Abstract: The present invention provides an epoxy resin having good heat resistance when formed into an epoxy resin cured product, and also provides an epoxy resin cured product an epoxy resin composition. The epoxy resin is represented by formula (1) below. In the formula (1), R1 to R12 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, an aralkyloxy group, an aryloxy group, a nitro group, an amino group, an amide group, a carboxyl group, an alkyloxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a formyl group, a cyano group, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group.

Abstract: A prism lens includes a prism lens body and at least one cylindrical lens. The prism lens body has a set of facing planes a mutual distance of which decreases or increases from one end to another end. The cylindrical lens is integral to at least one plane of the set of planes. The cylindrical lens is formed such that a cross section shape thereof at a plane perpendicular to a direction of a slope of a plane of the prism lens body having the cylindrical lens thereon with respect to the other plane of the set of planes has a certain curved shape to be convex against the plane having the cylindrical lens thereon.

Abstract: A bilirubin concentration measurement system including: a sensor device attachable to a subject; and a terminal device capable of wirelessly communicating with the sensor device. The sensor device includes: a light emitting diode that emits blue light; a light emitting diode that emits green light; a light detection diode that detects reflected light that is the blue light having been incident on skin of the subject and reflected, and detects reflected light that is the green light having been incident on the skin of the subject and reflected; and a communication unit that wirelessly transmits information about intensities of the reflected light detected by the photodiode. The terminal device includes: a communication unit that receives the information about the intensities of the reflected light transmitted from the sensor device; and a computing unit that calculates a bilirubin concentration using the information about the intensities of the reflected light.

Abstract: Provided is a novel oxygen reduction catalyst having good stability and higher oxygen reduction performance. The oxygen reduction catalyst includes a composite oxide comprising a conductive tin oxide containing Zr.

Abstract: A management system includes a course data generation unit that generates course data for each of a plurality of unmanned vehicles such that loading work for the plurality of unmanned vehicles by a loader is sequentially performed on a work site where a plurality of the loaders operates; and a priority determination unit that determine a passage order at an intersection on the work site of the plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling according to the course data so as to reduce a total loading loss indicating a total of loss amounts in operation of each of the plurality of the loaders.

Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fullerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a Li-ion secondary battery containing a Li-transition metal composite oxide. This Li-transition metal composite oxide has a layered rock salt crystal structure, and is represented by a formula (1): (1?x)Li2RuO3—xLiMnO2 (Mn is trivalent Mn, and x is a real number satisfying 0<x<1). In addition, when part of Ru and/or Mn of the Li-transition metal composite oxide is replaced with a metal M such as Ti, durability can be improved. According to the present invention, a reduced amount of Ru but a higher capacity can be achieved for a positive electrode active material containing Li2RuO3.

Abstract: The present invention provides an alkaline water electrolysis anode such that even when electric power having a large output fluctuation, such as renewable energy, is used as a power source, the electrolysis performance is unlikely to be deteriorated and excellent catalytic activity is retained stably over a long period of time. The alkaline water electrolysis anode is an alkaline water electrolysis anode 10 provided with an electrically conductive substrate 2 at least a surface of which contains nickel or a nickel base alloy and a catalyst layer 6 disposed on the surface of the electrically conductive substrate 2, the catalyst layer 6 containing a nickel-containing metal oxide having a spinel structure, wherein the nickel-containing metal oxide contains nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn), and has an atom ratio of Li/Ni/Mn/O of (0.0 to 0.8)/(0.4 to 0.6)/(1.0 to 1.8)/4.0.

Abstract: A material comprising: a support 10; and a brush layer 20 containing a brush-like polymer chain assemblage 21 formed of a plurality of polymer chains and a swelling liquid 22, in which a brush layer 20 is swollen with the swelling liquid 22, the brush layer 20 retaining on the surface a lubricating liquid 30, and the swelling liquid 22 contained in the brush layer 20 and the lubricating liquid 30 being phase-separated to form a liquid-liquid phase separation interface 40 in between and a sliding system using the material.

Abstract: A high-temperature-steam-oxidation-resistive coated reinforcement fiber applicable to a fiber reinforced composite, is provided with: a reinforcement fiber; a coating layer covering the reinforcement fiber and including a rare-earth silicate; an exfoliative layer intervening in an interface between the coating layer and the reinforcement fiber; and a supplemental coating layer covering the reinforcement fiber, the exfoliative layer and the coating layer.

Abstract: A mixing process of mixing a lithium-transition metal composite oxide with lithium phosphate; a milling process of applying mechanical stress to a mixture obtained in the mixing process to form the lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a layered crystal structure and the lithium phosphate into an amorphous or low-crystalline NiO-like rock-salt type crystal structure; and a heat treatment process of subjecting the mixture to a heat treatment to obtain a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a layered rock-salt type crystal structure in which lithium phosphate is finely crystallized and dispersed, wherein the lithium-transition metal composite oxide is represented by a general formula: LisNi1-x-y-zCoxMnyMzO2+?, and the crystallized lithium phosphate covers a surface of a primary particle of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide, and is dispersed inside or on a surface of a secondary particle of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide having the layered rock-salt type crystal stru

Abstract: A work vehicle includes: an operation tool that is operated by an operator; and a controller that determines a target flow rate for hydraulic oil fed to a hydraulic device on a basis of the amount of operation of the operation tool. The controller calculates a bleed-off target flow rate on a basis of the flow rate of hydraulic oil fed from a hydraulic oil pump and the target flow rate for hydraulic oil fed to the hydraulic device, calculates a bleed-off throttle differential pressure on a basis of a pressure of hydraulic oil fed from the hydraulic oil pump and a pressure of hydraulic oil in a hydraulic oil tank, calculates a bleed-off target opening area on a basis of the bleed-off target flow rate and the bleed-off throttle differential pressure, and controls a hydraulic oil control valve such that the bleed-off target opening area is achieved.

Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fullerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.

Abstract: The present invention realizes industrially excellent effects such that when electric power having a large output fluctuation, such as renewable energy, is used as a power source, electrolysis performance is unlikely to be deteriorated and excellent catalytic activity is retained stably over a longer period of time, and in addition, the present invention provides a technique that enables forming a catalyst layer of an oxygen generation anode, which gives such excellent effects, with a more versatile materials and by a simple electrolysis method.

Abstract: A photon detection device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a superconducting photon detector array in which a plurality of superconducting photon detectors (SPDs) are arranged; a plurality of first transmission lines connected to the plurality of SPDs and configured to transmit a detection current output from each of the plurality of SPDs; an address information generation circuit connected to the plurality of first transmission lines and configured to generate, based on the detection current, an address information signal that specifies a superconducting photon detector from which the detection current is output; a second transmission line magnetically coupled to all of the plurality of first transmission lines; and a time information generation circuit connected to the second transmission line and configured to generate, based on the detection current, a time information signal indicating a time at which a photon is incident on the plurality of superconductive photon detection SPDs.

Abstract: Disclosed is a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion battery, wherein the positive electrode active material has small volume changes during charging and discharging, and when applied to a battery, can improve the cycle characteristics of the battery. The positive electrode active material of the present disclosure has a disordered rock salt structure belonging to space group Fm-3m, and has a composition represented by Li1+xTiyVzO2 (where 0<x?0.20, 0<y?0.40, and 0.40?z?0.85).

Abstract: A neural network system includes a primary input layer configured to acquire data in both a learning mode and an operation mode, an auxiliary input layer configured to acquire data solely in the learning mode, a first partial network configured to carry out learning using both an output of the primary input layer and an output of the auxiliary input layer and to subsequently carry out learning solely using the output of the primary input layer so as to produce a same calculation result as a calculation result produced using both the output of the primary input layer and the output of the auxiliary input layer, and a second partial network configured to carry out calculations in the learning mode and the operation mode upon receiving an output of the first partial network.

Abstract: A management system includes a course data generation unit that generates course data for each of a plurality of unmanned vehicles such that loading work for the plurality of unmanned vehicles by a loader is sequentially performed on a work site where a plurality of the loaders operates; and a priority determination unit that determine a passage order at an intersection on the work site of the plurality of unmanned vehicles traveling according to the course data so as to reduce a total loading loss indicating a total of loss amounts in operation of each of the plurality of the loaders.

Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus includes: an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity; a cathode that includes a cathode catalyst layer used to hydrogenate a hydrogenation target substance using protons to produce an organic hydride and also includes a cathode chamber; an anode that includes an anode catalyst layer used to oxidize water to produce protons and also includes an anode chamber; and a gas introduction unit that introduces, into the anolyte at a certain position, a certain gas used to remove at least one of the hydrogenation target substance and the organic hydride that have passed through the electrolyte membrane and been mixed into the anolyte.

Abstract: Provided is a fullerene structure including: a column-shaped part; and a fin part projecting from the column-shaped part, in which both of the column-shaped part and the fin part are fUllerenes. Provided is a method of manufacturing a fullerene structure including: heating a fullerene raw material to a sublimable temperature or higher under a non-oxidizing gas; and cooling an atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated. In one example, the method includes supplying the non-oxidizing gas in one direction; heating the fullerene raw material to the sublimable temperature or higher at an upstream side of a supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas; and cooling the atmosphere in which the fullerene raw material is heated at a downstream side of the supply direction of the non-oxidizing gas.