Abstract: According to embodiments, a battery includes: a rectangular box-shaped battery case, an inner portion of which is sealed; a battery module housed in the battery case and being an aggregation of a plurality of battery cells; and a tubular heat resistant sheet arranged between the battery case and the battery module in a state of covering an entire side surface of an inner wall surface of the battery case.

Abstract: A device for preparing a glass slide specimen of cells has: a filter that has recesses, which capture target cells that are at least one of circulating tumor cells within blood or rare tumor cells within a body fluid, and pores that are formed in the recesses and that pass non-target cells therethrough; a glass slide that is superposed onto a surface of the filter, at a side at which the target cells are captured, and onto which the target cells are transferred; a cover member that is placed on a surface of the filter at a side opposite from the glass slide, and that seals in a buffer solution for immersing the target cells at interiors of the recesses; and a container into which the glass slide is immersed and in which is stored a preservation liquid that preserves the target cells that have been transferred onto the glass slide.

Abstract: A device for isolating periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells includes a metal filter having depressions that can capture periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells that are in a body fluid, and pores that are formed at the depressions and that can pass therethrough body fluid cells other than periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells.

Abstract: Provided is a microchannel chip, for microparticle separation, which can continuously separate microparticles, from a solution in which microparticles of different particle diameter are mixed, without needing to use an antibody or similar, and without causing clogging. Also provided are a microparticle separation method and a system for microparticle separation using the chip. Microparticles can be captured by using the microchannel chip for microparticle separation, the microchannel chip being characterised by being provided with a plurality of main channels and capture portions that are wider than the main channels and at least one of which is provided to each main channel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery module includes a plurality of sub-modules. The plurality of sub-modules are integrated. Each of the plurality of sub-modules includes a cell group configured using a plurality of cells connected in series. The plurality of cells configuring the cell group are arranged linearly such that intra-cell current directions are parallel and the intra-cell current direction of each of the cells is opposite to the intra-cell current direction of the cell adjacent to each cell in the cell group. Each of the plurality of sub-modules includes an input terminal to input a current to the cell group and an output terminal to output the current from the cell group.

Abstract: A long-lasting, controlled-release local anesthetic liposome preparation is produced by: providing a liposome composition, which is obtained by mixing, in a water-miscible organic solvent, a first aqueous phase solution with a water-miscible organic solution, in which a phospholipid and cholesterol are contained at a defined total concentration, at a defined ratio by volume thereby obtaining an emulsion wherein a total concentration of the phospholipid and cholesterol in the mixed phase is at 15 w/v % to 50 w/v %, followed by subjecting the emulsion to external solution exchange with a second aqueous phase solution to obtain a liposome composition wherein an ion gradient is formed between an internal-region aqueous phase of a liposome membrane made of the first aqueous phase solution and an external-region aqueous phase of the liposome membrane made of the second aqueous phase solution; and encapsulating a local anesthetic in the internal-region aqueous phase according to a remote loading method.

Abstract: A composite rolling mill roll according to the present invention includes: a steel roll shaft; and an outer layer provided around the roll shaft, in which the outer layer includes a sintered body including a base metal which is an iron alloy, a fibrous inclusion which consists of a ceramic and has an average diameter of 1 to 30 ?m and an average aspect ratio of 10 to 500, and a particulate inclusion which consists of a ceramic and has an average diameter of powder 1 to 100 ?m, an amount of the fibrous inclusion is 5 to 40 volume % relative to the volume of the sintered body, and an amount of the particulate inclusion is 5 to 30 volume % relative to the volume of the sintered body.

Abstract: A device for isolating periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells includes a metal filter having depressions that can capture periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells that are in a body fluid, and pores that are formed at the depressions and that can pass therethrough body fluid cells other than periphery circulating tumor cells or rare cells.

Abstract: It is to provide a torque driver capable of bringing a marker into direct contact with a surface of a fastener member such as a screw to perform marking. A torque driver 1 is configured such that a case 10 is rotated relative to a main shaft 20 when a tightening force applied to the case 10 is transmitted to the main shaft 20 through a torque limiter section 30 and a tightening torque on a screw 80 engaged with a bit 70 attached to a coupler 60 fixed at a tip portion of the main shaft 20 reaches a torque value set in the torque limiter section 30. The torque driver 1 includes: a marker 54 extending from an inside of the coupler 60 to a tip portion of the bit 70 along a side surface of the bit 70; and a marker activating section 40 that allows the marker 54 to move forward by utilizing rotation of the case 10 relative to the main shaft 20 so that a marker tip portion 53 is brought into contact with the screw 80 to perform marking.

Abstract: A long-lasting, controlled-release local anesthetic liposome preparation is produced by: providing a liposome composition, which is obtained by mixing, in a water-miscible organic solvent, a first aqueous phase solution with a water-miscible organic solution, in which a phospholipid and cholesterol are contained at a defined total concentration, at a defined ratio by volume thereby obtaining an emulsion wherein a total concentration of the phospholipid and cholesterol in the mixed phase is at 15 w/v % to 50 w/v %, followed by subjecting the emulsion to external solution exchange with a second aqueous phase solution to obtain a liposome composition wherein an ion gradient is formed between an internal-region aqueous phase of a liposome membrane made of the first aqueous phase solution and an external-region aqueous phase of the liposome membrane made of the second aqueous phase solution; and encapsulating a local anesthetic in the internal-region aqueous phase according to a remote loading method.

Abstract: Provided is a microchannel chip, for microparticle separation, which can continuously separate microparticles, from a solution in which microparticles of different particle diameter are mixed, without needing to use an antibody or similar, and without causing clogging. Also provided are a microparticle separation method and a system for microparticle separation using the chip. Microparticles can be captured by using the microchannel chip for microparticle separation, the microchannel chip being characterised by being provided with a plurality of main channels and capture portions that are wider than the main channels and at least one of which is provided to each main channel.

Abstract: A communication sheet structure includes at least three layers of a conductor layer A, a base member layer and a conductor layer B, which are laminated in order, wherein the size of the communication sheet structure in the direction of width thereof at right angles with the direction in which the transmitted electromagnetic waves travel in a plane thereof is nearly equal to a natural number of times of one-half the wavelength of the transmitted electromagnetic waves so as to establish a resonating state in the direction of width.

Abstract: A composite rolling mill roll according to the present invention includes: a steel roll shaft; and an outer layer provided around the roll shaft, in which the outer layer includes a sintered body including a base metal which is an iron alloy, a fibrous inclusion which consists of a ceramic and has an average diameter of 1 to 30 ?m and an average aspect ratio of 10 to 500, and a particulate inclusion which consists of a ceramic and has an average diameter of powder 1 to 100 ?m, an amount of the fibrous inclusion is 5 to 40 volume % relative to the volume of the sintered body, and an amount of the particulate inclusion is 5 to 30 volume % relative to the volume of the sintered body.

Abstract: It is to provide a torque driver capable of bringing a marker into direct contact with a surface of a fastener member such as a screw to perform marking. A torque driver 1 is configured such that a case 10 is rotated relative to a main shaft 20 when a tightening force applied to the case 10 is transmitted to the main shaft 20 through a torque limiter section 30 and a tightening torque on a screw 80 engaged with a bit 70 attached to a coupler 60 fixed at a tip portion of the main shaft 20 reaches a torque value set in the torque limiter section 30. The torque driver 1 includes: a marker 54 extending from an inside of the coupler 60 to a tip portion of the bit 70 along a side surface of the bit 70; and a marker activating section 40 that allows the marker 54 to move forward by utilizing rotation of the case 10 relative to the main shaft 20 so that a marker tip portion 53 is brought into contact with the screw 80 to perform marking.

Abstract: A grommet for housing electrical wires constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure includes a mounting structure, a tube, and a plurality of stiffeners. The mounting structure is configured to mount to a panel of a vehicle, the mounting structure defining a first passage extending therethrough. The tube extends from the mounting structure and defines a second passage in communication with the first passage. The tube includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves interposed between the plurality of ridges. The stiffeners are interposed between those of the plurality of ridges that are disposed within a zone of the corrugated portion. The stiffeners extend partially around a circumference of the tube.

Abstract: There is provided a polyester fiber which has few defects such as voids due to catalyst particles, and low variation in physical properties and minimal fluff generation. The polyester fiber of the invention comprises laminar nanoparticles composed of a divalent metal and a phosphorus compound and having side lengths of 5-100 nm and an interlayer spacing of 1-5 nm. There are also provided a tire cord, tire, belt-reinforcing fiber material and belt, comprising the polyester fiber.

Abstract: To provide a communication sheet structure that is used in combination with an IC tag, has stable read rate and can be easily introduced and installed on an existing shelf, and also an information management system using the same.

Abstract: To provide a pyrrolidine analogue having an inhibitory activity on the induction of allodynia, a method for producing the pyrrolidine analogue, and an agent for preventing a neurogenic pain. A pyrrolidine analogue which is a compound represented by the general formula (I) [wherein HOOC-? represents an aromatic substituent having at least one carboxy group attached to the benzene ring] or a salt or ester of the compound. The compound has a potent inhibitory effect on the induction of allodynia.

Abstract: There is provided a polyester fiber which has few defects such as voids due to catalyst particles, and low variation in physical properties and minimal fluff generation. The polyester fiber of the invention comprises laminar nanoparticles composed of a divalent metal and a phosphorus compound and having side lengths of 5-100 nm and an interlayer spacing of 1-5 nm. There are also provided a tire cord, tire, belt-reinforcing fiber material and belt, comprising the polyester fiber.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a base plate having first and second surfaces both facing in opposite directions, and a plurality of anisotropic heat conducting members disposed in the base plate and spaced away from each other. A semiconductor element having a heat generating unit is mounted on the first surface, and the second surface is supported on a supporting member having a thermal conductivity. Each anisotropic heat conducting member has a sheet shape intersecting with the first and second surfaces, and orientates a direction of higher thermal conductivity than the thermal conductivity of the base plate in a direction from the first surface toward the second surface.