Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.

Abstract: Examples of systems and methods to facilitate audiovisual presence transitions of virtual objects such as virtual avatars in a mixed reality collaborative environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to produce different audiovisual presence transitions such as appearance, disappearance and reappearance of the virtual avatars. The virtual avatar audiovisual transitions may be further indicated by various visual and sound effects of the virtual avatars. The transitions may occur based on various colocation or decolocation scenarios.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a band-shaped glass film (GF) includes use of: a plurality of rollers (10) configured to change a direction of the falling band-shaped glass film (GF) to a horizontal direction; and a first horizontal-conveyance unit (4) configured to convey the band-shaped glass film (GF) in the horizontal direction after the changing of the direction of the band-shaped glass film (GF). After a lower end of the band-shaped glass film (GF) passes through a position between the plurality of rollers (10) being at a retreated position (P2) and the first horizontal-conveyance unit (4), the plurality of rollers (10) are moved from the retreated position (P2) to a regular position (P1) to apply a pressing force to the band-shaped glass film (GF), to thereby cut the band-shaped glass film (GF) along a width direction by bend-breaking.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enabling mixed reality collaboration. A method may include receiving persistent coordinate data; presenting a first virtual session handle to a first user at a first position via a transmissive display of a wearable device, wherein the first position is based on the persistent coordinate data; presenting a virtual object to the first user at a second location via the transmissive display, wherein the second position is based on the first position; receiving location data from a second user, wherein the location data relates a position of the second user to a position of a second virtual session handle; presenting a virtual avatar to the first user at a third position via the transmissive display, wherein the virtual avatar corresponds to the second user, wherein the third position is based on the location data, and wherein the third position is further based on the first position.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a composition that gives, as a reaction product, a urethane resin having excellent heat dissipation ability and excellent flexibility. The composition of the present invention contains a polyol (A), a polyisocyanate (B), and an inorganic filler (C), wherein the polyol (A) contains a polyol (A1) having at least three hydroxy groups in one molecule, an isocyanate index of the polyisocyanate (B) based on the polyol (A) is 0.20 to 0.77, the isocyanate index being a ratio of a total mole number of isocyanate groups of the polyisocyanate (B) in the composition to a total mole number of hydroxy groups of the polyol (A) in the composition, and a weight percent of the inorganic filler (C) is 70 to 97 wt % based on the weight of the composition.

Abstract: A glass roll of band-shaped glass film is free of skew and single slack when a roll-to-roll mode is used. The band-shaped glass film is wound into a roll shape and has creases formed thereon. The band-shaped glass film includes an effective section with two side edges in a width direction extending parallel to each other, and leading and trailing end portions extending parallel to the width direction. When a length from the leading end portion to the trailing end portion along a surface of the effective section is measured along each of a first position along one side edge and a second position along another side edge, a difference between the first and second measurement lengths is 400 ppm or less of a longer measurement length of the first and second measurement lengths.

Abstract: Provided is method of producing a glass roll, the method including: a conveying step of conveying a glass film (G) along a longitudinal direction thereof; a cutting step of irradiating the glass film (G) with a laser beam (L) from a laser irradiation apparatus (19) while conveying the glass film (G) by the conveying step, to thereby separate the glass film (G) into a non-product portion (Gc) and a product portion (Gd); and a take-up step of taking up the product portion (Gd) into a roll shape, to thereby form a glass roll (R). The cutting step includes winding a thread-like peeled material (Ge) generated from an end portion of the product portion (Gd) in a width direction around a rod-shaped collecting member (20a), to thereby collect the thread-like peeled material (Ge).

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a band-shaped glass includes a forming step, which forms a band-shaped glass, an annealing step, which performs an annealing treatment on the band-shaped glass, a cooling step, which cools the annealed band-shaped glass, a direction-changing step, which changes a feeding direction of the cooled band-shaped glass from a longitudinal direction to a horizontal direction, and a horizontal conveying step, which conveys the band-shaped glass in the horizontal direction while supporting the band-shaped glass at a horizontal conveyance part. In the horizontal conveying step, the band-shaped glass is conveyed in the horizontal direction while a first propulsion for driving the conveyance in the horizontal direction is provided at both sides in the width direction of the band-shaped glass by the horizontal conveyance part, the first propulsion being larger than a second propulsion provided at a center in the width direction of the band-shaped glass.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: A liquid supply system that can be cooled efficiently. The liquid supply system 10 includes a container having an inlet 131b and an outlet 131c for liquid and provided with pump chambers P1, P2 inside it, supply passages 131e, 131Xc through which the liquid flowing in from the inlet 131b is supplied to the pump chambers P1, P2, and a discharge passage 190 through which the liquid discharged from the pump chambers P1, P2 is brought to the outlet 131c. A thermal resistance layer 500 is provided on a surface 180, 181 of a wall that is in contact with the liquid in the pump chamber P1, P2. The thermal resistance layer is made of a material (e.g. PTFE) having a thermal conductivity lower than the material of the wall 180, 181.

Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of extending the range of its application by enhancing the designability and the diversity of the display manner and by improving visual effects. The display device includes: a projector configured to project light to display information in the form of a projection image; a screen having a display surface through which light projected by the projector passes to form a projection image thereon; and a controller configured to control the projector. The display surface has a non-planar shape.

Abstract: A check valve which allows a sub valve body to have an improved sealing function when the check valve has an increased size. When a sub valve body 300 is seated on a second valve seat 231 and a third valve seat 440, S2?1 is satisfied where a seal area S1 is a total of a contact area of the sub valve body 300 and the second valve seat 231 and a contact area of the sub valve body 300 and the third valve seat 440, and a pressure-receiving area S2 is an area of a non-contact region at a lower end surface of the sub valve body 300 between a contact region of the sub valve body 300 and the second valve seat 231 and a contact region of the sub valve body 300 and the third valve seat 440.

Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of extending the range of its application by enhancing the designability and the diversity of the display manner and by improving visual effects. The display device includes: a projector configured to project light to display information in the form of a projection image; a screen having a display surface through which light projected by the projector passes to form a projection image thereon; and a controller configured to control the projector. The display surface has a non-planar shape.

Abstract: A liquid supply system providing a stable pump operation even when ultra-low temperature liquid including slurry is set as a liquid feed target. The liquid supply system that supplies ultra-low temperature liquid including a slurry component by expansion and contraction of bellows 41 and 42. At least a region in the bellows 41 and 42 that is in contact with the liquid is coated with resin having a low temperature brittle temperature that is equal to or lower than an operating temperature of the liquid supply system.

Abstract: A liquid supply system that can be cooled efficiently. The liquid supply system 10 includes a container 130 having an inlet 131b and an outlet 131c for liquid and provided with a pump chamber P1, P2 inside it, an outlet pipe 320 through which liquid discharged from the outlet 131c is brought to outside, a fluid channel through which liquid flows, the fluid channel leading out of the inlet 131b, passing through the pump chamber P1, P2, and extending vertically downward from the pump chamber P1, P2 to the outlet 131c, and a gas vent pipe 602 connecting a first orifice 601 and a second orifice 604, the first orifice 601 being disposed in the fluid channel and the second orifice 604 being disposed in the fluid channel downstream of the first orifice 601. The second orifice 604 is located at vertically higher level than the first orifice 601.

Abstract: A liquid supply system that can prevent or reduce the occurrence of cavitation without an increase in the overall size of the apparatus. The liquid supply system includes a first pump chamber P1 formed by a space surrounding the outer circumference of a first bellows 141, a second pump chamber P2 formed by a space surrounding the outer circumference of a second bellows 142, a first check valve 160A provided in a fluid passage passing through the first pump chamber P1 to block backflow of fluid, and a second check valve 160B provided in a fluid passage passing through the second pump chamber P2 to block backflow of fluid. The first check valve 160A and the second check valve 160B are both provided in the container 130 and disposed on the side opposite to an actuator 110 that drives a shaft member 120, with respect to the shaft member 120.

Abstract: A liquid supply system that can be cooled efficiently. The liquid supply system 10 includes a container having an inlet 131b and an outlet 131c for liquid and provided with pump chambers P1, P2 inside it, supply passages 131e, 131Xc through which the liquid flowing in through the inlet 131b is supplied to the pump chambers P1, P2, and a discharge passage 131Xd through which the liquid discharged from the pump chambers P1, P2 is brought to the outlet 131c. Portions 180, 181 of an inner surface of the liquid supply system 10 that are in contact with the liquid are each provided with an increased surface structure 400 having an increased liquid contact area and extending along the direction L1, L2 of flow of the liquid.

Abstract: A heat insulation structure and a liquid supply system that can prevent breakage of a heat insulation member while providing satisfactory heat insulation. The heat insulation structure includes heat insulation members 520 provided between two components and having heat conductivity lower than the two components and a slidable member 530 slidable on the heat insulation member 520. At least two of the heat insulation members 520 are arranged along the direction of compression by the two components, and at least one of the slidable member 530 is disposed between the heat insulation members which are adjacent to each other. The heat insulation members 520 and the slidable member 530 are allowed to be displaced in directions perpendicular to the direction of compression.

Abstract: A liquid supply system that can supply liquid efficiently with reduced time needed for precooling. The liquid supply system includes a first fluid channel through which cryogenic liquid flows from an inlet 130b to an outlet 130c via a first pump chamber P1 and a second fluid channel through which cryogenic liquid flows from the inlet 130b to the outlet 130c via a second pump chamber P2. The height of the location at which the direction of the first fluid channel changes from the vertically upward direction to the vertically downward direction and the location at which the direction of the second fluid channel changes from the vertically upward direction to the vertically downward direction are the same.