Abstract: There are provided: a flow-rate adjustment unit capable of individually adjusting the flow rates of a heating medium to be supplied to a plurality of electronic devices; a temperature sensor configured to individually detect the temperatures of the heating medium released from the plurality of electronic devices; and a control unit. The control unit controls the flow-rate adjustment unit based on outputs of the temperature sensor such that the temperatures of the heating medium released from the plurality of electronic devices become equal to each other.

Abstract: An adsorber includes: two or more adsorbents with different coolant vapor-pressure conditions and different coolant temperature conditions corresponding to a lower limit value for a coolant adsorption amount and an upper limit value for the coolant adsorption amount; a container that contains at least one of the adsorbents and in which a coolant is sealable; and a channel pipe that extends through the container, is thermally in contact with the two or more adsorbents, and functions as a channel.

Abstract: An adsorbent for adsorption heat pumps, containing: activated carbon; and organic molecules each containing at least one hydrophilic functional group, where the organic molecules are provided in pores of the activated carbon.

Abstract: An adsorbent includes: activated carbon; and a hydrophilic polymer coated on an outer surface of the activated carbon. And an adsorption-type heat pump includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a liquid adsorbate to form a gas adsorbate; a condenser connected to the evaporator to condense a gas adsorbate to form a liquid adsorbate; and two adsorbers connected to the evaporator and the condenser, each adsorber including an adsorbent to adsorb/desorb the adsorbate, wherein the adsorbent includes: activated carbon; and a hydrophilic polymer coated on an outer surface of the activated carbon.

Abstract: An adsorption-type heat pump includes an adsorber having an adsorbent and capable of switching between an adsorption process of causing an adsorbent to adsorb a refrigerant and a desorption process of desorbing a refrigerant from an adsorbent, a condenser, an evaporator, a first flow hole which causes a refrigerant to flow from the adsorber to the condenser, a second flow hole which causes a refrigerant to flow from the evaporator to the adsorber, and a seat valve body arranged on at least one of the first flow hole and the second flow hole, having a seat material and an opening and closing assisting plate material joined to an end part of the seat material and formed by a temperature-dependent material which deforms in accordance with temperature, and opening and closing at least one of the first flow hole and the second flow hole.

Abstract: An adsorption heat pump includes: an evaporator configured to generate coolant vapor; a first adsorber and a second adsorber each containing an adsorbent to adsorb the coolant vapor generated in the evaporator; a condenser configured to condense the coolant vapor generated in any of the first adsorber and the second adsorber; and a control unit. The control unit feeds the condenser with cooling water for condensation of the coolant vapor and feeds the condenser with warm water for evaporation of the coolant at predetermined timing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an adsorbent. The method includes hydrophilizing a surface of activated carbon with an oxidizing agent, and immersing the activated carbon in a solution of a basic compound.

Abstract: There are provided: a flow-rate adjustment unit capable of individually adjusting the flow rates of a heating medium to be supplied to a plurality of electronic devices; a temperature sensor configured to individually detect the temperatures of the heating medium released from the plurality of electronic devices; and a control unit. The control unit controls the flow-rate adjustment unit based on outputs of the temperature sensor such that the temperatures of the heating medium released from the plurality of electronic devices become equal to each other.

Abstract: An adsorption-type heat pump includes an adsorber having an adsorbent and capable of switching between an adsorption process of causing an adsorbent to adsorb a refrigerant and a desorption process of desorbing a refrigerant from an adsorbent, a condenser, an evaporator, a first flow hole which causes a refrigerant to flow from the adsorber to the condenser, a second flow hole which causes a refrigerant to flow from the evaporator to the adsorber, and a seat valve body arranged on at least one of the first flow hole and the second flow hole, having a seat material and an opening and closing assisting plate material joined to an end part of the seat material and formed by a temperature-dependent material which deforms in accordance with temperature, and opening and closing at least one of the first flow hole and the second flow hole.

Abstract: A heat pump including: a refrigerant accumulator in which a substance accumulating a refrigerant is disposed, the refrigerant accumulator having a heating means heating the substance in order to release the refrigerant; a flow path connected at one end thereof to the refrigerant accumulator, the flow path holding the refrigerant released from the substance in the refrigerant accumulator by capillary action; a first heat exchanger provided between the refrigerant accumulator and the flow path or around the flow path and exchanging heat with the refrigerant in order to condense the refrigerant; and a second heat exchanger provided around the flow path and exchanging cold energy generated by evaporation of the refrigerant from the other end of the flow path.

Abstract: An adsorber includes: two or more adsorbents with different coolant vapor-pressure conditions and different coolant temperature conditions corresponding to a lower limit value for a coolant adsorption amount and an upper limit value for the coolant adsorption amount; a container that contains at least one of the adsorbents and in which a coolant is sealable; and a channel pipe that extends through the container, is thermally in contact with the two or more adsorbents, and functions as a channel.

Abstract: A ligand contains: a benzimidazole skeleton; and functional groups at the 5-position and the 6-position of the benzimidazole skeleton. The functional group is capable of forming a coordinate bond with a metal, and contains a nitrogen atom.

Abstract: A heat pump including: a refrigerant accumulator in which a substance accumulating a refrigerant is disposed, the refrigerant accumulator having a heating means heating the substance in order to release the refrigerant; a flow path connected at one end thereof to the refrigerant accumulator, the flow path holding the refrigerant released from the substance in the refrigerant accumulator by capillary action; a first heat exchanger provided between the refrigerant accumulator and the flow path or around the flow path and exchanging heat with the refrigerant in order to condense the refrigerant; and a second heat exchanger provided around the flow path and exchanging cold energy generated by evaporation of the refrigerant from the other end of the flow path.

Abstract: A ligand contains: a benzimidazole skeleton; and functional groups at the 5-position and the 6-position of the benzimidazole skeleton. The functional group is capable of forming a coordinate bond with a metal, and contains a nitrogen atom.

Abstract: A cold-cathode tube lighting device uniformly lights multiple cold-cathode tubes using a common power source, and the cold-cathode tube lighting device is effectively downsized by using ballast capacitors. A substrate is divided into blocks as many as the cold-cathode tubes. Each of the blocks includes two conductor layers each including two foils. A first foil of a first conductor layer is connected to a common low-impedance power supply. Between the two conductor layers, first ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the first foils are overlapped, second ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the first and second foils are overlapped, and the third ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the second foils are overlapped. Second foils are connected to first electrodes of the cold-cathode tubes.

Abstract: A multidentate ligand includes at least two planar tetradentate coordination sites in one plane, each of the planar tetradentate coordination sites containing four nitrogen-containing groups of at least one of imino, amido and amino groups, and has the nitrogen atoms of the four nitrogen-containing groups as coordinating atoms in one plane. A metal complex assembly has one of two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures and contains metal complex chains and electroconductive wires, the metal complex chains each contain assembled metal complexes, the electroconductive wires each contain molecules serving as at least one of an acceptor and a donor, and the metal complex chains intersect with the electroconductive wires at such positions that the metal complexes and the molecules serving as at least one of an acceptor and a donor are capable of interacting with each other.

Abstract: For the purpose of lighting multiple cold-cathode tubes at uniform luminance using a cold-cathode tube lighting device incorporating a multilayer substrate with built-in capacitors through a common power source and downsizing the cold-cathode tube lighting device, the multilayer substrate with built-in capacitors comprising at least four conductor layers overlaid is formed by heating and pressing dielectric layers, on one side of each of which a conductor layer is formed, to both sides of a dielectric layer, on both sides of which a conductor layer is formed, respectively, with bonding layers P1 and P2 interposed therebetween and by press-bonding these layers mutually, and specific conductor layers are electrically connected using connection parts formed on the inner faces of through holes.

Abstract: A cold-cathode tube lighting device uniformly lights multiple cold-cathode tubes using a common power source, and the cold-cathode tube lighting device is effectively downsized by using ballast capacitors. A substrate is divided into blocks as many as the cold-cathode tubes. Each of the blocks includes two conductor layers each including two foils. A first foil of a first conductor layer is connected to a common low-impedance power supply. Between the two conductor layers, first ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the first foils are overlapped, second ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the first and second foils are overlapped, and the third ballast capacitors are formed in areas where the second foils are overlapped. Second foils are connected to first electrodes of the cold-cathode tubes.

Abstract: A multidentate ligand includes at least two planar tetradentate coordination sites in one plane, each of the planar tetradentate coordination sites containing four nitrogen-containing groups of at least one of imino, amido and amino groups, and has the nitrogen atoms of the four nitrogen-containing groups as coordinating atoms in one plane. A metal complex assembly has one of two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures and contains metal complex chains and electroconductive wires, the metal complex chains each contain assembled metal complexes, the electroconductive wires each contain molecules serving as at least one of an acceptor and a donor, and the metal complex chains intersect with the electroconductive wires at such positions that the metal complexes and the molecules serving as at least one of an acceptor and a donor are capable of interacting with each other.

Abstract: There is provided a pen in which ink is supplied steadily from an ink tank to a pen point. Ink in an ink tank 6 is supplied to a pen point 5 through a slender tube portion 4A of an ink introducing slender tube 4. Excess ink can be kept by a stuffing member 7 that is in contact with a portion in which the ink introducing slender tube 4 and the pen point 5 are connected to each other and a gap 8 provided in the connecting portion.