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.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a first electrode, supplied with a fixed voltage, partially surrounding a periphery of a first pixel; a charge transfer layer, transferring electric charge, disposed at least in a region opposed to the first electrode and corresponding to the first pixel; a photoelectric conversion layer, converting light into electric charge, disposed on the charge transfer layer oppositely to the first electrode; an electrode disposed on the photoelectric conversion layer oppositely to the charge transfer layer and supplying a voltage thereto; first and second accumulation electrodes each accumulating electric charge in the charge transfer layer and disposed to be spaced apart on the charge transfer layer oppositely to the photoelectric conversion layer in a region corresponding to the first pixel; and a first control electrode disposed between the first and second accumulation electrodes and transferring one of electric charge accumulated by the first and second accumulation electrode

Abstract: A functional unit for a toilet system includes: a discharge section discharging, into a toilet bowl, a test agent that allows for determination of a health condition of a human body through a reaction with urine; an input device configured to allow a user to perform an operation for discharging the test agent from the discharge section; and a control section controlling the discharge section based on the operation of the input device by the user. A functional unit for a toilet system includes: a discharge section discharging, into a toilet bowl, a test agent that allows for determination of a health condition of a human body through a reaction with urine; a control section controlling the discharge section; and a sensor, in which the control section performs control to discharge at least one of foam or the test agent based on a detection by the sensor.

Abstract: A method for purifying a composition, the method including a step of dissolving a composition including a compound represented by Formula (1) [in Formula (1), R1 represents —N(R2)—R2 (R2 represents a C1 to C4 alkyl group), each R3 and R4 represents a C3 to C8 alkanediyl group, R5 represents a hydroxyl group, R6 represents —R7—OH (R7 represents a C4 to C12 alkanediyl group) or a hydrogen atom, and n represents an integer of 0 or 1] in an aqueous layer to perform liquid-liquid extraction, in which an oil layer used for the liquid-liquid extraction includes one or more kinds of liquids selected from the group consisting of a ketone-based liquid, an ester-based liquid, and an ether-based liquid, all of which have a solubility parameter (SP value) of 14.8 to 20.5 (MPa1/2).