Abstract: At a contact step in a tool radius adjusting method, a reference portion of a movable body provided radially movably on a housing of a boring tool and a position adjusting reference member fixed on a machine tool are brought into contact by sliding the movable body relative to the housing so that the position of a cutting blade comes to a predetermined position in a direction to go away from a rotational axis. Then, at an adjusting step, the position of the cutting blade relative to the rotational axis is adjusted by changing the relative position between a tool spindle holding the boring tool and the position adjusting reference member in a direction to come close to each other by drive mechanisms of the machine tool used for positioning a spindle head with the tool spindle relative to a workpiece in machining the workpiece with the cutting blade.

Abstract: Inorganic phosphor-containing polymer particles that include an inorganic phosphor and a transparent material. The transparent material is preferably a vinyl resin that is a polymer of a vinyl compound. It is preferable that the vinyl compound includes 10% by mass or more of a vinyl compound having a viscosity (at 25° C.) of from 5 mPa·s to 30 mPa·s, or includes at least one of a compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (I-1) or the following Formula (I-2). In Formulae (I-1) and (1-2), each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. R1 and R2 may be linked to each other to form a ring. The inorganic phosphor is preferably surface-modified with a surface treatment agent, more preferably surface-modified with a coupling agent, still more preferably surface-modified with a silicone oligomer having a reactive substituent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wavelength conversion-type photovoltaic cell sealing material, the sealing material including at least one light emitting layer containing a group of spherical phosphors, the group of spherical phosphors having a ratio of a median value D50 of the group of spherical phosphors to a total thickness t of the light emitting layer of from 0.1 to 1.0, where the median value D50 is a median value of a volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors, and an integrated value N of a number particle size distribution from D25 to D75 of the group of spherical phosphors being 5% or more, when D25 is a particle size value at 25% of an integrated value of the volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors and D75 is a particle size value at 75% of the integrated value of the volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors; and a photovoltaic cell module including the sealing material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wavelength conversion-type photovoltaic cell sealing material, the sealing material including at least one light emitting layer containing a group of spherical phosphors, the group of spherical phosphors having a ratio of a median value D50 of the group of spherical phosphors to a total thickness t of the light emitting layer of from 0.1 to 1.0, where the median value D50 is a median value of a volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors, and an integrated value N of a number particle size distribution from D25 to D75 of the group of spherical phosphors being 5% or more, when D25 is a particle size value at 25% of an integrated value of the volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors and D75 is a particle size value at 75% of the integrated value of the volume particle size distribution of the group of spherical phosphors; and a photovoltaic cell module including the sealing material.

Abstract: A spherical phosphor includes a fluorescent substance having a maximum excitation wavelength of 400 nm or longer; and a transparent material containing the fluorescent substance, in which, in an excitation spectrum, an excitation spectral intensity in a wavelength region of from 340 nm to 380 nm is 50% or higher of an excitation spectral intensity at a maximum excitation wavelength. A wavelength conversion-type photovoltaic cell sealing material includes a light-permeable resin composition layer that contains the spherical phosphor and a sealing resin.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion type photovoltaic cell sealing material according to the present invention includes a first sealing layer that contains no fluorescent substance and a second sealing layer that contains a fluorescent substance. This wavelength conversion type photovoltaic cell sealing material is used as one of the light transmissive layers of a photovoltaic cell module and is disposed at a light receiving surface side of a solar cell.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion type photovoltaic cell sealing sheet of the present invention includes a dispersion medium resin, and a fluorescent material having an absorption wavelength peak at from 300 to 450 nm, wherein a content of an ultraviolet absorber other than the fluorescent substance is 0.15 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the dispersion medium resin. Furthermore, a photovoltaic cell module of the present invention has a photovoltaic cell and the wavelength conversion type photovoltaic cell sealing sheet.

Abstract: A wavelength-converting resin composition for a photovoltaic cell, comprising: a fluorescent substance having a maximum absorption wavelength in an absorbance spectrum of which being ?max (nm); resin particles; and a dispersion medium resin, wherein a value of A1 (?), which is represented by the following Equation 1, at the maximum absorption wavelength ?max (nm) is 3.0×10?4 (O.D.

Abstract: A spherical phosphor is formed by including a fluorescent substance and a transparent material including the fluorescent substance. In addition, a wavelength conversion-type photovoltaic cell sealing material is formed by including a light transmissive resin composition layer including the spherical phosphor and a sealing resin.

Abstract: At a contact step in a tool radius adjusting method, a reference portion of a movable body provided radially movably on a housing of a boring tool and a position adjusting reference member fixed on a machine tool are brought into contact by sliding the movable body relative to the housing so that the position of a cutting blade comes to a predetermined position in a direction to go away from a rotational axis. Then, at an adjusting step, the position of the cutting blade relative to the rotational axis is adjusted by changing the relative position between a tool spindle holding the boring tool and the position adjusting reference member in a direction to come close to each other by drive mechanisms of the machine tool used for positioning a spindle head with the tool spindle relative to a workpiece in machining the workpiece with the cutting blade.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a low concentration gas. In the method, a measurand gas containing the target gas in a concentration of 50 ppm or less is supplied to an oscillation element which contains a quartz crystal resonator and a zeolite including a metal complex (such as a zeolite including a cobalt phthalocyanine complex) present on or above the quartz crystal resonator. The target gas is then detected through a change in resonance frequency of the quartz crystal resonator, the change being caused by the adsorption of the target gas by the metal-complex-including zeolite.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting a low concentration gas. In the method, a measurand gas containing the target gas in a concentration of 50 ppm or less is supplied to an oscillation element which contains a quartz crystal resonator and a zeolite including a metal complex (such as a zeolite including a cobalt phthalocyanine complex) present on or above the quartz crystal resonator. The target gas is then detected through a change in resonance frequency of the quartz crystal resonator, the change being caused by the adsorption of the target gas by the metal-complex-including zeolite.