Abstract: Disposing from an object side in the order of a positive first lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, a negative second lens group which is moved at the time of zooming, an aperture stop, a positive third lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, and a fourth lens group which is moved along the optical axis at the time of zooming to correct a change in image plane position arising from the zooming for focusing. The zoom lens is configured to simultaneously satisfy, when a focal length of the overall lens system at the telephoto end, an overall optical length, and an Abbe number of the second group first lens with respect to d-line are taken as ft, TL, and ?d21 respectively, conditional expressions (1): 0.62<TL/ft<0.88 and (2): 30<?d21<48.

Abstract: An infusion solution bag includes a bag made of a resin film including polyethylene and/or polypropylene, and a barrier layer provided on at least one surface of the bag, wherein the barrier layer has a structure in which a first organic layer, an inorganic layer and a second organic layer mutually adjoin in this order.

Abstract: A method for forming a pattern is provided. A photoresist layer constituted by organic dye, which is capable of deformation in a heat mode, is formed on a substrate. A laser beam is irradiated onto the photoresist layer, to form hole portions in the photoresist layer at portions onto which the laser beam is irradiated. The photoresist layer is etched within a vacuum using a predetermined gas, following the step in which the hole portions are formed in the photoresist layer.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet ink composition, which forms an image having an excellent blocking resistance, and particularly which forms an image having an excellent blocking resistance in a case where images come into contact with one another overlapped, an image forming method using the ink composition and a printed article with the image having the excellent blocking resistance. The inkjet ink composition contains an aqueous medium, latex particles, and a polymer compound which contains a fluorine-substituted hydrocarbon group and has a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 200,000, wherein the content of the polymer compound may be 0.1% by mass to 10% by mass, based on the total mass of the ink composition.

Abstract: A flexographic printing plate precursor for laser engraving that comprises a relief-forming layer formed from a resin composition for laser engraving, wherein the flexographic printing plate precursor for laser engraving has matting agent particles at the surface of the relief-forming layer, and the matting agent particles comprise a water-soluble resin and have a number average particle size of 2 ?m to 40 ?m.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes a support, an undercoat layer and an image-recording layer in this order, in which by exposing imagewise the image-recording layer with laser and then supplying at least any of printing ink and dampening water on a cylinder of a printing machine, an unexposed area of the image-recording layer can be removed, and the image-recording layer contains (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable compound and (C) a binder polymer, and the undercoat layer contains the copolymer (D1) as defined herein and the copolymer (D2) as defined herein and a weight of the copolymer (D1) is from 5 to 95% based on a total weight of the copolymers (D1) and (D2).

Abstract: In a tip face of an insertion part of an endoscope, gas is discharged from a plurality of air supply ports formed around an observation window, and air currents are generated. This removes suspended matter, such as oil particles and fat particles, from an imaging visual field. The interval between adjacent air supply ports of the air supply port is specified so that the gas around air currents is caught in the air currents by the air currents without being directed towards the imaging lens. The surrounding gas by the air currents being discharged is pulled in the imaging direction along with the air currents. Since the surrounding gas induced by the air currents is prevented from being induced in the direction of the imaging lens, the imaging lens can be prevented from being contaminated by an unnecessary object.

Abstract: A configuration was adopted, in which the orientations of free molecules and binding molecules within a solution are switched by switching the vibration direction of orientation controlling light, thereby switching the amount of light emitted by each free molecule and each binding molecule. There is a difference in the amounts of time required for the orientations of the free molecules and the binding molecules to switch accompanying the switch in the emission direction of the orientation controlling light. Therefore, the timings at which the amounts of light emitted by each type of molecule increase differ. Accordingly, the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with free molecules and the fluorescent molecules associated with binding molecules can be respectively calculated, even if all of the fluorescent molecules within the solution emit fluorescence. Thereby, the concentration of a detection target substance can be accurately measured with a simple structure.

Abstract: A resist layer made of oxonol-based dye, and the OD value of which is greater than or equal to 1.0 and less than or equal to 1.6 with respect to light having the wavelength of 580 nm, is formed on a substrate. The formed resist layer is scanned with a laser beam at a scan speed of higher than or equal to 3 m/s and lower than or equal to 10 m/s. A ring-shaped pattern is formed by developing the resist layer scanned with the laser beam using a developer containing alcohol as a main component.

Abstract: There is provided a drive device including: a hub around which a recording tape is wound; a pair of flanges that are provided at both axial direction sides of the hub so as to be able to rotate relative to the hub, and that restrict a position, in a transverse direction, of the recording tape; a connecting member that connects outer peripheral portions of the pair of flanges together at least at a portion other than a traveling path of the recording tape; and a casing having, at an interior, a space in which the hub and the pair of flanges are accommodated and in which the recording tape travels, a fixing portion, that is provided at at least one of the pair of flanges or at the connecting member, being fixed to the casing.

Abstract: A USB memory device incorporates a flash memory and a memory controller. An access lock is placed on a data storage area of the flash memory. When the USB memory device is attached to an electronic cassette, a cassette controller controls a USB controller to input an unlock password to the USB memory device. The memory controller unlocks the access lock on the data storage area when the unlock password matches a password stored in a program area of the flash memory in advance.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a porous structure layer formed by silicone resin between a substrate and a semiconductor element. Alternatively, a porous layer having a density of 0.7 g/cm3 or less, formed by a compound obtained by hydrolyzing and condensing at least one type of alkoxysilane selected from a group consisting of monoalkoxysilane, dialkoxysilane, and trialkoxysilane, and tetraalkoxysilane is provided between the substrate and the semiconductor element. As a further alternative, an adhesion layer formed by a compound obtained by hydrolyzing and condensing an alkoxysilane is provided on a resin substrate, and a porous layer having a density of 0.7 g/cm3 or less, formed by a compound obtained by hydrolyzing and condensing an alkoxysilane, is provided on the adhesion layer.

Abstract: A digital camera functioning as an information presentation device is provided with a CG superimposition unit 17 which functions so that a virtual object is superimposed on a real space image captured by an imaging element 3, and is displayed on a display unit 23; a visual line detection unit 12 which detects a visual line of a person included in the real space image captured by the imaging element 3; and a superimposing position determination unit 11 which determines a superimposing position of the virtual object on the basis of the visual line detected by the visual line detection unit 12.

Abstract: A lens sheet manufacturing method according to one aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter includes: conveying an original lens sheet having a plurality of linear lens elements arranged and formed in parallel with each other on a front sheet surface; detecting an edge line of one of the lens elements; determining whether the detected edge line and a trimming direction blade included in a punching blade are parallel with each other; when it is determined that they are not parallel with each other, controlling a conveying direction of the original lens sheet so that the trimming direction blade and the detected edge line are parallel with each other; and temporarily stopping conveying with the edge line of the lens element and the trimming direction blade being parallel with each other and punching the original lens sheet with the punching blade to manufacture a separated lens sheet.

Abstract: In an assay apparatus for performing an assay related to a specimen received from the outside thereof based on a reaction between the specimen and a reagent by using a reaction container that holds the reagent, the apparatus includes a detection means that detects a state in which an assay has ended before completion, and a mark providing means that provides a predetermined mark for the reaction container when the state in which the assay has ended before completion is detected by the detection means.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: plural pixel electrodes two-dimensionally arranged above a substrate; a counter electrode constituted of a transparent electrically conductive oxide having a resistance of not more than 100 k?/?, which is formed at an upper layer of the plural pixel electrodes; a light receiving layer including a photoelectric conversion layer containing an organic material, which is formed between the plural pixel electrodes and the counter electrode; and a connecting section for undergoing electrical connection between a voltage supply line for supplying a bias voltage to be impressed to the counter electrode, and in a plan view, a rectangular region in which the plural pixel electrodes are arranged is defined as a pixel region; the pixel region has a size of not more than 5 inches; the connecting section is formed as defined herein; and the counter electrode is formed as defined herein.

Abstract: An optical film having an acrylic resin layer and a cellulose acylate layer, wherein the weight-average molecular weight of the acrylic resin used as the main ingredient in the acrylic resin layer is from 600,000 to 4,000,000, hardly causes display unevenness when it is incorporated in a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium; a liquid droplet ejection head that ejects liquid droplets onto the recording medium; an emission unit that emits a detection beam and a reference beam, which is farther from a conveying surface of the conveying unit than the detection beam, along the conveying surface of the conveying unit, the emission unit being provided upstream of the liquid droplet ejection head in a conveying direction of the recording medium; a light receiving unit that receives the detection beam and the reference beam emitted from the emission unit; and a floating determination unit that determines whether the recording medium is floated, based upon a magnitude of a difference between an amount of light of the detection beam received by the light receiving unit and an amount of light of the reference beam received by the light receiving unit.

Abstract: According to the inkjet recording apparatus and the image recording method of the present invention, since the droplet volume of droplets ejected from ejection abnormality nozzles is limited to not greater than a prescribed upper limit value, and the droplet volume of droplets ejected from other normally functioning nozzles is corrected on the basis of correction values used for correction of non-uniformities in the image caused by ejection abnormality nozzles, then in even in cases where the interval between droplets ejected from adjacent nozzles which are adjacent to an ejection abnormality nozzle becomes larger due to landing interference, in particular, it is possible to perform image recording by using droplets m ejected from deflecting nozzles. As a result of this, the occurrence of non-uniformities (stripe non-uniformities) in the image can be suppressed.

Abstract: Also provided is a method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device including: a first process where a plurality of pixel electrodes 104 are formed on a dielectric layer 102; a second process where a light receiving layer 107 that includes an organic material is formed on the plurality of pixel electrodes 104; and a third process where a counter electrode 108 is formed on the light receiving layer 107, in which the first process comprises: a film forming process of a pixel electrode material on the dielectric layer 102; a patterning process of the film of the pixel electrode material; and a heating process for heating the substrate at 270° C. after the patterning process.