Abstract: The present invention provides a hair cosmetic composition containing the following components (a) and (b) and a hair treatment method in which the hair cosmetic composition is applied to the hair: (a) one or two or more peptides each having the number of amino acid residues being 5 to 50, and having neither a sulfur-containing amino acid residue nor a derivative thereof; and (b) a hair-swelling organic solvent.

Abstract: In a nonvolatile memory device (4) provided in a semiconductor device, when data is erased based on a band-to-band tunneling scheme, supply of a boosted voltage to a memory cell (MC) to be erased is ended when a condition that an output voltage (VUCP) of a charge pump circuit (52) has recovered to a predetermined reference voltage is satisfied and additionally a condition that a predetermined reference time has elapsed since start of supply of the boosted voltage (VUCP) to the memory cell (MC) to be erased is satisfied.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one pillar-shaped honeycomb unit and a pair of electrodes. The pillar-shaped honeycomb unit includes an outer peripheral wall and cell walls. The cell walls extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit to define cells. The cell walls are composed of a ceramic aggregate having pores. The cell walls contain a substance having an electrical resistivity lower than an electrical resistivity of ceramic forming the ceramic aggregate. The pair of electrodes is arranged at the cell walls and/or the outer peripheral wall.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a head including an ejection face inclining an ejection opening region having ejection openings; a capping unit for selectively establishing a sealing state or an open state; an air supply opening and an air discharge opening; a humidification unit for performing a humidifying maintenance; a recording control unit for performing image recording; and a flushing control unit for performing flushing. The flushing control unit controls the head to perform the flushing such that an amount of the liquid discharged from each of a discharge-side ejection-opening group and a supply-side ejection-opening group is greater than that of the liquid discharged from the other ejection-opening group.

Abstract: A conductive polyimide film having an excellent film strength and electrical properties can be manufactured in a high productivity by a method for manufacturing conductive polyimide film which includes, in a manufacture method of a conductive polyimide film including an agent for imparting conductivity and a polyimide resin, drying a coating film including (A) and (B); and subjecting the film to imidation. (A) A polyamic acid including 3,3?,4,4?-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, 4,4?-oxydianiline, and 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and/or p-phenylenediamine, which is obtained by reacting a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride with a diamine compound. (B) A agent for imparting conductivity. (C) An imidation accelerator including a dialkylpyridine, and 0.1 to 1.6 molar equivalents of acetic anhydride per mol of an amic acid in a polyamic acid.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head including (i) an ejection opening portion, (ii) a supply flow passage, and (iii) an actuator, a first tank connected to the liquid ejection head to supply liquid to the supply flow passage; a pump for forcing the liquid in the first tank into the supply flow passage; and a controller. The controller executes: a first control for driving the actuator, or the actuator and the pump such that all the liquid in the first tank flows to the supply flow passage; and a second control for, after a completion of the first control, driving the actuator in a state in which the pump is stopped, to discharge the liquid in the supply flow passage from the ejection opening portion such that an amount of the liquid in the supply flow passage falls within a predetermined range.

Abstract: In a cleaning mechanism provided in an insertion section of an endoscopic device, two straight lateral faces obliquely and straightly extending toward the center side of a cylindrical lens are joined to a laterally circumferential face, a pedestal section inside which a liquid-sending route of a cleaning liquid, and a gas-sending route are internally provided is arranged, and an angle which a gushing direction of the cleaning liquid gushed from each of wash nozzles provided on the lateral faces toward the laterally circumferential face forms with a perpendicular line passing through the center of the cylindrical lens is an acute angle, the gushed cleaning liquid intersecting the perpendicular line.

Abstract: A method for producing a highly aromatic base oil of the present invention includes a step of hydrorefining a clarified oil to obtain a highly aromatic base oil having an aromatic content of 50% by mass or more determined by a column chromatography analysis method. The step of hydrorefining a clarified oil is preferably performed under conditions of a hydrogen pressure of 5.0 to 20.0 MPa, a temperature of 280 to 400° C., a hydrogen oil ratio of 300 to 750 NL/L, and a space velocity of 0.3 to 2.0 h?1. According to the present invention, a highly aromatic base oil used for rubber processing, asphalt reclamation and the like, and a novel method for producing a highly aromatic base oil can be provided.

Abstract: A method authenticates an encryption of a probe vector of biometric data based on an encryption of an enrollment vector of the biometric data using consistency of discriminative elements of the biometric data. The method determines an encryption of a first distance between discriminative elements of an enrollment vector stored at a server and a probe vector presented for an authentication. The method also determines an encryption of a second distance between discriminative elements of a first consistency vector stored at the server and a second consistency vector presented for the authentication. Next, the biometric data is authenticated based on encryptions of the first and the second distances.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing unit, a power supply unit, a pressure applying unit, and a controller. The fixing unit fixes toner onto a recording medium, using heat generated by a heat generator. The power supply unit supplies power to drive the fixing unit. The pressure applying unit applies pressure to the recording medium in a nip part between the pressure applying unit and the fixing unit. When plural recording media are sequentially transported, the controller controls the power supply unit to supply power during a first time period from when a trailing edge of one of the recording media passes the nip part to when a leading edge of the subsequent recording medium arrives at the nip part, in accordance with a relationship between the first time period and a second time period required to start the supply of power after the supply of power is stopped.

Abstract: A certification device 101 encrypts a feature vector for registration by using a random number and a public key which is set to correspond to a secret key in a decryption device 103. The encrypted feature vector for registration is registered in an authentication device 102. In authentication, the certification device encrypts a feature vector for authentication by using the public key and a random number. With the two encrypted feature vectors being kept encrypted, the authentication device generates encrypted similarity degree information from which the decryption device can derive the similarity degree between the two feature vectors by a decryption process using the secret key. The decryption device 103 decrypts the encrypted similarity degree information to derive the similarity degree of the plaintext. The authentication device 102, if the similarity degree is equal to or larger than a threshold, determines that the user is the correct user.

Abstract: A solenoid device includes at least one electromagnetic coil for generating a magnetic flux when energized, a fixed core constituting part of a magnetic circuit through which the magnetic flux passes, and plungers constituting the magnetic circuit together with the fixed core and configured to advance to and retract from the fixed core depending on whether the magnetic coil is energized or de-energized. The magnetic circuit is provided with a magnetic resistance part as a resistance for the magnetic flux. The plungers are configured to be attracted to the fixed core by energizing the electromagnetic coil.

Abstract: There is provided a material for molding including: carbon fiber bundles which are easily impregnated including carbon fibers and at least one impregnation aid in an amount of 3 to 15 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the carbon fibers, the at least one impregnation aid satisfying specific requirements; and a polycarbonate is adhered thereto in an amount of 50 to 2000 parts by mass.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a first head having a plurality of nozzles from which a first liquid including pigments is ejected; a second head having a plurality of nozzles from which a second liquid including no pigments is ejected; a cap device selectively positioned at a capping position and at an uncapping position; a purging executing portion configured to perform a first purging and a second purging, and to perform the first purging greater in number of times than the second purging in a certain purging period and to perform the first purging as the last purging operation in the certain purging period; and a cap controller configured to control a position of the cap device.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus including: a liquid jetting head including a liquid jetting surface; a wiper including first and second wiping portions; a moving mechanism; a liquid discharge mechanism; and a controller configured to perform: controlling the moving mechanism to cause the first wiping portion to wipe the liquid jetting surface in a state that the first wiping portion is brought into contact with the liquid jetting surface; controlling the moving mechanism to cause the second wiping portion to wipe the liquid jetting surface in a state that the second wiping portion is brought into contact with the liquid jetting surface; and controlling the liquid jetting head to jet the liquid from the nozzles such that the liquid makes a contact with the second wiping portion to clean the second wiping portion.

Abstract: A laminate of the present invention comprises a plating-target material including a layer-A, that is subjected to electroless copper plating and has a surface roughness such that an arithmetic mean roughness Ra measured at a cutoff value of 0.002 mm is less than 0.5 ?m. The 90° anti-peeling adhesive force of the layer-A is 1.0 N/25 mm or less. Furthermore, the layer-A includes a polyimide resin having a siloxane structure formed by polymerizing a diamine component having a structure represented by Formula (6) in a content of 5 to 95 mol % based on the entire diamine component. A sheet containing the layer-A has an elongation modulus of 1.8 GPa or less. The plating-target material of the present invention has a high adhesiveness to an electroless plating film formed on its surface, even if the surface is not so rough, and it is possible to favorably form electroless plating on the entire surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring substrate, includes forming a laminated body in which a nickel copper alloy layer is formed via an insulating resin layer, on a first wiring layer, forming a via hole reaching the first wiring layer in the nickel copper alloy layer and the insulating resin layer, applying a desmear process to an inside of the via hole, forming a seed layer on the nickel copper alloy layer and an inner surface of the via hole, forming a plating resist in which an opening portion is provided on a part containing the via hole, forming a metal plating layer in the opening portion in the plating resist by an electroplating, removing the plating resist, and forming a second wiring layer by etching the seed layer and the nickel copper alloy layer while using the metal plating layer as a mask.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a liquid jetting head having a liquid jetting surface formed with nozzles, a wiping unit wiping the liquid jetting surface of the liquid jetting head, and a drive section configured to move at least one of the wiping unit and the liquid jetting head such that the wiping unit moves relative to the liquid jetting head toward one side in a predetermined direction along the liquid jetting surface. The wiping unit has a first wiping portion and a second wiping portion which are arranged in the predetermined direction with an interval therebetween, and each of which has a leading end configured to contact with the liquid jetting surface, and extends in a direction intersecting the liquid jetting surface, and the leading end of the first wiping portion has a greater surface roughness than that of the leading end of the second wiping portion.

Abstract: A data search server stores a system ciphertext including a data ciphertext and a keyword ciphertext in each category-specific DB unit for each data category, and stores each category-determination secret key being associated with each category-specific DB unit. A search request receiving unit receives from a data search terminal a search request including a search trapdoor and an index tag. A data searching unit searches for a category-determination secret key with which the index tag is decrypted to the same value as a key-determination value. Using the search trapdoor, the data searching unit performs a search of a Public-key Encryption with Keyword Search scheme on system ciphertexts in a category-specific DB unit associated with this category-determination secret key. A search result transmitting unit transmits to the data search terminal a data ciphertext included in a system ciphertext which has been found as a hit in the search.

Abstract: A method authenticates an encryption of a probe vector of biometric data based on an encryption of an enrolment vector of the biometric data using consistency of discriminative elements of the biometric data. The method determines an encryption of a first distance between discriminative elements of an enrolment vector stored at a server and a probe vector presented for an authentication. The method also determines an encryption of a second distance between discriminative elements of a first consistency vector stored at the server and a second consistency vector presented for the authentication. Next, the biometric data is authenticated based on encryptions of the first and the second distances.