Abstract: Provided are a material that achieves higher sensitivity and higher resolution of a photoelectric conversion element for imaging, and a photoelectric conversion element for imaging using the above material. The material for a photoelectric conversion element for imaging includes an indolocarbazole compound having a pentacyclic fused-ring structure having two heteroatoms, or an analogue compound thereof. The material is a compound having, as a group bonded to a nitrogen atom or a heteroatom, an alkyl group, a substituted or non-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or non-substituted ?-electron excess heteroaromatic group, or a linked aromatic group formed by linking of two to six of these aromatic groups.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion component which includes a base end and a tip end, and is inserted into a subject at least up to the tip end; a light source which emits first light and second light having a hue different from a hue of the first light a light sensor; and a controller, the insertion component includes: a first light guide member which emits the first light and the second light from the tip end as illumination light; and a second light guide member which guides reflected light of the illumination light emitted from the tip end, the light sensor receives the reflected light guided by the second light guide member, and the controller controls the light source based on the intensity of the reflected light received by the light sensor to stop emission of the at least one of the first light or the second light.

Abstract: An object is to provide a crosslinked aromatic polyester resin composition that has high strength at room temperature and is capable of reprocessing, adhering films to each other, and self-repairing at a bond exchange activation temperature thereof or higher, due to “dynamic” covalent crosslinks allowing bond exchange at high temperatures.

Abstract: A picking-up robot is successfully made more compact. The robot arm includes a plurality of arm tubes that fit one within another in a nested manner. A push chain is inserted in the robot arm. The push chain is connected to a foremost arm tube at one end of the push chain. A sprocket is rotatably attached to the strut. The push chain is engaged on the sprocket.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor device includes a plurality of pixels each including an ultrasonic transducer, and a control circuit configured to control the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels is configured to hold a signal received by the ultrasonic transducer therein and send the signal to the control circuit as a response signal. The control circuit is configured to acquire an excitation response signal, which is a response signal sent from a pixel after the ultrasonic transducer therein is excited, acquire a non-excitation response signal, which is a response signal sent from a pixel when the ultrasonic transducer therein is not excited, and correct the excitation response signal based on the non-excitation response signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vibrator made of a non-lead-based piezoelectric material and capable of being driven at a sufficient speed with low power consumption, and provides a vibration wave drive device and an electronical device each using the vibrator. To that end, the vibrator according to the present invention includes a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric material and electrodes, and an elastic body, wherein a Pb component contained in the piezoelectric material is less than 1000 ppm, and a resonance frequency fA in a vibration mode A and a resonance frequency fB in a vibration mode B satisfy a relation of an absolute value of (fB?fA)>2 (kHz), the vibration mode A and the vibration mode B generating vibration waves in the elastic body with wave fronts of the vibration waves intersecting each other.

Abstract: An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 ?m, a cladding diameter CD is from CDnominal?1 ?m to CDnominal+1 ?m with a nominal value CDnominal of 195 ?m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value ?0.4 ?m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 ?m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 ?m, and a 22 m-cable-cutoff wavelength ?cc is 1260-1360 nm. A core's zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value ?12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm2·km) or less.

Abstract: A transfer function measuring method includes: outputting a first signal to each of a plurality of loudspeakers to cause the plurality of loudspeakers to simultaneously output sounds with mutually different frequencies; acquiring second signals output from a microphone as a result of acquiring the sounds with the mutually different frequencies; and calculating a transfer function of each of the sounds with the mutually different frequencies based on the first signal and the second signals.

Abstract: An edaravone suspension for human oral administration includes edaravone particles, a dispersant, and water.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel; and a parallax formation panel disposed between the display panel and a viewpoint. The parallax formation panel includes first electrodes and second electrodes, the first electrodes being provided to be able to form light transmitting regions in accordance with positions of a plurality of predetermined viewpoints, the second electrodes being provided to be able to form light shielding regions that shield regions other than the light transmitting regions from light. A width of each first electrode in a first direction in which the plurality of viewpoints are arranged is longer than a length of each first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and extending along a display surface of the display panel.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a sheet reversing roller portion, a first sheet feeding passage, a second sheet feeding passage, a sheet a guiding member forming a retraction feeding passage for guiding upward a leading end of the sheet fed from the reversing roller portion rotating in the first direction and then for guiding the sheet, guided upward, in a direction crossing a vertical direction, the guiding member having an inner surface curved to guide one side of the sheet, and a preventing member for preventing a droop of the leading end of the sheet by contact with the sheet guided in the direction crossing the vertical direction by the sheet guiding member.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state sodium battery, represented by formula: Na3?xSb1?x?xS4, wherein ? is selected from elements that provide Na3?xSb1?x?xS4 exhibiting a higher ionic conductivity than Na3SbS4, and x is 0<x<1.

Abstract: A belt device includes a belt, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The belt is rotatable and has an endless shape. The belt includes an inner portion having an inner circumferential surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The inner circumferential surface of the belt slides on the secured member. The pressure rotator includes a porous elastic body and presses the secured member via the belt to form a nip between the belt and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is interposed between the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the secured member.

Abstract: A photocurable composition includes a photopolymerizable component and a photopolymerization initiator, in which a diluted solution (D1) obtained by diluting the photocurable composition with ethanol such that the content of ethanol is 99% by mass would satisfy the following Condition (X): the transmittance at at least one wavelength within the wavelength range of from 365 nm to 405 nm, measured at an optical path length of 1 cm, is from 1.0% to 70.0%.

Abstract: A wireless base station setting position calculation method includes a step S1 for assuming the setting area to be a rectangle, receiving an input of longitudinal and lateral lengths of a setting area and the number of wireless base stations to be set “s”, and determining one or more candidates of a number of divisions “d” of the setting area according to the number of wireless base stations “s”, a step S2 for representing the number of divisions “d” in a division ratio x:y and selecting, for each number of divisions “d”, according to the longitudinal and lateral lengths of the setting area, a division ratio at which diagonal line lengths of divided areas are minimized, a step S3 for performing, for each number of divisions “d”, adjustment of a division pattern until a difference m between the number of divisions “d” and the number of wireless base stations “s” decreases to 0, a step S4 for calculating, for each number of divisions “d”, a sum of the diagonal line lengths of the divided areas and selecting the

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cured product of a golf ball rubber composition imparting excellent durability. The present invention provides a cured product of a golf ball rubber composition cured from a golf ball rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, wherein the cured product of the golf ball rubber composition satisfies the following mathematical formula (1): Y<(0.1×X)?1.30??(1) in the formula (1), Y represents an effective crosslinking density of the cured product of the rubber composition (mmol/cc), and X represents an amount of the component (b) with respect to 100 parts by mass of (a) the base rubber (parts by mass).

Abstract: An anti-glare film including a light reflectance of 3.8% or less and a haze of 40% or greater. A 60° gloss of the anti-glare film may be 15% 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. The anti-glare film has improved anti-reflection properties.

Abstract: A resin injection apparatus configured to manufacture a rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a resin injector having an ejection port for ejecting a resin, and a runner having a charging port connectable to the ejection port, and a plurality of ejection ports communicating with the charging port and disposed at positions associated with hole portions of a rotor core where magnets are disposed.

Abstract: An aspect of a clamp member according to the present disclosure is a clamp member attached to an attachment portion to hold a wiring with respect to an object, wherein the attachment portion includes a pair of penetrating portions that penetrate the object in a predetermined first direction and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to be separated from each other with a gap, wherein the clamp member includes a pair of opposing wall portions that are arranged to be separated from each other with a gap and opposite to each other in the second direction; a connecting wall portion that connects the pair of opposing wall portions; and a pair of support wall portions that protrude in a direction to be separated from the other opposing wall portion from each of the pair of opposing wall portions.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a method for producing a water-absorbing resin powder excellent in water absorption speed. [Solution] The method for producing a water-absorbing resin powder according to the present invention includes a polymerization step of polymerizing an aqueous monomer solution to obtain a crosslinked hydrogel polymer, a gel-crushing step of crushing the crosslinked hydrogel polymer after the polymerization step using a gel-crushing device to obtain a crosslinked particulate hydrogel polymer, and a drying step of drying the crosslinked particulate hydrogel polymer to obtain a dried product, and in the method, the gel-crushing device includes an input port, a discharge port, and a main body incorporating a plurality of rotation axes each including a crusher, in the gel-crushing step, the crosslinked hydrogel polymer is continuously put into the gel-crushing device from the input port, the crosslinked hydrogel polymer is continuously crushed by the crusher at 50° C.