Abstract: This adhesive film for a metal terminal is interposed between a metal terminal electrically connected to an electrode of a battery element and a wrapping material sealing the battery element and is provided with at least one resin layer having a polyolefin backbone. When the adhesive film for the metal terminal is measured with a differential scanning calorimeter, a melting peak is observed within the range of 120° C. to 156° C.

Abstract: A tire-axle-force measuring apparatus includes a trailer to which testing tires are attached; a towing vehicle configured to tow the trailer; a load cell configured to measure an axle force applied to an axle supporting the tire; a heavy construction to each of two vehicle-width-direction sides of which the load cell is fixed; an accelerometer attached to the load cell at a position close to the axle and configured to measure an acceleration acting on an axial center of the axle; and an axle-force calculator configured to calculate a revised axle force compensated for with an inertial force, the inertial force being the acceleration detected by the accelerometer and multiplied by a mass of the load cell at the position close to the axle, the revised axle force being the sum of the axle force measured by the load cell and the inertial force.

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: Convenience when case binding operation is confirmed is to be improved. A method of controlling an image forming system configured to perform case binding includes receiving a number of sheets on which a test print pattern image is to be printed, receiving a print instruction to print the test print pattern image, and performing control to perform printing based on the print instruction, wherein, in a case where execution of predetermined postprocessing different from the case binding is set and the print instruction is received, the control is performed to print the pattern image on the received number of sheets, and in a case where execution of the case binding is set and the print instruction is received, the control is performed to print the pattern image on a number of sheets greater by a predetermined number of sheets than the received number of sheets.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate includes an insulating substrate, a conductor layer including a top-gate electrode part of an oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor, an oxide semiconductor layer located lower than the top-gate electrode part and including a channel region of the oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor, and an upper insulating layer located between the conductor layer and the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes low-resistive regions lower in resistance than the channel region. The low-resistive regions sandwich the channel region in an in-plane direction of the insulating substrate and contain impurities to cause resistance reduction of the low-resistive regions. A concentration profile in a layering direction of the impurities to cause resistance reduction of the low resistive regions has one or more peaks. The one or more peaks are located outside the oxide semiconductor layer.

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: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, at least one processor, and a memory in communication with the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to display a screen for accepting a first quantity by which a printing count value is counted up when an image is printed in monochrome on one sheet and a second quantity by which the printing count value is counted up when an image is printed in color on one sheet and restrict printing performed by the printing unit based on the printing count value and a printing upper limit value.

Abstract: An oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor device includes a gate electrode region, an oxide semiconductor region, a first source/drain electrode region, and a second source/drain electrode region. The oxide semiconductor region has a concentration distribution of an element capable of increasing resistance of an oxide semiconductor. The concentration distribution shows a first concentration at the centroid of a channel region overlapping the gate electrode region in a planar view. The concentration distribution shows a concentration higher than the first concentration in a vicinity of at least a part of a boundary defining an outer end of the channel region.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate includes an insulating substrate, a conductor layer including a top-gate electrode part of an oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor, an oxide semiconductor layer located lower than the top-gate electrode part and including a channel region of the oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor, and an upper insulating layer located between the conductor layer and the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes low-resistive regions lower in resistance than the channel region. The low-resistive regions sandwich the channel region in an in-plane direction of the insulating substrate and contain impurities to cause resistance reduction of the low-resistive regions. A concentration profile in a layering direction of the impurities to cause resistance reduction of the low resistive regions has one or more peaks. The one or more peaks are located outside the oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A conveyance device includes a traveling vehicle, a mast, a raising and lowering section, and a control section. The traveling vehicle includes a wheel, a motor which drives the wheel, and a slippage detection section which detects slippage at the wheel. In a case where two or more slippage detection sections out of the slippage detection sections detect, at least in a state where the traveling vehicle is accelerated, slippage of not less than a predetermined amount, the control section causes the traveling vehicle to stop.

Abstract: A first thin-film transistor includes a polysilicon film. A second thin-film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film. A first insulating film is located upper than the polysilicon film and the oxide semiconductor film. The first insulating film is in contact with the oxide semiconductor film and covers at least a part of the polysilicon film and at least a part of the oxide semiconductor film. A second insulating film is located upper than the first insulating film and contains hydrogen at a concentration higher than the first insulating film. The first insulating film includes a first part and a second part. The first part includes a part covering the at least a part of the polysilicon film. The second part includes a part covering the at least a part of the oxide semiconductor film. The first part is thinner than the second part.

Abstract: A technique that prevents an unnecessary notification to a user. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute a control method including a reception step of receiving an event generated in a device, a setting step of setting a user who is a destination of a notification based on the event received in the reception step according to a type of the event received in the reception step, first information showing a group for each type of an event, and second information showing a group for each user, and a notification step of transmitting a notification based on the event received in the reception step to the user set in the setting step.

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: This saddle-ride vehicle includes: a shroud intake provided with a suction opening and disposed on the left and right sides of an energy storage unit, the shroud intake guiding traveling wind below a seat; and a shroud wing having a lower surface that guides traveling wind to the suction opening and an upper surface that causes the traveling wind to flow to the side of a vehicle body. The shroud wing includes a wing body portion further inward in the vehicle width direction than a side portion. The wing body portion includes a first pointed portion on the front side and inside in the vehicle width direction, and a second pointed portion on the rear side and outside in the vehicle width direction. The wing body portion, the suction opening, the energy storage unit are arranged in this order from the front in a vehicle body side view.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a controller configured to control information of which is notified to a mobile terminal. The controller performs control to cause a notification unit to notify the mobile terminal of first information in a case where the mobile terminal in a first environment has succeeded in authentication with the first authentication method, notify the mobile terminal of the first information and second information in a case where the mobile terminal in a second environment has succeeded in the authentication with the first authentication method, and notify the mobile terminal of the first information and the second information in a case where the mobile terminal in the first environment has succeeded in the authentication with the first authentication method and has further succeeded in authentication with the second authentication method.

Abstract: A metal-terminal adhesive film interposed between a metal terminal that is electrically connected to an electrode of a power storage device element and a power-storage-device exterior material that seals the power storage device element, wherein the surface of at least one side of the metal-terminal adhesive film is formed by a resin including at least three types of structural units, and the resin has a melting peak temperature of at least 170° C.

Abstract: A metal-terminal adhesive film interposed between a metal terminal that is electrically connected to an electrode of a power storage device element and a power-storage-device exterior material that seals the power storage device element, wherein the surface of at least one side of the metal-terminal adhesive film is formed by a homopolybutylene terephthalate layer composed of a homopolybutylene terephthalate film.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor to be used in an X-ray sensor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating layer located between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. The gate insulating layer includes a first region having an interface with the gate electrode, a second region having an interface with the semiconductor layer, and a third region located between the first region and the second region. Each of the first region and the second region has a density of electron trap states and a density of hole trap states that are higher than whichever of a density of electron trap states and a density of hole trap states of the third region that is lower.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip, an adhesive layer, a second semiconductor chip, a first joint, and a second joint. The adhesive layer fixes the substrate to the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a first region overlapping the first semiconductor chip in a thickness direction of the substrate and a second region excluding the first region. The first joint is disposed between the first semiconductor chip and the first region of the second semiconductor chip and electrically connects the first semiconductor chip to the second semiconductor chip. The second joint is disposed between the substrate and the second region of the second semiconductor chip, is larger than the first joint in volume, and electrically connects the substrate to the second semiconductor chip. A fusion point of the first joint is lower than a fusion point of the second joint.