Abstract: Provided is a transfer system including: a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a vertical position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust relative vertical positions of the first conveyor and the second conveyor; and a horizontal position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust, in a horizontal plane, relative positions of the first conveyor and the second conveyor in a direction orthogonal to a transfer direction.

Abstract: A display device that is included in an electronic apparatus includes: a display panel that displays video; and a cover panel that is arranged while being superimposed on a front surface of the display panel and protects the display panel. An opening is formed in at least a portion of the cover panel and a device that performs input and output of prescribed information is provided in the opening.

Abstract: A display device that is included in an electronic apparatus includes: a display panel that displays video; and a cover panel that is arranged while being superimposed on a front surface of the display panel and protects the display panel. An opening is formed in at least a portion of the cover panel and a device that performs input and output of prescribed information is provided in the opening.

Abstract: The infrared gas analysis device includes: a measurement cell to allow a sample gas containing a component to be measured to flow therethrough; a comparison cell including a reference gas; a pair of light sources provided in one end side of the measurement cell and the comparison cell, the cells being irradiated with an infrared ray from one and the other of the light sources, respectively; and a detection unit provided in another end side of the measurement cell and the comparison cell to detect the component to be measured by using infrared rays output from the measurement cell and the comparison cell. A gas for detection made of a component different from the component to be measured and having an infrared absorption band at at least a part of wavenumbers in infrared absorption bands of the component to be measured is encapsulated in the detection unit.

Abstract: Provided is a production device including: a first reactor to form a second gas containing an ester and nitric oxide from a first gas containing carbon monoxide, a nitrite, and nitric oxide; an absorption column to separate the second gas and an absorbing solution into a condensate containing the ester and a noncondensable gas; a second reactor to introduce an alcohol, the noncondensable gas, and oxygen gas thereinto to form a third gas containing nitric oxide and a nitrite; a third reactor to form a fourth gas containing a nitrite from the noncondensable gas and a bottom liquid from the second reactor and to feed the fourth gas to the second reactor; a first measurement unit to measure the concentration of a nitrite in the first gas; and a first flow rate-adjusting unit to adjust the amount of the noncondensable gas to the third reactor based on the concentration.

Abstract: The infrared gas analysis device includes: a measurement cell to allow a sample gas containing a component to be measured to flow therethrough; a comparison cell including a reference gas; a pair of light sources provided in one end side of the measurement cell and the comparison cell, the cells being irradiated with an infrared ray from one and the other of the light sources, respectively; and a detection unit provided in another end side of the measurement cell and the comparison cell to detect the component to be measured by using infrared rays output from the measurement cell and the comparison cell. A gas for detection made of a component different from the component to be measured and having an infrared absorption band at at least a part of wavenumbers in infrared absorption bands of the component to be measured is encapsulated in the detection unit.

Abstract: Provided is a production device including: a first reactor to form a second gas containing an ester and nitric oxide from a first gas containing carbon monoxide, a nitrite, and nitric oxide; an absorption column to separate the second gas and an absorbing solution into a condensate containing the ester and a noncondensable gas; a second reactor to introduce an alcohol, the noncondensable gas, and oxygen gas thereinto to form a third gas containing nitric oxide and a nitrite; a third reactor to form a fourth gas containing a nitrite from the noncondensable gas and a bottom liquid from the second reactor and to feed the fourth gas to the second reactor; a first measurement unit to measure the concentration of a nitrite in the first gas; and a first flow rate-adjusting unit to adjust the amount of the noncondensable gas to the third reactor based on the concentration.

Abstract: A method for producing nitrous acid ester in which nitric oxide, oxygen, and an alcohol are reacted, thereby generating nitrous acid ester includes a step of generating nitrous acid ester by supplying a bottom liquid from a bottom part of the reaction column, and nitric oxide and/or carbon monoxide, a step of supplying nitrous acid ester to the reaction column; a step of supplying a reaction liquid containing water, nitric acid, and the alcohol to a nitric acid condensing column from the reactor; and a step of separating a low-boiling point component by distillation from the reaction liquid under control of a concentration of the alcohol in a condensed liquid being generated at a bottom part of the nitric acid condensing column to be less than 4.0% by weight so as to introduce the condensed liquid into the reactor from the nitric acid condensing column.

Abstract: A method for producing nitrous acid ester in which nitric oxide, oxygen, and an alcohol are reacted, thereby generating nitrous acid ester includes a step of generating nitrous acid ester by supplying a bottom liquid from a bottom part of the reaction column, and nitric oxide and/or carbon monoxide, a step of supplying nitrous acid ester to the reaction column; a step of supplying a reaction liquid containing water, nitric acid, and the alcohol to a nitric acid condensing column from the reactor; and a step of separating a low-boiling point component by distillation from the reaction liquid under control of a concentration of the alcohol in a condensed liquid being generated at a bottom part of the nitric acid condensing column to be less than 4.0% by weight so as to introduce the condensed liquid into the reactor from the nitric acid condensing column.

Abstract: A method of forming a metal oxide film, which can lower a temperature of a heat treatment of a substrate and also can form a metal oxide film having a low resistance value without limiting the kind of the metal oxide film to be formed. The method of forming a metal oxide film includes (A) converting a solution containing a metal into mist, (B) heating a substrate, and (C) supplying the solution converted into mist, and ozone to a first main surface of the substrate under heating.

Abstract: An improved sol-gel method is proposed for the preparation of a transparent silica gel block, in which a deposit of fine silica particles having a controlled particle diameter as prepared by hydrolyzing an alkoxy silane in the presence of ammonia is dispersed in a silica sol solution prepared in an acidic condition and settled therein to form a structure of closest-packing prior to gelation, drying, sintering and vitrification so that silica glass blocks can be obtained with low volume shrinkage from the wet gel in an improved yield without cracks, bubbles and haziness. The improvement can be further enhanced when two separately prepared deposits of silica particles having larger and smaller particle diameters are dispersed as combined in the silica sol solution, especially, when the particle diameter in one deposit is not exceeding 22.5% of that in the other deposit.