Abstract: A substrate liquid processing method includes immersing the substrate in a processing liquid for processing the substrate, detecting a conversion point at which a processing condition of the processing the substrate is changed, and changing the processing condition when the conversion point is detected.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller having a first end and a second end, each of the first and second ends being rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that faces the platen roller and that forms an image on a printing medium, the thermal head having a first end and a second end, a gear that is provided on the first end of the platen roller and that is rotated by a motor, the rotation of the gear causing the platen roller to rotate, and a pair of urging units that urges the first end and the second end of the platen roller or the thermal head, wherein an urging force generated by one of the pair of urging units on the first end is smaller than an urging force generated by the other of the pair of urging units on the second end.

Abstract: A microbial oil is extracted from stramenopile transformed with a gene associated with synthesis of fatty acids, the gene encoding a fatty acid desaturase. The stramenopile belongs to the class Labyrinthulomycete. The microbial oil satisfies one or more of the following requirements: (a) an amount of arachidonic acid is 7% or less based on a total amount of the fatty acid composition; (b) an amount of DPA is 9% or less based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (c) an amount of ETA is 0.04% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; (d) an amount of EPA is 7% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition; and (e) an amount of DHA is 45% or more based on the total amount of the fatty acid composition.

Abstract: A substrate processing method includes etching a substrate having a first film and a second film at a first etching rate; changing an etching rate from the first etching rate to a second etching rate; and etching the substrate at the second etching rate.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a polymer composition from which a rubber elastic body having high strength is obtained and in which excellent processability is achieved, and a tire having excellent strength.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing belt and a pressure rotator that presses against a nip formation pad via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the pressure rotator and the fixing belt. A first holder holds a first lateral end of the fixing belt in an axial direction thereof. A second holder holds a second lateral end of the fixing belt in the axial direction thereof. The second holder, together with the first holder, defines a holder interval provided between the first holder and the second holder in the axial direction of the fixing belt. A lubricant supplying sheet impregnated with a lubricant is sandwiched between the nip formation pad and the fixing belt at the fixing nip. The lubricant supplying sheet has a sheet span in the axial direction of the fixing belt. The sheet span is within the holder interval.

Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller configured to control a projection device that projects light onto a ground surface. The controller is attached to the upper turning body, and is configured to control the projection device so as to enable visualization of the relationship between the current shape of the ground surface and the shape of a target surface.

Abstract: A substrate liquid processing method includes immersing the substrate in a processing liquid for processing the substrate, detecting a conversion point at which a processing condition of the processing the substrate is changed, and changing the processing condition when the conversion point is detected.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs a process of an N-dimensional FDTD method, the information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: update a cell in a +1 direction of a predetermined coordinate of an N-dimension, store an updated value in a cache memory, and after storing the updated value, update the cell of the predetermined coordinate using the updated value stored in the cache memory.

Abstract: Provided is a method that can produce an inexpensive rubber composition capable of providing a rubber elastic body having high strength. A method for producing a rubber composition of the present invention includes steps of: (A) kneading a component containing at least a highly saturated conjugated diene-based polymer and a crosslinking agent component; (B) kneading a component containing at least a conjugated diene-based polymer other than the highly saturated conjugated diene-based polymer; and (C) kneading an intermediate composition (a) obtained in the step (A) and an intermediate composition (b) obtained in the step (B).

Abstract: Substrates can be suppressed from being separated from supporting grooves. A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit and a processing tub. The substrate holding unit is configured to hold multiple substrates. The processing tub is configured to store a processing liquid therein. The substrate holding unit includes a supporting body, an elevating device and a restriction unit. The supporting body has multiple supporting grooves and is configured to support the multiple substrates with a vertically standing posture from below in the multiple supporting grooves, respectively. The elevating device is configured to move the supporting body between a standby position above the processing tub and a processing position within the processing tub. The restriction unit is configured to be moved up and down along with the supporting body by the elevating device and configured to restrict an upward movement of the substrates with respect to the supporting body.

Abstract: A metal treating composition comprising at least a specific type of dissolved and/or dispersed organic resin, a dissolved vanadium compound in which the valence of vanadium is from 3 to 5, and a dissolved compound that contains at least one of the metals Zr, Ti, Mo, W, Mn, and Ce can provide metal surfaces with superior corrosion resistance, alkali resistance, and fingerprint resistance. The composition contains no chromium to cause pollution problems and/or require pollution abatement.

Abstract: A metal treating composition comprising at least a specific type of dissolved and/or dispersed organic resin, a dissolved vanadium compound in which the valence of vanadium is from 3 to 5, and a dissolved compound that contains at least one of the metals Zr, Ti, Mo, W, Mn, and Ce can provide metal surfaces with superior corrosion resistance, alkali resistance, and fingerprint resistance. The composition contains no chromium to cause pollution problems and/or require pollution abatement.

Abstract: A water-based autodepositing coating composition that contains dissolved and/or dispersed anionic polyester resin comprising the condensate of (a) a polyhydric alcohol component and (b) an acid component in addition to acid, and metal ions and/or other oxidizing agents provides a coating composition that can impart an excellent corrosion resistance, adherence, and heat resistance to metal surfaces when applied to the metal surfaces and dried into place thereon, preferably with the use of heat. A rinse is usually preferably interposed between the application of the autodepositing composition and the drying operation.

Abstract: A resin coating is formed on a metal surface using an aqueous autodepositing resin composition that contains oxidizing agent, acid, and carboxyl-functional and/or hydroxyl-functional water-dispersible or water-soluble resin and, optionally, metal ions; the resulting coating, while still in its uncured condition, is subject to post-treatment with an aqueous solution containing from 0.5 to 5.0 g/L of amine and from 10 to 100 g/L (solids) of water-soluble amino resin molecules that bear at least two alkoxymethylamino, methylolamino, and/or imino groups; and the coating is then dried and cured. This provides a highly anticorrosive coating on the metal, and contrary to an analogous process in which the post-treatment solution contains amino resin but not amine, the post-treatment solution remains stable and provides continuing high quality coating performance even after a considerable amount of metal surface per unit volume of post-treatment solution has been processed.

Abstract: An effective electrically insulating film on the surface of a metal object, such as a common type of electric motor core assembly, in which the surface includes an interior comer on which insulation is desired, can be formed by autodeposition with an adequate thickness in the interior corner without need for excessive thickness on other parts of the surface that are more readily covered by prior art methods of applying an insulating coating. If the autodeposition composition used includes as its primary film-forming component a copolymer of certain acrylic monomers, a very high volume resistivity can be achieved.

Abstract: The uniformity of gloss of a dried autodeposited resin film on a metal surface can be increased by rinsing the wet autodeposited film initially formed with an aqueous modifying rinse having a pH from 6 to 11 and comprising from 0.2 to 10.0 g/L in total of polymers of carboxylic acid monomers having an ethylenic double bond and salts thereof.

Abstract: A water-borne autodepositing coating composition that has a pH of 1.6 to 5 and contains as essential components a water-dispersible or water-soluble organic coating-forming resin, a liquid dispersion of carbon black, acid, and oxidizing agent, and that may contain metal ions as an optional component, has an excellent storage stability and produces a strongly adherent and highly corrosion-resistant coating when the liquid dispersion of carbon black is an aqueous dispersion in which carbon black is dispersed using as a dispersant a naphthalenesulfonate-formaldehyde condensate.

Abstract: A process for coating metal surfaces in which an uncured resin coating is formed on the surface of a metal by contacting the metal surface with an autodepositing coating composition that contains acid, oxidizing agent, and water-dispersible or water-soluble organic film-forming resin, and the uncured coating is thereafter dried, produces a strongly adherent, highly corrosion-resistant autodeposited coating when the uncured coating is brought, prior to its drying, into contact with an aqueous solution that has a pH adjusted to 7 to 11 and that contains at least one selection from the following inorganic acids and salts thereof: molybdic acid, tungstic acid, polyphosphoric acid, and polysilicic acid.

Abstract: An aqueous autodeposition coating composition that is essentially free of chromium compounds and which produces a film with a much better adherence and corrosion resistance than heretofore obtained, but which does so without a rinse treatment with a chromium-containing solution prior to film curing. The aqueous autodeposition coating composition has a pH of about 1.6 to about 5 and contains(i) water-dispersible or water-soluble organic film-forming resin;(ii) at least one of fluoride ions and flouride ions and complex fluoride ions;(iii) ions of at least one metal selected from zinc, cobalt, manganese, nickel, iron, and aluminum; and(iv) tungstate ion and/or molybdate ion.