Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.

Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor device includes forming, on a substrate, a film to be processed. The method further includes forming, on the film to be processed, a first film containing a metallic element and a second film containing at least one of carbon or boron. The method further includes forming an insulating film on the first and second films. The method further includes processing the film to be processed using the first film, the second film, and the insulating film, as a mask.

Abstract: A foreign substance collection apparatus includes: a frame body; a photosensitive drum; a cleaning roller which collects foreign substances from a surface of the photosensitive drum; a collecting roller which further collects the foreign substances having been collected by the cleaning roller from the cleaning roller; and a scraping member which scrapes off the foreign substances from the collecting roller. A foreign substance collecting portion included in the frame body has, in a posture during use: a first inner bottom surface which is positioned below the scraping member in a gravity direction; an outer bottom surface which is positioned further below the first inner bottom surface; and a connecting surface which intersects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface and which connects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface with each other.

Abstract: In a present vacuum treatment apparatus, a controller controls an auxiliary roller, a thermometer, a power source, and a temperature control mechanism, in which the controller detects a temperature of a base material wound and conveyed by a main roller, starts film deposition to form a film deposition material on the base material when the temperature of the base material is in a film deposition temperature range, adjusts, when the temperature of the base material is out of a threshold range after starting film deposition on the base material, the temperature of the main roller so that the temperature of the base material falls within the threshold range and adjusts an adhesion force between the main roller and the base material, and continues the film deposition of the film deposition material on the base material with the temperature of the base material in the film deposition temperature range.

Abstract: A vacuum treatment apparatus including: a first wind-off roller paying out a first base material; a first wind roller winding the first base material; a main roller having an outer circumferential surface in contact with a non-film deposition surface, and winding and conveying the first base material, at least a part of the outer circumferential surface, which is uncovered with the first base material, being coated with an insulating material; a deposition source facing the outer circumferential surface of the main roller; a second wind-off roller paying out a second base material that is wound and conveyed by the main roller and covers a part of a film deposition surface of the first base material on the outer circumferential surface of the main roller; a second wind roller winding the second base material; and a power source applying a bias potential to the main roller.

Abstract: An electroactive material suitable for electrochemical cell electrode wherein the electroactive material includes a chalcogen oligomer that can reversibly deintercalate/reintercalate an anion of the chalcogen, such as La2O2S2, and the electrochemical electrodes and cells containing the electroactive material.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a document tray, a linear conveyance path, a curved conveyance path, a document conveyance device, a scanning device, a length detecting device, an operation device, and a controller. A plurality of conveyance rollers are disposed at a predetermined first interval in the linear conveyance path. In the curved conveyance path, a plurality of conveyance rollers are disposed at a predetermined second interval longer than the first interval. When accepting through the operation device an instruction for conveying an original document through the curved conveyance path, the controller allows conveyance of the original document through the curved conveyance path when a length of the original document detected by the length detecting device is not shorter than the second interval or disallows conveyance of the original document through the curved conveyance path when the detected length of the original document is shorter than the second interval.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a document tray, a common transport route, a curved transport route, a linear transport route, a switching device, a document transport device, a first image sensor, a second image sensor, a trailing edge detector, a multi feed detector, a leading edge detector, and a controller. The controller determines a length of the document in the transport direction, on a basis of a time point that the leading edge detector has detected the leading edge of the document, a time point that the trailing edge detector has detected the trailing edge of the document, and a time point that a detection status of the multi feed detector has been switched to a non-detection state, and guides the document to the curved transport route or the linear transport route from the common transport route, according to the length of the document, by controlling the switching device.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer includes: an analysis unit performing analysis of a sample; a thin waste fluid tank housing a waste fluid produced by a process of analyzing the sample; an attention attraction thin waste fluid height sensor detecting that the waste fluid has reached a predetermined reference amount, the waste fluid being housed in the thin waste fluid tank; a timer unit starting counting time when the attention attraction thin waste fluid height sensor detects that the waste fluid has reached the reference amount; and a control unit controlling operation of the analysis unit. The control unit determines, when an operator instructs starting analysis, whether to permit starting analysis by the analysis unit based on whether a count result obtained by the timer unit reaches predetermined reference time. Accordingly, it is possible to operate the analyzer while workflows are easily considered and unexpected measurement stops are avoided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system that makes a recommendation, to an operator, of a countermeasure method considered appropriate from a precursory stage of abnormality. This recommended action notification system comprises: a plurality of automatic analyzers 51 that include a first automatic analyzer; and a learning device 52 that is connected to a network 53. The recommended action notification system is for making a recommendation to an operator for an action to be executed on the first automatic analyzer.

Abstract: An apparatus line for manufacturing seamless steel pipes and tubes includes: a heating apparatus for heating a steel raw material; a piercing apparatus for piercing the heated steel raw material thus forming a hollow material; and a rolling apparatus for applying working to the hollow material to form a seamless steel pipe having a predetermined shape. A cooling apparatus is arranged on an exit side of the rolling apparatus. A heated steel raw material is worked by the rolling apparatus after being pierced by the piercing apparatus, and thereafter, using a surface temperature of a hollow piece before being cooled by the cooling apparatus as a cooling start temperature, the hollow piece is cooled to a cooling stop temperature differing by 50° C. or more from the cooling start temperature and being equal to or above 600° C. at an average cooling speed of 1.0° C./s or more in terms of an outer surface temperature.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer is capable of reducing the time required for a series of maintenance operations in that the user’s maintenance work is linked to the device driving so that the maintenance work proceeds in the order of the maintenance work tools. An automatic analyzer includes a plurality of processing units for processing a specimen: an agitation mechanism, a reagent dispensing mechanism, a mixer, an incubator, and a specimen dispensing mechanism. A control unit controls a processing unit, an analysis unit, and a display unit and causes the display unit to display a plurality of maintenance work tools used for maintenance work performed by the operator on the plurality of processing units and to display the maintenance work contents of the plurality of processing units that continuously use one of the plurality of maintenance work tools, selected by the operator via the display unit.

Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a t/Dout of 0.05 to 0.40, where t is a wall thickness (mm) of the seamless steel pipe, and Dout is an outside diameter (mm) of the seamless steel pipe. The seamless steel pipe has a maximum depth dmax (mm)?0.350 mm for defects in an inner surface of the steel pipe on a cross section perpendicular to a pipe axis. The seamless steel pipe has an average defect depth dave (mm)?0.200 mm for defects having a depth of 0.050 mm or more in the inner surface of the steel pipe. The seamless steel pipe, per millimeter of an inner circumferential length of the pipe, has at most 30 defects having a depth of 0.050 mm or more in the inner surface of the steel pipe.

Abstract: Provided is a rolling straightening machine which enables outer-diameter-reducing rolling and straightening rolling of a pipe or tube material or a bar material at high speed with high accuracy. The rolling straightening machine includes at least two rollers arranged across a pass line of a pipe or tube material or a bar material, the at least two rollers having a gap therebetween, the gap being defined by an outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion having a diameter reduced from an upstream side toward a downstream side in the rolling straightening machine and a straightening rolling portion continuous from an exit side of the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion toward a downstream side of the rolling straightening machine, the rollers having shapes which are symmetrical about the pass line in the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion, and in the straightening rolling portion, asymmetrical to the pass line in the outer-diameter-reducing rolling portion.

Abstract: An operator can perform exchange work of a reagent container without including a mechanism for reagent exchange and interrupting an analysis operation. An automatic analyzer includes: an analysis unit including a plurality of operation units for performing analysis of a specimen; and a control unit for controlling the analysis unit. The control unit allows the analysis unit to set to at least (a) an analysis operation mode in which a first and a second operation unit are operated for the analysis of the specimen, (b) a partial operation mode in which only the first operation unit is continuously operated after the analysis of the specimen is completed in the analysis operation mode, and (c) a reagent exchange mode in which consumables containing a reagent are exchangeable in the analysis unit. The control unit allows the analysis unit to shift from the partial operation mode to the reagent exchange mode.

Abstract: A skew rolling apparatus with which shape defects in non-steady-state portions at the front and back ends of a seamless pipe shell can be prevented. The skew rolling apparatus includes a skew pierce rolling mill configured to pierce roll a steel material into a seamless pipe shell, and a skew outside-diameter mill following the skew piercing mill in a pass direction of the seamless pipe shell in the skew rolling apparatus. The skew rolling apparatus satisfies specified formulae.

Abstract: An alloy pipe and a method for producing the same are disclosed. The alloy pipe of the present invention contains, as a component composition, in terms of % by mass, Cr: 11.5-35.0%, Ni: 23.0-60.0%, and Mo: 0.5-17.0%, has an austenitic phase as a microstructure, has a Mo concentration (% by mass) in a grain boundary of the austenitic phase that is 4.0 times or less than a Mo concentration (% by mass) within grains of the austenitic phase, and has a tensile yield strength in a pipe axial direction of 689 MPa or more and a ratio (compressive yield strength in a pipe axial direction)/(tensile yield strength in a pipe axial direction) of 0.85 to 1.15.

Abstract: A dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe has a certain composition, the dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe having a microstructure containing 20 to 70% austenitic phase and 30 to 80% ferritic phase by volume, the dual-phase stainless steel or dual-phase stainless steel seamless pipe having a yield strength, YS, of 448 MPa or more, and containing oxide inclusions of which oxide inclusions having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more have a number density of 15/mm2 or less, and at most 50 mass % of the oxide inclusions having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more are oxide inclusions containing aluminum.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic analysis device that can easily realize introduction and replacement of additional reagents in operation even in a small-scale configuration. The automatic analysis device includes a reagent dispensing mechanism 107 that dispenses a reagent from a reagent container 113 containing a reagent, and a normal reagent storage portion 130 that stores a reagent container and an additional reagent storage portion 111. The normal reagent storage portion 130 is positioned in a normal movable area 132, which is a portion of a movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107 and the additional reagent storage portion 111 is positioned in an area excluding the normal movable area 132 in the movable area 131 of the reagent dispensing mechanism 107.

Abstract: A stainless steel pipe of a predetermined composition is provided that has an axial tensile yield strength of 689 MPa or more, an axial compressive yield strength/axial tensile yield strength ratio of 0.85 to 1.15, and a microstructure that is 20 to 80% ferrite phase by volume with the remainder containing an austenite phase, the stainless steel pipe having pipe end portions at least one of which has a fastening portion for an external thread or an internal thread, and having a curvature radius of 0.2 mm or more for a corner R formed by a bottom surface of a thread root and a pressure-side flank surface of the thread, measured in an axial plane section of the fastening portion.