Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including in this order: a support; an undercoat layer, and a photosensitive layer, wherein the undercoat layer comprises at least one kind of polymer selected from the group consisting of: a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1); and a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following formula (2).

Abstract: Provided is sliding components capable of stably obtaining a low-friction effect even in a non-lubricated environment. Sliding components and have sliding surfaces and performing relative sliding. A carbon film in which a polymer structure is dispersed is formed on the sliding surface of the sliding component. The proportion of the polymer structure dispersed in the carbon film is such that an extinction coefficient of 0.2 or less and a refractive index of 1.5 to 2.0 are satisfied in a wavelength range of 550 nm of spectroscopic ellipsometry.

Abstract: Provided is a method of evaluating the immune response of a cell group to a test substance, the method comprising the steps of: immobilizing a cell membrane modifier comprising a polymer having a hydrophobic chain and a hydrophilic chain on a substrate; introducing a calcium fluorescent indicator into the cell group; immobilizing the cell group on the substrate through the cell membrane modifier, adding the test substance to the cell group; and detecting the fluorescence of the cell group derived from the calcium fluorescent indicator with a detector.

Abstract: A method of evaluating an immune response of a cell group to a test substance, the method comprising evaluating the immune response of the cell group to the test substance based on a comparison between autofluorescence information of a first sample prepared by adding the test substance to the cell group and autofluorescence information of a second sample, the second sample serving as a control for the first sample.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface. The manufacturing method includes forming a trench on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, arranging a material by arranging a surface-treatment material on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the trench, applying a resist to an interior of the trench, and patterning the resist by exposing the resist using a mask to leave the resist in the interior of the trench predetermined. Surface free energy of solids of the surface-treatment material is less than surface free energy of liquids of the resist.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of detoxifying a process gas even when the detoxification apparatus is stopped. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a reaction tube; a process gas supplier; an exhauster; an exhaust gas process chamber in which the exhausted process gas is subject to a process; a first inert gas supplier; a second inert gas supplier; an exhaust pipe; and a controller controlling the first and the second inert gas supplier such that the first inert gas is supplied to the exhaust gas process chamber through the first inert gas supplier while the process gas is subject to the process in the exhaust gas process chamber and the second inert gas is supplied to the exhaust gas process chamber through the second inert gas supplier when the process in the exhaust gas process chamber is stopped.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A rotary type extension/retraction device includes a body member, a movement member, a spring member, a protrusion and a cam groove. The cam groove has a first fitting groove configured to hold the movement member in a state protruding from a cylindrical part of the body member, a second fitting groove configured to hold the movement member in a state pulled in the cylindrical part, a first guide groove configured to guide the protrusion from the first fitting groove to the second fitting groove, and a second guide groove configured to guide the protrusion from the second fitting groove to the first fitting groove. The first fitting groove, the first guide groove, the second fitting groove and the second guide groove are arranged circumferentially along an inner periphery of the cylindrical part in this order.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a first calculated image and a second calculated image through calculation using data obtained through an imaging in which magnetic resonance signals used for deriving a tissue quantitative value are acquired, wherein a signal value of a tissue other than a suppression-target tissue which is a target to be suppressed is low on the second calculated image as compared to the first calculated image. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a difference image between the first calculated image and second calculated image so as to generate an image on which a signal value of a tissue with a long relaxation time is suppressed.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A tape cassette includes: a cassette casing; and a tape roll that is a roll of a tape extending in a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction. The tape includes: a subject surface exposed in a thickness direction; and a first image provided on the subject surface and indicating first information. The tape roll has: a first end portion located at an inner portion of the tape roll in a radial direction of the tape roll; and a second end portion located at an outer portion of the tape roll in the radial direction. The first information relates to an amount of a portion of the tape which is located on a first-end-portion-side of a reference position in the lengthwise direction. The reference position is located on the first-end-portion-side of the first image in the lengthwise direction on the tape at a particular distance from the first image.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A ribbon cassette includes a case, an ink ribbon, a first spool, a second spool, a rotating member, a clutch spring, and an engaging part. The ink ribbon has one end portion wound over the first spool and another end portion connected to the second spool. The rotating member is engaged with a first inner surface of the first spool. The clutch spring includes a coil like annular part attached to the rotating member, and an extension part extending from the annular part. The engaging part is positioned on a locus of rotation of the extension part. The first spool has a protrusion provided at a second inner surface of the first spool. The case-hole is in communication with an interior of the first spool, and has a portion overlapped with an entire circular region surrounded by a path of rotation of the tip end of the protrusion.

Abstract: A medium includes a base layer and a separation layer stacked on each other. Regions are defined along a first direction. The regions include: a first region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is stickable; a second region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; and a third region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is at least partly stickable. Four first vertexes of a first imaginary trapezoid shape which are located on an outer shape of the first region and four second vertexes of a second imaginary trapezoid shape which are located on an outer shape of the third region are symmetric with respect to an axis parallel with a second direction.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Abstract: A tape includes a sheet and an elongated label that includes first portions and second portions. A second-side end portion of a first-side second portion is connected to a first-side end portion of one first portion, and a first-side end portion of a second-side second portion is connected to a second-side end portion of the one first portion. The one first portion has a first length in a tape widthwise direction. Each of the first-side second portion and the second-side second portion has a second length in the widthwise direction of the tape and a third length in a tape longitudinal direction. The second length is greater than the first length. The one first portion has a fourth length in the tape longitudinal direction which is greater than or equal to a specific length and less than a sum of the specific length and the third length.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.