Abstract: A brazing-sheet manufacturing method includes superposing a core-material slab on or adjacent to at least one surface of a filler-material slab to form a clad slab, the core-material slab being composed of an aluminum material and the filler-material slab being composed of an Al—Si—Mg series alloy. Then, the clad slab is hot rolled to form a clad sheet having a core material layer composed of the aluminum material of the core-material slab and a filler material layer composed of the Al—Si—Mg series alloy of the filler-material slab. Then, the clad sheet is subjected to one or more passes of cold rolling. Either between cold-rolling passes or after the completion of the cold rolling, a surface of the clad sheet is etched using a liquid etchant that includes one or more inorganic acids. The liquid etchant does not contain fluorine atoms.

Abstract: In an information processing device of this disclosure, a control unit acquires an operation history of an internal combustion engine vehicle for a first period. On the assumption that a first BEV is operated according to an operation schedule shown by the acquired operation history, the control unit determines whether the battery needs charging during travel of the first BEV. When it is determined that the battery needs charging during travel of the first BEV, the control unit generates first information including information about a timing of charging and a charging place and outputs the generated first information through a first terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive composition containing a polymer and an ionic liquid, in which an exudation amount of the ionic liquid is 0.002 mg/cm2 or more when an adhesive layer formed of the adhesive composition is allowed to adhere to an adherend and then is debonded after applying a voltage of 10 V for 10 seconds.

Abstract: A printing paper having a base layer, an intermediate layer, and a surface layer, the intermediate layer being arranged adjacent to the base layer and on the base layer, and the surface layer being arranged adjacent to the intermediate layer and on the intermediate layer, the base layer, the intermediate layer, and the surface layer each being a thermoplastic resin film having pores, an average pore size of the surface layer being from 0.2 to 5 ?m, an average pore size of the intermediate layer being from 5 to 70 ?m and being greater than the average pore size of the surface layer, and an average pore size of the base layer being from 70 to 200 ?m and being greater than the average pore size of the intermediate layer.

Abstract: To provide a carbon black for batteries capable of readily obtaining a positive electrode for batteries having excellent adhesiveness, and excellent output characteristics and the cycle characteristics. A carbon black for batteries, the carbon black having a BET specific surface area measured according to JIS K6217-2 C method of 100 m2/g or larger, and a surface fluorine concentration X (unit: atom %) and a surface oxygen concentration Y (unit: atom %) measured by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) satisfying the following conditions (A) and (B), 0.3?X?4.0 and??(A) 0.1?Y?3.0.

Abstract: An endoscope treatment tool includes: a forceps having a first forceps piece and a second forceps piece; and a joint. The second forceps piece includes a forceps cup, a first tooth, a second tooth, a third tooth, a fourth tooth. A length from a tip of the first tooth to a tip of the second tooth in a longitudinal direction defines a first length, a length from the tip of the first tooth to a tip of the third tooth in the longitudinal direction defines a second length, and the first length is shorter than the second length. A length from the tip of the first tooth to a tip of the fourth tooth in the longitudinal direction defines a third length and the second length is shorter than the third length.

Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes: a piezoelectric element to which a drive voltage is applied; a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged in accordance with a change of the drive voltage; and circuitry configured to: generate: a first drive waveform including first multiple pulses switchable at first switch timings; and a second drive waveform including second multiple pulses different from the first multiple pulses switchable at second switch timings, at least one the first switch timings of the first multiple pulses of the first drive waveform and at least one of the second switch timings of the second multiple pulses of the second drive waveform are the same; select first selected pulses from the first multiple pulses in the first drive waveform; and select second selected pulses from the second multiple pulses in the second drive waveform.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to construct a system in which a robot cell receives output from a laser oscillator separate from the robot cell and is irradiated with a laser beam, wherein the need for complicated wiring is obviated without introducing a safety support system such as a safety PLC. In the present invention, a safety signal from a robot cell is communicated from a robot controller to a laser oscillator, where the robot controller serves as a master unit and the laser oscillator serves as a slave unit, thereby making it possible to obviate the need for numerous wires and to carry out installation such that wiring is uncomplicated.

Abstract: A driving support device for a vehicle includes: a calculation unit that calculates a sensitivity index value for avoiding a target that is at risk of collision, based on a driving operation content of a driver of the vehicle; a determination unit that determines a driving support method to be applied to the driver, based on the sensitivity index value calculated by the calculation unit; and an execution unit that executes the driving support method determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: A control device includes a model generation unit that generates a control model that formulates a task to be executed, and a task processing unit that causes the vehicle to execute the task by performing model prediction control using the control model. Assuming that a first state space is a state space of the control model used at an execution time of the first task, and a second state space is a state space of the control model used at an execution time of the second task, the task processing unit starts to cause the vehicle to execute the second task, after executing a transition process that is a process of making a value of a state variable that is commonly included in both the first state space and the second state space within a predetermined range that is allowed at the execution time of the second task.

Abstract: When a module controller of a battery system detects an abnormality of a battery module, the module controller selects the battery module without stopping the battery module. After that, the module controller compares a current value of a current supplied to a load, with a total value of rated currents of all battery modules that are normal and that are supplying power to the load. When the current value of the current supplied to the load is greater than the total value of the rated currents of the battery modules, the module controller performs a control to stop all the battery modules. When the current value of the current supplied to the load is less than or equal to the total value of the rated currents of all the battery modules that are supplying power to the load, the module controller performs a control to stop the abnormal battery module and not to stop the normal battery modules.

Abstract: Treatment instrument includes a housing having a fixed handle to be grasped by a user, an end effector for grasping biological tissue by opening and closing, a movable handle which is rotatable with respect to the housing and moves in a direction toward or away from the fixed handle by rotating with respect to the housing, an opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing the end effector according to the rotation of the movable handle, a first fulcrum serving as a first rotation shaft for rotating the movable handle, a first slot through which the first fulcrum is inserted, a second fulcrum provided at a position different from the first fulcrum and serving as a second rotation shaft for rotating the movable handle, and a second slot through which the second fulcrum is inserted.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display on a device a flow list of flows that each include a series of processes and that have already been created; and create a flow for the device by replacing a process in a flow selected from the flow list by a user using the device with a process corresponding to device information set for the device.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antitumor agent comprising a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof that covalently binds to GTP-bound KRASG12C as an active ingredient.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing isobutylene, in which isobutylene is produced from isobutanol with a high selectivity while suppressing a decrease in the isobutanol conversion rate under pressure. In the method for producing isobutylene according to the present invention, a raw material gas containing isobutanol is brought into contact with a catalyst to produce isobutylene from isobutanol, the method including bringing the raw material gas containing isobutanol into contact with a catalyst at a linear velocity of 1.20 cm/s or more under a pressure of 120 kPa or more in terms of absolute pressure to produce isobutylene from isobutanol.

Abstract: There is provided a catalyst having an average electronegativity of 2.1 or more and 2.8 or less.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, first and second external electrodes provided on respective opposing end surfaces, and third and fourth external electrodes provided on any side surface. The internal electrode layers include first and second internal electrode layers connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, and third and fourth internal electrode layers connected to the third and fourth external electrodes, respectively. The third internal electrode layer is provided at a distance from the first internal electrode layer, and the fourth internal electrode layer is provided at a distance from the second internal electrode layer.

Abstract: There is provided a catalyst that enables the production of isobutylene with a high selectivity in the production of isobutylene by dehydration of isobutanol. The catalyst according to the present invention contains at least one metal selected from Group 6 to Group 14 metal elements in Period 4 to Period 6 of the periodic table, in alumina which includes alumina consisting of one or more crystal phases of a monoclinic crystal phase, a tetragonal crystal phase, and a cubic crystal phase.

Abstract: This invention provides a laminate sheet with release film laminated to an adhesive face that is highly thermoformable and suitable for use in an application where after pre-thermoformed, the release film is removed and the adhesive face is applied to an adherend. Provided is a laminate sheet comprising a sheet of a PSA body as well as first and second films laminated on first and second faces of the PSA body. The second film comprises a resin film and a release layer provided at least to the PSA body side surface of the resin film while satisfying the following conditions: having a Young's modulus at 85° C. of 500 MPa or greater, and having a Young's modulus at 120° C. of 500 MPa or less.

Abstract: At a time of a wafer processing by a plasma processing apparatus, in order to prevent first radio frequency power from being diverted into an output line of a second radio frequency power supply via plasma, the plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber in which a sample is plasma-processed; a sample stage that includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed outside the first electrode and on which the sample is placed; a first radio frequency power supply configured to supply first radio frequency power to the first electrode via a first matching device and a first transmission path; and a second radio frequency power supply configured to supply second radio frequency power to the second electrode via a second matching device and a second transmission path.