Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a porous body comprising: a starting material mixing step of mixing ceramic particles serving as an aggregate and a sintering aid which includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements, alkaline earth elements, Al and Si such that the amount of the sintering aid is about 1.0% by weight or less relative to the total amount of the ceramic particles and the sintering aid to form a puddle; and a molding and firing step of molding the puddle into a molded body and firing the molded body.

Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb structural body is manufactured by molding silicon carbide raw powders into a honeycomb pillar shape and then firing it to form a sintered body. The silicon carbide raw powders are comprised of about 60 to about 80% by mass of particles of first particle group having one frequency peak in the particle size distribution and a particle size of 1.0 ?m to about 100 ?m, and about 20 to about 40% by mass of particles of a second particle group having a particle size of about 0.1 ?m or more and less than 1.0 ?m.

Abstract: There is provided a curable fluorine-containing polymer composition which is rapidly cured at relatively low temperature by hydrosilylation reaction to form a coating film having not only high hardness and flexibility but also water- and oil-repellency, thereby giving stain-proofing effect for a long period of time, especially maintaining property of removing and wiping-off stain.

Abstract: A transparent organic thin film transistor, which contains a p-type organic semiconductor material employed in a semiconductor active layer of the transparent organic thin film transistor, wherein the p-type organic semiconductor material has a maximum absorbance of 0.2 or less in a visible range of 400 to 700 nm, in which the maximum absorbance is determined in the case where the thin film is made to have a film thickness of 30 nm.

Abstract: A honeycomb structured body of the present invention is a honeycomb structured body in which a plurality of porous ceramic members are combined with one another through an adhesive layer, each of the porous ceramic members having a plurality of cells which are allowed to penetrate in a longitudinal direction with a wall portion therebetween and either one end of which is sealed, with a catalyst supporting layer being adhered to the wall portion, wherein, supposing that the rate of the pore volume of pores having a pore diameter of 10 ?m or less to the entire pore volume of the porous ceramic member is X1 (%), the porosity is Y1 (%) and the weight of the catalyst supporting layer is Z1 (g/l), these X1, Y1 and Z1 are allowed to satisfy the following expressions (1) and (2): X1?20?Z1/10??(1), and Y1?35+7Z1/40??(2) (where about 20?Z1?about 150).

Abstract: There is provided a curable fluorine-containing polymer composition which is quickly cured at relatively low temperatures by hydrosilylation reaction and provides a coating film which has high hardness, excellent solvent resistance and flexibility. The curable fluorine-containing polymer composition comprises a fluorine-containing polymer comprising a fluorinated ethylenic monomer unit and a non-fluorinated ethylenic monomer unit, in which a part or the whole of the non-fluorinated ethylenic monomer units is a unit represented by the formula: wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl; R2 is a hydrocarbon group having ethylenic C?C; X is —C(O)NH— or —C(O)—; R3 is —O—, —O[CH(R4)]mO—, —(CH2)mO—, —OC(O)—(CH2)mO— or —(CH2)mOC(O)—(CH2)nO—, where R4 is —H, —OH, —CH2OH or —O—X—R2, a siloxane compound having hydrogen atom bonded to silicon atom, and a catalyst for hydrosilylation reaction.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device is provided, the photoelectric conversion device including: a pair of electrodes; a photoelectric conversion layer arranged between the pair of electrodes and containing an n-type organic semiconductor; and a charge blocking layer arranged between one of the pair of electrodes and the photoelectric conversion layer, the charge blocking layer being formed of a single layer or two or more layers, wherein a difference ?1 between ionization potential Ip of a layer of the charge blocking layer adjacent to the photoelectric conversion layer and electron affinity Ea of the n-type organic semiconductor is at least 1 eV; and the charge blocking layer has a gross thickness of at least 20 nm.

Abstract: There is provided a curable polymer composition being curable quickly to form a cured article having excellent adhesion and followability to a substrate and at least comprising (A) an acrylic copolymer having a hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom, (B) a compound having at least two aliphatic unsaturated bonds in one molecule thereof, (C) a fluoroolefin copolymer comprising vinylidene fluoride as main component, and (D) a catalyst for hydrosilylation reaction.

Abstract: An automatic image correction circuit is provided which automatically performs image correction on received image data and includes a resolution detection unit that detects resolutions of the image data; a set value calculation unit that calculates a set value to be used in the image correction based on the resolutions; and an image correction unit that performs the image correction on the image data based on the set value.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a pair of electrodes, a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the pair of electrodes and a stress buffer layer provided between the photoelectric conversion layer and at least one of the electrodes, and the stress buffer layer has a stack structure comprising a crystalline sublayer.

Abstract: An image sensor 1 has a substrate 2 and primary light-receiving pixels 4 arrayed in the direction of the surface of the substrate, and the primary light-receiving pixels are formed by laminating plural secondary light-receiving pixels 10, 20 and 30 which sense lights in different wavelength ranges, respectively, via at least sealing insulation layers 18 and 28 between adjacent secondary light-receiving pixels in the thickness direction. Each secondary light-receiving pixel includes a photoelectric conversion portion 14, 24, or 34 for photoelectrically converting the lights and a signal output portion 12, 22 or 32 for outputting signals from a thin film transistor 40 according to charges generated by the photoelectric conversion portion, and the active layer 48 of the thin film transistor is formed from an oxide semiconductor or organic semiconductor.

Abstract: A therapeutic drug for cancer containing a substance selected from the group consisting of a novel cyanopyridine derivative, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a hydrate, a water adduct and a solvate as an active ingredient can be provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, forming a color image by successively superposing color images, formed on image carriers of corresponding image forming parts arranged along a rotational direction of an endless moving member, onto the endless moving member or a recording medium conveyed thereby, includes a first part causing a color registration pattern to be created on the endless moving member or the recording medium; a second part obtaining a color registration pattern signal by detecting the color registration pattern; a third part changing image formation timing in the image forming parts based on the color registration pattern signal; and a fourth part causing the endless moving member to rotate in forward and reverse directions after the creation of the color registration pattern. The second part obtains the color registration pattern signal by detecting the color registration pattern during each of the forward and reverse rotations of the endless moving member.

Abstract: A transparent organic thin film transistor, which contains a p-type organic semiconductor material employed in a semiconductor active layer of the transparent organic thin film transistor, wherein the p-type organic semiconductor material has a maximum absorbance of 0.2 or less in a visible range of 400 to 700 nm, in which the maximum absorbance is determined in the case where the thin film is made to have a film thickness of 30 nm.

Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board including a substrate board having a lower conductor circuit, a resin insulating layer formed over the substrate board and lower conductor circuit, and a conductor circuit formed over the resin insulating layer. The resin insulating layer has a via hole filled up with plating and is formed of a linear polyolefin resin formed by hot-pressing a film shaped resin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus enables a high-quality double-side printing of a transfer medium by one-pass method using a simple structure. A latent image is formed and developed on an image carrier (drum) in a process cartridge. A resultant toner image is transferred by a first transfer unit (roller) onto either an upper surface of the transfer medium or a first intermediate transfer body (roller) in a first transfer area. The toner image on the first intermediate transfer body is transferred onto a back surface of the transfer medium in a fourth transfer area via a second intermediate transfer body (belt) and a third intermediate transfer body (roller). The fourth transfer area is located downstream of the first transfer area along a transport path of the transfer medium.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element is provided and includes: a pair of electrodes; a photoelectric conversion layer between the pair of electrodes; and a charge-blocking layer between one of the pair of the electrodes and the photoelectric conversion layer. The charge-blocking layer is capable of suppressing injection of a charge from the one of the pair of electrodes into the photoelectric conversion layer upon application of a voltage across the pair of electrodes, and the charge-blocking layer contains an insulating material and an electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multilayer printed circuit board including preparing a substrate board having a conductor circuit formed over the substrate board, forming an interlayer resin insulating layer on the conductor circuit formed over the substrate board by press laminating on the conductor circuit a film comprising a cycloolefin resin under vacuum or reduced pressure, and forming a via hole connecting to the conductor circuit through the resin insulating layer, the forming of the via hole including plating the via hole to fill up.

Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board including a substrate board and a built-up structure formed over the substrate board. The built-up structure includes conductor circuits and resin insulating layers. The built-up structure has via holes interconnecting the conductor circuits through one or more resin insulating layers. The via holes are filled up with plating, and the resin insulating layers is formed of a cycloolefin resin.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion layer comprising a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein L represents a divalent or polyvalent connecting group; n represents an integer of 2 or more; and A is a chemical structure represented by the following formula (2): wherein X1 to X8 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted carbon atom or a nitrogen atom.