Abstract: A method for transferring a plurality of columnar honeycomb structures according to the present invention includes: subjecting first side surfaces of the plurality of columnar honeycomb structures to vacuum suction; and correctively transferring the plurality of the columnar honeycomb structures, optionally while supporting second side surfaces opposing to the first side surfaces of the plurality of columnar honeycomb structures by a supporting member.

Abstract: A battery includes a main body having a space therein, and including a channel communicating between an outside and the space; a pair of electrodes adjoining the space; and a valve that closes the channel responsive to pH.

Abstract: A detecting system includes a sensor and a receiving device. The sensor is introduced into a living body through a mouth of the living body, transmits time-point related information associated with a plurality of time points different from one another, detects a physical amount in the living body, and transmits detection information representing the detected physical amount at each of the plurality of time points. The receiving device receives the time-point related information transmitted by the sensor and is on standby for receiving the detection information transmitted by the sensor on the basis of the plurality of time points associated with the received time-point related information.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide-based honeycomb structure, including a firing step of introducing extruded honeycomb formed bodies containing a silicon carbide-based component, together with firing members into a firing furnace, and firing the honeycomb formed bodies, to manufacture the silicon carbide-based honeycomb structure, wherein the firing members are formed by using a ceramic material containing 70 wt % or more of alumina, and the firing step further includes: an inert gas supplying step of supplying an inert gas to a furnace space of the firing furnace, and a gas adding step of adding a reducing gas to the furnace space.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a furnace body; a conveyor belt configured to move in an interior space of the furnace body, with an object to be dried loaded thereon; and a plurality of infrared heaters arranged above the conveyor belt in the interior space of the furnace body. A division wall is provided, which divides the interior space of the furnace body into a space S1 including the conveyor belt and a space S2 including the infrared heaters. In the division wall, first portions located at positions corresponding to the respective infrared heaters in the longitudinal direction are made of a material that transmits infrared radiation, whereas second portions located at positions corresponding to respective spaces between adjacent infrared heaters in the longitudinal direction are made of a material that does not transmit infrared radiation.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element including an anode portion having a metal layer, a dielectric layer, and a cathode portion having a solid electrolyte layer and a current collector layer; a leading conductor layer; an insulating resin body covering the capacitor element and the leading conductor layer, the insulating resin body having a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other; a first external electrode; and a second external electrode. The first external electrode has at least one plating layer on the first end surface, and is connected to the leading conductor layer at the first end surface. The second external electrode has at least one plating layer on the second end surface, and is connected to the metal layer at the second end surface.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a plurality of capacitor elements each including an anode portion, a dielectric layer, and a cathode portion having a solid electrolyte layer and a current collector layer; a leading conductor layer; an insulating resin body; a first external electrode; and a second external electrode. The plurality of capacitor elements are stacked in layers, with mutually adjacent capacitor elements having their respective current collector layers connected to each other. The current collector layer of only the capacitor element adjacent to the leading conductor layer is connected to the leading conductor layer. The first external electrode is connected to the leading conductor layer at the first end surface.

Abstract: A heat conduction member includes: a cylindrical ceramic body, a metal pipe on the outer periphery side of the cylindrical ceramic body, and an intermediate member held between the cylindrical ceramic body and the metal pipe. The cylindrical ceramic body has passages passing through from one end face to the other end face and allowing the first fluid to flow therethrough. The intermediate member is made of material having at least a part having a Young's modulus of 150 Gpa or less. The first fluid is allowed to flow through the inside of the cylindrical ceramic body while the second fluid having lower temperature than that of the first fluid is allowed to flow on the outer peripheral face side of the metal pipe to perform heat exchange between the first fluid and the second fluid.

Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a material for separating stem cell and a filter for separating stem cell, each is capable of selectively separating and recovering, in a simple and easy manner, stem cells from body fluids or biological tissue-derived treated fluids, a method for separating and recovering stem cells, and stem cells obtained by such method. The present invention is a material for separating stem cell which has a density K of 1.0×104?K?1.0×106 and a fiber diameter of 3 to 40 ?m; a filter for separating stem cell which comprises the material for separating stem cell as packed in a container having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port; a method of separating and recovering stem cells which comprises using the material for separating stem cell or the filter for separating stem cell; and a method of producing a multipotent cell fraction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a separation system and a separation material for easily and rapidly separating a red blood cell-rich fraction, a white blood cell-rich fraction, and/or a platelet-rich fraction from a biological fluid containing these blood cell components without the necessity of performing centrifugation. The separation of a red blood cell-rich fraction, a white blood cell-rich fraction, and/or a platelet-rich fraction from a biological fluid can be accomplished by capturing white blood cells and platelets on a blood cell separation material by contacting the biological fluid with the blood cell separation material, thereby providing a red blood cell-rich fraction; and recovering a white blood cell-rich fraction by separating white blood cells captured from the resulting blood cell separation material using a separation solution.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a sulfonyl amidine compound, which has an excellent gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor antagonism and is useful as a therapeutic agent for gonadotropin-dependent diseases (for example, prostate cancer, breast cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroid, prostatic hyperplasia, or the like) or a salt thereof, and a synthesis intermediate useful in the production method. The production method of the present invention controls formation of a by-product which is hardly removed unless column purification is conducted and racemization of a target compound, thereby obtaining the target compound with a high purity, and therefore, the production method is suitable for industrial production.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure includes a forming step of a honeycomb formed body with non-fired electrodes where there is performed twice a non-fired electrode forming operation in which an electrode paste is attached to a plate including a printing screen, a side surface of a honeycomb formed body, the side surface being a curved side surface, is brought into a pressed state by a squeegee via the printing screen of the plate, in the state, the body is rotated and the plate is linearly moved along the side surface of the body, and the squeegee allows the electrode paste to permeate the printing screen and coat the side surface of the body; and a forming step of the honeycomb structure where the body with the non-fired electrodes is fired to obtain the honeycomb structure.

Abstract: A nozzle is mounted on an end of an ejector for ejecting an aerosol on an ejection side in a honeycomb filter production apparatus. The nozzle is formed into a shape having a longitudinal direction. A single introduction port is formed at an end surface of the nozzle on one side in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of discharge ports are formed at an end surface of the nozzle on the other side in the longitudinal direction. A single introduction passage extends linearly from the single introduction port in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of discharge passages are each branched from an end portion of the introduction passage on a side opposite to the introduction port and extend to corresponding one of the discharge ports in a direction tilted from the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a furnace body 10; a conveyor belt 20 configured to move in an interior space of the furnace body 10, with an object to be dried loaded thereon; and a plurality of infrared heaters 40 arranged above the conveyor belt 20 in the interior space of the furnace body 10. A division wall 50 is provided, which divides the interior space of the furnace body 10 into a space S1 including the conveyor belt 20 and a space S2 including the infrared heaters 40. In the division wall 50, first portions 51 located at positions corresponding to the respective infrared heaters 40 in the longitudinal direction are made of a material that transmits infrared radiation, whereas second portions 52 located at positions corresponding to respective spaces between adjacent infrared heaters 40 in the longitudinal direction are made of a material that does not transmit infrared radiation.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a sulfonyl amidine compound, which has an excellent gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor antagonism and is useful as a therapeutic agent for gonadotropin-dependent diseases (for example, prostate cancer, breast cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroid, prostatic hyperplasia, or the like) or a salt thereof, and a synthesis intermediate useful in the production method. The production method of the present invention controls formation of a by-product which is hardly removed unless column purification is conducted and racemization of a target compound, thereby obtaining the target compound with a high purity, and therefore, the production method is suitable for industrial production.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure includes a step of coating a surface of each of releasing sheets with a paste for an electrode, to prepare electrode forming sheets in which the releasing sheets are provided with electrode paste films; a formed honeycomb body with the electrode forming sheets forming step of attaching the electrode forming sheets to a side surface of a tubular formed ceramic honeycomb body which is the curved surface to prepare a formed honeycomb body with the electrode forming sheets; and a honeycomb structure forming step of firing the formed honeycomb body, or removing releasing sheets from the formed honeycomb body to form the formed honeycomb body with the pastes for the electrodes, and then firing the formed honeycomb body with the pastes for the electrodes, to obtain a honeycomb structure having a side surface provided with the electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a material for separating stem cell and a filter for separating stem cell, each is capable of selectively separating and recovering, in a simple and easy manner, stem cells from body fluids or biological tissue-derived treated fluids, a method for separating and recovering stem cells, and stem cells obtained by such method. The present invention is a material for separating stem cell which has a density K of 1.0×104?K?1.0×106 and a fiber diameter of 3 to 40 ?m; a filter for separating stem cell which comprises the material for separating stem cell as packed in a container having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port; a method of separating and recovering stem cells which comprises using the material for separating stem cell or the filter for separating stem cell; and a method of producing a multipotent cell fraction.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor structure in which a first nitride semiconductor underlying layer is provided on a substrate having a recess portion and a projection portion provided between the recess portions at a surface thereof, the first nitride semiconductor underlying layer has at least 6 first oblique facet planes surrounding the projection portion on an outer side of the projection portion, and a second nitride semiconductor underlying layer buries the first oblique facet planes, a nitride semiconductor light emitting element, a nitride semiconductor transistor element, a method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor structure, and a method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor element are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a porous material for body fluid treatment for promoting lymphocyte proliferation in lymphocyte culture which contains a high-molecular compound having an angle of contact with water within the range of 40 to 98°, and a porous material for body fluid treatment which comprises activated carbon; and also relates to a treatment device wherein the porous material is used; a method for proliferating lymphocytes; a method for producing mammalian lymphocytes; a method for producing a pharmaceutical composition; an additive body fluid to be added to a culture medium on the occasion of lymphocyte culture; a method for treating a disease against which a therapeutic effect is produced by returning extracorporeally activated mammalian lymphocytes into the body; and a method of manufacturing the porous materials for body fluid treatment for promoting the lymphocyte proliferation in lymphocyte culture.

Abstract: A nozzle is mounted on an end of an ejector for ejecting an aerosol on an ejection side in a honeycomb filter production apparatus. The nozzle is formed into a shape having a longitudinal direction. A single introduction port is formed at an end surface of the nozzle on one side in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of discharge ports are formed at an end surface of the nozzle on the other side in the longitudinal direction. A single introduction passage extends linearly from the single introduction port in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of discharge passages are each branched from an end portion of the introduction passage on a side opposite to the introduction port and extend to corresponding one of the discharge ports in a direction tilted from the longitudinal direction.