Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate and a light emitting body. The light emitting body includes a plurality of light emitting elements and an insulating body in which the plurality of light emitting elements is embedded except for a light emitting surface of the plurality of light emitting elements. The plurality of light emitting elements is formed from a singulated compound semiconductor layer and is arranged in a row direction and a column direction. The substrate includes a drive circuit, a first terminal, and a second terminal and is joined to the light emitting body. The drive circuit drives the plurality of light emitting elements. The first terminal and the second terminal electrically couple the drive circuit and the plurality of light emitting elements to each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods comprising abiotic, synthetic polymers with affinity and specificity to proteins. The synthetic polymers are an improvement over biological agents by providing a simpler, less expensive, and customizable platform for binding to proteins. In one embodiment, the compositions and methods relate to synthetic polymers with affinity and specificity to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for treating diseases and disorders related to the overexpression of VEGF. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for treating cancer. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for detecting VEGF levels from biological samples. In one embodiment, the compositions are useful for detecting overexpression of VEGF from biological samples. In one embodiment, the compositions are used to diagnose cancer.

Abstract: A contact charging type image forming apparatus, to which only a direct current voltage is applied, includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive base material A and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive base material A, and a charging member that includes a conductive base material B and an elastic layer provided on the conductive base material B, in which in a case where a dielectric film thickness of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is defined as L, and a resistance component of an impedance of the charging member in a range of 1 Hz or greater and 500 Hz or less, which is measured by an alternating current impedance method, is defined as R, Expression (1) is satisfied. L<?0.75×loge(R)+15.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires information about an article to be loaded onto a vehicle, acquires a characteristic of a person who can affect the article based on the information, and executes a concurrent riding determination to determine existence of concurrent riding on the vehicle by the article and a user having the characteristic.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores information on a package to be transported by a vehicle traveling within a site of a factory and attributes of each employee working at the factory, a controller that sets a condition on an employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package and formulates a transportation plan for the package based on the information on the package, and identifies at least one employee who has attributes satisfying the condition, from among one or more employees scheduled to ride in the vehicle transporting the package, based on the attributes of each employee and the condition on the employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package, and a communication interface that notifies a mobile terminal carried by the at least one employee of a request for loading or unloading the package.

Abstract: This gas turbine equipment comprises a gas turbine and a control device. A combustor of the gas turbine uses ammonia as fuel, and uses the RQL method. A compressor of the gas turbine includes an intake adjustor that adjusts an intake rate which is the flow rate of air that flows into a compressor casing. When the concentration of NOx in exhaust gas reaches or exceeds a predetermined value, the control device controls the operation of the intake adjustor so that the intake rate decreases.

Abstract: Provided is a time-of-flight mass spectrometer including: a loop-orbit defining electrode (21) including an outer electrode (211) and inner electrode (212) located on the outside and inside of a loop orbit, respectively; an ion inlet (22); an ion outlet (23) provided in either the outer or inner electrode; a loop-flight voltage applier (28) configured to apply loop-flight voltages to the outer and inner electrodes, respectively; a set of deflecting electrodes (24) facing each other across a section of an n-th loop orbit, where n is a predetermined number, the deflecting electrodes including a first portion (241) which faces the n-th loop orbit and a second portion (242) which includes other portions; and a voltage applier (29) configured to apply deflecting voltages to the first portion so as to reverse the drifting direction of the ions flying in the n-th loop orbit, and a voltage to the second portion so as to create the loop-flight electric field.

Abstract: Provided is a method for mass spectrometry in which ions to be analyzed are made to come in contact with a cooling gas in a cooling section, such as an ion trap 2, configured to perform the cooling of ions, and kinetic energy is subsequently imparted to the ions so as to introduce the ions into a flight space of a multi-turn time-of-flight mass separator 30 or similar device for separating ions according to their mass-to-charge ratios. According to the present invention, when a known or estimated number of charges of an ion to be analyzed is high, the amount of supply of the cooling gas to the cooling section is set to a lower level than when the number of charges is low. This operation improves the detection sensitivity for ions having large molecular weights and high numbers of charges.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer 1 includes a vacuum container 5 divided into a first chamber 51 containing an ion trap 3 and a second chamber 52 containing a time-of-flight mass spectrometer 4. The ion trap 3 is held within an ion-trap-holding space 610 surrounded by a wall 61. In this wall 61, a cooling-gas discharge port 64 is formed in addition to an introduction-side ion passage port 62 and an ejection-side ion passage port 63. A cooling gas supplied into an ion-capturing space 315 of the ion trap 3 is discharged from the ion-trap-holding space 610 through the three ports. The provision of the cooling-gas discharge port 64 reduces the amount of cooling gas flowing into the ejection-side ion passage port 63 and interfering with the ejection of ions from the ion trap 3 into the time-of-flight mass spectrometer 4. Consequently, the detection intensity of the ions is improved.

Abstract: A lid body includes a base containing an alloy of iron and nickel, a first film positioned on a lower surface of the base and containing nickel, and a second film positioned on a lower surface of the first film and containing copper. During welding of the lid body, penetration of crystal grain boundaries of the base by Cu of the second film is reduced by the first film. Therefore, occurrence of cracks in the base is reduced and thus a package with high airtightness can be formed.

Abstract: An MT-TOFMS which is one mode of the present invention includes: a linear ion trap (2) configured to temporarily hold ions to be analyzed, and to eject the ions through an ion ejection opening (211) having a shape elongated in one direction; a loop flight section (3) configured to form a loop path (P) capable of making ions repeatedly fly; and a slit part (5) located on an ion path in which the ions ejected from the linear ion trap (2) travel until the ions are introduced into the loop path, the slit part configured to block a portion of the ions in a longitudinal direction of the ion ejection opening (211).

Abstract: A board in an aspect of the present invention includes a substrate, a first film, a first layer, and a second film. The substrate has a first elastic modulus. The first film is at an upper surface of the substrate. The first layer is at a lower surface of the substrate. The first layer has a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus and has a first thermal expansion coefficient. The second film is at a lower surface of the first layer. The second film includes the same material as the first film and has a second thermal expansion coefficient lower than the first thermal expansion coefficient.

Abstract: Provided is a time-of-flight mass spectrometer including: a loop-orbit defining electrode (21) including an outer electrode (211) and inner electrode (212) located on the outside and inside of a loop orbit, respectively; an ion inlet (22); an ion outlet (23) provided in either the outer or inner electrode; a loop-flight voltage applier (28) configured to apply loop-flight voltages to the outer and inner electrodes, respectively; a set of deflecting electrodes (24) facing each other across a section of an n-th loop orbit, where n is a predetermined number, the deflecting electrodes including a first portion (241) which faces the n-th loop orbit and a second portion (242) which includes other portions; and a voltage applier (29) configured to apply deflecting voltages to the first portion so as to reverse the drifting direction of the ions flying in the n-th loop orbit, and a voltage to the second portion so as to create the loop-flight electric field.

Abstract: Provided is a method for mass spectrometry in which ions to be analyzed are made to come in contact with a cooling gas in a cooling section, such as an ion trap 2, configured to perform the cooling of ions, and kinetic energy is subsequently imparted to the ions so as to introduce the ions into a flight space of a multi-turn time-of-flight mass separator 30 or similar device for separating ions according to their mass-to-charge ratios. According to the present invention, when a known or estimated number of charges of an ion to be analyzed is high, the amount of supply of the cooling gas to the cooling section is set to a lower level than when the number of charges is low. This operation improves the detection sensitivity for ions having large molecular weights and high numbers of charges.

Abstract: Aboard in an aspect of the present invention includes a substrate, a first film, a first layer, and a second film. The substrate has a first elastic modulus. The first film is at an upper surface of the substrate. The first layer is at a lower surface of the substrate. The first layer has a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus and has a first thermal expansion coefficient. The second film is at a lower surface of the first layer. The second film includes the same material as the first film and has a second thermal expansion coefficient lower than the first thermal expansion coefficient.

Abstract: To compensate for the distortion of the loop-flight electric field with a higher level of accuracy, a multiturn time-of-flight mass spectrometer 1 includes: a main electrode 21 configured to generate, within a predetermined loop-flight space, a loop-flight electric field which is an electric field that makes an ion fly in a loop orbit multiple times, the main electrode having an opening 24 or 25 through which ions are introduced into or extracted from the loop-flight space; a compensating-electrode attachment part 23 made of an insulating material and fixed to the main electrode; and a compensating electrode 22 configured to compensate for a distortion of the loop-flight electric field which occurs in the vicinity of the opening, the compensating electrode being fixed to the compensating-electrode attachment part directly or via a substrate 221 and located in the vicinity of the opening.

Abstract: A test device includes an input side drive part that drives a steering shaft of a steering device, a control part that controls the input side drive part, and a position detecting part that detects an angular position of the steering shaft. The control part restricts a maximum value of a torque of the steering shaft when the angular position reaches an end abutment position. The control part also controls driving of the steering shaft by a position control in which the angular position is used as a controlled variable and a torque control in which the torque is used as a controlled variable. The control part performs the position control when the angular position is outside a first angular range including the end-abutment position and switches the driving of the steering shaft from the position control to the torque control when the angular position reaches within the first angular range.

Abstract: A method for producing acetic acid includes subjecting an acetic acid solution to an acetic anhydride decreasing treatment. The acetic acid solution is present typically in, or downstream from, a distillation column (5) of acetic acid production equipment (X), includes acetic acid in a concentration of 90 mass percent or more, acetic anhydride, and water, and is in such a state that an equilibrium concentration of acetic anhydride is higher than an acetic anhydride concentration. The acetic anhydride decreasing treatment includes at least one of water concentration increasing and temperature lowering so as to bring the acetic acid solution into such a state that the equilibrium concentration of acetic anhydride is lower than the acetic anhydride concentration. The acetic acid production method is suitable for yielding a high-purity acetic acid product.

Abstract: To compensate for the distortion of the loop-flight electric field with a higher level of accuracy, a multiturn time-of-flight mass spectrometer 1 includes: a main electrode 21 configured to generate, within a predetermined loop-flight space, a loop-flight electric field which is an electric field that makes an ion fly in a loop orbit multiple times, the main electrode having an opening 24 or 25 through which ions are introduced into or extracted from the loop-flight space; a compensating-electrode attachment part 23 made of an insulating material and fixed to the main electrode; and a compensating electrode 22 configured to compensate for a distortion of the loop-flight electric field which occurs in the vicinity of the opening, the compensating electrode being fixed to the compensating-electrode attachment part directly or via a substrate 221 and located in the vicinity of the opening.

Abstract: A production process of acetic acid according to the present invention inhibits concentration of hydrogen iodide and improves a liquid-liquid separation of an overhead from a distillation column. Acetic acid is produced by distilling a mixture containing hydrogen iodide, water, acetic acid and methyl acetate in a first distillation column (3) to form an overhead and a side cut stream or bottom stream containing acetic acid, cooling and condensing the overhead in a condenser (C3) to form separated upper and lower phases in a decanter (4). According to this process, a zone having a high water concentration is formed in the distillation column above the feed position of the mixture by feeding a mixture having a water concentration of not less than an effective amount to not more than 5% by weight (e.g., 0.5 to 4.5% by weight) and a methyl acetate concentration of 0.5 to 9% by weight (e.g., 0.5 to 8% by weight) as the mixture to the distillation column and distilling the mixture.