Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate formed from a Ca3Ta(Ga1-xAlx)3Si2O14 single crystal, and an interdigital electrode formed on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate and formed from Al. The interdigital electrode is configured to generate a Love-wave-type SH wave on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate. A normalized film thickness obtained by dividing the film thickness of the interdigital electrode by the wavelength of the Love-wave-type SH wave is 0.16 or less.

Abstract: A support and metal catalyst with improved electric conductivity is provided. A support and metal catalyst, including: a support powder; and metal fine particles supported on the support powder; wherein: the support powder is an aggregate of support fine particles; the support fine particles have a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion bonded to form a chain; the support fine particles are structured with metal oxide; and the metal oxide is doped with a dopant element, and an atomic ratio of titanium with respect to total of titanium and tin is 0.30 to 0.80, is provided.

Abstract: A parallel link mechanism includes: a base including guide members; moving bodies capable of moving along the guide members; a fixed link having a base end portion fixed to the base and extending in a direction away from the base; a turning body being connected to a distal end portion of the fixed link and being turnable around the distal end portion; and movable links having base end portions connected to the moving bodies and distal end portions connected to the turning body and causing the turning body to turn along with movement of the moving bodies, the guide members being inclined so as to get closer to the turning body as the guide members get farther away from the center portion of the base main body.

Abstract: A conventional art had the problems that a mixture of a plurality of cyclic peptides can be formed and the cyclization of a peptide does not spontaneously proceed. The present invention provides a peptide compound having a cyclic portion, wherein the cyclic portion has a benzoic acid derivative linker cyclized by an aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction and a peptide backbone, the peptide backbone has a residue with a thiol group, and the benzoic acid derivative linker is bonded to the peptide backbone via an N-terminal amino acid residue of the peptide backbone and the residue with a thiol group.

Abstract: An electrode catalyst, including: a support powder; and active particles supported on the support powder. The support powder is an aggregate of support fine particles having a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion-bonded to form a chain; the support fine particles contain a metal oxide doped with a dopant element; the metal oxide contains tin as a main element; the active particles contain a platinum group oxide containing a platinum group element; and a loading ratio of the active particles is 25 mass % or higher.

Abstract: Provided are a technique related to a CO2 electrolysis device that is more excellent in production efficiency for producing a reduction product (CO or the like) from CO2, and a technique related to a CO2 electrolysis device that can suppress a decrease in CO2 reduction efficiency and be stably operated. An aspect of the present invention is a CO2 electrolysis device including an electrode material. The CO2 electrolysis device includes: a support including a conductive carrier and a catalyst supported on the conductive carrier, the catalyst including any one or more of particles of a metal complex, a metal, or an inorganic compound; and an anion exchange resin covering a part or the whole of the surface of the support and including an ionomer of the following formula (1): where m and n represent natural numbers of 1 to 200.

Abstract: A supported metal catalyst, including: a support that is a collective body of conductive particles; and dispersed active metal particles supported on the conductive particles. The conductive particles include a plurality of pores; an average entrance pore diameter of the pores is 1 to 20 nm; a standard deviation of the average entrance pore diameter is equal to or less than 50% of the average entrance pore diameter; a number fraction of the active metal particles supported in a surface layer region of the conductive particles divided by a total number of the active metal particles is equal to or more than 50%; the surface layer region is a region on a surface of the conductive particles or a region in the pores within a depth of 15 nm from the surface; and an average interparticle distance of the active metal particles is 5 to 20 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anion exchange resin which is capable of producing an electrolyte membrane with excellent chemical property, electrical property, and mechanical property, and an electrolyte membrane formed from the anion exchange resin. In an anion exchange resin of the present invention, a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (1); a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (2); and a hydrophilic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups, which is composed of a plurality of aromatic rings connected to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group and/or via carbon-carbon bond, and which is connected to an anion exchange group via a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group with a carbon number of 2 or more, are connected to each other via carbon-carbon bond.

Abstract: A swing speed reducer comprising: a main body; an input shaft that is rotatably held in the main body; a precession body that precesses; a swinging body that engages with the precession body and is swung by the precession; and an output shaft that is rotated by the swing of the swinging body; wherein a precession annular groove for precession of the precession body and a swinging annular groove for swinging the swinging body are provided on the surface of a spherical portion.

Abstract: The carrier metal catalyst achieves suppression of internal resistance of a fuel cell. A carrier metal catalyst includes: a carrier powder; and metal fine particles supported on the carrier powder; wherein: the carrier powder is an aggregates of carrier fine particles; the carrier fine particles includes a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion bonded to form a chain; the carrier fine particles include titanium oxide; the carrier fine particles are doped with an element having a valence different from a valence of titanium; the titanium oxide of the carrier powder has an anatase phase/rutile phase ratio of 0.2 or lower; the metal fine particles have a mean particle size of 3 to 10 nm; the metal fine particles include platinum; and a cell resistance measured under standard conditions of a fuel cell prepared using the carrier metal catalyst is 0.090 ?cm·2 or lower.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a super junction structure and includes a first semiconductor layer of the second conductive type disposed on the first column region and the second column region, a second semiconductor layer of the first conductive type disposed on the first semiconductor layer, a first semiconductor region of the first conductive type that is electrically connected to the first electrode and is disposed in a surface layer portion of the second semiconductor layer to be separated from the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor region of the second conductive type that is electrically connected to the second electrode and that is disposed at least in the surface layer portion of the second semiconductor layer to be separated from the first semiconductor region and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a supported metal catalyst that has an electric conductivity acceptable as a catalyst and can suppress the generation of hydrogen peroxide. According to the present invention, provided is a supported metal catalyst, comprising: a support powder; and metal fine particles supported on the support powder, wherein: the support powder is an aggregate of support fine particles; the support fine particles have a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion-bonded to form a chain; the support fine particles are structured with a metal oxide; the metal oxide contains cerium; and an electric conductivity of the supported metal catalyst is 10?4 S/cm or higher.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an ocular tension increasing agent containing a temperature responsive polymer. Ocular tension can be increased by administering an ocular tension increasing agent according to the present invention to a predetermined region of an eye and ocular tension can be controlled, if necessary, by temperature.

Abstract: A method of isolating viruses from a liquid with the possibility of containing viruses, including a process of mixing a liquid with the possibility of containing viruses and a water-soluble cationic magnetic fine particle aqueous solution to form conjugates of the cationic magnetic fine particles and the viruses in a mixed solution, a process of mixing a masking agent and an aggregating agent in the mixed solution to form a magnetic composite in which the conjugates are aggregated, and a process of recovering the magnetic composite by magnetic separation, wherein the masking agent is a poly(meth)acrylic acid having a mass-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000, and the poly(meth)acrylic acid is mixed in the mixed solution in a concentration range of 0.01 to 0.1 mass %.

Abstract: A medical device that includes: a base part that has an opening part; and a holder that holds the base part on a culture plate. The base part also has a channel that is in fluid communication with the opening part. Biological samples are cultured and embedded in an embedding material at the opening part.

Abstract: A supported metal catalyst in which an electric conductivity is enhanced. The supported metal catalyst includes a support powder; and metal fine particles supported by the support powder. The support powder is an aggregate of support fine particles; the support fine particles are provided with a chained portion structured by a plurality of crystallites being fusion-bonded to form a chain; the support fine particles are structured with a metal oxide; and the supported amount of metal fine particles per unit area of the surface area of the support powder calculated based on sphere approximation is 3.4 to 13.7 (mg/m2).

Abstract: Provided are a dielectric ceramic composition having excellent temperature properties and low DC bias dependence in a wide temperature range from room temperature to over 200° C., a method of manufacturing a dielectric ceramic composition, and a multilayer ceramic capacitor.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing an anion exchange resin which is capable of producing an electrolyte membrane with excellent mechanical property (strength). A monomer for forming a hydrophobic group is reacted with a monomer for forming a hydrophilic group in the presence of bis(1,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) as a catalyst, 2,2?-bipyridine as a co-ligand, a bromide or an iodide as a co-catalyst, and a reducing agent to produce an anion exchange resin where the hydrophobic group is connected to the hydrophilic group via direct bond, in which a mole number of bis(1,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) is 0.3 to 1.8 times a total mole number of the monomer for forming a hydrophobic group and the monomer for forming a hydrophilic group.

Abstract: An electrode catalyst including a void-containing body having a void, the void-containing body includes a core part and a skin layer covering the core part, the core part is structured with metal, and the skin layer is structured with an oxide containing Ni.

Abstract: A frozen egg culturing device includes: a housing portion configured to house a frozen egg contained in a container; a liquid injecting portion; a liquid discharging portion; and an egg outflow preventing portion between the frozen egg contained in the container, and the liquid injecting portion and the liquid discharging portion. A frozen egg culturing method uses the frozen egg culturing device.