Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a line portion, a base including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, first and second ground conductors, and a signal line. The first ground conductor is on the first main surface side. The second ground conductor is on the second main surface side. The first ground conductor includes first conductor-non-formed portions overlapping the signal line when viewed in the Z axis direction. The second ground conductor includes second conductor-non-formed portions overlapping the signal line when viewed in the Z axis direction. A total area of the second conductor-non-formed portions is less than a total area of the first conductor-non-formed portions.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorbing thermally conductive composition contains a matrix resin component, metal soft magnetic particles, and thermally conductive particles. The metal soft magnetic particles are carbonyl iron particles and are present in an amount of 30% by volume or more when the electromagnetic wave absorbing thermally conductive composition is a population parameter. A value of an imaginary part (??) of relative permeability of the electromagnetic wave absorbing thermally conductive composition is 0.9 or more in at least some bands in a frequency range of 18 to 26.5 GHz. The electromagnetic wave absorbing thermally conductive composition in the form of a sheet has a thermal conductivity of 2.0 W/m·K or more in the thickness direction. A sheet of the present invention incudes the above composition in the form of a sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, or a copolymer of ethylene, the allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, and another monomer. This production method is characterized by using a metal complex, which is represented by general formula (C1), as a polymerization catalyst and by having a silane compound, which is represented by general formula (2) and has a silicon-hydrogen bond, coexist with the metal complex. (In the formulae, the symbols are as defined in the description.) According to the present invention, a copolymer of an allyl monomer that has a polar group is able to be produced with high catalytic activity, said copolymer being capable of having various applications.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an obtaining portion that divides image data into a plurality of regions in a sub scanning direction, and obtains, for each of the plurality of regions in the sub scanning direction, a first value relating to pixels having density at at least a prescribed value in a first width and a second value relating to pixels having density at at least the prescribed value in a second width, which is greater than the first width; a determining portion that determines, for each of the plurality of regions, a target temperature for maintaining a temperature of a heating member on the basis of the first and second values; and a control portion that controls power supplied to the heating member so that the temperature of the heating member is maintained at the target temperature.

Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a novel peptide that is permeable to the blood-brain barrier. The present invention provides a blood-brain barrier permeable peptide containing an amino acid sequence: SLSHSPQ (SEQ ID NO: 1) (where P may be substituted). The present invention also provides a carrier molecule for intracerebral delivery containing the peptide, a complex composed of the peptide and a target molecule that is allowed to permeate the blood-brain barrier, and a blood-brain barrier permeable composition containing the complex.

Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body obtained by stacking a plurality of insulating base material layers, a driver IC including a plurality of mounting electrodes, coils, and magnetic sensors. The driver IC and the magnetic sensors are mounted to the stacked body. The coils include a first end and a second end that are electrically connected to the driver IC through a conductive bonding material. The first end and a mounting electrode are connected at one position through the conductive bonding material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.

Abstract: An electric element includes a substrate including a resin layer and a first conductive body, and a magnet. The substrate includes a first principal surface facing the magnet. The first conductive body includes a coil portion having a winding axis orthogonal to the first principal surface and located on a side closest to the first principal surface. The coil portion includes a continuous coil conductor including a first coil surface facing the first principal surface and a second coil surface opposite to the first coil surface. The coil conductor has a non-uniform thickness in a winding axis direction varying a distance between the first and second coil surfaces, and a difference of maximum and minimum values of distance between the first coil surface and the first principal surface is smaller than a difference of maximum and minimum values of distance between the second coil surface and the first principal surface.

Abstract: Provided are a novel catalyst component for producing an ?-olefin (co)polymer, and a production method using the same. A metal complex is obtainable by contacting a compound represented by the general formula [I] or [II] with a transition metal compound containing a transition metal belonging to 9th to 11th group: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent (i) hydrogen, (ii) a halogen, (iii) a linear alkyl or the like, or (iv) OR9 or the like; R5 and R6 represent a linear alkyl group or the like; any one of R1-R6 may have a heteroatom or a heteroatom containing group; E1 represents phosphorus, arsenic or antimony; X1 represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents hydrogen or a leaving group.

Abstract: Provided are a novel catalyst component for producing an ?-olefin (co)polymer, and a production method using the same. A metal complex is obtainable by contacting a compound represented by the general formula [I] or [II] with a transition metal compound containing a transition metal belonging to 9th to 11th group: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent (i) hydrogen, (ii) a halogen, (iii) a linear alkyl or the like, or (iv) OR9 or the like; R5 and R6 represent a linear alkyl group or the like; any one of R1-R6 may have a heteroatom or a heteroatom containing group; E1 represents phosphorus, arsenic or antimony; X1 represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents hydrogen or a leaving group.

Abstract: Provided is a printing device that includes a Y-axis encoder outputting a pulse signal corresponding to a position of a head part in a predetermined direction, a Y-axis counter counting a count value based on the pulse signal from the Y-axis encoder, a control part that performs a first and a second controls, and a determination part determining that the Y-axis encoder is normal when a count value equal to or greater than a predetermined number is counted and determines that the Y-axis encoder is abnormal when a count value less than the predetermined number is counted in the first control. The control part shifts from the first control to the second control when the Y-axis encoder is determined to be normal, and the control part does not shift from the first control to the second control when the Y-axis encoder is determined to be abnormal.

Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body including first and second flexible insulating base material layers, and an actuator conductor pattern on at least the first insulating base material layer. The stacked body includes a first region including stacked first and second insulating base material layers, and a second region including stacked second insulating base material layers. The first region includes an actuator function portion in a portion thereof, the actuator function portion including the actuator conductor pattern. The thickness of the first insulating base material layer including the actuator conductor pattern is smaller than the thickness of one second insulating base material layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor including a charge generation layer; a charging member to charge a surface of the photoconductor; and an exposure unit to expose the surface of the photoconductor to form a toner image on the surface of the photoconductor charged. The exposure unit exposes the surface of the photoconductor by scanning a laser beam in a main scanning direction at a non-constant scan rate, and exposure amount per unit length of the surface of the photoconductor in the main scanning direction is larger in a first region than in a second region. The first region is in the surface of the photoconductor exposed at a first scan rate. The second region is in the surface of the photoconductor exposed at a second scan rate higher than the first scan rate. The charge generation layer is thinner in the first region than in the second region.

Abstract: A control system includes a management unit configured to control a power supply device toward a target value for an output performance value of the power supply device that supplies power to a predetermined device, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a post-shutdown task scheduled to be executed after a shutdown condition of the predetermined device is satisfied, in which the management unit refers to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and, when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, sets the target value to a second target value which is higher than a first target value set when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, before the shutdown condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A silicone sheet 1 of the present invention is a silicone sheet that is at least one selected from a silicone gel sheet and a silicone putty sheet. The silicone sheet has a Shore 00 hardness of 75 or less. The silicone sheet is cut in a thickness direction and cut faces 5a-5m and 6a-6f of the silicone sheet are adjacent to each other without gap. The cut faces of the silicone sheet are non-tacky, and the silicone sheet is separable at the cut faces. Preferably, the cut faces have a tackiness of 0.6 N or less based on a tackiness checker. The mounting method of the present invention is a method of mounting the above silicone sheet by pick and place mounting using an automatic mounting machine.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image based on image data, a fixing unit configured to fix the image formed by the image forming unit on a recording material, a conversion unit configured to convert image data into conversion data including a plurality of areas having a first resolution in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording material, and a second resolution higher than the first resolution in a sub-scanning direction, which is the conveyance direction of the recording material, an analysis unit configured to analyze values related to the areas of the plurality of areas of the conversion data obtained by the conversion unit, and a temperature control unit configured to control a fixing temperature of the fixing unit according to a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an obtaining portion that divides image data into a plurality of regions in a sub scanning direction, and obtains, for each of the plurality of regions in the sub scanning direction, a first value relating to pixels having density at at least a prescribed value in a first width and a second value relating to pixels having density at at least the prescribed value in a second width, which is greater than the first width; a determining portion that determines, for each of the plurality of regions, a target temperature for maintaining a temperature of a heating member on the basis of the first and second values; and a control portion that controls power supplied to the heating member so that the temperature of the heating member is maintained at the target temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, or a copolymer of ethylene, the allyl monomer that is represented by formula (1) and has a polar group, and another monomer. This production method is characterized by using a metal complex, which is represented by general formula (C1), as a polymerization catalyst and by having a silane compound, which is represented by general formula (2) and has a silicon-hydrogen bond, coexist with the metal complex. (In the formulae, the symbols are as defined in the description.) According to the present invention, a copolymer of an allyl monomer that has a polar group is able to be produced with high catalytic activity, said copolymer being capable of having various applications.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), or a copolymer of ethylene, an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), and other monomers, wherein the copolymer is produced in the presence of a boron compound having a boron-hydrogen bond or a boron-carbon bond (for example, a compound represented by general formula (2)) by using a metal complex represented by general formula (C1) as a polymerization catalyst (the symbols in the formulas are as described in the description). According to the present invention, a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer can be efficiently produced with high catalytic activity, wherein the copolymer has a polar group and can be used in various applications.

Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a lamination body including a first resin substrate, a second resin substrate, and a bonding layer that are hot-pressed. A first conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film is disposed on a first surface of the first resin substrate. A second conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film is disposed on a second surface of the first resin substrate. A third conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film is disposed on a third surface of the second resin substrate. A fourth conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film is disposed on a fourth surface of the second resin substrate. The first conductor pattern is located closer to one outermost layer than the second conductor pattern is. The second conductor pattern is thinner than the first conductor pattern.