Abstract: By an offset amount being calculated based on a lateral position deviation from a target travel path at a forward point-of-gaze of a host vehicle at a time of a driver steering state, a series of vehicle control operations until switching back from the driver steering state to an automatic steering control, and traveling along an offset travel path, becomes smoother, whereby comfort when riding in a vehicle is increased.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing switching loss at turn-off while suppressing conduction loss. An emitter p? layer 11, a collector p layer 23, a drift layer 10, an emitter electrode 18, a collector electrode 28, an emitter-side gate electrode 17, an emitter n layer 12, a collector p? layer 23a, a collector-side gate electrode 27, and a collector n layer 22 configure a semiconductor device 1, and a total length of a first facing region of the emitter-side gate electrode 17 in a gate width direction facing an emitter layer p? 11 via a gate insulating film 15 is longer than the total length in the gate width direction of a second facing region of a collector-side gate electrode 27 facing an impurity layer 23a via a collector-side gate insulating film 25.

Abstract: Provide is a recycling work support system capable of improving efficiency of recycling and enhancing the economic value of an article to be recycled. A recycling work support system includes: a recommended disassembly-target part decider for deciding disassembly-target parts to be disassembled in disassembly work and/or a disassembly procedure for the disassembly work so that a total of resource prices for parts that can be disassembled per predetermined time is high, based on the resource prices of the materials, recovery amounts of the materials, and the working hours; and a recommended disassembly-target part displayer for displaying the decided disassembly-target parts to be disassembled and/or disassembly procedure to workers who are to perform the disassembly work.

Abstract: A lamp body includes a housing to be attached to a vehicle body, and a lens joined to the housing. The lens includes a heat-generating region that allows for heat generation.

Abstract: Sanitary ware, including a ceramic base material, an upper glaze layer positioned on a surface of the ceramic base material, and an intermediate layer positioned between the ceramic base material and the upper glaze layer, wherein the sanitary ware satisfies at least one of the following conditions: a pore area ratio of 3% or less in terms of a ratio of an area of pores present in a cut surface obtained by cutting the upper glaze layer along the thickness direction thereof, relative to an area of the cut surface, an average pore size of 50 ?m or less as measured with respect to the cut surface obtained by cutting the upper glaze layer along the thickness direction thereof, and a difference of 50 ?m or less between the maximum and minimum values of the thickness of the upper glaze layer.

Abstract: The washbowl includes a bowl recessed downward, and comprising a ceramics base material, an intermediate layer disposed on a surface side of the ceramics base, and an upper glaze layer disposed on a surface side of the intermediate layer, the upper glaze layer being more transparent than the intermediate layer; and a drainage port. The bowl includes an inclined surface formed on a surface of the bowl and continuously recessed downward, the inclined surface formed at a position at least on a front side of the surface of the bowl when a user uses the bowl, the position being configured to be seen by the user, and the inclined surface is formed such that a tangent to the inclined surface is formed at 5 degrees to 75 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane.

Abstract: The present invention is an electrodeposited film substantially containing no lead, characterized by applying an alloy layer or a simple metal layer with an Hv value of not less than 60 to an under layer, and an alloy layer or a simple metal layer with an Hv value of not more than 40 to an upper layer. This electrodeposited film is harmless to the human body and the environment, and superior in sliding properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fine-particle counter with which the number density of nanometer-sized fine particles born in a gas phase, which is extremely low, can be accurately measured under wide-ranging pressure conditions from pressurized conditions to low-pressure conditions. After contact-mixing, in a mixer 3, saturated vapor of a high-boiling-point solvent produced in a saturator 2, a component of a condensed nucleus detector 1, with nanometer-sized fine gas-born particles, condensed droplets of the saturated vapor whose nuclii are the fine particles are produced in a condenser 4 by heterogeneous nucleation.

Abstract: Ferroelectric metal oxide crystalline particles are produced by first producing nanoparticles of a ferroelectric metal oxide and dispersing the nanoparticles in a gas phase. Then, the nanoparticles are processed by heat treatment with the nanoparticles being maintained in the gas phase in a dispersed state. The nanoparticles may be produced by using a laser ablation method. The ferroelectric metal oxide may have a perovskite crystal structure.

Abstract: A lead-containing copper-based alloy is immersed into a weak acidic or neutral etching solution having a buffer effect which is formed by adding an organic acid into a complexing agent having a high ability to form a complexing ion with lead, and lead particles present on the surface of the lead-containing copper-based alloy are then removed. The complexing agent is one of an organic ammonium salt such as ammonium acetate, or ammonium citrate, or may be an organic sodium salt such as sodium acetate, sodium tartrate, and sodium citrate. Preferably, an immersion temperature of the alloy to the etching solution falls within a range of from 10 to 50° C. The etching solution is agitated with oxygen or a gas containing oxygen blown thereinto during the immersion of the alloy into the etching solution. An extremely low voltage of ?0.3 to +0.2 V vs. NHE is applied from outside to the lead-containing copper-based alloy as an anode.

Abstract: The present invention is an electrodeposited film substantially containing no lead, characterized by applying an alloy layer or a simple metal layer with an Hv value of not less than 60 to an under layer, and an alloy layer or a simple metal layer with an Hv value of not more than 40 to an upper layer. This electrodeposited film is harmless to the human body and the environment, and superior in sliding properties.

Abstract: A fullerene epoxide denoted as C60O3, characterized by the presence of two epoxide groups in a single six-membered ring, and by the presence of one epoxide group in a six-membered ring adjacent to the six-membered ring in which said two epoxide groups are present or by the presence of one epoxide group in a six-membered ring one six-membered ring removed from the six-membered ring in which said two epoxide groups are present. The fullerene epoxide has three epoxide groups and has C1, C2, or Cs symmetry. A method of manufacturing fullerene epoxide comprising: separating a fraction containing only fullerene triepoxides-from a mixture of fullerene epoxides using silica gel, and separating the fraction containing only fullerene triepoxides thus obtained using a substance having p-p interaction to obtain fullerene epoxide according to any of claims 1 to 6. A method of separating fullerene epoxide characterized in that a fullerene epoxide mixture is separated using a substance having p-p interaction.

Abstract: A liquid-suspended particle analyzer includes: a fine liquid droplet producing device for atomizing a liquid pumped from a sample container by a fixed-displacement pump to produce fine liquid droplets suspended in a carrier gas; an evaporator for evaporating the liquid parts of the fine liquid droplets to produce an aerosol of the carrier gas and particles suspended in the carrier gas; a differential mobility classifier for classifying the particles of the aerosol by particle size according to mobility; and a Faraday cup electrometer for counting the respective numbers of the particles of the particle groups classified by particle size by the differential mobility classifier so as to determine the respective particle concentrations of the groups.

Abstract: A centralized power distribution unit for a vehicular thin brushless motor includes a plurality of bus bars, a resin insulation layer that covers the bus bars, and an insulating holder having a plurality of holding grooves that hold the bus bars. The bus bars are pre-bent in a thickness direction to be formed into a substantially annular shape. Each of the bus bars is provided correspondingly with a phase of the motor. The holding grooves are formed in parallel extending along a circumferential direction of the centralized power distribution unit. The bus bars are respectively inserted into the holding grooves, and are thus stacked in a radial direction of the centralized power distribution unit. The insulating holder and the bus bars are covered by the resin insulation layer.

Abstract: In a method of producing ferroelectric metal oxide crystalline particles, used is an apparatus including a particle producing device, a heat treatment device and a particle collecting device. The particle producing device produces nanoparticles of a ferroelectric metal oxide from a particle source placed in a vessel by a laser ablation method, in which the particle source is irradiated with a laser beam emitted by a laser device, and the nanoparticles are dispersed in an oxygen atmosphere (gas phase). The nanoparticles produced in the vessel and dispersed in a carrier gas is supplied through a connecting pipe into a vessel included in the heat treatment device. The heat treatment device processes the nanoparticles by a heat treatment that heats the nanoparticles dispersed in the oxygen gas atmosphere at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time while the nanoparticles flow together with the carrier gas through the vessel.

Abstract: A printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device prepared by coating a substrate with a photosensitive resin composition comprising an oxygen sensitizer and a cis-diene-substituted polyamic acid or polyimide and forming fine patterns by exposure to radiation. Processes for producing a printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device, which comprises coating a substrate with the photosensitive resin composition and forming fine patterns by crosslinking cis-diene by oxidation polycondensation with singlet oxygen generated by exposure of the oxygen sensitizer to radiation. The photosensitive resin composition is of the negative type and exhibits high sensitivity and high resolution. The photosensitive resin composition forms a resin layer having excellent heat resistance.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprising an oxygen sensitizer and a polyamic acid or a polyimide which has substituents having a cis-diene structure at the side chains; a printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device prepared by coating the substrate with the composition and forming fine patterns by exposure of irradiation; and processes for producing a printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device which comprise coating the substrate with the composition and forming fine patterns by crosslinking the cis-diene group by polycondensation with oxidation with the singlet oxygen generated by exposure of irradiation to the oxygen sensitizer in the presence of oxygen.

Abstract: A lead-containing copper-based alloy is immersed into a weak acidic or neutral etching solution having a buffer effect which is formed by adding an organic acid into a complexing agent having a high ability to form a complexing ion with lead, and lead particles present on the surface of the lead-containing copper-based alloy are then removed. The complexing agent is one of an organic ammonium salt such as ammonium acetate, or ammonium citrate, or may be an organic sodium salt such as sodium acetate, sodium tartrate, and sodium citrate. Preferably, an immersion temperature of the alloy to the etching solution falls within a range of from 10 to 50° C. The etching solution is agitated with oxygen or a gas containing oxygen blown thereinto during the immersion of the alloy into the etching solution. An extremely low voltage of −0.3 to +0.2 V vs. NHE is applied from outside to the lead-containing copper-based alloy as an anode.

Abstract: A centralized power distribution unit for a vehicular thin brushless motor includes a plurality of bus bars, a resin insulation layer that covers the bus bars, and an insulating holder having a plurality of holding grooves that hold the bus bars. The bus bars are pre-bent in a thickness direction to be formed into a substantially annular shape. Each of the bus bars is provided correspondingly with a phase of the motor. The holding grooves are formed in parallel extending along a circumferential direction of the centralized power distribution unit. The bus bars are respectively inserted into the holding grooves, and are thus stacked in a radial direction of the centralized power distribution unit. The insulating holder and the bus bars are covered by the resin insulation layer.

Abstract: A liquid-suspended particle analyzer includes: a fine liquid droplet producing device for atomizing a liquid pumped from a sample container by a fixed-displacement pump to produce fine liquid droplets suspended in a carrier gas; an evaporator for evaporating the liquid parts of the fine liquid droplets to produce an aerosol of the carrier gas and particles suspended in the carrier gas; a differential mobility classifier for classifying the particles of the aerosol by particle size according to mobility; and a Faraday cup electrometer for counting the respective numbers of the particles of the particle groups classified by particle size by the differential mobility classifier so as to determine the respective particle concentrations of the groups.