Abstract: An electric wire protection device includes a voltage adjusting unit that adjusts voltage of a power source side and supplies the resulting voltage to a load, and a controller that includes a calculation unit configured to compute temperature information of an electric wire connecting the power source and the load from a value of an electric current flowing through the voltage adjusting unit, and that is configured to make the voltage adjusting unit into a shutoff state of shutting off the power source and the load on the basis of the temperature information.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a voltage adjusting unit, an A/D converter, a determination unit, and a supply unit configured to supply a voltage. The A/D converter includes an A/D conversion circuit, and a selector that connects any one of a plurality of input ports to the A/D conversion circuit. The input ports include load ports, a first diagnostic port, and a second diagnostic port, the supply unit supplies a first voltage value to the first diagnostic port and supplies a second voltage value to the second diagnostic port, and the determination unit determines abnormality of the A/D converter on the basis of conversion results by the A/D conversion circuit when the first diagnostic port and the A/D conversion circuit are connected together and conversion results by the A/D conversion circuit when the second diagnostic port and the A/D conversion circuit are connected together.

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a novel briquetting roll having excellent performance such as providing both abrasion resistance and spalling resistance, which can also be manufactured at low cost and in a short period of time, and a method for manufacturing the same. [Means for Solving the Problem] A briquetting roll 1 integrally has an inner layer material 4 and an outer layer material 5, which comprise mutually different materials and are in contact with each other at the respective exterior and interior thereof, and has pockets 6 formed at the outer circumference of the outer layer material 5. A chromium-molybdenum forged steel material is used for the inner layer material 4 and a high-carbon high-speed steel material is used for the outer layer material 5. The outer layer material 5 may be formed on the outside of the inner layer material 4 by a continuous pouring process.

Abstract: Provided are a coating apparatus which coats an article using a plurality of coating nozzles and is capable of performing the coating without restriction of the posture of the article, a coating nozzle used for the same, and a coating method. A coating apparatus includes: a first air jet port 20; a plurality of coating material jet ports 22 dispersedly disposed in the periphery of the first air jet port 20 across the whole circumference; and a plurality of second air jet ports 24 dispersedly disposed in the periphery of the coating material jet ports 22 across the whole circumference. The coating apparatus includes a plurality of coating nozzles 18 each of which performs jetting via a circulating passage formed along the dispersing arrangement of the second air jet ports 24. A controlling unit 34 independently controls individual adjusting units of the plurality of coating nozzles 18.

Abstract: A battery pack containing a plurality of plate-shaped laminate batteries arranged in a direction vertical to a plate-shaped surface of one of the laminate batteries. The laminate battery contains: a layered body which includes a negative electrode, a separator, and a positive electrode, and is disposed parallel to the plate-shaped surface of the laminate battery; an outer packaging including a laminate film enclosing the layered body; and an electrode terminal which is electrically connected to the layered body and extends from a one side part of the outer packaging. The outer packaging has, in an inside thereof, a battery part having a space in which the layered body exists and a bag part which has a space a volume of which is changeable, communicates to the battery part through a communication part, and is disposed on an other side part opposite to the one side part.

Abstract: An electrostatic coating device that can suppress the arising of corrosion in insulating members and the like surrounding coating material supply and discharge paths because of leakage arising between the paths. An electrostatic coating device is characterized by being provided with: a body part; a head part; a linking part that links the body part and the head part; a coating material path that is a first path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a high-voltage is applied along with the coating material (first fluid) being fed; a washing fluid path that is a second path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a washing fluid (second fluid) is fed along with a connection to a ground; and a displacement part for displacing all or part of air retained between the coating material path and a washing fluid path with new air.

Abstract: An image recording device includes a laser beam source that emits a laser beam, a splitting unit that splits the laser beam emitted from the laser beam source into two laser beams, a display device that displays images over a display area thereof divided into segments, a display controller that controls display of the display device so that images for forming a holographic stereogram are displayed on the segments of the display area and so that one of the laser beams is modulated by the images displayed on the display device to become object beams, an optical system that images the object beams on a hologram recording medium so that the object beams are superimposed one on top of another, and an irradiating unit that irradiates the hologram recording medium with, besides the object beams, the other laser beam split by the splitting unit as a reference beam.

Abstract: A multilayer conductive film includes a layer 1 including a conductive material containing a polymer material 1 having an alicyclic structure and conductive particles 1 and a layer 2 including a material having durability against positive electrode potential. The multilayer conductive film has stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode and stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a positive electrode, has low electric resistance per unit area in the thickness direction, and has excellent barrier properties for a solvent of an electrolytic solution. A battery including a current collector employing the multilayer conductive film can achieve both weight reduction and durability.

Abstract: A holographic-stereogram-forming apparatus includes a laser beam source that generates a laser beam to be split into an object beam and a reference beam; a display that displays an original image corresponding to a substantially strip-shaped holographic element constituting a holographic stereogram containing parallax information in a horizontal direction; a diffusing unit provided on a light-emission side of the display and including optical elements having different thicknesses in a direction of light transmission, the optical elements being arranged in a matrix and each having a substantially rectangular shape with a vertical length being shorter than a horizontal length, the diffusing unit diffusing object beam more widely in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction, the object beam to be diffused by the diffusing unit being generated by the display; and a condensing unit that condenses the object beam diffused by the diffusing unit on a hologram recording medium.

Abstract: An aqueous ink contains a colorant, an aqueous solvent, and as an infrared absorber, a compound represented by general formula (I): where Rb, Rc, and Rd are each independently alkyl, and Ra is a group represented by general formula (I-R): where Re is hydrogen or methyl, and e is an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: An aqueous ink contains a colorant, an aqueous solvent, and as an infrared absorber, a compound represented by general formula (I): where Rb, Rc, and Rd are each independently alkyl, and Ra is a group represented by general formula (I-R): where Re is hydrogen or methyl, and e is an integer of 0 to 3.

Abstract: A collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries comprises a first conductive layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains an imide group-containing resin, and a second conductive layer that has a function of blocking lithium ions. The second conductive layer comprises a blocking resin layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains a resin which contains no imide group, and a metal layer. This collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries is used in such a manner that the first conductive layer is on the positive electrode active material layer side with respect to the second conductive layer.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a sulfonyl amidine compound, which has an excellent gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor antagonism and is useful as a therapeutic agent for gonadotropin-dependent diseases (for example, prostate cancer, breast cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroid, prostatic hyperplasia, or the like) or a salt thereof, and a synthesis intermediate useful in the production method. The production method of the present invention controls formation of a by-product which is hardly removed unless column purification is conducted and racemization of a target compound, thereby obtaining the target compound with a high purity, and therefore, the production method is suitable for industrial production.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure (10) is provided with: an exhaust pipe (18) disposed between a fuel container (16) and a right framework member (12) so as to extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body; and a slide member (23) provided to the framework side wall (25) of the right framework member (12). The slide member (12) is provided to the portion (27) of the framework side wall (25), which is overlapped by the fuel container (16) and a chamber (42) in the width direction of the vehicle. The slide member (23) has a slide slope section (64). The slide slope section (64) is tilted inward in the width direction of the vehicle from the lower end (64b) toward the upper end (64a) so as to approach the fuel tank (16).

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.

Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a plurality of semiconductor chips having different planar sizes are stacked with a degree of freedom in design of each of the semiconductor chips is provided. A logic chip, a redistribution chip, and a memory chip having a larger planar size than the logic chip are mounted over a wiring board. The logic chip and the memory chip are electrically connected via the redistribution chip. The redistribution chip includes a plurality of front surface electrodes formed to a front surface facing the wiring board, and a plurality of back surface electrodes formed to a back surface opposite to the surface. The redistribution chip has a plurality of through silicon vias, and a plurality of lead wirings formed to the front surface or the back surface and electrically connecting the plurality of through silicon vias and the front surface electrodes or the back surface electrodes.

Abstract: A current collector for a battery includes: a layer (1) formed from an electrically conductive material and at least one of (a) a polymer compound having an alicyclic structure, (b) a saturated hydrocarbon polymer compound having a hydroxyl group, (c) a phenoxy resin and an epoxy resin, and (d) an amine having an amine equivalent of 120 g/eq or less and an epoxy resin; a layer (2) which is formed on at least one surface of the layer (1); and a layer (3) formed from an electrically conductive material. The current collector for a battery has stability to an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode, a low electric resistance, a blocking property to solvent in electrolytic solution, and a blocking property to a component in an electrolyte. In addition, the current collector for a battery has a high capacity retention rate, and battery durability is improved.

Abstract: A collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries including an electroconductive polyimide layer including a conductivity-imparting agent dispersed in a polyimide resin that is prepared by imidizing a polyamic acid that is obtained by reacting at least one tetracarboxylic dianhydride component of biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydrides, 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride, pyromellitic dianhydride, and [isopropylidenebis(p-phenyleneoxy)]diphthalic dianhydrides with at least one diamine component of oxydianilines, phenylenediamines, and 2,2-bis[4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]propane has excellent solvent barrier properties to an electrolytic solution, and can be used to give a highly reliable bipolar lithium ion secondary battery.