Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.

Abstract: A sensor interface circuit includes: an RF switch having a control node; a bias circuit electrically connected to the control node and applying, to the control node, a voltage at a first level or a second level corresponding to a linear region of a reflection characteristic; a first variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a first sensor; a second variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a second sensor; and a difference circuit electrically connected between the first variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit, and between the second variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object in which deposition is performed by melting and solidifying a metal depending on three-dimensional shape data of a target shape, includes: acquiring the three-dimensional shape data; creating a deposition plan in which a formation track and a heating condition of the metal are determined; determining a difference between a shape of the additively-manufactured object that thermally contracts by cooling after deposition and a shape of the three-dimensional shape data by an operation; modifying the deposition plan until the difference falls within a predetermined allowable range; and additively manufacturing the additively-manufactured object based on the deposition plan in which the difference falls within the allowable range.

Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.

Abstract: A nuclear fusion system comprises: a muon generation unit to generate negative muons including electron and positron accelerators for generating electron and positron beams; a gas supply unit to supply to circulate gaseous deuterium or gaseous deuterium-tritium mixture as raw material gas; a Laval nozzle to accelerate the raw material gas to supersonic velocity; and a shock wave cone connected to the Laval nozzle to introduce the raw material gas accelerated to supersonic velocity to generate an oblique shock wave, the raw material gas accelerated to supersonic velocity being introduced into the shock wave cone to generate the oblique shock wave, the oblique shock wave being decelerated to create a high-density gas target in an in-flight manner, the muons generated as a result of causing electrons and positrons to collide with each other being introduced into the high-density gas target thereby to cause a muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion reaction to occur.

Abstract: A shape sensor is provided for acquiring a shape profile along an extension direction of an existing weld bead, and a control unit includes a welding information acquisition unit for acquiring welding information during formation of an adjacent weld bead when forming the adjacent weld bead at a position adjacent to the existing weld bead, and a defect candidate extraction unit for determining an angle characteristic portion having a base angle equal to or greater than a threshold in the existing weld bead based on the shape profile, determining a welding characteristic portion of the welding information based on the welding information, and extracting the welding characteristic portion corresponding to the angle characteristic portion as a defect candidate by associating the welding characteristic portion with the angle characteristic portion.

Abstract: A variety of applications can include memory devices designed to provide stabilization of selector devices in a memory array of the memory device. A selector stabilizer pulse can be applied to a selector device of a string of the memory array and to a memory cell of multiple memory cells of the string with the memory cell being adjacent to the selector device in the string. The selector stabilizer pulse can be applied directly following an erase operation to the string to stabilize the threshold voltage of the selector device. The selector stabilizer pulse can be applied as part of the erase algorithm of the memory device. Additional devices, systems, and methods are discussed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.

Abstract: A memory device can include a memory array coupled with a control logic. The control logic initiates a program operation on the memory array, the program operation including a program phase and a program recovery phase. The control logic causes a program voltage to be applied to a selected word line during the program phase. The control logic causes a select gate drain coupled with a string of memory cells to deactivate during the program recovery phase after applying the program voltage, where the string of memory cells include a plurality of memory cells each coupled to a corresponding word line of a plurality of wordlines. The control logic causes a voltage to be applied to a select gate source coupled with the string of memory cells to activate the select gate source during the program recovery phase concurrent to causing the select gate drain to deactivate.

Abstract: A soldering apparatus that applies a processing light for melting a solder disposed on a circuit board, includes: a light irradiation apparatus that includes a Galvano mirror and that applies the processing light through the Galvano mirror; a detection apparatus that detects a light from the circuit board and that generates at least one of image data and shape data; a robot arm that is provided with the light irradiation apparatus and the detection apparatus and that includes a driver that moves the light irradiation apparatus and the detection apparatus; and a control apparatus that controls a direction of the Galvano mirror such that the processing light from the light irradiation apparatus that is displaced with the detection apparatus is applied to a same position, on the basis of at least one of the data that are changed in accordance with a displacement of the detection apparatus.

Abstract: An additively manufactured object formed by depositing weld bead layers, each of the weld bead layers being obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal made of a mild steel, the additively manufactured object includes a plurality of the weld bead layers having a ferrite phase with an average grain diameter of 11 ?m or less in a part except for a surface oxide film.

Abstract: In the present application, a shaped article W is produced, the shaped article including: a plurality of blades provided around a shaft, with an interval disposed therebetween in the circumferential direction; and curved surface-shaped recesses present in between the blades. This method for producing a shaped article includes: a shaping step, in which welding beads where filler material has been melted and solidified at the peripheral surface are layered on a base material having a circular cross-section of a greater radius than the bottom circle that passes through the lowest part of the recess, thus forming a shaped section that will become a blade; and a cutting step in which part of the surface of the shaped section and the peripheral surface of the base material is cut to form a blade, and the recesses between the blades are also formed.

Abstract: A method for designing an additively-manufactured object includes: a slicing step of slicing a shape of the additively-manufactured object into weld bead layers each having a height corresponding to one bead layer using data of the shape of the additively-manufactured object, thereby generating a plurality of virtual bead layers; a reference direction setting step of setting, as a reference direction, a direction in which the sliced layer of the additively-manufactured object is continuously provided and extended in an intermediate layer disposed at a deposition-direction center of the plurality of virtual bead layers; and a bead adjusting step of adjusting a bead size of the weld bead to be formed in the plurality of virtual bead layers depending on a bead shape in a section perpendicular to the reference direction.

Abstract: A processing system, which processes an object by irradiating the object with a processing light through an irradiation optical system, includes: an irradiation apparatus including at least a terminal optical element of the irradiation optical system; a movement apparatus that moves the irradiation apparatus; a first measurement apparatus that is disposed at the irradiation apparatus and measures a position of the object; a second measurement apparatus that measures the position of the object through at least the terminal optical element; and a third measurement apparatus that emits, from a position which is away from the irradiation apparatus, a measurement light toward the irradiation apparatus and measures the position of the irradiation apparatus by detecting the measurement light.

Abstract: Dry solids of anionically modified cellulose nanofibers with good redispersion are provided by incorporating 5 to 300% by mass of a water-soluble polymer relative to the anionically modified cellulose nanofibers during the preparation of the dry solids of anionically modified cellulose nanofibers.

Abstract: A nerve stimulating apparatus includes a plurality of stimulating units configured to respectively apply stimuli to a plurality of nerve regions branching from a particular nerve region of a living body, and a stimulation timing controller configured to set generating timings of respectively generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units. The stimulation timing controller sets the generating timings of generating the stimuli at the plurality of stimulating units based on response results of the particular nerve region, the response results being obtained in response to the stimuli that are respectively generated at the plurality of stimulating units and that are respectively applied to the plurality of nerve regions, and the response results being measured by a biometric information measuring apparatus that measures biometric information.

Abstract: A method for joining an additively-manufactured component includes welding a plurality of additively-manufactured components via a weld joint to fabricate an integral structure. The additively-manufactured components are built by repeatedly depositing a weld bead layer of a next layer on a weld bead layer formed of a weld bead obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal by use of an arc, and the weld joint is built along with the deposition.

Abstract: Control logic in a memory device initiates an erase operation on a memory array and causes an erase voltage signal to be applied to a source terminal of a string of memory cells in a data block of the memory array during the erase operation. The control logic further causes a first voltage signal to be applied to a first select line of the data block and a second voltage signal to be applied to a second select line of the data block, wherein the first select line is coupled to a first device in the string of memory cells and the second select line is coupled to a second device in the string of memory cells, and wherein the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal both have a common first voltage offset with respect to the erase voltage signal during a first stage of the erase operation.

Abstract: A blade (BL) is a blade that is used in fluid and includes : a base member (BM); and a coat layer (TBC) that is formed on the base member, a plurality of first grooves (9) and a plurality of second grooves (7) are formed on a surface of the coat layer, a pitch (P9) of the plurality of first grooves is different from a pitch (P7) of the plurality of second grooves.