Abstract: The separation efficiency of carbon dioxide is improved by making the temperature of exhaust gas further low. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a first heat exchanger arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and configured to carry out heat exchange between outside air and exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a second heat exchanger arranged in the exhaust passage and configured to carry out heat exchange between a circulating heating medium and the exhaust gas, and a carbon dioxide separator arranged in the exhaust passage at the downstream side of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and configured to separate carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas.

Abstract: Provided is a snap button in which a swaged portion of a to-be-swaged pin is not visible from users. The snap button comprises a snap button body and a cap to be connected to the snap button body with a cloth interposed between them. The snap button body includes a base; a pin to be swaged, which protrudes from an inner surface of the base, the inner surface being placed to face the cloth; and an engaging portion provided on an outer surface opposite to the inner surface of the base. The cap comprises a cap body including a cap base; and a metal eyelet attached to an inner surface of the cap base, the inner surface being placed to face the cloth. The eyelet comprises a cylindrical portion for receiving the pin which has pierced the cloth and swaging the pin on the inner surface of the cap base.

Abstract: A substrate processing system allows selective replacement of one or both of two rings included in an edge ring. The substrate processing system includes a process module, a transfer robot, and a replacing module. In the process module, an edge ring is lifted from a substrate support by at least one lifter. The edge ring includes a first ring and a second ring. The edge ring is transferred between the process module and the replacing module by the transfer robot. In the replacing module, at least one of the first ring or the second ring included in the edge ring is replaced with a replacement part to prepare a replacement edge ring. The replacement edge ring is transferred between the replacing module and the process module by the transfer robot.

Abstract: An antireflection plate has a structure in which a hard coat layer, an antireflective layer having a low refractive index layer, a protective layer, and an overcoat layer are laminated in this order on a transparent resin substrate. The low refractive index layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 50 to 200 parts by mass of (B-2) hollow silica fine particles, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of 1.20 to 1.45. The protective layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 7.5 to 35 parts by mass of (B-3) spherical silica fine particles, and the protective layer has a thickness of 10 to 15 nm and a refractive index of 1.45 to 1.50. The overcoat layer includes a polymer of a fluorine-containing silicon compound.

Abstract: A substrate support is provided. The substrate support includes a main body having a substrate supporting region and an annular region surrounding the substrate supporting region. The substrate support further includes a first ring disposed on the annular region and having a through-hole, a second ring disposed on the first ring and having an inner peripheral surface facing an end surface of a substrate on the substrate supporting region. The substrate support further includes a lift pin including a lower rod and an upper rod, wherein the lower rod has an upper end surface to be in contact with the first ring, and the upper rod extends upward from the upper end surface of the lower rod to be in contact with the second ring through the through-hole of the first ring and has a length greater than a length of the through-hole.

Abstract: A stage on which a substrate is disposed includes: a base embedded with an adsorption electrode therein; a focus ring provided above the adsorption electrode and adsorbed and held on the base; and a deposit control ring provided radially inside the focus ring on the base. A gap is formed between the focus ring and the deposit control ring in a radial direction to separate the focus ring and the deposit control ring.

Abstract: Provided are techniques in which a document accompanying a service is acquired, a natural language analysis is per on the acquired document, a determination is made from the results of the natural language analysis whether an item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document and, when the item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document, the access control policy is referenced and access to the service controlled accordingly.

Abstract: A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus and a method for measuring a floating height, capable of improving performance of laser processing are provided. A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a stage configured to float and convey a substrate, and a floating-height measurement apparatus configured to measure a floating height H of the substrate. Note that a distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate can be automatically adjusted according to the measured floating height H. The floating height H of the substrate is measured by applying laser light to the substrate and the stage. The distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate is adjusted by using a feedback mechanism in which the measured floating height of the substrate is used as an input.

Abstract: A measurement part controls power supplied to a heater such that a temperature of the heater becomes constant by using a heater controller, and measures the supplied power in an unignited state in which plasma is not ignited and a transient state in which the power supplied to the heater decreases after plasma is ignited. A parameter calculator performs fitting on a calculation model, which includes a heat input amount from the plasma as a parameter, for calculating the power supplied in the transient state by using the power supplied in the unignited state and the transient state and measured by the measurement part, and calculates the heat input amount. An output part configured to output information based on the heat input amount calculated by the parameter calculator.

Abstract: A stage for mounting a workpiece and an edge ring is provided, the stage including a first flow path and a second flow path along each of which a fluid flows, within the stage; a bifurcation at which an inlet port of the first flow path and an inlet port of the second flow path are coupled; a junction at which an outlet port of the first flow path and an outlet port of the second flow path are coupled; and a member provided at at least one of the bifurcation and the junction, the member having at least one opening that communicates with the first flow path and the second flow path.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imager that performs imaging of a subject through an imaging optical system including a focus lens capable of changing a position of a principal point in a range between a first position and a second position in a direction of an optical axis; and an imaging controller that continuously performs plural imaging control operations for causing the imager to perform imaging of the subject through the imaging optical system in a state where the principal point of the focus lens is set at each of plural imaging positions which are set in a movement range as at least a partial range of the range, and the imaging controller makes distances between the plural imaging positions narrower and sets a larger number of the plural imaging positions in an imaging control operation performed later in time series among the plural imaging control operations.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (I): Q1—Sp1—[A—L]—A—Sp2—Q2??(I) A represents a divalent nitrogen-containing saturated cyclic group (that may have a substituent) formed by removing two hydrogen atoms from piperidine or piperazine, a phenylene group that may have a substituent, or a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group that may have a substituent; L represents a linking group such as —C(?O)O— or —OC(?O)—; m represents 3 to 12; Sp1 and Sp2 represent an alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; any one of Q1 and Q2 represents a polymerizable group; and Formula (I) has a nitrogen-containing saturated cyclic group and a phenylene group that are directly bonded to each other via —C(?O)O—. By using a polymerizable composition including the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a film such as a retardation film can have low birefringence or a reflection film can have high selectivity in a reflection wavelength range.

Abstract: Provided is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition used for formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent durability, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (1) and an acidic compound, in which a pKa of the acidic compound is more than ?10 and 5 or less, and a content of the acidic compound is 20 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal composition having excellent solubility, used for formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent durability. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains a polymerizable liquid crystal compound P1 represented by Formula (1): A-Ar-A ? ? ? , a polymerizable liquid crystal compound P2 represented by Formula (2): A-Ar-B ? ? ? , and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound P3 represented by Formula (3): B—Ar-B ? ? ? . In Formulae (1) and (2), A's represent predetermined side chains, all of which exhibit the same C log P value, and in Formulae (2) and (3), B's represent predetermined side chains, all of which exhibit the same C log P value. It should be noted that A and B represent side chains having C log P values different from each other, in which the C log P value of A is larger than the C log P value of B and the C log P value of at least one of A or B is 3.3 or more.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes: a plurality of power generation cells stacked on top of each other; a dummy cell provided on at least one of both ends of the plurality of power generation cells, the dummy cell being configured not to generate electric power; and a reaction gas supply manifold extending through the plurality of power generation cells and the dummy cell. The dummy cell includes one or more dummy cell reaction gas introduction channels as a reaction gas introduction channel that introduces reaction gas from the reaction gas supply manifold to a center area of the dummy cell. At least one of the dummy cell reaction gas introduction channels is provided so as to connect to a bottom face at a lower side of the reaction gas supply manifold in a direction of gravitational force.

Abstract: A first character string in a logic, wherein the logic is a rule which analyzes input text and extracts additional information used for the text analysis, used for the text analysis with a second character string which is different form the first character string is replaced using a mapping between the first character string and the second character string. The first character string being a character or a combination of characters in a logic. A first character string is searched for in a target document for the text analysis and the first character string, if found, is replaced with the second character string, using the mapping. The logic is sent after the replacement to a server computer. The target document after the replacement is sent to the server computer. A text analysis result for the target document after the replacement is received form the server computer.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, when reset of a camera is received, a pan motor and a tilt motor of a pan and tilt mechanism are rotated in a first preset rotation direction, and the pan and tilt mechanism is first moved to a pan reference position and a tilt reference position. Thereafter, the pan motor and the tilt motor are rotated in a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, and the pan and tilt mechanism is moved to an initial pan position and an initial tilt position. Using a movement of the pan and tilt mechanism to initial pan and tilt positions, detection of a subject for automatic tracking is performed, and if the subject is detected, then transition to an automatic tracking state is caused to occur.

Abstract: A placing table on an embodiment includes a supporting member and a base. The supporting member includes a placing region provided with a heater, and an outer peripheral region surrounding the placing region. The base includes a first region supporting the placing region thereon, and a second region surrounding the first region. In the second region, through holes are formed. Wirings electrically connected to the heater passes through the through holes of the second region.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes multiple power generating units and a dummy unit, and respectively providing openings providing reactant-gas supply manifolds. Each power generating unit includes one or more first supply passages extending from the opening to a central region thereof. The dummy unit includes one or more second supply passages extending from the opening to a central region thereof, and a second supply passage port at the highest position in the vertical direction among the second supply passage ports where the second supply passages are connected to the opening is located at a lower position in the vertical direction than a first supply passage port at the highest position in the vertical direction among the first supply passage ports where the first supply passages are connected to the opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface-modified inorganic nitride having excellent dispersibility. Furthermore, the present invention provides a composition, a thermally conductive material, and a device with a thermally conductive layer which contain the surface-modified inorganic nitride. The surface-modified inorganic nitride of the present invention includes an inorganic nitride, and a compound which is represented by General Formula (1) and is adsorbed onto a surface of the inorganic nitride.