Abstract: A method for producing a polytetrafluoroethylene powder, which includes subjecting tetrafluoroethylene to suspension polymerization in an aqueous medium to prepare a suspension-polymerized particle of non melt-processible polytetrafluoroethylene, drying the suspension-polymerized particle to prepare a dry particle, subjecting the dry particle to fluorine radical treatment to prepare a fluorine radical-treated particle, and crushing the fluorine radical-treated particle to produce a polytetrafluoroethylene powder. Also disclosed is a polytetrafluoroethylene formed article obtained by forming the polytetrafluoroethylene powder, as well as a polytetrafluoroethylene compression-molded article obtained by compression molding the polytetrafluoroethylene powder.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of specifying a failure location of an inverter in detail when an attempt of active discharge fails. There are provided an arithmetic operation circuit 102 that outputs a discharge instruction to control a discharge operation based on a voltage between both ends of a discharge circuit, and an output circuit 203 that outputs a drive signal based on the control signal. The arithmetic operation circuit 102 monitors an amount of the decreased voltage between both the ends of the discharge circuit, an LV read back signal being an output of the arithmetic operation circuit 102, and an HV read back signal being an output of the output circuit 203, and specifies a failure location.

Abstract: A locking mechanism includes a first member that is provided on one side to lock and is rotated about a rotating shaft, a second member that is provided on the other side to lock and comes into contact with the first member to rotate the first member, a rotation applying member that further applies a rotational force to the first member rotated by the second member, a restriction portion that restricts movement of the first member to be rotated in a direction in which the first member is released from a locked state, and an elastic portion that allows the first member and the restriction portion to be in elastic contact with each other and allows the first member and the restriction portion to start to be in elastic contact with each other before the first member rotated by the second member is further rotated by the rotation applying member in a release direction which is the direction in which the first member is released from the locked state.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes: a nitride semiconductor that has two resonator faces opposed to each other; and a dielectric multilayer film that is layered on at least one resonator face of the two resonator faces. For example, the dielectric multilayer film layered on a resonator face includes a first dielectric film layered on the resonator face and a second dielectric film layered on the first dielectric film. The first dielectric film includes aluminum oxynitride. The second dielectric film includes aluminum oxide. The first dielectric film is a crystalline film. At least one of chemical elements of yttrium or lanthanum is added to the first dielectric film. At least one of chemical elements of yttrium or lanthanum is added to the second dielectric film.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a cover that is opened and closed on the housing, a detection part that detects opening and closing of the cover using ON and OFF, a rotating part that is rotatably supported and turns on and off the detection part, a pushing portion that comes into contact with the rotating part to rotate the rotating part in a case where the cover is closed, and a rotation applying part that applies a rotational force to the rotating part rotated by the pushing portion in a direction in which the detection part is turned on in a case where the cover is closed.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid electric vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform a start-up control of shifting the connection and disconnection clutch to a coupled state at the time of starting the internal combustion engine to rotate the internal combustion engine by the driving torque of the electric motor, and starting the first fuel injection mode using the direct injection injector. The electronic control unit is configured to switch from the first fuel injection mode to a second fuel injection mode for using the port injector prior to an end of the start-up control when the number of times of combustion cycles of the internal combustion engine with the first fuel injection mode reaches a predetermined first target number of times.

Abstract: A composition containing polytetrafluoroethylene and substantially free from a compound represented by Formula (3): (H—(CF2)8—SO3)qM2 wherein M2 is H, a metal atom, NR54 (where R5s may be the same as or different from each other and are each H or an organic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms), an imidazolium optionally having a substituent, a pyridinium optionally having a substituent, or a phosphonium optionally having a substituent, and q is 1 or 2. Also disclosed is a molded boy including the composition.

Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a main body having a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical shape extending in a first direction and including first and second inner electrodes alternately laminated together with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, a pair of first outer electrodes on two end surfaces of the main body in the first direction and electrically connected to the first inner electrodes, and a second outer electrode electrically connected to the second inner electrodes. The main body includes a projecting portion projecting in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction at a position between the pair of first outer electrodes. The second outer electrode is provided on one surface of the projecting portion viewable when viewed in the first direction.

Abstract: A method for producing a nickel cobalt complex hydroxide includes first crystallization of supplying a solution containing Ni, Co and Mn, a complex ion forming agent and a basic solution separately and simultaneously to one reaction vessel to obtain nickel cobalt complex hydroxide particles, and a second crystallization of, after the first crystallization, further supplying a solution containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese, a solution of a complex ion forming agent, a basic solution, and a solution containing said element M separately and simultaneously to the reaction vessel to crystallize a complex hydroxide particles containing nickel, cobalt, manganese and said element M on the nickel cobalt complex hydroxide particles crystallizing a complex hydroxide particles comprising Ni, Co, Mn and the element M on the nickel cobalt complex hydroxide particles.

Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl forming unit configured to form a feeding path of the wire along which the wire fed in a first direction by the wire feeding unit is wound around an object; and a binding unit configured to twist the wire fed in first direction by the wire feeding unit and wound on the object. The wire feeding unit includes a pair of feeding members configured to sandwich the wire and to feed the wire by a rotating operation, and a feeding motor configured to drive the feeding members. The binding machine further includes a control unit configured to control the wire feeding unit. The control unit is configured to control the wire feeding unit to enable the wire sandwiched by the feeding members to be discharged from the feeding members.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing transmission of influenza, wherein said method comprises administering an effective amount of a compound to a patient having an influenza virus infection, herein referred to as “index patient”, wherein the compound has one of the formulae (I) and (II), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The compound to be used in the present invention reduces infectivity of the influenza virus of the index patient, and therefore, reduces the risk of the index patient to trigger an influenza epidemic or an influenza pandemic as compared to a control patient.

Abstract: A liquid state detection sensor includes: an electrode part, the electrode part having a pair of electrodes provided so as to be opposed to each other; a voltage value acquisition time period setting unit configured to set a voltage value acquisition time period, the voltage value acquisition time period being a length of a time period during which an inter-electrode voltage value of the pair of electrodes of the electrode part is acquired; a voltage value acquisition unit configured to acquire the inter-electrode voltage value in the voltage value acquisition time period; and an electrical conductivity calculation unit configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of the liquid on the basis of, among the inter-electrode voltage value acquired by the voltage value acquisition unit, the inter-electrode voltage value acquired after a predetermined time period has elapsed since a start of the voltage value acquisition time period.

Abstract: A fluid state detection sensor includes: an electrical conductivity calculation unit having an electrical conductivity calculation part configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of a fluid from a voltage value acquired in a first voltage acquisition part; and a relative dielectric constant calculation unit having a relative dielectric constant calculation part configured to calculate a relative dielectric constant of the fluid from a voltage value acquired in a second voltage acquisition part, wherein the first voltage acquisition part acquires an inter-electrode voltage value after a predetermined time period after a switching part above a connection target of a pair of electrodes to the electrical conductivity calculation unit, and the second voltage acquisition part acquires the inter-electrode voltage value after the predetermined time period after the switching part switched the connection target of the pair of electrodes to the relative dielectric constant calculation unit.

Abstract: A processing device acquires map data that has road information, acquires detection results detected by one or more detectors that detects surroundings of a first mobile object, and cross-checks a position of a second mobile object included in the detection results with the road information of the map data to determine whether or not the position of the second mobile object is included in a region indicating a road of the road information.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine system includes an internal combustion engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a fuel pressure adjustment mechanism, and a control device that executes fuel injection control at a time of automatic restart of the internal combustion engine that is automatically stopped, by controlling the in-cylinder injection valve and the fuel pressure adjustment mechanism, in which the control device includes a first controller that executes the compression stroke injection a first number of times after an automatic restart request is made and control the pressure of the fuel to a predetermined value, and a second controller that executes the intake stroke injection a second number of times after the compression stroke injection is executed the first number of times and make the pressure of the fuel lower than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A program is executed by a processor causes the processor to identify at least one of a position and a posture of a first camera in a real space in which an object is arranged. The first camera is configured to capture an image of the real space. The program causes the processor to display, on a display, a first image generated based on a result of the image captured by the first camera; and display, at a position that is based on an identification result obtained by identifying the at least one of the position and the posture of the first camera within the display, a second image that corresponds to the object.

Abstract: A vehicle control device of a vehicle includes: an action plan creating part that creates an action plan for autonomous driving by the vehicle; and a distance detection part that outputs detection information on detection of an object. The action plan creating part includes a collision probability map setting part configured to, when the distance detection part detects an obstacle, determine a collision probability map, which is a two-dimensional map of a collision probability distribution representing likelihood of a collision between the vehicle and the detected obstacle in a two-dimensional space of a location and a speed. The action plan creating part is configured to create a current action plan based on the collision probability map, a predetermined target collision probability, and a current location and a current speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged; a plurality of individual liquid chambers that are communicably connected to the plurality of nozzles, respectively; a common liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers; and a circulation common liquid chamber that leads to a plurality of circulation channels. A part of the common liquid chamber overlaps the circulation common liquid chamber from a direction in which liquid is discharged from the nozzles, and another part of the common liquid chamber overlaps the circulation common liquid chamber from a direction orthogonal to both the direction in which liquid is discharged from the nozzles and a direction in which the nozzles are aligned.

Abstract: A cooling device is employed in a vehicle including an internal combustion engine provided with a forced-induction device and an intercooler. The cooling device includes a circulation circuit configured to circulate coolant supplied to the intercooler, an electric pump configured to operate to circulate the coolant in the circulation circuit, and processing circuitry configured to control a discharge amount of the coolant of the pump. The processing circuitry is configured to execute a control amount deriving process of deriving a control amount of the pump based on a requested flow rate and a coolant temperature, and an operation process of causing the pump to operate based on the control amount when the requested flow rate is larger than 0.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles from each of which a liquid is to be discharged; and a gap in each end of the nozzle plate in a longitudinal direction of the nozzle plate. The multiple nozzles are divided into P numbers of sub-nozzle groups, each of the sub-nozzle groups including the multiple nozzles as multiple sub-nozzles, where P is an integer of one or more, the multiple sub-nozzles are arrayed in the longitudinal direction at first intervals of d×P where d is a recording resolution and P is a number of the sub-nozzle groups, the sub-nozzle groups respectively include sub-nozzle rows respectively including the multiple sub-nozzles arrayed at the first intervals of d×P in the longitudinal direction.