Abstract: An electronic device and time piece are shown. The electronic device includes: a plurality of antenna devices; a plurality of motors; and antimagnetic plates, each fully or partially covering the motors and having cutouts at positions overlapping with the antenna devices.

Abstract: A timepiece including an antenna, a holding member arranged with a predetermined space above the antenna, a pointer shaft arranged corresponding to an area above the antenna and rotatably held by the holding member, and a pointer mounted on the pointer shaft.

Abstract: To provide a filling device that realizes simplification of device configuration, improvement of design freedom, and redaction of production loads, and that prevents formation of a pointed peak on the upper surface of packed contents, or uneven filling of the container. Provided is a filling device (10) including a filling nozzle (20), a contents supplier (30), a plunger (40), and a gas supplier (50). A gas inlet (25) connected to the gas supplier (50), a gas outlet (26) opened to the nozzle hole (23), and a gas flow passage (27) are formed in the filling nozzle (20). The gas (A) supplied from the gas supplier (50) is ejected from a gap between an inner circumferential surface of the nozzle hole (23) and an outer circumferential surface of the plunger (40) at a lower end of the filling nozzle (20).

Abstract: When the speed ratio of a belt-type continuously variable transmission is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, switching between a first power transmission path including a gear transmission mechanism and a second power transmission path including a belt-type continuously variable transmission is performed by means of clutches, so as to reduce a difference in an input shaft rotational speed applied to the clutches before and after the switching.

Abstract: In a spiral type acidic-gas separation module which is obtained by winding a laminate including an acidic gas separation layer that includes a facilitated transport film, a permeating gas channel member which includes a channel regulation member regulating an acidic gas channel that is a channel of an acidic gas having permeated through the facilitated transport film allows a difference in high-pressure deformation amount between a region where the channel regulation member is formed and a region other than the region to be set to 100 ?m or less. In this manner, an acidic-gas separation module which prevents damage to the facilitated transport film and exhibits a predetermined performance for a long period of time is provided.

Abstract: The anti-tumor peptide provided by the present invention is a synthetic peptide having both amino acid sequences represented by the following (1) and (2): (1) an amino acid sequence constituting the transmembrane domain of transmembrane protein 141 (TMEM 141), or a modified amino acid sequence having deletion, replacement, or addition of one, two, or three amino acid residues of the amino acid sequence; and (2) an amino acid sequence functioning as a cell membrane penetrating peptide (CPP).

Abstract: A door mirror device includes a mirror housing mounted to a mirror base, a folding mechanism for enabling the mirror housing to pivot rearward of the vehicle when a load higher than a predetermined value is applied to the mirror housing from the front side of the vehicle. The mirror housing has a first region occupying more than half of the vertical area of the mirror housing and has a second region occupying a less area than the first region. The outer surface of the second region is located in front of the outer surface of the first region. The acute angle in a plan view between the outer surface of the second region and an outer side surface of the vehicle is greater than the acute angle between the outer surface of the first region and the outer side surface of the vehicle.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of a microfluidic device includes the steps of: preparing a first substrate which is obtained by curing silicone resin containing an unreacted part of a Si—H group and a platinum catalyst after being cured and has a flat first surface in which a concave groove or a through hole is partly provided and a second substrate which has a flat second surface in which a concave groove or a through hole is partly provided as necessary and has a hydroxyl group on a flat face of the second surface; and joining the first substrate and the second substrate by sticking the first surface of the first substrate and the second surface of the second substrate together.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a laser microdissection apparatus having good operational efficiency. The laser microdissection apparatus, comprising sample movement means capable of retaining a slide, device movement means on which a device having a thermofusible film for transferring a sample can be mounted, a laser irradiation part for irradiating the sample with a dissection laser light, storage means for correlating and storing positional coordinates of the sample in the location irradiated by the dissection laser light and positional coordinates of the thermofusible film in a location where the collected sample is adhered, and a movement means drive control part for controlling driving of the sample movement means and the device movement means on the basis of the positional coordinates of the sample and the thermofusible film. The dissection laser light is radiated through the device onto the sample from below the device.

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle transmission is provided. The control system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when control for engaging the at least one engaging device that switches power transmission to power transmission via a first power transmission mechanism and control for increasing hydraulic pressure that is applied to a continuously variable transmission are required, control the continuously variable transmission and the at least one engaging device so as to start control for engaging the at least one engaging device first and, after a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of control for engaging the at least one engaging device, start control for increasing hydraulic pressure that is applied to the continuously variable transmission.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including a dial plate having light transparency, a module including an antenna for receiving circularly polarized waves which is disposed below the dial plate, the antenna having a radiation electrode, and a solar panel disposed between the dial plate and the module, wherein the solar panel includes a common substrate, a plurality of solar cells disposed on the common substrate, and an inactive segment disposed on the common substrate at a place corresponding to the place of the radiation electrode.

Abstract: A solution is to produce an acid gas separation composite membrane provided with an acid gas separation facilitated membrane on a porous support, including; arranging of a coating liquid for acid gas separation formed through dispersing or dissolving into water a polyvinyl acetal compound formed through crosslinking, by an acetal bond, block copolymers formed through bonding of a polymer block formed of polyvinyl alcohol and a polymer block formed of polyacrylate through a linking group, an acid gas carrier and at least one kind of anion other than hydroxide ion, carboxyl ion, carbonate ion and bicarbonate ion, and coating of the coating liquid for acid gas separation onto a hydrophobic surface of the porous support having hydrophobicity at least on one surface to form the acid gas separation facilitated transport membrane thereon.

Abstract: A trace component in a sample is quickly and accurately analyzed using a small sample quantity without performing preprocessing such as concentration. Trace components in a sample can be analyzed quickly and accurately using a small sample quantity and without preprocessing such as concentration, by a method for analyzing a component in a sample, the method including a step for irradiating a thermoplastic resin film internally containing the sample with ionizing laser light of a mass spectrometer.

Abstract: This side mirror device includes: a mirror base; a housing a bearing mechanism; a mirror; an inclining mechanism; an internal housing; and a cover, wherein the bearing mechanism and the inclining mechanism are contained in an interior of the housing, and wherein the bearing mechanism and the inclining mechanism are formed so as to face each other across the mirror base along an axis line of the bearing mechanism, wherein the housing has an upper cover and a lower cover that are disposed so as to face each other, wherein the upper cover and the lower cover whose outer surface shapes form an mirror-image symmetry with each other, wherein the cover forms, on a rear side, an opening edge portion that exposes the mirror, wherein the opening edge portion is made of an involuted recess portion that is a rear-side end portion of the cover being bent inwardly toward the mirror, and wherein with the rear-side end portion of the internal housing is inserted into the involuted recess portion, the rear-side end portion of

Abstract: Provided are a synthetic peptide that induces the reprogramming of a differentiated cell, a reprogramming-inducing pharmaceutical composition that contains this synthetic peptide, and a method for producing an undifferentiated cell from a differentiated cell using this synthetic peptide. The peptide provided by the present invention is a synthetic peptide having a reprogramming-inducing peptide sequence formed of the amino acid sequence given by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a modified amino acid sequence thereof. The method for producing an undifferentiated cell provided by the present invention includes inducing the reprogramming of a target cell by culturing a cell culture which contains the target cell and to which the synthetic peptide has been supplied.

Abstract: Provided are a synthetic peptide having a multinucleation-inducing activity that can cause multinucleation in a target cell, a multinucleation-inducing agent containing this peptide, and a multinucleation induction method that uses this peptide, The synthetic peptide provided by the present invention is an artificially synthesized peptide that contains (A) a membrane-permeable peptide sequence and (B) a multinucleation-inducing peptide sequence, and that can cause multinucleation in at least one type of eukaryotic cell of human origin Or non-human mammal origin. The multinucleation-inducing peptide sequence is constituted of an amino acid sequence given by SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2 or a modified amino acid sequence therefrom.

Abstract: Provided are a gas separation membrane which has a resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond, in which the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond satisfies Expressions 1 and 2, and at least one of gas permeability or gas separation selectivity is high under high pressure; a method of producing a gas separation membrane; a gas separation membrane module; and a gas separator. 0.9?A/B?0.55??Expression 1 B?1.7??Expression 2 In the expressions, A represents an O/Si ratio that is a ratio of the number of oxygen atoms relative to the number of silicon atoms contained in the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond at a depth of 10 nm from the surface of the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond, and B represents an O/Si ratio that is a ratio of the number of oxygen atoms relative to the number of silicon atoms in the surface of the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond.

Abstract: A trace component in a sample is quickly and accurately analyzed using a small sample quantity without performing preprocessing such as concentration. Trace components in a sample can be analyzed quickly and accurately using a small sample quantity and without preprocessing such as concentration, by a method for analyzing a component in a sample, the method including a step for irradiating a thermoplastic resin film internally containing the sample with ionizing laser light of a mass spectrometer.

Abstract: There is provided a high-quality spiral-type acidic gas separation module which is obtained by winding a laminate including an acidic gas separation layer that has a facilitated transport film and which has no defects in the facilitated transport film, in which the average value of the fiber diameter of a supply gas channel member is in a range of 100 ?m to 900 ?m, and the area ratio of concave portions inscribed in a hemisphere having a diameter greater than or equal to three-quarters of the fiber diameter of the supply gas channel member is 50% or less with respect to a surface of an auxiliary support film of a porous support that is on the side opposite to the facilitated transport film.

Abstract: A method of sealing a container and a lid by melt adhesion by laser. Either the container or the lid has a thermoplastic resin that permits the laser beam to transmit through and the other one has a resin composition of the thermoplastic resin containing a heat-generating substance. Further, the laser beam applies a rectangular beam having a uniform intensity distribution. The upper-limit of temperature is not lower than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin but lower than a thermal decomposition start temperature thereof in the melt adhesion interface between the container and the lid, and the temperature reaches the upper-limit in a heating time t (msec) represented by the following formula (1), t (msec)=L/S??(1) where L is the length (mm) of the rectangular beam in the scanning direction, and S is the rate of laser scanning (mm/msec) of not higher than 1.65 mm/msec.