Abstract: Object: To provide a method for manufacturing a polymer, which is a method for forming a polymer having a homogeneous copolymer composition and a narrow molecular weight distribution. Resolution Means: A method for manufacturing a polymer using a microreactor including a flow path capable of mixing a plurality of liquids to perform radical polymerization of a monomer component containing two or more types of monomers in the presence of a polymerization initiator; wherein the microreactor includes a first inlet port configured to feed the monomer component and an additional inlet port located downstream of the first inlet port; and the method includes feeding the monomer component through the first inlet port and the additional inlet port.

Abstract: The present invention provides a clathrate in which equol is included in a cyclodextrin, and an equol-absorbent composition containing an equol clathrate in which equol is included in a cyclodextrin. In addition, the present invention provides a method for producing the clathrate or the equol-absorbent composition, the method including adding a cyclodextrin to a fermentation medium during a fermentative production of equol from at least one equol raw material selected from the group consisting of daidzein glycosides, daidzein, and dihydrodaidzein, using a microorganism that assimilates the equol raw material into equol.

Abstract: An airbag device includes a seat frame that forms a skeleton of a vehicle seat on which an occupant of a vehicle sits; an airbag that is disposed on a backrest portion that supports a back of the occupant in the vehicle seat and that is deployed by supply of gas; and a gas generator that is disposed at a seating surface portion that supports buttocks of the occupant in the vehicle seat and that generates gas to be supplied to the airbag; where a part that is a portion of the seat frame and includes at least a portion of a back frame forming a skeleton of the backrest portion, is formed as a flow tube that connects to the airbag to supply gas generated by the gas generator to the airbag.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a resin molded article through which air bubbles are not easily formed during imprint molding when a curable composition is applied to a mold having a pattern shaped section.

Abstract: An igniter assembly includes: an ignition device including: an igniter including an ignition portion airtightly accommodating an ignition charge and a conductive portion that supplies an ignition current for igniting the ignition charge, an igniter holding portion having a tubular shape and holding the igniter, and a fixing member made of a resin, interposed between the igniter and the igniter holding portion, and fixing the igniter to the igniter holding portion; a case having a bottomed tubular shape and accommodating a first gas generating agent and the ignition portion of the igniter, and a partition wall partitioning an inside of the case into a space in which the igniter and the fixing member are disposed and a space in which the first gas generating agent is accommodated, the partition wall having moisture impermeability. The partition wall is fixed and in contact with the case.

Abstract: An object is to mitigate plugging of spinneret hole, the plugging occurring with the passage of spinning time, even though cellulose acetate has a small titanium dioxide content or contains no titanium dioxide, and to prevent a reduction in pressure drop of the resulting cellulose acetate band. A cellulose acetate fiber having a titanium dioxide content of not greater than 0.05 wt. %; and a content of at least one type of metal oxide selected from the group consisting of Fe3O4, Fe2O3, MnO2, Cr2O3, Cr2CuO4, NiO, Sb2O3, and CoAl2O4 of not smaller than 0.05 wt. % and not greater than 1 wt. %.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cellulose acetate with excellent biodegradability in seawater. A cellulose acetate having a total degree of acetyl substitution of not greater than 2.7, a ratio ? of a sum of a degree of acetyl substitution at the 2-position and a degree of acetyl substitution at the 3-position to a degree of acetyl substitution at the 6-position in the total degree of acetyl substitution of not less than 2.0, and a sulfate component amount of greater than 20 ppm and not greater than 400 ppm.

Abstract: A technique with which a more uniform irradiance distribution can be more reliably obtained than before is provided. A micro lens array includes: a plurality of lens elements arrayed on at least one surface of a planar member. A shape of a lens surface in each of the lens elements is defined by an aspherical expression. A pitch D between the lens elements in the micro lens array is 25 ?m or greater and 150 ?m or less. An intensity distribution of light that passes through the micro lens array has a batwing intensity distribution in which light intensity at both ends in a predetermined range of an angle of view is maximized and light intensity at the center in the range of the angle of view is minimized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable compound product that forms a cured product having excellent heat resistance and high insulating properties by performing heat treatment. The curable compound product of the present disclosure contains a compound represented by Formula (1) below, and a proportion of a group represented by Formula (r-1) below to the sum of the group represented by Formula (r-1) below and a group represented by Formula (r-2) below is 97% or greater. In Formula (1), R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each represent the group represented by Formula (r-1) the group represented by Formula (r-2) below: D1 and D2 are identical or different, and each represent a single bond or a linking group. L represents a divalent group having a repeating unit containing a structure represented by Formula (I) below and a structure represented by Formula (II) below.

Abstract: An electric circuit breaker device includes: an igniter provided to a housing; a projectile disposed in an accommodating space, the accommodating space being formed in the housing and extending in one direction, the projectile being to be projected along the accommodating space by energy received from the igniter; a conductor piece that is provided to the housing, forms a portion of an electric circuit, includes in a portion thereof a cutoff portion to be cut off by the projectile that moves by the energy received from the igniter, and is disposed with the cutoff portion crossing the accommodating space; a coolant material disposed in an arc-extinguishing region, the arc-extinguishing region being positioned within the accommodating space, on a side opposite to the projectile prior to actuation of the igniter with the cutoff portion interposed between the arc-extinguishing region and the projectile, and configured to receive the cutoff portion cut off by the projectile; and a modified resin material that is d

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique suitable for achieving low wiring resistance and reducing a variation in the resistance value between semiconductor elements to be multilayered in a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which the semiconductor elements are multilayered through laminating semiconductor wafers via an adhesive layer. The method of the present invention includes first to third processes. In the first process, a wafer laminate Y is prepared, the wafer laminate Y having a laminated structure including a wafer 3, wafers 1T with a thickness from 1 to 20 um, and an adhesive layer 4 with a thickness from 0.5 to 4.5 ?m interposed between a main surface 3a of the wafer 3 and a back surface 1b of the wafer 1T. In the second process, holes extending from the main surface 1a of the wafer 1T and reaching a wiring pattern of the wafer 3 are formed by a predetermined etching treatment.

Abstract: An injector configured to inject a solution containing a biomolecule and a gas that is predetermined into an injection target without using an injection needle, the injector including a storage portion configured to store the solution containing the biomolecule and the gas, a nozzle portion communicating with the storage portion, the nozzle portion including an ejection port configured to eject the solution containing the biomolecule and the gas toward the injection target, and a pressurization portion configured to pressurize the solution containing the biomolecule and the gas that are stored in the storage portion during an operation and to eject the solution containing the biomolecule and the gas from the ejection port toward the injection target.

Abstract: An electric circuit breaker device includes: an igniter provided to a housing; a projectile disposed in an accommodating space formed in the housing, the projectile being to be projected along the accommodating space by energy received from the igniter; a conductor piece that is provided to the housing, forms a portion of an electric circuit, includes in a portion thereof a cutoff portion to be cut off by the projectile, and is disposed with the cutoff portion crossing the accommodating space; an arc-extinguishing region positioned on a side opposite to the projectile prior to actuation of the igniter with the cutoff portion interposed between the arc-extinguishing region and the projectile, and configured to receive the cutoff portion cut off by the projectile; a first coolant material disposed in the arc-extinguishing region; and a second coolant material disposed between the projectile and the cutoff portion in the accommodating space prior to actuation of the igniter.

Abstract: An electric circuit breaker device includes: an igniter provided to a housing; a projectile disposed in an accommodating space formed in the housing, the projectile being to be projected along the accommodating space by energy received from the igniter; a conductor piece that is provided to the housing, forms a portion of an electric circuit, and includes in a portion thereof a cutoff portion disposed crossing the accommodating space and to be cut off by the projectile; and an arc-extinguishing region that is provided in the accommodating space and in which a coolant material is disposed, the arc-extinguishing region being configured to receive the cutoff portion after being cut off. The projectile includes a first projectile configured to cut off the cutoff portion from the conductor piece by being projected by the energy received from the igniter, and a second projectile configured to press, into the arc-extinguishing region, the cutoff portion cut off by the first projectile.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a curable composition excellent in curability (especially high-speed curability) and capable of forming a cured product excellent in heat resistance (especially reflow heat resistance), and to provide a wafer-level lens formed by using the curable composition and a method for producing the wafer-level lens. A curable composition of the present disclosure includes the following components (A) and (B). component (A): a compound including an alicyclic epoxy group and including no ester bond, and component (B): a cationic polymerization initiator including a cation moiety and an anion moiety containing a gallium atom.

Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing, an ignition device attached to one end side of the housing, a combustion chamber, a diffuser portion formed on the other end side and including a closed end, an open end, and a side wall positioned between the closed end and the open end, a plurality of gas discharge ports formed in the diffuser portion and including a first gas discharge port having a short distance from the combustion chamber and a second gas discharge port having a long distance from the combustion chamber, and a total opening area of the first gas discharge port and a total opening area of the second gas discharge port are different from each other, and a filter accommodated in the accommodating space, the filter extending from a side of the open end toward a side of the closed end in the diffuser portion.

Abstract: An anti-glare film is prepared which have a ratio R/V of a scattered specular reflection intensity R to a total V of scattered reflection intensity being from 0.01 to 0.12 and an absolute value of a chromaticity b* of transmitted light being 3 or less. The anti-glare film includes a transparent substrate layer, and an anti-glare layer formed on at least one surface of the transparent substrate layer. The anti-glare layer may be a cured product of a curable composition including one or more types of a polymer component and one or more types of a curable resin precursor component, and in particular, at least two components selected from a polymer component and a curable resin precursor component can be phase separated through liquid phase spinodal decomposition. This anti-glare film can achieve non-coloring properties and anti-glare properties in a compatible manner.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cellulose acetate composition with excellent biodegradability and water solubility, and excellent thermoformability. A cellulose acetate composition comprising: a cellulose acetate having a degree of acetyl substitution of 0.4 or greater and less than 1.4; and a citrate ester-based plasticizer, wherein a content of the citrate ester-based plasticizer is 3 parts by weight or greater per 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the cellulose acetate and the citrate ester-based plasticizer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an occupant protection system protecting an occupant in a vehicle by a protection device provided in the vehicle the occupant protection system having a gas generator, a prediction unit, and a control unit.

Abstract: Object of the present invention is to provide an intestinal immune-enhancing agent that can sufficiently increase IgA in the intestinal tract with a low dose while maintaining an increased amount of IgA for an extended period of time. Provided is an intestinal immune-enhancing agent containing a cellulose acetate that has a total degree of acetyl substitution from 0.4 to 1.1.