Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: performing a set a plurality of times, the set including: (a) loading at least one substrate into a process container; (b) performing a process of forming a nitride film on the at least one substrate by supplying a film-forming gas to the at least one substrate supported by a support in the process container; (c) unloading the processed at least one substrate from an interior of the process container; and (d) supplying an oxidizing gas into the process container from which the processed at least one substrate has been unloaded so as to oxidize one part of the nitride film formed inside the process container in (b) into an oxide film and maintain another part of the nitride film, which is different from the one part of the nitride film, as it is without oxidizing the another part.

Abstract: An encapsulated agent includes a central part and an outer part that covers a surface of the central part. The central part contains a viscosity-reducing material that reduces viscosity of a fluid to be used in a hydrofracturing technique. The outer part contains a plurality of particulate substances and a holding material that holds the plurality of particulate substances and enables gradual release of the central part in the fluid. The outer part involves distribution of the plurality of particulate substances that allows a content to have one or more local maxima in a direction away from the central part.

Abstract: A laminating device includes a protection film facing a cover glass, a balloon pressing the protection film to a recessed surface of the cover glass by inflating, and a first regulating portion and a second regulating portion regulating inflation of a part of the balloon. In this way, air bubbles being formed are reduced, and a bonding subject is bonded to a bonded subject.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device for an automatic transmission, the hydraulic control device including: a first layer having a first parting surface and a plurality of first grooves formed in the first parting surface; and a second layer that has a second parting surface and a plurality of second grooves formed in the second parting surface and facing the plurality of first grooves, and that is stacked on the first layer in a stacking direction with the second parting surface facing the first parting surface of the first layer, so that the plurality of first grooves and the plurality of second grooves form a plurality of first oil passages.

Abstract: A valve part that includes a body and a spool housing, wherein the spool housing has: a main body that has a hole that slidably houses a spool, a port formed in a wall surface of the hole of the main body and configured to vary a state of communication between an inside and an outside of the main body in accordance with a position of the spool, a communication hole that extends from the port toward a radially outer side, a first projection in which the communication hole is formed and which is formed so as to project from an outside surface of the main body toward the radially outer side, and a first opening at which the communication hole opens at a distal end of the first projection.

Abstract: In a non-forward range, the same gear position as a forward first gear position is established in a stepped transmission. A hydraulic controller includes a second linear solenoid valve and third linear solenoid valve that respectively supply hydraulic pressure to a second clutch and first brake, and a selector valve that is provided in an oil passage upstream of the second and third linear solenoid valves and that switches between a state where hydraulic pressure is supplied to the oil passage and a state where supply of hydraulic pressure is cut off. When the non-forward range is set or when a vehicle is moving backward, the selector valve cuts off supply of hydraulic pressure to the oil passage. Thus, when there is a failure in the second or third linear solenoid valve, it is possible to suitably establish a gear position wherein the vehicle is not allowed to move backward.

Abstract: An encapsulated agent includes a central part and an outer part that covers a surface of the central part. The central part contains a material that is expansive with respect to a liquid, and the outer part contains a material that is able to induce expansion of the central part with respect to the liquid.

Abstract: An encapsulated agent includes a central part and an outer part that covers a surface of the central part. The central part contains a viscosity-reducing material that reduces viscosity of a fluid to be used in a hydrofracturing technique. The outer part contains a plurality of particulate substances and a holding material that holds the plurality of particulate substances and enables gradual release of the central part in the fluid. The outer part involves distribution of the plurality of particulate substances that allows a content to have one or more local maxima in a direction away from the central part.

Abstract: An encapsulated agent includes: a central part 1; and an outer part 2 that covers a surface of the central part 1. The central part 1 contains a viscosity-reducing material that reduces the viscosity of a fluid to be used in a hydrofracturing technique. The outer part 2 enables gradual release of the central part 1 in the fluid, and contains a styrene-butadiene copolymer having glass-transition temperature that is equal to or higher than ?20 degrees centigrade and equal to or lower than 80 degrees centigrade.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control device of a vehicle driving device, the hydraulic pressure control device includes a range switcher having a first signal solenoid valve capable of supplying a first signal pressure and a spool switchable between a first position reached via the first signal pressure and a second position reached via a biasing force of a biasing member.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control device of a vehicle driving device, the hydraulic pressure control device includes a range switcher having a first signal solenoid valve capable of supplying a first signal pressure and a spool switchable between a first position reached via the first signal pressure and a second position reached via a biasing force of a biasing member.

Abstract: A novel compound represented by general formula (1), a support supporting this novel compound, and a photoelectric transduction element using this support. (In the formula, Y is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms having —CO—NR4- or —SO2—NR4- in the group; Z is a group of a conjugated system; R1, R2, and R3 represent optionally substituted hydrocarbon groups or optionally substituted hydrocarbon-oxy groups; at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon-oxy group; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms; R4 and Z may join together to form a ring. However, Y excludes groups represented by partial structural formulas (Y-11) and (Y-12).

Abstract: An oil supply device that supplies oil to a vehicle drive device that includes an input member drivably coupled to an internal combustion engine, a rotary electric machine for driving wheels, an output member drivably coupled to the wheels, a speed change device that includes a shifting engagement device and that at least transfers rotation of the input member to the output member with the speed of the rotation changed, and a decoupling engagement device that decouples the input member from the speed change device.

Abstract: When a user performs an operation to switch from a forward range to a reverse range, an ECU switches an oil passage (referred to hereafter as a “B2 pressure supply source oil passage”), through which oil pressure is supplied to a brake, from a first oil passage to a second oil passage while engaging the same brake. At this time, in consideration of a response delay in the oil pressure in the second oil passage, the ECU switches the B2 pressure supply source oil passage from the first oil passage to the second oil passage after a predetermined time ? elapses from the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation (in other words, after waiting for the oil pressure in the second oil passage to reach a threshold pressure) rather than at the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation.

Abstract: In a non-forward range, the same gear position as a forward first gear position is established in a stepped transmission. A hydraulic controller includes a second linear solenoid valve and third linear solenoid valve that respectively supply hydraulic pressure to a second clutch and first brake, and a selector valve that is provided in an oil passage upstream of the second and third linear solenoid valves and that switches between a state where hydraulic pressure is supplied to the oil passage and a state where supply of hydraulic pressure is cut off. When the non-forward range is set or when a vehicle is moving backward, the selector valve cuts off supply of hydraulic pressure to the oil passage. Thus, when there is a failure in the second or third linear solenoid valve, it is possible to suitably establish a gear position wherein the vehicle is not allowed to move backward.

Abstract: A carrier system carries at least one type of sensitizing dye described in (A) and at least one type of sensitizing dye described in (B): (A) a sensitizing dye having a ?-conjugated group and at least one anchor group, wherein the ?-conjugated group and every one of the anchor group(s) are connected by a spacer having at least one alkylene and having an atomicity of 5 to 20; and (B) a sensitizing dye having a ?-conjugated group and at least one anchor group, wherein the ?-conjugated group and at least one anchor group are connected by a direct bond or by a spacer having at least one alkylene and having an atomicity of 1 to 4. In (A) and (B), the spacer is composed of carbon atoms, or carbon atoms and oxygen atom(s) etc., under predetermined conditions (see Description), and may have a branched chain or a ring structure.

Abstract: An oil supply device that supplies oil to a vehicle drive device that includes an input member drivably coupled to an internal combustion engine, a rotary electric machine for driving wheels, an output member drivably coupled to the wheels, a speed change device that includes a shifting engagement device and that at least transfers rotation of the input member to the output member with the speed of the rotation changed, and a decoupling engagement device that decouples the input member from the speed change device.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device that includes a solenoid valve that includes an input port, an output port that communicates with the hydraulic engagement element via an oil passage, and a feedback port that communicates with the output port via the oil passage, the solenoid valve regulating a pressure of working oil input from the input port to output the regulated pressure from the output port to the oil passage, a part of the output working oil being input to the feedback port; and a hydraulic damper that damps pulsation of the hydraulic pressure output from the output port to the oil passage, wherein: the oil passage is provided with an orifice mechanism that reduces a flow rate of the working oil; and the hydraulic damper communicates with the oil passage on a side of the output port and the feedback port with respect to the orifice mechanism.

Abstract: When a user performs an operation to switch from a forward range to a reverse range, an ECU switches an oil passage (referred to hereafter as a “B2 pressure supply source oil passage”), through which oil pressure is supplied to a brake, from a first oil passage to a second oil passage while engaging the same brake. At this time, in consideration of a response delay in the oil pressure in the second oil passage, the ECU switches the B2 pressure supply source oil passage from the first oil passage to the second oil passage after a predetermined time ? elapses from the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation (in other words, after waiting for the oil pressure in the second oil passage to reach a threshold pressure) rather than at the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting an abnormal air-fuel ratio variation among cylinders of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes: a detecting unit detecting the abnormal air-fuel ratio variation on the basis of output fluctuations of at least one predetermined target cylinder when fuel injection amount changing control for changing a fuel injection amount of the target cylinder by a predetermined amount is executed; and an air-fuel ratio control unit causing an air-fuel ratio detected on the basis of a signal output from an air-fuel ratio sensor provided in an exhaust passage to follow a predetermined target air-fuel ratio. When the fuel injection amount changing control is executed, a target air-fuel ratio in the air-fuel ratio feedback control is shifted from the predetermined target air-fuel ratio by an amount corresponding to an amount of change of the fuel injection amount of the target cylinder in the fuel injection amount changing control.