Abstract: Problems to be solved of the present invention are to provide a method for producing an organic electroluminescent device capable of producing an organic electroluminescent device having long lifetime, an organic electroluminescent device having long lifetime, a planar light source, an illumination apparatus and a display apparatus each having long lifetime. Means for solving the problem is a method for producing an organic electroluminescent device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and a light emitting layer arranged between the first and second electrodes, the light emitting layer containing an organic film, the method comprising a step of applying a solution containing an organic compound onto the surface of a layer which is to be located just below the light emitting layer, to form the organic film in a dark place.

Abstract: The ethylene-?-olefin copolymer contains monomer units derived from ethylene and monomer units derived from an ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms for producing a foam. The ethylene-?-olefin copolymer has a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 100 g/10 minutes, a density of 850 to 940 kg/m3, a molecular weight distribution of 2 to 12, a swell ratio of 1.61 or more, and a value of g* as defined by a formula (I) of 0.50 to 0.78.

Abstract: Manufacture of ceramic honeycomb fired body. Green molded body is placed on a firing base and fired. The firing base and green molded body are each a column containing a ceramic raw material and having a partition wall forming a plurality of flow paths, and patterns of end surfaces of the two partition walls are the same as each other as seen from an extending direction of the flow paths. The green molded body is placed on the firing base displaced in a horizontal direction by a predetermined distance, or rotated around a vertical axis V of the green molded body by a predetermined angle ?, so that only a part of the lower side end surface of the partition wall of the green molded body is in contact with the upper side end surface of the partition wall of the firing base.

Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device having a mechanism capable of efficiently dissipating heat kept in the device to the outside. The light emitting device includes: a first substrate including a heat radiation layer; a second substrate exhibiting light transmittance; and a plurality of organic EL elements provided, between the first substrate and the second substrate to emit light toward the second substrate. The second substrate includes fibrous, thermally conductive wires dispersively arranged therein, and the thermally conductive wires have a diameter of 0.4 ?m or less and have a thermal conductivity higher than the remaining component of the second substrate excluding the thermally conductive wires.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sodium secondary battery comprising a first electrode comprising a carbonaceous material which can be doped and dedoped with a sodium ion, a second electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte salt is dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprises a cyclic carbonate containing an unsaturated bond, a cyclic carbonate containing fluorine, or both, in the range of 0.01% by volume or more and 10% by volume or less relative to the non-aqueous electrolytic solution.

Abstract: An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a pixel sensor, a color filter array comprising a plurality of color filters formed on the pixel sensor, wherein two adjacent color filters have a gap therebetween, and a gapless microlens array comprising a plurality of microlenses formed on the color filter array. The invention also provides a method for fabricating the image sensor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a conductive layer deposited on a substrate, the conductive layer being patterned to include a first pattern, the first pattern including a major surface and a plurality of grids defined in the major surface, the major surface including first lines and a connecting portion, wherein the connecting portion is connected to an electrode; and an epitaxial layer disposed on the conductive layer, covering the grids and the first line between the adjacent grids.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are as defined in the specification, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy.

Abstract: A paper feeding module and multi-function printer using the same are provided. The multi-function printer includes a body, a paper transferring passage and a paper feeding module. The paper transferring passage includes an entrance. The paper feeding module includes a photoreceptor axle, a transferring axle and a skew correction axle. The photoreceptor axle is disposed on the paper transferring passage. The transferring axle is disposed next to the photoreceptor axle and contacts the photoreceptor axle. The skew correction axle is disposed between the entrance of the paper transferring passage and the photoreceptor axle. The skew correction axle contacts the transferring axle. The axes of the photoreceptor axle, the transferring axle and the skew correction axle are parallel to one another.

Abstract: A child seat includes an upper surface adapted to receive a child in a sitting position, and a surrounding sidewall having a top connected with the upper surface, the upper surface including a plurality of perforations, the surrounding sidewall being formed integrally with the upper surface, and the surrounding sidewall and the upper surface at least partially delimiting an inner cavity below the upper surface.

Abstract: A polymer electrolyte membrane which exhibits superior high-temperature operability and a fuel cell and the like comprising the polymer electrolyte membrane are provided. In an aspect, the present invention relates to a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a polymer electrolyte and having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the water vapor permeability coefficient from the first surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane to the second surface which is measured in a state where the first surface is exposed to a humidified environment of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 20% and the second surface is exposed to a non-humidified environment of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 0% is equal to or higher than 7.0×10?10 mol/sec/cm, and the breaking stress at a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 90% is equal to or greater than 20 MPa.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for video predictive encoding. Firstly, extract a pixel block from current frame, divide the pixel block into a principal set of pixels and a complementary set of pixels; encode the principal set of pixels, output code stream of the principal set of pixels, obtain a reconstruction value of the principal set of pixels; interpolate to reconstructed pixel values, which include the reconstruction value of the principal set of pixels, take a result as predictive value of the complementary set of pixels, execute an intra-frame predictive encoding for the complementary set of pixels, output code stream of the complementary set of pixels, obtain a reconstruction value of the complementary set of pixels; and finally combine the reconstruction value of the principal set of pixels and the reconstruction value of the complementary set of pixels, and obtain a reconstruction value of the pixel block.

Abstract: A photoresist composition containing a resin that is hardly soluble or insoluble, but which is soluble in an aqueous alkali solution by action of an acid, and a salt represented by formula (I): wherein Q1, Q2, L1, W1, W2, R1, R2, t1 and t2 are defined in the specification, and Z+ represents an organic cation.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a light emitting material which can improve the luminous lifetime of a light emitting device by being included in a light emitting layer of the light emitting device. A means for achieving the object is a light emitting material characterized by comprising wherein the material comprises a conjugated polymer having a conjugated part and a blue light emitting compound having a blue light emitting part and satisfies the following formula (1): y?log10(5.1×x0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a light-emitting device including the steps of bringing a nozzle 13 that is communicated with a tank 14 for storing coating liquid 17 to be an organic electroluminescent (EL) layer and discharges the coating liquid 17 supplied from the tank 14 near a body-to-be-coated 19 that includes a support substrate arranged above the nozzle 13; bringing the coating liquid 17 discharged from the nozzle 13 in contact with the body-to-be-coated 19; and applying the coating liquid 17 to make a film thereof by relatively moving the body-to-be-coated 19 and the nozzle 13 in a state that the coating liquid 17 is in contact with the body-to-be-coated 19 to form the organic EL layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a fluorinated copolymer composition, capable of uniformly mixing a fluorinated copolymer (A) having repeating units derived from ethylene and repeating units derived from tetrafluoroethylene, and a thermoplastic resin (B), at a relatively low temperature. The invention also relates to a method for producing a fluorinated copolymer composition comprising a fluorinated copolymer (A), a thermoplastic resin (B) which excludes the fluorinated copolymer (A), and a medium (C) capable of dissolving at least the fluorinated copolymer (A). The invention also relates to a coating composition capable of forming a coating film provided with characteristics of the fluorinated copolymer (A) and the thermoplastic resin (B), an article having such a coating film, and a molded product.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing; and a vent unit provided to the housing, the vent unit having a two-dimensional lattice unit and a column part, the two-dimensional lattice unit including one-dimensional lattice parts intersecting each other, the column part being provided at an intersection of the one-dimensional lattice parts and protruding to at least one of the inside and the outside of the two-dimensional lattice unit.

Abstract: To provide a polymer electrolyte membrane and a membrane/electrode assembly for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, excellent in the durability to hydrogen peroxide or peroxide radicals. A polymer electrolyte membrane 15 comprising an ion exchange resin having cation exchange groups, which contains cerium element and at least one member selected from cesium element and rubidium element; and a membrane/electrode assembly 10, comprising an anode 13 having a catalyst layer 11 containing a catalyst and an ion exchange resin, a cathode 14 having a catalyst layer 11 containing a catalyst and an ion exchange resin, and a polymer electrolyte membrane 15 disposed between the anode 13 and the cathode 14, wherein the polymer electrolyte membrane 15 contains cerium element and at least one member selected from cesium element and rubidium element.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a support substrate 12, an electric circuit 14 provided in a sealing region set on the support substrate 12, a sealing member 16 provided on the support substrate 12 to surround the sealing region, a sealing substrate 17 bonded to the support substrate 12 with the sealing member 16 interposed therebetween, and a spacer 23 arranged between the support substrate 12 and the sealing substrate 17. The electric circuit 14 includes an electronic element 24 having an organic layer. The sealing member 16 and the spacer 23 are formed using the same material.

Abstract: Manufacture of a light-emitting device by selectively removing a thin film that is formed outside a light-emitting region by ink application. The light-emitting device includes a supporting substrate and a plurality of organic electroluminescent (EL) elements (22) that are provided at a light-emitting region defined on the supporting substrate, the element including a first electrode (12), a second electrode, and an organic EL layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The method includes: preparing the supporting substrate that is provided with the first electrode, supplying an ink containing the material of the organic EL layer onto the supporting substrate to form a thin film made of the ink in the light-emitting region and a region outside the light-emitting region on the supporting substrate, making the thin film in the light-emitting region insoluble, removing the thin film outside the light-emitting region by cleaning, and forming the second electrode.