Abstract: A dose monitor measures a dose of a beam. The position monitor measures the beam size of the beam. The irradiation control apparatus calculates the measurement characteristic of the dose monitor based on the dose and the beam size of the beam, and controls the irradiation of the patient with the beam based on the measurement characteristic and the dose.

Abstract: Water-absorbing resin particles have a repulsion rate of 5% or more according to the formula (h3?h2)/h1×100(%) when a cylinder with an inner diameter of 25.4 mm, which has a mesh-like bottom onto which 0.2 g of the water-absorbing resin particles are sprinkled, is placed in a container having ion exchange water in an amount of 30 times a mass of the water-absorbing resin particles, where h1 represents a free swelling height (mm) of the water-absorbing resin particles after 1 minute from initiation of water absorption, h2 represents a height (mm) of the water-absorbing resin particles after a load of 1.3×103 Pa is applied to the water-absorbing resin particles for 1 minute after 1 minute from initiation of the water absorption, and h3 represents a height (mm) of the water-absorbing resin particles after 1 minute from release of the load applied when measuring h2.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a container configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a discharge unit, a first cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where an inlet portion in the container is covered and an opening position, a second cover portion capable of moving between a closing position where the first cover portion is covered and an opening position where the first cover portion is exposed so as to be opened/closed, and a valve which opens/closes a passage communicating with an inside of the container. The valve closes the passage interworking with a movement of the first cover portion to the opening position, and opens the passage interworking with a movement of the second cover portion to the closing position.

Abstract: A base plate is a portion of a housing of a disk driving device having a disk rotating with a rotation axis as a center, and is a cast product. The base plate has a bottom plate part and a peripheral wall part. The bottom plate part has a rectangular shape when viewed in an axial direction. The peripheral wall part extends from an outer peripheral edge of the bottom plate part toward a side of the axial direction to surround the periphery of the bottom plate part. A metal member embedded in the peripheral wall part is provided.

Abstract: A quartz glass provides an opaque quartz glass having high light-shielding property, excellent mechanical strength and excellent cleaning resistance against hydrofluoric acid. By setting the maximum width of the amorphous bubbles existing in the opaque quartz glass to an average of 3 to 15 ?m and the density to 2.15 g/cm3 or more, the mechanical strength after baking and the cleaning resistance by hydrofluoric acid are improved. The opaque quartz glass has a whiteness at a thickness of 10 mm of 75 to 90%, the reflectance of light with a wavelength of 0.24 to 2.6 ?m at a thickness of 4 mm is 60 to 85%, and the bending strength after baking is 95 MPa. In addition, a foaming agent may be mixed in the opaque quartz glass. An opaque quartz glass having cleaning resistance against acid can be obtained.

Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a plurality of coil conductors, a first resistive layer, and a second resistive layer. The plurality of coil conductors are disposed in the element body and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coil conductors include a first coil conductor and a second coil conductor adjacent to each other. The first resistive layer and the second resistive layer oppose each other between the first coil conductor and the second coil conductor. The first resistive layer is in contact with the first coil conductor.

Abstract: A method for producing isobutyl vinyl ether using isobutyl alcohol as a raw material alcohol, the method including reacting the isobutyl alcohol with acetylene to obtain a mixture containing unreacted isobutyl alcohol and isobutyl vinyl ether, reacting the unreacted isobutyl alcohol and the isobutyl vinyl ether in the mixture in a presence of an acid catalyst to be converted into acetaldehyde diisobutyl acetal, and removing the acetaldehyde diisobutyl acetal by distillation.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a housing to define a housing space, a collection device to collect fine particles in the housing space, a detection device to detect a collection performance of the collection device, and a cleaning device to clean the collection device.

Abstract: A method may produce (2-methoxyethyl) vinyl ether with a high purity from 2-methoxyethanol and acetylene. Such a method may include the A1, A2, and A3: (A1) synthesizing a vinyl ether including causing 2-methoxyethanol to react with acetylene to obtain a mixture containing unreacted 2-methoxyethanol and (2-methoxyethyl) vinyl ether; (A2) acetalizing including causing a reaction of the unreacted 2-methoxyethanol and the (2-methoxyethyl) vinyl ether in the mixture in the presence of an acid catalyst to be converted into acetaldehyde bis(2-methoxyethyl)acetal; and (A3) removing the acetaldehyde bis(2-methoxyethyl)acetal by distillation from an acetal-containing mixture obtained in step A2.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a controller wherein the controller detects opening and closing of a door during a normal temperature control in which a compartment temperature of a first storage compartment is maintained at a normal set temperature, to supply cold air to the first storage compartment for a first time period, in a case where the controller detects, via a temperature detection unit within the first time period, a temperature rise range equal to or more than a temperature rise range set in advance, cause the compartment temperature to shift to a first set temperature lower than the normal set temperature for a second time period and, thereafter, cause the compartment temperature to shift to a second set temperature higher than the normal set temperature for a third time period and then cause the compartment temperature to shift to the first set temperature for a fourth time period.

Abstract: A catheter is disclosed, which includes an inner tube, and a coil tube disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner tube, the inner tube being a coil obtained by winding a wire. In addition, in the coil tube, a first coil and a second coil are arranged concentrically with each other. The first coil and the second coil have mutually different winding directions of the wire. Then, the inner tube and the coil tube are rotatable relative to each other around a central axis of the coil tube. In addition, in a natural state where no external force is applied to the catheter, a gap is formed between the inner tube and the coil tube.

Abstract: An iridium-containing oxide having a total pore volume of 0.20 cm3/g or more, calculated by a BJH method from nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherm measurement, and a pore distribution having an average pore diameter of 7.0 nm or more.

Abstract: A sound signal processor and a control method therefor that enable appropriate processing to be applied to each sound signal and the sound signals to be outputted to an appropriate output destination, while avoiding equipment connection complexity. A first processing unit performs first processing on a first sound signal to generate a second sound signal, and outputs the second sound signal to a mix bus, a second processing unit performs second processing on a third sound signal to generate a fourth sound signal, and outputs the fourth sound signal to the mix bus and a first output destination, and the mix bus mixes the second sound signal with the fourth sound signal to generate a fifth sound signal, and outputs the fifth sound signal to a second output destination.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an adhesive layer formed on a lower surface of the substrate, a semiconductor element adhered to a lower surface of the adhesive layer, a through hole extending through the substrate and the adhesive layer and exposing a first electrode arranged on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, a via wiring formed in the through hole, a wiring layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode through the via wiring, and a protective insulation layer formed on the lower surface of the adhesive layer. The protective insulation layer covers an entirety of all side surfaces of the semiconductor element and a peripheral part of a lower surface of the semiconductor element and exposes a central part of the lower surface of the semiconductor element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxyalkylene polymer including: a polyoxyalkylene chain containing an oxyethylene group; and a reactive silicon group which is bonded to the polyoxyalkylene chain via an organic group containing one group represented by —C(?O)NH—, wherein a number average molecular weight is from 3,000 to 150,000, a molecular weight distribution is 2.00 or less, an amount of the oxyethylene group is from 3 to 90% by mass, and the number of the reactive silicon groups per molecule is 0.5 or more.

Abstract: The curable composition is a curable composition containing an oxyalkylene polymer A having a reactive silicon group represented by —SiRa(X)3-a, wherein the oxyalkylene polymer A has 6 or more terminal groups per molecule; the terminal group contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a reactive silicon group represented by —SiRa(X)3-a, an active hydrogen-containing group, and an unsaturated group; the oxyalkylene polymer A has 0.3 or more reactive silicon groups per terminal group; and the number average molecular weight of the oxyalkylene polymer A is more than 25,000 and not more than 100,000.

Abstract: A catheter capable of suppressing separation of an end portion of a reinforcing body while applying a flat wire effective for making the catheter thin and have high strength to the reinforcing body includes a shaft having a lumen communicating from a distal end to a proximal end, in which the shaft includes a reinforcing member including a wire disposed on at least a part between an inner surface of the shaft forming the lumen and an outer surface of the shaft and braided in a tubular shape. The reinforcing body includes a round wire group including plural round wires each of which is a wire having a circular cross-section, and plural flat wires intersecting the round wire group, and a cross-sectional area ratio NB of a total cross-sectional area A of the round wire groups to a total cross-sectional area B of the flat wires is larger than 0.5.

Abstract: A sound signal processor and a control method therefor that enable appropriate processing to be applied to each sound signal and the sound signals to be outputted to an appropriate output destination, while avoiding equipment connection complexity. A first processing unit performs first processing on a first sound signal to generate a second sound signal, and outputs the second sound signal to a mix bus, a second processing unit performs second processing on a third sound signal to generate a fourth sound signal, and outputs the fourth sound signal to the mix bus and a first output destination, and the mix bus mixes the second sound signal with the fourth sound signal to generate a fifth sound signal, and outputs the fifth sound signal to a second output destination.

Abstract: The composite electronic component includes: a substrate having a GND pattern; a coil component having at least three terminals and mounted on a first surface of the substrate; and an overlapping arrangement component mounted on the first surface so that at least a part of the overlapping arrangement component overlaps the coil component when viewed from a first direction perpendicular to the first surface. The substrate has at least three coil connection patterns formed on the first surface and connected to the terminals, at least two component connection patterns formed on the first surface and connected to the overlapping arrangement component, and a GND via connecting one of the component connection patterns and the GND pattern to each other. The GND via is arranged in a substrate outer region, which is outside a region of a hypothetical polygon connecting all of the coil connection patterns on the substrate with a shortest perimeter, when viewed from the first direction.

Abstract: A distributed winding coil structure for automatic winding in a fractional slot three-phase AC motor has a stator in which the slot number 6N (N is a positive integer) of the slots positioned in the circumferential direction is greater than 1.5 times the pole number 2P (P is a positive integer), and the value obtained by dividing the slot number 6N by the pole number 2P is an irreducible fraction. Six coil groups are provided which include coils positioned in a wave winding inside a slot at a slot pitch of X or X+1, if the quotient obtained by dividing the slot number 6N by the pole number 2P is X (X is a positive integer), and each of the six coil groups is positioned so as to be offset by 60 degrees in the circumferential direction.