Abstract: A hydrogen generator includes a reaction vessel, a water supply, a temperature adjustor, and a controller. The reaction vessel houses a hydrogen generating material having hydrogen generating ability. The hydrogen generating material includes a two-dimensional hydrogen boride sheet having a two-dimensional network and containing multiple negatively charged boron atoms. The controller is configured to execute a hydrogen generating mode to generate hydrogen from the hydrogen generating material and a regenerating mode to recover the hydrogen generating ability of the hydrogen generating material. The controller controls the temperature adjustor to heat the hydrogen generating material at a first predetermined temperature during the hydrogen generating mode. The controller controls the temperature adjustor to adjust the temperature of the hydrogen generating material to a second predetermined temperature and controls the water supply to supply water during the regenerating mode.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls, wherein a value of a porosity of the partition wall in a partitioning wall portion between the two cells is defined as a porosity A, a value of a porosity of the partition wall in an intersecting portion that is a region connecting two or more wall portions is defined as a porosity B, a value of A/B obtained by dividing the porosity A by the porosity B is from 0.5 to 0.95, and the porosity A is from 10 to 40%.

Abstract: A light detection device includes an APD, a plurality of temperature compensation diodes, and a circuit unit. The plurality of temperature compensation diodes have different breakdown voltages lower than a breakdown voltage of the APD. The circuit unit puts any one of the plurality of temperature compensation diodes into a breakdown state. The circuit unit includes a plurality of terminals and a terminal. The plurality of terminals are respectively connected to electrodes of the mutually different temperature compensation diodes. The terminal is electrically connected to the APD and electrodes of the temperature compensation diodes.

Abstract: A timing setting section sets a fuel injection timing in a second half of a compression stroke of an internal combustion engine, at a predetermined computation timing, which is set for each combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine, when an amount of a reduction target component in exhaust gas detected by an exhaust gas sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, on condition that the internal combustion engine satisfies a predetermined high temperature condition. The fuel injection control device further includes an injection control unit to compute a fuel injection period based on the injection timing set by the timing set unit and to control the fuel injection valve based on the injection timing and the injection period.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction, in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row constituted of at least one of an inflow cell and an outflow cell, and a through-cell, and a second cell row including no through-cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (?m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy a relation of Equation (1) below: Equation (1): 0.4 (R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2) 100 20.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row in which at least the inflow cells are included and in which in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the cells, a through channel area SA occupied by the inflow cells is larger than a through channel area SB occupied by the outflow cells, and a second cell row in which at least the outflow cells are included. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (?m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy a relation of Equation (1) below: Equation (1): 0.4?(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)×100?20.

Abstract: A timing setting section sets a fuel injection timing in a second half of a compression stroke of an internal combustion engine, at a predetermined computation timing, which is set for each combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine, when an amount of a reduction target component in exhaust gas detected by an exhaust gas sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, on condition that the internal combustion engine satisfies a predetermined high temperature condition. The fuel injection control device further includes an injection control unit to compute a fuel injection period based on the injection timing set by the timing set unit and to control the fuel injection valve based on the injection timing and the injection period.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls arranged to surround cells, in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a value of a porosity of the partition wall in a partitioning region between the inflow cell and the outflow cell is defined as a porosity A, among intersecting portions where partitioning regions of the partition walls between the cells intersect one another, a value of a porosity of the partition wall in an intersecting portion between the two inflow cells is defined as a porosity B, and a value of A/B obtained by dividing the porosity A by the porosity B is from 0.50 to 0.95.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row constituted of inflow cells and a second cell row including outflow cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell row and a curvature radius R (?m) of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy relations of Equations (1) and (2) below: Equation (1): 2?100?(P1/P2×100)?50, and Equation (2): 0.4?(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)×100?20.

Abstract: A two-dimensional hydrogen boride-containing sheet of the present invention has a two-dimensional network that consists of (HB)n (n?4).

Abstract: A controller for a hybrid vehicle is configured to execute a shifting assist process of increasing torque of a motor when performing power-on downshift of an automatic transmission and an upper limit assist torque setting process of setting an upper limit assist torque that is an upper limit value of a travel assist torque to be a smaller value when a maximum step number of the power-on downshift is large than when the maximum step number is small.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a plugged honeycomb structure body which has cell rows arranged along one direction in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body and including a first cell row constituted of at least one of an inflow cell and an outflow cell, and a through-cell, and a second cell row including no through-cells. A width P1 (mm) of the first cell row, a width P2 (mm) of the second cell and a curvature radius R of a curved shape of corner portions of a polygonal shape of each cell satisfy relations of Equations (1) and (2) below: Equation (1): 2?100?(P1/P2×100)?50, and Equation (2): 0.4?(R/1000)/((P1+P2)/2)×100?20.

Abstract: A negative-tone photosensitive resin composition containing an epoxy group-containing resin, a cationic polymerization initiator, and a polyfunctional thiol compound.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure comprising: a honeycomb structure body that includes a plurality of porous partition walls and intersection parts, and a catalyst layer, wherein the porosity of the partition wall is 20 to 70%, the average pore diameter of the pores in the partition wall is 1 to 60 ?m, a plurality of the partition walls includes a notched partition wall having a recessed part in which at least one end is notched, the ratio of the notched partition wall in the partition walls is 1 to 100%, the recessed part of the notched partition wall has a depth of 10 to 200% of the standard length, and the recessed part of the notched partition wall is a part having a width of 33 to 100% of the standard width.

Abstract: The honeycomb structure body has a dense part at a part in axial direction including a center region of the inflow end face, the dense part having a change ratio of porosity calculated by the following Expression (1) that is 2 to 8%, and has an outside-diameter increasing part, and the honeycomb structure body has a change ratio of average diameter calculated by the following Expression (2) that is 0.2 to 3%, (1?Px/Py)×100, ??Expression (1): in Expression (1), Px denotes the porosity (%) at the center region of the inflow end face, and Py denotes the porosity (%) of a circumferential region of the inflow end face. (1?Dx/Dy)×100, ??Expression (2): in Expression (2), Dx denotes the average diameter (mm) of the inflow end face, and Dy denotes the average diameter (mm) of the outflow end face.

Abstract: The honeycomb structure body has a dense part having a change ratio of porosity calculated by the following Expression (1) that is 1 to 5%. The honeycomb structure body also has an outside-diameter decreasing part in which the outside diameter decreases from the inflow end face to the outflow end face. The honeycomb structure body has a change ratio of average diameter calculated by the following Expression (2) that is 0.2 to 3%. (1?Px/Py)×100,??Expression (1): in Expression (1), Px denotes the porosity (%) at the center region of the outflow end face, and Py denotes the porosity (%) of a circumferential region of the outflow end face other than the center region. (1?Dx/Dy)×100,??Expression (2): in Expression (2), Dx denotes the average diameter (mm) of the outflow end face, and Dy denotes the average diameter (mm) of the inflow end face.

Abstract: A seal structure includes: a first member and a second member facing a combustion gas flow passage; a third member on an outer side of the combustion gas flow passage; a heat-resistant coating on at least one of a first end face and a second end face, both of the first end face and the second end face being closer to the combustion gas flow passage; and a contact part in each of the first end face and the second end face, further on the outer side of the combustion gas flow passage than the heat-resistant coating. The contact part is configured to restrict relative movement of the first member and the second member by directly or indirectly coming into contact with the first member and the second member in a state where a clearance is left between the heat-resistant coating and the end face facing the heat-resistant coating.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure including prismatic columnar honeycomb segments and a bonding layer, wherein the bonding layer has rows in each of which bonding layer portions each disposed between two honeycomb segments arranged to face each other are arranged to extend from one point of a peripheral edge of a bonded body of the honeycomb segments to the other point thereof, in a cross section, the bonding layer of each of the-rows is disposed so that among the bonding layer portions arranged in one direction, an outermost circumference bonding layer portion and at least one of the other bonding layer portions are not superimposed on each other on an extension line of the one direction, and a ratio of shift of side surfaces of adjacent honeycomb segments to a length of one side of a side surface of honeycomb segments having the same cross-sectional shape is 10% or less.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure has partition walls defining a plurality of hexagonal cells the partition walls are constituted by combining standard partition walls having a partition wall thickness in a range smaller than ±10% to an average partition wall thickness of the partition walls, wide partition walls having a partition wall thickness of +10% or more to the average partition wall thickness, and narrow partition walls having a partition wall thickness of ?10% or less to the average partition wall thickness, and a non-standard partition wall ratio is in a range of 10% to 30% which is a ratio occupied by a subtotal number of non-standard partition walls obtained by adding the wide partition walls and the narrow partition walls in a total number of the partition walls which is obtained by adding the numbers of the standard partition walls, the wide partition walls and the narrow partition walls.

Abstract: A two-dimensional hydrogen boride-containing sheet of the present invention has a two-dimensional network that consists of (HB)n (n?4).