Abstract: An electrophotographic belt comprising: a substrate and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the elastic layer comprising a cured rubber product including a cured silicone rubber product, an elastic modulus of the elastic layer at a temperature of 23° C. being 1.00 MPa or less, wherein when 1 g sample collected from the elastic layer is immersed in 50 ml of toluene at a temperature of 23° C. for 24 hours in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) K6258:2016, an extract of 3% by mass to 20% by mass with respect to the sample is extracted, and a burning time of the elastic layer in a burn test in accordance with UL94 VTM standard is 30 seconds or less.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor element includes forming a plurality of semiconductor layers on a sapphire substrate, each of the semiconductor layers having a first surface on the sapphire substrate side and a second surface on the opposite side, joining the second surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor layers to a retention member via an adhesive member, peeling off the plurality of semiconductor layers from the sapphire substrate by irradiating the first surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor layers with laser light, and polishing the first surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor layers. At least one semiconductor layer among the plurality of semiconductor layers includes a polishing indication part extending from the second surface toward the first surface. The polishing is executed until the polishing indication part is exposed to the polished surface.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor element includes forming a plurality of islands, each including a semiconductor layer containing a nitride semiconductor and a support formed on the semiconductor layer, on a sapphire substrate, joining the support to a retention substrate via an adhesive member, peeling off the semiconductor layer from the sapphire substrate by irradiating the semiconductor layer with laser light, and polishing a surface of the semiconductor layers peeled off from the sapphire substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coat film having excellent adhesion to a hard coat layer when a cycloolefin polymer film is used as a base material. The hard coat film of the present invention comprises a hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin laminated on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer base film through a primer layer. This primer layer contains a modified polyolefin resin in which a polyolefin resin is graft-modified with an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, and a (meth)acrylic acid ester. In this modified polyolefin resin, the graft weight of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof is 0.4 to 7 wt. % when the amount of the modified polyolefin resin is taken as 100 wt. %.

Abstract: A component comprising: a first case portion having a tunnel portion having an opening end opening toward an axial direction; and a second case portion having a catch tank portion opening upward, wherein the first case portion and the second case portion face each other such that a bottom portion of the tunnel portion and a bottom portion of the catch tank portion are coupled to each other, an opening area of the opening end of the tunnel portion on the second case portion side is larger than an opening area of the opening end of the tunnel portion on a side opposite to the second case portion side, the tunnel portion as a whole is inclined downward from the second case portion side of the tunnel portion to the side opposite to the second case portion side of the tunnel portion, and the second case portion side of the tunnel portion is inclined downward toward the catch tank portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a blade damage evaluation system comprising one or more computers configured to: evaluate inflow and collision of solid particles into a turbine based on design data, maintenance data, and operation data; and calculate a survival rate by applying at least one data included in at least one of the design data, the maintenance data, and the operation data as at least one factor to a formula that models the turbine by survival time analysis, the survival rate indicating that erosion amount of at least one of a plurality of blades does not reach a predetermined threshold at arbitrary time in future.

Abstract: A turning tool (1) that does not easily interfere with other tools and can supply a sufficient amount of coolant is provided. The turning tool (1) includes: a cutting insert (10) which is mirror-image symmetric with respect to a first and second symmetric surfaces (M1, M2); and a tool body (2) which has a first discharge port (5) to supply coolant to a first cutting edge (21E) of the cutting insert (10) from a first rake surface (21R) side. The first discharge port (5) is disposed between a second flat surface (32) and a first reference surface (Vxz) which is parallel with the second flat surface (32) and includes an edge line of the first cutting edge (21E).

Abstract: A novel organic compound is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits blue light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound having a high carrier-transport property is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable reliability is provided. An organic compound including at least one amino group in which any one of a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuranyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group is boneded to any one of a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzofuran skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzothiophene skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobenzofuranobenzothiophene skeleton is provided.

Abstract: A parking assist method uses a parking assist device which includes a controller configured to, when a subject vehicle travels by manual driving of a driver, determine whether or not the subject vehicle can be parked in a target parking space from a current position by first parking control for parking the subject vehicle by moving the subject vehicle only backward, and when it is determined that the subject vehicle can be parked in the target parking space by the first parking control, enable acceptance of a selection of the driver to execute the first parking control.

Abstract: A power storage component module includes power storage components and a bus bar connecting the power storage components to one another. At least one positioning boss is provided on an electrode included in the power storage components. The at least one positioning boss protrudes upward. The at least one positioning boss includes a base end and a distal end having a diameter less than a diameter of the base end. At least one through hole opens in the bus bar. The bus bar is placed on the at least one positioning boss and a hole edge of the at least one through hole is disposed around the at least one positioning boss between the base end of the at least one positioning boss and the distal end of the at least one positioning boss in a vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing diamond, comprising electrolytically reducing carbon dioxide into diamond to obtain diamond in an electrolytic reduction apparatus having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolytic solution containing carbon dioxide, wherein the electrolytic solution comprises an ionic liquid.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a sprinkling mode based on information indicating the environment of a sprinkling place. The control unit is configured to send, through the communication unit, a notification indicating the sprinkling mode to at least one vehicle scheduled to travel in the sprinkling place.

Abstract: An electrostatic separation method includes: applying voltage between a lower electrode at a bottom portion of or in the raw material layer and an upper electrode above the raw material layer, generating an electric field between electrodes; fluidizing the raw material layer and bringing conductive particles and the lower electrode into contact in the raw material layer charging only the conductive particles wherein their polarity becomes the same as the lower electrode; generating polarity, the same as the upper electrode, by dielectric polarization on a conveyor belt downward-facing conveyance surface passing through a capture region above the raw material layer and under the upper electrode, the conveyance surface including a nonconductor; separates charged conductive particles from the raw material layer surface by electrostatic force and adhering conductive particles to the conveyor belt conveyance surface; and separating and collecting the particles from the conveyance surface that moved outside the ele

Abstract: A novel light-emitting device is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device having a long driving lifetime at high temperature is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a light-emitting layer in this order from the anode side. The first layer includes a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The second layer includes a third organic compound. The third layer includes a fourth organic compound. The light-emitting layer includes a fifth organic compound and an emission center substance. The first organic compound exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the second organic compound. A difference between HOMO levels of the fourth organic compound and the fifth organic compound is less than or equal to 0.24 eV.

Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.

Abstract: In an electrochemical device of an embodiment, a cell stack has a spacer disposed to be arranged next to an insulating sealing member in a direction orthogonal to a stack direction. A plurality of the spacers are arranged in the stack direction between a pair of end plates, and the spacer is interposed between a pair of separators adjacently arranged in the stack direction. The spacer is formed of a material whose thickness reduction ratio when an operation of the electrochemical device is executed is smaller than that of the insulating sealing member. Before the execution of the operation of the electrochemical device, the thickness of the spacer is thinner than the thickness of the insulating sealing member. Further, the thickness of the spacer keeps a state of being equal to or less than the thickness of the insulating sealing member when the operation of the electrochemical device is executed.

Abstract: A method of forming a silicon nitride film according to an aspect of the present disclosure forms a silicon nitride film in a recess formed in a surface of a substrate. The method includes a process of forming an adsorption-inhibiting region by exposing the substrate to plasma generated from an adsorption-inhibiting gas that contains a halogen gas and a non-halogen gas, a process of adsorbing a silicon-containing gas in a region other than the adsorption-inhibiting region, and a process of forming a silicon nitride film by exposing the substrate, on which the silicon-containing gas has been adsorbed, to plasma generated from a nitrogen-containing gas.

Abstract: A novel organic compound is provided. An organic compound that emits light with high chromaticity is provided. An organic compound that emits blue light with high chromaticity is provided. An organic compound with high emission efficiency is provided. An organic compound having an excellent hole-transport property is provided. An organic compound having high reliability is provided. An organic compound that has a naphtho[2,3-b;7,6-b?]bisbenzofuran skeleton or a naphtho[2,3-b;7,6-b?]bisbenzothiophene skeleton and has a molecular weight of less than or equal to 5000 is provided. The present inventors have found that the organic compound is a significantly effective skeleton as a luminophor of a light-emitting element. The organic compound has high emission efficiency and exhibits favorable blue light emission; thus, a light-emitting element using the organic compound can be a blue light-emitting element with high emission efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which deterioration of energy loss is suppressed. The semiconductor device includes: a drift layer of a first conductivity type provided between a first main surface and a second main surface of a semiconductor substrate; and a field stop layer of the first conductivity type having an impurity concentration higher than that of the drift layer and provided between the drift layer and the second main surface. A net carrier concentration profile at room temperature of the field stop layer have at least one peak from the second main surface toward the first main surface. A hydrogen atom concentration profile of the field stop layer have at least two peaks from the second main surface toward the first main surface. The hydrogen atom concentration profile has more peaks than the net carrier concentration profile.

Abstract: There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.