Abstract: There is provided a technique that cleans a member in a process container by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) separately supplying a cleaning gas and additive gas that reacts with the cleaning gas, respectively, from first and second supply parts among at least three supply parts into the process container, and (b) separately supplying the cleaning and additive gases, respectively, from the second and first supply parts into the process container. (A) and (b) include stopping the supply of the cleaning and additive gases into the process container and exhausting the process container's interior. In at least one selected from the group of (a) and (b) an inert gas is supplied from each of the at least three supply parts at a same flow rate, after the supply of the cleaning and additive gases is stopped and before the process container is exhausted.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a hand that holds an article; an arm that moves the hand; and a first contacting portion with which a first foldable portion of the article is brought into contact during a first folding process that is a process of folding the first foldable portion in a state where the article is held by the hand. The hand includes: a base that is connected to the arm; and a holder that is rotatable relative to the base and holds the article by adhesion. During the first folding process, the hand and the arm fold the first foldable portion by rotating the holder while keeping the first foldable portion in contact with the first contacting portion.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that cleans a member in a process container by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) separately supplying a cleaning gas and an additive gas that reacts with the cleaning gas, respectively, from any two supply parts among at least three supply parts into the process container after processing a substrate; and (b) separately supplying the cleaning gas and the additive gas, respectively, from any two supply parts among the at least three supply parts into the process container, wherein at least one selected from the group of the cleaning gas and the additive gas is supplied from different supply parts in (a) and (b).

Abstract: A rotary shaft locking device includes a rotary shaft, a first angular contact ball bearing, a support, and an actuator. The rotary shaft is rotatable about a first axis and has a first contact surface. The first angular contact ball bearing includes an inner ring connected to the rotary shaft, an outer ring, and a plurality of balls disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The support has a second contact surface and rotatably supports the rotary shaft via the first angular contact ball bearing. The actuator is configured to move the rotary shaft and the inner ring with respect to the support and the outer ring in a first direction parallel to the first axis so that the first contact surface contacts the second contact surface to prohibit the rotary shaft from rotating and so that precompression that acts on the plurality of balls is reduced.

Abstract: An emulsion composition, a cosmetic composition, and a method for preparing an emulsion composition, in which the oil components are not limited to vegetable oils, and which do not require xanthan gum or welan gum as an essential component. The emulsion composition contains an oil component, an aqueous dispersion medium, an emulsifier, and CNF. The CNF is an emulsion stabilizer, and obtained by unmodified cellulose defibration, and the emulsifier amount is less than 20 mass % of the total composition. The cosmetic composition contains the emulsion composition. The method includes preparing an oil phase, preparing an aqueous phase, and emulsifying by mixing the oil and aqueous phases. CNF obtained by defibrating unmodified cellulose is added in at least preparing an aqueous phase or emulsifying, and an emulsifier is added in at least preparing an oil phase, preparing an aqueous phase, or emulsifying.

Abstract: Porous ceramics that meet the demand for bone substitute materials and the like are provided. Solution is provided by porous ceramics and a method for producing the porous ceramics, which are ceramics having pores, the pores including open pores and closed pores, the open pores including a plurality of large-diameter open pores having a pore size within a range of 20 to 600 ?m and a plurality of micro-diameter open pores having a pore size within a range of 1.0 ?m or smaller, wherein the large-diameter open pores are distributed substantially uniformly all over the ceramics.

Abstract: Cosmetics that impart physical resilience and visually smooth-textured appearance to skin, by forming a non-sticky, flexible, and rupture-free makeup film on skin. The solution to the problem is a cosmetic containing cellulose nanofibers having an average fiber diameter of 10 to 1000 nm, in addition to a thickening stabilizer.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to make it possible to efficiently generate information for cell analysis. A feature-group information generating unit generates, as feature-group information, information including values of N types of feature parameters (wherein N represents an integer having a value of 1 or more) about a morphological feature of a single cell of a plurality of cells or a morphological feature of a cell population based on data of one or more cell images included in a unit, the one or more cell images in the unit being selected from cell images capturing the cell population including the cells in accordance with a predetermined requirement.

Abstract: A cement composition is disclosed containing: cement; cellulose nanofibers; and water, wherein a mass ratio of the water to cement is 0.4 or less. The cement is preferably Portland cement. It is preferred that the Portland cement is high-early-strength Portland cement, and that a mass ratio of fine aggregate to the high-early-strength Portland cement is 2.0 or less. A unit amount of cellulose nanofibers in the cement composition can be 0.1 kg/m3 to 15 kg/m3 Furthermore, a hardened body of the cement composition is disclosed, wherein a ratio of a splitting tensile strength of the hardened body at a material age of 91 days obtained by curing in air, to the splitting tensile strength of the hardened body at the material age if 91 days obtained by curing in water is 0.90 or more and 1.10 or less, the splitting tensile strength being measured in accordance with JIS-A-1113 (2006).

Abstract: A breather that allows airflow between an inside and an outside of a casing of an on-vehicle power unit or a transmission mechanism related to the power unit to be performed through a breather chamber structure includes a connecting portion and a cylindrical wall. An ATF-air mixture from the inside of the casing flows into the breather chamber structure through the connecting portion having a tubular shape. The cylindrical wall is provided in the breather chamber structure and has a cylindrical shape having one end portion that is closed and another end portion that is open. The ATF-air mixture from the connecting portion flows from an opening at the other end portion toward the one end portion through the cylindrical wall.

Abstract: A breather that allows airflow between an inside and an outside of a casing of an on-vehicle power unit or a transmission mechanism related to the power unit to be performed through a breather chamber structure includes a connecting portion and a cylindrical wall. An ATF-air mixture from the inside of the casing flows into the breather chamber structure through the connecting portion having a tubular shape. The cylindrical wall is provided in the breather chamber structure and has a cylindrical shape having one end portion that is closed and another end portion that is open. The ATF-air mixture from the connecting portion flows from an opening at the other end portion toward the one end portion through the cylindrical wall.

Abstract: A power transmission device is provided. A lubricant passage is provided inside a rotary shaft which is supported in a housing. A tube member that is inserted into the lubricant passage (231) and of which both ends are fixed to the housing is provided. An oil introducing portion that is connected to one end of the tube member and introduces a lubricant into the tube member from a lubricant source is provided in the housing. A tube inserting portion into which the other end of the tube member is inserted is provided in the housing. A tapered portion that decreases gradually in diameter in an insertion direction into the tube inserting portion is provided at an end of the tube member on the tube inserting portion side.

Abstract: A method of operating a railway vehicle on a network of tracks forming one or more vehicle routes, includes providing: vehicle status information including the present track location of the vehicle, the route to be taken by the vehicle and operation profile information relating vehicle operational recommendations and/or requirements to track locations and to vehicle routes; and determining operational risks for the vehicle from the vehicle status information, the route to be taken by the vehicle and the operation profile information, each operational risk being the likelihood of future vehicle operation departing from the operation profile information at a given section of track or a given location on the route. Advisory notices for a driver of the vehicle are generated on the basis of the operational risks, and each advisory notice, when acted on by the driver, reduces the likelihood of future vehicle operation departing from the operation profile information.

Abstract: A consumer apparatus operation management system that prepares an operation plan of a consumer control apparatus in a power distribution system includes: an evaluation unit configured to acquire system information including a system topology and impedances in the power distribution system, to predict load amounts and power generation amounts for respective prescribed nodes, to generate a voltage distribution profile indicative of a correlation between a power transmission distance and a voltage transition based on the system information, the load amounts, and the power generation amounts, and to figure out an evaluation value based on a variation width of the voltage distribution profile and a specified voltage width; and a preparation unit configured to prepare an operation plan related to heat quantity control and/or electric-energy control in the consumer control apparatus based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to make it possible to efficiently generate information for cell analysis. A feature-group information generating unit generates, as feature-group information, information including values of N types of feature parameters (wherein N represents an integer having a value of 1 or more) about a morphological feature of a single cell of a plurality of cells or a morphological feature of a cell population based on data of one or more cell images included in a unit, the one or more cell images in the unit being selected from cell images capturing the cell population including the cells in accordance with a predetermined requirement.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup unit of the invention includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a photoelectric conversion layer; and first and second electrodes provided with the photoelectric conversion layer in between, the photoelectric conversion layer including a first organic semiconductor of a first conductive type and a second organic semiconductor of a second conductive type, and being configured by addition of a third organic semiconductor made of a derivative or an isomer of one of the first and second organic semiconductors.

Abstract: A method of operating a railway vehicle on a network of tracks forming one or more vehicle routes, includes providing: vehicle status information including the present track location of the vehicle, the route to be taken by the vehicle and operation profile information relating vehicle operational recommendations and/or requirements to track locations and to vehicle routes; and determining operational risks for the vehicle from the vehicle status information, the route to be taken by the vehicle and the operation profile information, each operational risk being the likelihood of future vehicle operation departing from the operation profile information at a given section of track or a given location on the route. Advisory notices for a driver of the vehicle are generated on the basis of the operational risks, and each advisory notice, when acted on by the driver, reduces the likelihood of future vehicle operation departing from the operation profile information.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a maintenance service method capable of reducing the number of machine parts to be replaced while suppressing the number of times of failures of an apparatus even when an accurate failure probability distribution cannot be estimated concerning single machine parts. Solving means of the present invention is characterized by setting, according to at least one of a failure probability distribution and a performance deterioration probability distribution set for each of machine part types, the number of machine parts to be replaced, setting machine part replacement priority from at least one of the probability distribution and an operation situation or a machine part state, and listing, according to the machine part replacement priority, machine parts equivalent to the number of machine parts to be replaced.

Abstract: A casting device includes: dies formed with a cavity including an opening at a lower portion; a pressurizing chamber disposed below the dies and containing molten metal and further formed with a sealed space above the molten metal; a cylindrically-shaped stalk having an upper end opening communicating with the opening of the cavity and a lower end opening immersed into the molten metal contained inside the pressurizing chamber; a pressurizing means configured to supply a gas to the sealed space of the pressurizing chamber to pressurize the inside of the pressurizing chamber; a depressurizing means configured to discharge a gas from the cavity to depressurize the inside of the cavity; and a control device.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup unit of the invention includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a photoelectric conversion layer; and first and second electrodes provided with the photoelectric conversion layer in between, the photoelectric conversion layer including a first organic semiconductor of a first conductive type and a second organic semiconductor of a second conductive type, and being configured by addition of a third organic semiconductor made of a derivative or an isomer of one of the first and second organic semiconductors.