Abstract: Provided is a working machine with improved durability. A nail driver (working machine) includes a hitting portion that is formed in a rod shape extending about an axis line, an injection portion that abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the hitting portion, thereby guiding a movement of the hitting portion toward one side in the axial direction, and a supply portion that energizes a fastener toward one side in a direction intersecting with the axial direction, thereby supplying the fastener to the injection portion. The hitting portion has a tip part, and a center part provided at a position different from that of the tip part in the axial direction. At least a part of an outer peripheral surface of the tip part (tip part outer peripheral surface) on an anti-feeder side with respect to the axis line protrudes from an outer peripheral surface of the center part (center par outer peripheral surface) on a supply portion side with respect to the axis line.

Abstract: A ferrule is formed with an optical fiber insertion hole into which an optical fiber is inserted, and includes a resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin and a filler, wherein a size of coarse particles originated from the filler is 50 ?m or less, or a size of aggregates originated from the filler is 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: According to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing: a compound represented by General Formula (1); a solute; and a nonaqueous organic solvent, a nonaqueous electrolytic solution battery, and a compound represented by the General Formula (1), a nonaqueous electrolytic solution and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution battery having a low initial resistance value, and a compound that can be suitably used for the above nonaqueous electrolytic solution are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen analysis method for analyzing a specimen regarding a plurality of measurement items, the specimen analysis method comprising: measuring a first measurement item and a second measurement item on the basis of a measurement order; executing a process related to a time difference between a measurement of the first measurement item and a measurement of the second measurement item; and obtaining a calculation value from a measurement value of the first measurement item and a measurement value of the second measurement item.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing lithium difluorophosphate in which difluorophosphate ester reacts with a lithium salt compound in a nonaqueous organic solvent without using water as a raw material, a method for producing a difluoro phosphate ester including a step of allowing a dihalophosphate ester to react with a fluorinating agent having a concentration of contained hydrogen fluoride of 15 mol % or less in a nonaqueous organic solvent; lithium difluorophosphate in which a value of a relational expression (d90-d10)/MV represented by d90 which is a particle size at which a volume cumulative distribution is 90%, d10 which is a particle size at which a volume cumulative distribution is 10%, and MV which is a volume average particle size is 10 or less; and methods for producing a nonaqueous electrolytic solution and a nonaqueous secondary battery using the production method described above.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a main CPU configured to output a position command value, a plurality of integrated circuits connected to the main CPU and provided depending on the number of a plurality of motors, and a plurality of sub-CPUs connected to the plurality of corresponding respective integrated circuits, wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuits includes a motor interface control unit that outputs a drive command value to an amplifier that drives each of the motors in such a way as to move the motor to a position of the position command value. Each of the plurality of sub-CPUs controls an output of the drive command value by the motor interface control unit in the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU, based on the position command value and a position feedback value of the motor being read via the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a gasket that can stabilize the size and shape of the gasket without a mold. The manufacturing method of the gasket includes the steps of discharging liquid rubber onto a base member using a discharge device, and forming a rubber gasket on the base member by curing the discharged liquid rubber. The discharge device includes a valve body which opens and closes a flow channel through which the liquid rubber flows and a discharge port from which droplets of the liquid rubber are intermittently discharged as the valve body opens and closes a valve. The discharge device is a contactless-type discharge device used in a state in which the discharge port is not in contact with the base member.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a nonaqueous electrolyte solution which is used in a nonaqueous electrolyte battery having a low initial resistance value; and a compound which is contained in this nonaqueous electrolyte solution. A nonaqueous electrolyte solution according to the present invention contains a compound represented by formula (1), a solute and a nonaqueous organic solvent. In general formula (1), each of R1 and R2 represents PO(Rf)2 or SO2Rf, and Rf represents, for example, a fluorine atom; each of R3 and R4 represents, for example, a lithium ion, or alternatively R3 and R4 may form a ring structure together with a nitrogen atom to which the moieties are bonded, and in this case, R3 and R4 form an alkylene group in combination with each other; an oxygen atom may be contained between carbon atom-carbon atom bonds in the alkylene group; a side chain thereof may have an alkyl group; and an arbitrary hydrogen atom in the alkyl group and the alkylene group may be substituted by a fluorine atom.

Abstract: In an example of an embodiment, a first sample set is prepared that includes a test sample prepared from a first subject sample and a reagent, and at least one control sample prepared from at least one of a positive control and a negative control, and a second sample set is prepared that includes a test sample prepared from a second subject sample and a reagent and does not contain at least one of the control samples contained in the first sample set. The nucleic acid amplification in the first sample set is measured in the first unit, the nucleic acid amplification in the second sample set is measured in the second unit, and the measurement result of each test sample contained in the first sample set and second sample set is analyzed based on the measurement result of the control sample contained in at least the first sample set.

Abstract: Disclosed is an isolated monoclonal antibody against a human Transforming Growth Factor-? (TGF-?) Latency Associated Protein (LAP) degradate, the isolated monoclonal antibody being capable of recognizing an integrin binding site in the human TGF-? LAP degradate.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to the present invention includes the following components: (I) a nonaqueous organic solvent; (II) an ionic salt as a solute; (III) at least one additive compound represented by the general formula (1); and (IV) at least one additive compound represented by the general formula (2), wherein the concentration of the component (IV) is 0.05 to 25.0 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the component (III) where R1 are each independently a substituent group having at least one kind selected from unsaturated bond and aromatic ring.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a main CPU configured to output a position command value, a plurality of integrated circuits connected to the main CPU and provided depending on the number of a plurality of motors, and a plurality of sub-CPUs connected to the plurality of corresponding respective integrated circuits, wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuits includes a motor interface control unit that outputs a drive command value to an amplifier that drives each of the motors in such a way as to move the motor to a position of the position command value. Each of the plurality of sub-CPUs controls an output of the drive command value by the motor interface control unit in the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU, based on the position command value and a position feedback value of the motor being read via the integrated circuit connected to the sub-CPU.

Abstract: Disclosed is an isolated monoclonal antibody against a human TGF-? LAP degradate, the isolated monoclonal being capable of recognizing an integrin binding site in the human TGF-? LAP degradate.

Abstract: A parking assist method includes acquiring recognition information on parked vehicles existing in a parking lot; extracting two or more vehicles parked side by side from the recognition information and grouping the two or more vehicles into a set of vehicles; and when a space into which parking is possible exists between the parked vehicles included in the grouped set of vehicles, estimating the space as an available parking space. The disclosure further includes setting a pathway direction reference line extending along a pathway of the parking lot; calculating reference distances between the pathway direction reference line and the parked vehicles included in the above recognition information; and extracting the two or more vehicles from the above recognition information and grouping the two or more vehicles into the set of vehicles on the basis of the calculated reference distances.

Abstract: A linear motion guide unit restrains fluctuations in sliding friction and generation of heat by correcting the postures of rollers having been inclined in a no-load area such that their axes become orthogonal to a guide surface of a carriage to thereby introduce the rollers in proper postures into a load area. A retainer plate of the guide unit has a guide surface for guiding end surfaces of the rollers and has protrusions protruding from the guide surface at its opposite end portions facing crownings of the carriage. The rollers rolling from a turnaround passage to a load-carrying race are pressed by the protrusions toward the guide surface of the carriage so as to be arrayed in such a posture that the axes of the rollers become orthogonal to the guide surface on the inlet side of the crowning of the carriage, whereby the occurrence of roller skew is prevented.

Abstract: In the linear motion guide unit, a retainer plate for retaining rolling elements, or rollers, is prevented from deformation so as to smoothly guide the rollers. The retainer plate is composed of a retainer member, frame members fitted into respective through holes formed in the retainer member, and a fixing member disposed in a longitudinally extending recess of the retainer member. The frame members form a predetermined gap between the fixing member and a carriage. Tightening forces of fastening bolts are not applied to the retainer member, thereby avoiding deformation of the retainer member.

Abstract: A communication method for a serial communications unit converts reception serial data into reception parallel data, stores the reception parallel data in a memory unit, and calculates a reception delay time of a reception start timing at which reception of packets is started. In addition, the reception parallel data which is stored in the memory unit is read out, and transmission parallel data, in which a transmission delay time of a transmission start timing at which transmission of packets is started is controlled so that a delay time from the reception start timing of packets and until transmission of packets is started is made constant, is output in synchronism with a transmission parallel clock pulse signal, and the output transmission parallel data is converted into transmission serial data and then is transmitted.

Abstract: A parking assist method includes acquiring recognition information on parked vehicles existing in a parking lot; extracting two or more vehicles parked side by side from the recognition information and grouping the two or more vehicles into a set of vehicles; and when a space into which parking is possible exists between the parked vehicles included in the grouped set of vehicles, estimating the space as an available parking space. The disclosure further includes setting a pathway direction reference line extending along a pathway of the parking lot; calculating reference distances between the pathway direction reference line and the parked vehicles included in the above recognition information; and extracting the two or more vehicles from the above recognition information and grouping the two or more vehicles into the set of vehicles on the basis of the calculated reference distances.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for assisting recurrence risk prediction for hepatocellular carcinoma patients. The method comprises measuring glypican 3 (GPC3) peptide recognized by both a first monoclonal antibody and a second monoclonal antibody in a blood sample of a hepatocellular carcinoma patient, by contacting the sample with the first monoclonal antibody that recognizes a peptide having an amino acid sequence in the N-terminal side of GPC3 and the second monoclonal antibody that recognizes a peptide having an amino acid sequence in the C-terminal side of GPC3, and detecting the complex comprising GPC3 peptide, the first antibody and the second antibody.

Abstract: In the linear motion guide unit, a retainer plate for retaining rolling elements, or rollers, is prevented from deformation so as to smoothly guide the rollers. The retainer plate is composed of a retainer member, frame members fitted into respective through holes formed in the retainer member, and a fixing member disposed in a longitudinally extending recess of the retainer member. The frame members form a predetermined gap between the fixing member and a carriage. Tightening forces of fastening bolts are not applied to the retainer member, thereby avoiding deformation of the retainer member.