Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion and having a diameter decreasing from an upstream side on one side in the axis direction toward a downstream side on another side in the axis direction, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller, the motor including a rotor having a ring-like shape and being fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and being fixed in the shroud, in which the motor is a conical motor in which diameters of the rotor and the stator decrease from the upstream side toward the downstrea

Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion; a shroud having an inside surface with a diameter decreasing from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flow path cross-sectional area decreasing toward the downstream side; a propeller rotatably provided about an axis between the shaft portion and the shroud and configured to pump a fluid from the upstream side toward the downstream side; and a motor provided to correspond to the propeller and including a rotor having a ring-like shape fixed to an outer circumference portion of the propeller and accommodated in the shroud and a stator having a ring-like shape surrounding the rotor and fixed in the shroud, in which a plurality of the propellers are provided to be spaced apart in the axis direction, the motors are provided in an identical number to the propellers to correspond to each of the propellers, and of a plurality of motors, the rotor of the motor positioned more on the downstr

Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a first propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a second propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud on the downstream side of the first propeller; an outer periphery driving motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the first propeller; and an inner periphery driving motor provided in the shaft portion and configured to rotationally drive the second propeller in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the first propeller.

Abstract: A silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film between a metal-containing resist film and a substrate, the silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition including: a component [A]: a polysiloxane; and a component [C]: a solvent, in which the polysiloxane contains a structural unit derived from a hydrolyzable silane (A) represented by the following Formula (A-1): where in Formula (A-1), a represents an integer of 1 to 3, b represents an integer of 0 to 2, a+b represents an integer of 1 to 3, and R1 represents an organic group having an unsaturated bond and a ring structure.

Abstract: A film-forming composition suitable as a resist underlayer film-forming composition from which a resist underlayer film having not only a good EUV resist adhesivity but also a good etching processability due to a high fluorine-based etching rate. For example, a film-forming composition includes a polymer represented by Formula (E1) and a solvent.

Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the propeller; and a bearing apparatus provided only to the shaft portion, out of the shroud and the shaft portion, and rotationally supporting the propeller.

Abstract: A silicon-containing resist underlayer film forming composition for forming a resist underlayer film which is able to be removed not only by a conventional dry etching method but also by a wet etching method that uses a chemical agent, and which has excellent lithography characteristics, while enabling the achievement of a high etching rate during wet etching. A silicon-containing resist underlayer film forming composition which contains (A) a polysiloxane, (B) nitric acid, (C) a bisphenol compound and (D) a solvent.

Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor device includes applying a composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film, wherein the composition comprises a polysiloxane having a unit structure including a carbonyl group-containing functional group, wherein the silicon-containing resist underlayer film is used as a mask layer in a step of removing the mask layer with hydrogen peroxide-containing chemical after transfer of a pattern to an underlayer by lithography process onto a semiconductor substrate, followed by baking the composition, to thereby form a resist underlayer film, applying a resist composition onto resist underlayer film to thereby form a resist film, exposing the resist film to light, developing the resist after the light exposure to thereby form a resist pattern, etching the resist underlayer film with the resist pattern, processing the semiconductor substrate with the patterned resist and resist underlayer film, and removing the mask layer with a hydrogen peroxide-containing ch

Abstract: This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base material having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0 to 0.0050%, Si: 3.8 to 4.9%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.20%, sol. Al: more than 0.02% and 0.50% or less, P: 0 to 0.030%, S: 0 to 0.0030%, N: 0 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Nb: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Zr: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, V: 0% or more and less than 0.0050%, Cu: 0% or more and less than 0.200%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.500%, Sn: 0 to 0.100%, Sb: 0 to 0.100%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the non-oriented electrical steel sheet satisfies [4.3?Si+sol. Al+0.5×Mn?5.0], [B50(0°)?B50(45°)?0.16], and [B50(0°)+2×B50(45°)+B50(90°)/4?1.57], and has tensile strength of 580 MPa or greater.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communicator for communicating with an on-vehicle communicator mounted on a vehicle and a communication terminal to be operated by a user, and a controller configured to acquire, from the on-vehicle communicator, an update history of at least some of map data stored in a storage medium of the vehicle, determine whether the map data needs to be updated on a basis of the update history, transmit an inquiry signal to the communication terminal via the communicator to inquire whether to allow updating of the map data when the controller has determined to need to update the map data, and transmit an update instruction signal for instructing updating of the map data to the on-vehicle communicator via the communicator when the controller has received an allowance signal for permitting updating of the map data from the communication terminal via the communicator.

Abstract: A navigation device includes an own vehicle position detecting unit configured to detect position information of own vehicle; a route setting unit configured to set a guidance route that guides the own vehicle to a destination on the basis of a first map including information of a traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; a matching unit configured to match a position of the own vehicle as a first own position with the traveling route where the own vehicle travels on the first map on the basis of the position information of the own vehicle; a driving lane detecting unit configured to match the position of the own vehicle as a second own position with a driving lane where the own vehicle travels on a second map on the basis of the second map including information of the driving lane in the traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; and a calculating unit configured to determine whether the second own position is included in the first own position.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communicator for communicating with an on-vehicle communicator mounted on a vehicle and a communication terminal to be operated by a user, and a controller configured to acquire, from the on-vehicle communicator, an update history of at least some of map data stored in a storage medium of the vehicle, determine whether the map data needs to be updated on a basis of the update history, transmit an inquiry signal to the communication terminal via the communicator to inquire whether to allow updating of the map data when the controller has determined to need to update the map data, and transmit an update instruction signal for instructing updating of the map data to the on-vehicle communicator via the communicator when the controller has received an allowance signal for permitting updating of the map data from the communication terminal via the communicator.

Abstract: The controller of the server of the information processing apparatus acquires the travel plan data relating to the travel plan of the vehicle from the communication terminal via the server communicator determines whether the map data needs to be updated, which is stored in the memory of the vehicle and used for travel in accordance with the travel plan. The controller transmits an inquiry signal inquiring of the user whether to permit updating of the map data to the communication terminal via the server communicator. The controller transmits an update instruction signal for instructing the update of the map via the server communicator to the on-vehicle communicator when receiving a permission signal permitting the update of the map data.

Abstract: A navigation device includes an own vehicle position detecting unit configured to detect position information of own vehicle; a route setting unit configured to set a guidance route that guides the own vehicle to a destination on the basis of a first map including information of a traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; a matching unit configured to match a position of the own vehicle as a first own position with the traveling route where the own vehicle travels on the first map on the basis of the position information of the own vehicle; a driving lane detecting unit configured to match the position of the own vehicle as a second own position with a driving lane where the own vehicle travels on a second map on the basis of the second map including information of the driving lane in the traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; and a calculating unit configured to determine whether the second own position is included in the first own position.

Abstract: The controller of the server of the information processing apparatus acquires the travel plan data relating to the travel plan of the vehicle from the communication terminal via the server communicator determines whether the map data needs to be updated, which is stored in the memory of the vehicle and used for travel in accordance with the travel plan. The controller transmits an inquiry signal inquiring of the user whether to permit updating of the map data to the communication terminal via the server communicator. The controller transmits an update instruction signal for instructing the update of the map via the server communicator to the on-vehicle communicator when receiving a permission signal permitting the update of the map data.