Abstract: A shaping method includes irradiating a powder containing silicon carbide and metal boride with an energy beam based on shape data of an object of shaping to perform shaping, in which the metal boride has a melting point lower than the sublimation point of the silicon carbide.

Abstract: Provided is a compound having a high ICG content that has high accumulation property in a tumor and has a large intensity of a photoacoustic signal emitted from the tumor even when a time period elapses after administration. Specifically, provided is a hyaluronic acid derivative to which polyethylene glycol and an ICG derivative are conjugated.

Abstract: Provided is a compound having a high ICG content that has high accumulation property in a tumor and has a large intensity of a photoacoustic signal emitted from the tumor even when a time period elapses after administration. Specifically, provided is a hyaluronic acid derivative to which polyethylene glycol and an ICG derivative are conjugated.

Abstract: In a case where a dynamic range of an output signal from each of multiple sensors falls within ±D (LSB) in decimal numeration with a reference value centered, the reference value is set so that entire bits do not change between 1 and 0 when one of values within the dynamic range is added to the reference value. This decreases, within binary data from a data bus, the number of bits that change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1, further decreasing electric power consumption and enhancing a communications speed.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen storage battery having improved charge and discharge cycle characteristics even in high temperature, which has a negative electrode comprising a hydrogen absorbing alloy capable of electrochemically storing and releasing hydrogen, a positive electrode comprising nickel hydroxide as a main active material, and an alkaline electrolytic solution mainly comprising an aqueous potassium hydroxide solution, wherein the positive electrode contains a cobalt compound, a yttrium compound, and 100 ppm or more of lithium based on the total weight of the nickel hydroxide, the cobalt compound, and the yttrium compound.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen storage battery having improved charge and discharge cycle characteristics even in high temperature, which has a negative electrode comprising a hydrogen absorbing alloy capable of electrochemically storing and releasing hydrogen, a positive electrode comprising nickel hydroxide as a main active material, and an alkaline electrolytic solution mainly comprising an aqueous potassium hydroxide solution, wherein the positive electrode contains a cobalt compound, a yttrium compound, and 100 ppm or more of lithium based on the total weight of the nickel hydroxide, the cobalt compound, and the yttrium compound.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing a hydrogen-absorbing alloy electrode according to this invention comprises the steps of: dissolving a particle surface of said hydrogen-absorbing alloy by a surface-treatment solution; and washing the hydrogen-absorbing alloy with the particle surface dissolved using an alkaline solution at a temperature of 30° C.˜40° C. The metal ions dissolved by the surface-treatment solution can be completely washed away by the alkaline solution so that they will not be precipitated onto the surface of the hydrogen-absorbing alloy again as the hydroxide.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing a hydrogen-absorbing alloy electrode according to this invention comprises the steps of: dissolving a particle surface of said hydrogen-absorbing alloy by a surface-treatment solution; and washing the hydrogen-absorbing alloy with the particle surface dissolved using an alkaline solution at a temperature of 30° C.˜40° C. The metal ions dissolved by the surface-treatment solution can be completely washed away by the alkaline solution so that they will not be precipitated onto the surface of the hydrogen-absorbing alloy again as the hydroxide. In this case, the washing using the alkaline solution of which the temperature exceeds 40° C. dissolves an alloy component as well as the hydroxide. Therefore, the temperature of the alkaline solution used must be controlled at 40° C. or lower. On the other hand, if the temperature of the alkaline solution is lower than 30° C.

Abstract: A coating film transfer tool has a T-shaped transfer head with a pressing transfer part on the tip end thereof which protrudes from the main body and which is integrally formed with a pivot shaft that is rotatably mounted in the main body of the tool. Tape controlling members are formed on both lateral sides of the pressing transfer part along the edges of the tape only on the return side of the pressing transfer part, which is the side that the tape base material runs over after the coating film is transferred from it. The tape controlling members control the lateral movement of the tape base material, and do not interfere with the transfer tape upstream on the application side of the pressing transfer part, where the base material is coated with the coating film.