Abstract: The present technology relates to techniques of preventing intrusion of moisture into a chip. Various illustrative embodiments include image sensors that include: a substrate; a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate; the plurality of layers including a photodiode layer having a plurality of photodiodes formed on a surface of the photodiode layer; the plurality of layers including at least one layer having a groove formed such that a portion of the at least one layer is excavated; and a transparent resin layer formed above the photodiode layer and formed in the groove. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminate for use in a blister pack, and to a blister pack using the same. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a blister pack laminate which fully imparts formability for the formation of dome-shape pockets in the blister pack laminate and which prevents moisture, organic gas and inorganic gas from entering the absorption layer from the end surface of the laminate through the reinforcement layer and deactivating the absorption layer. A further purpose of the present invention is to provide a blister pack that uses said blister pack laminate. The present invention relates to a blister pack laminate which comprises a substrate layer 1, an aluminum foil layer 2, a reinforcement layer 3, a barrier film layer 4, and an absorption layer 5, in that order.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a laminate for use in blister packs which fully imparts the forming property that forming defects do not occur, or are not prone to occur, even when forming the pockets in a blister pack to a relatively great depth, and to provide a blister pack using this laminate. The present invention relates to a laminate for use in a blister pack, which comprises a substrate layer 1, an aluminum foil layer 2, a first reinforcement layer 3a, a second reinforcement layer 3b, and an absorption layer 4, in that order.

Abstract: The present technology relates to techniques of preventing intrusion of moisture into a chip. Various illustrative embodiments include image sensors that include: a substrate; a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate; the plurality of layers including a photodiode layer having a plurality of photodiodes formed on a surface of the photodiode layer; the plurality of layers including at least one layer having a groove formed such that a portion of the at least one layer is excavated; and a transparent resin layer formed above the photodiode layer and formed in the groove. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser diode (LD) having an optical grating is disclosed. The LD includes a lower cladding layer that buries the optical grating, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer. The active layer has the multi-quantum well (MQW) structure of barrier layers and well layers alternately arranged to each other. The MQW structure further includes intermediate layers between the barrier layers and the well layers, and have lattice constant between that of the barrier layer and that of the well layer. The inter mediate layer has a thickness thinner than 1 nm.

Abstract: A test piece preparation step of preparing a test piece (50) including a welding structure in which a welding material formed of an austenitic alloy is welded to a member formed of low-alloy steel or low-carbon steel, a hydrogen supply step of supplying hydrogen to the test piece (50), and a characteristic stress acquisition step of applying a load (F) to the test piece (50) to which hydrogen was supplied and acquiring a characteristic stress showing material mechanical properties of the test piece (50) are executed.

Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus which includes a thermal head having a plurality of heat generation elements whose temperatures are controlled by applying a voltage and performing printing on a printing medium and a head drive circuit being supplied periodically with a control signal and print data to control application of a voltage to each of the plurality of heat generation elements. One period of the control signal includes first and second voltage application control periods which are separated from each other. The first voltage application control period is a period in which the printing is performed by controlling the application of a voltage, and the second voltage application control period is a period in which the printing is not performed and a temperature of the thermal head is adjusted by controlling the application of a voltage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a film which has non-adsorbing properties equivalent to those of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer film, and which does not undergo a dimensional change in a humid environment. A laminate for heat sealing according to the present invention provided with: a non-adsorbing layer containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer and an acid-modified polyolefin, and a non-swelling layer laminated on the non-adsorbing layer and containing a polyolefin and/or an acid-modified polyolefin.

Abstract: An industrial waste water treatment system is provided. The industrial waste water treatment system includes: a buffer tank that temporarily receives and stores industrial estate waste water; a primary treatment unit that performs a primary treatment on effluent water from a buffer tank; an activated sludge treatment apparatus that is a secondary treatment unit that performs a secondary treatment using activated sludge on influent water that has been treated by the primary treatment unit; an organic matter concentration measurement unit that measures an organic matter concentration in the industrial estate waste water flowing into the buffer tank; and an activator dispensing unit that dispenses, into the secondary treatment unit, an activator that activates microorganisms included in the activated sludge of the activated sludge treatment apparatus.

Abstract: A method of evaluating a residual stress including a condition setting step of setting a processing condition of water jet peening for a processing target; an analysis step of analyzing a jet flow when a fluid is injected from a nozzle model to a processing target model in accordance with the processing condition, and obtaining a void fraction which is a volume fraction of babbles contained in a unit volume of the fluid, and a collapse fraction, which is a volume fraction of the bubbles which collapse in a unit time in the unit volume of the fluid, at each position on a surface of the processing target model; an impact pressure correlation value calculating step of obtaining an impact pressure correlation value, which is a product of the void fraction and the collapse fraction at each position; an experimental value acquisition step of obtaining an impact pressure experimental value.

Abstract: An information processing device sets a second scaling factor used to display a character image extracted from an image. The second scaling factor is different from a first scaling factor used to display a background image extracted from the image. The information processing device adjusts at least either the character image changed in display size with the second scaling factor or the background image changed in display size with the first scaling factor, based on the relationship between the display state of the character image changed in display size and the display state of the surrounding area of the character image that has been changed in display size and is overlaid on the background image changed in display size.

Abstract: The present technology relates to techniques of preventing intrusion of moisture into a chip. Various illustrative embodiments include image sensors that include: a substrate; a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate; the plurality of layers including a photodiode layer having a plurality of photodiodes formed on a surface of the photodiode layer; the plurality of layers including at least one layer having a groove formed such that a portion of the at least one layer is excavated; and a transparent resin layer formed above the photodiode layer and formed in the groove. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate in which a pixel region where pixel portions performing photoelectric conversion are two-dimensionally arranged is formed and a second semiconductor substrate in which a logic circuit processing a pixel signal output from the pixel portion is formed, the first and second semiconductor substrates being laminated. A protective substrate protecting an on-chip lens is disposed on the on-chip lens in the pixel region of the first semiconductor substrate with a sealing resin interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A process (S1) for producing freeze-dried sludge includes: an acclimatization step (S10) of imposing a load on cells of a microorganism in activated sludge to acclimatize the cells; a production increase step (S21) of subjecting the activated sludge to a production increase operation in which production of an extracellular polymer by the cells is increased after the acclimatization step (S10); and a freeze-drying step (S30) of freeze-drying the activated sludge after the production increase step (S21).

Abstract: The present technology relates to techniques of preventing intrusion of moisture into a chip. Various illustrative embodiments include image sensors that include: a substrate; a plurality of layers stacked on the substrate; the plurality of layers including a photodiode layer having a plurality of photodiodes formed on a surface of the photodiode layer; the plurality of layers including at least one layer having a groove formed such that a portion of the at least one layer is excavated; and a transparent resin layer formed above the photodiode layer and formed in the groove. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.

Abstract: A sheet-like member holding device includes a first holding unit disposed between a gripper receiving portion and a side wall of a gap, and configured to hold a base of a non-metal sheet. The first holding unit includes a space in which the base is inserted while the non-metal sheet extends inward in a radial direction from an outer surface side of a printing cylinder, and an abutment wall configured to restrict movement of the base to the outside in the radial direction. An end portion of the space in an axial direction of the printing cylinder is open to the outside. This makes it possible to attach and detach the non-metal sheet by a simple method without moving a gripper member or gripper pad.

Abstract: An absorbent film and a substrate having extremely simple production without having an adhesive layer that can generate volatile components. The absorbent laminate contains a substrate, which has an inorganic material or a low-thermal-contraction organic material, and an absorbent film on the surface of the substrate. The organic material of the substrate has a rate of thermal contraction in the direction of conveyance thereof when performing hot pressing by means of a heating roller under the conditions of 140° C., a roller pressure of 0.1 MPa, and a conveyance speed of 0.4 m/min of less than 0.6%. The absorbent film has an absorbent layer adhered to the surface of the substrate without an adhesive layer therebetween and containing less than 87 vol % and at least 25 vol % of a thermoplastic resin binder and over 13 vol % and no greater than 75 vol % of an inorganic absorption agent.

Abstract: The present invention includes: a laundry wastewater tank that temporarily stores laundry wastewater from a plant facility; a biological treatment tank in which the laundry wastewater from the laundry wastewater tank is aerated and mixed with activated sludge; a treated water tank that stores the treated laundry wastewater that has been biologically treated; and a treatment preparation supplying device that supplies a laundry wastewater biological treatment preparation to the biological treatment tank. The laundry wastewater biological treatment preparation is introduced when a change in water quality that deteriorates the biological treatment in the biological treatment tank is detected. Thus, biological treatment can be performed stably.

Abstract: A sheet-like member holding device includes a first holding unit disposed between a gripper receiving portion and a side wall of a gap, and configured to hold a base of a non-metal sheet. The first holding unit includes a space in which the base is inserted while the non-metal sheet extends inward in a radial direction from an outer surface side of a printing cylinder, and an abutment wall configured to restrict movement of the base to the outside in the radial direction. An end portion of the space in an axial direction of the printing cylinder is open to the outside. This makes it possible to attach and detach the non-metal sheet by a simple method without moving a gripper member or gripper pad.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a laminated glass, the method including: a step (1) of laminating a first glass plate, an intermediate film and a second glass plate in this order to form a laminate, and heating and pressurizing the laminate to obtain a laminated glass; a step (2) of performing post-processing with heating to the laminated glass obtained in the step (1); and a step (3) of cooling the laminated glass while holding at least a part of a peripheral portion of the laminated glass, after the step (2).