Abstract: Provided is a method for nitriding a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which is very useful in obtaining excellent magnetic properties with no variation by immersing a strip in a molten salt bath after cold rolling and before secondary recrystallization annealing during a production process of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, to subject the strip to continuous nitriding to uniformly disperse inhibitor forming elements over the full length and full width of the strip.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to safely synthesize high purity tungsten pentachloride at a higher yield and at a higher purity than in prior art. This method for producing tungsten pentachloride includes: a step of mixing a reducing agent selected from the group consisting of Bi, Hg, Sb, Ti, Al, P, and As with tungsten hexachloride uniformly in an inert atmosphere with a molar ratio of the tungsten hexachloride to the reducing agent being 2.8:1.0 to 3.2:1.0 to obtain a mixture; a step of heating the mixture of the reducing agent and the tungsten hexachloride to 80 to 210° C. at 13 Pa or lower and reducing the same; a step of heating the reduced product of the mixture of the reducing agent and the tungsten hexachloride to 120 to 290° C. at 66 Pa or lower and vacuum distilling the same to remove impurities; and a step of heating the reduced product from which impurities have been removed by the vacuum distillation to 140 to 350° C.

Abstract: A program executed in a computer apparatus that causes the computer apparatus to function as: an placer that places an object having a display mode according to an attribute; a first display mode identifier that identifies a display mode of a face which is not in contact with a different placed object according to an attribute of a placed object; a second display mode identifier that identifies, with respect to plural placed objects which are adjacent to each other and have different attributes, a display mode of a face which is not in contact with a different placed object according to an attribute of the placed object and an attribute of an adjacent placed object; and a drawer that draws a placed object on a display screen according to a display mode identified by the first display mode identifier and a display mode identified by the second display mode identifier.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a catalyst, including: (i) mixing a core metal salt that serves as a material for a core metal, and a complexing agent (a) to produce a core metal complex solution containing a core metal complex; (ii) mixing a shell metal salt that serves as a material for a shell metal, and a complexing agent (b) to produce a shell metal complex solution containing a shell metal complex; (iii) mixing a carbon powder and a dispersing agent to produce a carbon powder dispersion; (iv) mixing the core metal complex solution, the shell metal complex solution, and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the core metal complex and the shell metal complex on the carbon powder by using at least one reducing agent; and (v) drying and baking at a predetermined temperature the carbon powder resulting from Step (iv), said carbon powder having a core-shell structure that includes the core metal and the shell metal.

Abstract: A high-strength galvanized steel sheet and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a composition that includes C: 0.030% to 0.250%, Si: 0.01% to 3.00%, Mn: 2.00% to 10.00%, P: 0.001% to 0.100%, S: 0.0001% to 0.0200%, N: 0.0005% to 0.0100%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.200%, on a mass basis, and Fe and inevitable impurities. Additionally, the steel sheet has concentration of solute Mn at a depth of 5 ?m or less from a surface of the steel sheet that is 1.50% by mass or less, and a value obtained by dividing the average mass percentage of Mn in retained austenite by the average mass percentage of Mn in ferrite is 2.0 or more.

Abstract: A game system including at least one processor configured to set a first user area, a second user area, and a common area which is different from the first user area and the second user area in a game field; set a common area; accept placement of a first-class card of a first user in the first user area; restrict placement of a second-class card of the first user in the first user area; accept placement of the first-class card of a second user in the second user area; restrict placement of the second-class card of the second user in the second user area; accept placement of the second-class card of the first user or the second-class card of the second user in the common area; and execute game processing, based on a card placed in the first user area, the second user area, or the common area.

Abstract: A steel strip is annealed in a vertical annealing furnace including a heating zone and a soaking zone through which the steel strip is vertically conveyed, an atmosphere gas is supplied into the furnace to form a furnace gas that is discharged from a steel strip entrance at a lower portion of the heating zone, a part of the furnace gas is sucked and discharged into a refiner to form a gas having a lowered dew point that is returned into the furnace. A gas injector having a plurality of gas outlets arranged in a direction of a travel of the steel strip is disposed to suppress a mixing of an atmosphere in the furnace upstream of the gas injector and an atmosphere in the furnace downstream of the gas injector, and a temperature of the steel strip passing through the gas injector is controlled to 600° C. to 700° C.

Abstract: A drawing processing program executed in a computer apparatus causes the computer apparatus to function as: a virtual box setter that sets plural rectangular parallelepiped virtual boxes in a predetermined region having a rectangular parallelepiped shape in a virtual space; an object placer that places an object having the same shape and size as those of each virtual box in at least a part of the plural virtual boxes; an influence degree setter that sets, before a straight line that extends from a light source intersects the placed object, a baseline influence degree which is a baseline with respect to a first virtual box that can be intersected and sets an influence degree of a second virtual box based on the baseline influence degree; and a drawing processor that executes a drawing process in the virtual space based on the set influence degree.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for continuously nitriding a strip continuously being fed after cold rolling and before secondary recrystallization annealing in a production line of a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, comprising: a nitriding zone for nitriding the strip; a cooling zone for cooling the strip; and an optional heating zone provided upstream of the nitriding zone for heating the strip, wherein, the nitriding zone is provided with glow discharge electrodes, and by plasma nitriding the strip by glow discharge with the glow discharge electrodes functioning as positive electrodes and the strip functioning as a negative electrode, inhibitor forming elements are uniformly dispersed over the full length and full width of the strip and a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent magnetic properties with no variation is obtained.

Abstract: A method includes: annealing a steel strip by conveying the steel strip through a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone in this order inside an annealing furnace; and applying a hot-dip galvanized coating onto the steel strip discharged from the cooling zone. Reducing gas or non-oxidizing gas supplied into the soaking zone includes humidified gas and dry gas. While a width and a sheet passing speed of the steel strip passing through the soaking zone are constant, a variation of pressure in the annealing furnace is suppressed by adjusting a flow rate of the dry gas, and a variation range of an amount of moisture supplied into the soaking zone by the humidified gas is limited to 20% or less.

Abstract: Provided is anhydrous nickel chloride having a total content of impurity elements other than gas components of less than 10 wt. ppm; each content of boron, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, potassium, calcium, titanium, chromium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, arsenic, silver, cadmium, indium, tin, thallium and lead of less than 1 wt. ppm, which can be produced by a method for producing anhydrous nickel chloride comprising the steps of carrying out ion exchange membrane electrolysis in an anolyte and a catholyte separated by an anion exchange membrane using raw metal nickel as an anode, a conductive material as a cathode and high purity hydrochloric acid as an electrolytic solution, to obtain a nickel chloride solution as the anolyte; concentrating the obtained nickel chloride solution by heating it at 80 to 100° C. under atmospheric pressure to obtain a concentrated nickel chloride solution; and dehydrating and drying the resulting concentrated nickel chloride solution by heating it at 180 to 220° C.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.

Abstract: A steel strip continuous annealing device has a vertical annealing furnace 10 in which a heating zone 14, a soaking zone 16, and a cooling zone 18 are arranged in this order, and anneals a steel strip P passing through the zones 14, 16, and 18 in the order while being conveyed in the vertical direction in the vertical annealing furnace 10. The heating zone 14, the soaking zone 16, and the cooling zone 18 communicate through an atmosphere separation portion 36. One of a gas delivery port 38 and a gas discharge port 40 is positioned in an upper part and the other one of the gas delivery port 38 and the gas discharge port 40 is positioned in a lower part in each of the heating zone 14, the soaking zone 16, and the cooling zone 18.

Abstract: A screw tightening tool includes a case body, a tool member, and a switching portion. The case body includes a guide portion configured such that a head portion of a screw is inserted therein. The tool member includes an engaging portion including a bit portion configured to engage with the head portion. The switching portion supports the tool member. The switching portion is configured to switch a position of the tool member among a first position, a second position, and a third position. The first position is a position in which the bit portion protrudes to an outside from the case body. The second position is a position in which the bit portion protrudes to the outside from the case body and that is different from the first position. The third position is a position in which the case body houses the bit portion.

Abstract: A continuous hot-dip metal coating method that can reduce both non-coating caused by metal vapor generated in a snout and non-coating caused by an oxide film on a molten metal bath surface in the snout and stably and promptly change the oxidizability of the atmosphere in the snout is provided. In a continuous hot-dip metal coating method, oxidizing gas is supplied into a snout 14, a temperature of an inner wall surface of the snout is maintained at 150° C. or less below a temperature of the molten metal bath, and an atmospheric temperature of an upper portion in the snout is maintained at 100° C. or less below the temperature of the molten metal bath.

Abstract: A sintered compact target containing an element(s) (A) and an element(s) (B) as defined below is provided. The sintered compact target is free from pores having an average diameter of 1 ?m or more, and the number of micropores having an average diameter of less than 1 ?m existing in 40000 ?m2 of the target surface is 100 micropores or less. The element(s) (A) is one or more chalcogenide elements selected from S, Se, and Te, and the element(s) (B) is one or more Vb group elements selected from Bi, Sb, As, P, and N. The provided technology is able to eliminate the source of grain dropping or generation of nodules in the target during sputtering, and additionally inhibit the generation of particles.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a supported platinum catalyst, includes: generating a platinum group salt solution using platinum group salts and a complexing agent; mixing the platinum group salt solution and a carbon powder dispersion in which carbon powder is dispersed; and adding a reducing agent to a mixed solution of the platinum group salt solution and the carbon powder dispersion, and reducing the platinum group salts to allow the platinum group particles to be supported on the carbon powder.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus can prevent performance deterioration, and maintain fault tolerance, in a storage system having storage nodes of different capacities. The apparatus includes a data writing unit to divide received data into divided data, generate a parity data usable when re-configuring the received data having an error, and write divided data and parity data in storage nodes. The apparatus includes a relocation unit to assign a relocation position of the data based on a predetermined condition and store the data in the assigned storage nodes. The apparatus includes a data reading unit to read the divided data so as not to read parity data stored in the storage nodes by identifying the parity data.

Abstract: To provide a negative photosensitive resin composition which may be sufficiently cured even at a low exposure amount and which can impart good ink repellency to the upper surface of partition walls, a cured resin film and partition walls which have good ink repellency on the upper surface, and an optical element which has dots formed with good precision, having opening sections partitioned by partition walls uniformly coated with an ink. A negative photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble resin or alkali-soluble monomer (A) having an ethylenic double bond, a photopolymerization initiator (B), a thiol compound (C) having at least 3 mercapto groups in one molecule, and an ink repellent agent (D), a cured resin film and partition walls formed by using the negative photosensitive resin composition, and an optical element having the partition walls located between a plurality of dots and their adjacent dots on a substrate surface.

Abstract: A drug supply device includes a hopper that collects solid drugs discharged from tablet cases on the basis of predetermined prescription data, an inspection device that inspects the solid drugs introduced from the hopper, and a packaging device that fills and packages the inspected solid drugs into a packaging sheet. The inspection device includes inspection containers that each hold a single administration dosage of the solid drugs, a movement mechanism that moves the inspection containers, and an imaging device that captures an image of the solid drugs in the inspection containers. As a result of capturing the image of the solid drugs in the inspection container by the imaging device, when a number of the solid drugs is different from the prescription data, the solid drugs are disposed of.