Abstract: An organic EL device includes an emitting region provided between a cathode and an anode, a first anode-side-organic layer, a second anode-side-organic layer, and a third anode-side-organic layer, in which the emitting region includes at least a first emitting layer, the first anode-side-organic layer is in direct contact with the second anode-side-organic layer, the second anode-side-organic layer is in direct contact with the third anode-side-organic layer, the third anode-side-organic layer has a film thickness of 20 nm or more, the second anode-side-organic layer contains at least one compound different from a compound contained in the third anode-side-organic layer, the first emitting layer is a fluorescent emitting layer, and a refractive index NM2 of a constituent material contained in the second anode-side-organic layer and a refractive index NM3 of a constituent material contained in the third anode-side-organic layer satisfy a relationship of Numerical Formula NM, NM2>NM3??(Numerical Formula NM

Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine main body, and an intake device to supply air to the engine main body. The intake device includes a main intake pipe including a first intake pipe and a second intake pipe connected to a downstream end of the first intake pipe and extending at an angle with respect to an axial direction of the first intake pipe and through which the air supplied to the engine main body flows, and an extension pipe extending from a connection between the first intake pipe and the second intake pipe and including a resonance chamber therein. The extension pipe includes an extended peripheral wall and an end wall that closes the resonance chamber except for a portion adjacent to the main intake pipe.

Abstract: Regarding a display device (a display device including display elements driven by currents) equipped with a touch panel, degradation in display quality caused by touch is suppressed. A display device equipped with a touch panel is provided with a determination circuit (303) that determines whether or not a characteristic detection process is influenced by touch, based on a touch position and a monitoring target row which is a row to be subjected to the characteristic detection process. When the determination circuit (303) determines that the characteristic detection process is influenced by touch, a display control circuit (301) controls operation of a gate driver (12) and a source driver (20) such that a normal characteristic detection process is stopped until the determination circuit (303) determines that the characteristic detection process is not influenced by touch.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes: an emitting layer including a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer; and a hole transporting zone including at least two organic compound layers, in which a first organic compound layer of the hole transporting zone includes a first organic material and a second organic material that are mutually different, a content of the first organic material in the first organic compound layer is less than 10 mass %, the first emitting layer includes a first host material and a first emitting compound, the second emitting layer includes a second host material and a second emitting compound, and a triplet energy of the first host material T1(H1) and a triplet energy of the second host material T1(H2) satisfy a relationship of Numerical Formula 1, T1(H1)>T1(H2)??(Numerical Formula 1).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller, the controller being configured to execute: acquiring pieces of result data showing movement results of a plurality of users; calculating at least either first evaluation values about convenience in a case of moving in predetermined sections in private vehicles or second evaluation values about convenience in a case of moving in the predetermined sections in public transportation at least based on the pieces of result data; and calculating, for a predetermined area, a score indicating a deviation between convenience in the case of moving in the private vehicles and convenience in the case of moving in the public transportation based on the first and second evaluation values.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an emitting region between a cathode and an anode, a first anode side organic layer, and a second anode side organic layer. The emitting region includes at least a first emitting layer, the first anode side organic layer is in direct contact with the second anode side organic layer, the first anode side organic layer contains first and second organic materials, a content of the first organic material in the first anode side organic layer is less than 50 mass %, the second anode side organic layer contains a second hole transporting zone material, the first emitting layer is an emitting layer that emits fluorescence, and a refractive index NM1 of the constituent materials contained in the first anode side organic layer and a refractive index NM2 of the constituent material contained in the second anode side organic layer satisfy a relationship of NM1>NM2.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a proton conducting membrane includes a pressing process, a hydrolyzing process, and a peeling process. In the pressing process, a resin film is brought into contact with at least one surface of an electrolyte resin material dissolved in polyphosphoric acid and pressure is applied to form the electrolyte resin material into a membrane shape. In the hydrolyzing process, the polyphosphoric acid is hydrolyzed and phosphorylated after the pressing process. In the peeling process, the resin film is peeled off from the electrolyte resin material having the membrane shape after the hydrolyzing process to obtain the proton conducting membrane made of the electrolyte resin material containing phosphoric acid. The resin film is made of a resin having an acidic substituent.

Abstract: A high-definition guide image for supporting a procedure that uses an X-ray fluoroscopic image is generated from 3D images taken in advance by a CT device and an MRI device, and the generated image is displayed. A parameter value is acquired from the parameters set in an X-ray imaging device upon taking the fluoroscopic image. After performing registration between the 3D CT image and the 3D MRI image, using the parameter value of the X-ray imaging device, the direction of light passage of the cone beam is set on each of the 3D CT image and the 3D MRI image, and 2D projected images are generated therefrom respectively. Then, the generated 2D projected images are superimposed and the superimposed image is displayed as the guide image.

Abstract: A lighting system includes a plurality of lighting devices and a control device. The plurality of lighting devices are installed in a facility. The control device controls the plurality of lighting devices. The control device controls lighting light projected by at least one lighting device, belonging to the plurality of lighting devices, into colored lighting light, of which a color is different from a color white, to give, upon acquiring information about an event in question, a sign depending on the event in question.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a first connection member. The semiconductor element includes a substrate and an electrode pad. The substrate includes a transistor formation region, in which a transistor is formed and which is shaped to be non-quadrangular. The electrode pad is located on the transistor formation region. The first connection member is connected to the electrode pad at one location. The electrode pad is arranged to cover a center of gravity of the transistor formation region in a plan view of the electrode pad. In the plan view, a connection region in which the first connection member is connected to the electrode pad includes a center of gravity position of the transistor formation region.

Abstract: A satisfaction level calculation device (10) acquires environmental data detected by each of a plurality of environment sensors (20). The satisfaction level calculation device (10) sets each of a plurality of indexes about a space environment as a target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the environmental data acquired by measuring the target index, an individual satisfaction level, which is a satisfaction level of the target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the individual satisfaction level about each of the plurality of indexes, an overall satisfaction level, which is an overall satisfaction level about the space environment.

Abstract: A robot system (1) includes the robot (10), a motion sensor (11), a surrounding environment sensor (12, 13), an operation apparatus (21), a learning control section (41), and a relay apparatus (30). The robot (10) performs work based on an operation command. The operation apparatus (21) detects and outputs an operator-operating force applied by the operator. The learning control section (41) outputs a calculation operating force. The relay apparatus (30) outputs the operation command based on the operator-operating force and the calculation operating force. The learning control section (41) estimates and outputs the calculation operating force by using a model constructed by performing the machine learning of the operator-operating force, the surrounding environment data, the operation data, and the operation command based on the operation data and the surrounding environment data outputted by the sensors (11 to 13), and the operation command outputted by the relay apparatus (30).

Abstract: The present invention is a method for operating a demineralization apparatus provided with a plurality of demineralizing lines arranged in parallel and having demineralizers, the method comprising passing through some of the demineralizing lines water to be treated to produce demineralized water while passing through another demineralizing line(s) dilute water from a dilute water tank to perform washing of the line(s), and returning water used for said washing back to the dilute water tank, and being characterized by, when the water quality of the dilute water is on the high salts concentration side past a predefined value, discharging part of the dilute water so as to let said part join the water to be treated and providing a new supply of dilute water for replenishment.

Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device capable of preventing the sensitivity difference from being generated between the pixels. The fixed imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a first pixel; and a second pixel located in a first direction of the first pixel, in which each of the first and second pixels includes a first transistor and a second transistor, and the first and second transistors in the second pixel are disposed periodically in the first direction with respect to the first and second transistors in the first pixel.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container in which a mounting stage mounted with a substrate is provided and a plasma process is performed on the substrate; an exhaust passage which is provided around the mounting stage and through which a gas containing a by-product released by the plasma process flows; and a first adsorption member which is arranged along an inner wall surface of the exhaust passage and of which a surface is roughened to adsorb the by-product.

Abstract: A proton conductor is in contact with a catalyst containing platinum. The proton conductor includes a cationic organic molecule, a metal ion, and an oxoacid anion. A protic ionic liquid containing the cationic organic molecule and the oxoacid anion is coordinated to the metal ion to form a coordination polymer.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container in which a mounting stage mounted with a substrate is provided and a plasma process is performed on the substrate; an exhaust passage which is provided around the mounting stage and through which a gas containing a by-product released by the plasma process flows; and a first adsorption member which is arranged along an inner wall surface of the exhaust passage and of which a surface is roughened to adsorb the by-product.

Abstract: In a circuit board, a printed board includes an insulating base and a plurality of conductors disposed in layers in the insulating base. The conductors include a signal line electrically connected to an electronic component; and a potential fixed layer fixed to a predetermined potential and arranged to face the signal line across the insulating base in a thickness direction of the printed board. The potential fixed layer has a facing surface facing the signal line, and is provided with a high magnetic film having a magnetic permeability higher than that of the at least one potential fixed layer on the facing surface. The high magnetic film is disposed to overlap the signal line in the thickness direction. The signal line includes a facing line that faces the high magnetic film across the insulating base in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A coil drive device energizes an operation coil to close an electromagnetic contactor. A rectifier outputs, to a power supply line, an input voltage obtained by full-wave rectification of an AC voltage supplied from a main power source. A controller controls on and off of a switching element connected to a power supply line in series with the operation coil. The controller controls a duty ratio that is an on period ratio of the switching element in each switching period in accordance with a value of a parameter calculated from a detected value of the input voltage, in at least a partial period after start of energization of the operation coil in response to a close command for the electromagnetic contactor.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a novel phthalocyanine dye for use in photoimmunotherapy, and a method for producing the same, and to provide a conjugate of the above-described phthalocyanine dye and an antibody or a peptide. According to the present invention, a compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof is provided: wherein X represents a substituent having a hydrophilic group at the terminus thereof; L3, L4, L5, and L6 each independently represent a divalent linking group; Y represents a group capable of binding to an antibody or a peptide; R3 represents a substituent, such as an alkyl group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, —SR11, —SOR12, an aryl group containing 6 to 10 carbon atoms, —N(R13)(R14), or —NO2, wherein when a plurality of R3s are present, the plurality of R3s may be identical to or different from one another; and s represents an integer of 0 to 4.