Abstract: A light emitting element has a semiconductor layer, a pair of positive and negative electrodes, and a reinforcing portion. The pair of positive and negative electrodes is disposed on a lower face side of the semiconductor layer. The pair of electrodes is connected to the substrate. The reinforcing portion is disposed on an outer edge part of an upper face of the semiconductor layer. The reinforcing portion is made from a light-transmissive material. The upper face includes an exposed portion exposed from the reinforcing portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an operation system for a vehicle capable of shortening an operation time, reducing an operation load, and improving visibility of a display section. The operation system includes an operation section on which a camera capturing a finger and a touch panel are installed, and a display section installed away from the operation section, and further includes a finger determination processor determining from an image captured by the camera whether or not an object approaching the operation section is a hand, a conversion processor converting a determination signal of the finger determination processor into a display instruction signal and outputting the converted result, and a pop-up processor displaying an operation button or an operation window on the display section before the hand is touched to the touch panel on the basis of the display instruction signal input from the conversion processor.

Abstract: An image heating device includes a belt, a light emitting portion, a light receiving portion, and a control portion. The belt heats an image on a sheet in an image heating operation. The light emitting portion emits light from one widthwise end of the belt to the other widthwise end of the belt such that the light passes near a peripheral surface of the belt. The light receiving portion receives the light from the light emitting portion. The control portion controls, according to an output of the light receiving portion, whether or not to prohibit the image heating operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to A lock hopper (11) provided with air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) arranged side by side with entrance valves (A1, B1) arranged above the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) and exit valves (A4, B4) arranged below the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3). The lock hopper (11) performs control which alternately repeats the following states: a state in which granular substances in an upper system are placed in one of the hoppers and gas is supplied into the other hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of the other hopper to a lower system and a state in which the granular substances in the upper system are placed in the other hopper and gas is supplied to said hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of said hopper to the lower system.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (IA) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which acts relying on an orexin (OX) receptor antagonistic activity and is useful for the treatment or prevention of diseases such as sleep disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, schizophrenia, drug dependence, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, eating disorder, head ache, migraine, pain, gastrointestinal diseases, epilepsy, inflammations, immune-related diseases, endocrine-related diseases and hypertension.

Abstract: The present invention relates to A lock hopper (11) provided with air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) arranged side by side with entrance valves (A1, B1) arranged above the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) and exit valves (A4, B4) arranged below the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3). The lock hopper (11) performs control which alternately repeats the following states: a state in which granular substances in an upper system are placed in one of the hoppers and gas is supplied into the other hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of the other hopper to a lower system and a state in which the granular substances in the upper system are placed in the other hopper and gas is supplied to said hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of said hopper to the lower system.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating neural dysfunction. A exemplary method comprises administering to a subject having a neuropathy, e.g., a cognitive dysfunction or Alzheimer's, a therapeutically effective amount of an insulin or insulin analog, wherein the insulin or insulin analog crosses the BBB and/or a compound that increases SREBP-2 expression or activity in the CNS of the subject.

Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus has a light-emitting device and a supporting board. The light-emitting device has a pair of n-electrodes with a p-electrode therebetween, on the same plane. The supporting board includes an insulating substrate on which positive and negative electrodes are formed, opposing to the p- and n-electrodes of the light-emitting device, respectively. Bonding members bond the p- and n-electrodes with the positive and negative electrodes, respectively. The positive electrode on the supporting board is formed within the width region of the p-electrode and narrower in width than the width of the p-electrode, in a cross-section along a line extending through the pair of n-electrodes. The negative electrodes oppose to the n-electrodes, respectively, with the same widths, or with that side face of each of the negative electrodes which faces the positive electrode being retracted outwardly from that side face of each of the n-electrodes which faces the p-electrode.

Abstract: This invention proposes a disk array apparatus capable of improving its reliability. This disk array apparatus includes a first controller, and a second controller configured redundantly with the first controller, wherein the first controller and the second controller respectively include a storage area for storing firmware and are both in an operating state. When update processing of an update portion as a portion to be updated in the firmware of the first controller is unsuccessful, the first controller confirms whether update processing of an update portion of the firmware of the second controller is also unsuccessful, and, in a case where the update processing of the update portion of the firmware of the second controller has ended normally, rewrites firmware data of the update portion of the first controller with the firmware data of the update portion of the second controller.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a peelable laminated film including a layer A including cellulose ester and a layer B including a resin capable of a solution film-formation different from the cellulose ester, the layer A and the layer B having an adhesion of 5 N/cm or less, the method including: simultaneously or sequentially casting and laminating a dope A for forming the layer A, which includes cellulose ester and a solvent, and a dope B for forming the layer B, which includes a resin capable of a solution film-formation different from the cellulose ester and a solvent, on a casting support, peeling off a laminate of the dope A and the dope B from the casting support, and drying the laminate.

Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus has a light-emitting device and a supporting board. The light-emitting device has a pair of n-electrodes with a p-electrode therebetween, on the same plane. The supporting board includes an insulating substrate on which positive and negative electrodes are formed, opposing to the p- and n-electrodes of the light-emitting device, respectively. Bonding members bond the p- and n-electrodes with the positive and negative electrodes, respectively. The positive electrode on the supporting board is formed within the width region of the p-electrode and narrower in width than the width of the p-electrode, in a cross-section along a line extending through the pair of n-electrodes. The negative electrodes oppose to the n-electrodes, respectively, with the same widths, or with that side face of each of the negative electrodes which faces the positive electrode being retracted outwardly from that side face of each of the n-electrodes which faces the p-electrode.

Abstract: The compound represented by formula (IA) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is based on orexin (OX) receptor antagonist activity, is useful in the treatment and prevention of illnesses including sleep disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, schizophrenia, drug dependency, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, eating disorders, pain, gastrointestinal disease, epilepsy, inflammation, immunological disease, endocrinological related disease, and hypertension.

Abstract: An optical film includes a base member and an optical layer provided on the base member. The optical layer has an irregular shape on a surface thereof, and the irregular shape is obtained by applying a coating material containing fine particles and a resin onto the base member, distributing the fine particles densely in some regions and sparsely in other regions by convection that occurs in the coating material, and curing the coating material. The resin contains 3% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less of a polymer, the fine particles are organic fine particles having an average particle diameter of 2 ?m or more and 8 ?m or less, a ratio ((D/T)×100) of the average particle diameter D of the fine particles to an average film thickness T of the optical layer is 20% or more and 70% or less, and a transmitted image clarity value measured with an optical comb having a width of 0.125 mm is 45 or more.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light emitting device comprises (a) preparing a structure including a substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, and a p-side electrode and an n-side electrode formed on the semiconductor layer; (b) preparing a support member including a p-side wiring and an n-side wiring on the same surface thereof; (c) electrically connecting the p-side electrode and the n-side electrode of the structure to the p-side wiring and the n-side wiring of the support member, respectively, using an anisotropic conductive material containing conductive particles and a first resin; and after step (c), (d) removing the substrate from the structure.

Abstract: A hybrid silicon wafer which is a silicon wafer having a structure wherein monocrystalline silicon is embedded in polycrystalline silicon that is prepared by the unidirectional solidification/melting method. The longitudinal plane of crystal grains of the polycrystalline portion prepared by the unidirectional solidification/melting method is used as the wafer plane, and the monocrystalline silicon is embedded so that the longitudinal direction of the crystal grains of the polycrystalline portion forms an angle of 120° to 150° relative to the cleaved surface of the monocrystalline silicon. Thus provided is a hybrid silicon wafer comprising the functions of both a polycrystalline silicon wafer and a monocrystalline wafer.

Abstract: An exhaust gas dry treatment device comprises an adsorption tower having: a box-shaped tower body; a plurality of reaction chambers have moving beds therein; a plurality of vertical partition plates which sequentially close between the end parts of the plurality of reaction chambers and between the end parts of the reaction chambers and the inner wall of the tower; an exhaust gas supply port allowing the inside of an inlet side wind box space which is formed in the tower body between the front tower wall and the reaction chamber end part to communicate with the inside of an exhaust gas supply duct; and an exhaust gas discharge port allowing the inside of an outlet side wind box space which is formed in the tower body between the rear tower wall and the reaction chamber end part to communicate with the inside of an exhaust gas discharge duct.

Abstract: Provided is a hybrid silicon wafer in which molten state polycrystalline silicon and solid state single-crystal silicon are mutually integrated, comprising fine crystals having an average crystal grain size of 8 mm or less at a polycrystalline portion within 10 mm from a boundary with a single-crystal portion. Additionally provided is a method of manufacturing a hybrid silicon wafer, wherein a columnar single-crystal silicon ingot is sent in a mold in advance, molten silicon is cast around and integrated with the single-crystal ingot to prepare an ingot complex of single-crystal silicon and polycrystalline silicon, and a wafer shape is cut out therefrom. The provided hybrid silicon wafer comprises the functions of both a polycrystalline silicon wafer and a single-crystal wafer.

Abstract: An organic-inorganic hybrid composition comprising a thermoplastic resin and inorganic fine particles, wherein the thermoplastic resin is a resin comprising a repeat unit in which a structure unit represented by the following formula (1) is contained in the main chain of the repeat unit: wherein R represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or hydroxyl group; and A0 represents oxygen atom, sulfur atom or selenium atom.

Abstract: Provided is a polycrystalline silicon wafer produced by a melting and unidirectional solidification method, where the polycrystalline silicon wafer has a diameter of 450 mm or more, a thickness of 900 ?m or more, and an average crystal grain size of 5 to 50 mm, and is made up of one piece. The present invention provides a large-sized polycrystalline silicon wafer having a wafer size of 450 mm or more, of which: mechanical properties are similar to those of monocrystalline silicon wafers; the crystal size is large; the surface roughness is low; the surface has a high cleanliness; the polished surface has less unevenness by having a definite crystal orientation; and the sag value is similar to that of monocrystalline silicon wafers.

Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a rectangular element mounted upon a mounting substrate via a heat-melted connecting material, wherein second substrate electrodes are formed conforming to the recesses of a first substrate electrode and a portion of the outer periphery of the first and second substrate electrodes is provided with first extended sections that extend farther outward than the outer periphery of the aforementioned element. The aforementioned first extended sections are formed in at least one or more locations per one side of the outer periphery of the aforementioned rectangular element; the aforementioned first substrate electrode is provided with second extended sections that are formed on at least one of both ends of the aforementioned recesses flanking the first extended sections of the aforementioned second substrate electrodes; and the aforementioned second extended sections extend farther outward than the outer periphery of the aforementioned element.