Abstract: Provided is an inexpensive thermally conductive silicone rubber composite sheet. The thermally conductive silicone rubber composite sheet of the invention includes a laminated structure body comprised of an intermediate layer and an outer layer laminated on both surfaces of the intermediate layer, in which (A) the intermediate layer is an electrical insulating synthetic resin film layer having a thermal conductivity of not lower than 0.20 W/m·K and a tensile elastic modulus of not lower than 5 GPa, and (B) the outer layer is a silicone rubber layer of a cured product of a composition containing: (a) an organopolysiloxane; (b) a curing agent; (c) a thermally conductive filler; and (d) a silicon compound-based adhesion imparting agent having at least one kind of group selected from the group consisting of an epoxy group, an alkoxy group, a methyl group, a vinyl group and a Si—H group.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a carrier for a double-side polishing apparatus, including: preparing a carrier base material and insert thicker than the carrier base material, inserting the insert into a holding hole so as to protrude the insert from both sides of the front surface and back surface of the carrier base material, measuring each of a front protruding amount of the insert protruded from front surface of the carrier base material and a back protruding amount of the insert protruded from back surface of the carrier base material, setting each rotational speed of the upper turn table and lower turn table in starting-up polishing of the carrier so as to decrease the difference between the front protruding amount and back protruding amount, and a starting-up polishing step to subject the carrier to starting-up polishing at each set rotational speed of the upper turn table and the lower turn table.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that authenticates sets of distributed authentication information without collecting, the sets of distributed authentication information, to be collected at any one of apparatuses included in a system.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a manufacturing method for an exhaust gas purification device that can uniformly coat a honeycomb substrate with slurry even when using a low viscosity slurry. The present invention pertains to a manufacturing method for an exhaust gas purification device that includes providing a slurry for catalyst layer formation from a shower nozzle onto a honeycomb substrate, coating the honeycomb substrate with the slurry, and firing the honeycomb substrate coated with the slurry, wherein the viscosity of the slurry at a shear rate of 4 s?1 is 800 mPA·s or less, the shower nozzle has a plurality of discharge openings for discharging the slurry, the relationship of the spacing a) of the discharge openings and the diameter b) of the liquid drops formed when starting supply of the slurry is 0.

Abstract: There is provided a shaped container which is unlikely to cause coloring or flavoring even when a processed food product containing a large amount of oil or fat, such as curry or stew, is stored in the container over a long period. The shaped container is formed of a metal laminated packaging material 10 including a heat-fusible resin layer 10a of a homopolypropylene film, a barrier layer 10c of a metal foil, and a protective resin layer 10d of a synthetic resin film, which are laminated in this order. The heat-fusible resin layer 10a forms the inner surface of the shaped container.

Abstract: In a cell stack, each of the plurality of the electrochemical cells includes an alloy member, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer. The alloy member includes a base member constituted by an alloy material containing chromium, a coating film that covers at least a part of a surface of the base member, and a separation inhibiting portion that inhibits the coating film from separating from the base member. The number of the separation inhibiting portions included in the alloy member of the central electrochemical cell is larger than the number of the separation inhibiting portions included in the alloy member of the end electrochemical cell.

Abstract: A joining structure includes a first bonded member and a glass portion that is bonded to a surface of the first bonded member. The glass portion includes an interface region not exceeding 5 ?m of the surface of the first bonded member, and an inner region more than 5 ?m from the surface of the first bonded member. The interface region and inner region respectively include rod-shaped crystal particles that have three or more aspect ratios when viewed in cross section. An average orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region is greater than or equal to 60 degrees and less than or equal to 120 degrees. A standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the inner region is greater than a standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region.

Abstract: In order to prevent leakage, a fluid control apparatus is adapted to include: a valve provided in the flow path through which the fluid flows; a pressure sensor provided upstream of the valve; a flow rate sensor provided downstream of the pressure sensor; a reference pressure determination part that is inputted with a measured flow rate from the flow rate sensor and on the basis of a flow rate-pressure map, determines a reference pressure corresponding to the measured flow rate; a reference flow rate calculation part that calculates a reference flow rate so that the deviation between the reference pressure and a measured pressure measured by the pressure sensor decreases; and a valve control part that controls the opening of the valve so that the deviation between the reference flow rate and the measured flow rate decreases.

Abstract: A manifold includes a first manifold main body and a second manifold main body. The first manifold main body includes a first gas chamber configured to communicate with a first gas channel. The second manifold main body includes a second gas chamber configured to communicate with a second gas channel. The second manifold main body is disposed in the first manifold main body.

Abstract: A method for polishing a silicon wafer, including: a first polishing step of polishing a silicon wafer surface by bringing the wafer held by a polishing head into sliding contact with a polishing pad attached to a turn table while supplying an aqueous alkaline solution containing abrasive grains onto the polishing pad, and a second polishing step of polishing the silicon wafer surface by bringing the wafer into sliding contact with the polishing pad while supplying an aqueous alkaline solution containing a polymer without containing abrasive grains onto the polishing pad, wherein the surface temperature of the polishing pad is controlled such that the surface temperature of the polishing pad in the second polishing step is higher than the surface temperature of the polishing pad in the first polishing step by 2° C. or more. This successfully achieves both of higher flatness and reduction in surface roughness.

Abstract: In at least some implementations, a method of controlling spark events in an engine includes determining for at least two engine revolutions in a four-stroke engine at least one characteristic of the primary coil voltage for a spark event, determining, based upon the characteristic of the primary coil voltage, which of the spark events is associated with a compression phase and which of the spark events is associated with an exhaust phase of engine operation, and providing spark events in subsequent engine revolutions that are associated with the compression phase of engine operation but not in revolutions associated with the exhaust phase of engine operation. In at least some implementations, the characteristic is the duration of the spark event as determined by changes in the primary coil voltage, and the characteristic may be that the duration that the primary coil voltage is above a threshold voltage.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a substrate having a ground conductor, an antenna conductor disposed approximately parallel with the ground conductor with an air layer or a dielectric layer, plural short-circuiting conductors that connect the antenna conductor to the ground conductor, and a feed conductor disposed in a vicinity of one of the plural short-circuiting conductors and that feeds the antenna conductor with power. When a wavelength of frequency used in the antenna device is represented by ?, an outer circumferential length of the slot is approximately 1? to 2? and a width of the slot is 0.005? to 0.05?, an interval between the plural short-circuiting conductors is shorter than or equal to ?/2, and a distance between the antenna conductor and the ground conductor is 0.005? to 0.05?.

Abstract: A random number generation system 20 generates a random number using a public key, a component of which is the member of a residue class ring modulo of a predetermined natural number excluding natural numbers represented by the power of a prime in composite numbers, the random number generation system including: a factorizing means 21 that computes the prime factorization for a predetermined natural number; and a generation means 22 that generates a random number in accordance with a discrete Gaussian distribution over a lattice wherein a vector having non-zero components of a single prime factor obtained by computing prime factorization and ?1 is a basis vector.

Abstract: A generation means 11 generates a uniform random number between 0 and a first probability, which is a probability of a stochastic variable becoming a value within a predetermined interval in a positive range in the first discrete distribution. When a uniform random number less than or equal to a second probability is generated, the second probability being a probability of the stochastic variable becoming a value within a predetermined interval in a second discrete distribution, which is a discrete Gaussian distribution on a one-dimensional lattice the center of which is the origin, the selection means 12 selects, as a random number generation method, an accumulation method in which a functional value defining the second discrete distribution is used. When a uniform random number greater than the second probability is generated, the selection means 12 selects a rejection sampling method as the random number generation method.

Abstract: To suitably set a control gain in feedback control while suppressing an increase in apparatus size. A workpiece transport control system includes: one or a plurality of motion guidance devices; a table on which a workpiece is to be placed; an actuator which imparts a driving force to the table; a control unit which performs transport control by feedback control; and a calculation unit which calculates a transport load applied from the workpiece to a moving member of each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices, wherein a control gain related to the feedback control in the transport control is adjusted on the basis of the transport load in each of the one or a plurality of motion guidance devices.

Abstract: Provided is a thermally conductive thin-film cured product constituted by a cured product of a handleable silicone composition, the cured product having good transferability to a member and good post-debonding handling properties, and exhibiting good bond strength to a heat-generating element, even at elevated temperatures. The thermally conductive thin-film cured product is obtained by curing a silicone composition containing: (a) 100 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane comprising two or more alkenyl groups per molecule; 200-2,000 parts by mass, inclusive, of a thermally conductive filler; (c) an amount of an organohydrodiene polysiloxane comprising two or more hydrogen atoms directly bonded to a silicon atom per molecule such that Si—H/alkenyl groups is 0.5-50.0, inclusive; (d) an amount of a platinum group metal compound equal to 0.

Abstract: A joining structure includes a first bonded member and a glass portion that is bonded to a surface of the first bonded member. The glass portion includes an interface region not exceeding 5 ?m of the surface of the first bonded member, and an inner region more than 5 ?m from the surface of the first bonded member. The interface region and inner region respectively include rod-shaped crystal particles that have three or more aspect ratios when viewed in cross section. An average orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region is greater than or equal to 60 degrees and less than or equal to 120 degrees. A standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the inner region is greater than a standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region.

Abstract: The random number generation system 10 includes: a first generation means 11 that generates a random number according to a one-dimensional discrete Gaussian distribution on a first lattice that is a lattice comprising an addition vector obtained by adding the second vector to the first vector and a subtraction vector obtained by subtracting the second vector from the first vector; a second generation means 12 that generates a random number according to a one-dimensional discrete Gaussian distribution on a second lattice that is the first lattice in which a vector obtained by dividing the sum of the addition vector and the subtraction vector by 2 is added; and an instruction means 13 that instructs the first generation means 11 or the second generation means 12 to generate a random number.

Abstract: A navigation system includes a detector configured to detect a situation in a movable object, a determiner configured to determine a degree of activity of conversation in the movable object on the basis of a detection result by the detector, a movement plan setter configured to set a movement plan on the basis of setting information which is set by a user, and to change at least part of the set movement plan on the basis of a determination result by the determiner, and a navigator configured to navigate the movable object on the basis of the movement plan which is set or changed by the movement plan setter.

Abstract: In a management system which manages user equipment installed in a prescribed space managed by a user, the user equipment including a plurality of motion guidance devices each including a track member, a moving member, and a plurality of displacement sensors which detect displacements of the moving member in a prescribed number of displacement directions in the moving member, on the basis of lifespan-related information corresponding to each of the plurality of motion guidance devices, a lifespan exhaustion ratio of each motion guidance device is calculated and, on the basis of the calculated lifespan exhaustion ratio, replacement object devices to be replaced within a prescribed period which constitute a part of or all of the plurality of motion guidance devices are determined. In addition, a user is notified of a replacement timing at which all of the determined replacement object devices in the user equipment are to be replaced.