Abstract: A method for improving holding power of an adhesive agent layer in a ropinirole-containing patch comprising a backing layer and the adhesive agent layer, wherein the adhesive agent layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of ropinirole and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an adhesive agent, the method comprising: causing the adhesive agent layer to further contain a sodium salt of carbonic acid.

Abstract: An optical identifier including a recording surface, a plurality of deflection cells each of which has recorded thereon a range in which light to be diffracted is deflected, at least one spatial phase modulator which fills a space between the deflection cells on the recording surface, and a deposition layer which covers part or all of the recording surface. The deflection cells has a spatial frequency expressed in a form of a relief structure and are discretely formed on the recording surface at regular intervals away from each other. A variable color image is recorded by pixels defined by the deflection cells. The spatial phase modulator has thereon a distribution of phase differences recorded in a form of heights of the relief structure. The spatial phase modulator modulates a phase of light outputted from a point light source and displays a reproduced image.

Abstract: To provide a muscle tissue-regenerating agent containing a fibroin protein. A muscle tissue-regenerating agent containing a modified fibroin protein.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a main body having a storeroom for storing a food item; a shelf plate arranged in a storeroom, the shelf plate on which a food item is put; a door that opens and closes a side of the storeroom; a camera arranged on an inner surface of the door, the camera takes an image of an inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device that moves the camera in a vertical direction. The camera moving device stops the camera at one or more points for each of between the shelf plates located adjacent to each other, and between an inner surface of a top edge of the storeroom and the shelf plate located adjacent to the inner surface of the top edge of the storeroom, and the camera takes an image each time when the camera moving device stops moving the camera.

Abstract: A ropinirole-containing patch comprising an adhesive agent layer and a backing layer, wherein the adhesive agent layer containing: at least one selected from the group consisting of ropinirole and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a fatty acid metal salt having 7 or more carbon atoms; and an adhesive agent.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a pair of end surfaces, and a side surface connecting the pair of end surfaces and including a pair of end regions adjacent to the pair of end surfaces and an intermediate region located between the pair of end regions; and a pair of external electrodes including a pair of base layers that cover the pair of end surfaces and the pair of end regions of the side surface and include outer surfaces, a difference of a surface roughness Ra of the outer surfaces with respect to the intermediate region of the side surface being 40 nm or less, and a pair of plating layers covering the outer surfaces of the pair of base layers and including a pair of extending portions extending from the outer surfaces of the pair of base layers to the intermediate region of the side surface.

Abstract: A caulking pin (15) is inserted into a mounting hole (21) provided in a metal case body (3), and the end portion of the caulking pin (15) is thermally caulked with a welding tip (24) to form a mold forming portion (17). A surplus absorption recess (31) is formed by enlarging the opening end of the mounting hole (21), and surplus resin is absorbed. The surplus absorption recess (31) is positioned inside a region of the mold forming portion (17). Therefore, the amount of molten surplus resin that protrudes outward from the welding tip (24) in the thermal caulking process is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a functionalized mRNA including mRNA and double-stranded RNA including at least one RNA oligomer hybridized with mRNA. Functionalized mRNA is provided according to this configuration.

Abstract: A steel sheet wherein a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite. In the steel sheet, in a ? to ? thickness range, a proportion of retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is 50% or more, and a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present. When an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si is analyzed in the sheet thickness direction from the surface by a radio-frequency glow discharge analysis method, a peak of the emission intensity appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 5.0 ?m or less from the surface.

Abstract: In a thickness range of which center is a ¼ thickness from the surface of a base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase is 0% to less than 50%, a volume fraction of the total of a hard structure composed of one or more of a bainite structure, a bainitic ferrite phase, a fresh martensite phase, and a tempered martensite phase is 50% or more, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 0-8%, and a volume fraction of the total of a pearlite phase and a coarse cementite phase is 0-8%, at an interface between a plating layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer is provided, the Fe—Al alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.1-2.0 ?m and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in the width direction of the steel sheet being within 0.5 ?m.

Abstract: A numerical controller according to the present invention stores comparative relationship between parameters related to setting of the numerical controller, extracts data having comparative relationship among parameters related to the setting of the numerical controller based on the stored comparative relationship, and causes a display to display the data having the comparative relationship in association with each other.

Abstract: A joining device comprises a die and driving means. A first concave portion is recessed in a substantially cylindrical shape in a driving direction on the die, and a second concave portion is recessed in the driving direction in a central portion on a bottom face of the first concave portion. A portion on an external side of the second concave portion on the bottom face of the first concave portion forms a terrace portion that is shallower than the second concave portion, and a diameter of the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet corresponds to a diameter of the terrace portion. In driving the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet toward the terrace portion of the first concave portion, the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet is spread outward by the terrace portion and a part of the members to be joined runs into the second concave portion.

Abstract: A steel sheet has a chemical composition with a steel structure containing, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0-30%, retained austenite: 3-40%, fresh martensite: 0-30%, pearlite and cementite: 0-10%, and a remainder including hard ferrite. In the steel sheet, a number proportion of retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, and a soft layer having a thickness of 1-100 ?m is present. In the soft layer, a volume fraction of ferrite grains having an aspect ratio of less than 3.0 is 50% or more, and a volume fraction of retained austenite is 50% or more of the volume fraction of the retained austenite of the inside of the steel sheet. A peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m to 5 ?m or less from the surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a functionalized mRNA including mRNA and double-stranded RNA including at least one RNA oligomer hybridized with mRNA. Functionalized mRNA is provided according to this configuration.

Abstract: A control device controls display of a display device for displaying a display screen for setting operations of the control device that controls an industrial machine and soft keys for operating the display screen. The control device includes: a key input processing unit that receives input from an input device; an input content determining unit that determines a content of the input received by the key input processing unit; a storage unit that stores a soft key definition information table in which operation contents on the display screen to be allocated to the soft keys are defined in advance; a soft key allocation selecting unit that selects the operation contents to be allocated to the soft keys; and a soft key display processing unit that displays the soft keys allocated with the operation contents selected by the soft key allocation selecting unit on the display device.

Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet contains predetermined amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, O, sol. Al, Ti, and B, 0.1 to 1.5 mass % of Cr+2×Mo, and a balance in a form of Fe and inevitable impurities. A steel structure includes, in area %, ferrite: 1 to 50%, martensite: 20 to 70%, residual austenite: 0 to 5%, pearlite: 0 to 5%, MA and cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size: 0 to 5% in total, and a balance in a form of bainite. A number density of MA or cementite having 0.2 ?m or more grain size and isolated in ferrite or bainite grains is 100 pcs/1000 ?m2 or less, and an average hardness of martensite is in a range from 330 to 500 Hv.

Abstract: An optical assembly includes a spacer layer which is translucent or transparent; an image forming reflector which has a reflective layer being formed at least in a first region of the spacer layer; and a protective layer which is laminated over the spacer layer and the image forming reflector and the protective layer being translucent or transparent. The spacer layer is made of a polyolefin or/and a polymer containing an aryl group. The image forming reflector includes a visible image which is authenticatable. The image forming reflector has an individual information record in which a code is stored in the form of a plurality of removed linear segments. The image forming reflector has white level regions and a black level region in planar view. Each of the white level regions has the removed linear segments formed therein. The black level region is interposed between the white level regions.

Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains ferrite: 50% or less, retained austenite: 30% or less, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 10% or less, and pearlite and cementite in total: 5% or less, remaining structures consist of bainite, and a number ratio of tempered martensite with a Mn concentration profile satisfying [Mn]b/[Mn]a>1.2 and [Mn]a/[Mn]<2.0 ([Mn] is the Mn content in the base steel sheet, [Mn]a is the average Mn concentration in the tempered martensite, and [Mn]b is the Mn concentration at the interfaces of different phases of the tempered martensite and ferrite phase and bainite phase) is 0.2 or more with respect to the total number of tempered martensite, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer on at least one surface of the base metal steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and contains, by volume fraction, ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, when there are remaining structures, the remaining structures consist of bainite, a concentration of B atoms at prior austenite grain boundaries is 2.0 atm % or more, and an average effective crystal grain size is 7.0 ?m or less, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: Provided are a hot dip galvanized steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet wherein the base steel sheet has a predetermined composition and contains ferrite: 0% to 50%, retained austenite: 0% to 30%, tempered martensite: 5% or more, fresh martensite: 0% to 10%, and pearlite and cementite in total: 0% to 5%, remaining structures consist of bainite, when defining a region having a hardness of 90% or less of the hardness at a position of ¼ thickness to the base steel sheet side from an interface of the base steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized layer as a “soft layer”, there is a soft layer having a thickness of 10 ?m or more at the base steel sheet side from the interface, the soft layer contains tempered martensite, and an increase rate in a thickness direction of an area % of tempered martensite from the interface to the inside of the base steel sheet inside the soft layer is 5.0%/pm or less, and a method for producing the same.