Abstract: A leak diagnosis apparatus for performing leak diagnosis of a fuel tank mounted on a vehicle, includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of change in a pressure in the fuel tank and an amount of change in a temperature of a fuel in the fuel tank while an ignition is turned off, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a leak in the fuel tank is absent or present.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to heat a print medium in which a plurality of color development layers that develop colors in accordance with heating are stacked in correspondence with a plurality of colors so as to form an image on the medium by causing a desired color development layer in the plurality of color development layers to independently develop the color. The apparatus includes a printhead, an input unit configured to receive a print job, a generation unit configured to generate image data and cut information for specifying a cut position, a second generation unit configured to generate first and second pulses for driving the print head, and a drive unit configured to drive the print head to form an image on the medium and apply heat beyond a melting point to melt the medium so as to cut the medium.

Abstract: In a generator including a fuel tank that stores liquid fuel, the fuel tank includes a fuel inlet and a breather passage formed by a pipe member through which an inside and outside of the fuel tank communicate with each other, and the pipe member is provided with a valve that blocks the breather passage at normal time and opens the breather passage by a pressure of a predetermined value or higher.

Abstract: An article transport facility for transporting an article includes a first lifting and lowering transport device including a first transfer device, and a second lifting and lowering transport device including a second transfer device. The first transfer device lifts and lowers on a first path, the second transfer device lifts and lowers on a second path, and the first path and the second path are disposed not to overlap with each other as viewed vertically. The first path has a first target area including a lower end portion thereof, the second path has a second target area including an upper end portion thereof, and the first target area and the second target area are disposed in the same vertical range. The first transfer device and the second transfer device are both able to transfer the article to a shared storing section in which the article is storable.

Abstract: A radical polymerization method may use a compound having a polycyclic aromatic skeleton and an endoperoxide compound having a polycyclic aromatic skeleton. An endoperoxide compound may have a polycyclic aromatic skeleton of formula (1), and a compound may have a polycyclic aromatic skeleton, which is a raw material of the endoperoxide compound: wherein R is a C1-10 alkyl group, an alkoxymethyl group having a C1-5 alkoxy group, a C6-10 aryl group, an alkylcarbonyl group having a C1-10 alkyl group, an arylcarbonyl group having a C6-20 aryl group, an alkyloxycarbonyl group having a C1-10 alkyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group having a C6-10 aryl group, an alkyloxycarbonylmethyl group having a C1-12 alkyl group or an aryloxycarbonylmethyl group having a C6-12 aryl group.

Abstract: The method for dissolving battery powder in hydrochloric acid according to the present invention includes: stirring battery powder containing valuable metals obtained from waste lithium batteries in hydrochloric acid with a concentration of 50 to 150 g/L at a mass ratio of 250 to 1000% relative to hydrogen chloride in the hydrochloric acid to provide a hydrochloric acid suspension of the battery powder; and adding a predetermined amount of hydrochloric acid to the hydrochloric acid suspension to set the concentration of hydrochloric acid in the hydrochloric acid suspension to 150 to 350 g/L, and then adjusting and stirring the hydrochloric acid suspension such that the proportion of battery powder in the hydrochloric acid suspension to a mass ratio of 50 to 200% relative to hydrogen chloride in the hydrochloric acid suspension to provide a hydrochloric acid solution of the battery powder.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for accelerating an enzyme reaction including, reacting a substrate with an enzyme in the presence of (a) a sulfosuccinic acid branched alkyl ester having a branched alkyl group with 9 or more and 12 or less carbons or a salt thereof.

Abstract: In order to improve transport efficiency of an object transport system, an object transport system includes: a ceiling carrier configured to travel on at least travel rail and transport an object; and a transfer device including a hanging part configured to hang the object and configured to be capable of being raised and lowered, the transfer device being disposed so as to be separated from the ceiling carrier.

Abstract: A size of a conveyance device is reduced. A conveyance device includes: a carriage configured to travel along a track; and a transfer mechanism hung from the carriage so as to be capable of being raised and lowered. The transfer mechanism includes a plurality of chucks each of which is configured to revolve about a rotation center provided in the transfer mechanism.

Abstract: In order to achieve a conveyance system that enables efficient conveyance, a conveyance system includes a first carrier configured to travel on a first track in a state where the first carrier holds a conveyance target; and a second carrier configured to travel on a second track in a state where a conveyance target is placed on a placement portion of the second carrier, the first carrier being capable of, with use of a transfer section thereof, transferring the conveyance target between the first carrier and the placement portion of the second carrier.

Abstract: A treatment device that shortens the time period until healing is determined even when a bone defect or a root apex lesion is generated in an apical area. The treatment device includes a file holder, a high-frequency signal generating circuit, and a control circuit. The file holder holds a file to be located in the site to be treated. The high-frequency signal generating circuit passes a high frequency current through the file. The control circuit controls a frequency of the high frequency current to be passed through the file from the high-frequency signal generating circuit. The control circuit controls the frequency of the high frequency current to be passed through the file within a range of 1.001 MHz to 11.700 MHz.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a high-purity aqueous lithium salt solution, the method allowing filtering aluminum phosphate in a short time. The method for producing a high-purity aqueous lithium salt solution includes: a step of adjusting the pH of a slurry containing a mixture of lithium phosphate and aluminum hydroxide obtained from a first aqueous lithium salt solution being a raw material to a range of 2 to 3 to obtain a precipitate of aluminum phosphate; a step of filtering off and removing the precipitate of aluminum phosphate to obtain a second aqueous lithium salt solution; and a step of purifying the second aqueous lithium salt solution to obtain a high-purity aqueous lithium salt solution.

Abstract: An object is to provide a test method for pancreatic cancer, and further to provide a test method for pancreatic cancer capable of detecting pancreatic cancer even at earlier stages. The objects are solved by a method for examining the likelihood of having pancreatic cancer, the method including (1) measuring the amount of at least one anti-carbohydrate antibody selected from the group consisting of anti-3-sialyllactose carbohydrate antibody and anti-(LN)3 carbohydrate antibody in a biological sample obtained from a subject, wherein the anti-3-sialyllactose carbohydrate antibody is an antibody capable of binding to a carbohydrate represented by Neu5Ac? (2?3) Gal? (1?4) Glc or an antibody recognizing the carbohydrate, and wherein the anti-(LN)3 carbohydrate antibody is an antibody capable of binding to a carbohydrate represented by Gal?1?3GlcNAc?1?3Gal?1?4GlcNAc or an antibody recognizing the carbohydrate.

Abstract: A nut-holding member for use when bolt-joining a plurality of bases having a bolt hole comprises a nut insertion part for inserting a nut, a stage part, and a stopper part for holding the nut in a dropout prevention state so that the nut inserted in the nut insertion part is kept from dropping out; the stopper part has such a shape as to project to the bearing surface side of the nut inserted in the nut insertion part serving as a surface to be installed on the base or a shape provided with a projection part projecting to the upper surface side of the nut so as to engage a screw groove; and the dropout prevention state of the nut is released by screwing a leading end of the bolt into the nut and thereby deforming the stopper part.

Abstract: A process for recovering gold from a raw material containing gold by treating the raw material with either aqua regia or hydrochloric acid to form chloroauric acid, extracting the chloroauric acid with an organic solvent and reducing the acid to precipitate gold for separation and recovery.