Abstract: Provided is a drug superior for preventing and/or treating dementia. It contains a carbostyril derivative of the following formula (1) (wherein R is a cycloalkyl group, A is a lower alkyl group, and a single bond or a double bond is present between the 3-position and the 4-position of the carbostyril nucleus) and dihydroquercetin.

Abstract: A nozzle tip for producing glass fibers has a pair of long-side walls and a pair of short-side walls, each of the long-side walls and the short-side walls containing platinum or a platinum alloy, and a nozzle orifice for discharging the glass melt, the nozzle orifice being formed by the long-side walls and the short-side walls. The nozzle orifice has a flat hole shape in horizontal cross-section. Each of the long-side walls has a cut-out on a discharge side of the glass melt, a width of the cut-out being 10-55% of a length of a longitudinal center axis of the flat hole shape of the nozzle orifice. The pair of long-side walls has a symmetrical shape about the center axis of the nozzle orifice. This nozzle tip makes it possible to efficiently produce glass fibers having a desired cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A reception unit receives a processing instruction including a recipe. A calculation unit calculates an identifier from the recipe received by the receiving unit. A determination unit determines whether an identical identifier to the calculated identifier is stored in a memory. A control unit controls a substrate processing apparatus using an operation data item associated with the identical identifier and the recipe received by the receiving unit when the determination unit determines that the identical identifier is stored in the memory.

Abstract: The bushing for producing glass fibers of the present disclosure includes a base plate; and nozzles arranged on the base plate and each configured to discharge glass melts. The base plate is provided with base orifices each having a horizontally flat cross section. Each of the nozzles is provided with a nozzle wall projecting from the base plate along an outline of a corresponding base orifice, and a nozzle orifice that penetrates the nozzle from the base orifice to a distal end of the nozzle wall while keeping the shape of the base orifice. The nozzle wall is provided with a pair of cutouts that do not project from the base plate. The cutouts oppose each other with a longitudinal center axis of the nozzle orifice in between. The width of each of the cutouts is 10% or more and 95% or less of the length of the longitudinal center axis of the nozzle orifice.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print head, a processor, and a drying mechanism. The print head ejects ink onto a printing medium located in a printing region to form an image. The processor is configured to control a duty that is an amount of ink ejected by the print head onto the printing medium per unit area. The drying mechanism includes a transport unit that transports the printing medium in a first direction and a heater that heats the printing medium. The drying mechanism is configured to dry the printing medium having the image formed thereon by the print head, by transporting, using the transport unit, the printing medium to a drying region in which the printing medium is dried by the heater. The processor controls drying of the printing medium performed by the drying mechanism in accordance with the duty.

Abstract: The electroconductive filler of the present invention is formed of glass fiber powder and granules. The glass fiber is equipped with a metal coating in the longitudinal direction of the glass fiber, and the glass fiber has a fiber length distribution. L10 (a fiber length at 10% in a number-basis cumulative distribution is 20 ?m to 200 ?m, L97 (a fiber length at 97% in the number-basis cumulative distribution) is 400 ?m to 1000 ?m, and the glass fiber mean fiber diameter is 1 to 40 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a metal-coated glass fiber according to the present invention includes: drawing a glass fiber from a bushing nozzle of a glass melting furnace; discharging, from an orifice of a metal melting furnace in which a metal for forming a metal coating layer is melted, a molten metal in a dome shape or substantially spherical shape; and bringing the glass fiber into contact with the molten metal, wherein the metal melting furnace has on a wall surface thereof two orifices to discharge two droplets of the molten metal such that end portions of the two droplets abut or overlap each other to define a recess therebetween, and wherein the metal coating layer is formed on the glass fiber by passing the glass fiber downward through the recess and bringing the glass fiber into contact with both of the two droplets.

Abstract: A nozzle tip for producing glass fibers has a pair of long-side walls and a pair of short-side walls, each of the long-side walls and the short-side walls containing platinum or a platinum alloy, and a nozzle orifice for discharging the glass melt, the nozzle orifice being formed by the long-side walls and the short-side walls. The nozzle orifice has a flat hole shape in horizontal cross-section. Each of the long-side walls has a cut-out on a discharge side of the glass melt, a width of the cut-out being 10-55% of a length of a longitudinal center axis of the flat hole shape of the nozzle orifice. The pair of long-side walls has a symmetrical shape about the center axis of the nozzle orifice. This nozzle tip makes it possible to efficiently produce glass fibers having a desired cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether and a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.

Abstract: A working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention comprises a refrigerant comprising difluoromethane and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon wherein a mass of the difluoromethane/the unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon is 95/5 to 10/90, and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one base oil selected from among polyol esters with a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 3.2 to 5.8 and polyvinyl ethers with a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 3.2 to 5.8.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid chemical for forming a water-repellent protecting film on a wafer. The liquid chemical is a liquid chemical containing a water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent for forming the water-repellent protecting film, at the time of cleaning the wafer which has a finely uneven pattern at its surface and contains at least at a part of a surface of a recessed portion of the uneven pattern at least one kind of matter selected from the group consisting of titanium, titanium nitride, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum nitride, ruthenium and silicon, at least on the surface of the recessed portion. The liquid chemical is characterized in that the water-repellent-protecting-film-forming agent is a water-insoluble surfactant. The water-repellent protecting film formed with the liquid chemical is capable of preventing a pattern collapse of the wafer, in a cleaning step.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print head, a processor, and a drying mechanism. The print head ejects ink onto a printing medium located in a printing region to form an image. The processor is configured to control a duty that is an amount of ink ejected by the print head onto the printing medium per unit area. The drying mechanism includes a transport unit that transports the printing medium in a first direction and a heater that heats the printing medium. The drying mechanism is configured to dry the printing medium having the image formed thereon by the print head, by transporting, using the transport unit, the printing medium to a drying region in which the printing medium is dried by the heater. The processor controls drying of the printing medium performed by the drying mechanism in accordance with the duty.

Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether arid a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.

Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the present invention comprises a refrigerant comprising a first refrigerant component and a second refrigerant component, and having a global warming potential (GWP) of 500 or less, wherein the first refrigerant component is at least one selected from difluoromethane and tetrafluoropropene, and the second refrigerant component is at least one selected from carbon dioxide and a hydrocarbon having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and a refrigerating machine oil comprising at least one selected from a polyol ester, a polyvinyl ether and a polyalkylene glycol compound as a base oil, wherein a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of the base oil is 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic shielding metal-coated glass fiber filler to be used as a composite with resin, the glass fiber filler including: glass fiber; and a metal coating in the longitudinal direction of the glass fiber, wherein the metal coating is made of an alloy containing a first metal consisting of zinc and a second metal consisting of a metal having a lower oxidation-reduction potential than zinc (i.e., being more easily oxidized than zinc), the second metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, beryllium, aluminum, titanium, zirconium, manganese, and tantalum, and the alloy contains the first metal in an amount of 50% by mass or more.

Abstract: A surface treatment was conducted by using a liquid chemical containing a water-repellent protective film forming agent represented by the following general formula [1], subsequent to a step of cleaning a metal-based wafer and prior to a step of drying the wafer. (R1 represents a C1-C18 monovalent hydrocarbon group the hydrogen elements of which may partially or entirely be replaced with a fluorine element(s). R2 mutually independently represents a monovalent organic group having a C1-C18 hydrocarbon group the hydrogen elements of which may partially or entirely be replaced with a fluorine element(s). “a” is an integer of from 0 to 2.

Abstract: A liquid chemical for forming a water repellent protecting film on a wafer having at its surface an uneven pattern and containing at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of titanium, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum and ruthenium at surfaces of recessed portions of the uneven pattern, the water repellent protecting film being formed at least on the surfaces of the recessed portions. The liquid chemical is characterized by including: a water repellent protecting film forming agent; and water, and characterized in that the water repellent protecting film forming agent is at least one selected from compounds represented by the following general formula [1] and salt compounds thereof and that the concentration of the water relative to the total quantity of a solvent contained in the liquid chemical is not smaller than 50 mass %.

Abstract: A method for cleaning a wafer that has a pattern of recessed and projected portions formed on a surface thereof and contains at least one element selected from titanium, tungsten, aluminum, copper, tin, tantalum, and ruthenium on a surface of a recessed portion of the pattern. The method at least includes a pre-treating step of holding a cleaning liquid at least in the recessed portion of the pattern; a protective film forming step of holding a protective film forming chemical liquid, which is a chemical liquid containing a water-repellant protective film forming agent, at least in the recessed portion of the pattern after the pre-treating step; and a drying step of removing the liquids from the pattern by drying. The cleaning liquid is acidic if the protective film forming chemical liquid is basic, or is basic if the protective film forming chemical liquid is acidic.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising a base oil; a sulfide compound; and an orthophosphoric acid ester, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the orthophosphoric acid ester is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass, based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.