Abstract: [Task] Provided is a manufacturing method of butadiene that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions. [Solution] A manufacturing method of butadiene includes an electrolytic reduction process 2 that produces ethylene and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water as a raw material by electrolytic reduction, a butene producing process 3 that produces butene by dimerizing the ethylene produced in the electrolytic reduction process, a mixing process 4 that prepares a mixed gas by mixing the oxygen produced in the electrolytic reduction process, the butene produced in the butene producing process, and air, and a butadiene producing process 5 that produces butadiene by heating the mixed gas and oxidatively dehydrogenating the butene, wherein carbon dioxide by-produced in the butadiene producing process is used as a portion of the raw material in the electrolytic reduction process.

Abstract: A load port includes: a plate-shaped base member having an opening via which a transfer target object is loaded and unloaded; a door member capable of opening and closing the opening; a link mechanism including a link member having one end rotatably connected to the door member; a guide roller configured to move together with the door member; a guide surface bent to extend from a first direction to a second direction and configured to guide the guide roller; a drive member to which the other end of the link member is rotatably connected; and a driver configured to move the drive member in the second direction.

Abstract: To provide a carbon fiber bundle capable of suppressing winding due to ring-shaped fuzzes, which occurs when the carbon fiber bundle is rolled out for advanced processing, and a production method for producing the same. Disclosed is a carbon fiber bundle wherein an average single-fiber diameter B is 6.9 to 11.0 ?m, a tensile modulus E of resin-impregnated strands is 230 to 310 GPa, the number of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle is 40 fuzzes/m or less, and a proportion of fuzzes with a structure having a difference between skin and core is 1 to 25% of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle. Such a carbon fiber bundle is preferably obtained by a method including, in a process of heat-treating a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle with a single-fiber fineness of 0.9 to 2.2 dtex in an oxidizing atmosphere at 200 to 300° C.

Abstract: A display control device for performing control on a display of a display configured to display an image of content laid out in a virtual space as viewed from a predetermined position, the display being mounted on portions of eyes by a user. The device detects an orientation, with respect to the display, of a head portion of a person other than the user and determines whether a position of the content needs to be changed based on a detection-result and the position of the content in the virtual space. A position change destination of the content in the virtual space is set based on a distance between the position change destination of the content in the virtual space and a position at a current point in time of the content and to change the position of the content when the position of the content is to be changed.

Abstract: In a suspension bush in which an intermediate member is arranged between an inner shaft member and an outer tube member that are connected by a main body rubber elastic body, a central portion in the axial direction of the inner shaft member includes an inner bulging portion projecting toward the outer periphery, the outer tube member includes an outer curved portion concave toward the inner periphery, and the intermediate member includes an intermediate curved portion concave toward the inner periphery. The main body rubber elastic body is pre-compressed by diameter reduction of the outer tube member, an inclination angle of both axial end parts of the outer curved portion with respect to the axial direction is increased by diameter reduction of the outer tube member 14, and both axial end parts of the outer curved portion are pressed against axial end portions of the main body rubber elastic body.

Abstract: A seat cushion is formed integrally by a body pad portion, an outer peripheral edge portion, and a connection portion. The outer peripheral edge portion protrudes toward a floor panel from the outer peripheral edge portion in a plan view and contacts a floor panel at its lower face. The connection portion is provided to protrude toward the floor panel at a portion which is separated from a front-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion and a rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion, respectively. The connection portion connects the floor panel and the body pad portion. A portion between the front-side part and the rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion in a vehicle longitudinal direction is a separation portion where a lower face of the seat cushion faces an upper face of the floor panel with a gap.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes closing an opening portion of a case body with a lid of a lid assembly, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and a peripheral portion of the lid over their entire circumference. A resin member has an outer surface including a scattered light-reached surface to which scattered light of a laser beam directly reaches, at least a part of the scattered light-reached surface including a smoothed region having a surface roughness of 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes forming a lid, forming a lid assembly, closing, and welding. In forming a lid, there is included forming, by forging, a protruding portion between a peripheral portion and an insertion-hole surrounding portion of the lid to block scattered light of a laser beam from being irradiated to a resin member, with a distance D from an end surface of the peripheral portion to a side surface of the protruding portion falling within 0.5t (D?0.5t) relative to a thickness t of the lid.

Abstract: A battery terminal has a two-piece configuration of different types of conductive materials. A first piece placed outside and a second piece placed inside with including a current collecting portion are fixed in two portions of a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion. The first fixing portion is positioned between the current collecting portion and the second fixing portion in a longitudinal direction in a shape of the terminal. Leaning of the current collecting portion with respect to a center in a short-side direction and leaning of the first fixing portion with respect to a center are opposite to each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry measures an electrical potential pertaining to a contact between a probe for dispensing a sample or a reagent and a liquid surface, and outputs the measured electrical potential as a measurement value, determines whether or not the measurement value is within a specific range, and outputs a determination result, and provides a notification on a state of a liquid related to the liquid surface according to the determination result.

Abstract: A method for producing a lithium metal composite oxide including a step of calcining, at 600° C. or higher, one of a mixture of a lithium compound and a metal composite compound containing at least Ni and a reactant obtained by preliminarily calcining the mixture to obtain a calcined product, a step of cooling the calcined product from a calcining temperature in the step of obtaining the calcined product to 150° C. or lower to obtain a cooled product, and a step of pulverizing the cooled product such that a BET specific surface area becomes 0.90 to 1.55 m2/g, in which, in the step of obtaining the cooled product, an average cooling rate in a temperature range from 600° C. to 150° C. is 150 to 3500° C./h.

Abstract: In a first step, a circuit sheet is set such that a first region of a second main surface of the circuit sheet is in contact with a plateau portion of a first mold and a second region is not in contact with the first mold. In the first step, a first fixed portion of the circuit sheet is arranged on a first portion of the first mold, and a second fixed portion is arranged on a second portion of the first mold. The first portion is a portion that is higher than the plateau portion and runs along at least one of a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion provided along the plateau portion. The second portion is a portion where the first protruding portion or the second protruding portion is not provided along the plateau portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a lithium metal composite oxide, in which, in a calcining step of calcining a substance to be calcined using calcining means, the substance to be calcined is a mixture of a metal composite compound and a lithium compound or a mixture raw material containing a reactant of the metal composite compound and the lithium compound, a content rate of Li in the substance to be calcined is more than 5 mass % and 10 mass % or less, the calcining means includes an inner wall, a main material of the inner wall is an alloy, the alloy contains Ni and Al, a content rate of the Ni with respect to a total amount of the alloy is 93 mass % or more and 95 mass % or less, and a content rate of the Al with respect to the total amount of the alloy is 3 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less.

Abstract: A load port connected to a transport part includes: a base constituting a portion of a wall of the transport part; a stage on which a storage container is mounted; a stage driving mechanism configured to move the stage in a direction toward or away from the base; a door configured to be capable of opening/closing an opening of the base at a position facing a lid of the storage container mounted on the stage and to be capable of holding the lid disposed to face the opening in a state of closing the opening; a door driving mechanism configured to move the door between an opening position and a closing position; and a movement restricting part configured to restrict a movement of the stage in the direction away from the base by abutting against the stage.

Abstract: A load port for loading and unloading substrates between a transport chamber and a storage container includes: a plate-like portion constituting a wall surface of the transport chamber and including an opening in communication with an interior of the transport chamber; a stage configured to mount the storage container thereon such that a lid of the storage container faces a door of the opening; and a controller configured to control a driving device that moves the stage forward and rearward with respect to the plate-like portion, wherein the controller is further configured to control, when moving the stage toward the plate-like portion, the driving device to: apply a first thrust directed toward the plate-like portion to the stage until immediately before the stage reaches a predetermined position; and then apply a second thrust, which is greater than the first thrust and directed toward the plate-like portion, to the stage.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion including a hydroxyl-terminated urethane prepolymer obtained by reacting an oxyalkylene polymer A in which an average number of hydroxyl groups per molecule is more than 2.0 and 3.0 or less, an oxyalkylene polymer B in which an average number of hydroxyl groups per molecule is 1.2 or more and 2.0 or less, and a diisocyanate compound, where a content proportion of oxyethylene groups to a total amount of oxyalkylene groups in the oxyalkylene polymer A is 15% by mass or more, a content proportion of oxyethylene groups to a total amount of oxyalkylene groups in the oxyalkylene polymer B is 15% by mass or more, and a content proportion of oxyethylene groups to a total amount of oxyalkylene groups in the hydroxyl-terminated urethane prepolymer is more than 20% by mass and 70% by mass or less.

Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire examination records of X-ray examinations performed on a plurality of patients; based on the acquired examination record, count the number of examinations for each content of X-ray examination used for each of the patients before a diagnosis is made, for a certain disease; and output whether there is a significant difference between the number of examinations for each content of X-ray examination serving as a reference, and the number of examinations for each content of X-ray examination counted by a first counting unit.

Abstract: A band-pass filter includes a first port, a second port, first to third high-pass filters provided between the first port and the second port in this order from a first-port side in a circuit configuration, and a low-pass filter provided between the second high-pass filter and the third high-pass filter in the circuit configuration. Each of the first to third high-pass filters forms an attenuation pole on a low-pass side of the passband. A frequency of the attenuation pole formed by the second high-pass filter is higher than a frequency of the attenuation pole formed by each of the first and third high-pass filters.

Abstract: A medical information processing device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to automatically select and execute an application to be executed on a medical image to be processed from among a plurality of applications on the basis of predetermined reference information, compare first information indicating execution conditions for each of the plurality of applications included in the reference information with second information indicating an imaging condition for the medical image, and cause a display to display a list of applications that have not been executed among the plurality of applications and a result of comparison between the first information and the second information.