Abstract: The present invention is a planarizing agent for forming an organic film, including an aromatic-group-containing compound having a molecular weight represented by a molecular formula of 200 to 500, wherein a blended composition that includes the planarizing agent and a preliminary composition containing an organic film-forming resin and a solvent, and having a complex viscosity of 1.0 Pa·s or more in a temperature range of 175° C. or higher has a temperature range in which a complex viscosity of the blended composition is less than 1.0 Pa·s in a temperature range of 175° C. or higher. This provides a planarizing agent for forming an organic film to yield a composition for forming an organic film having a high planarizing ability; a composition for forming an organic film containing this planarizing agent; a method for forming an organic film using this composition; and a patterning process.

Abstract: A collecting apparatus for bacteria includes: a laser beam source configured to emit a laser beam; and a container configured to hold a dispersion liquid in which a plurality of bacteria are dispersed. The container has a bottom surface and an inner side surface. A thin film for converting the laser beam from the laser beam source into heat is formed on the bottom surface. At the inner side surface, immersion wetting occurs by the dispersion liquid when the inner side surface comes into contact with the dispersion liquid. The thin film is configured to produce a thermal convection in the dispersion liquid by heating the dispersion liquid. The inner side surface is configured to produce a Marangoni convection at a gas-liquid interface as an interface between the dispersion liquid and gas around the dispersion liquid.

Abstract: A composition for forming an organic film, containing: a material for forming an organic film shown by the following general formula; and an organic solvent, where R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an allyl group, or a propargyl group, R2 represents a nitro group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyloxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkynyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkenyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a trifluoromethyl group, or a trifluoromethyloxy group, m = 0 or 1, n = 1 or 2, 1 = 0 or 1, k represents an integer of 0 to 2, W represents a divalent organic group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, and each V independently represents a hydrogen atom or a linking moiety.

Abstract: A managing apparatus includes: a data collecting unit that collects at least quality information on a workpiece having been machined by a first machine tool and operational information on other machine, an analyzing unit that performs an analysis for determining correlation between the quality information on a workpiece having been machined by the first machine tool and the operational information on the other machine, an operation plan making unit that makes an operation plan, based on the correlation determined by the analyzing unit, for imposing a restriction on an operation of the other machine to reduce vibrations to be transmitted to the first machine tool during high-precision machining performed by the first machine tool, and an operation instruction providing unit that provides an operation instruction to the other machine based on the operation plan made by the operation plan making unit.

Abstract: An antenna module includes: a functional sheet including a conductive layer and a layer having at least one of a heat insulating function and/or an acoustic insulating function; and an antenna unit including a ground conductor, wherein the functional sheet is disposed between a panel forming an outer shape of a vehicle and an interior member provided on a side closer to a vehicle interior than the panel, and the ground conductor is electrically connected to the conductive layer.

Abstract: A material for forming an organic film contains a polymer having a repeating unit shown by the following general formula (1), and an organic solvent, where AR1 and AR2 each represent a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring which optionally have a substituent; W1 represents a divalent organic group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms and no aromatic ring, and a methylene group constituting the organic group is optionally substituted with an oxygen atom or a carbonyl group; and W2 represents a divalent organic group having 6 to 80 carbon atoms and at least one or more aromatic rings. This invention provides: an organic film material being excellent in film formability and enabling high etching resistance and excellent twisting resistance and filling property; a patterning process using this material; and a polymer suitable for such an organic film material.

Abstract: A wiring module includes: a functional sheet disposed between a roof panel forming a roof part of a vehicle and an interior member forming a ceiling shape of a vehicle interior to planarly extend over the roof panel and the interior member; a transmission member provided to the functional sheet; a roof-side apparatus provided to the functional sheet; and a rigid member provided to the functional sheet, wherein the functional sheet includes a layer having at least one selected from the group consisting of a heat insulation function, an acoustic insulation function, and a radio wave shielding function, and at least one end of the transmission member is provided along a wiring route connected to the roof-side apparatus in the functional sheet.

Abstract: A composition for forming an organic film contains a polymer having a partial structure shown by the following general formula (1A) or (1B), and an organic solvent, where Ar1 and Ar2 represent a benzene ring or naphthalene ring which optionally have a substituent; X represents a single bond or methylene group; a broken line represents a bonding arm; R represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and W1 represents a hydroxyl group, an alkyloxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an organic group having at least one aromatic ring optionally having a substituent. A composition for forming an organic film, the composition containing a polymer with high carbon content and thermosetting property as to enable high etching resistance and excellent twisting resistance; a patterning process using the composition; and a polymer suitable for the composition for forming an organic film.

Abstract: A resist underlayer film material contains (A) a resin having a compound shown in the following general formula (1A), and (B) an organic solvent. Mw/Mn of the compound shown in the general formula (1A) is 1.00?Mw/Mn?1.25. This provides: a resist underlayer film material having all of favorable dry etching resistance, heat resistance to 500° C. or higher, and high filling and planarizing properties; and methods for forming a resist underlayer film and patterning processes which use the material.

Abstract: The present invention is a material for forming an organic film, the material containing (A) a compound for forming an organic film shown by the following general formula (1A), and (B) an organic solvent. This provides a material for forming an organic film which is not only capable of forming an organic film excellent in planarizing property and film formability even on a substrate to be processed having a portion that makes particularly planarization difficult, such as wide trench structure (wide trench), in a fine patterning process by a multilayer resist method in a semiconductor-device manufacturing process, and which is also capable of withstanding high-temperature heating in forming an inorganic hard mask middle layer film by a CVD method.

Abstract: To produce aluminum nitride in the form of a lump that can easily be broken down by light pulverization, which could not be obtained by a conventional combustion synthesis method. A method for producing aluminum nitride powder by a combustion synthesis method using a metallic aluminum powder, characterized in that a powder mixture in which an aluminum nitride powder having an average primary particle diameter of 3 ?m or less as a diluent is mixed with a metallic aluminum powder in a ratio of 150 to 400 parts by mass of the aluminum nitride powder relative to 100 parts by mass of the metallic aluminum powder, is ignited to combust in a nitrogen atmosphere.

Abstract: A material for forming an organic film, containing: a compound shown by formula (1); and an organic solvent. In formula (1), R1 represents one of the following formulae (2), R2 represents a nitro group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyloxy group, an alkynyloxy group, an alkenyloxy group, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group, a trifluoromethyl group, or a trifluoromethyloxy group, “n” represents 0 or 1, “m” represents an integer of 1 to 3, “p” represents 0 or 1, “1” represents an integer of 0 to 2, and W represents a divalent organic group having 2 to 40 carbon atoms. The objective: a compound which allows the formation of an organic underlayer film having excellent heat resistance and properties of filling and planarizing a pattern formed on a substrate, favorable film-formability and adhesiveness to a substrate; and a material for forming an organic film containing the compound.

Abstract: A storage device includes a plurality of memory devices, and processing circuitry. The plurality of memory devices includes one or more hard disk drives. The processing circuitry is configured to inspect performance of the one or more hard disk drives at a predetermined timing; perform a first predetermined countermeasure processing, on a target hard disk drive out of the one or more hard disk drives whose performance has been determined to have fallen, in a case that the target hard disk drive is a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive; and perform a second predetermined countermeasure processing, different from the first predetermined countermeasure processing, on the target hard disk drive, in a case that the target hard disk drive is not a shingled magnetic recording hard disk drive.

Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at the branching portion.

Abstract: In a power supply system a power transmission unit capable of transmitting power supplied from a power supply; a transmission-side communication unit capable of communication; and a transmission-side control unit configured to control power transmission of the power transmission unit based on information communicated by the transmission-side communication unit, and a slidable object includes: a power receiving unit configured to contactlessly receive power from the power transmission coil; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to transmit power from the power transmission coil to the power receiving unit; a receiving-side communication unit configured to transmit, to the transmission-side communication unit, information indicating a determination made by the determination unit as to whether or not to transmit power; and a power storage unit configured to supply power to the determination unit and does not supply power to the load L.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can significantly reduce the amount of warming gas generated and suppress the generation of soot during combustion. The present invention provides an apparatus (10) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, including a burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, a vertical spheroidizing furnace (15), an ammonia supply source (12), an oxygen supply source (13), an ammonia supply line (L1) located between the ammonia supply source (12) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, and an oxygen supply line (L2) located between the oxygen supply source (13) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can efficiently melt and spheroidize even organic powder with a large particle size distribution.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a high-temperature oxygen generation device and a high-temperature oxygen generation method which can efficiently supply preheated high-temperature oxygen gas regardless of pressure conditions from normal pressure to high pressure, without requiring upsizing or expansion of the equipment, and the present invention provides a high-temperature oxygen generation device (10) in which a high-temperature gas (G4) and an oxygen gas (G3) to be heated are mixed to generate a high-temperature oxygen gas (G5), wherein the high-temperature oxygen generation device (10) includes a burner (1) which generates the high-temperature gas (G4), and a preheating chamber (7) which is provided on the downstream side of the burner (1) and mixes the high-temperature gas (G4) and the oxygen gas (G3) to be heated, and the burner (1) includes a combustion chamber (5) which forms a flame by a fuel gas (G1) and an oxygen gas (G2) for combustion, a fuel flow path (2) which supplies the fuel

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can significantly reduce the amount of warming gas generated and suppress the generation of soot during combustion. The present invention provides a burner (1) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, including a raw material powder supply path (2A) which supplies inorganic powder as raw material powder; a first fuel gas supply path (3A) which supplies a first fuel gas containing no carbon source; and a first combustion-supporting gas supply path (4A) which supplies a first combustion-supporting gas.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a burner which makes it possible to prevent blockage and damage of the nozzle by the molten metal and the slag, and the present invention provides a burner including a combustion supporting gas supply passage which is configured to supply a combustion supporting gas toward a combustion supporting gas outlet provided at the center of the tip end side; a fuel supply passage which is configured to supply a fuel toward a fuel ejection outlet provided around the combustion supporting gas outlet; and a protective nozzle provided from a position surrounding a periphery of the fuel ejection outlet so as to project forward beyond the tip end surface at which the combustion supporting gas ejection outlet and the fuel ejection outlet are provided; wherein the combustion supporting gas supply passage includes a Laval nozzle, and a diameter-enlarged nozzle of which a diameter gradually increases from the tip end of the Laval nozzle toward the combustion supporting gas ejec