Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a substrate; a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate and formed of a nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and formed of a nitride semiconductor; first and second gate electrodes, a source electrode, and a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; an interlayer insulation film formed on the second semiconductor layer; and a field plate formed on the interlayer insulation film. Further, the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are formed between a region where the source electrode is formed and a region where the field plate is formed, an element isolation region is formed in the first and the second semiconductor layers which are between the first and the second gate electrodes, and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to the source electrode.

Abstract: In a crosshead, a pair of sheets (7) are formed by bisecting a parison (3) suspended from a resin flow passage (30) formed between a core (9) and a die (8) by causing a first dividing body (33) of a separator (5, 5a) provided on the core (9) or the die (8) to contact a second dividing body (40) provided on the core (9) or the die (8).

Abstract: The present invention concerns an oxygen reduction catalyst comprising composite particles in which primary particles of a titanium compound is dispersed into a carbon structure, wherein the composite particles have titanium, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen as constituent elements, and with regard to a ratio of number of atoms of each of the elements when titanium is taken as 1, a ratio of carbon is larger than 2 and 5 or less, a ratio of nitrogen is larger than 0 and 1 or less, and a ratio of oxygen is 1 or more and 3 or less, and an intensity ratio (D/G ratio) of D band peak intensity to G band peak intensity in a Raman spectrum is in the range of 0.4 to 1.0. The oxygen reduction catalyst according to the present invention has satisfactory initial performance and excellent start-stop durability.

Abstract: Provided is a peptide that specifically or selectively binds to human IgG. This peptide comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of 13 to 17 amino acid residues and is capable of binding to human IgG, wherein the amino acid sequence is represented by formula I: (X1-3)-C-(X2)-H-R-G-(Xaa1)-L-V-W-C-(X1-3), wherein, X each independently represents any amino acid residue except cysteine, C represents a cysteine residue, H represents a histidine residue, R represents an arginine residue, G represents a glycine residue, Xaa1 represents a glutamic acid residue or an asparagine residue, L represents a leucine residue, V represents a valine residue, and W represents a tryptophan residue.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst with high catalytic activity that is alternative to a noble metal catalyst, through a heat treatment at a relatively low temperature. A process for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst includes a step (I) of obtaining a catalyst precursor, including a step (Ia) of mixing at least a metal compound (1), a nitrogen-containing organic compound (2), and a fluorine-containing compound (3), and a step (II) of heat-treating the catalyst precursor at a temperature of 500 to 1300° C. to obtain an electrode catalyst, a portion or the entirety of the metal compound (1) being a compound containing an atom of a metal element M1 selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, titanium, niobium and zirconium, and at least one of the compounds (1), (2) and (3) containing an oxygen atom.

Abstract: A power supply device includes: a first transistor that switches a first current flowing between a first terminal and a second terminal of the first transistor; a second transistor that has a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the first transistor and a control terminal connected to a control terminal of the first transistor and is formed in a chip in which the first transistor is formed; a current source that supplies a second current between the first and second terminals of the second transistor; and a control part that performs a turn-on and turn-off control of the first transistor on the basis of voltages of the second terminals of the first and second transistors.

Abstract: A control device includes: a control circuit that controls a power supply circuit by a feedback of an output from an output terminal, the power supply circuit having a first transistor, the first transistor including gallium nitride material and having a source and a drain connected so that one of the source and the drain is connected to a first power supply and an other of the source and the drain is connected to the output terminal; and a first terminal via which a first control signal output by the control circuit is output to a gate of the first transistor.

Abstract: In the presence information management method of the present invention, the e-mail address of the user and the terminal address of a terminal are extracted upon receipt of an e-mail transmission request, the e-mail address and terminal address correspondence table is retrieved by using the extracted e-mail address, and the extracted terminal address is registered in the e-mail address and terminal address correspondence table if the retrieved terminal address does not correspond to the extracted terminal address. Thus, the user can automatically update presence information with his/her e-mail transmission request.

Abstract: In a crosshead, a pair of sheets (7) are formed by bisecting a parison (3) suspended from a resin flow passage (30) formed between a core (9) and a die (8) by causing a first dividing body (33) of a separator (5, 5a) provided on the core (9) or the die (8) to contact a second dividing body (40) provided on the core (9) or the die (8).

Abstract: A cache control apparatus comprises a primary cache part, a secondary cache part for caching data destaged from the primary cache part, and a controller connected to the primary cache part and to the secondary cache part. The secondary cache part has a first storage part and a second storage part having a lifetime longer than that of the first storage part. The controller determines whether the data destaged from the primary cache part is to be stored in the first storage part or the second storage part in the secondary cache part, based on a use state indicating whether or not the data has been updated, and stores the data in the first storage part or the second storage part determined.

Abstract: A guide device 3 for smoothing into a shape of a flat plate a parison P having a semi-circular shape in a planar cross-section, the parison being extruded from an extrusion device 1 and divided into two by a cutter 2, wherein the guide device includes a spiral guide element 4 that is in contact with the parison P while rotating about an axis, the spiral guide element being formed so as to rotate in opposite directions with each other on the left and right of a middle part 4C as a boundary so as to expand the parison P to the left and right. The spiral guide element 4 is formed in a protruding shape on an outer periphery of a shaft 5 rotated by the driving of a drive motor M.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.

Abstract: There is provided a system configured to prevent recording contents of various broadcasting schemes from being recorded together on a single recording medium while supporting various broadcasting schemes. An optical disc used here can record a digital stream complying with a predetermined digital broadcasting scheme and including specific information APP_NAME corresponding to a broadcasting scheme to be recorded. The broadcasting scheme to be recorded is checked. If another digital stream has already been recorded on the optical disc, its broadcasting scheme is detected from APP_NAME, and is compared with that of the stream to be recorded. If these broadcasting schemes are different, recording is aborted.

Abstract: A hollow fiber type reverse osmosis membrane including cellulose acetate, characterized in that the filtration rate and the salt rejection rate when an aqueous solution having sodium chloride concentration of 1,500 mg/L is filtered from outer side to inner side of the hollow fiber type reverse osmosis membrane at 25° C. and 1.5 MPa pressure are 180 to 350 L/m2/day and 90.0 to 99.0%, respectively and the outer diameter, the inner diameter and the hollow rate of the hollow fiber type reverse osmosis membrane are 100 to 280 ?m, 50 to 200 ?m and 24 to 42%, respectively. The hollow fiber type reverse osmosis membrane preferably has a dense layer near the outer surface, and thickness of the dense layer is 0.1 to 7 ?m.

Abstract: This invention relates to: a peptide which comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of 12 to 18 amino acid residues represented by (X1-3)—C—(X8-10)—C—(X1-3) wherein each X independently represents an arbitrary amino acid residue other than cysteine, and C represents a cysteine residue, and is capable of binding to human IgA; and to a method for analyzing or purifying human IgA using the peptide.

Abstract: A communication terminal includes: an update section that obtains software via a communication network from a predetermined provider so as to update the software; and a failure monitor section that monitors whether there is a failure to interfere with an update of the software by the update section. The communication terminal further includes an update record section that records, if there is the failure and the update becomes an incomplete update on an occasion of the update by the update section, the presence of the incomplete update; and an update prompting section that prompts, if a monitor result by the failure monitor section changes from that there is a failure to that there is no failure, performing by the update section the update whose presence is recorded by the update record section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a peptide capable of specifically binding to human IgG. In particular, the present invention relates to a human IgG binding peptide tag of 11 to 16 amino acids in length, comprising at least an amino acid sequence of the formula I: C-(X)n-W-X-X-X-W-(X)m-C (I) (SEQ?ID?NO:?17) wherein n and m are each an integer of 1 or more and the sum n+m is 4 or 5, wherein X-X-X in the formula I contains no cysteine residue, and wherein said amino acid sequence satisfies either or both of a) and b): a) (X)n-W in the formula I denotes Za-G-Y-W (SEQ ID NO: 18); and b) W-(X)m in the formula I denotes W-G-L-Zb (SEQ ID NO: 19) wherein Za and Zb are each 0, 1, or more amino acid residues.

Abstract: A magnetic tape head includes a writing element having a coil for generating magnetic flux and a yoke part that emits magnetic flux induced by the coil from a tape bearing surface opposite a magnetic tape, a substrate where the writing element is formed, and a closure joined with the substrate. A gap formed at a portion between the substrate and the closure exists from the yoke part in a direction orthogonal to a junction surface between the substrate and the closure.

Abstract: There is disclosed cutting means of a honeycomb dried body in which cracks are not easily generated in the honeycomb dried body, even when a grindstone continues to be used for a long period of time, a cutting speed is raised and a cutting object is a honeycomb dried body having a large diameter.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a magnetic recording medium, the magnetic recording medium having a structure where plural magnetic recording areas and isolation areas in a magnetic recording layer are formed on a non-magnetic substrate, the isolation areas being configured to magnetically isolate the magnetic recording areas, the manufacturing method includes a step of forming the magnetic layer on the non-magnetic substrate, the magnetic layer being made of a hard magnetic material having a magnetic coercive force whereby magnetic recording is impossible; and a step of performing ion implantation partially at positions corresponding to the plural magnetic recording areas of the magnetic layer so that the magnetic recording areas are formed by reducing the magnetic coercive force in the positions of the ion implantation to a magnetic-recordable magnetic coercive force, and allowing the isolation areas to maintain the magnetic coercive force whereby magnetic recording is impossible.