Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing AlN whiskers includes reduced incorporation of metal particles, an AlN whisker body, AlN whiskers, a resin molded body, and a method for producing the resin molded body. The method for producing AlN whiskers includes heating an Al-containing material in a material accommodation unit to thereby generate Al gas; and introducing the Al gas into a reaction chamber through a communication portion while introducing nitrogen gas into the reaction chamber through a gas inlet port, to thereby grow AlN whiskers on the surface of an Al2O3 substrate placed in the reaction chamber.

Abstract: A scintillator unit that can reduce crosstalk when the scintillator unit includes a plurality of scintillators and a radiation detector are provided. More specifically, a scintillator unit includes a reflective layer between a plurality of scintillators and the plurality of scintillators, wherein an adhesive layer and a low-refractive-index layer with a lower refractive index than the adhesive layer are located in this order on the scintillators between the scintillators and the reflective layer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing AlN whiskers includes reduced incorporation of metal particles, an AlN whisker body, AlN whiskers, a resin molded body, and a method for producing the resin molded body. The method for producing AlN whiskers includes heating an Al-containing material in a material accommodation unit to thereby generate Al gas; and introducing the Al gas into a reaction chamber through a communication portion while introducing nitrogen gas into the reaction chamber through a gas inlet port, to thereby grow AlN whiskers on the surface of an Al2O3 substrate placed in the reaction chamber.

Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. The projection apparatus includes a projected image processing unit which registers a deformation parameter as an initial value in a case where the deformation parameter for a projected image is set as an initial setting to be made at the time of installation of the projection apparatus as a registration control unit. In a case where the deformation parameter for the projected image is adjusted by a user operation after the initial setting is made, the projected image processing unit decides whether an adjustment degree that the deformation parameter is adjusted from the initial value reaches a predetermined threshold value as a decision unit.

Abstract: A fluid machine includes a rotary shaft, an operation body configured to discharge fluid by rotation of the rotary shaft, a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the operation body, and a foil bearing disposed in the housing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft. The foil bearing includes a cylindrical bearing housing, a top foil between the bearing housing and the rotary shaft, and a bump foil between the bearing housing and the top foil and elastically supporting the top foil. The bearing housing has a protrusion protruding inwardly in a radial direction from the bearing housing. The protrusion includes an abutment surface configured to restrict deformation of the bump foil to an elastic range not to reach a plastic range by abutting against the top foil or the bump foil when the top foil is displaced outwardly in the radial direction of the bearing housing.

Abstract: An accommodation form search apparatus includes a computation unit that computes a failure rate of each of physical links forming a physical network based on information indicating a disaster-affected area; and a search unit that searches for an accommodation form with which a disconnection rate computed based on the failure rate of each physical link is reduced for a path of an accommodated network to be accommodated into a logical network which is configured utilizing the physical network. The search unit searches for the accommodation form treating a plurality of accommodated networks having the same physical path as a single accommodated network, thus improving the efficiency of calculation of the accommodation form for the accommodated networks.

Abstract: A vehicle control device having a prime mover, a first rotating member which is rotated by power of the prime mover, and a second rotating member which is connected to the first rotating member and which rotate a drive wheel, includes a deriving unit which derive a prime mover request output that is an output requested by the prime mover in accordance with a request output to the drive wheel, and a control unit which increase or decrease a rotation speed of the prime mover between a lower limit rotation speed and an upper limit rotation speed in accordance with a change in a rotation speed of the drive wheel. The control unit increases or decreases the rotation speed of the prime mover without changing a power output by the prime mover or an output of the first rotating member in accordance with the prime mover request output.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition contains a human anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibody suitable for administration to a subject. The pharmaceutical composition contains a human anti-IL-33 monoclonal antibody as an active ingredient. The pharmaceutical composition is substantially free of sodium chloride or contains less than 30 mM of sodium chloride. Also provided is a freeze-dried form of the pharmaceutical composition.

Abstract: A friction stir welding device includes a friction stir welding tool equipped with a fixed shoulder on an outer periphery of a probe on a proximal end side, a main shaft positioning mechanism which relatively moves the friction stir welding tool with respect to a corner portion between workpieces a control device thereof, and a filler supply unit which supplies a filler to a stirring region in which the workpieces are stirred by the probe at the time of friction stir welding. When the probe is immersed into the corner portion to perform the friction stir welding, the fixed shoulder is maintained at a position separated by a gap from the surfaces of the workpieces with the control device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film that achieves usually incompatible characteristics of absorbing visible light and near-infrared rays and emitting less far-infrared rays. The present disclosure provides a light-absorbing heat-shielding film including: a metal layer including fine irregularities, wherein an average height of the fine irregularities is 100 nm or more and 1000 nm or less.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a ceramic article including a porous portion in which improvement in mechanical strength of a modeled article is achieved while high modeling accuracy is obtained, and a ceramic article. The method of manufacturing a ceramic article includes the steps of: (i) irradiating powder of a metal oxide containing aluminum oxide as a main component with an energy beam based on modeling data to melt and solidify or sinter the powder, to thereby form a modeled article including a porous portion; (ii) causing the modeled article formed in the step (i) to absorb a liquid containing a zirconium component; and (iii) heating the modeled article that has absorbed the liquid containing the zirconium component, wherein, in the absorbing step, the liquid is absorbed so that a ratio of the zirconium component in a metal component contained in the porous portion becomes 0.3 to 2.0 mol %.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first supporting member supporting a long sheet, a feeding unit for feeding the long sheet supported by the first supporting member with respect to a feeding direction and a second supporting member, rotatable about a rotational shaft, for supporting the long sheet with the first supporting member. In a state in which the sheet is bent so that a first portion of the long sheet is supported by the first supporting member and a second portion which is a more rear side than the first portion is positioned above the first portion, the second supporting member is movable between a first position where the second supporting member supports the second portion of the sheet and a second position where the center of gravity of the second supporting member is positioned downstream of a rotational center with respect to the feeding direction and the second supporting member maintains an attitude thereof by its own weight.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feeding portion, a side end regulating portion, a feeding portion, first and second feeding roller pairs, an abutment member, an obliquely feeding roller pair, and first and second contact-and-separation mechanisms. Feeding of a long sheet is stopped after the sheet is fed to an upstream side of the second feeding roller pair by the feeding portion, and then is resumed in a state in which the first feeding roller pair is changed from a separated state to a feedable state and in a state in which the obliquely feeding roller pair is put in a separated state, and then the sheet is fed to the second feeding roller pair. A short sheet fed by the first feeding roller pair is obliquely fed by the obliquely feeding roller pair and then is fed to the second feeding roller pair.

Abstract: To achieve local melting of an inorganic material powder containing an inorganic material as a main component in an additive manufacturing technology, to thereby achieve high shaping accuracy. Provided is an inorganic material powder to be used in an additive manufacturing method involving performing shaping through irradiation with laser light, the inorganic material powder including: a base material that is an inorganic material; and an absorber, wherein the absorber has a higher light-absorbing ability than the base material for light having a wavelength included in the laser light, and contains any one of Ti2O3, TiO, SiO, ZnO, antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO), and indium-doped tin oxide (ITO), or contains any one of a transition metal carbide, a transition metal nitride, Si3N4, AlN, a boride, and a silicide.

Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. A projection apparatus includes at least one processor and an acceleration sensor which detects an inclination of the projection apparatus, in which the processor performs the processes of acquiring a difference between i) a first detection value which is detected by the acceleration sensor in a case where the projection apparatus is installed on an installation surface and ii) a second value which is detected by the acceleration sensor at a time which comes after the installation of the projection apparatus with the projection apparatus on the installation surface, and in a case where the difference becomes more than a threshold value, controlling to notify a warning at a predetermined timing by functioning as a notification unit or to stop functions of the projection apparatus.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin composition which is excellent in storage stability and can reduce the baking temperature is provided. The vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin composition comprises: 70 to 300 parts by mass of surface-treated calcium carbonate obtained by surface-treating calcium carbonate with a fatty acid or a derivative thereof based on 100 parts by mass of a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin having a vinyl acetate content of 8 to 12% by mass, and it is characterized in that a BET specific surface area of the surface-treated calcium carbonate is 10 to 40 m2/g, and an amount of the calcium carbonate surface-treated is 0.1×10?2 g/m2 to 0.4×10?2 g/m2 per m2/g of the BET specific surface area of the surface-treated calcium carbonate.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data distribution device includes: a communication unit that receives a transmission request, the transmission request being transmitted in accordance with a predetermined application and requesting transmission of three-dimensional model data, the three-dimensional model data indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object; and a controller that controls the transmission of the three-dimensional model data. The controller makes, based on the transmission request, at least one of a determination as to whether a first company is identical to a second company and a determination as to whether the first company has a partnership with the second company, the first company providing the predetermined application, the second company providing an equipment that has been used to generate the three-dimensional model data, and the controller controls the transmission of the three-dimensional model data in accordance with a result of the at least one of the determinations.

Abstract: A structure having excellent rectification performance and durability and having a micro flow channel is provided. The structure has a flow channel in the inside, wherein the cross section of the flow channel has a shape in which a region surrounded by a substantially elliptical curve and a line segment is connected to a triangular region with the base being the line segment, the region surrounded by the line segment and the substantially elliptical curve is semielliptical or more, and the base angle of the triangular region is 45 degrees or more.

Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. A projection apparatus includes at least one processor and an acceleration sensor which detects an inclination of the projection apparatus, in which the processor performs the processes of acquiring a difference between i) a first detection value which is detected by the acceleration sensor in a case where the projection apparatus is installed on an installation surface and ii) a second value which is detected by the acceleration sensor at a time which comes after the installation of the projection apparatus with the projection apparatus on the installation surface, and in a case where the difference becomes more than a threshold value, controlling to notify a warning at a predetermined timing by functioning as a notification unit or to stop functions of the projection apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention aims to make it possible to detect deterioration of a housing of a projection apparatus and to notify a user of the deterioration of the housing. The projection apparatus includes a projected image processing unit which registers a deformation parameter as an initial value in a case where the deformation parameter for a projected image is set as an initial setting to be made at the time of installation of the projection apparatus as a registration control unit. In a case where the deformation parameter for the projected image is adjusted by a user operation after the initial setting is made, the projected image processing unit decides whether an adjustment degree that the deformation parameter is adjusted from the initial value reaches a predetermined threshold value as a decision unit.