Abstract: The present invention is a method for growing diamond on a silicon substrate, the method includes: subjecting a surface of the silicon substrate to damage as a pretreatment so as to make a Raman shift of a peak at 520 cm-1 in Raman spectroscopy 0.1 cm-1 or more, or subjecting the surface of the silicon substrate to unevenness formation as the pretreatment so as to make a surface roughness Sa measured by AFM 10 nm or more, or subjecting the surface of the silicon substrate to both the damage and the unevenness formation thereon as the pretreatment, and growing diamond by a CVD method on the silicon substrate subjected to the pretreatment. This provides a method for growing diamond on a silicon substrate and a method for selectively growing diamond on a silicon substrate.

Abstract: A detection method includes: obtaining periodically and repeatedly sensor values output from a capacitive sensor; determining whether the sensor values obtained exceed threshold Th1; calculating, as first difference value ?1X of each of target sensor values CX, a difference between target sensor value CX and sensor value CX+1 immediately before the target sensor value; calculating, as second difference value ?2X of each of target sensor values CX, a difference between (i) first difference value ?1X of target sensor value CX and (ii) first difference value ?1X+1 of sensor value CX+1 immediately before target sensor value CX; comparing each of second difference values ?2X calculated and threshold Th2, and selecting one sensor value CRet based on a result of the comparing; and outputting the one sensor value CRet selected.

Abstract: A pigment of the present invention is a compound represented by General Formula (1) or General Formula (2) (in the above-described formulae, M is Sn or Ge, X is C or N, R1 is an alkyl group or a phenyl group, Y1 and Y2 are each hydrogen, a halogen group, a methyl group, an alkoxy group, a phenyl group, a diphenylamide group, a thiophenyl group, or a phenylethynyl group, and Z is a single bond or represented by Formula (3), where R2 is an alkyl group or a phenyl group).

Abstract: Provided is a pellicle, including a frame on which a pellicle film is placed and a mask adhesive layer which is placed on the frame, wherein when an attachment portion S1 of the adhesive layer to a quartz mask is irradiated with xenon (Xe) excimer lamp light from a back surface of the mask for 2 minutes and the pellicle is then peeled off, a residual ratio (residual area of the adhesive layer on a quartz mask/area of the attachment portion S1 of the adhesive layer) of the adhesive layer is 0.001 to 5.0%.

Abstract: A door beam of a motor vehicle includes a 7000 series aluminum alloy extruded material, the 7000 series aluminum alloy extruded material including Zn: 7.5 mass % to 9.0 mass %, Mg: 1.3 mass % to 2.0 mass %, Cu: 0.1 mass % to 0.7 mass %, Si: 0.15 mass % or less, Fe: 0.3 mass % or less, Ti: 0.005 mass % to 0.2 mass %, and at least one of Mn, Cr, and Zr: 0.1 mass % to 0.5 mass %, in which contents of Mn, Cr and Zr satisfy Mn: 0.3 mass % or less, Cr: 0.25 mass % or less, and Zr: 0.25 mass %, respectively, with the remainder being Al and impurities. A Fe-based crystallized product is contained, and an average Cu content of the Fe-based crystallized product is 5.0 mass % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanotube water dispersion which is suitable for producing a highly-purified carbon nanotube unwoven cloth as well as a highly-purified carbon nanotube unwoven produced from the carbon nanotube water dispersion. The carbon nanotube water dispersion contains 100 parts by mass of water, 0.001 parts by mass or more of a basic compound, and 0.001 parts by mass or more of a cholic acid derivative.

Abstract: Provided is a pellicle, including a frame on which a pellicle film is placed and a mask adhesive layer which is placed on the frame, wherein when a water washing test is performed on the adhesive layer, which contacts a quartz mask over a predetermined contact area, a removal ratio {(the contact area before the water washing test?contact area after the water washing test)/(contact area before the water washing test)} of the adhesive layer is 80% or more.

Abstract: A fluid processing apparatus includes: a casing partitioned by a fluid processing region, a fluid inlet region on an upstream side of the fluid processing region and having a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet region on a downstream side of the fluid processing region and having a fluid outlet; a hollow fluid passage pipe provided in the fluid processing region of the casing; an ultraviolet ray emitting unit provided in the fluid outlet region of the casing; a fluid branching and joining member provided over the fluid inlet region and the fluid processing region of the casing and fixed by ribs to the casing.

Abstract: A holding portion in which a power supply distribution unit is inserted and held is formed in a case of an electrical connection structure. Here, the power supply distribution unit includes a main body formed so as to have an approximately twice-rotation symmetrical shape with respect to an imaginary line extending in a first direction. A projection is formed on the main body and/or the holding portion, and a groove into which the projection is inserted, and a restriction wall which interferes with the projection when the power source distribution unit is inversely inserted are formed on the holding portion and/or the main body. Further, a projection side inclined surface capable of guiding the projection into the groove by coming into contact with the restriction wall when the power source distribution unit is inserted in a state of a normal position is formed in the projection.

Abstract: The patch of the present invention comprises a backing layer and an adhesive layer laminated on the backing layer, wherein a water vapor transmission rate of the backing layer is 400 g/m2·24 hours or more, and the adhesive layer comprises a drug, dimethylsulfoxide and an adhesive. Such a patch does not fall off easily even after long wear.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device including: forming an N-type region in a nitride semiconductor layer; implanting ions of an acceptor element into a region under the N-type region in the nitride semiconductor layer; and forming a first P-type region under the N-type region by subjecting the nitride semiconductor layer to heat treatment and activating the acceptor element. The forming the N-type region includes implanting ions of a donor element into the nitride semiconductor layer such that concentration of the donor element in the N-type region is equal to or greater than concentration of the acceptor element in the first P-type region. The implanting ions of the acceptor element into a region under the N-type region includes implanting ions of the acceptor element such that concentration of the acceptor element in the first P-type region is 1×1019 cm?3 or more and 1×1021 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting data for map generation includes a processor configured to determine whether the current state of a vehicle is suitable for collection of collection target data to be used for generating or updating a map, based on suitability data received from the vehicle with a communication device. The suitability data indicates suitability of the vehicle or surroundings thereof for the collection. The processor is also configured to instruct, with the communication device, the vehicle to collect the collection target data when determining that the current state of the vehicle is suitable for the collection.

Abstract: There is provided an injection needle that perpendicularly punctures a target site such as an intramucosal or intradermal site and injects a medicinal solution into the target site. The injection needle includes: a bevel-needle-shaped needle body having a hollow portion through which the medicinal solution is passable; a needle body blade surface which is formed at a distal portion of the needle body and enables a puncture of the target site; and a passage hole which is formed at the distal portion and through which the medicinal solution passes. The passage hole is biased toward a side of a distal end of the needle body blade surface. A length of the needle body in an axial direction from an edge portion of an opening edge of the passage hole to the distal end of the needle body blade surface is 0.1 mm or longer and shorter than 2.0 mm.

Abstract: An electrical connection structure includes: a base unit; and a battery circuit bus bar which is detachably mounted to a battery connection terminal provided in the base unit. Further, the base unit includes: the battery connection terminal; a power source distribution circuit component constituting part of a power source distribution circuit; and one case in which the power source distribution circuit component and the battery connection terminal are held. The battery circuit bus bar includes: a normal bus bar without a relief terminal; and a relief terminal-provided bus bar having the relief terminal. At least one of the normal bus bar and the relief terminal-provided bus bar is selectively mounted to the battery connection terminal.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compressor housing that is provided with a refrigerant discharge portion and refrigerant suction portions, a compression unit that is arranged in the compressor housing and compresses a refrigerant, sucked from the suction portions, and discharges it from the discharge portion, a motor that is arranged in the compressor housing and drives the compression unit, an accumulator that is connected to the suction portions, and a mounting member that secures the accumulator to the compressor housing. The compressor housing and an accumulator container of the accumulator are made of a metal material. The mounting member is at least partially made of a resin material and has a first joint portion, which is joined to an outer peripheral surface of the compressor housing.

Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a stationary valve and a drive valve. The stationary valve is placed in a fluid passage of the housing. The stationary valve forms a first passage, which conducts fluid, and a penetrating chamber which penetrates through the stationary valve in the axial direction. The drive valve is placed on one axial side of the stationary valve in the fluid passage and forms a second passage which conducts the fluid. The drive valve communicates the second passage to the first passage through rotation of the drive valve. The housing has a bottom portion that covers the penetrating chamber from another axial side. An upstream passage of the fluid passage, which is located on an upstream side of the drive valve and the stationary valve in a flow direction of the fluid, is communicated with the penetrating chamber through a communication passage.

Abstract: This press-formed article includes: a top sheet portion; a sidewall continuing to the top sheet portion via a convex ridge line portion; a flange continuing to the sidewall via a concaved ridge line portion; and an outward flange continuing from an edge portion of the top sheet portion to an edge portion of the flange, via an edge portion of the convex ridge line portion, an edge portion of the sidewall, and an edge portion of the concaved ridge line portion, wherein in the same unit, an average thickness TAve, a minimum thickness TMin, and a maximum thickness TMax of the outward flange satisfy Equation 1 and Equation 2. 0.8×TAve?TMin<TAve??(Equation 1) TAve<TMax?1.

Abstract: A needle assembly includes an injection needle that includes a needle tube in which a blade surface is formed at a needle tip, and a needle hub that holds the injection needle. The needle hub includes a holding portion that has a penetration region through which the injection needle penetrates and that holds the injection needle penetrating the penetration region, and an insertion portion that is disposed on the distal end side of the holding portion and that guides a proximal end portion of the injection needle to the penetration region such that the puncture direction of the injection needle and the center line of the penetration region overlap with each other.

Abstract: Provided is a glass cloth fiber composite material having both an excellent electromagnetic wave shielding property and an excellent impact resistance, and is also superior in handling property since the material is a composite of a carbon nanotube unwoven cloth and a glass cloth, and employs no strongly acidic compound as being, for example, a protonating agent. The glass cloth composite material comprises one or more glass cloth layers and one or more carbon nanotube unwoven cloth layers, wherein at least one of the glass cloth and carbon nanotube unwoven cloth layers in the glass cloth composite material is impregnated with a heat-curable resin or has a heat-curable resin film laminated thereon.

Abstract: An articulated robot includes a base; an end section; a plurality of links including a first link and a second link and connecting the base and the end section to each other; a first driving mechanism connecting the first link and the second link to each other and configured to rotate the second link about an axis as a first rotation axis relative to the first link, the axis as the first rotation axis forming an angle greater than a predetermined angle with a first direction in which the first link extends; a first moving mechanism configured to move the first driving mechanism relative to the first link along the first direction; and a second moving mechanism configured to move the second link relative to the first driving mechanism along a second direction in which the second link extends.