Abstract: Disclosed is a way of providing a surface processing method for concrete in which vitrifying is suppressed even when high-speed processing is performed. In a surface processing method of concrete, a surface of the concrete is irradiated with a laser beam so that a beam spot is scanned along a predetermined scanning pattern and the scanning pattern moves along the surface at a predetermined feed speed. When the beam spot repeatedly passes through a predetermined portion in the scanning pattern, an overlap ratio, which is a ratio of overlapping of a passage path of the beam spot over a passage path of the beam spot in an immediately preceding irradiation, is 90% or less.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus that performs post-processing on a sheet on which an image is formed includes: a punch hole forming portion; and a sheet bundle forming portion that has a conveyance portion, stops a first sheet on a conveyance path, and conveys a second sheet after the first sheet to a position overlapping the first sheet to form a sheet bundle. The sheet post-processing apparatus includes a shift portion to make a shift so that a relative position between the first sheet and the second sheet in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction becomes a relative position at which the second sheet does not overlap a punch hole of the first sheet to make the second sheet overlap the first sheet, and forms a sheet bundle in which sheets overlapped with each other are deviated in a width direction.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a mitochondrial dysfunction improving agent comprising a vitamin K derivative having a high deliverability to mitochondria. A mitochondrial dysfunction improving agent, neurodegeneration improving agent, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis improving agent, Alzheimer's disease improving agent, and Parkinson's disease improving agent comprising at least one of a carboxylic acid ester of an active vitamin K represented by a general formula (1) or a salt thereof, and (wherein, R1 and R2 are a hydrogen atom, respectively, or a substituent selected from glycine, N-acyl glycine, N-alkyl glycine, N,N-dialkyl glycine, N,N,N-trialkyl glycine, acyl, dicarboxylic acid hemiester, and salts thereof; and at least either of R1 and R2 is glycine, N-acyl glycine, N-alkyl glycine, N,N-dialkyl glycine, N,N,N-trialkyl glycine, acyl, dicarboxylic acid hemiester, and salts thereof. R3 is a group represented by a general formula (2), or a general formula (3).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to increase the dimensional accuracy of a structure including a plurality of rectangular pipes. A structure (6) includes a plurality of rectangular pipes (60) joined together. The plurality of rectangular pipes (60) include a first rectangular pipe (60a) and a second rectangular pipe (60b) joined by welding. Two or three of four sides that constitute an end face (62) of the first rectangular pipe (60a) are joint sides (62a) welded to a side face (63) of the second rectangular pipe (60b), whereas the rest of the four sides is a non-joint side (62b) separated from the side face (63) of the second rectangular pipe (60b) by a gap.

Abstract: A partial discharge detection apparatus for detecting partial discharge in a power cable and recognizing an insulation deterioration state of the power cable. A low-speed AD converter converts an analog signal of an AC waveform flowing through a power cable into a digital signal. A high-speed AD converter converts an analog signal of a partial discharge current into a digital signal. The partial discharge is detected based on the maximum value or the sum of a current value obtained from the digital signal of the partial discharge current obtained by the conversion of the high-speed AD converter, for each phase of the AC waveform, which is obtained from the digital signal of the AC waveform flowing in the power cable. The digital signal is obtained by the conversion of the low-speed AD converter.

Abstract: The invention provides a ceramic device enabling more complex, elaborate patterns for resistance heating elements or electrodes. A ceramic device includes a ceramic substrate consisting of a ceramic sintered body and including at least a base layer, an intermediate layer laminated over the base layer, and an overlayer laminated over the intermediate layer; and an electrifiable resistance heating element or electrode having a predetermined pattern extending in a planar shape and being embedded in the ceramic substrate. A horizontal surface is defined in the upper surface of the intermediate layer, along which the resistance heating element or electrode is arranged, and the overlayer is laminated onto the upper surface of the intermediate layer to cover the resistance heating element or electrode.

Abstract: This neuron element comprises: a first charge storage unit in which charge is stored by an input signal; and a signal processing unit that, if the charge stored in the first charge storage unit exceeds a first prescribed amount, outputs a second prescribed amount of charge from the first charge storage unit and generates a pulse signal. The signal processing unit performs prescribed processing for the second prescribed amount of charge.

Abstract: An ion implantation method includes generating a first scan beam, based on a first scan signal, measuring a beam current of the first scan beam by using a beam measurement device at a plurality of measurement positions, calculating a beam current matrix, based on a time waveform of the beam current measured by the beam measurement device and a time waveform of the scan command values determined in the first scan signal, calculating a first beam current density distribution of the first scan beam in a predetermined direction by performing time integration on the measured beam current, correcting a value of each component of the beam current matrix, based on the first beam current density distribution, and generating a second scan signal for realizing a target beam current density distribution in the predetermined direction, based on the corrected beam current matrix.

Abstract: Provided is an overhead conveyor that conveys a carrier loaded with a workpiece. The carrier includes a primary carrier, and a secondary carrier having a hanger that supports the workpiece. The overhead conveyor includes a rotation drive device that rotates the secondary carrier around the vertical axis, a friction brake device that makes the secondary carrier non-rotatable with respect to the primary carrier, and a rotation positioning device that is disposed on a ground side, and positions the secondary carrier at a predetermined rotation end position. The friction brake device, in an operating state thereof, brings a friction member included in a main body provided in the primary carrier, into press-contact with a brake member provided in the secondary carrier.

Abstract: Provided is a thermally stable bisphenol composition whose increase in the Hazen color number is suppressed even under higher temperature conditions. A bisphenol composition including an aryl alkyl sulfide or a dialkyl disulfide at 0.1 ppb by mass to 1% by mass with respect to a bisphenol. A bisphenol composition including an aryl alkyl sulfide or a dialkyl disulfide at a predetermined ratio is thermally stable in terms of the Hazen color number, and shows no coloring problem under high temperature conditions. By using such a bisphenol composition, a polycarbonate resin having an excellent color tone can be produced.

Abstract: An image display system for a work machine including working equipment having a working tool and a turning body to which the working equipment is attached, includes: a position detector detecting at least one of an attitude and a position of the working equipment; a distance detector obtaining information on a distance from the work machine to a work target; and a processing device that generates, by using information on a position of the working tool obtained by the position detector and information on a position of the work target obtained from the information on the distance obtained by the distance detector, a first image including a portion corresponding to a part of the working tool and extending along a turning direction of the turning body, on the work target opposed to the working tool, and displays the first image on the display device.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a bioabsorbable medical material having adhesiveness to a biological tissue and improved degradability. A bioabsorbable medical material according to an embodiment of the present invention contains a crosslinked polymer material forming a specific shape, and a disintegration delaying material retained by the crosslinked polymer material. The crosslinked polymer material has degradability in water, the degradability being suppressed in the presence of an acid. The disintegration delaying material releases 0.5 mol%/day or greater of an acid until the seventh day upon contact with water at 37° C.

Abstract: A vehicle position estimation device is configured to acquire a distance from a road edge to a subject vehicle using at least one of an imaging device or a distance measuring sensor, acquire position information of lane boundary lines detected by analyzing the images captured by the imaging device; acquire map information including a lane quantity of a traveling road of the subject vehicle from a map storage, calculate, as a roadside area width, a lateral direction distance between an outermost detection line, which is an outermost boundary line among the detected boundary lines, and the road edge, and specify a traveling lane of the subject vehicle based on (i) the distance from the road edge to the subject vehicle, (ii) the roadside area width, and (iii) the lane quantity included in the acquired map information.

Abstract: The electric device has a first seal part, including, between a first case and a second case, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, where those portions are joined by sealing material; a second seal part, including, between the opening part of the first case and a peripheral part of the connector, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, where those portions are joined by the sealing material; and a third seal part, including, among the first case, the second case, and the peripheral part of the connector, a groove portion prepared at one side and a projection portion prepared at another side, as a combination, or a projection portion prepared at one side and a groove portion prepared at another side, as a combination, where those portions are joined by the sealing material.

Abstract: An image forming system generates second image data representing a result of a reading unit reading an image on a sheet, corrects the second image data using correction data, the correction data being data obtained on the basis of image data obtained by the reading unit reading a predetermined image formed on the sheet by an image forming unit and image data corresponding to the predetermined image, and inspects, on the basis of the corrected second image data and a first image data, an image formed on the sheet on the basis of the first image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane suitable for separating water from a liquid mixture containing an alcohol and water. The separation membrane of the present invention includes a metal organic framework. On the separation membrane, at least one of requirements (i) and (ii) below holds: (i) a ratio R1 of a number N2 of molecules satisfying a specified condition (b) with respect to a number N1 of molecules satisfying a specified condition (a) is less than 0.29; (ii) a ratio R2 of an adsorption amount of water adsorbed by the metal organic framework under water vapor at 25° C. and 3.2 kPa with respect to an adsorption amount of ethanol adsorbed by the metal organic framework under an ethanol atmosphere at 25° C. and 7.4 kPa is more than 4.0.

Abstract: A glass protective film 4 is formed such that boundaries of top surface electrodes 3a and 3b do not exist at the base of corner portions of the rectangular glass protective film 4 so as to eliminate level differences generating due to thicknesses of the electrodes. Use of such a structure may resolve the problem that when printing glass paste individually over chip elements of a chip resistor on a large substrate from which multiple chips will be obtained, corner portions of the glass protective film bleed (flow) to the outer side (dividing grooves).

Abstract: This joint component is a joint component including a first steel member, a second steel member, and a spot-welded portion that joins the first steel member and the second steel member, in which the first steel member includes a steel sheet substrate having a predetermined chemical composition and a coating that is formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate, contains Al and Fe, and has a thickness of 25 ?m or more, in a cross section in a thickness direction of the first steel member and the second steel member including the spot-welded portion, a filled metal containing Al and Fe is present in a gap between the first steel member and the second steel member in a periphery of the spot-welded portion, in the cross section, the filled metal has a cross-sectional area of 3.0×104 ?m2 or more, and has a filling ratio of 80% or more in the gap in a range of 100 ?m from an end portion of a corona bond formed in the periphery of the spot-welded portion, and includes a first region and a second region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an additive for laser-markable and/or laser-weldable polymer materials, and in particular to the use of pigments which comprise niobium-doped titanium dioxide as laser absorbing additive in polymer materials, to polymer materials which comprise a laser absorbing additive of this type and to a laser-marked or laser-welded product comprising at least one polymer material and niobium-doped titanium dioxide containing pigments as laser absorbing additive.