Abstract: An electric wire protection device includes a voltage adjuster that adjusts voltage on a power source side to be supplied to a load and a controller that includes a temperature calculation part which calculates temperature information of an electric wire based on a current value flowing through the voltage adjuster. The controller sets a first time constant as a time constant used to calculate the temperature information while the voltage adjuster is in the interrupted state, and sets a second time constant as a time constant used to calculate the temperature information while the voltage adjuster supplies power to the load. The first time constant is a value larger than the second time constant and equal to or larger than an actual time constant of the electric wire, and the second time constant is a value smaller than the actual time constant of the electric wire.

Abstract: Provided are: a non-evaporable getter coated component and chamber including a non-evaporable getter material layer with a total storage capacity of carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms of 20 mol % or less and/or a noble metal layer with a total storage capacity of carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms of 20 mol % or less; a manufacturing method of a non-evaporable getter coated component and chamber, the method including a step of forming a non-evaporable getter material layer and/or a noble metal layer by coating a non-evaporable getter material and/or a noble metal by a vapor deposition method under low pressure; and a manufacturing apparatus of a NEG coated component and chamber including a NEG material filament and/or a noble metal filament and a current feedthrough.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a wiring substrate, a first and second semiconductor chips, and the heat sink. The wiring substrate has a first surface. The first and second semiconductor chips are disposed on the first surface. The heat sink is disposed on the first surface so as to cover the first semiconductor chip. The heat sink has a second surface and the third surface opposite the first surface. The second surface faces the first surface. The heat sink has a first cut-out portion. The first cut-out portion is formed at a position overlapping with the second semiconductor chip in plan view, and penetrates the heat sink in a direction from the third surface toward the second surface. The second surface is joined to at least four corners of the first surface.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of laminate batteries. Each of the laminate batteries contains a layered body, an outer packaging that is formed from a laminate film enclosing the layered body, a pair of electrode terminals. The outer packaging has a battery part and a bag part that is a space of which a volume is changeable, and communicates to the battery part through a single communication part, the bag part is disposed close to a second edge, which is opposite to a first edge, and the battery part is disposed close to the first edge. The laminate batteries are all arranged in a manner to have the second edges of the outer packagings on an upper side of the battery pack in a vertical direction, which is parallel to the gravity, and to have the first edge on a lower side of the battery pack in the vertical direction such that all the bag parts are disposed above the battery parts in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An electrostatic coating device that can suppress the arising of corrosion in insulating members and the like surrounding coating material supply and discharge paths because of leakage arising between the paths. An electrostatic coating device is characterized by being provided with: a body part; a head part; a linking part that links the body part and the head part; a coating material path that is a first path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a high-voltage is applied along with the coating material (first fluid) being fed; a washing fluid path that is a second path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a washing fluid (second fluid) is fed along with a connection to a ground; and a displacement part for displacing all or part of air retained between the coating material path and a washing fluid path with new air.

Abstract: A novel briquetting roll having excellent performance such as providing both abrasion resistance and spalling resistance, which can also be manufactured at low cost and in a short period of time, and a method for manufacturing the same, are provided wherein the briquetting roll 1 integrally has an inner layer material 4 and an outer layer material 5, which comprise mutually different materials and are in contact with each other at the respective exterior and interior thereof, and has pockets 6 formed at the outer circumference of the outer layer material 5. A chromium-molybdenum forged steel material is used for the inner layer material 4 and a high-carbon high-speed steel material is used for the outer layer material 5. The outer layer material 5 may be formed on the outside of the inner layer material 4 by a continuous pouring process.

Abstract: A dementia care burden level determination device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains answers to respective questions about the behavioral pattern of a patient, the questions each belonging to one of n domains; a score calculator that, in accordance with the answers obtained by the obtainment unit, calculates scores for the respective domains, the scores being expressed as numerical values and related to the behavioral pattern of the patient; a distance calculator that calculates a Euclidean distance between fixed-point coordinates and coordinates represented by the scores for the respective domains calculated by the score calculator; a determination unit that determines a dementia care burden level for the patient to be cared for in accordance with the Euclidean distance calculated by the distance calculator; and an output unit that outputs the dementia care burden level determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: An electrostatic coating device that can suppress the arising of corrosion in insulating members and the like surrounding coating material supply and discharge paths because of leakage arising between the paths. An electrostatic coating device is characterized by being provided with: a body part; a head part; a linking part that links the body part and the head part; a coating material path that is a first path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a high-voltage is applied along with the coating material (first fluid) being fed; a washing fluid path that is a second path disposed from the body part to the head part, wherein a washing fluid (second fluid) is fed along with a connection to a ground; and a displacement part for displacing all or part of air retained between the coating material path and a washing fluid path with new air.

Abstract: A current collector for a battery includes: a layer (1) formed from an electrically conductive material and at least one of (a) a polymer compound having an alicyclic structure, (b) a saturated hydrocarbon polymer compound having a hydroxyl group, (c) a phenoxy resin and an epoxy resin, and (d) an amine having an amine equivalent of 120 g/eq or less and an epoxy resin; a layer (2) which is formed on at least one surface of the layer (1); and a layer (3) formed from an electrically conductive material. The current collector for a battery has stability to an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode, a low electric resistance, a blocking property to solvent in electrolytic solution, and a blocking property to a component in an electrolyte. In addition, the current collector for a battery has a high capacity retention rate, and battery durability is improved.

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.

Abstract: Provided are a coating apparatus which coats an article using a plurality of coating nozzles and is capable of performing the coating without restriction of the posture of the article, a coating nozzle used for the same, and a coating method. A coating apparatus includes: a first air jet port 20; a plurality of coating material jet ports 22 dispersedly disposed in the periphery of the first air jet port 20 across the whole circumference; and a plurality of second air jet ports 24 dispersedly disposed in the periphery of the coating material jet ports 22 across the whole circumference. The coating apparatus includes a plurality of coating nozzles 18 each of which performs jetting via a circulating passage formed along the dispersing arrangement of the second air jet ports 24. A controlling unit 34 independently controls individual adjusting units of the plurality of coating nozzles 18.

Abstract: A conductive film includes a layer 1 formed by a conductive material 1 that includes a polymer material 1 containing any of (1) an amine and an epoxy resin (where the epoxy resin and the amine are mixed in a ratio of 1.0 or more in terms of the ratio of the number of active hydrogen atoms in the amine with respect to the number of functional groups in the epoxy resin), (2) a phenoxy resin and an epoxy resin, (3) a saturated hydrocarbon polymer having a hydroxyl group, and (4) a curable resin and an elastomer and conductive particles 1. The conductive film has excellent stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode and low electric resistance per unit area in the thickness direction. A multilayer conductive film including the conductive film achieves excellent interlayer adhesion, and using them as a current collector enables the production of a battery satisfying both weight reduction and durability.

Abstract: A holographic-stereogram-forming apparatus includes a laser beam source that generates a laser beam to be split into an object beam and a reference beam; a display that displays an original image corresponding to a substantially strip-shaped holographic element constituting a holographic stereogram containing parallax information in a horizontal direction; a diffusing unit provided on a light-emission side of the display and including optical elements having different thicknesses in a direction of light transmission, the optical elements being arranged in a matrix and each having a substantially rectangular shape with a vertical length being shorter than a horizontal length, the diffusing unit diffusing object beam more widely in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction, the object beam to be diffused by the diffusing unit being generated by the display; and a condensing unit that condenses the object beam diffused by the diffusing unit on a hologram recording medium.

Abstract: A composition for a hologram recording material includes a binder precursor containing a compound having a structure represented by formula A below, a polymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator. In the formula A, R1 to R3 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, E represents a divalent electron attracting group, a wavy line portion represents a bonding site with another structure, and when E is —C(?O)O—, R3 is not an alkyl group.

Abstract: An electric wire protection device includes a voltage adjuster that adjusts voltage on a power source side to be supplied to a load and a controller that includes a temperature calculation part which calculates temperature information of an electric wire based on a current value flowing through the voltage adjuster. The controller sets a first time constant as a time constant used to calculate the temperature information while the voltage adjuster is in the interrupted state, and sets a second time constant as a time constant used to calculate the temperature information while the voltage adjuster supplies power to the load. The first time constant is a value larger than the second time constant and equal to or larger than an actual time constant of the electric wire, and the second time constant is a value smaller than the actual time constant of the electric wire.

Abstract: An electric-wire protection device includes a voltage adjustment unit that adjusts the voltage to a load, and a controller that includes a temperature calculation unit that calculates temperature information on an electric wire from a value of current, and makes the voltage adjustment unit into a shut-off state based on the temperature information. The temperature information is calculated from an amount of temperature changes based on the current value and a predetermined initial value. The controller shifts into a sleep state when a sleep condition is satisfied that includes a condition that the temperature information is lower than the initial value. The initial value when the controller returns from the sleep state is based on a convergence value of temperature in conducting energization on the electric wire at a maximum value of steady-state current.

Abstract: An electric wire protection device includes a voltage adjusting unit that adjusts voltage of a power source side and supplies the resulting voltage to a load, and a controller that includes a calculation unit configured to compute temperature information of an electric wire connecting the power source and the load from a value of an electric current flowing through the voltage adjusting unit, and that is configured to make the voltage adjusting unit into a shutoff state of shutting off the power source and the load on the basis of the temperature information.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a voltage adjusting unit, an A/D converter, a determination unit, and a supply unit configured to supply a voltage. The A/D converter includes an A/D conversion circuit, and a selector that connects any one of a plurality of input ports to the A/D conversion circuit. The input ports include load ports, a first diagnostic port, and a second diagnostic port, the supply unit supplies a first voltage value to the first diagnostic port and supplies a second voltage value to the second diagnostic port, and the determination unit determines abnormality of the A/D converter on the basis of conversion results by the A/D conversion circuit when the first diagnostic port and the A/D conversion circuit are connected together and conversion results by the A/D conversion circuit when the second diagnostic port and the A/D conversion circuit are connected together.

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.

Abstract: A film and a flexible metal-clad laminate obtained with the film. The laminate is improved in post-moisture absorption solderability. The film comprises a heat-resistant polyimide film and, disposed on at least one side thereof, an adhesive layer containing a thermoplastic polyimide. It is characterized in that the thermoplastic polyimide contained in the adhesive layer has crystallinity and that the film, when analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter, has an endothermic peak attributable to the melting of the crystalline thermoplastic polyimide, the absolute value of the area of the peak being 4.0 mJ/mg or larger. The flexible metal-clad laminate is characterized by comprising the film and a metal layer disposed thereon.