Abstract: An organic EL device includes an emitting region provided between a cathode and an anode, a first anode-side-organic layer, a second anode-side-organic layer, and a third anode-side-organic layer, in which the emitting region includes at least a first emitting layer, the first anode-side-organic layer is in direct contact with the second anode-side-organic layer, the second anode-side-organic layer is in direct contact with the third anode-side-organic layer, the third anode-side-organic layer has a film thickness of 20 nm or more, the second anode-side-organic layer contains at least one compound different from a compound contained in the third anode-side-organic layer, the first emitting layer is a fluorescent emitting layer, and a refractive index NM2 of a constituent material contained in the second anode-side-organic layer and a refractive index NM3 of a constituent material contained in the third anode-side-organic layer satisfy a relationship of Numerical Formula NM, NM2>NM3??(Numerical Formula NM

Abstract: A medical device and a method for forming a shunt configured to effectively cauterize a biological tissue having a variation in thickness. The medical device includes an expansion body, an elongated shaft portion to which the proximal end of the expansion body is fixed, a plurality of energy transfer elements disposed along the expansion body, and a pulling shaft are included, and the expansion body, which has a recess that defines a reception space, is configured such that an easy-to-deform portion that is disposed on the expansion body and is easily deformable is deformed to enlarge the reception space at the position corresponding to the easy-to-deform portion in the circumferential direction when a force in the axial direction of the expansion body is received.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1): One of R1 and R2 is a methyl group, and the other is an unsubstituted phenyl group, and R1 and R2 are not bonded to each other and therefore do not form a ring structure. One of R3 and R4 is a methyl group, and the other is an unsubstituted phenyl group, and R3 and R4 are not bonded to each other and therefore do not form a ring structure. R11 to R18, and R21 to R28 are hydrogen atoms, provided that, one selected from R11 to R18 is a single bond bonded to *a, and one selected from R21 to R28 is a single bond bonded to *b. L1 and L2 are each independently a single bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard coat film having excellent adhesion to a hard coat layer when a cycloolefin polymer film is used as a base material. The hard coat film of the present invention comprises a hard coat layer containing an ionizing radiation curable resin laminated on at least one surface of a cycloolefin polymer base film through a primer layer. This primer layer contains a modified polyolefin resin in which a polyolefin resin is graft-modified with an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, and a (meth)acrylic acid ester. In this modified polyolefin resin, the graft weight of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivative thereof is 0.4 to 7 wt. % when the amount of the modified polyolefin resin is taken as 100 wt. %.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a first transparent electrode layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a light control layer including a resin layer which is formed between the first and second transparent electrode layers and includes a liquid crystal composition in holes formed in the resin layer, the liquid crystal composition including liquid crystal molecules, and a first alignment layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the light control layer such that a haze of the light control layer is increased upon application of a voltage to the first transparent electrode layer. The light control layer includes a first high-density portion and a low-density portion, and the first high-density portion is in contact with the first alignment layer and includes the liquid crystal composition at a density higher than a density of the liquid crystal composition in the low-density portion per unit thickness of the light control layer.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a server, an electronic device, a server communication method, a device communication method, and a communication system. In loading of a communication system, in the case where an identifier of a timbre data and an instruction for loading the timbre data are transmitted from a mobile terminal to a server, the server acquires the timbre data corresponding to the identifier of the timbre data from a timbre DB, and transmits the timbre data together with the received instruction to a communication device (electronic musical instrument). In the electronic musical instrument, the received timbre data is stored to a work memory in response to the instruction received from the server.

Abstract: A medical device is disposed that is able to prevent short-circuit of a contact portion between an electrode portion and a conductive wire with another contact portion that is electrically independent. A medical device includes an expansion body that is configured to expand and contract in a radial direction, an elongated shaft portion including a proximal end fixing portion to which a proximal end of the expansion body is fixed, a plurality of electrode assemblies including a plurality of electrode portions disposed along the expansion body, and a conductive wire portion disposed in the shaft portion and connected to the electrode assembly with a contact portion, in which at least two or more electrode assemblies are electrically independent, and two or more of the contact portions respectively connected to the two or more electrode assemblies are disposed at different positions in an axial direction in the shaft portion.

Abstract: An expansion body, an elongated shaft portion to which the proximal end of the expansion body is fixed, a plurality of energy transfer elements disposed along the expansion body, and a pulling shaft are included, the pulling shaft is configured to apply, to the expansion body via a force receiving portion, a compressive force that makes compression along an axial center of the shaft portion such that a plurality of energy transfer element arrangement portions and a plurality of facing portions approach each other by sliding in a direction of the proximal end with respect to the shaft portion, and the expansion body includes a buffer portion that is disposed in a first expansion portion and is configured to relax the compressive force by deforming in a direction different from the direction from the force receiving portion toward a distal-side top portion along a distal-side expansion portion.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes: an emitting layer including a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer; and a hole transporting zone including at least two organic compound layers, in which a first organic compound layer of the hole transporting zone includes a first organic material and a second organic material that are mutually different, a content of the first organic material in the first organic compound layer is less than 10 mass %, the first emitting layer includes a first host material and a first emitting compound, the second emitting layer includes a second host material and a second emitting compound, and a triplet energy of the first host material T1(H1) and a triplet energy of the second host material T1(H2) satisfy a relationship of Numerical Formula 1, T1(H1)>T1(H2)??(Numerical Formula 1).

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an emitting region between a cathode and an anode, a first anode side organic layer, and a second anode side organic layer. The emitting region includes at least a first emitting layer, the first anode side organic layer is in direct contact with the second anode side organic layer, the first anode side organic layer contains first and second organic materials, a content of the first organic material in the first anode side organic layer is less than 50 mass %, the second anode side organic layer contains a second hole transporting zone material, the first emitting layer is an emitting layer that emits fluorescence, and a refractive index NM1 of the constituent materials contained in the first anode side organic layer and a refractive index NM2 of the constituent material contained in the second anode side organic layer satisfy a relationship of NM1>NM2.

Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing negative electrode active material particles, including silicon compound particles each containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?x?1.6) and at least one or more of Li2SiO3 and Li2Si2O5, the material includes a phosphate, the negative electrode active material particles each have a surface containing lithium element, and a ratio mp/ml satisfies 0.02?mp/ml?3, where ml represents a molar quantity of the lithium element and contained per unit mass of the particles, and mp represents a molar quantity of phosphorus element contained per unit mass of the particles. Thereby, a negative electrode active material is capable of stabilizing an aqueous negative electrode slurry prepared in producing a negative electrode of a secondary battery, and capable of improving initial charge-discharge characteristics when the negative electrode active material is used for a secondary battery.

Abstract: A phase difference film includes a small change in tint when the film is applied to a display device as a circularly polarizing plate in combination with a polarizer display device being observed from an oblique direction at all azimuthal angles. The film includes optically anisotropic layers X, Y, and Z in this order, in which layer X is an A-plate, and layers Y and Z are formed by fixing a first and second liquid crystal compound, respectively, twist-aligned along a helical axis extending in a thickness direction, one of the first and second liquid crystal compounds are rod-like liquid crystal compounds, the other first and the second liquid crystal compounds are disk-like liquid crystal compounds, and an in-plane slow axis of layer X is parallel to an in-plane slow axis on a surface of layer Y on layer X side.

Abstract: A medical device and a treatment method, in which energy is accurately applied to a target site by suppressing a positional displacement between an expansion body and a biological tissue. The medical device includes an elongated shaft portion and an expansion body disposed in a distal portion of the shaft portion and configured to expand and contract in a radial direction. The expansion body includes a holding portion having a proximal side holding portion and a distal side holding portion configured to hold the biological tissue, and a movable portion configured to open and close the holding portion.

Abstract: A first-aid information provision system of the example embodiments includes: an information display device that includes first capture means for capturing an iris image, code acquisition means for acquiring a code associated with the captured iris image, and code display means for displaying the acquired code; and an information output device that includes second capture means for imaging the code displayed by the information display device, first-aid information acquisition means for acquiring first-aid information about an individual associated with the iris image by using the imaged code, and first-aid information output means for outputting the first-aid information.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which contains a negative electrode active material particle. The negative electrode active material particle contains a silicon compound particle containing Li2SiO3. When measuring the negative electrode active material particle by X-ray diffraction, a half-value width of a peak derived from the Li2SiO3 (020) plane is in a range from 1.1° to 1.5° inclusive, and formulae (1) to (3) are all satisfied, 1.1?Ib/Ia?1.5??(1) I(24.8°)/Ia?0.5??(2) I(28.4°)/Ia?1.0??(3) where Ia denotes intensity of a peak derived from the Li2SiO3 (020) plane, Ib denotes intensity of a peak derived from the Li2SiO3 (111) plane, I(24.8°) denotes intensity at 2?=24.8°, and I(28.4°) denotes intensity at 2?=28.4°.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a conveying path, a discharge port, a stacking portion, a manual setting portion, a binding device which binds a sheet bundle formed by the stacking portion and a sheet bundle set at the manual setting portion by a staple, a first regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle at a rear side of the apparatus in a width direction, and a second regulating portion which regulates a position of the sheet bundle in the conveying direction. The binding device is formed to be movable back and forth to a front side and the rear side of the apparatus. When a staple is replenished to the binding device, the binding device is positioned at the third position so that a cartridge of the staple is loaded into the binding device from the front side of the apparatus.

Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes: a first pulley and a second pulley each including a fixed pulley and a movable pulley; and an endless member wound around the first pulley and the second pulley, wherein the continuously variable transmission continuously changes a speed ratio by controlling a thrust of the movable pulley with a hydraulic pressure, the thrust of the movable pulley is made smaller as a rotation speed of the first pulley decreases, and when the rotation speed of the first pulley is lower than a predetermined rotation speed, the thrust of the movable pulley in a case where the speed ratio is on a Low side of the predetermined speed ratio is not made smaller than the thrust of the movable pulley in a case where the speed ratio is on a High side of the predetermined speed ratio.

Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.

Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.