Abstract: A sensor element includes element main body including side surfaces, a detection unit, connector electrodes disposed on the rear end-side part of the side surfaces, a porous layer that covers at least front end-side part of the side surface, the porous layer having a porosity of 10% or more, and a water-penetration reduction portion. The water-penetration reduction portion is disposed on the side surface so as to divide the porous layer or to be located closer to the rear end than the porous layer. The length L of the water-penetration reduction portion is 0.5 mm or more. The water-penetration reduction portion includes, among a dense layer covering the side surface and having a porosity of less than 10% and a gap region in which the porous layer is absent, at least the dense layer. The water-penetration reduction portion reduces the capillarity of water.

Abstract: Provided are a pretreatment liquid for impermeable medium printing which includes a first type of resin particles that contain a resin having a glass transition temperature of 30° C. or higher, at least one aggregating agent selected from the group consisting of a polyvalent metal compound, a di- or higher valent carboxylic acid or a salt thereof, and a metal complex, and water, wherein when a solution comprising the first type of resin particles is coated on a surface to produce a film, a water contact angle of the film is in a range of and a mass ratio of a content of the first type of resin particles to a content of the aggregating agent is in a range of 10:1 to 1:1; a method of producing a base material for printing; an image recording method; and an ink set.

Abstract: An exterior package, a main body portion, and a detection unit are provided. The main body portion is disposed inside the exterior package. The detection unit detects a state of a power storage cell and performs wireless communication, at least a portion of the detection unit being disposed inside the exterior package.

Abstract: A sensor element includes an element main body in which a flow portion of a measurement-object gas is disposed, a measurement electrode disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas, a measurement electrode lead having a first portion that is connected to the measurement electrode and that is disposed in the flow portion of a measurement-object gas and a second portion that is connected to the first portion and that is embedded in the element main body, a hermetic layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds an end region of the second portion including the border with the first portion; and a lead insulating layer that is part of the element main body and that surrounds at least part of the second portion excluding the end region.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a first light source to emit first light; a diffuser to receive the first light and emits first scattered light; and a frame to support the first light source and the diffuser. The diffuser includes nanoparticles, and guides the received first light, scatters it with the nanoparticles, and emits it as the first scattered light. The diffuser includes an incident surface to receive the first light, a first surface on which an emission surface to emit the first scattered light is formed, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The incident surface is at a first edge portion of the diffuser, the frame is opened to expose at least a portion of a region on the first surface of the diffuser in which the emission surface is formed and a region on the second surface corresponding thereto.

Abstract: A template matching is performed on two fluoroscopic images by using a template image prepared in advance and a position corresponding to a high matching score is listed as a candidate for the position of a marker 29. From two lists of the candidates of the position of the marker 29, the lengths of common vertical lines for all combinations are calculated. Then, the position of the marker 29 is detected based on the matching score and the common vertical line. Then, based on the detected position of the marker 29, an amount of a proton beam to be irradiated to a target is controlled. Therefore, a tracking target can be accurately detected even when the conditions for X-ray fluoroscopy is severe, e.g., a thick object.

Abstract: Provided are a method of producing a recording medium, including a step of preparing a liquid A which includes at least one kind of aggregating agent selected from the group consisting of an acid, a polyvalent metal compound, and a metal complex, and water, a step of preparing a liquid B which includes a resin and water, a step of mixing the liquid A with the liquid B at an ambient temperature of 5° C. to 40° C. to obtain a mixed solution, a step of storing the mixed solution at an ambient temperature of 5° C. to 40° C., and a step of applying the mixed solution after the storage onto an impermeable base material within 30 days from the start of mixing the liquid A with the liquid B to obtain a recording medium; and an image recording method.

Abstract: A treatment planning apparatus 501 or a clinical decision support apparatus 701 calculates a dose distribution, calculates the damage to a normal tissue for a plurality of number of times of radiation irradiation based on the calculated dose distribution, and displays at least one or more calculated damages to the normal tissues on display apparatuses 603 and 703 or outputs the same to an outside of the apparatuses 501 and 701. Accordingly, since effects can be calculated for a plurality of number of times of irradiation, the optimum number of time of irradiation can be presented, and an operator and a doctor can be presented with a suitable decision material of a radiation irradiation planning.

Abstract: An illumination device that simulates the sky, includes a light source that emits first light; a light-emitting part that allows the first light to enter, guides the entered first light by means of total reflection while scattering the first light, and emits the scattered light from a light emission surface; a back surface reflective part that is provided to face a back surface as a surface of the light-emitting part on a side opposite to the light emission surface and reflects light emitted from the back surface of the light-emitting part; a frame that includes a part situated at least in front of the light emission surface of the light-emitting part; and an optical member that is provided between the light emission surface of the light-emitting part and the part of the frame and reflects a part of the light emitted from the light emission surface of the light-emitting part.

Abstract: A dephosphorization method using a top and bottom blown converter. This method uses a converter charged with molten iron and slag, to blow an oxygen-containing gas from a top-blowing lance, supply the gas from an inlet of a blowing hole, and supply a control gas from an opening toward an axial center. This method has: a slag top-surface position measurement step, with the top surface of the molten iron measured in advance, measuring an arbitrary position in a top surface of the slag; a slag top-surface difference calculation of slag thickness difference between the measured top-surface positions of the molten iron and the slag; and a jetting condition adjustment step of, using the obtained slag thickness, adjusting a jetting condition of the gas jetted from the top-blowing lance into an appropriate range. The top-blown jetting condition is adjusted by comparing the slag thickness and the depth of a surface depression.

Abstract: A diffuser generates scattered light and satisfies MFP=1/(?×A2×Qs×N)=?Zd, 0.4???5 where N denotes a number of nanoparticles included in a unit volume of a light guiding and diffusing portion, A denotes an average particle radius of the nanoparticles, Qs denotes a scattering efficiency determined by a combination of the nanoparticles and a medium of the light guiding and diffusing portion, MFP denotes a mean free path for light of a design wavelength set in a range of 450 nm to 650 nm, Zd denotes a length of the light guiding and diffusing portion in a light guiding direction of incident light, and a denotes a coefficient.

Abstract: An articulated robot has an arm, a drive motor for driving and positioning the arm, a gas spring for supporting a load acting on the arm to reduce a load of the drive motor and a control unit for controlling the drive motor. The control unit has a function of estimating a decrease state of a gas sealed inside the gas spring based on an actual current value of the drive motor obtained at a stop position at which the drive motor is operated and stopped in an energized state. The decrease state of the gas sealed inside the gas spring is estimated based on the current value of a servo motor without causing decline in operation rate of the robot.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element and one or more hollow columnar dense bodies. The sensor element includes an element main body having a side surface, a porous layer and a water-penetration reduction portion that cover at least a front end-side part of the side surface. The water-penetration reduction portion disposed on the side surface so as to divide the porous layer or to be located closer to the rear end than the porous layer, an overlap length W that is the length of a continuous overlap between a range in which the water-penetration reduction portion is present in a longitudinal direction and a range in which inner peripheral surfaces of the one or more dense bodies are present in the longitudinal direction being 0.5 mm or more, and having a dense layer covers the side surface, the water-penetration reduction portion reduces the capillarity of water.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form shield tunnels in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of blowing air to each device chip from the polyester sheet side to push up each device chip through the polyester sheet and picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element and one or more hollow columnar dense bodies. The sensor element includes an element main body having a side surface, a porous layer and a water-penetration reduction portion that cover at least a front end-side part of the side surface. The water-penetration reduction portion disposed on the side surface so as to divide the porous layer an overlap length W that is the length of a continuous overlap between a range in which the water-penetration reduction portion is present in the longitudinal direction and a range in which inner peripheral surfaces of the one or more dense bodies are present in the longitudinal direction being 0.5 mm or more, the water-penetration reduction portion being a gap region in which the porous layer is absent, the water-penetration reduction portion reduces the capillarity of water.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a frame forming part that is provided at at least one position on an end part of a light-emitting panel having a light emission surface or in a vicinity of the light-emitting panel and includes a bright part region and a dark part region, a light source that emits light to be incident upon the frame forming part, and a light amount regulation part that makes intensity of light heading for a space facing the light emission surface from the dark part region weaker than intensity of light heading for the space from the bright part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source, or makes the intensity of the light from the bright part region stronger than the intensity of the light from the dark part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form shield tunnels in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of cooling the polyester sheet, pushing up each device chip through the polyester sheet, and picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm supporting part, a rotary arm rotatably supported by the arm supporting part, a drive motor configured to rotate the rotary arm, a gas spring configured to reduce a load of the drive motor by supporting a load acting on the rotary arm and a controller. The controller determines that the rotary arm rotates, and estimates a reduced state of gas in the gas spring based on a comparison between an actual current value and a theoretical current value of the drive motor when the rotary arm rotates.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form modified layers in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of cooling the polyester sheet in each of the plurality of separate regions corresponding to each device chip, pushing up each device chip through the polyester sheet, then picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a first light source to emit first light; a diffuser to receive the first light and emits first scattered light; and a frame to support the first light source and the diffuser. The the diffuser includes nanoparticles, and guides the received first light, scatters it with the nanoparticles, and emits it as the first scattered light. The diffuser includes an incident surface to receive the first light, a first surface on which an emission surface to emit the first scattered light is formed, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The incident surface is at a first edge portion of the diffuser, the frame is opened to expose at least a portion of a region on the first surface of the diffuser in which the emission surface is formed and a region on the second surface corresponding thereto.