Abstract: A surface-emitting semiconductor laser includes a first-conductivity-type layer, an active layer, and a second-conductivity-type layer. The active layer and the second-conductivity-type layer are electrically connected in a current constriction layer through an opening. The surface-emitting semiconductor laser further includes an insulating layer that has translucency with respect to an emission wavelength of the active layer, a first electrode electrically connected to the first-conductivity-type layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second-conductivity-type layer.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method that enables recording of an image with a wide expressible color gamut and high fluorescence intensity. The ink jet recording method comprises a step of recording an image by applying first and second inks to a recording medium by using an ink jet recording apparatus, including a recording head having ejection orifices configured to eject the first and second inks, respectively, such that an area where the first ink is applied and an area where the second ink is applied at least partially overlap each other. The first ink contains an alkaline buffer and a pigment particle dispersed by an effect of an anionic group, the second ink contains a fluorescent particle dispersed by an effect of an anionic group, and a density ?1 (g/cm3) of the pigment particle is more than a density ?2 (g/cm3) of the fluorescent particle.

Abstract: The ECU of the stabilizer control apparatus determines, based on a high frequency component of a wheel acceleration and a low frequency component of a wheel speed difference, whether a road surface state is a rough road state or a smooth road state. When the road surface state is determined to be the rough road state, the ECU sets a turning determination threshold to a rough road threshold. When the road surface state is determined to be the smooth road state, the ECU sets the threshold to a smooth road threshold. When a turning determination parameter is greater than the threshold, the ECU sets each of first, second, and third cylinders to a lock state to increase rigidity of stabilizers. When the turning determination parameter is smaller than the turning determination threshold, the ECU sets each of the cylinders to a free state to decrease the rigidity of the stabilizers.

Abstract: This invention provides a cleaning agent composition that exhibits good storage stability, especially storage stability at low temperature, and a cleaning agent composition that can be favorably dispensed from a dispenser. The cleaning agent composition of the present invention comprises (a) a fatty acid salt and (b) a sophorose lipid, wherein the proportion of the component (a) is 4 to 18 mass % based on the cleaning agent composition taken as 100 mass %; the proportion of a fatty acid salt having 12 or fewer carbon atoms is 15 parts by mass or more, and the proportion of a fatty acid salt having 16 or more carbon atoms is 60 parts by mass or less, based on 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the component (a); the proportion of an acidic sophorose lipid is 80 mass % or more based on the total amount of the component (b) taken as 100 mass %; and the proportion of the component (b) is 5 to 80 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the component (a).

Abstract: A vehicle stabilizer system, including: a stabilizer device and a switching mechanism to switch a roll suppressing function by a stabilizer bar between an effective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered effective and an ineffective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered ineffective; and a controller configured to determine whether a lateral acceleration of a vehicle body is greater than a threshold lateral acceleration and control the switching mechanism to render the roll suppressing function effective when the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration and ineffective when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, wherein the controller employs, as a determination lateral acceleration for determining whether the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, a smaller one of an actual lateral acceleration and an estimated lateral acceleration estimated based on a turning degree

Abstract: The ECU of the stabilizer control apparatus determines, based on a high frequency component of a wheel acceleration and a low frequency component of a wheel speed difference, whether a road surface state is a rough road state or a smooth road state. When the road surface state is determined to be the rough road state, the ECU sets a turning determination threshold to a rough road threshold. When the road surface state is determined to be the smooth road state, the ECU sets the threshold to a smooth road threshold. When a turning determination parameter is greater than the threshold, the ECU sets each of first, second, and third cylinders to a lock state to increase rigidity of stabilizers. When the turning determination parameter is smaller than the turning determination threshold, the ECU sets each of the cylinders to a free state to decrease the rigidity of the stabilizers.

Abstract: In each of a first stabilizer device and a second stabilizer device, a stabilizer bar is supported by one or more cylinders, a communication passage via which two fluid chambers of each cylinder are connected is provided, and an opening-closing valve is disposed in the communication passage such that an inter-fluid-chamber communication state where the two fluid chambers communicate with each other and an inter-fluid-chamber shutoff state where the two fluid chambers are shut off from each other are selectively established. Hereby, a vehicle body roll restraining effect is achieved in the inter-fluid-chamber shutoff state while the vehicle body roll restraining effect is cancelled in the inter-fluid-chamber communication state. A linkage mechanism by which those two states of each of the stabilizer devices are changed in conjunction with each other is provided.

Abstract: In a stabilizer device, a stabilizer bar having both ends connected to right and left wheel holding portions is supported at a pair of right and left supported portions of the stabilizer bar by a vehicle body via a pair of cylinders that can be extended and retracted based on vertical movement of wheels. The stabilizer device includes two communication passages, each of which allows one of two liquid chambers of one of the pair of cylinders and the other of two liquid chambers of the other cylinder to communicate with each other. The stabilizer device further includes an inter-passage communication passage that allows the two communication passages to communicate with each other, and an on-off valve that is opened and closed to open and close the inter-passage communication passage.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes a phosphoric acid diester salt, which can suppress deterioration of charge-discharge characteristics of a power storage element, and can suppress the rise in internal resistance after storage at high temperature. The phosphoric acid diester salt is represented by the following chemical formula (1): in which Mn+ represents a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkali earth metal ion, an aluminum ion, a transition metal ion, or an onium ion, R1 and R2 are different from each other and represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and having at least one of a halogen atom, a heteroatom, and an unsaturated bond, and n represents a valence.

Abstract: A modified block copolymer according to the present invention is a modified block copolymer comprising a polymer block comprising a vinyl aromatic compound as a main constituent (A), a polymer block comprising a conjugate diene compound as a main constituent (B), and an atomic group having NHx (x=0 to 2) (C). In the modified block copolymer, the polymer block comprising a conjugate diene compound as a main constituent (B) is a hydrogenated product, the atomic group having NHx (x=0 to 2) (C) is contained in a side chain, and a compound forming the atomic group having NHx (x=0 to 2) (C).

Abstract: An aqueous ink for an ink jet including a silver particle that contains (i) a first organic monocarboxylic acid having a pKa of 4.60 or more and (ii) a second organic monocarboxylic acid having a pKa of less than 4.60 and having a carbon number of 2 or less.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a secondary battery exhibits excellent cycle characteristics even in a high temperature environment. The solution can be included in a secondary battery. The solution includes at least one component (A) represented by the following chemical formula: in which Mn+ represents at least one of a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion, an aluminum ion, a transition metal ion and an onium ion, X represents a halogen atom, R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and having at least any one of a halogen atom, a heteroatom or an unsaturated bond, and n represents a valence.

Abstract: A surface-emitting semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor laminated structure that includes a first-conductivity-type layer, an active layer, and a second-conductivity-type layer and in which light generated in the active layer is extracted as laser light from a side of the second-conductivity-type layer while resonating along a lamination direction of these layers, a current constriction layer in which the active layer and the second-conductivity-type layer are electrically connected together through an opening, an insulating layer that has translucency with respect to an emission wavelength of the active layer, a first electrode electrically connected to the first-conductivity-type layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second-conductivity-type layer, and, in the surface-emitting semiconductor laser, a part of the insulating layer is exposed from the second electrode, and the insulating layer exposed from the second electrode includes a first portion that has a first thickness and

Abstract: A fuel cell catalyst which has high power output characteristics and suppresses degradation of power generation performance due to starting, stopping or load variation; a manufacturing method thereof; a membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell; and a fuel cell including the same. The fuel cell catalyst includes at least catalytically active species and a carrier supporting the catalytically active species. The catalytically active species are at least one selected from the group consisting of platinum, a platinum alloy, and a core-shell catalyst in which a core of a metal different from platinum is coated with a shell containing platinum, the carrier is a carbon material, and at least one of the catalytically active species and the carrier contain(s) fluorine atoms.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes a phosphoric acid diester salt, which can suppress deterioration of charge-discharge characteristics of a power storage element, and can suppress the rise in internal resistance after storage at high temperature. The phosphoric acid diester salt is represented by the following chemical formula (1): in which Mn+ represents a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkali earth metal ion, an aluminum ion, a transition metal ion, or an onium ion, R1 and R2 are different from each other and represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and having at least one of a halogen atom, a heteroatom, and an unsaturated bond, and n represents a valence.

Abstract: The hydrogenated block copolymer according to the present invention is a hydrogenated block copolymer containing, in the molecule, a polymer block (C) having a conjugated diene compound as a main component, a polymer block (B) having a conjugated diene compound as a main component, and a polymer block (S) having a vinyl aromatic compound as a main component.

Abstract: Disclosed is a phosphoric acid diester salt which can suppress deterioration of charge-discharge characteristics of a power storage element, and can suppress the rise in internal resistance after storage at high temperature, a production method therefor, a non-aqueous electrolytic solution for a power storage element, and a power storage element. Disclosed is a phosphoric acid diester salt represented by the following chemical formula (1): wherein Mn+ represents a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkali earth metal ion, an aluminum ion, a transition metal ion, or an onium ion; R1 and R2 are different from each other and represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and having at least one of a halogen atom, a heteroatom, and an unsaturated bond; and n represents a valence.

Abstract: An aqueous ink containing silver particles, a first reducing agent and a second reducing agent, wherein the first reducing agent is a compound that has an oxidation-reduction potential R1 (mV) satisfying R1<0, and the second reducing agent is a compound that has an oxidation-reduction potential R2 (mV) satisfying R2?0 and that is at least one selected from a group consisting of tertiary amines and polyhydric alcohols in which a plurality of hydroxy groups are included in one of two structures divided according to a position between any one of two adjacent carbon atoms of the longest carbon chain in the molecule.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrogenated block copolymer containing, in the molecule thereof, a polymer block (C) having a conjugated diene compound as a main component, a polymer block (B) having a conjugated diene compound as a main component, and a polymer block (S) having a vinyl aromatic compound as a main component.

Abstract: The resin composition according to the present invention contains a polypropylene resin (a), a hydrogenated block copolymer (b), and a hydrogenated block copolymer (c), wherein: a mass ratio of a content of the hydrogenated block copolymer (b) to a content of the hydrogenated block copolymer (c), (b)/(c), is 90/10 to 10/90; a mass ratio of a content of the polypropylene resin (a) to a total content of the hydrogenated block copolymer (b) and the hydrogenated block copolymer (c), (a)/((b)+(c)), is 10/90 to 90/10; and specific polymer blocks (C), (B1), and (B2) differing in amount of vinyl bond before hydrogenation are contained at a specific ratio.