Abstract: Pixels include red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, first blue sub-pixels that emit dark blue light, and second blue sub-pixels that emit light blue light. Above a substrate, first blue pixel electrodes and first blue organic light-emitting layers are layered in regions of the first blue sub-pixels and second blue pixel electrodes and second blue organic light-emitting layers are layered in regions of the second blue sub-pixels. The first blue light-emitting layers and the second blue light-emitting layers are made from the same material. In a direction perpendicular to a top plane of the substrate, a distance between top surfaces of the first blue organic light-emitting layers and top surfaces of the first blue pixel electrodes is less than a distance between top surfaces of the second blue organic light-emitting layers and the surfaces of the second blue pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes an accelerator operation amount generator receiving an actual accelerator operation amount of an accelerator operator to generate a control accelerator operation amount; an engine controller controlling the engine according to the control accelerator operation amount; and a storage storing a table in which an increasing speed for the control accelerator operation amount is set, wherein the accelerator operation amount generator obtains a difference between a converted accelerator operation amount of the accelerator operator converted from a rotating speed of the engine in a current control cycle and a control accelerator operation amount obtained in the last control cycle, determines an increasing speed of the control accelerator operation amount from the difference by referring to the table, and changes the control accelerator operation amount to an actual operation amount in the current control cycle with the determined increasing speed.

Abstract: In an organic EL display panel: banks that each extend in the column direction are disposed above a substrate; and red organic light-emitting layers, green organic light-emitting layers, and blue organic light-emitting layers each extend in the column direction and are disposed above the substrate in intervals between adjacent ones of the banks, wherein the banks define edges of sub-pixels of each color in the row direction, and in plan view of the substrate, surface areas of blue sub-pixels are greater than surface areas of red sub-pixels and greater than surface areas of green sub-pixels.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes: an anode; a wiring that is disposed side-by-side with and spaced from the anode; a light-emitting layer that is disposed above the anode, and includes an organic light-emitting material; an intermediate layer that is disposed above the light-emitting layer and the wiring; an organic functional layer that is disposed above the intermediate layer, and has an electron injection property or an electron transport property; a cathode that is disposed above the organic functional layer. The intermediate layer includes: a fluoride of a first metal, the first metal being an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal; and a second metal that has a property of cleaving a bond between the first metal and fluorine in the fluoride.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a variable displacement hydraulic pump driven by an engine, a hydraulic motor forming a closed circuit with the pump and driven by hydraulic fluid discharged from the pump, wheels driven by the motor to allow the work vehicle to travel, a selector detecting an operating state of a switch switching the traveling of the work vehicle between forward and backward, and a controller. When the selector detects a reversal operation of the switch to reverse the traveling direction when the work vehicle travels, the controller sets relationship between the vehicle speed of the work vehicle and the upper limit of the rotational speed of the engine such that the upper limit increases as the absolute value of the vehicle speed approaches zero. The controller obtains an upper limit of the rotational speed from the relationship and a vehicle speed of the work vehicle.

Abstract: Light emitters are two-dimensionally disposed along a main surface of the substrate. The light emitters each include: a first electrode; an organic light-emitting layer; an intermediate layer; a charge transport layer; and a second electrode. Such layers are disposed in the stated order with the first electrode closest to the substrate. The intermediate layer contains a fluoride of an alkali metal or a fluoride of an alkaline earth metal. The charge transport layer contains an organic material doped with an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. The light emitters are partitioned from one another by first banks extending in one direction along the main surface of the substrate and second banks extending in a direction intersecting the one direction. Surface portions of the first banks facing the light emitters have greater liquid repellency than surface portions of the second banks facing the light emitters.

Abstract: An arm motor control section controls the operation of an arm motor that drives an arm section for turning a page of a book by pressing an adhesion roller against the page, and a current detection section outputs a current limit notice upon detecting an overcurrent in the arm motor which is limited by a limiter. When a current limit notice is outputted in a page turning operation, a CPU drives and controls the arm motor to perform reverse rotation by the arm motor control section, and thereby controls a pressing period that is a locking period during which the adhesion roller is pressing the page.

Abstract: Provided is an absorber that removes sulfur oxide in a flue gas with an absorbent, an absorbent storing unit that stores the absorbent that has absorbed the sulfur oxide, an oxidation-reduction potential meter that measures an oxidation-reduction potential of the absorbent in the absorbent storing unit, a reducing additive supplying unit that supplies a sulfur oxoacid reducing additive into the absorbent storing unit, and a control device that controls the reducing additive supplying unit based on a measured value of the oxidation-reduction potential of the absorbent measured with the oxidation-reduction potential meter, wherein the reducing additive supplying unit supplies the sulfur oxoacid reducing additive when the measured value of the oxidation-reduction potential has exceeded an upper limit of an appropriate range of the oxidation-reduction potential.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes an accelerator operation amount generator receiving an actual accelerator operation amount of an accelerator operator to generate a control accelerator operation amount; an engine controller controlling the engine according to the control accelerator operation amount; and a storage storing a table in which an increasing speed for the control accelerator operation amount is set, wherein the accelerator operation amount generator obtains a difference between a converted accelerator operation amount of the accelerator operator converted from a rotating speed of the engine in a current control cycle and a control accelerator operation amount obtained in the last control cycle, determines an increasing speed of the control accelerator operation amount from the difference by referring to the table, and changes the control accelerator operation amount to an actual operation amount in the current control cycle with the determined increasing speed.

Abstract: A flue gas heat recovery system includes a furnace, a combustion device, a flue gas duct, and a heat exchanging unit, and further includes a heat recovering unit disposed in the flue gas duct on the downstream side of the heat exchanging unit to recover heat from flue gas, and configured such that a path cross-sectional area of an outlet of the heat recovering unit is made smaller than a path cross-sectional area of an inlet of the heat recovering unit, and a first heat exchanger that heats combustion air by using heat recovered by the heat recovering unit.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes: an anode; a wiring that is disposed side-by-side with and spaced from the anode; a light-emitting layer that is disposed above the anode, and includes an organic light-emitting material; an intermediate layer that is disposed above the light-emitting layer and the wiring; an organic functional layer that is disposed above the intermediate layer, and has an electron injection property or an electron transport property; a cathode that is disposed above the organic functional layer. The intermediate layer includes: a fluoride of a first metal, the first metal being an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal; and a second metal that has a property of cleaving a bond between the first metal and fluorine in the fluoride.

Abstract: An organic EL element includes: a light-reflective anode; a light-emitting layer that is disposed above the anode, and emits blue light; a functional layer that is disposed on the light-emitting layer, includes an organic material having electron transport property, and is doped with doping metal that is alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal; and a light-transmissive cathode that is disposed on the functional layer, and includes a metal layer. An optical cavity is formed between the anode and the cathode. The functional layer has a first region and a second region that are in contact with each other, the first region is in contact with the cathode, and the second region is closer to the light-emitting layer than the first region is, and the first region has concentration of the doping metal higher than the second region has.

Abstract: An organic EL element includes: a light-reflective anode; a light-emitting layer that is disposed above the anode; a fluorine compound layer that is disposed on the light-emitting layer, and includes a fluorine compound including a first metal that is an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal; a functional layer that is disposed on the fluorine compound layer, and has at least one of an electron transport property and an electron injection property; a light-transmissive cathode that is disposed above the functional layer, and includes a metal layer, wherein the functional layer includes a second metal in a region thereof that is in contact with the fluorine compound layer, the second metal being an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal.

Abstract: An organic EL element includes: a light-reflective anode; light-emitting layer above the anode; functional layer on the light-emitting layer; and light-transmissive cathode on the functional layer and including metal layer. The functional layer includes: fluorine compound layer including fluorine compound including first metal being alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal; and an electron transport layer on the fluorine compound layer and having electron transport property. The electron transport layer includes organic material having electron transport property, and is doped with second metal being alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal and has property of cleaving bond between the first metal and fluorine in the compound. The electron transport layer has first and second regions, the first region contacts the fluorine compound layer, and the second region is closer to the cathode than the first region is, and the first region has concentration of the second metal higher than the second region has.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic light-emitting element, including: preparing a substrate; forming a light-reflective layer above the substrate, the light-reflective layer containing Al or an Al alloy; forming an alumina layer by oxidizing a part of the light-reflective layer; forming a metal layer on the alumina layer, the metal layer containing a metal having electrical conductivity regardless of whether or not the metal is oxidized; forming an electrically-conductive layer on the metal layer, the electrically-conductive layer containing a light-transmissive oxide; and forming an organic light-emitting layer and a light-transmissive electrode above the electrically-conductive layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) element that has an anode; a cathode; an organic light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode that emits light according to recombination of holes injected from the anode and electrons injected from the cathode; and an electron transport layer between the cathode and the organic light-emitting layer that transports electrons from the cathode to the organic light-emitting layer. The electron transport layer includes an n-type dopant that includes an electron-donating substance, the electron transport layer being doped with the n-type dopant at a doping concentration that is higher than a doping concentration at which light emittance efficiency of the organic light-emitting layer is greatest.

Abstract: An organic EL display device comprising: an anode; a cathode that is a metal film; a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode; and a sealing layer that covers a side of the cathode opposite a side on which the light-emitting layer is provided. An oxidation inhibiting layer and a cathode protecting layer are stacked between the cathode and the sealing layer. The oxidation inhibiting layer is closer to the light-emitting layer than the cathode protecting layer is.

Abstract: A work vehicle including: a traveling hydraulic pump of a variable displacement type driven by engine; a hydraulic motor forming a closed circuit with the traveling hydraulic pump and driven by operating oil discharged from the traveling hydraulic pump; a drive wheel driven by the hydraulic motor; and a control device determining whether an operator of the work vehicle has an intention of decelerating the work vehicle, and when the operator has an intention of decelerating the work vehicle and when the work vehicle starts to increase its speed, the control device causes a capacity ratio obtained by dividing a capacity of the hydraulic motor by a capacity of the traveling hydraulic pump, to be equal to or larger than a value when the work vehicle starts to increase its speed, according to an increasing amount in the speed of the work vehicle.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a variable displacement hydraulic pump driven by an engine, a hydraulic motor forming a closed circuit with the pump and driven by hydraulic fluid discharged from the pump, wheels driven by the motor to allow the work vehicle to travel, a selector detecting an operating state of a switch switching the traveling of the work vehicle between forward and backward, and a controller. When the selector detects a reversal operation of the switch to reverse the traveling direction when the work vehicle travels, the controller sets relationship between the vehicle speed of the work vehicle and the upper limit of the rotational speed of the engine such that the upper limit increases as the absolute value of the vehicle speed approaches zero. The controller obtains an upper limit of the rotational speed from the relationship and a vehicle speed of the work vehicle.

Abstract: A method of maintaining a power generating apparatus includes a separation step of separating a mooring line and a cable from a floating body of a first floating-body type wind turbine power generating apparatus including a maintenance-target section; a retention step of retaining the mooring line and the cable by a floating-body structure, after the separation step; a first transfer step of transferring the first floating-body type wind turbine power generating apparatus from the mooring position, after the separation step; a second transfer step of transferring a second floating-body type wind turbine power generating apparatus having no maintenance-target section to the mooring position; and a connection step of detaching the mooring line and the cable from the floating-body structure and connecting the mooring line and the cable to the second floating-body type wind turbine power generating apparatus, after the second transfer step.