Abstract: A redox flow battery system includes a redox flow battery cell, a first circulation mechanism, and a second circulation mechanism. The redox flow battery cell includes a positive electrode chamber housing a positive electrode, a negative electrode chamber housing a negative electrode, and a separator separating the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber. The first circulation mechanism and the second circulation mechanisms circulate electrolytic solutions into the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber, respectively. The separator is a porous body. Each of the electrolytic solutions contains an active material and a mediator that has a diameter larger than pore distribution d50 of the separator.

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a distribution target determination unit configured to determine that a terminal located within a first predetermined range and detected by a first detection technique (e.g. GPS) is a first distribution target terminal and that a terminal located within and detected by a second detection technique (e.g. beacon) is a second distribution target terminal, where the second predetermined range is included in the first predetermined range; a distribution request acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution request from a distribution requester terminal; and an information distribution unit configured to distribute information corresponding to the distribution request to at least the first distribution target terminal, the first distribution target terminal not overlapping with the second distribution terminal, or the second distribution target terminal.

Abstract: An X-ray tube device includes a main body that incorporates a bulb, which generates X-rays, a collimator that is provided to protrude from the main body in an irradiation direction of the X-rays in a part of a front surface (first surface), which is a surface of the main body, and has an irradiation window for irradiating the X-rays with an adjusted irradiation range, and connectors that are provided for connecting a guard unit for keeping a distance from a test object, between the front surface (first surface) of the main body and a front surface (second surface), which is a surface of the collimator where the irradiation window is provided.

Abstract: An X-ray tube device incorporates a mono-tank, and includes a gripping portion that is provided to protrude from a main body in a side surface and supports the main body by gripping. In a case where the main body is divided into two portions of a center-of-gravity-side portion including the center of gravity of the main body and a non-center-of-gravity-side portion not including the center of gravity using a plane passing through the center of the main body and an irradiation direction of X-rays, the gripping portion is in the center-of-gravity-side portion, and the gripping portion is not in the non-center-of-gravity-side portion.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device that has a high off-response speed and a good balance between drive voltage and transmittance, is stable over time, and also has a high voltage holding ratio. A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymer network (A) and a liquid crystal composition (B) is disposed between two substrates having an electrode on at least one side thereof and having transparent properties on at least one side thereof, and the loss factor (tan ?) (loss modulus/storage modulus) of the liquid crystal layer calculated from the storage modulus (Pa) and the loss modulus (Pa) in a sinusoidal vibration measured with a rheometer at 25° C. and at a measurement frequency of 1 Hz ranges from 0.1 to 1.

Abstract: A method for producing silver-ion antibacterial liquid using a type A or type X silver zeolite includes a process to weigh silver zeolite for obtain its blending quantity in a range of 0.1 to 20.0 percent by weight and to weigh citric acid for obtaining its blending quantity such that its blending ratio to the silver zeolite becomes 1.2 or greater, followed by blending of the two into purified water; a process to mix under agitation the silver zeolite and citric acid blended in the purified water to prepare a mixture liquid containing at least a citric acid-silver complex and silica hydrate; and a process to remove the silica hydrate produced in the mixture liquid. The production method can produce at low cost a silver-ion antibacterial liquid offering immediate bactericidal effect.

Abstract: Filling of a powder particle material is executed for a flexible container bag (hereinafter, referred to as “flex container bag”) by executing a powder particle material filling step of filling the flex container bag with the powder particle material by supplying the powder particle material to the flex container bag, and a tapping step of executing a lifting operation of lifting up the flex container bag filled with the powder particle material to cause the flex container bag to be distant from a floor surface or a base bed thereabove and a dropping operation of dropping the flex container bag by releasing the lifting by the lifting operation to cause the flex container bag to collide with the floor surface or the base bed. The handling property of the flex container bag filled with the powder particle material can further be improved.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible metal-clad laminated plate includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a laminated body by laminating a polyimide resin film including a non-thermoplastic polyimide layer and an adhesive layer containing thermoplastic polyimide, the adhesive layer being provided on at least one side of the non-thermoplastic polyimide layer, and a metal foil; and (b) subjecting the laminated body obtained in the step (a) to heat treatment under an inert gas atmosphere and a pressure of 0.20 to 0.98 MPa at a temperature of a glass transition temperature Tg of the thermoplastic polyimide?20° C. to the glass transition temperature Tg+50° C.

Abstract: A lower mold includes: refrigerant ejection ports in its press-molding surface; refrigerant guide grooves in the press-molding surface to guide a refrigerant ejected from the refrigerant ejection ports to an outer portion of the press-molding surface with the refrigerant being in contact with a workpiece; a single connecting groove connected to the refrigerant guide grooves and formed at the outer portion of the press-molding surface into which the refrigerant flows through the refrigerant guide grooves; and discharge ports in the connecting groove. Each of the refrigerant discharge ports is formed at a part of the connecting groove apart from the connecting points between the connecting groove and the refrigerant guide grooves.

Abstract: A lower mold includes: refrigerant ejection ports in its press-molding surface; and three or more independent refrigerant guide grooves extending in the press-molding surface from the refrigerant ejection ports to guide the refrigerant ejected from the refrigerant ejection port to an outer portion of the press-molding surface with the refrigerant being in contact with a workpiece. Each of the refrigerant guide grooves neither branches halfway nor merges with the others of the refrigerant guide grooves to extend from the refrigerant ejection ports to the outer portion of the press-molding surface.

Abstract: A hot-pressing device includes at least one mold having a molding surface; and at least one mold holder, wherein the hot-pressing device further comprises a refrigerant supply groove provided so as to horizontally extend to at least a mold side or a mold holder side in a contact surface between the at least one mold and the at least one mold holder; and at least one refrigerant supply path opened in corresponding at least one opening disposed on the molding surface, the refrigerant supply path communicating with the refrigerant supply groove and being provided in the inside of the at least one mold so as to extend vertically.

Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.

Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.

Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.

Abstract: Provided is a production method with which a large amount of particle mixture in which two or more types of particles are mixed can be easily produced. The production method is for producing a particle mixture in which two or more types of particles are mixed, and includes the following steps (1) and (2): (1) a step of adding a first additive to first particles and mixing the first additive with the first particles using a first mixer; and (2) a step of introducing the two or more types of particles including the first particles mixed with the first additive and second particles into a blender container of a gravity blender, and mixing the two or more types of particles inside the blender container.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets one of wavelengths of a plurality of light sources as a reference wavelength, normalize an intensity of light having a wavelength other than the reference wavelength, which is detected by a pair of each light irradiation unit and each optical detector, with an intensity of light having the reference wavelength, calculate a first value for each pair by nonlinear enhancement correction of a normalized light intensity, calculate a second value for the each pair by nonlinear reduction correction of an intensity of light having the reference wavelength detected by the each pair, and calculate an evaluation value based on a value obtained by multiplication of the first value and the second value for the each pair.

Abstract: The infrared sensor according to the present invention includes an insulating film; a pair of first terminal electrodes; a pair of second terminal electrodes; a first heat sensitive element; a second heat sensitive element; a pair of first pattern wiring parts and a pair of second pattern wiring parts that are patterned on either surface of the insulating film; an infrared-receiving region that is provided on the other surface of the insulating film so as to oppose to the first heat sensitive element; and an infrared reflection film that is formed on the other surface of the insulating film so as to avoid the infrared-receiving region and to cover at least the portion immediately above the second heat sensitive element, wherein the infrared reflection film has a thermal coupling part in proximity to a portion of the first pattern wiring part.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to gas barrier coating compositions comprising a nanocomposite formed from a polymer and a nanoparticulate clay. The gas barrier coatings are applied to packaging materials such as food and pharmaceutical packaging and exhibit improved adhesion and barriers to gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapour.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having a polyamine on at least part of a surface of the heat exchanger. The existence of polyamine on the surface of the heat exchanger allows the odor components to be temporality held by virtue of the action of polyamine, and the odor components are not released into an interior room or the like at once in conjunction with the evaporation of free water (such as condensed water). Thus, the release of odor components is made moderate, and changes in the concentration of odor components in the interior room are reduced, so that strong odors sensed by people are suppressed. A typical example of the polyamine is PEI, and a typical example of the heat exchanger is an evaporator used in a car air-conditioner.

Abstract: A powder storage container is provided. The powder storage container includes a container body, a discharge port, a conveyer, a stirrer, a return port, and a partition wall. The container body is configured to contain powder. The powder contained in the container body is dischargeable through the discharge port. The conveyer is configured to convey the powder to the discharge port. The stirrer is configured to stir the powder contained in the container body by rotating. The return port is disposed outside a rotational locus of the stirrer in a radial direction, and the powder conveyed by the conveyer is returnable through the return port toward the stirrer. The partition wall is disposed between the stirrer and the return port with at least a part of the partition wall positioned above the return port.