Abstract: A carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source is injected from a carrier gas injection nozzle. Also, a fuel including a hydrocarbon-based liquid and supplied from a fuel source is supplied to a tip end of the carrier gas injection nozzle, whereby this fuel is atomized with the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injection nozzle. Furthermore, an inlet of a reforming part that decomposes the atomized fuel and reforms the atomized fuel into a reducing gas including either or both of hydrogen and an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon is provided so as to face the carrier gas injection nozzle and the fuel supply nozzle, and a reducing gas supply nozzle that supplies the reducing gas discharged from an outlet of the reforming part is provided in an exhaust pipe.

Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a SiC single crystal having high crystal quality and, in particular, extremely low screw dislocation density and a SiC single crystal ingot obtained by the method. In particular, provided is a silicon carbide single crystal substrate that is a substrate cut from a bulk silicon carbide single crystal grown by the Physical Vapior Transport (PVT) method, in which the screw dislocation density is smaller in the peripheral region than in the center region, so that screw dislocations are partially reduced. The method is a method for manufacturing a SiC single crystal by the PVT method using a seed crystal and the ingot is a SiC single crystal ingot obtained by the method. Particularly, the silicon carbide single crystal substrate is a silicon carbide single crystal substrate in which when, by representing the diameter of the substrate as R, a center circle region having a diameter of 0.

Abstract: There are provided a method of manufacturing an aluminum product and a method of manufacturing an aluminum brake caliper each using die casting, for improving flow and run of molten metal during casting and enhancing productivity and quality. In a method of manufacturing an aluminum product provided with opposing portions opposed to each other with a hollow portion interposed in between, and connecting portions connecting the opposing portions at two sides thereof, the method includes a die casting step of performing casting by pouring molten metal of an aluminum alloy from a gate for the molten metal formed in one of the opposing portions via the connecting portions and a bridge connecting the two opposing portions, and a bridge removing step of removing the bridge.

Abstract: A liquid crystal optical element having a crystal liquid optical element adapted to positively function as a diffraction element and an optical pickup apparatus including the liquid crystal optical element are disclosed. A transparent electrode having a diffraction pattern is arranged on one of a pair of transparent substrates. A liquid crystal panel has a transparent opposed electrode arranged on the other one of the pair of the transparent substrates. A driving unit generates a phase difference distribution in the liquid crystal layer by generating a potential difference between the transparent electrode and the transparent opposed electrode and causes the liquid crystal panel to function as a diffraction element for diffracting the incoming light beam transmitted therethrough. The diffraction pattern or the transparent opposed electrode is divided into a plurality of regions. The driving unit adjusts the potential difference for each of the regions.

Abstract: A urea solution reformer and an exhaust gas purifier is configured to heat a carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source by a carrier gas heating unit, to inject the carrier gas heated by the carrier gas heating unit from a carrier gas injecting nozzle, and to cause a urea solution to be supplied by a first urea solution supply nozzle to a tip end of the carrier gas injecting nozzle so that the urea solution is atomized by the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injecting nozzle. Provided to face toward the carrier gas injecting nozzle is a catalyst unit for decomposing the atomized urea solution to reform it into an ammonia gas. An ammonia gas supply nozzle is attached to an exhaust pipe of an engine so as to supply the ammonia gas discharged from an outlet of the catalyst unit into the exhaust pipe.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chamber, a reaction-gas inlet, a gas exhaust port, a rotation unit, a semiconductor wafer holder, a heater, and a purge-gas inlet. The wafer holder includes a first hold region to hold the semiconductor wafer and a second hold region held by the rotation unit. The second hold region surrounds the first hold region. The level of the first hold region and the level of the second hold region differ. A plurality of ventholes is provided to the first hold region so that the ventholes are just below a sidewall of the semiconductor wafer held by the first hold region.

Abstract: A first selective reduction catalyst including a silver-based catalyst is provided in an exhaust pipe of an engine. An ozone generation device generates ozone by using oxygen in the atmosphere, and a hydrocarbon-based liquid supply device supplies a hydrocarbon-based liquid. A part of NO in the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe is oxidized to NO2 with the ozone generated by the ozone generation device, and said NO2 is supplied to the first selective reduction catalyst. Also, a part of the hydrocarbon-based liquid supplied by the hydrocarbon-based liquid supply device is partially oxidized, with ozone generated by the ozone generation device, to an active reducing agent including an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon such as aldehyde, and this active reducing agent is supplied to the first selective reduction catalyst.

Abstract: A heat release device is for use with a multilayer board that has an inner layer serving as a power layer. The heat release device includes a heat release member thermally and electrically connected to the power layer, and a heat release board having a heat release layer and a shield layer electrically insulated from each other. The heat release layer is thermally and electrically connected to the heat release member. The shield layer serves to shield against electromagnetic noise radiated from the heat release layer. The shield layer is electrically insulated from the heat release member connected to the heat release layer. The heat release device also includes an electrically conductive member electrically connected to the shield layer and grounded, and an insulator through which the heat release layer is thermally connected to the electrically conductive member.

Abstract: A running control device for an electric vehicle includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a predetermined reference torque required for braking/driving the motor that provides a beneficial effect with regard to power consumption of the electric vehicle; a second calculation unit that calculates interval allocation between a first interval in which the electric vehicle is propelled by braking/driving the motor at the predetermined reference torque and a second interval in which the electric vehicle is coasted without the motor being braked or driven; a third calculation unit that calculates a control requested torque for braking/driving the motor intermittently, so as alternatingly to repeat running of the electric vehicle in the first intervals and coasting of the electric vehicle in the second intervals; and a running control unit that performs running control of the electric vehicle by braking/driving the motor intermittently according to the control requested torque.

Abstract: A drive control device for an electric vehicle that is driven by a motor-generator, includes: a detection unit that detects a fact that an accelerator pedal depression amount and a brake pedal depression amount of the electric vehicle are both zero; and a control unit that sets a regenerative braking torque command value for the motor-generator to zero, while the detection unit is detecting the fact.

Abstract: A battery temperature control device for an electric vehicle is provided which is capable of maintaining both the range of the electric vehicle and the battery life at a high level without drastically reducing either of them.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a sensor section configured to detect a change in an attitude of a housing, a cooling fan configured to cool the housing, and a fan control circuit configured to control rotation of the cooling fan. When a change in the attitude of the housing has been detected by the sensor section, the fan control circuit stops the rotation of the cooling fan or decreases the number of rotation of the cooling fan to be lower than that in an ordinary operation. Thereafter, when a change in the attitude of the housing is no longer detected by the sensor section, the fan control circuit returns the rotation of the cooling fan to that in the ordinary operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a urea solution reformer and an exhaust gas purifier using the same, configured to heat a carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source by a carrier gas heating unit (16), to inject the carrier gas heated by the carrier gas heating unit from a carrier gas injecting nozzle (17), and to cause a urea solution (18) to be supplied by a first urea solution supply nozzle (21) to a tip end of the carrier gas injecting nozzle so that the urea solution is atomized by the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injecting nozzle. Provided to face toward the carrier gas injecting nozzle is a catalyst unit (23) for decomposing the atomized urea solution to reform it into an ammonia gas. Further provided is an ammonia gas supply nozzle (24) attached to an exhaust pipe (12) of an engine so as to supply the ammonia gas discharged from an outlet of the catalyst unit into the exhaust pipe.

Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction catalyst capable of reducing the NOx in exhaust gas to N2 is arranged in an exhaust pipe of an engine. Fluid feed means has a fluid injecting nozzle facing the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The fluid feed means is configured such that a urea fluid that functions as a reducing agent is fed with the selective catalytic reduction catalyst from the fluid injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe. Ozone feed means includes an ozone injecting nozzle that faces the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst, and on the exhaust gas upstream side or the exhaust gas downstream side from the fluid injecting nozzle. The ozone feed means is configured such that ozone is fed from the ozone injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe.

Abstract: A primary object of the invention is to provide a volume hologram transfer foil which has good foil cutting characteristics and is used to manufacture a volume hologram laminate by transferring a volume hologram layer to an adherend by thermocompression. The above problem is solved by a volume hologram transfer foil comprising a base material, a protective layer formed on the base material, a volume hologram layer formed on the protective layer and having a volume hologram recorded, and a heat seal layer formed on the volume hologram layer, wherein the protective layer contains a hard coat component formed of an ionizing radiation-curable resin, a rupture elongation control component which improves the rupture elongation of the protective layer, and a foil cutting characteristic control component which has a thermal expansion coefficient different from those of the hard coat component and rupture elongation control component and is incompatible with the two components.

Abstract: To provide a reagent for assaying anti-Treponema pallidum antibody which reagent contains a polypeptide antigen and which reagent provides high assay sensitivity and high specificity, and to provide an assay method employing the assay reagent. The reagent for assaying anti-Treponema pallidum antibody, for use in an assay of anti-Treponema pallidum antibody on the basis of antigen-antibody reaction is characterized in that the reagent contains, as an antigen, a recombinant polypeptide containing at least domain C and domain D of Treponema pallidum 47 kDa antigen but containing no domain A1 of the 47 kDa antigen.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of an optical pickup apparatus in which a liquid crystal optical element constructed by combining an aberration correcting liquid crystal panel and an n?/4 liquid crystal panel in an integral fashion is mounted in a tilted position.

Abstract: A first porous catalytic layer is provided in an exhaust passage, and a second porous catalytic layer is stacked on the exhaust-gas downstream-side surface of the first layer. The first layer includes an iron-zeolite catalyst to decrease 60% or more of NOx in the exhaust gas within an exhaust gas temperature range of 150-400° C. The second layer includes one or more of a single catalyst, a mixed catalyst, and a complex oxide catalyst selected from iron-alumina, iron-zirconia, iron-ceria, and iron-titania, to decrease 60% or more of NOx in the exhaust gas within an exhaust gas temperature range of 400-700° C. The first and second layers cooperatively exhibit catalytic activity to decrease 70% or more of NOx in the exhaust gas within an exhaust gas temperature range of 150 to 700° C.

Abstract: A material is presented that exhibits excellent corrosion resistance to supercritical ammonia and is suitable for a supercritical ammonia reactor. An Ni-based corrosion resistant alloy includes from 15% or more to 50% or less by mass of Cr and any one or both of Mo and W, wherein a [(content of Mo)+0.5×(content of W)] is from 1.5% or more to 8.5% or less by mass, a value of 1.8×[% content of Cr]/{[% content of Mo]+0.5×[% content of W]} is from 3.0 or more to 70.0 or less and the balance is Ni and an unavoidable impurity. The alloy may be used to configure a supercritical ammonia reactor or the material is coated on a surface that contacts with a supercritical ammonia fluid. The alloy exhibits excellent corrosion resistance to supercritical ammonia and a mineralizer added the supercritical ammonia. The safety and reliability of an apparatus can be improved, the producing cost can be reduced, the apparatus lifetime can be extended and the running cost can be reduced.

Abstract: Provided is a cane tip which is difficult to slip, exhibiting excellent shock absorbing properties when contacted with the ground; with which the cane tip will not stick in a crevice of a stone pavement; and further, with which the influence of the supporting surface inclination can be suppressed, whereby the walking stability is assured also for an aged user; and which is also well suited for use in rehabilitation. Cane tip has a cane tip main body with leg segments radially extending from a central part, being arranged in an overall shape substantially analogous to that of the five petals of a five-petaled flower, the central part and each leg segment having an elastic structure part exerting an elastic action, a bolt inserting hole in the central part of the elastic structure part, and a bolt inserted into this bolt hole and protruded from that central part.