Abstract: Provided are a technique related to a CO2 electrolysis device that is more excellent in production efficiency for producing a reduction product (CO or the like) from CO2, and a technique related to a CO2 electrolysis device that can suppress a decrease in CO2 reduction efficiency and be stably operated. An aspect of the present invention is a CO2 electrolysis device including an electrode material. The CO2 electrolysis device includes: a support including a conductive carrier and a catalyst supported on the conductive carrier, the catalyst including any one or more of particles of a metal complex, a metal, or an inorganic compound; and an anion exchange resin covering a part or the whole of the surface of the support and including an ionomer of the following formula (1): where m and n represent natural numbers of 1 to 200.

Abstract: A solid-electrolyte electrolytic device may be excellent in operation rate and have device life without stopping a CO2 reduction reaction. A solid-electrolyte electrolytic device may include: a cathode that performs a reduction reaction; an anode that constitutes one pair of electrodes together with the cathode; an electrolytic solution that is in contact with the anode and supports an oxidation-reduction reaction; a solid electrolyte that is disposed between the cathode and the anode; and a refresh unit that supplies a recovery liquid for diluting or replacing the electrolytic solution to the anode to remove a salt precipitated between the cathode and the solid electrolyte, the recovery liquid being a solution with a lower concentration of a cation identical to a cation included in the salt than the electrolytic solution.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite in which at least one of an elemental metal or a metal compound is carried on a carrier. The method includes exposing a dispersion liquid containing a solvent and the carrier to a reduced-pressure environment of less than 80 kPa (absolute pressure) at normal temperature, preparing a raw material mixture liquid by mixing a metal-ion supplying agent which is a metal ion source of the elemental metal or the metal compound with the dispersion liquid, and mixing a reducing agent with the raw material mixture liquid and causing the elemental metal or the metal compound to be carried on a surface of the carrier.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a quantum cascade laser element includes: a step of forming a semiconductor layer on a first major surface of a semiconductor wafer; a step of removing a part of the semiconductor layer by etching such that each of portions of the semiconductor layer includes a ridge portion; a step of forming an insulating layer such that at least a part of a surface of the ridge portion is exposed; a step of embedding the ridge portion in each of metal plating layers; a step of flattening a surface of the metal plating layers by polishing in a state where a protective member is disposed; a step of forming an electrode layer on a second major surface of the semiconductor wafer; and a step of cleaving the semiconductor wafer and the semiconductor layer in a state where the protective member is removed.

Abstract: A quantum-cascade laser element includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate to include an active layer having a quantum-cascade structure and to extend along a light waveguide direction; an embedding layer formed to interpose the semiconductor mesa along a width direction of the semiconductor substrate; a cladding layer formed at least on the semiconductor mesa; and a metal layer formed at least on the cladding layer. A thickness of the cladding layer is thinner in a second region located outside a first region in the width direction of the semiconductor substrate than in the first region of which at least a part overlaps the semiconductor mesa when viewed in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The metal layer extends over the first region and the second region.

Abstract: An object is to provide a metal-resin bonded member that is easy to manufacture and has high bonding strength. The metal-resin bonded member includes a metal body having an iron oxide layer on the surface and a resin body bonded to the metal body via the iron oxide layer. The iron oxide layer has a thickness of 50 nm to 10 ?m. The iron oxide layer comprises 60-40 at % Fe and 40-60 at % O at the outermost surface side. The iron oxide layer contains magnetite (Fe3O4). The iron oxide layer is formed by heating the surface of an iron-based substrate at 200-850° C. in an oxidation atmosphere. The resin body is composed of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). The bonding of the metal body and the resin body via the iron oxide layer can be carried out by insert molding, thermal adhesion utilizing friction heating, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of beverage which provides foam with improved quality. More specifically, the present invention relates to an effervescent beverage that comprises oxidation products of hops and provides foam with improved quality.

Abstract: The invention is related to a beverage having an improved flavor. More precisely, it is related to a beverage having an improved flavor, comprising an aqueous medium extract of a hop having been subjected to an oxidation treatment.

Abstract: A laminate having excellent abrasion resistance to physical stimuli such as dust. The laminate comprises a base layer, a hard coat layer and a top coat layer comprising flaky metal oxide fine particles all of which are formed in this order. The flaky metal oxide fine particles are hardened by at least one method selected from the group consisting of ionizing material exposure, ionizing radiation exposure, infrared exposure, microwave exposure and high-temperature vapor exposure.

Abstract: An object is to provide a metal-resin bonded member that is easy to manufacture and has high bonding strength. The metal-resin bonded member includes a metal body having an iron oxide layer on the surface and a resin body bonded to the metal body via the iron oxide layer. The iron oxide layer has a thickness of 50 nm to 10 ?m. The iron oxide layer comprises 60-40 at % Fe and 40-60 at % O at the outermost surface side. The iron oxide layer contains magnetite (Fe3O4). The iron oxide layer is formed by heating the surface of an iron-based substrate at 200-850° C. in an oxidation atmosphere. The resin body is composed of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). The bonding of the metal body and the resin body via the iron oxide layer can be carried out by insert molding, thermal adhesion utilizing friction heating, etc.

Abstract: A gas circuit breaker having a pair of contacts and a pair of exhaust conductors. An exhaust hole in the pair of exhaust conductors is provided with an insulation cover having an opening. The cover has a guide on an opening end on the side near the pair of contacts and an opening end on the side far from the pair of contacts respectively. The guide has an exhaust hole protective guide and a high-temperature gas passage dividing guide. A first gas flow passage is between an exhaust hole protective guide and a high-temperature gas passage dividing guide, and a second gas flow passage is between the high-temperature gas passage dividing guides. The first gas flow passage is narrower than the second gas flow passage. An end of the exhaust hole protective guide on the first gas flow passage side is projected toward the high-temperature gas passage dividing guide.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a storage system may include, but is not limited to, a master volume, one or more link volumes, a master data read frequency determination unit, a load state determination unit, a copy target determination unit, a copy destination determination unit, and a copy controller. The copy target determination unit determines copy target data in the data stored in the master volume on the basis of the read frequency when the load state determination unit determines that the master volume is in a high load state. The copy destination determination unit determines at least one of the one or more link volumes as a copy destination link volume of the copy target data on the basis of the load state of each of the one or more link volumes. The copy controller copies the copy target data into the copy destination link volume.

Abstract: A gas circuit breaker having a pair of contacts and a pair of exhaust conductors. An exhaust hole in the pair of exhaust conductors is provided with an insulation cover having an opening. The cover has a guide on an opening end on the side near the pair of contacts and an opening end on the side far from the pair of contacts respectively. The guide has an exhaust hole protective guide and a high-temperature gas passage dividing guide. A first gas flow passage is between an exhaust hole protective guide and a high-temperature gas passage dividing guide, and a second gas flow passage is between the high-temperature gas passage dividing guides. The first gas flow passage is narrower than the second gas flow passage. An end of the exhaust hole protective guide on the first gas flow passage side is projected toward the high-temperature gas passage dividing guide.

Abstract: A gas circuit breaker is configured by comprising a tank filled with arc extinguishing gas, a pair of fixed side arc contact and moving side arc contact in the tank, a puffer chamber formed with a puffer cylinder including the moving side arc contact at its end and a fixed piston, and an insulating nozzle, attached to the end of the puffer cylinder, surrounding the moving side arc contact, that forms a flow channel to guide arc extinguishing gas from the puffer chamber to the contacts. A puffer cylinder 104 has a cylindrical member 104a at a breaker side end, an end of the insulating nozzle 101 is provided in the cylindrical member 104a. And the gas circuit breaker is configured by further comprising a hollow moving side main contact 102 at a breaker side end of the cylindrical member 104a, a pressing metal fitting 103 to engage an insulating nozzle 101 in the hollow part of the moving side main contact 102.

Abstract: A rare earth magnet production method of the present invention includes a placing step of placing a magnet material including a compact or a sintered body of powder particles having a rare earth magnet alloy, and a diffusing material containing a diffusing element to improve coercivity, in a vicinity of each other; and a diffusing step of diffusing the diffusing element into an inside of the magnet material by exposing the magnet material heated to vapor of the diffusing element evaporated from the diffusing material heated; and wherein the diffusing step is a step of heating the diffusing material independently of the magnet material to diffusing material temperature which is different from heating temperature of the magnet material called magnet material temperature.

Abstract: A method for producing a rare earth magnet material which allows efficient Dy or the like diffusion into an inside thereof. This method includes a preparation step of preparing a powder mixture of magnet powder including one or more rare earth elements including neodymium, boron, and the remainder being iron; and neodymium fluoride powder; a heating step of heating a compact of the powder mixture and causing oxygen around magnet powder particles to react with the fluoride powder, thereby obtaining a lump rare earth magnet material in which neodymium oxyfluoride is wholly distributed. The fluoride powder traps oxygen enclosed in the powder mixture and fixes the oxygen as stable NdOF. When Dy is diffused into this rare earth magnet material, Dy smoothly enters into its inside without being oxidized at grain boundaries. Consequently, coercivity of the entire rare earth magnet material can be efficiently increased without wasting scarce Dy.

Abstract: A gas circuit breaker is configured by comprising a tank filled with arc extinguishing gas, a pair of fixed side arc contact and moving side arc contact in the tank, a puffer chamber formed with a puffer cylinder including the moving side arc contact at its end and a fixed piston, and an insulating nozzle, attached to the end of the puffer cylinder, surrounding the moving side arc contact, that forms a flow channel to guide arc extinguishing gas from the puffer chamber to the contacts. A puffer cylinder 104 has a cylindrical member 104a at a breaker side end, an end of the insulating nozzle 101 is provided in the cylindrical member 104a. And the gas circuit breaker is configured by further comprising a hollow moving side main contact 102 at a breaker side end of the cylindrical member 104a, a pressing metal fitting 103 to engage an insulating nozzle 101 in the hollow part of the moving side main contact 102.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of beverage which provides foam with improved quality. More specifically, the present invention relates to an effervescent beverage that comprises oxidation products of hops and provides foam with improved quality.

Abstract: The invention is related to a beverage having an improved flavor. More precisely, it is related to a beverage having an improved flavor, comprising an aqueous medium extract of a hop having been subjected to an oxidation treatment.

Abstract: An image display apparatus 100 for a vehicle is provided with: an image display unit 2 that has a light source and a display element and outputs image light; a mirror 3 that reflects the image light output by the image display unit 2 toward a windshield 7; a mirror drive unit 4 that changes the angle and position of the mirror 3; and a control unit 10 that determines amounts of change in the angle and position of the mirror and controls the mirror drive unit 4. The control unit 10 makes determinations of the amount of change for the angle and position of the mirror in association with each other such that the image is visible even if the position of the driver's eyes 8 changes and the display state of the image with respect to the driver does not change.