Abstract: The present invention provides: a metal patterning material which exhibits excellent heat resistance and is suppressed in the formation of a metal thin film on a film surface; an amine compound; a method for forming a metal pattern using these; and an electronic device.

Abstract: An uttered utterance text that is a high priority text to be reported to a user is uttered reliably. The air purifier (10) includes an utterance text extraction unit (11a) that extracts an utterance text associated with an apparatus state and an utterance control unit (11b) that causes the utterance text extracted by the utterance text extraction unit (11a) to be uttered in descending order of priorities assigned to categories including the utterance text according to one of the priorities that is assigned to one of the categories that includes the utterance text.

Abstract: An uttered utterance text that is a high priority text to be reported to a user is uttered reliably. The air purifier (10) includes an utterance text extraction unit (11a) that extracts an utterance text associated with an apparatus state and an utterance control unit (11b) that causes the utterance text extracted by the utterance text extraction unit (11a) to be uttered in descending order of priorities assigned to categories including the utterance text according to one of the priorities that is assigned to one of the categories that includes the utterance text.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: Provided is a blowing device that can provide improved convenience. In a blowing device 1 provided with a casing 2 that has openings as an air inflow port 20 and an air blow-off port 5 formed therethrough and includes a blower 10 therein, a cover member 3 that is demountably mounted to the casing 2 so as to cover the inflow port 20 and has a plurality of openings each formed therethrough as an air suction port 4, and an insect catching portion 50 that is arranged on an inner surface of the cover member 3 and catches insects, the insect catching portion 50 is formed by stacking, via a release agent, a plurality of insect catching sheets 51 each formed of a base material sheet 52 with an adhesive 53 applied on one surface thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a delayed fluorescence organic EL element having optimal light emission characteristics, by a polycyclic aromatic compound represented by the following general formula (1) or a polycyclic aromatic compound multimer having a plurality of structures represented by the following general formula (1). ring A, ring B and ring C each independently represent an aryl ring or a heteroaryl ring, while at least one hydrogen atom in these rings may be substituted, Y1 represents B, X1 and X2 each independently represent N—R, R of the N—R is an optionally substituted aryl, an optionally substituted heteroaryl or alkyl, R of the N—R may be bonded to the ring A, ring B, and/or ring C with a linking group or a single bond, and at least one hydrogen atom in a compound or a structure represented by formula (1) may be substituted by a halogen atom or a deuterium atom.

Abstract: Object: To provide thermally expandable microspheres having little sag. Resolution Means: The thermally expandable microspheres have a structure in which a foaming agent is encapsulated in an outer shell formed from a polymer, wherein, the ratio (%) of (R2/R1)×100 is at least 105%, where R1 is the expansion ratio after the thermally expandable microspheres have been heat-treated for 5 minutes at 150° C. and then foamed by heating for 2 minutes at 200° C., and R2 is the expansion ratio after the thermally expandable microspheres have been heat-treated for 5 minutes at 150° C. and then foamed by heating for 4 minutes at 200° C.

Abstract: Object: To provide thermally expandable microspheres having little sag. Resolution Means: The thermally expandable microspheres have a structure in which a foaming agent is encapsulated in an outer shell formed from a polymer, wherein, the ratio (%) of (R2/R1)×100 is at least 105%, where R1 is the expansion ratio after the thermally expandable microspheres have been heat-treated for 5 minutes at 150° C. and then foamed by heating for 2 minutes at 200° C., and R2 is the expansion ratio after the thermally expandable microspheres have been heat-treated for 5 minutes at 150° C. and then foamed by heating for 4 minutes at 200° C.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: Provided is a blowing device that can provide improved convenience. In a blowing device 1 provided with a casing 2 that has openings as an air inflow port 20 and an air blow-off port 5 formed therethrough and includes a blower 10 therein, a cover member 3 that is demountably mounted to the casing 2 so as to cover the inflow port 20 and has a plurality of openings each formed therethrough as an air suction port 4, and an insect catching portion 50 that is arranged on an inner surface of the cover member 3 and catches insects, the insect catching portion 50 is formed by stacking, via a release agent, a plurality of insect catching sheets 51 each formed of a base material sheet 52 with an adhesive 53 applied on one surface thereof.

Abstract: Provided are heat-expandable microspheres in which the water content can be adjusted easily and quickly by efficiently dehydrating the water present in the heat-expandable microspheres. Resolution Means Heat-expandable microspheres having a structure in which a foaming agent is encapsulated inside an outer shell formed from a polymer, the average value of the degrees of circularity, calculated based on a parameter indicating a particle diameter of each particle of the heat-expandable microspheres and a parameter indicating the circumference, being 0.985 or less are provided.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: A light-emitting-layer host material is provided as material for high-efficiency organic electroluminescent devices. The light-emitting-layer host material has a high excitation triplet level, and is capable of completely confining the triplet excitons of phosphorescent material. A high-efficiency and high-luminance organic electroluminescent device is provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) having a bipyridyl group and an ortho-terphenyl structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: A nanostructure including a nanoporous material having micropores filled with a fragmented thin-film material from the opening-side of each micropore, the nanoporous material being obtained by placing a thin-film material on a surface of a nanoporous material and pressing the thin-film material so that the thin-film material is cut out at the surface edge of each micropore of the nanoporous material and pressed into the micropore. By removing the nanoporous material form the nanoporous material, microparticles constituted from the thin-film material that filled the nanoporous material are obtained. By covering all the wall surfaces of the micropores of the nanoporous material in advance, nanocapsules each constituted from a tubular structure composed of the thin film covering the entire wall surface of the micropore and a cover made of a thin-film material filled in the vicinity of the opening of the micropore can be formed.

Abstract: An object is to produce uniformly sized, nanosized microparticles in a short time in large numbers by a simple procedure. Although a technique of filling micropores of nanoporous material with a metal from the bottoms of the micropores by electrodeposition or by a sol-gel method has been available, there has been no process for covering the openings of the micropores or process for producing nanocapsules. A nanostructure including a nanoporous material having micropores filled with a fragmented thin-film material from the opening-side of each micropore, the nanoporous material being obtained by placing a thin-film material on a surface of a nanoporous material and pressing the thin-film material so that the thin-film material is cut out at the surface edge of each micropore of the nanoporous material and pressed into the micropore. By removing the nanoporous material form the nanoporous material, microparticles constituted from the thin-film material that filled the nanoporous material are obtained.

Abstract: In a flame detecting apparatus for detecting the flame of fire or the like using a sensor 1, a signal processing unit 3 includes a span counting section 5 for dividing a time base into several time spans, each having a predetermined time interval, and counting the number of signals output from the sensor 1 as a count value for each span, a count value storage section 6 for storing the count value for each span output from the span counting section 5, and an calculation section 7 for judging the occurrence of flame by taking into account the count values counted for the past spans which have been stored in the count value storage section 6, as well as the count value of the latest span, when the count value of the latest span is output from the span counting section 5.