Abstract: According to the present invention, a carbon fiber composite material, which has excellent energy absorption and is composed of a carbon fiber having high strength and high elongation, is provided by a production method yielding an excellent production amount. This carbon fiber bundle having a plurality of single fibers has a strand elastic modulus of 260-350 GPa, a strength of 6.5-8.5 GPa, an elongation of at least 1.8%, a filament number of 1,000-9,000, and a total fineness of 0.15-0.35 g/m, wherein the average value of major axis/minor axis ratios in single fiber cross sections is 1.01-1.08, the coefficient of variation is 1-4%, and the skewness is 0.3-1.2.

Abstract: A power receiver includes a pickup coil, a rectifier, a chopper, a controller that controls an on-duty cycle of a switching element in the chopper, a voltage detector that detects an output voltage, and a current detector that detects an output current. The controller controls the on-duty cycle of the switching element based on the output voltage and the output current to cause power less than or equal to a preset power to be supplied to an electric load.

Abstract: Apparatus might include an array of memory cells comprising a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells, a data line, a plurality of sets of field-effect transistors with each of the sets of field-effect transistors between the data line and a respective string of series-connected memory cells and having N field-effect transistors that are fabricated to have a respective binary permutation of two threshold voltages of a plurality of possible binary permutations of two threshold voltages having N positions, and N select lines that are each connected to a control gate of a respective field-effect transistor of each of the sets of field-effect transistors.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a heat source unit that generates a heating energy or a cooling energy that is transferred to refrigerant; a heat-use unit that causes the refrigerant to transfer the heating energy or the cooling energy to a heat load through heat exchange between the refrigerant and the heat load; a plurality of return pipes arranged parallel to each other and connecting the heat source unit and the heat-use unit to allow the refrigerant to flow therein from the heat-use unit to the heat source unit; an opening and closing device provided at at least one of the return pipes to control a flow rate of refrigerant; and a controller that opens the opening and closing device in a cooling operation, and closes the opening and closing device in a heating operation.

Abstract: A sludge treatment facility operation assistance navigation system acquires an operating flock state that is a flocculation flock state during operation of a sludge treatment facility, acquires an operating sludge water content that is a water content of dehydrated sludge during operation of the sludge treatment facility, selects or generates facility operation contents of a flocculation tank and a sludge dehydrator based on the operating flock state, the operating sludge water content, a desired flocculation flock state, and a desired sludge water content, and displays the facility operation contents on a display device.

Abstract: To provide a sealing material sheet for a solar-cell module that has high productivity without performing crosslinking processing, and has a high tensile shear adhesion force at normal temperature at a high level in addition to heat resistance and molding characteristics. A sealing material sheet is a multi-layer sheet using a polyethylene-based resin as a base resin, a core layer has a density of 0.880 g/cm3 to 0.895 g/cm3 and a melting point of 70° C. or higher, a skin layer has a density of 0.880 g/cm3 to 0.910 g/cm3 and a melting point of 90° C. or lower and contains a silane-modified polyethylene-based resin, a weight average molecular weight of the silane-modified polyethylene-based resin contained in the skin layer 11 in terms of polystyrene is 70000 to 120000, and a polymerized silane amount of the skin layer in the whole resin component is 300 ppm to 2000 ppm.

Abstract: Methods of forming integrated circuit structures for a capacitive sense NAND memory include forming a first semiconductor overlying a dielectric, forming a second semiconductor to be in contact with a first end of the first semiconductor, forming a third semiconductor to be in contact with a second end of the first semiconductor opposite the first end of the first semiconductor, forming a vertical channel material structure overlying the first semiconductor and having a channel material capacitively coupled to the first semiconductor, and forming a plurality of series-connected field-effect transistors adjacent the vertical channel material structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fused ring compound having urea structure that exhibits excellent NAMPT activating effect, and a method using the same for treating/preventing metabolic disorder, cardiovascular and kidney disease, mitochondrial disease, neurodegenerative disease, ocular disease, and muscle wasting disorder. The present invention provides a compound represented by following formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt: wherein A, B, R1, R2 and R3 represent the same meanings as in the claims.

Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device which is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal alignment film to which an alignment regulating force is imparted by a photo-alignment treatment, including: a film forming step of forming a film containing a polymer whose main chain is cleaved by irradiation with light; a photo-alignment step of imparting an alignment regulating force to the film formed in the film forming step by irradiation of the film with light in an atmosphere of a temperature lower than 100° C.; and a removing step of removing a low-molecular weight component generated by cleaving the main chain of the polymer through the light irradiation after the light irradiation. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal display device manufactured by the manufacturing method.

Abstract: An aqueous pigment dispersion for preparing an environmentally conscious aqueous inkjet ink in which a pigment is finely and stably dispersed and which records images having excellent durability, glossiness, color developability, and adhesiveness to various printing substrates. The aqueous pigment dispersion contains a pigment, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a polymeric dispersant that disperses the pigment. The polymeric dispersant is a polymer including a constitutional unit (i) derived from (meth)acrylic acid and/or itaconic acid, and a constituent unit (ii) derived from (meth)acrylate derived from biological material, such as ethyl (meth)acrylate, having an acid value of 30 to 250 mgKOH/g, number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 30,000, and a polydispersity index (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) of 2.5 or less. The content of the constituent unit (ii) is 50% by mass or more, and at least part of carboxy groups is neutralized with an alkali.

Abstract: An optical film having high anti-glare properties and favorable fingerprints wiping off properties is provided. The optical film has a first surface, and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the optical film comprises an anti-reflection layer and an anti-glare layer in this order from the first surface to the second surface, the first surface has a profile of depressions and projections, the first surface has an arithmetic mean height Sa of 0.05 ?m or more specified in ISO 25178-2:2012, and the first surface satisfies the relation represented by the following Expression 1: Sw×Vmp?2.00 (Expression 1) wherein “Sw” represents a tilt angle (degrees) of 30 ?l pure water droplet flowing down on the first surface; and “Vmp” represents a value of a peak material volume (ml/m2) of the first surface specified in ISO 25178-2:2012.

Abstract: An optical film having high anti-glare properties and favorable fingerprints wiping off properties is provided. The optical film has a first surface, and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the optical film comprises an anti-reflection layer and an anti-glare layer in this order from the first surface to the second surface, the first surface has a profile of depressions and projections, the first surface has an arithmetic mean height Sa of 0.05 ?m or more specified in ISO 25178-2:2012, and the first surface satisfies the relation represented by the following Expression 1: Sw×Vmp?2.00 (Expression 1) wherein “Sw” represents a tilt angle (degrees) of 30 ?l pure water droplet flowing down on the first surface; and “Vmp” represents a value of a peak material volume (ml/m2) of the first surface specified in ISO 25178-2:2012.

Abstract: A moisture measuring device includes a biosensor, a processing unit, a substrate, a housing, and one or more attaching members. The biosensor has a sensor surface for acquisition of biological information. The processing unit is configured to process the biological information acquired by the biosensor. The substrate has a first principal surface on which the processing unit is mounted. The housing accommodates the biosensor, the processing unit, and the substrate. The one or more attaching members are disposed on the first principal surface side of the substrate to attach the substrate to the housing. The total area of one or more overlap regions in which the one or more attaching members overlap the substrate in the first principal surface of the substrate when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first principal surface of the substrate is smaller than a sensor area of the sensor surface of the biosensor.

Abstract: A detecting system includes a tag, a radar device that transmits transmission radio waves to the tag and acquires reception radio waves produced by the transmission radio waves being reflected by the tag, and a detecting apparatus. The tag includes a pattern made of a plurality of materials that reflect or scatter radio waves received from the radar device, and the pattern includes a known pattern known to the detecting apparatus and an unknown pattern unknown to the detecting apparatus. The detecting apparatus includes a specifying unit that calculates a relative velocity between the radar device and the tag, with which the known pattern can be detected from the reception radio waves, and specifies a condition for the radar device to transmit transmission radio waves for estimating the unknown pattern, from the calculated relative velocity, and a notification unit that notifies the radar of the specified condition.

Abstract: An object is to provide a micro-analysis chip with which stable ion concentration measurement can be performed without increasing a chip size or prolonging a measurement time. In order to achieve this object, the following micro-analysis chip is provided. That is, provided is a micro-analysis chip when an average areal velocity which is an area of a region that a specimen has permeated during a period until a dispensed specimen reaches a reference electrode is represented by V1, and when an average areal velocity which is an area of a region that the specimen has permeated during a period until the dispensed specimen fills an inside of a first channel chamber after the dispensed specimen has reached the reference electrode is represented by V2, the average areal velocity V1 and the average areal velocity V2 satisfy a relationship of V1>V2.

Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a microanalysis chip in which: a first channel chamber has a reference electrode arranged therein, the reference electrode having a surface on which an ion crystal having specimen solubility is arranged; a second channel chamber has a working electrode arranged therein; and a first channel and a second channel are configured so that, when a time period required for a specimen to reach the ion crystal after the specimen is dispensed to a dispensing section is represented by T1 and a time period required for the specimen to reach the working electrode after the specimen is dispensed to the dispensing section is represented by T2, the time period T1 and the time period T2 satisfy a relationship of T1>T2.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode and a layered oxide region between a substrate and the gate electrode. The layered oxide region includes a first oxide layer and a second oxide layer. A channel region includes a first region of the first oxide layer, and a source/drain region includes a second region of the first oxide layer and a first region of the second oxide layer laid one above the other. The mobility of the first oxide layer is greater than the mobility of the second oxide layer. The distance between a peak position in a concentration profile of a first impurity atoms in a layering direction and a top face of the first region of the second oxide layer is shorter than the distance between the peak position and a top face of the second region of the first oxide layer.