Abstract: A chromatograph mass spectrometer including an optimum gas pressure search controller that performs an MRM measurement for a target compound while changing a collision-gas pressure, investigates an optimum collision-gas pressure giving a highest signal strength based on the measured result, and stores the same gas pressure for each compound in a compound-related information storage section. When a target compound is specified in a simultaneous multicomponent analysis, a control sequence determiner reads the optimum collision-gas pressure and retention time information corresponding to the specified compound from the storage section, prepares a control sequence which sets the gas pressure in a collision cell at the optimum gas pressure at the timing where each compound is eluted, and stores the sequence in a control sequence storage section.

Abstract: A guidance device includes: a storing unit that stores information regarding content, a reproduction time of the content, and a providing range different from each content; a calculation unit that acquires a current position of a user and calculates a movement status; a selection unit that estimates, based on the movement status of the user calculated by the calculation unit, a position of the user at a time when the reproduction time of the content has passed, and selects from the storing unit content whose content providing range includes the estimated position.

Abstract: A welded state monitoring system according to an aspect of the present invention is a welded state monitoring system used for plasma shielded electric resistance welding in which electric resistance welding is performed while irradiating a weld zone of a steel sheet with plasma, and is provided with a plasma irradiation device which irradiates the weld zone with plasma, a first image capturing device which captures an image of the weld zone from above and has an image sensor capable of detecting light having a wavelength of 850 nm or more, a first wavelength region limiting device which limits light incident on the first image capturing device to a wavelength region of 850 nm or more, and an image processing device which subjects the image captured by the first image capturing device to image processing and analyzes the welded state of the weld zone thereby being able to analyze the welded state without being affected by the plasma.

Abstract: A dwell time calculation table (51a) showing a correspondence relation between a CID gas pressure inside a collision cell (31) and a dwell time for data collection is stored in a processing condition parameter memory (51) of a controller (50). In the table (51a), as the CID gas pressure becomes higher, the dwell time becomes longer. When an instruction to execute an MRM measurement mode is given, the controller (50) determines the dwell time in accordance with the currently set CID gas pressure, and controls a data collector (41) to accumulate detection signals from an ion detector (34) during the determined dwell time and obtain the accumulated value. If the CID gas pressure inside the collision cell (31) is high, a decrease in ion speed becomes remarkable, and the rising of the ion intensity becomes slow. However, if the dwell time becomes long, influences of the slow rising on the accumulated value are relatively reduced, and the accuracy of the accumulated value is enhanced.

Abstract: The present triple quadrupole mass spectrometer determines the relationship between a parameter, such as the mass-to-charge ratio of a precursor ion or that of a product ion, and the optimal collision-gas pressure giving the highest signal intensity in an MRM measurement, derives an approximate equation expressing that relationship, and stores the information representing the equation in an optimum collision-gas pressure calculation information storage section. When a measurement is to be performed, an analysis operator enters the mass-to-charge ratio of a precursor ion or product ion of a target compound. Based on the approximate equation read from the storage section, an optimum collision-gas pressure calculator determines the optimum collision-gas pressure for the specified precursor ion or product ion, and sets this pressure as a measurement condition for the apparatus.

Abstract: A chromatograph mass spectrometer including an optimum gas pressure search controller that performs an MRM measurement for a target compound while changing a collision-gas pressure, investigates an optimum collision-gas pressure giving a highest signal strength based on the measured result, and stores the same gas pressure for each compound in a compound-related information storage section. When a target compound is specified in a simultaneous multicomponent analysis, a control sequence determiner reads the optimum collision-gas pressure and retention time information corresponding to the specified compound from the storage section, prepares a control sequence which sets the gas pressure in a collision cell at the optimum gas pressure at the timing where each compound is eluted, and stores the sequence in a control sequence storage section.

Abstract: The present triple quadrupole mass spectrometer determines the relationship between a parameter, such as the mass-to-charge ratio of a precursor ion or that of a product ion, and the optimal collision-gas pressure giving the highest signal intensity in an MRM measurement, derives an approximate equation expressing that relationship, and stores the information representing the equation in an optimum collision-gas pressure calculation information storage section. When a measurement is to be performed, an analysis operator enters the mass-to-charge ratio of a precursor ion or product ion of a target compound. Based on the approximate equation read from the storage section, an optimum collision-gas pressure calculator determines the optimum collision-gas pressure for the specified precursor ion or product ion, and sets this pressure as a measurement condition for the apparatus.

Abstract: A map preparation apparatus includes a position information acquisition section, an input information acquisition section, and a selection section. The position information acquisition section acquires position information of a user who is moving. The input information acquisition section acquires input information including a date and time when the user starts moving and a date and time when the user finishes moving. The selection section selects map information from preregistered map information on the basis of the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and on the basis of the input information acquired by the input information acquisition section. The selected map information includes a route in a ratio equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio. The route is taken from the date and time when the user starts moving to the date and time when the user finishes moving.

Abstract: A dwell time calculation table (51a) showing a correspondence relation between a CID gas pressure inside a collision cell (31) and a dwell time for data collection is stored in a processing condition parameter memory (51) of a controller (50). In the table (51a), as the CID gas pressure becomes higher, the dwell time becomes longer. When an instruction to execute an MRM measurement mode is given, the controller (50) determines the dwell time in accordance with the currently set CID gas pressure, and controls a data collector (41) to accumulate detection signals from an ion detector (34) during the determined dwell time and obtain the accumulated value. If the CID gas pressure inside the collision cell (31) is high, a decrease in ion speed becomes remarkable, and the rising of the ion intensity becomes slow. However, if the dwell time becomes long, influences of the slow rising on the accumulated value are relatively reduced, and the accuracy of the accumulated value is enhanced.

Abstract: A dwell time calculation table (51a) showing a correspondence relation between a CID gas pressure inside a collision cell (31) and a dwell time for data collection is stored in a processing condition parameter memory (51) of a controller (50). In the table (51a), as the CID gas pressure becomes higher, the dwell time becomes longer. When an instruction to execute an MRM measurement mode is given, the controller (50) determines the dwell time in accordance with the currently set CID gas pressure, and controls a data collector (41) to accumulate detection signals from an ion detector (34) during the determined dwell time and obtain the accumulated value. If the CID gas pressure inside the collision cell (31) is high, a decrease in ion speed becomes remarkable, and the rising of the ion intensity becomes slow. However, if the dwell time becomes long, influences of the slow rising on the accumulated value are relatively reduced, and the accuracy of the accumulated value is enhanced.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a creating unit that creates correspondence information that, based on reproduction history information representing a date and time of reproduction of content information and photographing history information representing a date and time of photographing of image information, associates the content information with the image information.

Abstract: The present invention (a) provides, at low cost, a water absorbing agent (i) that has a suppressed amount of generated dust and a suppressed amount of dust that increases over time and (ii) that also has a high absorption capacity without load, a high absorption capacity under load, a high vertical diffusion absorbency under load, and a high absorbency in a short period of time, and (b) also provides a method for evaluating, in a short period of time, an amount of dust that increases over time. A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention includes: a surface crosslinked polyacrylic acid (salt)-based water absorbent resin as a main component; a hydrophilic polymer compound; and a stabilizing agent.

Abstract: A water absorbent resin (water absorbing agent) and method for producing it are provided which improve, in a water absorbent article (in particular, a diaper) including a water absorbent resin as a water absorbing agent, the absolute absorption amount (g), liquid absorbing times (in particular, liquid absorbing times at the second instance and later), re-wet (g), and diffusion distance (%) of the water absorbent article. A particulate water absorbing agent of the present invention has a CRC, a proportion of particles with sizes of 600 ?m to 150 ?m as defined through a standard-sieve classification, an SST, and the value of the difference between an FST and the SST each within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A guidance device includes: a storing unit that stores information regarding content, a reproduction time of the content, and a providing range different from each content; a calculation unit that acquires a current position of a user and calculates a movement status; a selection unit that estimates, based on the movement status of the user calculated by the calculation unit, a position of the user at a time when the reproduction time of the content has passed, and selects from the storing unit content whose content providing range includes the estimated position.

Abstract: In an atmospheric pressure ionization source using an ESI or the like having a desolvation pipe with one end opening serving as an ion-drawing port, a drying-gas supplying port for supplying a drying gas against the ion-drawing direction is provided below the ion-drawing port, i.e. at a position opposite to the side where a nozzle for spraying a liquid sample into an atmospheric pressure atmosphere is located, as viewed from the ion-drawing port. When the drying gas is supplied from the drying-gas supplying port, the gas pressure becomes higher in a region above the ion-drawing port becomes higher than in a region below the same port and produces a downward air stream. This stream helps ions in the spray flow from the nozzle to easily come close to the ion-drawing port and be efficiently drawn into the desolvation pipe.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring module, a model generating module and an analyzing module. The acquiring module acquires recording information corresponding to a target event from an event recording information storage device storing the recording information which includes a starting date and time of the target event, an ending date and time of the target event, and a place for an occurrence of the target event. The model generating module sets a date and time before or after a predetermined period since the starting date and time, sets a date and time before or after a predetermined period since the ending date and time, and generates a model including influence information. The analyzing module analyzes an influence of a first event and a second event. The second event is generated in the same place as the place in which the first event occurs.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer having a multi-stage differential pumping system with an ion lens provided in a partition wall separating a second intermediate vacuum chamber and a third intermediate vacuum chamber, the incircle radii of ion guides and the size of the opening of the ion lens are determined so that the circumferential edge of the opening is located outside the circumferential surface of a virtual tubular body straightly connecting the incircle at the rear edge of the second ion guide in the front stage and the incircle at the front edge of the third ion guide in the rear stage. Although the ion lens is located in between, the radio-frequency electric field created by the second ion guide can be effectively connected to the radio-frequency electric field created by the third ion guide through the opening of the ion lens.

Abstract: A map preparation apparatus includes a position information acquisition section, an input information acquisition section, and a selection section. The position information acquisition section acquires position information of a user who is moving. The input information acquisition section acquires input information including a date and time when the user starts moving and a date and time when the user finishes moving. The selection section selects map information from preregistered map information on the basis of the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and on the basis of the input information acquired by the input information acquisition section. The selected map information includes a route in a ratio equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio. The route is taken from the date and time when the user starts moving to the date and time when the user finishes moving.

Abstract: A production method of a magnetic recording medium of the present invention includes: a step of forming a magnetic layer (2) on a non-magnetic substrate (1); a step of forming a dissoluble layer (3) on the magnetic layer (2); a step of forming a mask layer (4) on the dissoluble layer (3); a step of patterning the dissoluble layer (3) and the mask layer (4) to a shape corresponding to a magnetic recording pattern (2a); a step of performing a partial modification or removal of the magnetic layer (2) by use of the patterned mask layer (4); and a step of dissolving the dissoluble layer (3) with a chemical agent so as to remove the dissoluble layer (3) together with the mask layer (4) formed thereon from the top of the magnetic layer (2), wherein the magnetic recording medium has the magnetically-separated magnetic recording pattern (2a).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide (i) a water absorbent agent composition which has an excellent additional function (a deodorizing function in particular), which stably carries out the additional function even after being stored for a long term, and which is less stressful to skin when used as an absorbent article, (ii) a method for producing the water absorbent agent composition, and (iii) an absorbent core and an absorbent article. The water absorbent agent composition contains: a polycarboxylic acid (salt)-based water absorbent resin as a main component; a natural ingredient; and a temporal deterioration preventing agent. Further, a water absorbent agent composition is produced by simultaneously or separately mixing a natural ingredient and a temporal deterioration preventing agent with a water absorbent resin which is a crosslinked polymer of unsaturated monomers having carboxylic acid and/or a salt thereof.