Abstract: An endless belt includes a resin and conductive particles, in which a content of the conductive particles with respect to the endless belt is 5% by volume or more and 20% by volume or less in terms of a volume ratio, a Young's modulus of the endless belt is 3,000 MPa or more, and the number of times of bending endurance of the endless belt measured by an MIT test specified in JIS P8115:2001 is 10,000 or more.

Abstract: An endless belt, in which an outer peripheral surface of the endless belt has a coefficient of dynamic friction of 0.85 or less, and in a case where polyester resin particles having a volume-average particle size of 4.7 ?m are caused to adhere to the outer peripheral surface under a load of 0 g/cm2, and then air is sprayed on the outer peripheral surface from above the outer peripheral surface at a spray pressure that keeps increasing, all the polyester resin particles having adhered to the outer peripheral surface are spaced apart from the outer peripheral surface at the spray pressure of 6 kPa or less.

Abstract: Provided are a thermostat device and a method for manufacturing the same, capable of minimizing an increase in size of the thermostat device, and where a seal member is easily assembled and cost can be minimized. This thermostat device includes a housing, attached to a mounting hole of a counterpart member, that has a flow path for a coolant formed therein, a seal member that creates a liquid-tight seal between the counterpart member and the housing, a thermo-element that expands and contracts in accordance with the coolant temperature, a valve body that opens and closes the flow path due to the expansion and contraction of the thermo-element, and a coil spring that biases the valve body in a closing direction, the housing having formed therein a deformed annular groove into which the seal member fits, and the seal member having a perfectly circular shape in a natural length state.

Abstract: The thermostat device includes a housing having a valve seat formed thereinside, a thermo-element having one end inserted inside the housing, a valve body seated on or separated from the valve seat by the extension/contraction of the thermo-element, a coil spring biasing the valve body toward the valve seat, and a frame supporting one end of the coil spring. The housing has a hollow body part opening at one end, paired legs erecting from the opening edge of the body part, on whose leading ends the frame is hooked, and ribs provided at the opening edge and contiguous to each root side of the legs. The outer surface of each leg is arc-shaped, and the outer surface of each rib is curved or inclined to extend from the outer surface of the corresponding leg toward the inner side of a circle connecting the outer surfaces of the pair of legs.

Abstract: A method for identifying a target component of interest in a specimen by probe electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, including: (1) adsorbing the target component of interest onto an extraction phase for adsorbing the target component of interest from the specimen by immersing a probe into the specimen, wherein the probe is at least partially coated with the extraction phase; (2) removing the probe from the specimen and optionally quick rising it by dipping in or spraying water or acetone/water mixtures; (3) adhering solvent to the extraction phase; (4) desorbing the target component of interest into the solvent from the extraction phase; (5) electrospraying the target component of interest desorbed in the solvent adhered to the probe on the ionization source at atmospheric pressure by applying a voltage to the probe to spray aerosolized ionized droplets out of the probe; and (6) identifying the target component of interest present in the aerosolized ionized droplets.

Abstract: Provided is a method and pharmaceutical agent which make it possible to efficiently implement PIT, and a method characterized by a step of administering a pharmaceutical agent, in which a substance that binds to tumor blood vessel specific marker molecules present in new blood vessels has been conjugated with at least a labeling substance, to an object associated with a disease or pathology, and changing a physical property of the labeling substance after the administration step.

Abstract: A method and treatment for testing efficiency and effectiveness of a near infrared photoimmunotherapy treatment includes injecting an antibody photosensitizer conjugate (APC) into a patient, applying radiation to the patient, thereby causing the APC to release a ligand, which is excreted in the patients urine, detecting the presence of the ligand with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, measuring and quantifying an amount of the ligand present in the patients urine based on analytical results of the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, and determining the effectiveness of the near infrared photo-immunotherapy treatment based on the measured quantified amount of the ligand present in the patients urine so as to determine an amount of APC remaining in the patient.

Abstract: A device capable of targeting and selectively removing (killing) an unnecessary cell that remains in a cell population induced to differentiate from pluripotent stem cells and causes tumorigenesis after transplantation, and automatically and efficiently collecting an object cell. The device includes a holder configured to hold a cell suspension containing cells and an antibody-photosensitizer conjugate obtained by conjugating a targeting molecule that binds to a surface protein of a cell to be removed and a fluorescently labeled substance, a radiation light source configured to radiate radiation to change a physical property of the fluorescently labeled substance contained in the holder, a detector configured to detect abundance of the cells in the holder, and a control/processing unit configured to control the radiant light source.

Abstract: A direct teaching method of a robot includes specifying one of a plurality of robot arms as a master arm and specifying as a slave arm at least one of the robot arms which is other than the master arm; causing the slave arm to operate cooperatively with the master arm so that relative positions and postures of a wrist part of the master arm and a wrist part of the slave arm become a predetermined relation, while a teaching person is directly applying a force to an arbitrary location of the master arm including a tool, to move the master arm to a desired teaching position; and storing position information of at least one of the master arm and the slave arm at a time point when the master arm has reached the desired teaching position.

Abstract: By repeating for each control axis, that an axis angle of each control axis of an arm is detected during a direct teaching of a robot, a current position of a standard point defined on the arm or a tool is obtained based on the axis angle, a position instruction value that uses a position obtained by projecting the current position on a given movement route (moving direction) is generated as a target position, and each control axis is driven based on the position instruction value, until a deviation of an instruction angle corresponding to the position instruction value and the detected axis angle, or a deviation of the position instruction value and the current position of the standard point corresponding to the detected axis angle reaches a given value or below, the robot is taught, after the deviation becomes the given value or below, positional information on the arm.

Abstract: A direct teaching method of a robot includes specifying one of a plurality of robot arms as a master arm and specifying as a slave arm at least one of the robot arms which is other than the master arm; causing the slave arm to operate cooperatively with the master arm so that relative positions and postures of a wrist part of the master arm and a wrist part of the slave arm become a predetermined relation, while a teaching person is directly applying a force to an arbitrary location of the master arm including a tool, to move the master arm to a desired teaching position; and storing position information of at least one of the master arm and the slave arm at a time point when the master arm has reached the desired teaching position.

Abstract: By repeating for each control axis, that an axis angle of each control axis of an arm is detected during a direct teaching of a robot, a current position of a standard point defined on the arm or a tool is obtained based on the axis angle, a position instruction value that uses a position obtained by projecting the current position on a given movement route (moving direction) is generated as a target position, and each control axis is driven based on the position instruction value, until a deviation of an instruction angle corresponding to the position instruction value and the detected axis angle, or a deviation of the position instruction value and the current position of the standard point corresponding to the detected axis angle reaches a given value or below, the robot is taught, after the deviation becomes the given value or below, positional information on the arm.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires rendering information including one or both of a text and an illustration; a first image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet material based on the rendering information that has been acquired; and a second image forming unit that forms an electrostatic attraction toner image on the sheet material, the electrostatic attraction toner image being for imparting an electrostatic attraction function to the sheet material, the electrostatic attraction function allowing the sheet material to be attracted to an object surface by using static electricity.

Abstract: An ignition coil capable of maintaining reliable insulation performance over a long period of time. A coil main body unit, for housing a primary coil, a secondary coil and a switching element, includes a case main body in which a housing space is provided, and a case lower portion which abuts the perimeter of the case main body. The primary coil and the secondary coil, which are placed in the case lower portion, are covered by the case main body. The secondary coil is configured by winding a second winding around a secondary bobbin, through which a central hole is extended in the horizontal direction, and the outer periphery of the same is covered by the case lower portion and a protective cap and is filled with a first material. When the primary coil is placed in the central hole, the remaining gap is filled with a secondary material.

Abstract: This motor is a DC motor in which the rotor is rotated by magnetic force from a permanent magnet. The rotor has a combination of two or more permanent magnets, with fixed armatures with coils on either side in the direction of the rotation shaft, enabling the motor to be built with narrow housing. It is also theoretically possible to add permanent magnet rotors and fixed armatures alternately in a straight line in the direction extending from the end of the fixed armatures, which can be presumed to achieve a greater rotational force. The DC motor described in Item 2 has a rotor consisting of three armatures consisting of steel rods with coils arranged in fixed, parallel positions around a rotation shaft. Fixed permanent magnets are arranged on the left and right side of the rotor, and a current is applied with a brush to generate rotation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires rendering information including one or both of a text and an illustration; a first image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet material based on the rendering information that has been acquired; and a second image forming unit that forms an electrostatic attraction toner image on the sheet material, the electrostatic attraction toner image being for imparting an electrostatic attraction function to the sheet material, the electrostatic attraction function allowing the sheet material to be attracted to an object surface by using static electricity.

Abstract: Provided is an ignition coil which is capable of maintaining reliable insulation performance over a long period of time. A coil main body unit (BDY), which houses a primary coil (L1) and a secondary coil (L2) as well as a switching element (Q), is configured such that the coil main body unit is segmented into a case main body (10) in which a housing space is provided, and a case lower portion (20) which abuts the perimeter of the case main body, and the primary coil and the secondary coil, which are placed in the case lower portion (20), are covered by the case main body (10). The secondary coil (L2) is configured by winding a second winding (41) around a secondary bobbin (40), through which a central hole (H2) is extended in the horizontal direction, and the outer periphery of the same is covered by the case lower portion (20) and a protective cap (42) and filled with a first material.

Abstract: Collection containers (17) are heated by head conduction from a container rack (18) with a heater (19) as the heat source. When an eluting solvent is supplied into a trap column (7) by a pump (5), an eluate containing a target compound exiting from the column (7) flows through a preparative separation passage (13) and drips from a solution nozzle (13a), and this solution is separated into fine droplets by a gas stream blowing from a gas ejection nozzle (15a). When a droplet touches an inner wall of the container (17), the volatile solvent immediately vaporizes, leaving the target compound precipitated in solid forms on the inner wall. Thus, the process of vaporizing and drying the eluate to collect the target compound is completed within a short period of time. This process can be performed online and hence is suitable for laborsaving.

Abstract: A solution containing a target compound is passed through a trap column (14) to capture the target compound in the column (14). Thereafter, wash water is introduced in the trap column (14). Then, the setting of a six-port valve (7) is changed and an on/off valve (6) is opened to introduce nitrogen gas through a supply-side passage (8) in the trap column (14). In this stage, the nitrogen gas is warmed by means of a heat-exchange block (10), and the trap column (14) is warmed via a column rack (15). Any water remaining in the trap column (14) is initially thrust upwards by the nitrogen gas, to be extruded from an exit edge (14b) and discharged through a discharge-side passage (20). Furthermore, any water adhering to adsorbent or the inner wall surface of the trap column (14) is quickly vaporized and carried away by the nitrogen gas.

Abstract: A mixed liquid passage (31) is connected to a trapping passage (22) at a point upstream of a trap column (23). A mixture of a diluting liquid and an additive agent, which are respectively drawn and sent by pumps (35) and (36), is supplied into the mixed liquid passage (31). When an eluate containing a target compound is passed through the trap column (23), the eluate is diluted with the diluting liquid and hence its elution capability decreases, so that the target compound can be easily captured in the trap column (23). Meanwhile, the solubility of the mobile phase in the eluate decreases, causing not only the target component but also foreign compounds to more easily precipitate. However, their precipitation is prevented by the effect of the additive agent. Thus, clogging of the trap column (23) or pipes is prevented.