Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of reducing the undried residue when recycling a fine powder of water-absorbing resin. The present invention is a method for producing a water-absorbing resin, wherein: a fine powder recycling step includes vi-1) a granulation step for obtaining a granulated gel, vi-2) a granulated gel addition step, and vi-3) a gel mixing step; the solids content of the granulated gel in the granulated gel addition step is 50-90% by mass; and the temperature of the granulated gel and the temperature of the water-containing gel-like crosslinked polymer is 50-100° C.

Abstract: A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.

Abstract: Provided are a thin film transistor, a display device, and a thin film transistor manufacturing method, in which variation in characteristics is small. The present invention is provided with: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a gate insulation film formed so as to cover the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer which is formed on the upper side of the gate insulation film and which includes a polysilicon layer disposed, in a plan view, inside a region defined by the gate electrode; an etching stopper layer disposed on the upper side of the polysilicon layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the semiconductor layer so as to be separated from each other, wherein the polysilicon layer has first and second regions which are not covered with the etching stopper layer, and a part of the source electrode exists above the first region and a part of the drain electrode exists above the second region.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material precursor for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided that includes a nickel-cobalt-manganese carbonate composite represented by general formula NixCoyMnzMtCO3 (where x+y+z+t=1, 0.05?x?0.3, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.55?z?0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M denotes at least one additional element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W) and a hydrogen-containing functional group. The ratio H/Me of the amount of hydrogen H to the amount of metal components Me included in the positive electrode active material precursor is less than 1.60. The positive electrode active material further includes a secondary particle formed by a plurality of primary particles that have been aggregated.

Abstract: An image inspector includes a recording device and circuitry. The reading device is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has a wrinkle and an edge folding based on a plurality of positions on the image on the recording medium read by the reading device satisfying a predetermined relation. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has the wrinkle based on the predetermined relation, and then determine whether the recording medium has the edge folding based on the predetermined relation.

Abstract: Provided is a drug superior for preventing and/or treating dementia. It contains a carbostyril derivative of the following formula (1) (wherein R is a cycloalkyl group, A is a lower alkyl group, and a single bond or a double bond is present between the 3-position and the 4-position of the carbostyril nucleus) and dihydroquercetin.

Abstract: An image processor of a display device includes: an image sticking object detector which classifies a class of an input image data and outputs inference data including image sticking object information based on the classified class; a memory which stores previous inference data; a post-processor which calculates accumulative inference data, based on the inference data and the previous inference data received from the memory and generates corrected inference data, based on the accumulative inference data; and an image sticking prevention part which outputs an image data subjected to an image sticking prevention process, based on the corrected inference data.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay including a housing, a cover, an adhesive which is interposed between a side part of the housing and an inner surface of the cover and which secures the housing and the cover, and a projection which is formed in at least one of the side part and the inner surface. The adhesive is filled in a gap between the side part and the inner surface.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay including a housing, a cover, an adhesive which is interposed between a side part of the housing and an inner surface of the cover and which secures the housing and the cover, and a projection which is formed in at least one of the side part and the inner surface. The adhesive is filled in a gap between the side part and the inner surface.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a viscosity-index improving agent having an excellent friction reduction effect to reduce friction of a lubricating oil composition when the viscosity-index improving agent is added thereto. The present also aims to provide a lubricating oil composition containing the viscosity-index improving agent. The present invention relates to, for example, a viscosity-index improving agent containing: (co)polymer (A) containing, as an essential constituent monomer, a polyolefin-based monomer (a) represented by the following formula (1); an ester oil (B1) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.00 to 2.50 mm2/s; and an ester oil (B2) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.51 to 5.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a viscosity-index improving agent capable of providing a lubricating oil composition having an appropriate gelation index, an excellent HTHS viscosity at 100° C., and an excellent kinematic viscosity at 40° C. when the viscosity-index improving agent is added thereto. The present also aims to provide a lubricating oil composition containing the viscosity-index improving agent.

Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling an industrial machine includes a deterioration diagnostic unit that has a diagnostic function, which is repeatedly executed at predetermined timing, for diagnosing deterioration of each component of the industrial machine and outputs an alarm signal in response to deterioration equal to or more than a predetermined level in each component, an alarm control unit that outputs a stop command to the industrial machine based on the alarm signal and informs that the industrial machine is in an alarm stop state, and a cancellation operation receiving unit that receives the cancellation operation for cancelling the alarm stop state regardless of deterioration of each component. The deterioration diagnostic unit cancels the alarm stop state brought on by the diagnostic function based on the cancellation operation, and allows the industrial machine to operate until the diagnostic function is executed next.

Abstract: A thermal radiation light detection device includes: a housing including a plurality of wall portions; a light entrance unit attached to a wall portion and configured to cause thermal radiation light to enter the housing; a light extraction unit disposed inside housing and configured to extract light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength from the thermal radiation light, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; a first light detection unit attached to a wall portion and configured to detect the light of the first wavelength; a second light detection unit attached to a wall portion and configured to detect the light of the second wavelength; and a first temperature detection unit attached to a wall portion, the wall portion to which the first temperature detection unit is attached being different from the wall portion to which the first light detection unit is attached.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced composite molded article which is obtained by molding reinforcing fibers and an epoxy resin, while containing a silicone oil as an internal mold release agent, and which is characterized in that the fragment ion intensity ratio A/B as detected in case where the molded article surface is analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is expressed by the relationship of 3?A/B?20. A: The intensity of a fragment ion that has the highest intensity among the fragment ions derived from the silicone oil. B: The intensity of a fragment ion that has the highest intensity among the fragment ions derived from the epoxy resin.

Abstract: Provided are a fiber-reinforced composite molded article prepared by heat-curing, as a molding material of a fiber-reinforced resin material, a resin composition to which an internal mold release agent is added, the fiber-reinforced composite molded article being capable of effectively producing mold releasability even with a small amount of the mold release agent added, and being capable of achieving high productivity, and a method of forming the fiber-reinforced composite molded article. A fiber-reinforced composite molded article prepared by curing reinforcing fibers and a resin composition, the resin composition including an internal mold release agent, wherein the value obtained by normalizing a Poisson-corrected ion intensity derived from the internal mold release agent detected on the surface of the fiber-reinforced composite molded article, by the Poisson-corrected gross positive secondary ion intensity detected in the predetermined area is higher than 0.1, and a molding method therefor.

Abstract: [Problem] In an embodiment involving addition of a chelating agent in an upstream process of the process for production, such as the polymerization step, the residual ratio of the chelating agent in the final product, a particulate water-absorbing agent, is improved. [Solution] A particulate water-absorbing agent having a poly(meth)acrylic acid (salt)-based water-absorbing resin as a main component, containing a chelating agent having a nitrogen atom and an inorganic reducing agent having a sulfur atom, wherein the particulate water-absorbing agent has a chelating agent ratio of 0.8 to 1.

Abstract: A positive-electrode active material precursor for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided that includes a nickel-cobalt-manganese carbonate composite represented by general formula NixCoyMnzMtCO3 (where x+y+z+t=1, 0.05?x?0.3, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.55?z?0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M denotes at least one additional element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W) and a hydrogen-containing functional group, wherein H/Me representing the ratio of the amount of hydrogen to the amount of metal components Me included in the positive-electrode active material precursor is greater than or equal to 1.60.

Abstract: A power supply according to the present disclosure includes: a step-down circuit which has at least one pair of positive/negative step-down switching elements; at least one pair of positive/negative inductors to which voltage is applied via the step-down switching element, and one pair of positive/negative output capacitors which are connected in series and charged by electrical current passing through the inductor, and steps down input voltage and then outputs; an inverse-conversion circuit which has a plurality of inverse-conversion switching elements, and inverse-converts output voltage of the step-down circuit into alternating current; and a control circuit which controls switching of the plurality of step-down switching elements so that the output voltage of the step-down circuit becomes a desired voltage.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material precursor for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided that includes a nickel-cobalt-manganese carbonate composite represented by general formula NixCoyMnzMtCO3 (where x+y+z+t=1, 0.05?x?0.3, 0.1?y?0.4, 0.55?z?0.8, 0?t?0.1, and M denotes at least one additional element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W) and a hydrogen-containing functional group. The ratio H/Me of the amount of hydrogen H to the amount of metal components Me included in the positive electrode active material precursor is less than 1.60. The positive electrode active material further includes a secondary particle formed by a plurality of primary particles that have been aggregated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a positive electrode active material includes: (a) preparing a fired powder of a lithium nickel composite oxide by mixing a nickel compound selected from a nickel hydroxide including nickel, and an element selected from other transition metal elements, elements of the second group and elements of the thirteenth group of the Periodic System, a nickel oxyhydroxide thereof, and a nickel oxide obtained by roasting thereof, and a lithium compound, and firing the mixture at a maximum temperature of 650° C. to 850° C. under oxygen atmosphere; and (b) preparing a lithium nickel composite oxide powder by mixing the fired powder with water to obtain a slurry, washing the fired powder with water at a temperature of 10° C. to 40° C., while controlling an electrical conductivity of a liquid portion of the slurry to 30 mS/cm to 60 mS/cm, then filtering and drying the resultant fired powder.