Abstract: A fixing device includes a pressure member, and a holder. The pressure member forms a pressure area between the pressure member and a fixing belt. The holder is provided inside the fixing belt, has a sliding surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt via a lubricant, and holds a heater for heating the fixing belt. The holder includes a plurality of slits and a blocking portion. The plurality of slits are arranged in an axial direction on the sliding surface upstream of the pressure area in a passing direction of a medium and guide movement of the lubricant from upstream to downstream in a rotational direction of the fixing belt. The blocking portion restricts an outflow of the lubricant from each of the slits and restricts a fall of the fixing belt into each of the slits.

Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains granular oxides, an average grain size of the granular oxides is 300 nm or less, a number density of granular oxides is 4.0/?m2 or more, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer not containing oxides at the ½ position of the thickness are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at the sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition, particularly a compound suitable for preventing and/or treating an inflammatory disease and/or a neurodegenerative disease. The present inventors accomplished the present invention by conducting intensive studies to find a compound having an inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation, with the result that a substituted triazine compound is found to have the inhibitory effect on NLRP3 inflammasome activation. The substituted triazine compound of the present invention is expected to serve as a preventive and/or therapeutic drug for an inflammatory disease and/or a neurodegenerative disease.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to quickly stabilize a light amount of an LED light source device used in absorbance analysis and to suppress the fluctuation of the temperature due to disturbance. In an LED light source device according to the present invention, an LED substrate is disposed on a spacer, the substrate and the spacer are brought into contact with at least one of a device housing and a device lid, and a thermal conductivity of the substrate and a thermal conductivity of the spacer are higher than a thermal conductivity of the housing and a thermal conductivity of the lid.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes an active matrix substrate including a gate driver circuit, a demultiplexer circuit, and a gate switch circuit. The active matrix substrate includes a non-display region and a testing terminal region located outside the non-display region, has first and second in-panel testing terminals in the non-display region, and has first and second out-panel testing terminals in the testing terminal region. The second out-panel testing terminal is connected to the gate driver circuit. The first out-panel testing terminal is connected to the demultiplexer circuit. The second in-panel testing terminal is connected to the gate switch circuit. The first in-panel testing terminal is connected to the demultiplexer circuit.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an automatic analyzer in which an adjustment accuracy of a cleaning liquid amount is improved by detecting a change in a cleaning water amount with high sensitivity. The automatic analyzer according to the invention includes a dispensing mechanism including a dispensing probe configured to dispense a sample or a reagent into a reaction container, a cleaning nozzle configured to discharge a cleaning liquid to the dispensing probe, and a control unit configured to control the dispensing mechanism. A height of the cleaning liquid discharged from the cleaning nozzle is detected at plural positions at which horizontal distances from the cleaning nozzle are different, so as to determine a discharging state of the cleaning liquid, and at least one of the plural positions is farther from the cleaning nozzle than a cleaning position of the dispensing probe.

Abstract: A first piston, a first cylinder chamber, a second cylinder chamber, and a second piston are provided to be arranged side by side along a first direction from a base body side toward a fixation-target object side in an order of the first piston, the first cylinder chamber, the second cylinder chamber, and the second piston.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer has a reagent carrying mechanism capable of reducing a burden on an operator, which can reduce degradation in throughput of the device and an installation area to be smaller compared to the related art. The automatic analyzer includes a plurality of reagent dispensing mechanisms that dispense a reagent from a reagent bottle into a reaction container. A plurality of reagent disks store the reagent bottles. The reagent carrying-in positions are provided in the respective reagent disks to put in the reagent bottles to the respective reagent disks. A carrying mechanism that carries the reagent bottles between the respective reagent carrying-in positions and a reagent bottle gripping position, in which when an automatic analyzer is viewed from a vertically upper side, the reagent bottle gripping position being positioned between the reagent carrying-in positions on a device front side of the automatic analyzer.

Abstract: To continuously monitor a tilt amount of an automatic analyzer without affecting an analysis operation. An automatic analyzer includes a plural number of adjuster feet 37 arranged on a frame bottom surface 72a and supporting a frame 70, a mechanism base 35 supported by a frame upper surface 72b, a tilt sensor 60 arranged on the mechanism base, and an analysis unit 45 determining whether a tilt amount of the mechanism base based on sensing data from the tilt sensor exceeds an allowable amount, in which the tilt sensor is arranged at a position not overlapping with the adjuster foot in top view.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing, two reinforcing brackets that are incorporated in both respective end portions in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and terminals that are arranged on and held by the housing between the two reinforcing brackets. The housing includes an island-shaped portion, a peripheral wall, and an accommodating concave portion that is formed between the peripheral wall and the island-shaped portion so as to accommodate a fitting portion of a mating connector. Each of the reinforcing brackets includes a protection portion, a guide portion, and a spring strip. The spring strip is formed in a cantilever shape, and the spring strip is positioned on an inner side compared to the protection portion in the longitudinal direction of the housing. A concave portion that allows elastic deformation of the spring strip is formed on a side surface of the island-shaped portion.

Abstract: To provide an automatic analyzer and a sample aspiration method in an automatic analyzer capable of analyzing a sample of further minute amount compared than before. In aspirating the sample, a sample dispensing mechanism 13, 14 is controlled so as to detect the liquid level L1, to thereafter allow a dispensing probe 13a, 14a of the sample dispensing mechanism 13, 14 to be dropped and stopped below the liquid level L1, to thereafter allow the dispensing probe 13a, 14a of the sample dispensing mechanism 13, 14 to be elevated and stopped, and to thereafter allow the dispensing probe 13a, 14a of the sample dispensing mechanism 13, 14 to be further dropped while aspirating the sample.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coat film having excellent adhesion to a hard coat layer when a cycloolefin polymer film is used as a base material. The hard coat film of the present invention comprises a hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin laminated on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer base film through a primer layer. This primer layer contains a modified polyolefin resin in which a polyolefin resin is graft-modified with an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, and a (meth)acrylic acid ester. In this modified polyolefin resin, the graft weight of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof is 0.4 to 7 wt. % when the amount of the modified polyolefin resin is taken as 100 wt. %.

Abstract: Provided is an additive for an electroplating solution, including a reaction product of at least one kind of epoxy compound (a1) represented by the general formula (1) and at least one kind of tertiary amine compound (a2): where L1 and L2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or a group represented by any one of the general formulae (L-1) to (L-3), and n represents an integer of from 1 to 5: where m1 to m3 each independently represent an integer of from 1 to 5, and * represents a bonding site.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer includes a dispensing mechanism having at least one horizontal drive shaft and one vertical drive shaft for moving the dispensing nozzle, a first mechanism having a stop position at which the dispensing nozzle is stopped, and a control section for positioning the dispensing nozzle with the stop position of the first mechanism. A member is disposed on the first mechanism to indicate predetermined first and second positions of the first mechanism so that the first and the second positions are detected by sensing the member using the dispensing nozzle. Based on the displacement between the first and the second positions indicating the displacement of the relative position between the dispensing mechanism and the first mechanism, the control section calculates a correction value for correcting the displacement of the stop position caused by fluctuation in a relative position between the dispensing mechanism and the first mechanism.

Abstract: A display terminal includes circuitry to receive an operation for displaying a playback of a wide-angle view image related to a moving image recorded at a time of streaming of the moving image. The wide-angle view image has a wide viewing angle. The circuitry displays, on a display, a display area representing a predetermined area of the wide-angle view image based on viewpoint information for specifying the predetermined area, in response to receiving the operation. The predetermined area is displayed by a communication terminal at the time of streaming of the moving image.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrochemical device includes a neutralizing dispersant; and a complex oxide (A) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, wherein the neutralizing dispersant contains: a water-soluble compound (B?) containing a group 13 element (B) of the periodic table; and at least one water-soluble polymer (C) selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal salt, alkaline-earth metal salt, or ammonium salt of alginic acid, methylcellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl starch, or carrageenan, pullulan, guar gum, and xanthan gum, a film of the water-soluble polymer (C) is formed on a surface of the complex oxide (A), and the group 13 element (B) of the periodic table is present in the film of the water-soluble polymer (C).

Abstract: A hard coat film having excellent adhesion (particularly adhesion over time) to a hard coat layer when a cycloolefin polymer film is used as a base material. The hard coat film comprises a hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin laminated on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer base film via a primer layer. The primer layer has an arithmetic average surface roughness (Ra) in the range of 0.5 nm to 15.0 nm, and a surface of the primer layer has a static friction coefficient in the range of 0.6 to 2.0.

Abstract: To provide a brushless motor with a simple configuration, which has accomplished size reduction. An inner rotor brushless motor having a rotor in a center of a cylindrical stator includes: three bus bars on one end side of the stator in an axial direction thereof, the bus bars connecting three phase coils provided to the stator on a phase-by-phase basis; a bottomed tubular connector portion adjacent to a housing that houses the stator and the rotor; a plurality of connector terminals fixed, penetrating a bottom portion of the connector portion, the plurality of connector terminals being exposed to an internal space of the connector portion; and a board stretching from the one end side of the stator in the axial direction to the bottom portion side of the connector portion, the board being configured to electrically connect an end of each of the bus bars and the penetrating connector terminal.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing extending in a predetermined direction intersecting the fitting direction, a plurality of contacts held by the housing and arrayed along the predetermined direction, and a reinforcing member held at an end portion of the housing in the predetermined direction and made of a metal material, the reinforcing member having a first member and a second member, the first member including a first reinforcing portion extending in a U-shape along the end portion of the housing when viewed in the fitting direction, and a connecting portion connected to the first reinforcing portion and electrically connected to a counter reinforcing member of the counter connector, the second member being formed as a separate component from the first member and including a second reinforcing member extending in a U-shape along the first reinforcing portion when viewed in the fitting direction.

Abstract: An ink jet ink composition is a water-based ink which contains a colorant; inorganic oxide particles; a watersoluble silicate; and water, and a content of the watersoluble silicate with respect to a total mass of the ink is 0.5 percent by mass or less.