Abstract: The present invention relates to an IgG-binding peptide comprising a ligand capable of binding to a radioactive metal nuclide, an IgG-binding peptide labeled with a radioactive metal nuclide, a conjugate of the IgG-binding peptide and IgG, and a radionuclide imaging agent or a diagnostic agent for cancer comprising the IgG-binding peptide or the conjugate, etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides an article having a water- and oil-repellent surface layer, as well as excellent water- and oil-repellent properties, abrasion resistance, and slipperiness, said article being constituted from: a plastic substrate; an underlayer formed upon the outer surface of the plastic substrate and having a silicon oxide as the main component thereof; and a water- and oil-repellent surface layer formed upon the outer surface of the silicon oxide underlayer. The film density of the silicon oxide underlayer is 1.8-2.2 g/cm3. The film thickness of the silicon oxide underlayer is 80-300 nm. The water- and oil-repellent surface layer has, as the main component thereof: a fluoropolyether group-containing polymer having a hydrolyzable silyl group with a specific structure; and/or a cured product of a partially hydrolyzed condensate thereof.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a drive source that drives an object; and a hardware processor that detects a fluctuation range of a load applied to the drive source by driving the object, and determines a state of the object on a basis of a detection result.

Abstract: To provide a practically useful organic EL device which is driven at a low voltage and which has high efficiency and lifetime characteristics. The organic EL device includes one or more light-emitting layers between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other, in which at least one of the light-emitting layers contains a first host selected from a biscarbazole compound represented by the following general formula (1) and substituted with at least one triphenylene group, a second host selected from an indolocarbazole compound to which a nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring is bound, and a light-emitting dopant material.

Abstract: A coil assembly includes: a band member formed of an electrically-insulative material into a band shape and rolled along a circumferential direction; and a plurality of coils formed of an electroconductive material on the band member and arranged in alignment with each other along the circumferential direction. The plurality of coils have a plurality of paths through which electric current flows and which constitute parts of a closed circuit. The coil assembly also includes first and second connection portions. The first connection portion constitutes a part of the closed circuit and connects between the plurality of paths. The second connection portion constitutes another part of the closed circuit and connects between the plurality of paths so that induced currents, which are induced in the closed circuit by electromagnetic induction due to movement of magnets in the circumferential direction, are canceled out by each other in the closed circuit.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus includes: a first stopper that is in contact with a first partition at a lower limit position of the first partition; and a pressing portion that is fixed to a second partition and raises and lowers the first partition integrally with the second partition using a frictional force generated by pressing a guide. The second partition descends integrally with the first partition, and after the first partition comes into contact with the first stopper, the second partition descends independently of the first partition against the frictional force to a position where the pressing portion faces the recessed portion that cancels the frictional force. The second partition, when ascending from the position where the pressing portion faces the recessed portion to a position where the pressing portion no longer faces the recessed portion, ascends integrally with the first partition due to the frictional force.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a coil assembly and a coil assembly support member. The coil assembly has a band member rolled along a circumferential direction into an annular shape, a coil formed on the band member, and a coil-assembly-side recess formed in the band member. The coil assembly support member is provided between the stator core and the coil assembly and mounted to the stator core. The coil assembly support member has a support-member-side protrusion. The coil assembly is positioned with respect to the stator core through engagement between the support-member-side protrusion and the coil-assembly-side recess.

Abstract: To provide an organic EL device having a low voltage, high efficiency and extended lifetime characteristics, and a host material for use in the organic EL device. A host material for an organic EL device, including a compound represented by the following general formula (1), or a structural isomer thereof: wherein X represents N or C—H and at least one thereof represents N, L independently represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group, and R2 to R6 represent hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, or a linked aromatic group in which two to five of these aromatic rings are linked to each other, provided that R2 and at least one of others do not represent hydrogen.

Abstract: The present invention provides an article having a water- and oil-repellent surface layer, as well as excellent water- and oil-repellent properties, abrasion resistance (resistance to abrasion by eraser), and slipperiness, said article being constituted from: a glass substrate; an underlayer formed upon the outer surface of the glass substrate and having a silicon oxide as the main component thereof; and a water- and oil-repellent surface layer formed upon the outer surface of the silicon oxide underlayer. The film density of the silicon oxide underlayer is 1.8-2.2 g/cm3. The water- and oil-repellent surface layer has, as the main component thereof: a fluoropolyether group-containing polymer having a hydrolyzable silyl group with a specific structure; and/or a cured product of a partially hydrolyzed condensate thereof.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate processing unit, a substrate transfer unit, a first detection unit, a second detection unit, and a third detection unit. The substrate processing unit holds and processes a substrate. The substrate transfer unit has a rotational axis and carries the substrate in the substrate processing unit. The first detection unit detects a position of the substrate transfer unit relative to the substrate processing unit in a direction of travel thereof when the substrate is carried in the substrate processing unit in the direction of travel. The second detection unit detects a position of the substrate transfer unit relative to the substrate processing unit in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of travel. The third detection unit detects an inclination of the rotational axis of the substrate transfer unit relative to the substrate processing unit.

Abstract: A coil assembly includes a band member and a plurality of coils. The band member is rolled along a circumferential direction into an annular shape and has a plurality of layers in a radial direction. The coils have vertical portions, and are located at predetermined positions in the circumferential direction and the radial direction on the band member and connected in a predetermined connection pattern. Moreover, the coil assembly further includes vertical-portion laminates constituted of the vertical portions of the coils which are radially laminated in a cross section of the band member and the coils taken along the radial direction. Each of the vertical-portion laminates is configured so that each radially-adjacent pair of the vertical portions constituting the vertical-portion laminate have different electric potentials when the coils are energized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an IgG-binding peptide comprising a ligand capable of binding to a radioactive metal nuclide, an IgG-binding peptide labeled with a radioactive metal nuclide, a conjugate of the IgG-binding peptide and IgG, and a radionuclide imaging agent or a diagnostic agent for cancer comprising the IgG-binding peptide or the conjugate, etc.

Abstract: A stator includes an armature core having an annular shape, coils, and an insulator. The coils are arranged along the armature core. Each of the coils is a wound conductive winding. Each of the coils includes a pair of facing portions disposed to be aligned in a circumferential direction with a predetermined interval therebetween. The first and second facing portions of each of the coils constitute intermediate portions of the corresponding one of the coils. Each of the coils includes a pair of first and second coil end portions that link the facing portions to each other. The insulator is arranged between the stator core and the coils. The insulator includes a base comprised of an insulating material, and one or more soft-magnetic members each being comprised of a soft-magnetic material, the one or more soft-magnetic members being contained in the base.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus connected to three or more voltage units, includes three or more power conversion circuits connected to respective units of the three or more voltage units; and a multiport transformer connected to the three or more power conversion circuits at mutually different ports, in which at least one voltage unit of the three or more voltage units is an electrical load.

Abstract: The checkout apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a switching unit. The first processing unit handles, based on data regarding a first product being purchased input with a registration apparatus, payment for the first product being purchased. The second processing unit handles, based on data regarding a second product being purchased input with a terminal or device other than the registration apparatus, payment for the second product being purchased. The switching unit switches between, according to an operation input via an operating element, enabling the first processing unit to handle the payment and enabling the second processing unit to handle the payment.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator core. The stator includes a coil connection body of one phase having a plurality of coils connected with each other; at least one of the coils has an electrical resistance set to be different from an electrical resistance of another of the coils. The stator also includes a coil connection body of another phase having a plurality of coils connected with each other; at least one of the coils has an electrical resistance set to be different from an electrical resistance of another of the coils. Moreover, the coil connection body of the another phase has a combined resistance set to be equal to a combined resistance of the coil connection body of the one phase.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device cleans a sensing surface of a vehicle-mounted sensor. The vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes a gas nozzle spraying a gas toward the sensing surface, a gas supply device supplying the gas to the gas nozzle, and a control section controlling operation of the gas supply device. A predetermined value is set in the control section, for indicating an abnormal state of detection accuracy of the vehicle-mounted sensor based on detection accuracy information of an object which is obtained from the vehicle-mounted sensor. A gas supply threshold value is also set, for use in operating the gas supply device to direct a supply of the gas toward the sensing surface before the detection accuracy information becomes equal to or lower than the predetermined value. If the detection accuracy information has become lower than the gas supply threshold value, the control section operates the gas supply device.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a merchandise registration apparatus has a processor configured to calculate a first-type value for a check digit of a merchandise code according to a first code system, and compare the first-type value to the check digit of the merchandise code according to the first code system, register an item of merchandise corresponding to the merchandise code when the first-type value matches the check digit of the merchandise code according to the first code system. If the first-type value does not match the check digit, a second-type value is calculated for the check digit according to a second code system, and the calculated second-type value is compared to the check digit according to the second code system. When the second-type value matches with the check digit in the merchandise code, the processor registers an item of merchandise corresponding to the merchandise code according to the second code system.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a settlement device and a settlement method capable of changing, according to a medium to be output, a degree of anonymization of an identification number related to electronic settlement. The settlement device includes: a reception unit configured to receive input of an identification number related to electronic settlement; a settlement unit configured to execute settlement processing for a transaction using the electronic settlement; and an output unit configured to generate, when the settlement processing is completed, based on setting information in which an unidentifiable range of digits of the identification number is set for each type of medium to be output, the identification number having the unidentifiable range of digits for each type of the medium, and to output the generated identification number together with information based on the transaction.

Abstract: An electronic receipt system has a first server to store first identification codes for store program members and a second server to store second identification codes set for people belong to an electronic receipt service operated by an entity other than the store. The first server stores first identification codes in association with second identification codes. A first control unit of the first server receives and then transmits receipt data including a second identification code to the second server. A second control unit of the first server receives receipt data including a first identification code and acquires a corresponding second identification code from the storage unit, adds the second identification code to the receipt data and transmits the receipt data to the second server without the including the first identification code.