Abstract: An object is to provide a method of differentiating pluripotent stem cells. A method of differentiating pluripotent stem cells, the method comprising steps of: seeding the pluripotent stem cells in a container provided with seeding medium! differentiating the pluripotent stem cells in the container; transferring the pluripotent stem cells from the container into a chamber of a bioreactor when the pluripotent stem cells reach their progenitor stage; and maturing the pluripotent stem cells in the chamber, wherein a floor of the chamber includes a concave and a convex, fluid of medium flows in the chamber and oxygen is supplied into the chamber.

Abstract: An induced air discharging unit includes: a jet flow generator configured to discharge supply air fed from outside, the jet flow generator discharging the supply air as a jet flow of air; an air inducer configured to allow air of an air-conditioning target space to be induced by an inducing effect of the jet flow of air discharged from the jet flow generator; an air mixer configured to discharge mixed air of the jet flow of air from the jet flow generator and the air induced by the air inducer to the air-conditioning target space, and radiate heat of the mixed air to the air-conditioning target space; and an air purifier configured to produce a purifying substance that purifies a purification target substance by chemical reaction, and blow out the purifying substance to the air-conditioning target space.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic laminate having excellent mechanical properties, heat dissipation property, insulating property, heat resistance and anti-reactivity, and particularly an insulative heat dissipating body having an excellent thermal cycle reliability and a high withstand voltage. The ceramic laminate 1 according to the present invention is a ceramic laminate in which a ceramic film 3 is formed on a metal layer 2, wherein the ceramic film 3 has a minimum film thickness of 1 ?m or more, contains silicon nitride and inevitable impurities, and has silicon nitride crystal grains having an average grain size of 300 nm or less in the film thickness direction and an average grain size of 500 nm or less in the in-plane direction.

Abstract: An air-source heat pump air conditioner includes a first heat pump including a first refrigeration cycle that is formed by a first air-conditioning heat exchanger, a first heat-source heat exchanger, a first compressor, and first refrigerant flowing therethrough; a second heat pump including a second refrigeration cycle that is formed by a second air-conditioning heat exchanger, a second heat-source heat exchanger, a second compressor, and second refrigerant flowing therethrough; and an air conditioner control device configured to control the first heat pump and the second heat pump to operate at least one of the first refrigeration cycle and the second refrigeration cycle for a space to be air conditioned, the air-conditioning air containing outside air, return air, and other air that exchange heat with the first circulating refrigerant and the second circulating refrigerant in the first air-conditioning heat exchanger and the second air-conditioning heat exchanger.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a first heat exchanger configured to perform a first process of cooling air-conditioning air by heat-exchange water; a second heat exchanger configured to perform a second process of cooling the air-conditioning air by the heat-exchange water; a first water passage configured to cause the heat-exchange water to flow through the first heat exchanger and then flow through the second heat exchanger; a second water passage branching off from the first water passage and configured to cause the heat-exchange water that has been used in the first process to flow in a manner to bypass the second heat exchanger; a first water regulating valve configured to adjust performance of the first heat exchanger in the first process; a second water regulating valve configured to adjust performance of the second heat exchanger in the second process; and an air conditioner control device configured to adjust the air-conditioning air.

Abstract: An induced air discharging unit includes: a jet flow generator configured to discharge supply air fed from outside, the jet flow generator discharging the supply air as a jet flow of air; an air inducer configured to allow air of an air-conditioning target space to be induced by an inducing effect of the jet flow of air discharged from the jet flow generator; an air mixer configured to discharge mixed air of the jet flow of air from the jet flow generator and the air induced by the air inducer to the air-conditioning target space, and radiate heat of the mixed air to the air-conditioning target space; and an air purifier configured to produce a purifying substance that purifies a purification target substance by chemical reaction, and blow out the purifying substance to the air-conditioning target space.

Abstract: According to this invention, an oriented copper plate which has a highly developed cube texture and has strength and breaking elongation greater than those of a conventional material having a cube texture, a copper-clad laminate, a flexible circuit board that is excellent in terms of folding flexibility, and an electronic device are provided, and a process for producing the oriented copper plate is established. This invention relates: an oriented copper plate, which contains 0.03% by mass to 1.0% by mass of Cr, the remainder of which is composed of copper and inevitable impurities, wherein the copper plate has a <100> main orientation so that the area percentage of a <100> preferred orientation region is not less than 60.

Abstract: According to this invention, an oriented copper plate which has a highly developed cube texture and has strength and breaking elongation greater than those of a conventional material having a cube texture, a copper-clad laminate, a flexible circuit board that is excellent in terms of folding flexibility, and an electronic device are provided, and a process for producing the oriented copper plate is established. This invention relates: an oriented copper plate, which contains 0.03% by mass to 1.0% by mass of Cr, the remainder of which is composed of copper and inevitable impurities, wherein the copper plate has a <100> main orientation so that the area percentage of a <100> preferred orientation region is not less than 60.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide cellobiohydrolase with high activity. The activity of cellobiohydrolase can be improved by substituting, with alanine, asparagine that is the amino acid at position 62 from the N-terminal of cellobiohydrolase shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or asparagine at a position corresponding to the position 62 in an amino acid sequence corresponding to the sequence of the cellobiohydrolase shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.

Abstract: A metal tape material contains a metal having face centered cubic lattice structure, in which metal tape material an area fraction A1 of a preferentially <100>oriented region are within an orientation difference of 15° C. relative to a thickness direction of the metal tape material and further within an orientation difference of 15° C. relative to a first in-plane direction of the metal tape material is 60% or greater and not greater than 100%, and, where an area fraction of a preferentially <212>oriented region are within an orientation difference of 15° relative to the thickness direction and further within an orientation difference of 15° relative to the first in-plane direction is defined as A2, the total of the area fraction of the preferentially <212>oriented region and the area fraction of the preferentially <100>oriented region, A1+A2, is greater than 70% and not greater than 100%.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide cellobiohydrolase with high activity. The activity of cellobiohydrolase can be improved by substituting, with alanine, asparagine that is the amino acid at position 62 from the N-terminal of cellobiohydrolase shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, or asparagine at a position corresponding to the position 62 in an amino acid sequence corresponding to the sequence of the cellobiohydrolase shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes an air conditioner, a heat source device, and a controller. In a case where an indoor temperature is a setting value, the controller performs a first adjustment operation including: transmitting a switching signal to the heat source device to instruct the heat source device to switch a setting water temperature to a first setting water temperature; and adjusting a temperature difference of heat-exchange water to a target water temperature difference. In a case where the indoor temperature is not the setting value, the controller performs a second adjustment operation including: transmitting a switching signal to the heat source device to instruct the heat source device to switch the setting water temperature to a second setting water temperature; and adjusting an air supply temperature of air-conditioning air to a setting air supply temperature.

Abstract: A heat pump air conditioner includes an intake side heat exchanger including heat transfer pipes passing a refrigerant and being arranged in a direction along an air inlet face, intake heat exchanger configured to cool or warm air and supply the air to a space. A plurality of heat pumps include a plurality of compressors and configured to compress the refrigerant and supply the compressed refrigerant to the heat transfer pipes and a plurality of heat side exchangers and connected to the respective compressors, the heat pumps sharing the air intake side heat exchanger, and a controller configured to switch a state of the compressors and between an operating state and an operation stopped state. The controller controls the compressors and to switch an operation of each of the compressors and between starting and stopping in accordance with a magnitude of an air-conditioning load.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper-based bonding wire whose material cost is low, having excellent ball bondability, reliability in a heat cycle test or reflow test, and storage life, enabling an application to thinning of a wire used for fine pitch connection. The bonding wire includes a core material having copper as a main component and an outer layer which is provided on the core material and contains a metal M and copper, in which the metal M differs from the core material in one or both of components and composition. The outer layer is 0.021 to 0.12 ?m in thickness.

Abstract: Provided are a flexible circuit board with excellent bendability and durability against hard conditions particularly in a repeated bend portion having a small curvature radius, and a method of producing the same. The flexible circuit board includes a resin layer and a wiring formed of a metal foil and is used with a bend portion provided at least one position of the wiring. The metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and a cross section of the wiring cut in a thickness direction from a ridge line in the bend portion forms a principal orientation on any one of planes within a range of (20 1 0) to (1 20 0) in a rotation direction from (100) to (110) with [001] set as a zone axis. The wiring is formed so that the metal foil is made of a metal having a cubic crystal structure, and that the ridge line in the bend portion has an angle in a range of 2.9° to 87.1° relative to one of fundamental crystal axes <100> in a surface of the metal foil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring surface properties of a polishing pad which measures surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The method of measuring surface properties of a polishing pad includes applying a laser beam to the polishing pad, detecting scattered light that is reflected and scattered by the polishing pad with a photodetector and performing an optical Fourier transform on the detected scattered light to produce an intensity distribution corresponding to a spatial wavelength spectrum based on surface topography of the polishing pad, and calculating a numerical value representing surface properties of the polishing pad based on the intensity distribution corresponding to two different prescribed spatial wavelength ranges.

Abstract: A box body (11) includes a plurality of terminal plates (14) arranged in the box body (11), and a cable introduction portion (13) disposed on a side surface of the box body (11) to introduce a connection cable (20). A water blocking sleeve (30) is disposed around the connection cable (20) to secure the connection cable (20) to the cable introduction portion (13). The water blocking sleeve (30) is disposed between the cable introduction portion (13) and the connection cable (20). The water blocking sleeve (30) includes an inner sleeve (31) in close contact with the connection cable (20), and an outer sleeve (32) disposed on an outer side of the inner sleeve (31) and being in close contact with the cable introduction portion (13). The inner sleeve (31) and the outer sleeve (32) are integral with one another.

Abstract: In an induction emission air conditioning apparatus installed in a ceiling, it is provided within a casing with a heat exchanger through which a feed air introduced from an outdoor side passes, a fan passing the feed air through the air conditioning heat exchanger, and a heating and cooling unit 1 for blowing a mixed air obtained by inducing and suctioning the air in the room inside by using the feed air passing through the heat exchanger so as to mix with the feed air, into the room inside in a laminar manner, and emitting the heat of the mixed air to the room inside, integrally.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring surface properties of a polishing pad which measures surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The method of measuring surface properties of a polishing pad includes applying a laser beam to the polishing pad, detecting scattered light that is reflected and scattered by the polishing pad with a photodetector and performing an optical Fourier transform on the detected scattered light to produce an intensity distribution corresponding to a spatial wavelength spectrum based on surface topography of the polishing pad, and calculating a numerical value representing surface properties of the polishing pad based on the intensity distribution corresponding to two different prescribed spatial wavelength ranges.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad which measures surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad includes a laser beam source configured to emit a laser beam, and a photodetector configured to detect scattered light that is reflected and scattered by the polishing pad, an optical Fourier transform being performed on the detected scattered light to produce an intensity distribution corresponding to a spatial wavelength spectrum based on surface topography of the polishing pad. The laser beam is applied to the polishing pad at such an incident angle that the laser beam does not reach a bottom portion of a pore formed in the surface of the polishing pad.