Abstract: To allow simplification of the operating mechanism for automatic charging of auxiliary material, thus enabling compactization/simplification of the automatic bread making machine as well as increased readiness of its cleaning. An auxiliary material accommodating container detachably attachable to an automatic bread making machine. The container includes a base body 31, a first accommodating section 31a, a second accommodating section 31b, a first opening/closing member (a lid member 32 and a frame member 33) and a second opening/closing member (a yeast lid member 34). The first accommodating section 31a and the second accommodating section 31b accommodate auxiliary materials to be charged to bread. The first opening/closing member is pivotable relative to the base body 31 about a pivot axis G to open/close the first accommodating section 31a. The second opening/closing member is pivotable relative to the base body 31 about the pivot axis G to open/close the second accommodating section 31b.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to potentiate the photodynamic effect in ALA-PDT and ALA-PDD. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical related to a combination of ALAs and a dynamin inhibitor.

Abstract: A power-factor correcting converter includes: a series circuit including a first higher-potential switch and a first lower-potential switch connected in series to each other; and another series circuit including a second higher-potential switch and a second lower-potential switch connected in series to each other. In a positive phase period of the input AC voltage, a control circuit turns off the second higher-potential switch, turns on the second lower-potential switch, and alternately turns on and off the first lower-potential switch as a master switch and the first higher-potential switch as a slave switch. In a negative phase period of the input AC voltage, the control circuit reverses the on/off operation and the master/slave relationship, and turns on and off only the master switch and turns off the slave switch when the absolute value of the input AC voltage is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An alternating current-direct current (AC-DC) converter includes: an input AC power supply that outputs an input AC voltage; a step-up converter that converts the input AC voltage into an output DC voltage to be outputted from an output capacitor; and an inrush current suppressing circuit. The inrush current suppressing circuit includes: an inrush current suppressing resistor provided on a path through which a current from the input AC power supply flows to charge the output capacitor and returns to the input AC power supply; a resistance short-circuiting switch that short-circuits the inrush current suppressing resistor; and a control circuit that generates a signal for turning off the resistance short-circuiting switch when an absolute value of the input AC voltage is higher than the output DC voltage.

Abstract: An advantageous effect of a low-pass filter that reduces high-frequency noise can be obtained by including an input terminal that extends from a front surface to a rear surface of a multilayer circuit board including a double-sided circuit board; a first wiring conductor having an end connected to the input terminal on the rear surface of the multilayer circuit board; a first via that extends from an other end of the first wiring conductor to the front surface of the multilayer circuit board; a second wiring conductor having an end connected to the first via on the front surface of the multilayer circuit board; and a first input capacitor disposed on the second wiring conductor; by being conductive due to the input terminal and the first via being configured in series; and including the first input capacitor.

Abstract: Provided is a tip seal for a scroll compressor capable of reducing a frictional force between scroll members and the tip seal and contributing to energy saving of the scroll compressor while maintaining the sealing performance. A tip seal 1 in a spiral shape for sealing a compression chamber formed between a fixed scroll and a movable scroll in a scroll compressor provided with the fixed scroll and the movable scroll serving as the scroll members has a plurality of concave parts 4 formed by partially notching a sliding surface 5 on the sliding surface 5 for the scroll members, the concave parts 4 are arranged on at least one of a spiral inner peripheral surface 1b and a spiral outer peripheral surface 1a, and each of the concave parts 4 opens to the inner peripheral surface 1b or the outer peripheral surface 1a and also does not penetrate through the inner peripheral surface 1b or the outer peripheral surface 1a.

Abstract: A switching circuit includes: a drive power supply; a first transistor and a second transistor; a drive signal source; and a drive circuit. Each of the first transistor and the second transistor includes: a drain electrode and a source electrode in which a main current flows when a corresponding one of the first transistor and the second transistor is ON; a first source terminal for passing the main current; and a second source terminal. Here, the first source terminal is connected to the source electrode at an impedance lower than an impedance of the second source terminal.

Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet light sensor unit according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a mirror configured to reflect extreme ultraviolet light, a filter configured to transmit the extreme ultraviolet light reflected by the mirror, an optical sensor configured to detect the extreme ultraviolet light having passed through the filter, a purge gas supply unit disposed to supply purge gas to a space between the mirror and the filter, and a pipe part configured to allow plasma light including the extreme ultraviolet light entering from an opening to pass therethrough toward the mirror and allow the purge gas flowing to the space between the mirror and the filter to flow out of the opening.

Abstract: An alternating current-direct current (AC-DC) converter includes: an input AC power supply that outputs an input AC voltage; a step-up converter that converts the input AC voltage into an output DC voltage to be outputted from an output capacitor; and an inrush current suppressing circuit. The inrush current suppressing circuit includes: an inrush current suppressing resistor provided on a path through which a current from the input AC power supply flows to charge the output capacitor and returns to the input AC power supply; a resistance short-circuiting switch that short-circuits the inrush current suppressing resistor; and a control circuit that generates a signal for turning off the resistance short-circuiting switch when an absolute value of the input AC voltage is higher than the output DC voltage.

Abstract: A power-factor correcting converter includes: a series circuit including a first higher-potential switch and a first lower-potential switch connected in series to each other; and another series circuit including a second higher-potential switch and a second lower-potential switch connected in series to each other. In a positive phase period of the input AC voltage, a control circuit turns off the second higher-potential switch, turns on the second lower-potential switch, and alternately turns on and off the first lower-potential switch as a master switch and the first higher-potential switch as a slave switch. In a negative phase period of the input AC voltage, the control circuit reverses the on/off operation and the master/slave relationship, and turns on and off only the master switch and turns off the slave switch when the absolute value of the input AC voltage is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: A target storage device may include a tank configured to store a target that generates extreme ultraviolet light when being irradiated with laser light, a heater connected with the tank and configured to heat the tank, and a radiation member disposed to cover at least a part of the tank connected with the heater and configured to reflect heat radiation from the tank and the heater toward the tank.

Abstract: Provided is a slurry composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery positive electrode that has excellent stability and enables formation of a positive electrode mixed material layer that causes a non-aqueous secondary battery to display excellent output characteristics. The slurry composition contains a positive electrode active material and a copolymer. The proportion constituted by nickel among transition metal in the positive electrode active material is at least 30.0 mol % and not more than 100.0 mol %. The copolymer includes a nitrile group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of at least 70.0 mass % and not more than 96.0 mass % and a basic group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of at least 0.1 mass % and not more than 5.0 mass %.

Abstract: A technique for ensuring the coatability of a slurry composition and also enabling an electrochemical device to exhibit excellent high-voltage cycle characteristics is provided. A binder particle aggregate for an electrochemical device electrode comprises a plurality of binder particles that contain a polymer including 75.0 mol % or more and 99.5 mol % or less of a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, wherein a pore content ratio of the plurality of binder particles is 60% or more.

Abstract: A switching circuit includes: a drive power supply; a first transistor and a second transistor; a drive signal source; and a drive circuit. Each of the first transistor and the second transistor includes: a drain electrode and a source electrode in which a main current flows when a corresponding one of the first transistor and the second transistor is ON; a first source terminal for passing the main current; and a second source terminal. Here, the first source terminal is connected to the source electrode at an impedance lower than an impedance of the second source terminal.

Abstract: A nozzle part dropping a slurry and a rotary disk centrifugally spraying the slurry to be dropped from the nozzle part are included. The rotary disk includes a plurality of grooves stretching in a radiation direction at least in a periphery part of a surface on which the slurry is sprayed.

Abstract: A disclosed binder composition comprises a copolymer which comprises a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, an acidic group-containing monomer unit and a basic group-containing monomer unit, wherein the proportion of the nitrile group-containing monomer unit in the copolymer is 70.0 mol % or more and 99.0 mol % or less, and wherein the total proportion of the acidic group-containing monomer unit and the basic group-containing monomer unit in the copolymer is 0.8 mol % or more and 10.0 mol % or less.

Abstract: A transverse internal gear pump 1 having a trochoid 4, in which an inner rotor 3 having a plurality of outer teeth is rotatably accommodated within an outer rotor 2 having a plurality of inner teeth, the inner rotor being rotatably accommodated within the outer rotor in an eccentric state and with the outer teeth and the inner teeth meshing, and in which an intake-side volume chamber for taking in a liquid and an ejection-side volume chamber for ejecting liquid taken into the intake-side volume chamber are formed between the inner teeth and the outer teeth; a liquid intake nozzle 9 extending in a non-perpendicular direction with respect to the trochoid rotation surfaces and having a distal end immersed in a liquid reservoir 18; a pump casing 5 in which a recessed portion 5a for accommodating the trochoid is formed; and a pump cover 6.

Abstract: A switching circuit includes: a drive power supply; a first transistor and a second transistor; a drive signal source; and a drive circuit. Each of the first transistor and the second transistor includes: a drain electrode and a source electrode in which a main current flows when a corresponding one of the first transistor and the second transistor is ON; a first source terminal for passing the main current; and a second source terminal. Here, the first source terminal is connected to the source electrode at an impedance lower than an impedance of the second source terminal.

Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet light sensor unit according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a mirror configured to reflect extreme ultraviolet light, a filter configured to transmit the extreme ultraviolet light reflected by the mirror, an optical sensor configured to detect the extreme ultraviolet light having passed through the filter, a purge gas supply unit disposed to supply purge gas to a space between the mirror and the filter, and a pipe part configured to allow plasma light including the extreme ultraviolet light entering from an opening to pass therethrough toward the mirror and allow the purge gas flowing to the space between the mirror and the filter to flow out of the opening.

Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus may include: a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated from plasma generated by irradiating a target supplied into the chamber with a laser beam; a target generator that supplies the target into the chamber as a droplet; a droplet measurement unit that measures the droplet supplied from the target generator into the chamber; and a shielding member that shields the droplet measurement unit from electromagnetic waves emitted from the plasma, the droplet measurement unit including: a light source that emits continuous light to the droplet; a window provided in the chamber to allow the continuous light to transmit therethrough; and an optical sensor that receives the continuous light via the window. The shielding member includes a shielding body provided on the chamber side with respect to the window and configured to cover an optical path of the continuous light.