Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.

Abstract: A conveyance device includes a conveyance member, a guide, and a rotator. The conveyance member has a conveyance surface with a joint, the conveyance member to convey an object to be conveyed, with the object on the conveyance surface. The guide approaches the conveyance surface and guides the object from or to the conveyance member. The rotator contacts the conveyance surface. The guide displaces in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance surface, in conjunction with displacement of the rotator when the rotator contacts the joint.

Abstract: A cleaning method of cleaning a solution treatment apparatus for applying a coating solution onto a substrate, the solution treatment apparatus including a holder holding and rotating the substrate; a coating solution supplier; and an inner cup surrounding the holder from a lateral side and having a peripheral edge side upper surface inclining down outward in a radial direction. The cleaning method includes introducing the cleaning solution to the storage chamber via the introduction hole, discharging the cleaning solution from the discharge port and making the cleaning solution flow down along the peripheral edge side upper surface of the inner cup, thereby cleaning away the coating solution adhering to the peripheral edge side upper surface. The discharging in the cleaning discharges the cleaning solution from discharge ports of the inner cup outward in the radial direction and obliquely upward.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic analysis device in which safety is ensured, and operability is improved. The automatic analysis device includes: an operation unit that receives voice input from a microphone or a mobile device; and a measurement unit that analyzes a sample. The operation unit has: an equipment state acquisition unit that acquires equipment state data for the measurement unit; a voice detection/recognition unit that acquires voice data and converts the voice data into voice instruction text; and a unit for determining device operability that, in cases in which the voice instruction text includes operation instructions for the measurement unit, determines the executability of the operation instructions included in the voice instruction text, on the basis of the equipment state data for the measurement unit acquired by the equipment state acquisition unit, and on the basis of the accuracy of the voice instruction text.

Abstract: An adsorbent to be packed into a canister, at least containing activated carbon and an additive material that has a higher heat capacity than the activated carbon. The adsorbent has first pores derived from the activated carbon that are less than 100 nm and second pores derived from meltable cores that are 1 ?m or more. The adsorbent is in the form of a hollow molded body having an outer diameter of more than 6 mm and not more than 50 mm and including a cylindrical wall and honeycomb walls each having a thickness of not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1 mm. The adsorbent has a volumetric specific heat of 0.08 kcal/L·° C. or more. The ratio of the volume of the second pores to the volume of the first pores is not less than 10% and not more than 200%.

Abstract: A processing device includes a support table to support a sheet medium, a sheet cutter to cut the medium supported on the support table, a cutter holder to move the sheet cutter in a toward-away direction in which the sheet cutter moves toward and away from the support table, and a cutter transporter to move the cutter holder in a cutting direction that is orthogonal to a transport direction of the medium. The cutter holder includes a holder movable in the toward-away direction and that holds the sheet cutter, an actuator including a rod that extends or retracts, a link connected to the rod and the holder, and a rotation shaft that rotatably supports the link so that the holder moves in the toward-away direction in response to extension or retraction of the rod.

Abstract: A method for treating surface of substrate, the method including forming a film including a high molecular weight condensate of a silylation agent on the surface thereof to allow a substrate having a plurality of regions to be modified at modification degrees that are different depending on materials of the regions on a surface of the substrate. The method includes preparing a substrate having a surface including two or more regions having different materials; exposing the surface to a surface treatment agent; and baking the substrate, the method not including rinsing the surface with a liquid between the exposing and the baking, the surface treatment agent including a silylation agent and not a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the silylation agent including organomonosilane that has 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms bonded to a silicon atom.

Abstract: Provided is a canister that includes a first adsorbing layer K1 including a first adsorbing material Q1 as an adsorbing material Q and a second adsorbing layer K2 including, as the adsorbing material Q, a second adsorbing material Q2 different from the first adsorbing material Q1. The first absorbing layer K1 and the second absorbing layer K2 are provided inside a casing 10. In a flowing direction of fuel vapor J between one end and another end of the casing 10, the first adsorbing layer K1 is disposed at a position in contact with an air port 10a at the other end, and the second adsorbing layer K2 is disposed closer to the one end than the first adsorbing layer K1 is. The first adsorbing material Q1 adsorbs the fuel vapor J at an adsorbing rate that is lower than an adsorbing rate of the second adsorbing material Q2.

Abstract: Provided is a canister that includes a first adsorbing layer K1 including a first adsorbing material Q1 as an adsorbing material Q and a second adsorbing layer K2 including, as the adsorbing material Q, a second adsorbing material Q2 different from the first adsorbing material Q1. The first absorbing layer K1 and the second absorbing layer K2 are provided inside a casing 10. In a flowing direction X of fuel vapor J between one end and another end of the casing 10, the first adsorbing layer K1 is disposed at a position in contact with an air port 10a at the other end, and the second adsorbing layer K2 is disposed closer to the one end than the first adsorbing layer K1 is. The first adsorbing material Q1 adsorbs the fuel vapor J at an adsorbing rate that is higher than an adsorbing rate of the second adsorbing material Q2.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent including a compound represented by the general formula HO—P(?O)R1R2 in which R1 and R2 are each independently bonded to the phosphorus atom and are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a fluorinated alkyl group, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, provided that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time, and an organic solvent.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for the substrate surface including two or more regions, the method including reacting a compound having the formula R1—P(?O)(OR2)(OR3), a basic nitrogen-containing compound, and the regions with each other such that a water contact angle on the metal region is greater by 10° or more with respect to a water contact angle on an insulator region close to the metal region. In compound (P-1), R1 is an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a fluorinated alkyl group or an optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a fluorinated alkyl group or an optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent used for treating a substrate having a surface that has two or more regions made of different materials, in which at least one of the two or more regions has a metal surface, and pretreated with an oxidizing agent, the agent including a compound (P) represented by R1—P(?O)(OR2)(OR3), and an organic solvent (S) having a relative dielectric constant of 35 or less. In the formula, R1 represents an alkyl group or the like, and R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent including a compound (P) represented by R1—P(?O) (OR2) (OR3) in which R1 is an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a fluorinated alkyl group, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, and R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a fluorinated alkyl group, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent; a compound (S) represented by R—SH . . . in which R is an alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms, a fluorinated alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent; and a solvent.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent including a compound represented by the following general formula (P-1) and an acid. In the formula, R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, a linear or branched fluorinated alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group; R2 and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, a linear or branched fluorinated alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms, or an aromatic hydrocarbon group R1—P(?O)(OR2)(OR3)??(P-1).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent and a canister which can improve adsorption performance and purge performance. An adsorbent 10 to be packed in a canister includes: a cylindrical outer wall 10A, and a plurality of ribs 10B for partitioning along an axis of the outer wall 10A into a plurality of cells, wherein the thickness da of the outer wall 10A and the thickness d? of the ribs 10B is less than 0.6 mm, the thickness of at least either of the outer wall 10A and the ribs 10B exceeds 0.4 mm, the outer diameter D of the outer wall 10A is 3.5 mm or more and 40 mm or less, a BWC exceeds 3.0 g/dL, and purge efficiency((amount of butane adsorbed?amount of butane retained)/amount of butane adsorbed) is more than 0.86 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a canister whose performance is enhanced while achieving the advantage of suppressing changes in temperature by using a heat storage material and overcoming the disadvantage of a reduction in the adsorption amount. A canister for treating evaporated fuel includes: a tank port that is in communication with an upper air chamber of a fuel tank of an internal combustion engine; a purge port that is in communication with an air intake path of the internal combustion engine; an atmospheric air port that is open to atmospheric air; and an adsorbent material chamber R that contains an activated carbon that adsorbs evaporated fuel that flows from the tank port to the atmospheric air port.

Abstract: An adsorbent to be packed into a canister, at least containing activated carbon and an additive material that has a higher heat capacity than the activated carbon. The adsorbent has first pores derived from the activated carbon that are less than 100 nm and second pores derived from meltable cores that are 1 ?m or more. The adsorbent is in the form of a hollow molded body having an outer diameter of more than 6 mm and not more than 50 mm and including a cylindrical wall and honeycomb walls each having a thickness of not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1 mm. The adsorbent has a volumetric specific heat of 0.08 kcal/L·° C. or more. The ratio of the volume of the second pores to the volume of the first pores is not less than 10% and not more than 200%.

Abstract: A method for imparting water repellency to a substrate; a surface treatment agent used in the method; and a method for suppressing collapse of an organic or inorganic pattern in cleaning the substrate surface with a cleaning liquid. The method includes exposing a surface of a substrate to a surface treatment agent, the surface treatment agent including a water-repelling agent and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the water-repelling agent including an alkoxymonosilane compound having a hydrophobic group bonded to a silicon atom. A surface treatment agent including a water-repelling agent and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the water-repelling agent (A) including an alkoxymonosilane compound having a hydrophobic group bonded to a silicon atom.

Abstract: A surface treatment liquid capable of hydrophobizing a surface of a treatment target without including a silylation agent, a surface treatment method using the liquid, and a method for suppressing pattern collapse, including surface treatment by the surface treatment method. The liquid contains a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound as a water-repelling agent. A compound including one or more hydrocarbon groups which may be substituted with a halogen atom in which a total number of carbon atoms of the one or more hydrocarbon group is three or more, is used as the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound. The liquid may include only a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having the above-described predetermined structure, as a water-repelling agent.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for a substrate surface; a surface treatment agent used for the surface treatment method; and a method for forming a film on a substrate in a region-selective manner. The method includes exposing the surface to a surface treatment agent including a silylation agent and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the surface including two or more regions, adjacent regions in the two or more regions having different materials, and a reaction between the silylation agent and the two or more regions causing contact angles of water to differ from each other with respect to adjacent regions in the two or more regions.