Abstract: Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a porous substrate; and a porous layer that is provided on one side of the porous substrate, and that contains a resin and a filler, in which a shrinkage ratio in a MD direction, when heat-treated at 100° C. for 30 minutes under no tension, is more than 1.2% and less than or equal to 3.5%.

Abstract: In an inner pipe assembly step, sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies and a cast inner-pipe divided body are connected to assemble an inner pipe. In a center flange connecting step, the sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies are connected to a center flange. In an outer pipe connecting step, an outer pipe covering the inner pipe is connected to the center flange and an exhaust-air-inlet-side flange. In a masking step, at least one of: a connected portion between the sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies and the cast inner-pipe divided body; or an opening portion between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is sealed. In a cutting machining step, an inner wall surface of the cast inner-pipe divided body facing the turbine wheel is subjected to a cutting machining after the masking step.

Abstract: Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a porous substrate; and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or on both sides of the porous substrate, and that contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin, an acrylic type resin and metal sulfate particles, in which an average primary particle diameter of the metal sulfate particles contained in the adhesive porous layer is from 0.01 ?m to less than 0.30 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a porous substrate using a polyolefin porous film; and a heat-resistant porous layer that is provided only on one side of the porous substrate, and that contains a heat-resistant resin and a filler, in which a TD elastic modulus of the porous substrate is from 1.2 GPa to 5.0 GPa.

Abstract: The absorbent article is an absorbent article covering a crotch portion of a wearer from an abdominal side to a back side with a sheet-like main body, the absorbent article including: the main body including an abdominal side edge, a back side edge, pair of crotch side edges extending between the abdominal side edge and the back side edge, and an absorbent region in which an absorbent is disposed; a pair of restraint portions provided on the main body along the pair of crotch side edges, and configured to suppress leakage of a target object from the absorbent region; and a bonding member in a strip shape provided to the main body on a side of at least one of the abdominal side edge and the back side edge, wherein the bonding member is provided extending between the pair of restraint portions, and both ends of the bonding member are disposed between the restraint portions and the main body at one end side of the restraint portion in a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A thermal printer is provided which starts up at a practical speed and whose ink ribbon is unlikely to leave trails on a recording medium. The thermal printer includes a first transporting unit transporting an ink ribbon, a second transporting unit transporting a recording medium, at least one motor driving the first transporting unit and the second transporting unit simultaneously, a thermal head thermally transferring ink of the ink ribbon onto the recording medium to print, and a controller accelerating the motor from a rest state to a target speed while the recording medium and the ink ribbon are pressed against the thermal head.

Abstract: In an inner pipe assembly step, sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies and a cast inner-pipe divided body are connected to assemble an inner pipe. In a center flange connecting step, the sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies are connected to a center flange. In an outer pipe connecting step, an outer pipe covering the inner pipe is connected to the center flange and an exhaust-air-inlet-side flange. In a masking step, at least one of: a connected portion between the sheet-metal-made inner-pipe divided bodies and the cast inner-pipe divided body; or an opening portion between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is sealed. In a cutting machining step, an inner wall surface of the cast inner-pipe divided body facing the turbine wheel is subjected to a cutting machining after the masking step.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device including first and second conductive plates (FFPs) formed by being stacked in layer, the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate include linear regions elongated to face each other along a longitudinal direction in which a length with which source region and drain region elongated in parallel face each other is longest, and are elongated in a short-side direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. Here, high voltage wiring of either one of source wiring and drain wiring is elongated in the short-side direction to intersect the linear regions of the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate, and low voltage wiring of the other one of source wiring and drain wiring is elongated in the short-side direction to intersect at least one linear region of the first conductive plate or the second conductive plate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure in which a source region and a drain region extend along a longitudinal direction that is a direction along a longer side of sides facing each other, and are disposed side-by-side in a lateral direction that is a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. In a plan view, a body region extends along the longitudinal direction and is surrounded by a drift region and an insulating region. A space between the insulating region and the body region in the lateral direction becomes narrower from the center to the end of the body region in the longitudinal direction. This achieves high breakdown voltage in the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-density coil formed by press working a coil to cope with the manufacture of high-density coils having various cross-sectional shapes. The method includes: a step of setting the coil at a predetermined press working position in a press working machine; and a step of sequential press working the coil, which is set at the predetermined press working position, in a plurality of directions sequentially with a time lag.

Abstract: A fixing member including a sheet-like base member 21 and a surface fastener 30 provided on the base member 21 is disclosed. The surface fastener 30 covers a surface of the base member 21 at a position separated from a tip end 21E1 of the base member 21 in a wrap-around direction, and minimum bending stiffness of the fixing member 20 as determined via a bending test using a Gurley tester being 150 mgf or less when measured using a test piece cut from a portion where the surface fastener 30 is provided. The surface S1 on the surface fastener 30 side of the portion 21a on the tip end 21E1 side of the surface fastener 30 of the base member 21 is a surface with reduced engagement with the surface fastener 30.

Abstract: A control circuit configured to control a power supply circuit that converts an input DC into an AC by a switching process using a predetermined switching frequency, transforms the converted AC, rectifies the transformed AC, and outputs a DC obtained by smoothing the rectified AC to a load side, the control circuit includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to turn on a switch included in the power supply circuit to output a noise before the smoothing to the load side, measure a noise level of the load side, change the switching frequency, repeat measuring the noise level and changing the switching frequency a predetermined of times, determine the switching frequency to be set for the power supply circuit, based on noise levels obtained from measuring the noise level, and set the determined switching frequency.

Abstract: Provided is an epoxy-amine adduct. The epoxy-amine adduct is a compound that may be a compound I containing two or more amino groups per molecule, a compound corresponding to the compound I, except being modified with a compound II-1 containing two or more (meth)acryloyl groups per molecule, a compound corresponding to the compound I, except being modified with a lactone II-2, or a salt of the compound I. The compound I is an adduct between an epoxide (A) containing two or more cycloaliphatic epoxy groups per molecule and an amine (B) containing two or more amino groups per molecule. The compound I includes a constitutional unit represented by Formula (I) and a constitutional unit represented by Formula (II) and contains amino groups at both ends.

Abstract: In a method for producing a cell concentrate using a cell suspension treatment system including a storage container of a cell suspension, which has a solution inlet port, a circulation outlet port, and a circulation inlet port, a cell suspension treatment device for concentrating the cell suspension by separating liquid from the cell suspension by filtration, the device including a container having a cell suspension introduction port, a cell suspension lead-out port, and a filtrate outlet, which is filled with a hollow fiber separation membrane, a circulation circuit for concentrating the cell suspension while circulating the cell suspension between the storage container and the cell suspension treatment device, a collection container of a cell concentrate obtained by concentration, a collection path for feeding the cell concentrate to the collection container, an injection path for injecting a solution into the solution inlet port of the storage container, and a detecting unit.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device including first and second conductive plates (FFPs) formed by being stacked in layer, the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate include linear regions elongated to face each other along a longitudinal direction in which a length with which source region and drain region elongated in parallel face each other is longest, and are elongated in a short-side direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. Here, high voltage wiring of either one of source wiring and drain wiring is elongated in the short-side direction to intersect the linear regions of the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate, and low voltage wiring of the other one of source wiring and drain wiring is elongated in the short-side direction to intersect at least one linear region of the first conductive plate or the second conductive plate.

Abstract: Provided is a printer including a conveying unit conveying a continuous sheet in accordance with an input print instruction, a plurality of sensors detecting a mark serving as a reference for positioning a print area on the continuous sheet, wherein the plurality of sensors adopt marks different from each other as detection targets, a printing unit printing on a print area of the continuous sheet, a storage unit storing priority information about a sensor to be used preferentially among the plurality of sensors, and a control unit controlling the conveying unit so that the print area is positioned at a print position of the printing unit on the basis of the priority information and a detection result indicating whether each of the plurality of sensors has detected the mark or not during conveying of the continuous sheet while the priority information is stored in advance.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a receiver that compares a serial input signal to a threshold value and outputs reception data; an extraction circuit that extracts a clock superimposed on the reception data from the reception data; a measurement circuit that measures a pulse width of the reception data based on the clock; a counter that measures an elongation and a shortening of the pulse width; and an adjustment circuit that increases the threshold value when the elongation of the pulse width is larger than a reference value, and reduces the threshold value when the shortening of the pulse width is larger than the reference value.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure in which a source region and a drain region extend along a longitudinal direction that is a direction along a longer side of sides facing each other, and are disposed side-by-side in a lateral direction that is a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. In a plan view, a body region extends along the longitudinal direction and is surrounded by a drift region and an insulating region. A space between the insulating region and the body region in the lateral direction becomes narrower from the center to the end of the body region in the longitudinal direction. This achieves high breakdown voltage in the semiconductor device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnesium alloy material having excellent tensile strength and favorable ductility. Therefore, the magnesium alloy sheet material formed by rolling a magnesium alloy having a long period stacking order phase crystallized at the time of casting includes in a case where a sheet-thickness traverse section of an alloy structure is observed at a substantially right angle to the longitudinal direction by a scanning electron microscope, a structure mainly composed of the long period stacking order phase, in which, at least two or more ?Mg phases having thickness in the observed section of 0.5 ?m or less are laminated in a layered manner with the sheet-shape long period stacking order phase.

Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery that is composed of a composite membrane containing a porous substrate, and a heat-resistant adhesive porous layer provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, in which the heat-resistant adhesive porous layer contains an acrylic type resin, and a heat-resistant resin that has a glass transition temperature of 200° C. or more and that has an amide-structure.