Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an aqueous seed coating composition based on a specific polyvinyl alcohol copolymer resin as a binder plus a hydrophobic pesticide additive, and seeds coated with such coating composition, which coated seeds have a desirable combination of bulk low dusting, bulk seed flowability and good germination characteristics.

Abstract: A silicon photonics integration circuit includes a silicon substrate member; a RX sub-circuit formed in the silicon substrate member including multiple RX-input ports each having a mode size converter configured to receive an incoming light signal into one of multiple waveguides and multiple RX photo detectors coupled respectively to the multiple waveguides; and a TX sub-circuit formed in the silicon substrate member including one or more TX-input ports each having a mode size converter coupled to a first TX photo detector into one input waveguide, one or more 1×2 directional couplers each coupled between the input waveguide and two mod-input waveguides, multiple modulators coupled between respective multiple mod-input waveguides and multiple mod-output waveguides each being coupled to a second TX photo detector into one of multiple output waveguides, and multiple TX-output ports each having a mode size converter coupled to respective one of the multiple output waveguides.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer module includes a housing and a cell unit disposed in the housing. The cell unit has a cell enclosing an alkali metal, a heat conductive member covering the cell, and a heater provided to the heat conductive member. The cell includes a main body portion having a light-passing region through which at least one of pump light and probe light passes. The heat conductive member is continuously provided over an entire region of an outer surface of the main body portion excluding the light-passing region.

Abstract: [Object] To provide an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method that can accurately capture an image of a sample irrespective of the presence or absence of thermal expansion by the sample. [Solving Means] An image capturing apparatus includes a table, a chuck having a back surface secured to the table and a front surface for holding a sample under suction, a temperature sensor that obtains a temperature of the chuck, a column that captures an image of the sample mounted on the chuck, a mirror provided on the table, a laser interferometer that emits laser light onto the mirror and measures a distance to the mirror, and a control unit that calculates an amount of position correction for an image capturing location on the basis of the temperature of the chuck.

Abstract: A stage device includes a support stage supporting a target on which positioning is performed and a levitation mechanism levitating and positioning the support stage by a magnetic field. The stage device includes: a first motor configured to generate thrust in a first direction of the levitation mechanism; a second motor configured to generate thrust in a second direction different from the first direction; and a third motor configured to generate thrust in a third direction different from the first and second directions. In the first motor, the second motor, and the third motor, each of yokes on a non-levitation side corresponding to the each of motors shares the same member and is integrated. Each of the yokes that shares the same member and is integrated is disposed at both ends of a table in the second direction and a side of each yoke in the first direction is fixed to the table.

Abstract: A bearing includes a plurality of claws located in a circumferential direction at an end face of an inner ring and protruding from the end face of an inner ring in an axial direction. A lock mechanism can be used to fasten the claws to a shaft. At least one of the plurality of claws has an opening provided therein.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a semiconductor device which has higher resistance to bias at high temperatures and high humidities than ever before, while achieving good connection between a field limiting layer and a field plate; and a power conversion device which uses this semiconductor device. A semiconductor device according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a floating field limiting layer that is provided in a termination region and a field plate that is electrically connected to the field limiting layer, and is also characterized in that: the field plate is formed of a polysilicon; the field plate and the field limiting layer are connected to each other via an Al electrode; and the connection between the field limiting layer and the Al electrode and the connection between the field plate and the Al electrode are established at different contacts.

Abstract: There is provided an exposure device that irradiates an object scanned in a scanning direction with light from a spatial light modulator to expose the object, the exposure device including an illumination unit that illuminates the spatial light modulator with illumination light, wherein the illumination unit includes an optical integrator into which the illumination light enters, and a dimming member that is disposed on an optical path between an emission surface of the optical integrator and the spatial light modulator, is disposed at a position where the dimming member is not in contact with the optical integrator nor the spatial light modulator, and dims a part of the illumination light.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laminate shaped to have fine irregularities using a general-purpose soft polyurethane foam without using a soft polyurethane foam having a special configuration. A soft polyurethane foam and a flexible surface member are laminated via a moisture-curing hot-melt adhesive. By curing the moisture-curing hot-melt adhesive, the soft polyurethane foam and the surface member are laminated and integrated with each other to form a laminate for shaping irregularities. The laminate for shaping irregularities is heated and compressed by a heating compression device having irregularities on a pressing surface thereof to shape irregularities on a surface of the laminate for shaping irregularities.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sample measurement device comprising a first processing unit that performs a first measurement on a sample contained in a first container in a first cycle; a second processing unit that performs a second measurement on a sample contained in a second container in a second cycle different from the first cycle; and a relay section which is disposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit and in which the second container is positioned, wherein the first processing unit performs a transferring operation of transferring the second container to the relay section, and the second processing unit performs a receiving operation of receiving the second container that has been transferred to the relay section from the relay section.

Abstract: It is possible to perform prompt and accurate diagnosis of a pneumatic device while mitigating a burden on a user at the time of introduction. A flow sensor includes: a flow rate measuring element for measuring a flow rate of a working gas in a pipe; a pressure measuring element for measuring a pressure of the working gas in the pipe; and an evaluation unit that determines a characteristic amount indicating an operation of the pneumatic device based on a combination of the flow rate measured by the flow rate measuring element and the pressure measured by the pressure measuring element, and evaluates the operation of the pneumatic device based on the determined characteristic amount.

Abstract: An opening detection sheet to be attached to a packaging material includes a metal layer, an IC, an insulating layer, and a first adhesive layer. The metal layer is releasable from the packaging material and includes a slit. The IC is mounted on the metal layer so as to cover at least a portion of the slit and for communicating with an external device. The insulating layer is disposed on an opposite side from the IC with respect to the metal layer. The first adhesive layer is bonded to the insulating layer on an opposite side from the metal layer so as to be bonded to the packaging material.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula. R1—R2—CH2—R3—CH2—OCH2CH(OH)CH2O—CH2—R3—CH2—R4—R5 (in the formula, R3 represents a perfluoropolyether chain; R2 and R4 represent a divalent linking group having a polar group and may be the same or different from each other; R1 and R5 represent a terminal group bonded to an oxygen atom of R2 or R4 and may be the same or different from each other; and at least one of R1 and R5 is an organic group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and at least one of hydrogens included in the organic group is substituted by a cyano group).

Abstract: A pattern-exposure-apparatus includes illumination-unit that irradiates illumination-light to spatial-light-modulating-element including a plurality of micro-mirrors that are driven to switch between ON-state and OFF-state based on drawing-data, and projection-unit that allows incidence of reflected light from the micro-mirrors of the spatial-light-modulating-element in the ON-state as image-forming-light-flux and that projects image of pattern corresponding to the drawing-data to a substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a stage device comprising a stage, a Z-axis motor that magnetically floats the stage, and an X-axis motor that drives, in one axial direction within a plane, the stage floated by the Z-axis motor, wherein: the X-axis motor is provided with an X-axis coil, a pair of X-axis magnets that face each other and that sandwich the X-axis coil in the vertical direction without contacting the X-axis coil, and an X-axis yoke that holds the pair of X-axis magnets; the Z-axis motor is provided with a Z-axis coil, a Z-axis magnet, and a Z-axis yoke that holds the Z-axis magnet; and the Z-axis motor is disposed at a position that is below the X-axis motor such that the magnetic field which has leaked from the Z-axis motor is blocked by the X-axis yoke. Thus, it is possible to suppress magnetic field leakage and to perform high-speed positioning.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an oligonucleic acid compound, the method being characterized by (1) treating a compound represented by formula [A-1] and a compound represented by formula [B-1] with a condensation agent in the presence of a base and then (2) treating the compounds with an oxidizing agent and an organic amine to produce a compound represented by formula [C-1] (in the formulae, each symbol is as defined in the description).

Abstract: A pattern-exposure-apparatus includes: spatial-light-modulating-element including a plurality of micro-mirrors selectively driven based on drawing data, illumination-unit that irradiates spatial-light-modulating-element with illumination-light at predetermined-incidence-angle, and projection-unit that projects reflected-light from selected micro-mirrors of spatial-light-modulating-element in ON-state to substrate, and pattern-exposure-apparatus projects and exposes pattern corresponding to drawing data to substrate, illumination-unit including condensing-optical-member that condenses light from surface-light-source having predetermined shape so as to obliquely irradiate light to spatial-light-modulating-element and that is disposed along optical-axis which is inclined at incidence-angle with respect to optical-axis of projection-unit so as to optically conjugate surface-light-source with pupil of projection-unit, and correcting-optical-member that deforms shape of outline of the surface-light-source so as to

Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA), which includes a gain medium to amplify laser radiation within a given gain band, a first reflector at a first end of the gain medium, and a waveguide coupled to convey the laser radiation into and out of a second end of the gain medium. An external laser cavity, disposed on an optical substrate, is optically coupled to the waveguide. The external laser cavity includes a second reflector, a comb filter, disposed between the second reflector and the RSOA and configured to pass a set of distinct wavelength sub-bands within the gain band, the set of distinct wavelength sub-bands defining a comb, and a bandpass filter between the second reflector and the RSOA in series with the comb filter, having a passband encompassing a subset of the wavelength sub-bands in the comb.

Abstract: An antibody-drug conjugate represented by formula (I): (where Ab is an antibody, X is a group represented by formula (X-1), formula (X-2) or formula (X-3): (where at the left represents the binding site with NH and at the right represents the binding side with D), D is a group represented by formula (D-1) or formula (D-2): (where represents the binding site with X), and n is in the range of about 1 to about 8).

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a substrate stage on which substrates are placed, and first projection modules each including a spatial light modulator, the first projection modules projecting wiring patterns each connecting semiconductor chips arranged on each of the substrates onto the substrates, wherein the first projection modules project the wiring patterns onto different substrates, substantially simultaneously.