Abstract: Provided is a simple and low-cost method for efficiently fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g. a plant exhaust gas). The method of fixing carbon dioxide comprises a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas having a temperature of 350° C. or more into contact with a cementitious hardened body to fix carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the cementitious hardened body. The carbon dioxide-containing gas may be a gas that is free from being supplied with moisture before the contact step and during the contact step. One of examples of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is a plant exhaust gas.

Abstract: Provided is a plasticizing agent capable of plasticizing a biodegradable resin and imparting heat resistance to a molded article thereof. Specially, the plasticizing agent is a plasticizing agent for biodegradable resins, which is a polyester represented by the following formula (1) or formula (2) (In the formulae (1) and (2), B11 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms; B12 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms; B21 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; B22 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; G represents an alkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms or an oxyalkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms; A represents an alkylene dicarboxylic acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms; and m and n each represent the number of repeating units enclosed in parentheses.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate support chuck configured to support a substrate in the process chamber, the substrate support chuck including an upper cooling channel and a lower cooling channel that are symmetrically separated from each other, and a support chuck temperature controller configured to supply a first coolant to the upper cooling channel and to supply a second coolant to the lower cooling channel.

Abstract: A plasticizer composition for a vinyl chloride resin which can impart an excellent plasticization property and cold resistance to a vinyl chloride resin plastisol and is excellent in a non-bleeding property is provided. Specifically, a plasticizer composition for a vinyl chloride resin including an aliphatic diester (A) of an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 2 to 12 carbon atoms and an aliphatic monoalcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, an aromatic diester (B) of an aromatic monocarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms and a glycol having 2 to 12 carbon atoms, and a phthalate (C), in which aliphatic diester (A):aromatic diester (B)=65:35 to 95:5 (mass ratio) is satisfied and (aliphatic diester (A)+aromatic diester (B)):phthalate (C)=5:95 to 35:65 (mass ratio) is satisfied.

Abstract: A vapor supply apparatus is described. The apparatus stably supplies vapor to a process chamber when the vapor pressure of the material is lower than the process pressure. The apparatus includes a supply container accommodating a solid or a liquid having a vapor pressure which is lower than the process pressure. The vapor may be generated in the supply container from a liquid or from a solid. A buffer tank is interposed between the supply container and the process chamber and into which the vapor from the container is introduced by reducing pressure. The apparatus includes a mechanism for pressurizing the buffer tank and pressure-feeding the vapor to the process chamber.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a sintered body, a mold device including a die, first and second punches, first and second spacers, first and second rams, and a plurality of thermal resistors is used. The manufacturing method includes an operation of loading raw material powder into a cavity of the die and then sintering the raw material powder, while pressing and molding the raw material powder in the uniaxial direction using the first and second punches, to form a sintered body and an operation of cooling the formed sintered body. In the operation of cooling the formed sintered body, an acoustic emission (AE) waveform is detected from the formed sintered body, and it is determined whether a crack has occurred in the formed sintered body using the detected AE waveform.

Abstract: The present invention implements switching between two protocol sets without correcting an application. An information processing device includes: a first communication processing unit for performing a communication with a first external device according to a first protocol set; and a second communication processing unit for performing a communication with a second external device according to a second protocol set, wherein, when a predetermined condition is not satisfied, the first communication processing unit transmits data received from an application to the first external device and, when the predetermined condition is satisfied, transmits the data to the second communication processing unit according to the first protocol set, and wherein the second communication processing unit transmits the data received from the first communication processing unit to the second external device according to the second protocol set.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device that includes: an acquisition means for radiating an electromagnetic wave from the surface of an inspection object and for acquiring data of a reflected wave occurring due to the electromagnetic wave being reflected by the interior of the inspection object; and a detection means for detecting the presence or absence of a gap on the basis of the data of the reflected wave acquired in the acquisition means.

Abstract: Provided is a biodegradable resin composition having a high fluidity. Specifically, a biodegradable resin composition containing a biodegradable resin, an inorganic filler, and a fluidity modifier, the fluidity modifier being a polyester that has a carboxy group at at least one end and has an acid value of more than 50.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a roadbed material from which less hexavalent chromium leaches out through use of a crushed product of a cementitious hardened body containing hexavalent chromium as a raw material. The method includes a carbonation treatment step of subjecting the crushed product of the cementitious hardened body to carbonation treatment with a carbon dioxide-containing gas having a temperature of 50° C. to 140° C. and a water content of 1.5% or more to obtain the roadbed material from which less hexavalent chromium leaches out than before the treatment. Preferably, the method includes, before the carbonation treatment step, a crushing step of crushing the cementitious hardened body to obtain a crushed product consisting of grains having a grain size of 100 mm or less at a ratio of 50 mass % or more and a grain size of 2.36 mm or less at a ratio of 1 mass % or more.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g., a plant exhaust gas) simply, at low cost, and efficiently. The method of fixing carbon dioxide includes a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas into contact with powdery or grainy particles, which are each formed of a cementitious hardened body and each have a particle size of 40 mm or less, at a temperature of from 75° C. to 110° C. to fix carbon dioxide contained in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the powdery or grainy particles, wherein the relative humidity of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is adjusted in accordance with the particle size of the powdery or grainy particles and the state of adjustment of moisture content of the powdery or grainy particles before the contact step.

Abstract: Provided is an effective material age estimation device capable of appropriately taking relative humidity variation into consideration when estimating an effective material age. This effective material age estimation device comprises a temperature term calculation unit 13 for calculating a temperature term ?T dependent on the temperature of cast concrete, a humidity term calculation unit 14 for calculating a humidity term ?RH dependent on the relative humidity of the concrete, and an effective material age calculation unit 15 for calculating the effective material age of the concrete by summing products of the temperature term ?T, the humidity term, and a step time term ?ti. The humidity term ?RH is introduced, and the sum of the products is weighted using the term.

Abstract: A plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin with excellent balance of non-transfer properties, fogging resistance, flexibility, heat resistance, and cold resistance is provided. Specifically, a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin is a polyester made from a glycol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 14 carbon atoms, and a monoalcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and/or a monocarboxylic acid having 2 to 21 carbon atoms, as reaction raw materials, in which the polyester has a number average molecular weight in a range of 500 to 6,000 and contains components with a molecular weight of 600 or less in a range of 0.5 to 3.0% by mass in terms of area ratio in gel permeation chromatography measurement.

Abstract: Provided are a sintered material having high corrosion resistance, a method of manufacturing the sintered material, a member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a method of manufacturing a member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The sintered material according to an embodiment includes 50 mass% or more of yttrium oxyfluoride, has a relative density of 97.0% or more, and has a Vickers hardness of 5.0 GPa or more. The method of manufacturing a sintered material according to an embodiment includes forming a molded body including yttrium oxyfluoride powder having a particle size of 0.3 µm or less, and sintering the molded body under an atmospheric pressure at a temperature of 800° C. or less.

Abstract: A tire wear measuring device that detects wear of a tire based on a magnetic field from a magnetic object embedded in the tire includes magnetic sensors and a battery. The battery is capable of transmitting the magnetic field from the magnetic object, and has an outer edge from which the magnetic field from the magnetic object is emitted as an emission magnetic field. Each of the magnetic sensors is disposed in a position where the emission magnetic field is detectable by the sensor.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having outboard and inboard tread edges and provided with three main grooves to axially divide the tread portion into four land regions including a widest outboard middle land region, wherein first inclined grooves (16) extend across the entire width of the outboard middle land region; second inclined grooves (17) extend from a crown main groove and are terminated within the outboard middle land region; fourth inclined grooves (19) are connected to the second inclined grooves (17) and to the first inclined grooves on an outboard shoulder main groove side; and an angle of the first inclined groove (16) and an angle of the second inclined groove (17) with respect to the tire circumferential direction are gradually increases from the crown main groove toward the outboard tread edge.

Abstract: A tire includes a pattern portion on a surface of a sidewall portion. The pattern portion includes an outer pattern and an inner pattern. The outer pattern includes a plurality of outer ridges disposed concentrically around a first point on a tire circumferential line on an outer side in a tire radial direction and extending toward a second point, on the tire circumferential line, which is different from the first point. The inner pattern includes a plurality of inner ridges disposed concentrically around the second point on an inner side in the tire radial direction and extending toward the first point. Each of the outer ridges connects with one of the inner ridges on the tire circumferential line.

Abstract: Provided is a plasticizer which can impart excellent heat resistance to a molded article of a vinyl chloride resin composition. Specifically, provided is a plasticizer for vinyl chloride resin, wherein the plasticizer is a polyester represented by the following formula (1) or (2), wherein, in the formulae (1) and (2), B11 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, B12 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, B21 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, B22 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, G represents an alkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms or an oxyalkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, A represents an alkylenedicarboxylic acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and each of m and n represents the number of repeating units in parentheses.

Abstract: A member includes a base material structure and a surface layer on the base material structure. The surface layer includes a particle that includes Y—O—F. The base material structure includes interface layers in contact with the surface layer. The interface layers of the base material structure include fluorine.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include a vacuum chamber, an electrostatic chuck (ESC), a cooler, an RF plate, a casing, a base plate and a gas supplier. The ESC may be arranged in the vacuum chamber. The cooler may be configured to cool the ESC. The RF plate may be arranged under the cooler. The casing may be configured to support the cooler. The base plate may be opposite to the RF plate to form an inner space together with the casing. The gas supplier may supply a gas having a low dew point to the inner space. Thus, a generation of the dew condensation at the very low temperature may be prevented so that a damage caused by a short, which may be generated by the dew condensation, may also be prevented.