Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.

Abstract: According to one embodiment a substrate treatment apparatus incorporates, into a frozen film, a contaminant adhered to a substrate surface by freezing a liquid film on the surface. The apparatus includes a placement part configured to rotate the substrate, a liquid supply part configured to supply a liquid via a nozzle to the frozen film including the contaminant, a moving part configured to move the nozzle parallel to the substrate surface, and a controller configured to control a rotation of the substrate by the placement part, a supply of the liquid by the liquid supply part, and a movement of the nozzle by the moving part. The controller rotates the substrate by controlling the placement part, supplies the liquid to the frozen film by controlling the liquid supply part, and moves the nozzle from a perimeter edge vicinity to a rotation center vicinity of the substrate by controlling the moving part.

Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.

Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a treatment mechanism, a slave actuator, an operation control unit, and a parameter acquisition unit. The treatment mechanism is used for treating a patient. The slave actuator causes the treatment mechanism to perform the treatment. The operation control unit calculates the control parameters related to the force tactile sensation, based on the information about the position that is detected along with the treatment and controls the operation of the slave actuator for causing the treatment mechanism to perform the treatment, based on the control parameters related to the force tactile sensation. The parameter acquisition unit acquires the control parameters related to the force tactile sensation.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC) by culturing a microorganism that produces PDC. The present invention provides a method of producing PDC by culturing a microorganism that produces 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), wherein the method comprises: dissolving the starting substance for production of PDC in a buffer solution that contains no alkali metals, and adjusting the pH of a culture solution with a buffer solution that contains no alkali metals.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine including: a process of abutting, on each other, tip end parts of one coil piece and an other one coil piece for forming a stator coil of a rotary electric machine; and a welding process of irradiating a welding target location regarding the tip end part having been abutted with a laser beam having a wavelength of 0.6 ?m or less, in which in the welding process, the laser beam is generated for every pulse oscillation in a laser oscillator in a mode of having a laser output of 3.0 kW or more, and in at least a part of a period during one pulse oscillation, the laser beam is moved so that an irradiation position changes linearly parallel to an abutment surface of the tip end part.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine including: a first disposing process of disposing one workpiece for stator in a first station (ST1); a first welding process of completing welding of a first part of stator coil in the one workpiece in ST1; a second disposing process of disposing an other one workpiece for stator in a second station (ST2); and a second welding process of completing welding of a second part of stator coil in other one workpiece in ST2, wherein first welding process includes first irradiation process of irradiating first part with a laser beam for welding, second welding process includes second irradiation process of irradiating second part with a laser beam for welding, first and second irradiation processes have a time difference, and laser beam used in each of the first and second irradiation processes are generated based on the same oscillator.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine including: a process of abutting, on each other, tip end parts (40 of one coil piece (52) and an other one coil piece (52) for forming a stator coil (24) of a rotary electric machine (1); and a welding process of irradiating a welding target location regarding the tip end part having been abutted with a laser beam (110) having a wavelength of 0.6 µm or less, in which an output distribution at a focal point of the laser beam has a flat center part.

Abstract: This method of manufacturing a stator includes a step of removing insulating coatings on first surfaces of lead wire portions that are surfaces to be welded, and a step of welding together the first surfaces by a green laser with the insulating coatings on the first surfaces being removed and with insulating coatings on second surfaces opposite the first surfaces being unremoved.

Abstract: The method for producing a cell aggregate including glial progenitor cells according to the present invention comprises: (1) a step of subjecting pluripotent stem cells to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium containing one or more SMAD signaling inhibitors and one or more Wnt signaling activators in the absence of feeder cells for 5 days to 10 days, to form a cell aggregate; (2) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (1) to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium containing retinoic acid; (3) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (2) to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium or neuron-and-glia-proliferating culture medium containing retinoic acid and one or more SHH signaling activators; and (4) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (3) to suspension culture in a neuron-and-glia-proliferating culture medium containing no retinoic acid and one or more SHH signaling activators.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a means for promoting muscle regeneration from muscle damage. According to the present invention, the muscle regeneration from muscle damage is promoted by using a compound having 5-HT2B receptor agonist activity or a salt thereof is used as an active ingredient.

Abstract: An abnormality determination device for a secondary battery includes an internal-resistance calculation unit, a threshold memory unit, a capacity balance comparison unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The internal-resistance calculation unit detects an internal resistance in a negative-electrode reaction resistance dominant region in which a reaction resistance of a negative electrode is dominant in a charge and discharge reaction of the secondary battery. The threshold memory unit stores a capacity balance threshold used as a reference for determining abnormality in a balance between a capacity of a positive electrode and a capacity of the negative electrode in the secondary battery. The capacity balance comparison unit compares the internal resistance calculated by the internal-resistance calculation unit with the capacity balance threshold stored in the threshold memory unit.

Abstract: A bonded body is formed of a first member and a second member. The first member has a first base portion and a first welded portion which protrudes from the first base portion toward the second member side. The second member has a second base portion and a second welded portion which protrudes from the second base portion toward the first member side. In a first region of the joint portion, a first rib formed so as to project from the first base portion toward the second member side covers the first welded portion and the second welded portion from the side. In a second region different from the first region, a second rib formed so as to project from the second base portion toward the first member side covers the first welded portion and the second welded portion from the side.

Abstract: A neurosphere for spinal cord injury treatment in which the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK is enhanced as compared to the control, where the control is a neurosphere that has not contacted with a ?-secretase inhibitor, or neurons obtained by inducing differentiation from a neurosphere that has not contacted with a ?-secretase inhibitor, is useful for the treatment of spinal cord injuries.

Abstract: An abnormality determination device for a secondary battery includes an internal-resistance calculation unit, a threshold memory unit, a capacity balance comparison unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The internal-resistance calculation unit detects an internal resistance in a negative-electrode reaction resistance dominant region in which a reaction resistance of a negative electrode is dominant in a charge and discharge reaction of the secondary battery. The threshold memory unit stores a capacity balance threshold used as a reference for determining abnormality in a balance between a capacity of a positive electrode and a capacity of the negative electrode in the secondary battery. The capacity balance comparison unit compares the internal resistance calculated by the internal-resistance calculation unit with the capacity balance threshold stored in the threshold memory unit.

Abstract: A side slit of a core plate of a heat exchanger reaches a sealing surface. The core plate has a rib which is formed on a bottom plate across a protruding portion. The rib communicates to a cavity above the sealing surface. An end slit formed on an end wall of the core plate reaches the sealing surface. A first joining tab is formed between two end slits. The first joining tab is joined to a second joining tab on a reinforce plate. The side slit and the rib enable deformation of the core plate. The end slit enables deformation of the first joining tab in a tilting manner.

Abstract: A vacuum valve connected to a vacuum pump, comprises: a valve plate to be openably/closably driven; a drive section configured to openably/closably drive the valve plate; a signal input section to which a pump information signal indicating an operation state of the vacuum pump is input; and a valve control section configured to control operation of the valve plate based on the input pump information signal.

Abstract: Within a certain time period, an action is executed according to a circumstance in which a plurality of events occur. A linking server (1) includes (i) an event detecting section (103) which detects an occurrence of each of a plurality of events specified in a linking rule and (ii) an action execution control section (105) which controls a device controlling server (2) to execute an action in a case where an occurrence of one of the plurality of events is detected and then, within the certain time period, occurrences of all of remaining ones of the plurality of events are detected.

Abstract: Slow muscle and fast muscle can be distinguished by using a QSI method while devising a pulse sequence system and its conditions and using mean displacement, kurtosis or probability at zero displacement as a parameter. A method for typing skeletal muscle non-invasively can be provided.