Abstract: The present disclosure describes an engine system that can achieve at least one of the followings: suppressing of generating of nitrogen oxides and suppressing of remaining of uncombusted hydrocarbons. The engine system has a combustion chamber to which air and a gas fuel are supplied, and is configured to combust the gas fuel. The engine system includes a liquid fuel injecting unit, and a control unit. The liquid fuel injecting unit is configured to inject a liquid fuel thereby to ignite the gas fuel. The control unit is configured to control the liquid fuel injecting unit. The control unit is configured to control the liquid fuel injecting unit so that injection of the liquid fuel is performed after a flame propagation after ignition of the gas fuel is ended.

Abstract: A battery of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer. The solid electrolyte layer is positioned between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The solid electrolyte layer includes a solid electrolyte having lithium-ion conductivity. The negative electrode includes: a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer positioned between the negative electrode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer. The negative electrode active material layer has a plurality of columnar particles and is substantially free of an electrolyte. The columnar particles include silicon as a main component.

Abstract: A jointed strand includes a superposed portion in which a first strand end in which fibers are oriented in one direction and a second strand end in which fibers are oriented in one direction are superposed; and a joint portion in which fibers of the first strand and the second strand are interlaced at the superposed portion, wherein the joint portion has a slit extending in a fiber orientation direction and a joint spot adjacent to the slit at one location or a plurality of locations aligned in a direction orthogonal to the fiber orientation direction, and monofilaments of the first strand and the second strand are interlaced at the joint spot.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device c includes: a package substrate including a base including a mount portion, and terminals; a semiconductor chip including a first pad to which a ground voltage is supplied, a second pad electrically connected to a first terminal among the terminals, and a semiconductor circuit connected to the first and second pads, the semiconductor chip being provided above the mount portion; and a first capacitor chip including a first capacitor unit provided in a silicon substrate, a first node supplied with the ground voltage, and a second node electrically connected to the second pad, the first capacitor chip being provided above the mount portion.

Abstract: A printing apparatus for applying ink to a target print medium to form an image by a print unit, comprising a plurality of temperature regulation units juxtaposed in a conveyance direction of the target print medium and each configured to regulate a temperature of the target print medium, a plurality of measurement units each configured to measure the temperature of the target print medium, and a control unit configured to make a temperature regulation capability of each temperature regulation unit variable, wherein each temperature regulation unit regulates temperature in a widthwise direction of the target print medium, each measurement unit measures the temperature in the widthwise direction of the target print medium, and the control unit controls the plurality of temperature regulation units based on the measured temperatures.

Abstract: A marking pen, comprising: a shaft cylinder; a porous pen core accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and configured to project from, and retract into, an opening part provided at a tip end of the shaft cylinder; an inner cotton accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and filled with an aqueous ink composition to be fed to the pen core, the aqueous ink composition including a water soluble organic solvent in an amount of from 20 mass % to 60 mass %; and a delivery mechanism configured to cause a tip end of the pen core to project from, and retract into, the opening part.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes conductive layers and inter-layer insulating layers alternately arranged over a substrate having a first region and a second region arranged in a first direction; and a first structure provided in a second region of the substrate. The first structure includes: a plurality of third regions provided at first positions corresponding to at least some of the plurality of conductive layers, respectively, and a plurality of fourth regions provided at second positions corresponding to at least some of the plurality of inter-layer insulating layers, respectively. A first width of the plurality of third regions in the first direction is greater than a second width of the plurality of fourth regions in the first direction.

Abstract: A resin composition for molding includes an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and an inorganic filler containing at least one selected from the group consisting of calcium titanate particles and strontium titanate particles, in which a total content of the calcium titanate particles and the strontium titanate particles is 30% by volume or more and less than 60% by volume with respect to the entire inorganic filler.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode layer, and a first insulating layer provided between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode layer, the first insulating layer including aluminum oxide including at least one crystal phase selected from the group consisting of alpha (?)-aluminum oxide and theta (?)-aluminum oxide, the first insulating layer having a thickness of equal to or less than 2.5 nm in a first direction from the semiconductor layer toward the gate electrode layer.

Abstract: A wavelength-swept light source projects a light beam. An interferometer includes a splitting unit that splits the light beam projected from the wavelength-swept light source into light beams radiated toward a plurality of spots on a measurement target. Each of the interference beam is generated by interference between a measurement beam radiated toward the measurement target and reflected at the measurement beam, and a reference beam passing through an optical path that is at least partially different from an optical path of the measurement beam. A light-receiving unit receives the interference beams from the interferometer. A processor calculates distance to the measurement target by associating a detected peak of the interference beams with one of the spots. The optical path length difference between the measurement target and the reference beam is made different among the light beams split in correspondence with the plurality of spots.

Abstract: A sensor element for detecting a specific gas concentration in a measurement-object gas includes: an element body provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein, the measurement-object gas flow section introducing the measurement-object gas and causing the measurement-object gas to flow therethrough; a reference electrode disposed inside the element body; and a reference-gas introduction section that causes a reference gas to flow to the reference electrode, wherein the reference-gas introduction section has a reference-gas flow path, and one or more preliminary chambers which are disposed in a middle of the reference-gas flow path, and have a diffusion resistance lower than a diffusion resistance of the reference-gas flow path, and at least part of the reference-gas flow path is composed of a porous body so that any of the one or more preliminary chambers does not directly communicate with an outside of the element body.

Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes at least one condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1.

Abstract: A connector according to one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a housing having a facing surface facing a mating connector when the connector is assembled with the mating connector, a terminal held in the housing and projecting in a first direction from the facing surface, and a cover to be held on the housing. The housing includes a peripheral wall projecting in the first direction from the facing surface and provided to surround the terminal when viewed from a second direction opposite to the first direction and a connection opening formed by the peripheral wall surrounding the terminal when viewed from the second direction. The peripheral wall is provided with an exposure opening communicating with the connection opening and configured to expose inside of the housing.

Abstract: A battery of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode including graphite and zinc, and a solid electrolyte layer positioned between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A ratio of a mass of zinc to a sum of a mass of graphite and the mass of zinc in the negative electrode is 10 mass % or more and 60 mass % or less. The above ratio may be 20 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a modifier for a polyester-based resin film, containing alkali metal salt of alkylaryl sulfonic acid (A) in which an alkyl group includes 6 to 22 carbons, and an inorganic salt (B), the inorganic salt (B) being at least one selected from sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, lithium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, and lithium chloride.

Abstract: An image encoder is provided including circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, responds to a size of a block satisfying a size condition by generating a prediction image using a prediction mode selected from a plurality of prediction modes. The plurality of prediction modes include a first prediction mode in which a prediction process uses a motion vector and a reference block in a same picture as the block. The circuitry encodes the block using the prediction image.

Abstract: A fuel cell system is equipped with a control unit that controls a rotational speed of the turbo compressor that supplies air to an air supply flow passage and an opening degree of at least one valve that adjusts a flow rate and a pressure of the air supplied to a fuel cell such that an operating point of the turbo compressor becomes a target operating point. The control unit sets the target operating point within an operating point range that is on the higher flow rate side than at least part of a first region where an amount of change in flow rate is larger than a predetermined value when a pressure ratio of the turbo compressor is changed by a predetermined amount at a same rotational speed, on a higher flow rate side than a surging region, when a predetermined condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: There are provided an evaluation method and a prediction method for a technology to be reflected in a press die designing method. A deformation limit evaluation method includes evaluating the deformation limit on a sheared surface of a metal sheet in press-forming the sheared metal sheet. The deformation limit is evaluated and a crack in the sheared surface is predicted based on the relationship between an index value determined from two surface strain distribution gradients of a surface strain distribution gradient in a sheet thickness direction in the sheared surface and a surface strain distribution gradient in a bending ridge line direction by bending in a direction away from the sheared surface at an evaluation position among distributions of strains generated near the boundary between a bending outside surface and the sheared surface of the metal sheet to be bent and a tension generated in the sheared surface.

Abstract: A mutant strain of a filamentous fungus of the genus Trichoderma having a reduced function of a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; and a method of producing a sugar from a cellulose-containing biomass, the method including: step a of producing a cellulase by cultivating a Trichoderma reesei mutant strain having a reduced function of a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, and step b of saccharifying the biomass by using the cellulase obtained in the step a.