Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide such a quality management method for a cell that enables the sorting-out of a cell having drug efficacy, and a method of producing a cell using the quality management method. According to the present invention, there is provided a method that is a quality management method for a cell for a medical treatment or drug discovery, the method including managing a behavior of one or more specific protein molecules, which is essential for exhibiting a therapeutic effect due to a cell and managing an expression behavior of a related gene group that is characteristic of the cell.

Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a main substrate, a mask pattern located above the main substrate and including a mask portion, and a first semiconductor part and a second semiconductor part located above the mask pattern and adjacent to each other, in which the first semiconductor part includes a first lower edge located on the mask portion and a first protruding portion protruding toward the second semiconductor part side farther than the first lower edge.

Abstract: An electric furnace has a burner directed toward furnace contents. The burner includes a powder-feeding pipe, a jet hole for jetting a fuel, and a jet hole for jetting combustion-supporting gas. Hydrogen gas or a hydrogen-enriched gaseous fuel is jetted as the fuel to form a burner flame. An auxiliary material is jetted through the powder-feeding pipe so that the auxiliary material passes through an inside of the burner flame. According to a steelmaking method, an electric furnace has a burner that includes a jet hole for jetting a fuel and a jet hole for jetting combustion-supporting gas and that jets a flame through the jet holes toward an inside of the electric furnace. Hydrogen gas or a hydrogen-enriched gaseous fuel is used as the fuel of the burner, and an auxiliary material is blown in to pass through an inside of the flame formed by the burner.

Abstract: A gallium nitride crystal, containing F in which a total content of halogen elements other than F is 1/100 or less of a content of F and including a main surface 1 having an inclination of 0 degrees or more and 10 degrees or less from a (000-1) crystal plane in which the main surface 1 is a specific main surface A satisfying a specific condition regarding facet growth region in which a first line segment which is a virtual line segment extending in a first direction on the specific main surface A and having a length of 40 mm and a second line segment which is a virtual line segment extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the specific main surface A and having a length of 40 mm can be drawn, has fewer specific crystal defects and is of high quality,

Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel pipe and a method for manufacturing the same. The stainless steel pipe has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05% or less, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 2.0%, P: 0.05% or less, S: less than 0.005%, Cr: 16.0% to 20.0%, Mo: 0.6% to 1.4%, Ni: 3.0% to 5.0%, Al: 0.001% to 0.10%, N: 0.010% to 0.100%, O: 0.01% or less, Cu: 0.3% to 3.5%, and a balance of Fe and incidental impurities, in which predetermined relational expressions are satisfied by Cr, Ni, Mo, W, Cu, and C, a microstructure including, in terms of volume fraction, 45% or more of a tempered martensitic phase, 20% to 40% of a ferrite phase, and 5% to 25% of a retained austenite phase, a yield strength of 758 MPa or higher, and an absorbed energy at a temperature of ?10° C. vE?10 of 40 J or more.

Abstract: A laundry appliance includes a drum that rotationally operates within a tub. A fluid delivery system selectively delivers wash fluid to the drum. A rotator rotationally operates within the drum. The rotator selectively operates independent of the drum and about a common rotational axis of the drum and the rotator. A sanitizing mechanism includes an ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic transducer selectively delivers waves of an ultrasonic frequency into an amount of the wash fluid disposed within the drum and the rotator. The ultrasonic frequency generates air bubbles and causes cavitation of the air bubbles that directs a micro jet of air through the wash fluid and into articles being processed within the drum.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mask-frame assembly and a producing method thereof. The mask-frame assembly according to the present invention is used in a process of forming organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels on a semiconductor wafer, and includes: a support including an edge portion and a grid portion; a mask connected onto the support and including a mask pattern; and an adhering support connected to a lower part of the support and including an auxiliary edge portion and an auxiliary grid portion, wherein the adhering support includes a magnetic material.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a cold-rolled steel sheet in which the method uses a transverse-type full-width heating device that heats a steel sheet over an entire area in a width direction of the steel sheet, and a cold rolling mill that rolls the steel sheet and that is arranged on a downstream side in a rolling direction with respect to the transverse-type full-width heating device, the method includes: heating the steel sheet by using the transverse-type full-width heating device in such a manner that temperatures of end portions in the width direction becomes higher than a temperature of a central portion in the width direction of the steel sheet on an entry side of the cold rolling mill.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a porous transport layer for a cathode comprising carbon fibers and polymer resin, an intermediate substrate layer disposed on the lower substrate layer and containing carbon fibers, and a microporous layer disposed on the intermediate substrate layer. The lower substrate layer may comprise a first lower substrate layer, and a second lower substrate layer disposed on the first lower substrate layer and having an average density lower than an average density of the first lower substrate layer. The intermediate substrate layer may be disposed on the second lower substrate layer. A water electrolysis cell may comprise the porous transport layer and the cathode.

Abstract: A tube expansion tool includes a female screw member that rotates by an electric motor. A screw shaft engages the female screw member to move in a front-rear direction. A front-end position sensor detects that the screw shaft has reached a front-end position. The screw shaft stops moving forward by a braking operation. A controller controls the braking operation of the electric motor. When the controller determines that the screw shaft has reached the front-end position based on a signal from the front-end sensor, the controller performs the braking operation. Also, when the controller detects that the screw shaft stops, the controller rotates the electric motor in a reverse direction to move the screw shaft rearward.

Abstract: A roller pair for conveying sheets is equipped with a first roller and a second roller that sandwich and convey sheet members. At least one of the first roller and the second roller has a concave-convex portion on the surface thereof, and the at least one of the rollers having the concave-convex portion on the surface thereof further has flange portions and at both ends in the axial direction thereof.

Abstract: A 3D printing system includes an ejector configured to receive a build material. The ejector includes a nozzle. The ejector is configured to eject a plurality of drops of the build material through the nozzle. The 3D printing system also includes a substrate positioned below the nozzle. The drops fall toward the substrate after being ejected from the nozzle. The drops form a 3D object on the substrate. The 3D printing system also includes a power source configured to generate an alternating electrical current. The 3D printing system also includes an electrode configured to generate a plasma in response to receiving the alternating electrical current. The drops, the 3D object, the substrate, or a combination thereof are positioned at least partially within the plasma.

Abstract: A lift device comprises a base, a retractable lift mechanism, a work platform, a linear actuator, an electromagnetic brake, and a manual release device. The electromagnetic brake is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the event of a power failure, the electromagnetic brake is biased toward and engaged position, where an armature is biased away from a magnetic body and into contact with a friction disk by at least one engagement spring, thereby preventing rotation of the friction disk. In a disengaged position, a current is applied to the wire coil to produce an electromagnetic force on the armature that overcomes a spring force of the at least one engagement spring, thereby compressing the at least one engagement spring, pulling the armature out of contact with the friction disk, and allowing the rotation of the friction disk.

Abstract: Provided herein are various enhancements for additive manufacturing using titanium and titanium alloy materials. In one example, a method includes inoculating a titanium material with ceramic particles that produce nucleation sites within the titanium material during successive melt and solidification steps of an additive manufacturing process. The nucleation sites promote grain nucleation during solidification of molten titanium material into solid titanium material during the additive manufacturing process.

Abstract: There are provided a regeneration treatment apparatus, a washout processor, and a manufacturing method of a flexographic printing plate in which attachment of a resin aggregate generated as a non-exposed portion of an imagewise exposed flexographic printing plate precursor is removed through development using a washing solution can be suppressed and the resin aggregate can be easily cleaned off even in a case of being attached. The regeneration treatment apparatus removes, from a used washing solution containing the resin aggregate generated as the non-exposed portion of the imagewise exposed flexographic printing plate precursor having a photosensitive resin layer is removed through development using the washing solution of which a main component is water, the resin aggregate. The regeneration treatment apparatus has a centrifuge that has a rotating body for separating out the resin aggregate from the used washing solution and an induction path through which the resin aggregate from the centrifuge passes.

Abstract: A workpiece support includes a rotating shaft, a second support, a first support, and an air supplier. The rotating shaft is configured to support a workpiece at the leading end portion. The second support supports the rotating shaft rotatably about a first axis of the rotating shaft. The first support is provided between a tool and the second support along the first axis and has a through hole into which a guide bushing unit is configured to be inserted and into which the leading end portion of the rotating shaft is configured to be inserted. The guide bushing unit is configured to support the workpiece when the guide bushing unit is in the through hole. An ejection opening is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the through hole. The air supplier is configured to supply air to the first support via the ejection opening.

Abstract: A detection device includes a generation unit that generates feature values representing features of a plurality of pieces of orbit data, on the basis of the orbit data representing a state of each flying object included in a flying object group, an inference unit that acquires a value corresponding to a state of the flying object group on the basis of the feature values generated by the generation unit, and a detection unit that detects an abnormality having occurred in the flying object group on the basis of the value corresponding to the state of the flying object group acquired by the inference unit.

Abstract: To achieve more efficient cooling and lubrication by making a coolant more reliably and directly reach a machining point even in machining such as inner diameter grooving of a small diameter or grooving of a narrow groove width with which it is difficult for a coolant to reach a machining point. An indexable cutting tool that adopts a structure in which a cutting insert including cutting edges is removably mounted, by a set screw, on an insert mounting seat at an axial direction leading end part of a tool body includes: a coolant flow passage for coolant supply, the coolant flow passage being provided to the tool body; an opening part that is provided to the insert mounting seat; and a recessed part that forms a flow passage in which at least part of the coolant discharged from the opening part flows, the recessed part being provided to the cutting insert.

Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a body coupled to the chassis, a lift arm assembly coupled to at least one of the chassis or the body and selectively repositionable between a first position and a second position, a fork tube coupled to the lift arm assembly, a set of bump plates coupled to the fork, and a lateral stabilizer assembly coupled to at least one of the frame or the body. The lift arm assembly includes a first arm, a second arm, and an implement coupled to the first arm and the second arm. The lateral stabilizer assembly includes a lateral stabilizer and a backer plate. The lateral stabilizer assembly is configured to prevent lateral sway of the implement when the lift arm assembly is in the first position by the lateral stabilizer coming in contact with the set of bump plates.

Abstract: A suction pad includes a body and a sponge member. The body includes a negative pressure chamber, and a plurality of communication passages communicating with the negative pressure chamber. The sponge member includes a plurality of cavities opening toward a workpiece. The cavities communicate with the negative pressure chamber through the communication passages, and flow passage adjustment valves for adjusting a flow passage area are arranged in the communication passages, respectively. The suction pad further includes a pressure detection port for detecting pressure in at least one cavity among the plurality of cavities.