstract: The initial charge/discharge efficiency and cycle characteristics of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery are improved. Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a porous layer placed on the negative electrode, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The porous layer has flat voids. The minor axis direction of each flat void is perpendicular to the plane direction of the porous layer and the major axis direction of the flat void is parallel to the plane direction of the porous layer. The ratio of the major axis to the minor axis of the flat void preferably ranges from 1.4 to 2.2.