Abstract: A processor that performs determination processing for determining whether a contact state between probes P1 and P2 brought into contact with a positive electrode terminal Tp and a metal layer Lm in a secondary battery DUT having capacitance Cd between the positive electrode terminal Tp and the metal layer Lm is satisfactory or unsatisfactory, a storage 7 that stores a threshold value set to a value equal to or less than a capacitance value of capacitance C3 between the probes P1 and P2 in a non-contact state with the positive electrode terminal Tp and the metal layer Lm, and a capacitance value of the capacitance Cd between the positive electrode terminal Tp and the metal layer Lm, and a processor 6 that measures a capacitance value of capacitance (capacitance obtained by adding the capacitance C3 and the capacitance Cd) between the probes P1 and P2 in a contact state.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses having processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, from a first terminal, input specifying an arrangement and usage of a logical device on architectural drawing data of a building, and registers an arrangement position and an operation setting associated with the drawing data. The processing circuitry also receives identification information of a physical device and a hub from a second terminal, registers the identification information, and pairs the physical device with the hub. After installation of the physical device and the hub in the building, a floor plan image showing the arrangement position of the logical device is displayed on a third terminal. When an arrangement position is designated on the floor plan image, identification information read from a physical device or a hub installed at the position is associated with the logical device.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device, an electronic device, and a distance measurement system for miniaturization of pixels in a device that outputs a luminance signal and an event signal. A device includes: a pixel array unit in which an event pixel that detects that a luminance change exceeds a predetermined threshold and a gradation pixel that outputs a luminance signal of a gradation level according to a light amount of incident light are mixed, in which a color filter of the same color is formed in units of two or more pixels in the gradation pixel, and the event pixel is disposed with a region size in which at least two of the gradation pixels are arranged in a row direction or a column direction. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a distance measurement system or the like that generates image information and distance measurement information.

Abstract: An etching method with HF gas and a catalyst is provided. According to one embodiment, the etching method includes: a step of providing a catalytic layer 2 on a substrate 1 that contains silicon as a principal component; a step of exposing the substrate 1 provided with the catalytic layer 2, to an HF gas atmosphere; and a step of irradiating the substrate 1 in the HF gas atmosphere with light, and etching the substrate 1 in contact with the catalytic layer 2.

Abstract: Provided is a hydrophilic treatment coating composition which imparts a soil guard property and is superior in durability of soil guard performance. Provided is a hydrophilic treatment coating composition for an inorganic substrate surface-treated with a silane coupling agent (S), comprising a hydrophilic compound (A) and a hydrophilic compound (B), wherein the hydrophilic compound (A) is a compound having at least one of a sulfonic acid group and an alkali metal salt of a sulfonic acid group, and the hydrophilic compound (B) is a compound having a quaternary ammonium cationic group.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method includes rendering a user interface on an extended reality device, the user interface identifying a media item for playback using a streaming application, in response to selection of the media item for playback, initiating a display of immersive imagery related to the media item on the extended reality device, and transmitting a request to the streaming application. The request includes at least one parameter about the immersive imagery that causes the streaming application to render a display panel within the immersive imagery using the at least one parameter, the display panel displaying content of the media item.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a polyamide composition that is less prone to clogging in the flow paths such as filters in a processing apparatus during melt processing such as melt spinning, and allows for long-term continuous operation of a processing apparatus can be provided. A polyamide composition is provided which is a recycled polyamide composition containing a silicon compound and having a silicon atom content as quantified by X-ray fluorescence analysis of 1000 ppm or less.

Abstract: The present invention has an upper surface protecting/heating mechanism that heats a substrate while covering an upper surface of the substrate held by the substrate holder. In the upper surface protecting/heating mechanism, a base block, a first under block and a second under block are combined to form a clearance region and an annular air outlet. Gas flowing in the clearance region is heated by a peripheral edge heating part and then supplied from the annular air outlet to the vicinity of the peripheral edge part of the upper surface of the substrate. The peripheral edge heating part heats not only the peripheral edge part of the upper surface of the substrate but also the peripheral edge part of the substrate to a temperature suitable for the substrate processing in a short time.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is an aluminum alloy sheet for a can lid including a silicon (Si) content of 0.20 mass % or more and 0.47 mass % or less; an iron (Fe) content of 0.30 mass % or more and 0.70 mass % or less; a copper (Cu) content of 0.11 mass % or more and 0.40 mass % or less; a manganese (Mn) content of 0.70 mass % or more and 1.20 mass % or less; a magnesium (Mg) content of 1.1 mass % or more and 3.7 mass % or less; and a balance consisting of or including aluminum (Al) and inevitable impurities. The aluminum alloy sheet has a solidus temperature higher than a solid solutionizing temperature of Mg2Si.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus installed on an inside of a firewall includes a processor configured to transmit, to an information processing apparatus installed on an outside of the firewall, an image generated in accordance with an instruction of a user, process information indicating a content of a process on the image, and storage destination information indicating a storage destination of a process image obtained in a manner that the information processing apparatus executes the process according to the process information on the image, and perform control of causing the information processing apparatus to directly store the process image in a storage destination on the outside of the firewall in a case where the storage destination of the process image obtained from the storage destination information is the storage destination on the outside of the firewall.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus for grinding a wafer includes a chuck table, a grinding unit, an elevating mechanism, a grinding water supply device, a spray nozzle, a thickness measuring device, and a controller to control spraying water from a spray nozzle toward the wafer so as to expand or contract the chuck table via the wafer and thereby changing a height of a holding surface such that warm water is sprayed toward a position, of which thickness value among thickness values measured by the thickness measuring device indicates a thickness greater than a preset target thickness, or a position, of which thickness value indicates a thickness greater than an average value of the thickness values; or cold water is sprayed toward a position, of which thickness value indicates a thickness less than the preset target thickness, or a position, of which thickness value indicates a thickness less than the average value.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a neutral lipid capable of suppressing the phase transition of endosomal membranes caused by phosphatidylcholine from being inhibited; and a lipid nanoparticle containing the neutral lipid. The present invention pertains to an ionic neutral lipid comprising a compound represented by general formula (I). [In formula (I), R1 is a C1-22 hydrocarbon group; three R1 groups in one molecule may be the same as or different from each other; a1 and a2 are each independently an integer of 0 to 4; b1 and b2 are 0 or 1, satisfying b1+b2=1; R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-3 alkyl group; and R4 is an anionic group.

Abstract: An imaging element and a distance measuring device capable of making uniform parasitic capacitances generated between wirings for each wiring that include a photoelectric conversion unit; first and second charge storage units; a first transfer unit; a second transfer unit; and a wiring layer, in which a first wiring connected to the first transfer unit and a second wiring connected to the second transfer unit are arranged in the wiring layer, a drive wiring to supply a drive signal or/and a fixed voltage wiring to supply a predetermined voltage are arranged therein, and the number of the drive wirings or/and the fixed voltage wirings adjacent to the first wiring, and the number of the drive wirings or/and the fixed voltage wirings adjacent to the second wiring are the same. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging element having a plurality of taps and performing distance measurement.

Abstract: A semiconductor device that normally-off drives a first transistor that normally-on drives, the semiconductor device includes a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a first diode. The first circuitry that is connected with a power supply voltage and a ground voltage, detects the power supply voltage, and outputs a transition state of the power supply voltage. The second circuitry that is connected with the power supply voltage, the ground voltage, the first circuitry, and a second transistor, and outputs a drive voltage of a second transistor connected in series with the first transistor, based on an output of the first circuitry. The first diode having an anode connected with a drive terminal of the first transistor and a cathode connected with an output terminal of the second transistor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid nanoparticles capable of delivering a target substance to hepatic stellate cells. The lipid nanoparticles are for delivering a target substance to hepatic stellate cells and comprise a pH-sensitive cationic lipid including a hydrophilic portion and two hydrophobic portions, wherein an acid dissociation constant pKa of a lipid membrane constituting the lipid nanoparticles is greater than or equal to 6.7 and less than 8.2.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a can lid, the sheet including: 0.20 mass % or more and 0.47 mass % or less of Si; 0.30 mass % or more and 0.59 mass % or less of Fe; 0.11 mass % or more and 0.40 mass % or less of Cu; 0.70 mass % or more and 0.98 mass % or less of Mn, and 1.1 mass % or more and 3.7 mass % or less of Mg, wherein, in each of 0°, 45°, and 90° directions to a rolling direction, a minimum evaluation value Smin among evaluation values S calculated by a following formula (1) using a 0.2% yield strength ?0.2, a tensile strength ?B, and an average value ?fm of the 0.2% yield strength and the tensile strength is 330 MPa or more and 410 MPa or less. S = ? fm / ( ? 0.

Abstract: Provided are an airbag base cloth and an airbag including same, the airbag base cloth being a flexible and lightweight airbag fabric on which films are laminated, having good rubbing resistance after withstanding heat/wet heat, and providing excellent internal pressure retention within the airbag after sewing. The airbag base cloth according to the present invention is characterized in that at least one face of fabric is coated with a multilayer film having an adhesive layer, and the average value of the warp and weft slippage resistance in the base cloth is 350 N/2.5 cm or more.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy sheet for a can lid. The method includes a process of casting an ingot that includes an Si content of 0.20 mass % or more and 0.47 mass % or less, an Fe content of 0.30 mass % or more and 0.59 mass % or less, a Cu content of 0.11 mass % or more and 0.40 mass % or less, an Mn content of 0.70 mass % or more and 0.98 mass % or less, and an Mg content of 1.3 mass % or more and 3.7 mass % or less; a process of homogenizing treatment on the ingot; and a process of rolling the ingot. In the process of rolling, cold rolling is completed without performing heat treatment after performing hot rolling on the ingot.

Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a voltage applier. The first electrode includes a plurality of electrodes independent from each other. The second electrode is disposed opposite to the first electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The voltage applier applies different voltages to at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode during a charge accumulation period and a charge non-accumulation period.

Abstract: A first reading unit reads member identification information for uniquely identifying each of customers and a second reading unit reads commodity identification information of a commodity carried into the fitting area by the customer and commodity information of a commodity carried out of the fitting area. A collection and storage unit collects and stores, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer enters the fitting area in association with commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of entering, and collects and stores, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer exits the fitting area in association with commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of exiting.