Abstract: In a method for continuously generating silicon monoxide (SiO) gas, wherein a silicon monoxide gas-generating raw material in a raw material supply unit is continuously charged into a reaction chamber RM, an inert gas is flowed through the raw material supply unit so as to be directed toward the charging direction of the silicon monoxide gas-generating raw material. The method for continuously generating silicon monoxide gas prevents a decrease in yield of the silicon monoxide (SiO) gas-generating raw material.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal fitting and a connector with which the amount of insertion of the terminal fitting into a housing can be easily controlled. A terminal fitting includes: a tubular connection portion (41); a locking protrusion (51) that is provided so as to protrude from an outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion (41), and is configured to be locked to a groove (66) provided in a housing (60); and a contact-stopper protrusion (55) that is provided on the outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion (41) so as to protrude from mating edges (49) that abut against each other in a circumferential direction thereof in the tubular connection portion (41), and is configured to come into contact with the housing (60) and stop in place.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element configured to emit first light; a first wavelength conversion member disposed on the light emitting element and having a lower surface bonded to the light emitting element, an upper surface, and a lateral surface that meets the upper surface, the first wavelength conversion member being configured to emit second light when excited by the first light; a second wavelength conversion member covering the lateral surface of the first wavelength conversion member without covering the upper surface of the first wavelength conversion member, the second wavelength conversion member having an oblique surface extending outward from the lateral surface of the first wavelength conversion member, the second wavelength conversion member being configured to emit third light when excited by at least one of the first light and the second light; and a first light reflecting member covering the oblique surface.

Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensor includes a substrate, a diaphragm portion and a piezoelectric film. The diaphragm portion is located at the substrate. The piezoelectric film is located on the diaphragm portion. The piezoelectric film is made of scandium aluminum nitride. A carbon concentration of the piezoelectric film is 2.5 atomic percent or less while an oxygen concentration of the piezoelectric film is 0.35 atomic percent or less.

Abstract: A photodetector includes: at least one avalanche photodiode including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type; a first transistor connected to the first semiconductor layer and including a channel of the second conductivity type that has polarity opposite to polarity of the first conductivity type; and a second transistor connected to the first semiconductor layer and including a channel of the first conductivity type.

Abstract: Object Provided is a power supply device and the like capable of improving convenience. Solving means A power supply device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include a power supply unit that supplies power to an electromedical device, a first impedance control unit disposed on a path of a circulation path of the power between the power supply unit and the electromedical device, excluding an input path for inputting an electrical signal obtained in the electromedical device to another device, and a second impedance control unit disposed on the input path of a path between the power supply unit and the other device. An impedance state of each of the first and second impedance control units transitions in accordance with a supply state of the power to the electromedical device.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a core layer having a first through hole formed therein, a magnetic resin filled inside the first through hole, a second through hole formed in the magnetic resin, and a plating film covering an inner wall surface of the second through hole. The plating film includes an electroless plating film, and an electrolytic plating film. The electroless plating film makes direct contact with an inner wall surface of the second through hole.

Abstract: An imaging device that can obtain imaging data corresponding to high-resolution images in a short period of time is provided. The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion element and n (n is an integer more than 2 inclusive) retention circuits. The photoelectric conversion element and the n retention circuits are stacked. One electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to the first to n-th retention circuits. The retention circuits include OS transistors with an extremely low off-state current feature, and can retain imaging data for a long time. In the first to n-th periods, the imaging device obtains the first to n-th imaging data and retains it in the first to n-th retention circuits. Then, the first to n-th imaging data retained in the first to n-th retention circuits are read out. The read imaging data is output outside the imaging data through AD conversion.

Abstract: A composition including a compound represented by the following formula (12) and a compound represented by the following formula (21) (provided that the compound represented by the formula (12) is different from the compound represented by the formula (21)).

Abstract: Provided are: a GaN crystal used in a substrate for a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure, such as a GaN-HEMT; and a GaN substrate used for the production of a nitride semiconductor device having a horizontal device structure, such as a GaN-HEMT. The GaN crystal and the GaN substrate each include a surface having an inclination of 10° or less from a (0001) crystal plane and an area of 5 cm2 or more, and have an Mn concentration of 1.0 × 1016 atoms/cm3 or higher but lower than 1.0 × 1019 atoms/cm3 and a total donor impurity concentration of lower than 5.0 × 1016 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide fine fibrous cellulose capable of enhancing transparency and suppressing coloring, when the fine fibrous cellulose are processed into a dispersed solution or a sheet. The present invention relates to fine fibrous cellulose, in which the amount of substituents introduced is less than 0.5 mmol/g and the fiber width is 1 to 10 nm. Moreover, the present invention relates to a dispersed solution and a sheet, each of which comprises fine fibrous cellulose. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for producing fine fibrous cellulose, comprising: (A) removing at least a part of substituents from fine fibrous cellulose with a fiber width of 1000 nm or less having the substituents, and (B) performing a uniform dispersion treatment on the resulting fine fibrous cellulose after completion of the (A).

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing 2-methyl-N-(2?-methylbutyl)butanamide of the following formula (1): the process comprising: subjecting an ?-arylethyl-2-methylbutylamine compound of the following general formula (2): wherein Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, to N-2-methylbutyrylation to form an N-?-arylethyl-2-methyl-N-(2?-methylbutyl)butanamide compound of the following general formula (3): wherein Ar is as defined above, and removing the ?-arylethyl group of the resulting compound (3) to form 2-methyl-N-(2?-methylbutyl)butanamide (1).

Abstract: In a server 70, usage counts of tone data of an electronic musical instrument 30, such as load counts of times that the tone data are loaded in the electronic musical instrument 30 are stored for each tone data and each user H utilizing the electronic musical instrument 30. When a recommendation information request is received from a portable terminal 50, the server 70 obtains a similar user similar to a request user included in the recommendation information request from the stored usage counts. Tone data to be recorded in the recommendation information are obtained from the usage count of each tone data of the request and the usage count of each tone data of the similar user, and the recommendation information is generated from the obtained tone data. Accordingly, the recommendation information generated by the user 70 can conform to the preference of the request user.

Abstract: A material for forming an adhesive film used for an adhesive film formed directly under a resist upper layer film, contains: (A) a resin having at least one structural unit containing a fluorine-substituted organic sulfonyl anion structure and having at least one structural unit shown by the following general formula (2) besides the structural unit containing the fluorine-substituted organic sulfonyl anion structure; (B) a thermal acid generator; and (C) an organic solvent. The material forms an adhesive film in a fine patterning process by a multilayer resist method in a semiconductor device manufacturing process, where the material gives an adhesive film that has high adhesiveness to a resist upper layer film, has an effect of suppressing fine pattern collapse, and also makes it possible to form an excellent pattern profile. A patterning process uses the material. A method forms the adhesive film.

Abstract: To improve the visibility of an image displayed on a display from the inside of a vehicle, in a vehicle window glass having the display. The vehicle window glass has a glass member and a display mounted on said glass member, wherein the visible light transmittance T [%] of said vehicle window glass at the portion including said display and the luminance L [cd/m2] of the display satisfy T?0.1×L.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, an internal electrode connected to the semiconductor element, a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element and a portion of the internal electrode, and an external electrode exposed from the sealing resin and connected to the internal electrode. The internal electrode includes a wiring layer and a columnar portion, where the wiring layer has a wiring layer front surface facing the back surface of the semiconductor element and a wiring layer back surface facing opposite from the wiring layer front surface in the thickness direction. The columnar portion protrudes in the thickness direction from the wiring layer front surface. The columnar portion has an exposed side surface facing in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The external electrode includes a first cover portion covering the exposed side surface.

Abstract: Provided is a single-stranded oligonucleotide that is capable of controlling a target gene with high efficiency and can be easily produced. The single-stranded oligonucleotide is represented by the formula X-L-Y wherein X and Y hybridize by a first nucleotide sequence portion and a second nucleotide sequence portion. X is composed of 7 to 100 nucleotides, contains at least one modified nucleotide, and has a first nucleotide sequence that is capable of hybridizing with a second oligonucleotide and contains at least four contiguous nucleotides recognized by RNase H. Y is composed of 4 to 100 nucleotides, and has a second nucleotide sequence that is capable of hybridizing with a second oligonucleotide and contains at least one ribonucleotide. At least one of nucleotide sequence X and nucleotide sequence Y has an antisense sequence capable of hybridizing with a target RNA. L is a group derived from a third oligonucleotide that is degraded under physiological conditions.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for designing a semiconductor integrated circuit acquires a first simulation result by circuit simulation including a first kind of parasitic element and a second kind of parasitic element to be evaluated for a first net and a second net. A net selection circuit is generated including just one kind of parasitic element on one net selected from the first net and the second net and the two kinds of parasitic elements on the other nets, and a net selection simulation result is acquired by circuit simulation for each of the net selection circuits.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveying unit which conveys a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit which prints an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a processing unit which includes a processing member and which executes a processing action for processing the printing medium by moving the processing member while causing the processing member to contact the printing medium; and a controller. The controller executes a processing process for causing the processing unit to execute the processing action with respect to the printing medium by moving the processing unit from a first position to a second position in an intersecting direction; a first conveying process for causing the conveying unit to convey a processed printing medium in the conveying direction; and a first moving process for moving the processing unit from the second position to the first position after the first conveying process.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus and method, in which performed are reading an image of an original document, converting a read image to raster data, raising a temperature of a fixing device to a fixing temperature, after raising the temperature of the fixing device, recording an image on the sheet on a sheet and causing the fixing device to fix the developing agent image onto the sheet. When a preview setting is enabled, after performing the converting, the preview image is displayed on the display and the raising is performed after the displaying and in response to an execution instruction of the forming. When the preview setting is not enabled, after performing a pre-heating of the fixing device so that the temperature of the fixing device is lower than the fixing temperature, performing the raising without displaying the preview image.