Abstract: On a cross sectional surface X1 of a pump electrode 3 in a gas sensor element forming a gas sensor, a noble metal area 31 having Pt—Au aggregations, a solid electrolyte area 32 having solid electrolyte aggregations, a mixture area in which Pt—Au alloy and solid electrolyte are distributed, and pores 34. The mixture area 33 is formed within a range of 30 to 90% in an overall area of the cross sectional surface X1, excepting the pores 34. The pores are formed adjacent to the mixture area 33.

Abstract: The embodiments provide a process for easily producing an electrode having low resistance, easily subjected to post-process and hardly impairing the device; and also provide, as its application, a production process for a photoelectric conversion device. The process comprises the steps of: coating a hydrophobic substrate directly with a dispersion of metal nanomaterial, to form a metal nanomaterial layer, coating the surface of the metal nanomaterial layer with a dispersion of carbon material, to form a carbon material layer and thereby to form an electrode layer comprising a laminate of the metal nanomaterial layer and the carbon material layer, pressing the carbon material layer onto a hydrophilic substrate so that the surface of the carbon material layer may be directly fixed on the hydrophilic substrate, and peeling away the hydrophobic substrate so as to transfer the electrode layer onto the hydrophilic substrate.

Abstract: An intraoral moisture measuring device includes: a swing member that swings with respect to a main body about a predetermined swing center; a moisture amount detection unit provided at a tip of the swing member, for detecting a moisture amount by being directly or indirectly abutted against a measurement site in a mouth; and a biasing member for biasing the swing member in one of swing directions. Consequently, the intraoral moisture measuring device is capable of measuring intraoral moisture in a simple and highly-accurate manner.

Abstract: A decontamination method in which tritium radiation is attenuated or eliminated from radioactive contaminated water. In the decontamination method, the following steps are executed: a step for performing an addition treatment to add a prescribed amount of a mineral powder such as a silicon dioxide ore and a nano-level carbon liquid to heated tritium-contaminated water in an addition treatment tank; a step for pumping the addition-treated water from the addition treatment tank to a mineral solid filled tank using a hydraulic pump; a step for causing the addition-treated water to collide with a mineral solid and passing the addition-treated water through the mineral solid filled tank; a step for returning the passed water to the addition treatment tank using the hydraulic pump; and a circulation process step for repeating the aforementioned steps in a prescribed period of time.

Abstract: An alert device alerts a driver sitting on a driver's seat in a vehicle by winding a seat belt on the driver's seat with a retractor. The alert device includes a seat position information acquisition unit configured to acquire seat position information relating to a position of the driver's seat, a height estimation unit configured to calculate art estimated height that is an estimated value of the driver's height based on the seat position information, a winding strength setting unit configured to set a winding strength that is a strength for winding the seat belt with the retractor based on the estimated height, and a retractor control unit configured to operate the retractor to wind the seat belt with the winding strength.

Abstract: A decontamination method in which tritium radiation is attenuated or eliminated from radioactive contaminated water. In the decontamination method, the following steps are executed: a step for performing an addition treatment to add a prescribed amount of a mineral powder such as a silicon dioxide ore and a nano-level carbon liquid to heated tritium-contaminated water in an addition treatment tank; a step for pumping the addition-treated water from the addition treatment tank to a mineral solid filled tank using a hydraulic pump; a step for causing the addition-treated water to collide with a mineral solid and passing the addition-treated water through the mineral solid filled tank; a step for returning the passed water to the addition treatment tank using the hydraulic pump; and a circulation process step for repeating the aforementioned steps in a prescribed period of time.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of preventing hunching certainly at low cost and of switching between the day mode and the night mode at an optimal timing. An image sensor outputs an image signal depending on an optical image formed through an image pickup optical system. A mode setting unit sets a photographing mode for photographing using the image sensor from among a day mode and a night mode in which sensitivity for a wavelength range corresponding to infrared light is higher than that in the day mode. An obtaining unit obtains ratio information about the ratios of the infrared light and visible light based on the image signal in the night mode. A condition setting unit sets a determination condition that is used for switching the photographing mode to the day mode from the night mode based on the ratio information.

Abstract: A gene knock-in method for knocking in an exogenous DNA into a target site of a genomic DNA, the method comprising: a step of introducing a donor DNA that contains the exogenous DNA and a CRISPR-Cas9 system that includes a Cas9 protein and a guide RNA for the Cas9 protein as constituent elements into a cell, wherein the donor DNA contains in order from a 5? side: a 5?-microhomology region formed of a first? nucleotide sequence that is capable of being joined to a first nucleotide sequence on a 5? side of the target site of the genomic DNA by microhomology-mediated end joining; the exogenous DNA; and a 3?-microhomology region formed of a second? nucleotide sequence that is capable of being joined to a second nucleotide sequence on a 3? side of the target site of the genomic DNA by microhomology-mediated end joining, the CRISPR-Cas9 system cleaves, in the genomic DNA, a first cleavage target region between the target site and the first nucleotide sequence and a second cleavage target region between the targ

Abstract: A lubricating oil composition including: a lubricating base oil; (A) a poly(meth)acrylate having a weight average molecular weight of no more than 50,000, in an amount of 2 to 10 mass %; (B) a phosphite ester of the general formula (1) in an amount of 0.01 to 0.06 mass % in terms of P; (C) a thiadiazole compound in an amount of 0.01 to 0.2 mass %; and (D) a Ca salicylate detergent in an amount of 0.005 to 0.03 mass % in terms of Ca, wherein the lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 4.0 to 20.0 mm2/s, and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.8 to 5.2 mm2/s; and has a ratio [S]/[P] of 2.2 to 4.0, wherein the [S] represents a sulfur content, and the [P] represents a phosphorus content: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a group having 5 to 20 carbons represented by the general formula (2); and wherein R3 is a C2-17 linear chain hydrocarbon group, and R4 is a C2-17 linear chain hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: An electricity measuring type surface plasmon resonance sensor includes: a plasmon resonance intensifying sensor chip in which a prism and a sensor chip including an electrode, a silicon semiconductor film, and a plasmon resonance film electrode arranged in this order are arranged in an order of the prism, the electrode, the silicon semiconductor film, and the plasmon resonance film electrode; and an electric measuring apparatus which directly measures a current or voltage from the electrode and the plasmon resonance film electrode.

Abstract: There is provided a method of managing an imprint apparatus that comprises a processor configured to execute an imprint process for forming a layer of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, a chamber configured to accommodate the processor, and a chemical filter configured to remove a chemical impurity contained in a gas flowing inside the chamber. The method comprises retaining a test substrate inside the chamber during execution of the imprint process, forming a layer of an imprint material on the test substrate by executing the imprint process on the test substrate by the processor after the retaining, inspecting the layer formed on the test substrate in the forming, and determining whether or not to replace the chemical filter based on an inspection result obtained in the inspecting.

Abstract: A vibration-type driving apparatus is capable of, in a case where a sintered body is impregnated with resin, preventing the resin that has hardened from interfering with other members. A movable body is brought into pressure contact with a vibrating body having an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body. The vibrating body and the movable body are moved relatively to each other through vibrations excited in the vibrating body. The movable body has a frictional surface including the sintered body impregnated with the resin and comes into contact with the vibrating body. The movable body has a sloped surface adjacent to the frictional surface in a cross section perpendicular to a direction in which the vibrating body and the movable body move relatively to each other. An angle formed by the frictional surface and the sloped surface is greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a vibration device includes a movable body capable of vibrating in a first direction, and a catch and release mechanism capable of catching the movable body that freely vibrates in the first direction, by an electrostatic attractive force, and releasing the caught movable body to freely vibrate the movable body in the first direction, wherein in a condition that tc is a time from a rise start time point to a rise end time point of an applied voltage for catching the movable body that freely vibrates in the first direction, by the electrostatic attractive force, and td is a period of the free vibration in the first direction of the movable body, the time tc is longer than the time td.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member disposed on the support plate, and a head supported on the support plate through the wiring member. The wiring member includes a distal end portion electrically connected to the head, a connection end portion extending outside the support plate, and a plurality of wirings extending between the distal end portion and the connection end portion. The connection end portion includes an opening with predetermined length and width and thirteen or more connection terminals disposed in the opening and arranged at intervals in a direction of the length. A percentage of an area of the opening occupied by areas of the thirteen or more connection terminals is 40% to 65% inclusive.

Abstract: A print control apparatus capable of enabling a user to easily set settings of adjustment items. The print control apparatus controls printing by a print engine. The print control apparatus controls the display of a plurality of adjustment items of the print engine. Out of the plurality of adjustment items, the adjustment items of a specific display group registered by a user are displayed.

Abstract: A device for guiding a puncture tool to form a pilot hole through which a pedicle screw is buried in a pedicle, the device including a linear reference pin disposed forward from a rear side of a spine toward a target point of a pedicle base; a tubular sleeve having a sleeve central axis disposed at a predetermined insertion angle to the reference pin, and having a distal end open toward the target point and through which the puncture tool is passed and guided; and a rod member that couples a proximal side of the reference pin to the sleeve and maintains the sleeve central axis at the predetermined insertion angle to the reference pin. Plural slits are formed with a cutting direction orthogonal to the reference pin. A shape of a slit portion is recognized by an X-ray fluoroscopic image, and the puncture tool can be easily guided.

Abstract: A supplying apparatus and a supplying method of granular material in which granular material is supplied to a measuring container provided on a lower side so as to reach a target measurement value which is determined in advance. The supplying apparatus includes a storage container storing granular material, a valve body provided in the storage container so as to be opened when granular material is supplied, and a control section controlling open and close operations of the valve body. The control section keeps the valve body at an open position until a detection value of a detecting section of the measuring container becomes a predetermined value smaller than the target measurement value when the target measurement value exceeds a threshold value which is determined in advance. The control section opens the valve body in a pulsed way until the detection value of the detecting section becomes the target measurement value when the target measurement value is under the threshold value.

Abstract: A syringe includes a gasket, a barrel, and a plunger. The plunger includes a helical rib provided at a head portion, and the gasket includes a threaded engagement portion configured to threadedly engaged with the helical rib, a plunger-retaining annular rib, and an accommodation portion for accommodating a part of the plunger at which the helical rib is formed. The annular rib includes a rib absent portion for guiding, to the accommodation portion, the helical rib reaching the annular rib. The gasket further includes an intermediate annular rib provided at a part on a proximal side of the retaining annular rib and a part defined on a side of the distal end of the helical projection, between a distal side annular rib and a proximal side annular rib.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to change a value of a first parameter in accordance with a history of uplink multi-user transmission or whether capability of uplink multi-user transmission is in an enabled or disabled state, the first parameter defining an upper limit of duration during which a wireless medium is allowed to be occupied; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame.

Abstract: A contact point device includes a first contactor, an oscillation supporting portion, and a second contactor. The first contactor has an outer side surface shaped in a column that surrounds a central axis. The oscillation supporting portion supports the first contactor to allow the central axis to oscillate. The second contactor is disposed opposite to the first contactor. One of the first contactor and the second contactor includes a plurality of first contact portions provided to surround the central axis on a plane perpendicular to the central axis, and the other includes a second contact portion provided to protrude toward a space surrounded by the plurality of the first contact portions. The second contact portion has a contact surface which is a curved surface exposed toward the space to surround the central axis.