Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer, a vibration plate that is deformed when the piezoelectric device is driven, a pressure chamber plate including a pressure chamber whose volume is changed by deformation of the vibration plate, a wiring board, an individual lead electrode through which the wiring board and the first electrode are electrically coupled to each other, a common lead electrode through which the wiring board and the second electrode are electrically coupled to each other, and a resistance wire electrically coupled to the wiring board and used to determine temperature in the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A lubrication mechanism for supplying oil to a bearing of a vehicle electric motor that includes the bearing, a housing, a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably held by the housing through the bearing. The housing defines an oil passage to which oil discharged from an oil pump is to be supplied. The oil passage and the bearing are located on respective opposite sides of a wall of the housing. The lubrication mechanism includes: a bolt hole passing through the wall; and a bolt engaged in the bolt hole.

Abstract: A rotating machine lubrication structure is applied to a rotating machine including a cylindrical stator, a rotor and a shaft. A resolver is disposed concentrically with the rotating machine center line between the bearing and the rotor in a direction of the rotating machine center line in the casing, the resolver includes an annular resolver stator fixed to an inner side surface of the casing in an outer circumferential portion of the resolver stator, and a resolver rotor disposed on an inner circumferential side of the resolver stator and fixed to and integrally rotated with the shaft, and the resolver stator is provided with an oil through-hole allowing the lubricating oil to flow through at a portion on an inner circumferential side relative to a part fixed to the casing.

Abstract: A light conversion member includes a light conversion film, a first gas barrier, and a first base material. The light conversion film converts color of light from a specific color. The first gas barrier is located on a side of the light conversion film where the light to be converted is incident. The first gas barrier includes one or more gas barrier layers that prevent moisture and gas from entering the light conversion film. The first base material is located on an opposite side of the first gas barrier from a face on which the light conversion film is located. The first base material transmits the light and holds the light conversion film and the first gas barrier. For a light of the specific color, a light transmittance of the first base material combined with the first gas barrier is higher than a light transmittance of the first base material alone.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a head, a cap, a moving mechanism and a controller. The moving mechanism is configured to move the head and the cap relative to each other to switch the cap between a capping state in which the cap is in contact with the head and covers the plurality of nozzles and a non-capping state in which the cap is separated from the head and uncovers the same. The controller is configured to perform setting a non-ejection drive time based on an uncapped time duration which is a length of time from a timing at which the cap is switched to the non-capping state until a timing at which the cap is switched back to the capping state. The controller is configured to perform vibrating meniscus of liquid in the plurality of nozzles during the non-ejection drive time.

Abstract: when one of two positions in a second direction intersecting the first direction is defined as a first position and the other position is defined as a second position from which the shortest distance to the partition wall is shorter than the shortest distance from the first position to the partition wall, the vibrating plate has a first portion corresponding to the first position and a second portion corresponding to the second position, and a surface of the first portion in the first direction is, in the first direction, closer than a surface of the second portion in the first direction.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a diaphragm provided on a side of one surface of a substrate, and a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode which are stacked in a first direction on a side of a surface opposite to the substrate of the diaphragm, in which when one area far from an end portion of the second electrode is a first area and one area near the end portion of the second electrode is a second area, of two areas of the second electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the second electrode has a stiffness of 17,000 N/m or more in the second area in the first direction, which is higher than a stiffness in the first area in the first direction, and a length in the second area in the first direction is equal to or less than a length of the piezoelectric body layer in the second area in the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a diaphragm, a first electrode, a piezoelectric body, and a second electrode, which are stacked in this order in a first direction, in which when a region of the piezoelectric body interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode is set as a first region, a region of the piezoelectric body other than the first region is set as a second region, a portion of the piezoelectric body including at least a part of a boundary between the first region and the second region is set as a boundary portion, and a portion of the piezoelectric body that is different from the boundary portion and is located in the first region is set as a non-boundary portion, a dielectric constant of the boundary portion is smaller than a dielectric constant of the non-boundary portion.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic agent which is for inflammatory bowel disease and exhibits superior prophylactic or therapeutic effects on inflammatory bowel disease by using miR-29a and/or miR-29b. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent for inflammatory bowel disease comprises composite particles in which miR-29a and/or miR-29b is/are carried on carbonate apatite particles, and said agent is administered systemically.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to predicting trait information from the genetic information of individuals, and generating a model therefor. Learning is performed using a plurality of types of genetic information from a plurality of individuals, and a model for predicting trait information is generated. For said learning, it is possible to create images of the genetic information, and provide the same to said learning. The images in the present disclosure can store both sequence information and expression information. Moreover, the layout of genetic factors in the images can be optimized. Said learning can be performed as split learning, and the data after said split learning can be consolidated.

Abstract: The terminal portion extends onto a surface of the protrusion portion from part positioned in the second layer and corresponding to the second portion, and part on the surface of the protrusion portion contacts an electrode of the drive element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for capturing specific cells (e.g. many types of cancer cells, including cancer cells not expressing EpCAM) and a method for analysis of specific cells involving the method. Included is a method for capturing specific cells present in blood or biological fluid, the method including: subjecting sampled blood or biological fluid to enrichment; and capturing specific cells therefrom onto a hydrophilic polymer layer in a flow field.

Abstract: In the oil lubrication structure that supplies lubricating oil to the transmission device, the oil lubrication structure includes an oil passage formed above a transmission device. The oil passage is formed by an oil groove portion and a plate member. The oil groove portion is integrally formed in a crankcase. The plate member is arranged in the crankcase so as to cover the oil groove portion. The plate member has oil dripping holes formed therein, and the oil dripping holes are opened at positions directly above the transmission device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cancer stem cell elimination agent containing a substance that suppresses an expression or function of SDC4, a method for detecting or sorting a cancer stem cell in a cancer cell population, including using an expression of SDC4 as an index, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a ligand that contains a plurality of groups represented by formula (1) and is capable of multivalently binding to a glutamine transporter expressed in excess in a cancer cell compared to a normal cell.

Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body, a flush water tank device, and connection conduits for supplying, to a toilet main body, flush water supplied from a reservoir tank. The reservoir tank includes a large tank portion on a large volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center and a small tank portion on a small volume side in the reservoir tank when the reservoir tank is divided into two at the left-right center. The upstream end of one connection conduit is connected to the large tank portion and, on the other hand, the downstream end of the other connection conduit is connected to the other side of the toilet main body divided into two at the left-right center.

Abstract: A ball rotation amount measurement system which includes a magnetic sensor fixed to a ball to measure geomagnetism in at least one axis direction, and a computation unit configured to compute the rotation amount of the ball using data of a large number of the geomagnetism time-sequentially acquired by the magnetic sensor. The computation unit includes a difference data calculation unit configured to calculate a difference between two of the time-sequential geomagnetic data to thereby time-sequentially obtain a large number of difference data, a difference waveform calculation unit configured to determine a difference waveform that represents a time variation waveform of a large number of the difference data, and a rotation amount calculation unit configured to calculate the rotation amount of the ball, based on information of zero cross points at which the difference waveform crosses a straight line indicating zero-difference within a predetermined period.

Abstract: The water conduit has: a first water-guiding portion extending from a water supply portion, where the flush water is supplied to the water conduit, to a first spout port located on one of right and left sides of the bowl portion; and a second water-guiding portion extending from the water supply portion to a second spout port located on the other side. The water supply portion is located at a position on the one side. The flush water is supplied to the water supply portion in a direction from the water supply portion toward the first water-guiding portion. A collision wall is provided on a way of the first water-guiding portion such that at least a part of the supplied flush water collides with the collision wall. The at least part of the flush water having collided with the collision wall is supplied to the second water-guiding portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a diaphragm, a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode in this order in a first direction, and ejects liquid. The second electrode includes a first portion that is next to the piezoelectric layer in the first direction and is electrically conductive. A length in the first direction is defined as a thickness. One position in a second direction intersecting with the first direction is defined as a first position. Another one position is defined as a second position that is closer to an end of the second electrode in the second direction than the first position is. Given the definition, the thickness of the first portion at the second position is less than the thickness of the first portion at the first position.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head to discharge a liquid includes a piezoelectric body, a first electrode layer disposed at least partly on the piezoelectric body in a stacking direction, and a first wiring disposed on the first electrode layer in the stacking direction, the first wiring being more likely to cause ion migration than the first electrode layer, in which the piezoelectric body, the first electrode layer, and the first wiring are stacked in the stacking direction. When a predetermined area on the piezoelectric body is a first area, and a predetermined area adjacent to the first area on the piezoelectric body is a second area, both the first wiring and the first electrode layer are disposed in the first area, and the first wiring is not disposed while the first electrode layer is disposed in the second area.