Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a fluoropolymer composition, comprising bringing a fluoropolymer raw material into contact with an oxidizing agent, wherein the fluoropolymer raw material is obtained by polymerizing a fluoromonomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a polymer (I) containing a polymerization unit (I) derived from a monomer (I) represented by the general formula (I). CX1X3?CX2R(—CZ1Z2-A0)m??(I) wherein X1 and X3 are each independently F, Cl, H, or CF3; X2 is H, F, an alkyl group, or a fluorine-containing alkyl group; A0 is an anionic group; R is a linking group; Z1 and Z2 are each independently H, F, an alkyl group, or a fluorine-containing alkyl group; and m is an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: A method for producing a fluoropolymer which method includes polymerizing a perfluoromonomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of a polymer (1) to obtain a fluoropolymer, wherein the content of a polymerized unit derived from the perfluoromonomer in the fluoropolymer is 90 mol % or more based on all polymerized units of the fluoropolymer, the polymer (1) is a polymer of a monomer (1) represented by the general formula (1): CF2?CF—O—R-(Rf-SO3M)m, a polymerized unit (1) derived from the monomer (1) in the polymer (1) is 50% by mass or more based on all polymerized units of the polymer (1), and the content of a dimer and a trimer of the monomer (1) in the polymer (1) is 1.0% by mass or less based on the polymer (1).

Abstract: A method for producing polytetrafluoroethylene, which includes polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in the presence of a nucleating agent and a hydrocarbon anionic surfactant to obtain polytetrafluoroethylene. A total amount of the nucleating agent and the hydrocarbon anionic surfactant at the initiation of polymerization is more than 50 ppm based on the aqueous medium.

Abstract: A material sheet is provided having antenna patterns that include first and second coupling portions that are transported toward a mounting position, and an adhesive member that is disposed on the material sheet before reaching the mounting position. At a pickup position, a mounting device picks up an RFIC module including an RFIC chip and first and second terminal electrodes connected to the RFIC chip. At the mounting position, the mounting device mounts the picked-up RFIC module onto the adhesive member on the material sheet so that the first coupling portion and the first terminal electrode face each other and so that the second coupling portion and the second terminal electrode face each other.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode contains, as a negative electrode active material, graphite particles having a volume per mass, of pores having a diameter of 2 nm or less determined by the DFT method from nitrogen adsorption isotherm, of 0.3 mm3/g or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laser device including: a rod-shaped laser medium extending in a first direction; a first light source unit including a first base having a first notch through which the laser medium passes and a plurality of excitation light sources attached to the first base; and a holder supporting the laser medium and the first light source unit. At least one of the first base and the holder includes a first regulating part configured to regulate a position of the first base with respect to the holder.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laser device includes: a rod-shaped laser medium extending in a first direction; a first light source unit including a first base and a plurality of excitation light sources; a second light source unit arranged side by side with the first light source unit in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, the second light source unit including a second base and a plurality of excitation light sources; and a holder supporting the laser medium, the first light source unit, and the second light source unit. At least one of the first base and the holder includes a first regulating part configured to regulate a position of the first base with respect to the holder, and at least one of the second base and the holder includes a second regulating part configured to regulate a position of the second base with respect to the holder.

Abstract: A laser device is a laser device that includes an output unit that outputs seed light to a light amplifying unit. The output unit has a light source unit that outputs, as the seed light, rays of light with a plurality of wavelengths lying within a gain range of the light amplifying unit, and a seed light control unit that controls an intensity-time waveform of the seed light output from the light source unit.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a light source unit and a light combining unit. The light source unit outputs first laser light and second laser light having a wavelength different from that of the first laser light to different optical paths. The light combining unit is optically coupled to the light source unit, and combines the first laser light and the second laser light to generate a burst pulse with a frequency according to a difference between the wavelength of the first laser light and the wavelength of the second laser light. In the light source unit, the wavelengths of the first laser light and the second laser light are set in advance or settable such that the frequency of the burst pulse is 1 GHz or more.

Abstract: A printer includes a carriage including a first head and a second head at least partially overlapping in a sub-scanning direction, a first wiper for wiping the first head, and a second wiper for wiping the second head. The printer moves the first wiper to a first contact position where the first wiper is configured to contact the first head, and moves the second wiper to a second non-contact position where the second wiper is not configured to contact the second head. After moving the first wiper and the second wiper, the printer relatively moves the carriage to cause the first head to pass the first wiper at the first contact position.

Abstract: A printer includes: a discharge portion discharging ink; a cleaning fluid vessel including an inflow port, and a first peripheral wall and a first bottom wall extending in a first direction orthogonal to an up-down direction, or in a second direction orthogonal to the up-down direction and the first direction and defining a storage space for storing a cleaning fluid flowing in from the inflow port; a flushing box, connected to the cleaning fluid vessel in one of the first direction, for receiving the ink discharged from the discharge portion; and a first communicating portion causing the cleaning fluid vessel and the flushing box to be communicated.

Abstract: A friction stir welding method for joining a pair of workpieces by friction stir welding with a friction stir welding tool, includes rotating the friction stir welding tool about an axis in a clockwise direction when a probe is viewed from a lower side of the probe, and contacting first and second faces of the probe of the friction stir welding tool with a portion to be joined of the workpieces with pressing a shoulder face of the friction stir welding tool onto surfaces of the workpieces, while the friction stir welding tool is being rotated. Plastic flow of the workpieces is guided by a spiral groove of the second face so as to be separated from the shoulder face in a direction of the axis.

Abstract: An external resonator-type semiconductor laser device 1A includes an external resonator formed of one or a plurality of laser diode light sources and a VBG; an optical fiber which outputs output light La from the laser diode light source toward the VBG, and into which return light Lb from the VBG is input; and a displacement unit that displaces a disposition position of the VBG with respect to an input and output end surface of the optical fiber.

Abstract: A laser device includes a first laser medium and a second laser medium that have a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and receive input of excitation light and seed light from the first surface side to amplify the seed light, a holder that holds the first laser medium and the second laser medium; and a pair of cooling units that cool the first laser medium and the second laser medium according to change in volume of a refrigerant.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser element, a waveform calculation unit for calculating input waveform data, a driver circuit for supplying a drive current having a temporal waveform according to the input waveform data to the semiconductor laser element, an optical amplifier for amplifying laser light output from the semiconductor laser element, and a light waveform detection unit for detecting a waveform of laser light after the amplification output from the optical amplifier. The waveform calculation unit compares the waveform of the laser light after the amplification detected by the light waveform detection unit with a target waveform, adjusts a temporal waveform of the input waveform data, and brings the waveform of the laser light after the amplification close to the target waveform.

Abstract: A production method of a joint material includes a tab installation step of installing an end tab on a pair of workpieces to be joined at a joining line therebetween by friction stir welding, a tool installation step of installing a probe of a tool for friction stir welding at a cutout portion; an approach step of moving the tool while rotating itself from an opening into the cutout portion; a waiting step of causing the tool for friction stir welding to standby in the cutout portion at an extension line; and a joining step of starting movement of the tool along the joining line at a time at which a temperature of the workpieces at a joining portion in front of the tool in an advancing direction of the tool in the waiting step is a predetermined temperature or more and joining the workpieces with each other.

Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging or spectroscopy on a MR scanner to detect tissue physiological parameters in one or more tissue areas in a human or non-human subject includes administering to the subject a contrast enhancing physiologically tolerable amount of a sugar that is non-labeled, subjecting the subject to an MR procedure capable of generating MR signals encoding at least one tissue area in the subject in which the sugar either passes or is taken up, detecting a temporal variation in the MR signals in the at least one tissue area after the administering the sugar, determining at least one tissue-related parameter from the temporal variation, and ascertaining whether the at least one tissue-related parameter is abnormal.

Abstract: A plastic working method for a magnesium alloy, wherein the magnesium alloy is subjected to a friction stir process whereby a probe at the tip portion of a tool rotating around an axial line is press-fitted to the surface of the magnesium alloy, the magnesium alloy is heated and softened by friction between the magnesium alloy and the rotating tool, and the tool is moved parallel to the surface of the magnesium alloy while the tool is rotated with the probe in the press-fitted state. When the length in a first direction of the region of the magnesium alloy being plastically worked is A, and the amount of shrinkage of the magnesium alloy in the first direction due to the friction stir process is ?, A+? is set as the length in the first direction of the region subjected to the friction stir process.

Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.

Abstract: A laser medium unit includes: a plate-shaped laser gain medium which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and generates emission light by the irradiation of excitation light from the first surface; a reflection member that is provided on the second surface so as to reflect the excitation light and the emission light; and a cooling member that cools the laser gain medium. The laser gain medium includes an irradiation area which is irradiated with the excitation light and an outer area which is located outside the irradiation area when viewed from a thickness direction intersecting the first surface and the second surface. The cooling member is thermally connected to the second surface through the reflection member so that a cooling area of the laser gain medium is formed on the second surface.