Abstract: Thermosensitive fine particles of the present invention include a side chain crystal polymer which is crystallized at a temperature lower than a melting point and which exhibits fluidity at a temperature equal to or more than the melting point. The side chain crystal polymer may include, as a monomer component, a (meth)acrylate having a straight-chain alkyl group having 14 or more carbon atoms. A mean particle diameter of the fine particles may be 0.1 to 50 ?m. The thermosensitive fine particles may include no organic solvents.

Abstract: A group management device includes a required information acquisition unit, a supplement instruction unit, a mounting information acquisition unit, and a group update unit. The required information acquisition unit acquires information showing required groups that are groups determined to require supplements of the consumables used in image forming devices that are managed per group. The supplement instruction unit performs a supplement instruction of the consumables for the required groups. The mounting information acquisition unit acquires mounting information showing the image forming device mounted with the consumable supplemented in response to the supplement instruction.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging device and an electronic apparatus including the imaging device capable of realizing high-speed driving of a drive wiring and a signal line of a pixel and realizing miniaturization, high resolution, and high sensitivity. An imaging device having a pixel arrangement in which rectangular pixels whose horizontal pixel dimension is longer than a vertical pixel dimension are arranged by being moved in a horizontal direction every other row by a shift dimension of ½ of a horizontal pixel dimension.

Abstract: There are provided an imaging device and an electronic device that minimize an ineffective region inside a pixel and achieve reduction in size, high SN, high sensitivity, high resolution, and a reduced afterimage.

Abstract: An electrochemical device of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector containing aluminum, a positive electrode material layer containing a conductive polymer, and an aluminum oxide layer disposed on a surface of the positive current collector. The aluminum oxide layer contains fluorine.

Abstract: An image display apparatus displays an image to be printed on a desired printing medium by using a desired printing apparatus. In this process, medium images corresponding to the tint of the printing medium illuminated with one of illumination light fluxes having a plurality of color temperatures are displayed on a specific display with the medium images associated with the color temperatures of the illumination light fluxes, and specification of one of the medium images or the color temperature associated with the medium image is accepted. When the specification is made, an illumination light flux reflecting image having the tint of the image printed on the printing medium by the printing apparatus and illuminated with the illumination light flux having the color temperature corresponding to the specification is displayed on the specific display.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between these electrodes. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector containing a first metal, a carbon layer containing a conductive carbon material, a barrier layer disposed between the positive current collector and the carbon layer, and an active layer disposed on the carbon layer. The barrier layer has conductivity and higher acid resistance than the positive current collector. The active layer contains a conductive polymer. The first metal is preferably aluminum.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a radio-frequency member in which an inner peripheral surface of a cavity in a die includes a functional-region section that provides the radio-frequency member, a gate opens in a first wall surface of the inner peripheral surface of the cavity, an overflow expands in a direction in which a second wall surface of the inner peripheral surface extends is opened in the second wall surface, the functional-region section is located in a main flow region, the functional-region section includes a plurality of rod forming holes, a distance between edges of openings of at least two rod forming holes is smaller than depths of both of the two rod forming holes, a metal material in a fluid state is injected into the cavity through the gate, and a portion of the metal material flows outside of the cavity from the overflow.

Abstract: An image display apparatus displays an image to be printed on a desired printing medium by using a desired printing apparatus. In this process, medium images corresponding to the tint of the printing medium illuminated with one of illumination light fluxes having a plurality of color temperatures are displayed on a specific display with the medium images associated with the color temperatures of the illumination light fluxes, and specification of one of the medium images or the color temperature associated with the medium image is accepted. When the specification is made, an illumination light flux reflecting image having the tint of the image printed on the printing medium by the printing apparatus and illuminated with the illumination light flux having the color temperature corresponding to the specification is displayed on the specific display.

Abstract: An electrochemical device of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector containing aluminum, a positive electrode material layer containing a conductive polymer, and an aluminum oxide layer disposed on a surface of the positive current collector. The aluminum oxide layer contains fluorine.

Abstract: A swallowing movement measuring device measures an examinee's swallowing movement. The device measures a movement of the examinee's larynx when the examinee swallows a food bolus. This device has a capacitive sensor to be brought into contact with a body skin of the examinee's laryngeal part, and a measuring unit that measures a change of the capacitive sensor in capacitance. This capacitive sensor includes a sensor body comprising sheet-like dielectric layer, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first and the second electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer. The partially opposed portions of the electrode layers constitute a detection portion. The sensor body is reversibly deformable to change areas of the top and bottom surfaces of the dielectric layer.

Abstract: An antenna element manufacturing method includes forming a hollow by combining at least two molds movable relative to each other, injecting a material into the hollow to produce a molded article, and separating the molded article from the molds by pushing a first kind of reception surface provided at a specific site of the molded article using an ejector pin. The antenna element includes a conductor including a conductive surface, an at least partially conductive first protrusion, and a conductive second protrusion. The conductor includes at least one first slot opening on the conductive surface, a center portion of the first slot extending in a first direction along the conductive surface, and the first protrusion and the second protrusion are aligned in a second direction which intersects the first direction and is located along the conductive surface.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a radio-frequency member in which an inner peripheral surface of a cavity in a die includes a functional-region section that provides the radio-frequency member, a gate opens in a first wall surface of the inner peripheral surface of the cavity, an overflow expands in a direction in which a second wall surface of the inner peripheral surface extends is opened in the second wall surface, the functional-region section is located in a main flow region, the functional-region section includes a plurality of rod forming holes, a distance between edges of openings of at least two rod forming holes is smaller than depths of both of the two rod forming holes, a metal material in a fluid state is injected into the cavity through the gate, and a portion of the metal material flows outside of the cavity from the overflow.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector, a carbon layer, and an active layer. The carbon layer is disposed on the positive current collector and includes a conductive carbon material. The active layer is disposed on the carbon layer and includes a conductive polymer. The carbon layer includes a polyolefin resin. The positive current collector preferably includes aluminum.

Abstract: A waveguide device includes a first electrical conductor including a first electrically conductive surface, a second electrical conductor including a second electrically conductive surface opposing the first electrically conductive surface, an electrically-conductive ridge protruding from the second electrically conductive surface, and a plurality of electrically-conductive rods disposed on both sides of the ridge. The plurality of rods include one or more first rods adjoining the ridge. Each first rod includes a first side surface opposing a side surface of the ridge and a second side surface not opposing the side surface of the ridge. The first side surface is flat and perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the second electrically conductive surface. The second side surface includes a shape that increasingly deviates outward from an axial center of the first rod from the leading end toward the root of the first rod.

Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between these electrodes. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector containing a first metal, a carbon layer containing a conductive carbon material, a barrier layer disposed between the positive current collector and the carbon layer, and an active layer disposed on the carbon layer. The barrier layer has conductivity and higher acid resistance than the positive current collector. The active layer contains a conductive polymer. The first metal is preferably aluminum.

Abstract: A hybrid power source connects a secondary battery and an EDLC. A first switch connects the hybrid power source and a lead acid battery in parallel. A power source controlling portion controls power supply to the hybrid power source and the lead acid battery. The hybrid power source is connected to a starter for starting an engine for a vehicle, and also connected to an electric device except for the starter through the first switch, and the lead acid battery is connected to the electric device, and also connected to the starter through the first switch.

Abstract: To reduce an OSC material, while maintaining necessary OSC capacity; and to improve heat resistance and reactivity of a precious metal. Proposed is an exhaust gas purifying catalyst which comprises a first catalyst layer that is formed on the surface of a substrate that is formed of a ceramic or a metal, and a second catalyst layer that is formed on the upper side of the first catalyst layer. The first catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:7 to 1:3. The second catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:1 to 10:0.

Abstract: To reduce an OSC material, while maintaining necessary OSC capacity; and to improve heat resistance and reactivity of a precious metal. Proposed is an exhaust gas purifying catalyst which comprises a first catalyst layer that is formed on the surface of a substrate that is formed of a ceramic or a metal, and a second catalyst layer that is formed on the upper side of the first catalyst layer. The first catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:7 to 1:3. The second catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:1 to 10:0.

Abstract: A hybrid power source connects a secondary battery and an EDLC. A first switch connects the hybrid power source and a lead acid battery in parallel. A power source controlling portion controls power supply to the hybrid power source and the lead acid battery. The hybrid power source is connected to a starter for starting an engine for a vehicle, and also connected to an electric device except for the starter through the first switch, and the lead acid battery is connected to the electric device, and also connected to the starter through the first switch.