Abstract: An oil-resistant agent containing a modified natural product which is a bio-based compound having at least one carboxyl group and in which a hydroxyl group of a carboxyl group is substituted with an R group, or a carboxyl group is substituted with an Ra group. R group: —X—R1 or —X-D-X?—R1. Ra group: wherein X is a direct bond, —O—, —NR11—, or —S—, and R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1-40 carbon atoms, or a polysiloxane, D is an alkylene group having 1-10 carbon atoms, X? is —C(?O)—O—, —O—(?O)—, —C(?O)—NR12—, or —NR12—C(?O)— (where, R11 and R12 are each hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1-40 carbon atoms). Also disclosed is a textile product, an oil-resistant paper, a food packaging material or a food container each including the oil-resistant agent, as well as a method of treating paper with the oil-resistant agent.

Abstract: To provide a carbon fiber bundle capable of suppressing winding due to ring-shaped fuzzes, which occurs when the carbon fiber bundle is rolled out for advanced processing, and a production method for producing the same. Disclosed is a carbon fiber bundle wherein an average single-fiber diameter B is 6.9 to 11.0 ?m, a tensile modulus E of resin-impregnated strands is 230 to 310 GPa, the number of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle is 40 fuzzes/m or less, and a proportion of fuzzes with a structure having a difference between skin and core is 1 to 25% of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle. Such a carbon fiber bundle is preferably obtained by a method including, in a process of heat-treating a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle with a single-fiber fineness of 0.9 to 2.2 dtex in an oxidizing atmosphere at 200 to 300° C.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes forming a lid, forming a lid assembly, closing, and welding. In forming a lid, there is included forming, by forging, a protruding portion between a peripheral portion and an insertion-hole surrounding portion of the lid to block scattered light of a laser beam from being irradiated to a resin member, with a distance D from an end surface of the peripheral portion to a side surface of the protruding portion falling within 0.5t (D?0.5t) relative to a thickness t of the lid.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes closing an opening portion of a case body with a lid of a lid assembly, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and a peripheral portion of the lid over their entire circumference. A resin member has an outer surface including a scattered light-reached surface to which scattered light of a laser beam directly reaches, at least a part of the scattered light-reached surface including a smoothed region having a surface roughness of 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a battery residual value determination system capable of easily and accurately determining the residual value of a battery. The battery residual value determination system includes: a battery information reception unit that receives information on the voltage, the current, the temperature, and the period of time elapsed from the time of manufacture of a battery; a first residual value determination unit that determines a first residual value indicating the SOH of the battery; an attenuation function determination unit that determines an attenuation function which indicates a time-dependent change of the SOH specific to the battery and is used for correcting the first residual value of the battery; and a second residual value output unit that determines and outputs a second residual value obtained by correcting the first residual value by using the attenuation function according to the period of time elapsed from the time of manufacture of the battery.

Abstract: An image sensor, includes: a first pixel and a second pixel, in a first direction, each including a first photoelectric conversion unit and a light-shielding unit and outputting a signal; a third pixel and a fourth pixel, in the first direction, each including a second photoelectric conversion unit and outputting a signal; a first signal line and a second signal line, in the first direction, each of which can be connected to the first pixel, the second pixel, the third pixel and the fourth pixel; and a control unit that performs a first control in which a signal of the first pixel is output to the first signal line and a signal of the second pixel is output to the second signal line, and a second control in which a signal of the third pixel and a signal of the fourth pixel are output to the first signal line.

Abstract: An oil-resistant agent including a polymer (A) in which a polymer (a1) having at least one selected from a hydroxyl group and an amino group is modified with a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 7 to 40 carbon atoms (a2). A total amount of vinyl alcohol units and vinylamine units in all repeating units of the polymer (a1) is 40 mol % or more. Further, a ratio of modification of the polymer (A) with the aliphatic hydrocarbon group (a2) is 25 to 100 mol % relative to a total amount of hydroxyl groups and amino groups of the polymer (a1). Also disclosed is a paper product treated with the oil-resistant agent, and an oil-resistant agent wherein the polymer (a1) and the aliphatic hydrocarbon group (a2) are bonded through an ester bond.

Abstract: In a flow rate sensor 10, a resistance bridge 100 detects a change in a gas flow rate. A differential A/D converter 122 converts an analog signal output from the resistance bridge 100 into a digital signal. A disconnection detection circuit 130 detects disconnection of bonding wires 164, 165 that connect the differential A/D converter 122 and the resistance bridge 100. The disconnection detection unit 130 includes a detection capacitance 141 and a comparator 145. One connection portion of the detection capacitance 141 is connected to an input node of the A/D converter 122. The comparator 145 detects the disconnection of the bonding wires 164, 165 based on a potential based on a ratio of an electrostatic capacitance of a P-side input capacitance 116 or a N-side input capacitance 117 to an electrostatic capacitance of the detection capacitance 141. The P-side input capacitance 116 and the N-side input capacitance 117 respectively are connected to operation input units of the differential A/D converter 122.

Abstract: Provided is a compound, a polymer, a composition, a composition for film formation, a pattern formation method, an insulating film formation method, and a method for producing a compound, by which a resist having excellent exposure sensitivity can be obtained. A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein RA is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group; RX is ORB or a hydrogen atom; RB is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and P is a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an ester group, an acetal group, a carboxyalkoxy group, a carbonate ester group, a nitro group, an amino group, a carboxyl group, a thiol group, an ether group, a thioether group, a phosphine group, a phosphone group, a urethane group, a urea group, an amide group, an imide group, or a phosphate group.

Abstract: To provide a method of efficiently performing priming on a microparticle sorting microchip.

Abstract: There is provided a fine-particle sorting apparatus, including: a determination unit that performs sorting determination of a particle, the determination unit performing the determination using rule data defining, in accordance with a particle population to which a particle that is a sorting-determination target belongs and a particle population to which a different particle within a predetermined range around the particle belongs, a relationship between the particles, particle populations to which the particle that is a sorting-determination target and the different particle within the predetermined range may belong including the following particle populations of (a) a particle population of particles to be sorted, (b) a particle population of particles that are not to be sorted but are ignorable in the determination, and (c) a particle population of particles that are neither the particles to be sorted nor the ignorable particles, the ignorable particles including red blood cells.

Abstract: An object of the present technology is to improve analysis efficiency in single cell analysis using a barcoding technique. The present technology provides a bioparticle analysis method including: a capture step of capturing a bioparticle on a surface, on which a molecule including a bioparticle capturing part, a barcode sequence, and a cleavable linker is immobilized via the linker, via the bioparticle capturing part; a cleavage step of cleaving the linker to release the bioparticle from the surface; and an isolation step of isolating the bioparticle into a microspace. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a bioparticle analysis system that performs the bioparticle analysis method.

Abstract: A preferred aim of the invention is to provide technique for improving reliability of semiconductor devices when using a low-dielectric-constant film having a lower dielectric constant than a silicon oxide film to a part of an interlayer insulating film. More specifically, to achieve the preferred aim, an interlayer insulating film IL1 forming a first fine layer is formed of a middle-Young's-modulus film, and thus it is possible to separate an integrated high-Young's-modulus layer (a semiconductor substrate 1S and a contact interlayer insulating film CIL) and an interlayer insulating film (a low-Young's-modulus film; a low-dielectric-constant film) IL2 forming a second fine layer not to let them directly contact with each other, and stress can be diverged. As a result, film exfoliation of the interlayer insulating film IL2 formed of a low-Young's-modulus film can be prevented and thus reliability of semiconductor devices can be improved.

Abstract: An iodine-containing (meth)acrylate compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, methyl, or halogen; each R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a linear organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a branched organic group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or a cyclic organic group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms; A represents an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; A contains at least one acyl group; n1 represents 0 or 1; and n2 represents an integer of 1 to 20.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for lithography capable of obtaining a film in contact with a resist layer or an underlayer film capable of forming a pattern excellent in exposure sensitivity the like. The object can be achieved by a composition for lithography containing a compound having at least one element selected from the group consisting of iodine, tellurium, and fluorine, or a resin having a constituent unit derived from the compound, wherein a total mass of the atoms in the compound is 15% by mass or more and 75% by mass or less.

Abstract: There is a possibility that unauthorized writing of adjustment information occurs in a sensor device in which the adjustment information of the sensor device can be written from outside.

Abstract: An object is to provide a method capable of associating position information of a cell with a cell constituent at a single-cell resolution. That is, the present technology provides an analysis method including: an imaging step of imaging a specimen in a state in which the specimen is being overlapped with a surface to which a molecule having a linker cleavable by stimulation, a barcode sequence, and a target capture portion is immobilized via the linker; an association step of associating a position of a cell with the barcode sequence of the molecule at the position by using a specimen image obtained by the imaging; a cleavage step of selectively stimulating the position of the cell to cleave the linker of the molecule at the position; and a binding step of binding the molecule released from the surface by the cleavage with a constituent of the cell via the target capture portion of the molecule.

Abstract: Provided is a new method for more efficiently generating emulsion particles each containing one fine particle.

Abstract: Provided is a compound having one or more halogens and an unsaturated double bond. Provided is a method for producing an iodine-containing vinyl monomer comprising: a) a step of providing an iodine-containing alcohol substrate having a general structure represented by the formula (1-1): (the definitions of the variables in the formula (1-1) are as described in the specification); and b) a step of dehydrating the iodine-containing alcohol substrate to obtain the iodine-containing vinyl monomer having a general structure represented by the formula (1): (the definitions of the variables in the formula (1) are as described in the specification).