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A solid type dye-sensitized photoelectric conversion element which is excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency and which can be manufactured at a low cost is disclosed. The photoelectric conversion element can be applied to a so-called wet type solar cell which does not use any electrolyte. The solar cell comprises a first electrode 3, a second electrode 6 arranged opposite to the first electrode 3, an electron transport layer 4 arranged between the first electrode 3 and the second electrode 6, a dye layer D which is in contact with the electron transport layer 4, a hole transport layer 5 arranged between the electron transport layer 4 and the second electrode 6 and being in contact with the dye layer D, and a barrier layer 8, and these elements are provided on a substrate 2. The barrier layer 8 constitutes short-circuit preventing or suppressing means for preventing or suppressing short-circuit between the first electrode 3 and the hole transport layer 5. The porosity of the barrier layer is made smaller than that of the electron transport layer 4. The barrier layer is formed into a film-like shape and arranged between the fist electrode 4 and the electron transport layer 4. The solar cell can accomplish excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency by the provision of such a barrier layer 8.

N-[1S,2S]-3-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(3-cyanophenyl)-1-methylpropyl]-2-methyl-2-{[5-trifluoromethyl]pyridine-2-yl}oxy}propanamide (Compound I) has surprisingly improved solubility and bioavailability in a lipophilic vehicle comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable digestible oil, a surfactant, or a cosolvent, or a mixture of any two or more thereof. In one embodiment of the present invention are self-emulsifying or self-microemulsifying composition comprising 1) Compound I; 2) a surfactant having an HLB of 1 to 8; and 3) a surfactant having an HLB of over 8 to 20; and optionally, 4) a digestible oil and/or cosolvent and/or antioxidant or preservative.

An organic EL display unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display layer, and a sealing section. The display layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display layer includes an organic layer. The sealing section is provided continuously from an end surface of the display layer to at least a portion of respective end surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate.

A purge apparatus for replacing a gas atmosphere in a purge object vessel by a purge gas through a port provided on a bottom face of the purge object vessel is disclosed. The purge apparatus includes a purge unit attached to a table that receives the purge object vessel, and a purge nozzle body including a port contacting portion provided on an upper side of the purge nozzle body and an attachment object portion provided on a lower side of the purge nozzle body. The purge unit has an attachment portion and the port contacting portion of the purge nozzle body is configured to contact the port of the purge object vessel. The attachment object portion of the purge nozzle body removably engages with the attachment portion of the purge unit so that the purge nozzle body is removably attached to the purge unit.

A method of forming a mask, in which a film pattern is formed on a substrate by using a mask, includes sequentially arranging the mask, the substrate and a first member having a flat surface contacting with the substrate in this order from a supply source of film forming material; and attracting the mask and the first member by means of a magnetic force.

A motorcycle that discharges air that has passed through a radiator such that the air does not directly impinge on a rider, thereby resolving discomfort. An air guide passage guides air that has passed through the radiator so that the air passes through a gap between a front side cover and a fuel tank to a portion higher than the fuel tank.

Disclosed is a wet wiper including: a sheet including absorbent fibers; and a liquid impregnated into the sheet. The impregnated liquid contains at least one plant extract. Alcohol ingredient used for extracting the plant extract consists only of polyhydric alcohol.

Provided is an electric outboard motor that includes a drive motor, which is an AC motor, as a drive source. The electric outboard motor includes: an outboard motor main body that includes the drive motor and an inverter that converters a direct current to an alternating current to supply the alternating current to the drive motor; a control/power supply unit that is formed separately from the outboard motor main body and that can supply the direct current to the inverter; and a connection cable that electrically connects the outboard motor main body and the control/power supply unit. The inverter and the drive motor are stacked and arranged in an axial direction of a rotation output axis of the drive motor. Part of the inverter falls within an outline of the drive motor in a view in the axial direction of the rotation output axis of the drive motor.

In view of the finding that keeping a healthy body is fundamental for overcoming cancer, it is an object of the present invention to provide a nutritious composition that is effective in suppressing mutagenic substances and promoting good health. The composition also suppresses large intestinal cancer. The composition includes dietary fiber in a range of 15 wt % to 30 wt % in respect to the total amount of composition which is contained in dried koji fine powder that includes dead fungi of Aspergillus and active enzyme produced by the Aspergillus.

A solenoid valve driving apparatus includes switching means for ON/OFF-controlling application of a direct current voltage to a solenoid of a solenoid valve, and signal outputting means. A first period and a consecutive second period are set as a valve opening operation period of the solenoid valve. When the signal outputting means outputs the PWM signal to the switching means, a duty ratio of the output signal is set to be higher in the second period than in the first period so that a power supplied to the solenoid is larger in the second period than in the first period. As a result, a valve opening operation is performed in the solenoid valve reliably, and loud noise generation during the valve opening operation is suppressed.

A vehicle, and a control method thereof, prevents and/or suppresses a user's negative emotions by providing necessary feedback based on the user's emotional state. The vehicle includes a sensing unit configured to acquire user emotion information indicating a user's emotional state using at least one sensor, a storage configured to store situation information representing the numbers of expressions of respective emotional states in each unit situation and user long-term information representing the numbers of expressions of the respective emotional states for a unit period based on the acquired user emotion information, and a controller configured to control feedback devices provided in the vehicle to control the user's emotional state based on at least one of the situation information, the user long-term information, and the user emotion information.

A DC motor includes a rotor which is mounted in a housing so that it can rotate about an axis. The rotor includes at least one winding to which direct current is applied from the outside in alternating directions via a commutator, which is arranged on the rotor. Brushes are seated on the commutator and are mounted whereupon they can move relative to the commutator while being pushed by spring pressure onto the commutator.

The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition that can form a coated film having excellent appearance, in which a change in the color of the coating composition during the storage of the coating composition is prevented or suppressed, excellent storage stability is provided, and the generation of popping is prevented or suppressed; and a method for forming a coated film. The aqueous coating composition contains (A1) a film-forming aqueous resin, (B) a dioxazine pigment, (C) a hydrophobic solvent and (D) a resin having an aromatic ring with a nitro group bonded thereto, and a method for forming a coated film using the composition.

The present invention relates to multimers of polypeptides which are covalently bound to molecular scaffolds such that two or more peptide loops are subtended between attachment points to the scaffold. The invention also describes the multimerization of polypeptides through various chemical linkers and hinges of various lengths and rigidity using different sites of attachments within polypeptides. In particular, the invention describes multimers of peptides which are high affinity binders and activators of CD137. The invention also includes drug conjugates comprising said peptides, conjugated to one or more effector and/or functional groups, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said peptide ligands and drug conjugates and to the use of said peptide ligands and drug conjugates in preventing, suppressing or treating a disease or disorder mediated by CD137.

An armature core is formed by laminating a plurality of first magnetic plates along a lamination direction. The armature core includes a prism portion and a first rectangular solid portion. The prism portion has a length measured in a first direction perpendicular to the lamination direction and a height measured in a second direction perpendicular to the lamination direction and the first direction. The length of the prism portion gradually increases along the lamination direction in at least part of the prism portion. The first rectangular solid portion is adjacent to the prism portion in the second direction. The first rectangular solid portion has a uniform length measured along the first direction. Preferably, a plurality of the armature cores are mounted on a yoke and have armature windings wound to form an armature of a rotary electric machine of a compressor.

A controller for a vehicle transmission in which a first transmission path including a first transmission mechanism that is able to continuously change its speed ratio and a second transmission path including a second transmission mechanism having a set speed ratio different from that of the first transmission mechanism are provided in parallel with each other between an input shaft to which torque is input from a driving force source of a vehicle and an output shaft that outputs torque to an output member, the vehicle transmission carrying out transmission of power between the input shaft and the output shaft via one of the first transmission path and the second transmission path, includes: performing means for carrying out a change shift for changing a path of the transmission of power between the first transmission path and the second transmission path by engaging a predetermined clutch mechanism; and setting means for setting a change speed ratio region that defines a range of a speed ratio of the first transmission mechanism such that a rotation speed difference between engagement members of the clutch mechanism, which are engaged with each other in carrying out the change shift, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined value. When a speed ratio outside the change speed ratio region is set in the first transmission mechanism, the change shift is not carried out.

A flash phenomenon of OLEDs at the time of power source ON of a display device is suppressed. The OLED emits light when reference potentials V_SS and V_DD are applied from power source lines to the OLED's cathode and anode respectively. While the anode can be connected to one of the power source line via a driving TFT and a lighting switch, a reset potential V_RS can be applied to the anode via a reset switch and the driving TFT. The lighting switch is turned OFF and the reset switch and the driving TFT are turned ON so that V_RS is applied to the anode, before starting the application of the reference potentials to the power source lines. Following this state, the application of the reference potentials to the power source lines starts, and thus a normal operation of allowing the OLED to emit light starts.

An abnormality detecting device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes a sensor nick abnormality detecting unit configured to detect a nick abnormality in a detecting element of a downstream side sensor which is provided in a downstream side of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in an exhaust passage and generates an output corresponding to an oxygen concentration in exhaust gas, on the basis of a matter that a distribution of an output of the downstream side sensor is biased to an area in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than a theoretical air-fuel ratio, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit detection of the nick abnormality of the detecting element by the sensor nick abnormality detecting unit in the case that an intake air amount exceeds a predetermined amount.

A turbo refrigerator includes a condenser that cools and liquefies a compressed refrigerant, an evaporator that vaporizes the liquefied refrigerant and takes away heat of vaporization from a cooling object, thereby cooling the cooling object, and a turbo compressor that compresses the refrigerant vaporized by the evaporator by rotation of an impeller driven to rotate by an electric motor, and supplies the compressed refrigerant to the condenser. Moreover, the turbo refrigerator includes a braking device that operates the electric motor as a generator when the impeller is urged to rotate by the vaporized refrigerant, so as to brake the rotation of the impeller.

The present invention relates to polypeptides which are covalently bound to non-aromatic molecular scaffolds such that two or more peptide loops are subtended between attachment points to the scaffold. In particular, the invention describes peptides which are high affinity binders of PD-L1. The invention also includes drug conjugates comprising said peptides, conjugated to one or more effector and/or functional groups, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said peptide ligands and drug conjugates and to the use of said peptide ligands and drug conjugates in preventing, suppressing or treating a disease or disorder mediated by PD-L1.