Abstract: A biometric signature system holds a first template indicating a result of transforming, by predetermined transformation, first biometric information acquired from a predetermined part of a user; and a second template indicating a result of transforming, by predetermined one-way transformation, second biometric information acquired from the predetermined part of the user, identifies a parameter for which a similarity between the first template of the person to be authenticated corrected, generates a second template of the person to be authenticated from each piece of corrected second biometric information, and determines whether authentication of the person to be authenticated is successful by comparing each generated second template with the second template.

Abstract: A free standing film is provide, including: a partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate; a poly(ethylene oxide); a polyalkylene glycol; a plasticizer; optionally, a poly(isobutylene-co-maleic anhydride) copolymer; and optionally an optional additive. Unit dose packages including the free standing film are also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a battery cell sheet and a secondary battery that can prevent a variation in an electrolyte composition due to volatilization and do not cause a decrease in battery performance even in a case where a component with high volatility is used.

Abstract: An object is to enable accurate machining by enabling shots to be accurately blasted on a workpiece even while workpiece is being deformed. A part manufacturing system includes: a peening device including a nozzle that projects a plurality of shots toward a workpiece, and a sensor that detects a distance to the workpiece; and a machining robot including a hand to which the peening device is attached, and a control unit that adjusts a position or an orientation of the peening device by controlling the hand based on the distance detected by the sensor.

Abstract: To provide an engine side cover structure of a saddle type vehicle that can also cover the back side of a crankcase. An engine side cover structure of a saddle type vehicle includes a vehicle body frame arranged between a front wheel and a rear wheel; an engine including a crankcase, and a cylinder extending upward from the crankcase, the engine being supported by the vehicle body frame; and a side cover covering a side of the crankcase; where the side cover includes a cover main body that covers the side of the crankcase, and an extended portion that extends backward from the cover main body; and the cover main body is fixed to the crankcase, and the extended portion is fixed to the vehicle body frame.

Abstract: A battery module has a plurality of battery cells each including a cell case and a battery element contained in the cell case. The battery module includes a lead to electrically connect a terminal of each of the battery cells to a current collector and a heat shutoff mechanism to break electrical connection between the terminal and the current collector by heat from the cell case when the cell case reaches a predetermined temperature or higher.

Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide an image pickup apparatus and an image pickup system with which it is possible to reproduce an image with a realistic feeling. [Means of Achieving the Object] An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system that includes a plurality of wide angle lenses; an image device; and four or more sound pickup devices installed at respective vertexes of a triangular pyramid.

Abstract: This invention relates to polymer drug conjugates comprising a (meth)acrylate based polymer backbone with at least two types of side chains wherein one of the side chains is a PEG chain and the other side chain comprises at least one therapeutic agent covalently bonded to a cleavable linker, methods of preparing said polymer-drug conjugates and their use for treatment of diseases such as cancer.

Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a connection portion provided with a screw portion configured to fix the pressure sensor to a combustion chamber of a vehicle engine; a hollow liquid-enclosing container fixed to one end of the connection portion; a pressure transmission fluid enclosed inside the liquid-enclosing container; a diaphragm fixed to one end of the liquid-enclosing container and elastically deformed when receiving pressure to transmit the pressure to the pressure transmission fluid; a pressure detection element fixed to the other end of the liquid-enclosing container and detecting the pressure transmitted to the pressure transmission fluid and converts the detected pressure into an electric signal; and a heat-dissipating rod provided inside the liquid-enclosing container. The connection portion and the liquid-enclosing container, and the connection portion and the diaphragm are mechanically connected to each other by welding or the like.

Abstract: An ironing plate is attached to a friction stir welding apparatus in such a manner that the ironing plate surrounds an outer peripheral portion of a rotating tool and does not rotate together with the rotating tool, an inside diameter of a portion of the ironing plate into which the rotating tool is inserted is larger than the diameter of the rotating tool, and a material inflow path through which an excessive material of two metallic plates flows in is formed between the ironing plate and the rotating tool when the ironing plate is disposed to surround the outer peripheral portion of the rotating tool.

Abstract: A technology concerns a spectacle lens to suppress unnecessary convergence. In the spectacle lens, when an inner horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lens, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward an ear of the user, a shape of a base in prism is formed in a portion in which power continuously changes and through which a main line of sight, influenced by convergence of the user of the spectacle lens, passes such that at least a part of a base out prism, which may be generated in the portion, is cancelled.

Abstract: A battery module includes a battery assembly and a thermally-conductive member to hold or support battery assembly. The battery assembly has a plurality of first batteries and a plurality of second batteries that are alternately stacked. The thermally-conductive member includes a first component and a second component that are each disposed along a stacking direction of the batteries. The first component has a heat resistance to the second batteries higher than to the first batteries. The second component has a heat resistance to the first batteries higher than to the second batteries.

Abstract: Provided is a technique of adjusting a work function. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: (a) forming a titanium nitride layer on a substrate by supplying a first source containing titanium and a second source containing nitrogen to the substrate; (b) forming a titanium aluminum carbonitride layer on the substrate by supplying the first source, the second source and a third source containing aluminum and carbon to the substrate; (c) forming a laminated film on the substrate by performing (a) and (b); and (d) adjusting ratios of titanium, nitrogen, aluminum and carbon in the laminated film based on how many times (a) and (b) are performed.

Abstract: Provided is a saddle-ride type vehicle that can improve the cooling ability when a radiator fan is provided only on one radiator of right and left radiators. A saddle-ride type vehicle has a water-cooled engine, right and left radiators supported by a body frame, and a cooling water passage that connects the right and left radiators and the water-cooled engine. A radiator fan is provided only on one radiator of the right and left radiators. One cooling water passage that connects the one radiator and the water-cooled engine has a larger diameter than the other cooling water passage that connects the other radiator and the water-cooled engine. The one radiator is larger than the other radiator.

Abstract: A database management method for controlling, by a computer including a processor, a memory, and a storage device, an in-memory database for storing all tables and indices in the memory and a disk type database for storing a part of a table stored in the storage device in a buffer included in the memory, in which the computer acquires information of the tables and the indices of the in-memory type database, determines the type of reduction operation for reducing an area on the memory used by the indices, executes the type of reduction operation determined for the indices, and adds, to the buffer, an area reduced from the area of the memory used by the indices of the in-memory type database by the reduction operation to expand the buffer of the disk type database.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: forming a metal carbide film including a first metal element and a second metal element on a substrate, by time-divisionally performing, supplying a first precursor gas containing the first metal element and not containing carbon to the substrate, supplying a second precursor gas containing the second metal element differing from the first metal element and not containing carbon to the substrate, and supplying a reaction gas containing carbon to the substrate.

Abstract: A secondary battery is disclosed. The secondary battery has a bipolar electrode, an electrolyte layer, and a porous insulator. The bipolar layer includes a positive electrode layer formed on one surface of a collector foil and a negative electrode formed on the other surface of the collector foil. The electrolyte layer is famed at least on a surface of at least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The porous insulator is formed to a lateral surface of at least one of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer is laminated by at least one layer relative to the bipolar electrode to configure a bipolar battery. The porous insulator also includes an inorganic particle and a reactive agent for lowering a fluidity of the liquid electrolyte bleeding from the electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery blocks arranged in an X direction and thermal insulating boards that are each disposed between the battery blocks adjacent to each other in the X direction. The thermal insulating boards have a thermal insulating property. Each battery block includes a plurality of cylindrical batteries closely arranged in two or more rows in a staggered formation, with central axes of the cylindrical batteries being parallel to each other, and a block case entirely surrounding a periphery of a battery unit made up of the plurality of the cylindrical batteries so that the plurality of cylindrical batteries stays closely arranged.

Abstract: Provided is a technique of adjusting a work function. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: (a) forming a titanium nitride layer on a substrate by supplying a first source containing titanium and a second source containing nitrogen to the substrate; (b) forming a titanium aluminum carbonitride layer on the substrate by supplying the first source, the second source and a third source containing aluminum and carbon to the substrate; (c) forming a laminated film on the substrate by performing (a) and (b); and (d) adjusting ratios of titanium, nitrogen, aluminum and carbon in the laminated film based on how many times (a) and (b) are performed.

Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrating piece includes a piezoelectric substrate and excitation electrodes. The piezoelectric substrate is formed in a flat plate shape and vibrates in a thickness-shear vibration mode. The excitation electrodes are formed on respective both principal surfaces of the piezoelectric substrate and each include a main thickness portion and a flat portion. The main thickness portion has a first thickness. The flat portion is formed in a peripheral area of the main thickness portion and has a second thickness that is thinner than the first thickness between from a portion contacting the main thickness portion to an outermost periphery of the excitation electrode, extends from the portion contacting the main thickness portion to the outermost periphery of the excitation electrode, and has a width formed to have a length of 0.63 times or more and 1.88 times or less of a flexural wavelength of an unnecessary vibration.