Abstract: Infrared reflecting film includes, on a transparent film substrate, a metal oxide layer, an infrared reflecting layer mainly made of silver, and a light absorptive metal layer, in this order. No metal layer is disposed between the transparent film substrate and the infrared reflecting layer. The metal oxide layer is preferably formed of a composite metal oxide including zinc oxide and tin oxide. The light absorptive metal layer has a thickness of 2 nm to 10 nm and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, niobium, tantalum, and titanium.

Abstract: A low friction assembly is desired. The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device and a control method for the same. This cooling device includes: a first cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder head and a radiator; a second cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder block while bypassing the radiator; an electric flow rate control valve whose inlet is connected to the first and second cooling liquid lines, and whose outlet is connected to the intake side of an electric water pump; and a bypass line that branches off from the first cooling liquid line at a point between the cylinder head and the radiator and that joins to the outlet of the flow rate control valve while bypassing the radiator. A control unit controls the flow rate control valve according to the temperature of the cylinder head and the temperature of the cylinder block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device and a control method therefor. This cooling device includes: a first cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder head and a radiator; a second cooling liquid line routed by way of a cylinder block while bypassing the radiator; a third cooling liquid line routed by way of the cylinder head and a heater core while bypassing the radiator; a flow rate control valve for distributing cooling water to the cooling liquid lines; and mechanical and electric water pumps. A control unit controls the flow rate control valve according to the temperatures of the cylinder head and block, during engine operation, and causes the electric water pump to operate while controlling the flow rate control valve according to the temperature of the cylinder head, and whether or not heat exchange in the heater core is requested, during temporary engine stop.

Abstract: The infrared reflecting substrate includes a first metal oxide layer, a second metal oxide layer and a metal layer in this order on a transparent substrate. The second metal oxide layer and the metal layer are in direct contact with each other. The first metal oxide layer has a refractive index of 2.2 or more. The second metal oxide layer is formed of a metal oxide that contains tin oxide and zinc oxide, and an oxygen content of the metal oxide is less than the stoichiometric composition. The second metal oxide layer is deposited by a DC sputtering method.

Abstract: In order to provide an organic electroluminescent light-emitting device with less uneven brightness, which can be manufactured at low cost, a plurality of ribbon-like organic electroluminescent elements are connected to wires, which are connected to electrode terminals for energization at specific locations in a terminal region and mounted on a base material which has a substantially plate-like shape.

Abstract: A pump is provided which includes a pump housing, a drive shaft rotatably installed in the pump housing through a ball bearing, a pulley integrally connected to one end of the drive shaft through a flange wall, an impeller connected to the other end of the drive shaft, a cylindrical base part integrally connected to an outer periphery of the flange wall and six through openings formed in an outer peripheral part of the flange wall, in which each of the through openings has, at a generally middle part of a bottom surface of an inner surface thereof, a pathway groove that extends substantially along an inner cylindrical surface of the cylindrical base part, so that the performance of discharging water, dust and the like from the through openings formed in the flange wall is increased.

Abstract: The method for manufacturing an infrared reflecting film comprises, in order: a metal layer forming step of depositing a metal layer on a transparent film substrate; a metal oxide layer forming step of depositing a surface-side metal oxide layer by DC sputtering on the metal layer so as to be in direct contact with the metal layer; and a transparent protective layer forming step of depositing a transparent protective layer on the surface-side metal oxide layer. In the metal oxide layer forming step, a sputtering target used for DC sputtering contains zinc atoms and tin atoms, and is preferably formed by sintering a metal powder and at least one metal oxide among zinc oxide and tin oxide. In the surface-side metal oxide layer forming step, an inert gas and an oxygen gas are introduced into a sputtering chamber. The oxygen concentration in the gas introduced to the sputtering chamber is preferably not more than 8 vol %.

Abstract: An infrared reflecting film includes an infrared reflecting layer having a metal layer and a metal oxide layer and a transparent protective layer in this order on a transparent film substrate. In the manufacturing method, the metal oxide layer is deposited by a DC sputtering method using a roll-to-roll sputtering apparatus. A sputtering target used in the DC sputtering method contains zinc atoms and tin atoms. The sputtering target is preferably obtained by sintering a metal powder and at least one metal oxide among zinc oxide and tin oxide.

Abstract: An infrared-ray reflective film (100) of the present invention is configured by disposing an infrared reflective layer (20) and a transparent protective layer (30) on a transparent film backing (10) in this order. The infrared reflective layer (20) comprises: a first metal oxide layer (21); a metal layer (25) made of a silver alloy containing silver in an amount of 96 to 99.9 weight%; and a second metal oxide layer (22), which are arranged in this order from the side of the transparent film backing (10), wherein each of the first metal oxide layer (21) and the second metal oxide layer (22) is in direct contact with the metal layer (25). There is no metal layer between the transparent film backing (10) and the infrared reflective layer (20) and between the infrared reflective layer (20) and the transparent protective layer (30). Preferably, the infrared-ray reflective film of the present invention has a visible ray transmittance of 65% or more, a shading coefficient of less than 0.

Abstract: Disclosed is an infrared reflective film (100) configured by disposing an infrared ray reflective layer (20) and a transparent protective layer (30) on a transparent film backing (10) in this order. The infrared ray reflective layer (20) comprises: a first metal oxide layer (21); a metal layer (25) comprising a primary component consisting of silver; and a second metal oxide layer (22) comprised of a composite metal oxide containing zinc oxide and tin oxide, which are arranged in this order from the side of the transparent film backing (10). The transparent protective layer (30) lies in direct contact with the second metal oxide layer (22). The transparent protective layer (30) has a thickness of 30 nm to 150 nm, and is preferably an organic layer having a cross-linked structure derived from an ester compound having an acidic group and a polymerizable functional group in the same molecule.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a tertiary amine, including the following steps (1) and (2): Step (1); introducing an alcohol having 1 to 36 carbon atoms and a raw amine represented by the following general formula (I) into a first reaction vessel to react with each other in the presence of a catalyst and hydrogen, and then continuing the reaction while discharging water produced in the reaction and a hydrogen-containing gas out of a reaction system in the first reaction vessel: R1R2NH??(I) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 36 carbon atoms; and Step (2): introducing the hydrogen-containing gas discharged from the first reaction vessel into a second reaction vessel to reduce an amount of carbon monoxide contained in the hydrogen-containing gas, and then introducing a part or whole of the hydrogen-containing gas into the first reaction vessel.

Abstract: To provide an infrared reflective film including a reflective layer and a protective layer laminated sequentially on one surface of a substrate, wherein the protective layer is a layer including a polymer including at least any two or more repeating units of the repeating units A, B and C in the following chemical formula I, and the indentation hardness of the protective layer is 1.2 MPa or more.

Abstract: A radioactive metal-labeled anti-cadherin antibody which is obtained by binding a radioactive metallic element to an anti-cadherin antibody via a metal-chelating reagent.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radioactive metal anti-cadherin antibody which is highly accumulated specifically in cancer tissue. Another object is to provide a cancer therapeutic agent having high anti-cancer effect and safety and a cancer diagnostic agent. The radioactive metal-labeled anti-cadherin antibody is obtained by binding a radioactive metallic element to an anti-cadherin antibody via a metal-chelating reagent.

Abstract: In an inkjet printing apparatus capable of automatic duplex printing, time required to fix ink is shortened and throughput is improved without producing uneven fixing. The inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints onto a sheet, a fixing unit that heats a sheet printed by the printing unit, a conveying unit that conveys a sheet with respect to the printing unit and the fixing unit, and a controller that controls the conveying unit such that a printing region of a sheet printed on the first side by the printing unit passes through the fixing unit, and afterwards, the conveyance direction of the sheet is reversed in order to print on the second side and the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit. The controller variably controls the conveyance speed of the sheet when the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to increase the transfer rate of image data from a host computer to a printing apparatus. To achieve this object, a printing apparatus which divides the printing area in the printhead scanning direction into a plurality of regions and prints in each divided region in order to print by scanning the printhead on the printing medium includes a conversion circuit which rearranges image data that is transmitted from the host computer and arranged in a direction perpendicular to the data arrangement of the printhead, into image data in the same horizontal direction as the data arrangement direction of the printhead.

Abstract: An execution log generation apparatus generates an execution log upon receiving, for each job operation, job operation data indicating content of a job operation performed in a job procedure from a job processing apparatus that performs job processes through job procedures. The execution log generation apparatus includes a definition file holding unit that holds a definition file in which job operations performed in the job procedures are defined along a flow of the job processes and the job procedures, and in which output items to be output as execution logs for the each job operation are listed in a common format; and an execution log output unit that selects, from the definition file, an output item corresponding to a job operation contained in the job operation data, and outputs, as an execution log, the same output item as the selected output item from the job operation data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a tertiary amine, including the following steps (1) and (2): Step (1); introducing an alcohol having 1 to 36 carbon atoms and a raw amine represented by the following general formula (I) into a first reaction vessel to react with each other in the presence of a catalyst and hydrogen, and then continuing the reaction while discharging water produced in the reaction and a hydrogen-containing gas out of a reaction system in the first reaction vessel: R1R2NH??(I) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 36 carbon atoms; and Step (2): introducing the hydrogen-containing gas discharged from the first reaction vessel into a second reaction vessel to reduce an amount of carbon monoxide contained in the hydrogen-containing gas, and then introducing a part or whole of the hydrogen-containing gas into the first reaction vessel.

Abstract: An organic EL device manufacturing method includes a vapor deposition step of supplying a substrate, and while moving the substrate with a side thereof, on which an electrode layer is not provided, in contact with a surface of a can roller that rotates, discharging an evaporated organic layer forming material from a nozzle of a vapor deposition source to form an organic layer over a side of the substrate on which the electrode layer is provided, wherein the vapor deposition step is performed while, using a distance measuring section capable of measuring a first distance to the substrate supported by the can roller, and a position adjusting section capable of adjusting a second distance between the nozzle of the vapor deposition source and a surface of the substrate, control is performed by the position adjusting section so that the second distance is constant.