Abstract: The present invention intends to estimate the orientation of a resin while suppressing anisotropy. The resin composition for injection molding according to the present invention including a first thermoplastic resin and a filler including a non-fibrous first inorganic particle, further including at least one of an aggregate of second inorganic particles and a resin composition of a second thermoplastic resin. A ratio of a longest first length to a shortest second length among lengths of the aggregate and the resin composition in three directions orthogonal to each other is larger than or equal to 2 and smaller than or equal to 20, and the first length is larger than or equal to 25 ?m and smaller than or equal to 100 ?m. The aggregate or the resin composition does not include the first inorganic particles having a particle diameter of larger than or equal to 25 ?m.

Abstract: An unsaturated polyester resin composition includes an unsaturated polyester, a polymerizable monomer, a low shrinkage agent, aluminum hydroxide, and an electrically conductive filler. The unsaturated polyester is a polymerization product of a polybasic acid including a polybasic acid having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond at a predetermined ratio and a polyhydric alcohol. A polyvinyl acetate as the low shrinkage agent is included at a predetermined ratio with respect to the total amount of the unsaturated polyester, the polymerizable monomer, and the low shrinkage agent. The aluminum hydroxide is included at a predetermined ratio with respect to the total amount of the unsaturated polyester, the polymerizable monomer, and the low shrinkage agent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dental glass ionomer cement composition which can improve the mixing efficiency of a powder and a liquid to an extent where their powder to liquid ratio can be raised in mechanical mixing without reducing a fluoride-release property, and further expresses a high mechanical property. More specifically, the present invention provides a dental glass ionomer cement composition in which a powder and a liquid are separately packaged in a dental capsule, and the powder and the liquid are used by mixing immediately before their use, wherein the composition comprises (a) a hydrophobized acid reactive glass powder, (b) a polyalkene acid, and (c) water, and is not accompanied by a polymerization reaction upon setting.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes: a chamber; a gas supply device that supplies an ambient gas into the chamber; an irradiation device that irradiates a molding region with an energy beam in order to mold a three dimensional molding object, the molding region being provided with a powder bed fusion on which a powder is spread in the chamber; and a controller that performs control related to additive manufacturing of the molding object, wherein the controller is configured to increase a pressure of the ambient gas in the chamber to be higher than an atmospheric pressure when the molding object is molded.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, an electronic device, and a distance measurement system for miniaturization of pixels in a device that outputs a luminance signal and an event signal. A device includes: a pixel array unit in which an event pixel that detects that a luminance change exceeds a predetermined threshold and a gradation pixel that outputs a luminance signal of a gradation level according to a light amount of incident light are mixed, in which a color filter of the same color is formed in units of two or more pixels in the gradation pixel, and the event pixel is disposed with a region size in which at least two of the gradation pixels are arranged in a row direction or a column direction. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance measurement system or the like that generates image information and distance measurement information.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a dental resin-reinforced glass ionomer cement kit which can exhibit high adhesive property to tooth substance by a simple procedure without complicated operations and contains a dental tooth surface treatment material composition and a dental resin-reinforced glass ionomer cement composition. [Solution] To provide a dental resin-reinforced glass ionomer cement kit comprising a dental tooth surface treatment material composition (i) and a dental resin-reinforced glass ionomer cement composition (ii), wherein the dental tooth surface treatment material composition (i) contains (A) water-soluble organic solvent: 20% by mass or more and 79% by mass or less.

Abstract: A laser machining device includes a plurality of optical fibers and a collimator lens arranged in parallel along a supply nozzle for supplying a molten material, and a laser beam projected from the optical fiber is applied onto an axis between a tip of the supply nozzle and a build-up welding spot.

Abstract: A laser welding method is usable to weld a material containing copper as a main component. The laser welding method includes heating the material by irradiation with a first laser light and welding the material by irradiation of a portion, which has been irradiated with the first laser light, of the material with a second laser light with which an energy absorption rate of the copper contained in the material increases by an increase in a temperature of the material. A wavelength of the first laser light is 400 nm to 470 nm.

Abstract: This optical coupling device couples a plurality of beams to a single fiber. A plurality of light sources is arranged at predetermined intervals and emits the plurality of beams. A plurality of collimating lens is arranged to face the plurality of light sources and collimates the plurality of beams emitted from the plurality of light sources. A reduction optical system reduces the beam diameter of the plurality of beams collimated by the plurality of collimating lens. A focusing lens focuses the plurality of beams reduced by the reduction optical system on a fiber. A first distance between the light source and the collimating lens arranged so as to correspond to a beam passing through the center of the reduction optical system is different from a second distance between the light source and the collimating lens arranged so as to correspond to a beam passing through the end portion of the reduction optical system.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes six first laser devices that output respective blue laser beams for preliminary heating of an object, and a second laser device that outputs an infrared laser beam for main heating of the object. At least one of a relative positional relationship and each of respective first irradiation positions of the blue laser beams is changeable, the relative positional relationship being a relative positional relationship between the respective first irradiation positions of the six first laser beams in the object and a second irradiation position of the infrared laser beam in the object.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dental glass ionomer cement composition which can improve the mixing efficiency of a powder and a liquid to an extent where their powder to liquid ratio can be raised in mechanical mixing without reducing a fluoride-release property, and further expresses a high mechanical property. More specifically, the present invention provides a dental glass ionomer cement composition in which a powder and a liquid are separately packaged in a dental capsule, and the powder and the liquid are used by mixing immediately before their use, wherein the composition comprises (a) a hydrophobized acid reactive glass powder, (b) a polyalkene acid, and (c) water, and is not accompanied by a polymerization reaction upon setting.

Abstract: This optical coupling device couples a plurality of beams to a single fiber. A plurality of light sources is arranged at predetermined intervals and emits the plurality of beams. A plurality of collimating lens is arranged to face the plurality of light sources and collimates the plurality of beams emitted from the plurality of light sources. A reduction optical system reduces the beam diameter of the plurality of beams collimated by the plurality of collimating lens. A focusing lens focuses the plurality of beams reduced by the reduction optical system on a fiber. A first distance between the light source and the collimating lens arranged so as to correspond to a beam passing through the center of the reduction optical system is different from a second distance between the light source and the collimating lens arranged so as to correspond to a beam passing through the end portion of the reduction optical system.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus for processing a plate-shaped workpiece by applying a laser beam to the workpiece, includes a cassette table for placing thereon a cassette in which a plurality of workpieces are accommodated, a carrying-out unit for carrying out the workpiece from the cassette placed on the cassette table, and a laser beam applying unit including a focusing unit for applying the laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table. The carrying-out unit carries out the workpiece having been processed by the laser beam applying unit from the chuck table, and accommodates the workpiece into the cassette placed on the cassette table.

Abstract: A wafer processing system includes a laser processing apparatus, a grinding apparatus, a tape sticking apparatus, a first cassette placement part, a second cassette placement part, a conveying unit that conveys a wafer, and a controller that controls the respective constituent elements. The controller includes a first processing program instructing section that conveys a wafer unloaded from a first cassette in order of the laser processing apparatus, the grinding apparatus, the tape sticking apparatus, and a second cassette and sequentially carries out processing by each apparatus for the one wafer, and a second processing program instructing section that conveys the wafer unloaded from the first cassette in order of the grinding apparatus, the laser processing apparatus, the tape sticking apparatus, and the second cassette and sequentially carries out processing by each apparatus for the one wafer.

Abstract: A laser machining device includes a plurality of optical fibers and a collimator lens arranged in parallel along a supply nozzle for supplying a molten material, and a laser beam projected from the optical fiber is applied onto an axis between a tip of the supply nozzle and a build-up welding spot.

Abstract: A frame unit is transferred from a cassette to a predetermined position. The frame unit has a platelike workpiece, a tape attached to the workpiece, and a ring frame supporting a peripheral portion of the tape. The apparatus includes a holding unit for the frame unit, a moving unit for the holding unit, and a control unit. The holding unit includes a pair of gripping portions for gripping a front portion of the ring frame at two separate positions, and an abutting portion adapted to abut against the outer circumference of the ring frame. The ring frame is gripped, partially drawn from the cassette, and released. The abutting portion is brought into abutment against the outer circumference of the ring frame so as to move the ring frame into the cassette. The ring frame is gripped again, raised, and transferred to the predetermined position.

Abstract: A method for driving an internal combustion engine is a method for reducing nitrogen oxides in emissions of the internal combustion engine, and includes a process of introducing air, which has a low oxygen concentration and contains no emissions, into the internal combustion engine, and a process of mixing humidifying water with a hydrocarbon fuel and injecting the mixture into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine as an emulsion fuel.

Abstract: Apparatus determines whether a stored object is a wafer alone or a frame unit formed by uniting the wafer and a ring frame. The apparatus includes first and second detecting units, the second detecting unit being stored more shallowly than the first detecting unit. The apparatus determines whether light transmitted by the first detecting unit is blocked by the object and does not reach a light receiving portion of the first detecting unit. When light transmitted from the second detecting unit is blocked by the object and does not reach a light receiving portion of the second detecting unit, the apparatus determines that the object is the frame unit, whereas when the light transmitted from the second detecting unit is not blocked by the object and reaches the light receiving portion of the second detecting unit, the apparatus determines that the object is the wafer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laser processing apparatus for processing a plate-shaped workpiece by applying a laser beam to the workpiece. The laser processing apparatus includes a cassette table for placing thereon a cassette in which a plurality of workpieces are accommodated, a carrying-out unit for carrying out the workpiece from the cassette placed on the cassette table, and a laser beam applying unit including a focusing unit for applying the laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table. The carrying-out unit carries out the workpiece having been processed by the laser beam applying unit from the chuck table, and accommodates the workpiece into the cassette placed on the cassette table.

Abstract: A frame unit is transferred from a cassette to a predetermined position. The frame unit has a platelike workpiece, a tape attached to the workpiece, and a ring frame supporting a peripheral portion of the tape. The apparatus includes a holding unit for the frame unit, a moving unit for the holding unit, and a control unit. The holding unit includes a pair of gripping portions for gripping a front portion of the ring frame at two separate positions, and an abutting portion adapted to abut against the outer circumference of the ring frame. The ring frame is gripped, partially drawn from the cassette, and released. The abutting portion is brought into abutment against the outer circumference of the ring frame so as to move the ring frame into the cassette. The ring frame is gripped again, raised, and transferred to the predetermined position.