Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system in which there are no restrictions on a communicable area and it is not necessary to install communication software on a wireless device. A communication system according to the present invention is configured so that the functions of a wireless access point are separated into a front-end unit on a wireless terminal side and a back-end side on the Internet side, radio signal processing functions supporting a wireless scheme of the wireless terminal are deployed only on the back end, and only relatively simple processing functions such as E/O conversion are deployed on the front end near the wireless terminal 311.

Abstract: In an example, use of a solder joint may include a solder joint layer having a melted solder material containing Sn as a main component and further containing Ag and/or Sb and/or Cu; and a joined body including a Ni—P—Cu plating layer on a surface of the joined body in contact with the solder joint layer. The Ni—P—Cu plating layer may contain Ni as a main component and may contain 0.5% by mass or greater and 8% by mass or less of Cu and 3% by mass or greater and 10% by mass or less of P, and the Ni—P—Cu plating layer may have a microcrystalline layer at an interface with the solder joint layer.

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: Disclosed are cell culture vessels capable of preventing the deformation of the culture vessels in a manipulation of taking in/out a cell or replacing a culture medium and preventing over-time increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide or and temporal decrease of pH of the culture medium and over-time temporal decrease of pH of the culture medium in cell culture as advantageous effects, and further parallel filter connectors for configuring such cell culture vessels. The cell culture vessels have two types of filters in parallel so as to partition a gas phase inside the cell culture vessel and the outer air, and the parallel filter connectors for configuring the cell culture vessels have an opening to be connected to the body of the cell culture vessel, and two openings capable to be installed with each one of the two types of different filters.

Abstract: A solder material having a good thermal-cycle fatigue property and wettability. The solder material contains not less than 6.0% by mass and not more than 8.0% by mass Sb, not less than 3.0% by mass and not more than 5.0% by mass Ag, and the balance of Sn and incidental impurities. Also, a semiconductor device may include a joining layer between a semiconductor element and a substrate electrode or a lead frame, the joining layer being obtained by melting this solder material.

Abstract: a controller controls ejection operations such that the number of ejection operations of the first nozzle is larger than the number of ejection operations of the second nozzle and the number of ejection operations of the fourth nozzle is larger than the number of ejection operations of the third nozzle.

Abstract: In some examples, an electric current detection device includes a conductor to which an electric current to be measured is applied, and a circuit unit that has at least a pair of magnetism detection elements for respectively detecting magnetic fluxes generated around the conductor by the electric current. The electric current may be detected based on detection signals obtained from the magnetism detection elements. The magnetism detection elements have a detection sensitivity relative to magnetic fluxes in a parallel orientation. Further, the magnetism detection elements are arranged at positions that are asymmetric positions that avoid a cross-section center of the conductor and that have mutually different distances from the cross-section center. Additionally, the magnetism detection elements are opposed to each other by sandwiching a line that passes through the cross-section center and which is perpendicular to a direction along which the magnetism detection elements are aligned.

Abstract: Disclosed is a test soil comprising a plurality of molecules of labeled polypeptides, wherein the labeled polypeptide is a polypeptide to which a dye is added by a covalent bond, and the value of X calculated by the following formula is 100,000 or more: X = Number of dyes comprised in one molecule of labeled polyeptide × Molar absorption coefficient of dye M -1 cm -1 .

Abstract: To provide a pharmaceutical composition having a novel use comprising a dental pulp-derived multipotent stem cell preparation that can be administered to humans. A pharmaceutical composition comprising dental pulp-derived stem cells as an active ingredient for suppressing infiltration into a tissue of at lease neutrophils, monocytes, or lymphocytes.

Abstract: There is provided a head module in which a first direction is a main scanning direction, including: a first nozzle row including a first nozzle; a second nozzle row including a second nozzle; and a third nozzle row including a third nozzle, in which a distance P1 between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the first direction and a distance P2 between the first nozzle row and the third nozzle row in the first direction are expressed as P1:P2=E1:O1 where a value E1 is a positive even number and a value O1 is a positive odd number satisfying O1>E1.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a motor, a motor controller, first and second power source circuits, a power source switching circuit, and a voltage detector. The power source switching circuit is configured to switch between a first state in which the motor controller receives electric power from the first power source circuit but is cut off from the second power source circuit, and a second state in which the motor controller receives electric power from the second power source circuit but is cut off from the first power source circuit. The voltage detector is configured to detect the voltage of the first power source circuit. The power source switching circuit is configured to select the second state in a case where the voltage of the first power source circuit is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and select the first state in cases other than the case.

Abstract: An air cleaner includes a case having an internal space, a filter element capable of partitioning the internal space into a first space and a second space, an intake port that introduces an air into the first space therethrough, an exhaust port that discharges an air from the second space, and at least one baffle part projecting toward the filter element from an inner surface of the case. The baffle part diffuses the air introduced into the first space and introduces the air to the filter element. The baffle part includes a widened baffle part. The widened baffle part includes a guide section extending along an extending surface of the filter element and a widened section larger in width than the guide section.

Abstract: The plurality of first nozzles and the plurality of second nozzles are arranged such that a distance between nozzles adjacent to each other in a first direction is a first distance, the support body is provided with a first fixing portion for fixing the first head unit onto the support body and a second fixing portion for fixing the second head unit onto the support body, and a distance between the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion in the first direction is a second distance that is different from an integral multiple of the first distance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring an A? peptide, comprising: mixing a blood sample comprising an A? peptide and an antibody that specifically binds to the A? peptide to form a complex of the A? peptide and the antibody; releasing the AP peptide from the complex with a basic solution comprising an organic solvent; and measuring the released A? peptide by mass spectrometry.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring an A? peptide in a blood sample in vitro, comprising: measuring the A? peptide by an immunoassay using an antibody set comprising a capture antibody and a detection antibody that specifically bind to the A? peptide, wherein the capture antibody is an antibody that binds to an epitope comprising an N-terminal residue of the A? peptide, the detection antibody is an antibody that binds to an epitope different from the epitope to which the capture antibody binds, and the A? peptide is at least one selected from the group consisting of A?40 or A?42.

Abstract: To shorten the time required to sort target particles with sufficient purity, a particle sorter is provided.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat pad, an insertion hole that passes through the seat pad, a covering portion that covers an inner wall of the insertion hole, a holding plate that holds a distal end of the covering portion, a buckle for a seat belt, and a support plate. In the vehicle seat, the buckle includes a buckle main body, a coupling portion, and an attachment member. The support plate is displaceable between a first state and a second state, the holding plate includes an insertion window portion, and the support plate includes a passage portion that allows the coupling portion to pass through the passage portion but does not allow the buckle main body to pass through the passage portion in a state where the support plate overlaps with the insertion window portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing dental pulp-derived cells enriched with pluripotent stem cells including: (a) digesting dental pulp with a protease to prepare a dental pulp suspension; (b) culturing the suspension to proliferate pluripotent stem cells contained in the suspension; (c) freezing the proliferated pluripotent stem cells in a state in which the pluripotent stem cells are suspended in a first cryopreservation liquid; (d) thawing the frozen pluripotent stem cells; (e) culturing the thawed pluripotent stem cells in a state in which the pluripotent stem cells are adhered to surfaces of particles to proliferate the pluripotent stem cells on the surfaces of the particles; and (f) bringing the particles into contact with a protease to separate the pluripotent stem cells adhered to the surfaces of the particles from the particles.

Abstract: A liquid hair dye composition comprising components (A) and (B), wherein the content (X) of the component (A) in the composition is 1.5 mass % or more and 6.5 mass % or less, the content (Y) of the component (B) in the composition is 9 mass % or more and 98.5 mass % or less, and the composition satisfies the following equation (1): Y?(91/6)X?(91/3)??(1); with a proviso that a composition in which the diol content is 50 mass % or more and the water content is 2 mass or less in the liquid hair dye composition is excluded.

Abstract: A liquid hair dye composition, comprising components (A) and (B), wherein the content (X) of component (A) in the composition is 1.5 mass % or more and 9.3 mass % or less, the content (Y) of component (B) in the composition is 9 mass % or more and 98.5 mass % or less, and the liquid hair dye composition satisfies the following formula (1) (with the proviso that a liquid hair dye composition which has the content of diol of 50 mass % or more and the content of water of 2 mass % or less is excluded), Y?10.875X?10.875 (1), (A) an azo dye of the formula (A-1), and (B) a monoalcohol and/or a diol other than alkanolamines.