Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for continuous electrolytic treatment of a steel sheet that is suitable for producing a surface-treated steel sheet and a method for producing the surface-treated steel sheet using the apparatus for continuous electrolytic treatment of a steel sheet. The apparatus includes N pairs of tabular electrodes having a length L and being arranged to respectively face two surfaces of a steel sheet. Each electrode includes n sections arranged in the longitudinal direction of the electrode and disposed on the surface of the electrode facing the steel sheet surface. Each section is constituted by a conductive portion including an electrode portion having a length T1 and a nonconductive portion made by making an electrode portion having a length T2 nonconductive, where n×N?10, 0.96?T2/(T1+T2)?0.05, and 0.9?T1/L?0.1.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus includes a switching unit for switching between an invalid state and a valid state of an access point in the communication apparatus and a setting unit for setting, for the communication apparatus based on information acquired from the information processing apparatus to which the communication apparatus is connected via the access point in the valid state, a communication mode in which the communication apparatus can communicate with the information processing apparatus using a first connection method. The switching unit does not bring the access point into the valid state when the communication apparatus is connected to the information processing apparatus using a second connection method and is able to bring the access point into the valid state when the communication apparatus is not connected to the information processing apparatus using the second connection method.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring a clotting time, including: a mixing step of mixing a blood sample, an activator, a phospholipid, and a manganese ion-forming compound to obtain a specimen; and a measurement step of mixing the specimen obtained in the mixing step with a calcium salt to prepare a measurement specimen and measuring the clotting time of the measurement specimen, wherein the blood sample is mixed with the manganese ion-forming compound separately from the activator and the phospholipid in the mixing step.

Abstract: Provided is a thermally efficient Stirling cycle engine including: a casing; a cylinder housed within the casing; a piston reciprocatable inside said cylinder; a displacer reciprocatable with a phase difference relative to the piston; a compression chamber defined between the piston and the displacer; an expansion chamber arranged on a first side of the displacer with a second side thereof opposite to the compression chamber; a heat exhausting unit arranged in the neighborhood of the compression chamber; a heat absorbing unit arranged in the neighborhood of the expansion chamber; a regenerator arranged between the heat exhausting unit and the heat absorbing unit; and a heat exhausting chamber defined between an outer surface of the casing and an inner surface of the heat exhausting unit, said heat exhausting chamber in communication with the compression chamber and the regenerator respectively through a first passage and a second passage provided in the casing.

Abstract: A library device includes: a housing having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, the housing having a first surface and a second surface differing from each other; a first track that is provided within the housing, the first track extending along the first surface; a second track that is provided within the housing, the second track extending along the second surface, the second track being parallel with the first track; and an accessor device that includes a first portion engaging with the first track, and a second portion engaging with the second track.

Abstract: Provided is a therapeutic agent capable of treating allergic rhinitis in a safe, simple, and noninvasive manner substantially without side effects and physical distress to patients. Provided is a therapeutic agent for allergic rhinitis for 5-aminolevulinic acid-based photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT) comprising 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or a derivative thereof, or a salt of the 5-aminolevulinic acid or the derivative as an active ingredient, and used in ALA-PDT in which light having a wavelength of 400 nm to 700 nm is irradiated; and particularly provided is a therapeutic agent for allergic rhinitis in a locally applied solution form, a water-soluble ointment-dissolved form, a jelly-dissolved form, or the like.

Abstract: An acceleration sensor can ensure rigidity of its movable electrode despite a large number of through-holes formed in the movable electrode. The acceleration sensor has an SOI substrate in which a silicon oxide layer is formed on a silicon support layer and an active silicon layer is formed on the silicon oxide layer, wherein the active silicon layer of the SOI substrate has a movable electrode supported by elastic beams and configured with a weight, and also has fixed electrodes disposed in a fixed manner around the movable electrode to face the movable electrode, and wherein through-holes penetrating in a Z-axis direction are formed over the entire surface on the inner side of an outer circumference to which the elastic beams of the movable electrode are connected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reagent for assaying D-dimer which includes carriers sensitized to first and second monoclonal antibodies which react with D-dimer, but have different reactivity to D-dimer in which the first monoclonal antibody reacts with high- and low-molecular fractions of D-dimer, the second monoclonal antibody reacts with the high-molecular fraction, but reactivity of the second monoclonal antibody with the low-molecular fraction is different from that of the first monoclonal antibody and a kit of reagent for assaying D-dimer.

Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein a work management program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving information that specifies a start time and an end time of work; receiving audio data or video data that includes an obtaining time thereof; identifying among the received audio data or video data, audio data or video data for which the obtaining time is between the start time and the end time specified by the received information; and displaying at an area that corresponds to a time interval demarcated by the start time and the end time, a symbol that corresponds to the identified audio data or video data.

Abstract: A steel sheet for containers that has excellent film adhesion qualities, and has a Zr compound film formed thereupon by immersion in or electrolytic treatment with a solution containing Zr ions, F ions, and hydroxylic acid, the Zr compound film being applied in an amount such that the metal Zr content is 0.1-100 mg/m2 and the F content is no more than 0.1 mg/m2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement apparatus for measuring a shape of an object using pattern light, comprising a light source having a structure including a reflecting portion for reflecting light, a mask including a pattern region which includes reflecting regions for reflecting light, and configured to generate the pattern light, an optical system arranged between the light source and the mask, wherein the light source, the optical system, and the mask are arranged so that light emitted from the light source is incident on the reflecting region via the optical system, is reflected by the reflecting region to return to the light source via the optical system, and then is reflected by the reflecting portion of the light source to enter the transmitting region via the optical system.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive switch includes a first substrate, a conductive structure provided on the first substrate, and an electrode unit disposed to face the first substrate with the conductive structure located therebetween. The conductive structure includes an electrode layer on the first substrate, and an elastic component having conductivity and extending to protrude from the electrode layer toward the electrode unit.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive switch includes a first substrate, a conductive structure provided on the first substrate, and an electrode unit disposed to face the first substrate with the conductive structure interposed therebetween. The conductive structure includes an elastic component extending to protrude from the first substrate toward the electrode unit, and an electrode layer covering the elastic component.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a control unit configured, when the communication apparatus is in a first state and when a receiving unit receives a request, from an external device, for data for a predetermined screen that is among a plurality of screens for remotely using the communication apparatus, not to execute control for delaying execution of a shifting process, and when the communication apparatus is in the first state and when the receiving unit receives a request, from the external device, for data for display of a screen that is not the predetermined screen and that is among a plurality of screens for remotely using the communication apparatus, to execute the control for delaying execution of the shifting process.

Abstract: A sensor comprising: a mass element; a frame surrounding the mass element; a connecting body having flexibility, and connecting the mass element to the frame; a pressure detecting unit; and an acceleration detecting unit. The mass element comprises: a main portion comprising a through-hole passing therethrough from the top surface to the bottom surface; a mounting portion connected to the top surface of the main portion, and surrounding an outer periphery of the through-hole; a first cover portion having flexibility, connected to the mounting portion and covering the through-hole; and a second cover portion, disposed on the bottom surface of the main portion, covering the through-hole, and deformable less than the first cover portion when received an external force.

Abstract: An audio video display device (AVDD) can present recorded content that can be paused. During pausing, ancillary AV content is shown until such time as a play or other signal is received.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for a steel material includes carbonitriding, quenching, and tempering. The steel material consists of, by weight %, 0.27 to 0.48% of C, 0.01 to 2.2% of Si, 0.30 to 1.0% of Mn, not more than 0.035% of P, not more than 0.035% of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The carbonitriding step is performed by heating the steel at a temperature of not less than the A3 point and not more than 1100° C. and bringing the steel into contact with a mixed gas atmosphere so as to concentrate nitrogen and carbon at a surface layer of the steel. The quenching step is performed by cooling the steel to room temperature at a rate of not less than 20° C./second. The tempering step is performed by heating the steel at a temperature of 100 to 400° C.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for steel sheets for containers produces steel sheets with excellent film adhesion qualities. This steel sheet for containers has, on a steel sheet, a chemical conversion coating with a metal Zr content of 1-100 mg/m2, a P content of 0.1-50 mg/m2, and an F content of no more than 0.1 mg/m2, upon which is formed a phenolic resin layer with a C content of 0.1-50 mg/m2. Moreover, the manufacturing method for steel sheets for containers is a method for obtaining the steel sheet for containers wherein the chemical conversion coating is formed on the steel sheet by subjecting the steel sheet to immersion in or electrolytic treatment with a treatment solution containing Zr ions, phosphoric acid ions, and F ions; and subsequently, the steel sheet upon which the chemical conversion coating has been formed is immersed in, or undergoes topical application of, an aqueous solution containing phenolic resin, then dried.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring clotting time including: preparing a measurement sample by mixing a blood specimen suspected to contain a lupus anticoagulant, an activator, and a divalent-metal-ion-producing compound for facilitating formation of a phospholipid-containing complex; and measuring a clotting time after adding, to the measurement sample, an aqueous solution of a calcium salt as a coagulation initiator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tin-plated steel sheet includes forming an Sn-containing plating layer on at least one surface of a steel sheet so that the mass per unit area of Sn is 0.05 to 20 g/m2; forming a first chemical conversion coating by immersing the steel sheet in a first chemical conversion solution containing tetravalent tin ions and phosphate ions or cathodically electrolyzing the steel sheet in the first chemical conversion solution; forming a second chemical conversion coating after forming the first chemical conversion coating without drying the steel sheet by immersing the steel sheet in a second chemical conversion solution containing 5 to 200 g/L of aluminum phosphate monobasic and having a pH of 1.5 to 2.4 or cathodically electrolyzing the steel sheet in the second chemical conversion solution; and drying the steel sheet.