Abstract: In a method for producing hydrogen and carboxylic acid, a primary alcohol of 1 to 7 carbon atoms and water are reacted by being continuously introduced into a flow reactor packed with a solid catalyst consisting of an alloy of ruthenium and tin on a support and passed through the reactor under temperature and pressure conditions at which the water assumes a gaseous state. This method enables hydrogen and carboxylic acid to be produced in a high yield or at a high purity from a primary alcohol and water in a short time and by simple operations.

Abstract: A paper sheet processing device includes a housing, a control board disposed in the housing, and at least one conductive wire having a first end connected to the control board. The housing includes a first side wall and a second side wall connected to both ends of a bottom. At least one hole is provided at at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall so as to penetrate therethrough from inside of the housing to outside thereof. The hole allows a second end of the wire to extend from inside of the housing to outside thereof.

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: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).

Abstract: A fluoropolyether group-containing silane compound of the following formula (A1) or (A2). Also disclosed is are surface-treating agent and a pellet including the fluoropolyether group-containing silane compound, and an article including a substrate and a layer on the surface of the substrate formed of fluoropolyether group-containing silane compound. The symbols are as defined in the description.

Abstract: A surface-treating agent containing a fluoropolyether group-containing silane compound and an amide compound, wherein the amide compound is contained in an amount of 0.5% by mass or more based on a total amount of the surface-treating agent. Also disclosed is a pellet including the surface-treating agent; and an article including a substrate and a layer formed of the surface=treating agent disposed on the substrate.

Abstract: A perfluoro(poly)ether group-containing silane compound represented by formula (A1), (A2), (B1) or (B2), wherein the symbols are as defined in the description. Also disclosed is a surface-treating agent including the silane compound, a pellet including the surface-treating agent and an article including a base material and a layer formed from the silane compound or surface-treating agent.

Abstract: A surface treating composition is shown and described herein. A surface treating composition comprises (i) a hybrid siloxane oligomer comprises organosilicon units wherein the oligomer comprises organosilicon units with fluoro-functional groups, and organosilicon units with other reactive functionality, and (ii) a perfluoro(poly)ether group containing silane compound. The surface treating composition can be employed to provide a hydrophobic and/or oleophobic surface coating on a surface of a substrate, which may impart other beneficial properties to the article.

Abstract: A system of highly detailed mapping data for correcting the data format and detail level of the map data adaptively to a specification of a distribution destination. The system includes a data supplementing unit for supplementing medium-/low-detail map data to make the map data highly detailed, an authoring unit for editing the map data adapted to the multiple specifications which differ at least in one of the data format and the detail level, and a database for accumulating the edited map data to allow distribution of the map data as versatile data. The system includes a reliability evaluation unit communicating with the distribution destination via information, and allowing evaluation of reliability indicating a degree to which the versatile data are adapted to the specification, and a reliability registration unit for registering the reliability in the database by associating the evaluation of the reliability evaluation unit with the versatile data.

Abstract: A fluoro(poly)ether group-containing silane compound represented by any of the formulae (A1), (A2), (B1), (B2), (C1), or (C2). In the formulae, PFPE is each independently at each occurrence a group represented by the formula: —(OC3F6)d—, wherein the repeating unit OC3F6 of the formula includes a branched structure, and d is an integer of 2 or more and 200 or less. The symbols are as defined in the description.

Abstract: In a method for producing hydrogen and carboxylic acid, a primary alcohol of 1 to 7 carbon atoms and water are reacted by being continuously introduced into a flow reactor packed with a solid catalyst consisting of an alloy of ruthenium and tin on a support and passed through the reactor under temperature and pressure conditions at which the water assumes a gaseous state. This method enables hydrogen and carboxylic acid to be produced in a high yield or at a high purity from a primary alcohol and water in a short time and by simple operations.

Abstract: A resin composition including a first polymer having a host group in a side chain and a second polymer having a carboxyl group in a side chain, wherein the first polymer has a hydroxyl group. Also disclosed is a polymer having a host group (A) and a carboxyl group (B), wherein the polymer has a number-average molecular weight of 50,000 to 5,000,000; a method for producing a polymer which includes performing an ester group-forming reaction with a first polymer having a host group in a side chain and a second polymer having a carboxyl group in a side chain; a binder for an electrochemical device including the polymer; an electrode mixture including the binder; an electrode including the binder; an electrochemical device including the electrode; and a secondary battery including the electrode.

Abstract: A method for producing a sugar anhydride, said method comprising: (1) a step for conducting a first heat treatment by heating a polysaccharide having a reducing end at 130-350° C. in the presence of an alcohol compound having 1-10 carbon atoms and not having an acetal structure; (2) a step for conducting a second heat treatment by heating the polysaccharide having been heated in the first heat treatment and thus thermally decomposing the polysaccharide to thereby give a gaseous sugar anhydride, without forming a char or with forming a filmy char, and without generating carbon monoxide or with regulating the generation amount of carbon monoxide, if any, to not more than 5 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the absolute dry mass of the polysaccharide; and (3) a collection step for cooling the gaseous sugar anhydride to a temperature equal to or lower than the boiling point thereof and then collecting the same. According to this method, a sugar anhydride can be easily produced at a high yield.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film disposed above the semiconductor substrate, a temperature detecting element disposed on the insulating film, and an anode side region and a cathode side region respectively located on an anode side and a cathode side of the temperature detecting element. The anode side region or the cathode side region includes one or more capacitance elements, and a sum of capacitance values of the capacitance elements is larger than a capacitance value of the temperature detecting element.

Abstract: Provided is an image heating apparatus including: a heater having a plurality of heating elements arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material; and a control portion that controls electric power to be supplied to the plurality of heating elements and is capable of individually controlling the plurality of heating elements, the image heating apparatus heating an image formed on the recording material with heat by the heater, wherein the control portion sets a heating condition when controlling each of the plurality of heating elements, according to the thermal history of a heating region heated by one heating element and the thermal history of a heating region heated by a heating element adjacent to the one heating element.

Abstract: A granular material for a fused deposition three-dimensional printer that enables a flexible molded object to be manufactured with high precision. A granular material for a fused deposition three-dimensional printer is provided. The granular material is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer, and the thermoplastic elastomer has, at at least one of the measurement temperature of 120 to 270° C., a loss tangent tan ? of 0.40 or more and a loss modulus G? of 11000 Pa or less, which are measured with a rotary rheometer having a pair of parallel plates with a diameter of 20 mm and a measurement gap of 1.3 mm at a frequency of 1 Hz.

Abstract: Provided is an image heating apparatus including: a heater having a plurality of heating elements arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material; and a control portion that controls electric power to be supplied to the plurality of heating elements and is capable of individually controlling the plurality of heating elements, the image heating apparatus heating an image formed on the recording material with heat by the heater, wherein the control portion sets a heating condition when controlling each of the plurality of heating elements, according to the thermal history of a heating region heated by one heating element and the thermal history of a heating region heated by a heating element adjacent to the one heating element.

Abstract: A roller used in a fixing device includes a rubber layer including a plurality of void portions, pore passage portions connecting the void portions, and a filler, wherein an aspect ratio RA of the filler is 2.5?RA?215, and a linear expansion coefficient of the rubber layer is less than or equal to 400×10?6/K.

Abstract: A method for producing a fluoropolyether group-containing compound, which includes reacting a fluoropolyether group-containing compound (A) represented by the formula (1) with a compound (C) represented by any of the formulae (c1) to (c4) in the presence of a metal catalyst including at least one selected from Pd, Cu, Ni, Pt, and Ag. The symboles are as defined herein.

Abstract: A method for producing a fluoropolyether group-containing compound, which includesreacting a fluoropolyether group-containing compound (A) represented by the following formula: X11—(R11)n11—RF1—X12??(1) in the presence of a metal catalyst to form a fluoropolyether group-containing compound (B) containing two or more moieties derived from the fluoropolyether group-containing compound (A). Each of the above symbols is as defined in the description.