Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of stator blocks aligned in a circumferential direction and a plurality of coils each made of a winding wound around a corresponding one of the plurality of stator blocks. The stator includes a plurality of insulation members electrically insulating from the plurality of stator blocks from the plurality of coils for respective groups of the plurality of stator blocks and the plurality of coils. Each of the plurality of stator blocks includes a yoke portion located at its outermost perimeter and a teeth portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion. Each of the plurality of insulation members includes a pair of insulating plates arranged to face each other across the teeth portion. Each of the pair of insulating plates has a width greater than a width of the teeth portion.

Abstract: A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries with a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material layer thereon, with respect to the negative electrode active layer, first active material layers (X) and second active material layers (Y) are alternately arranged on the negative electrode collector, the first and second active material layers containing, as a negative electrode active material, graphite particles A and graphite particles B, while being different from each other in the content of the graphite particles A relative to the total mass of the graphite particles A and the graphite particles B. The internal void fraction of the graphite particles A is lower than the internal void fraction of the graphite particles B; the content of the graphite particles A in the first active material layers (X) is higher than the content of the graphite particles A in the second active material layers (Y).

Abstract: A modified cyanobacterium in which a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to at least 30 percent and at most 70 percent of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain.

Abstract: An imaging control device includes a correct answer information acquiring part that acquires first correct answer information corresponding to a training image of a machine learning model from a first storage part, a correct answer image display control part that causes a display device to display a first correct answer image based on the first correct answer information, an imaging control part that causes an imaging device that acquires a blurred image to capture the first correct answer image displayed on the display device and acquires a second correct answer image, a correct answer information generating part that generates second correct answer information based on the second correct answer image, and a storage control part that stores a data set including a set of the training image and the second correct answer information in a second storage part.

Abstract: A monitoring system is for monitoring a vehicle or a monitoring target that operates inside the vehicle, and the monitoring system includes: a reliability manager that manages reliability indicating a security protection state of the monitoring target, according to a vehicle event of the vehicle; and a function restrictor that places a restriction on at least a part of functions of the monitoring target, according to the reliability.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material for secondary batteries that is capable of inhibiting negative electrode swelling and the decline of the charge/discharge cycle characteristics of a battery. A negative electrode active material for secondary batteries according to the present disclosure is characterized by including a Si-based material, activated carbon, and a conductive material, and in that the Si-based material and the conductive material are carried in pores of the activated carbon.

Abstract: A fluorescence emitting module includes: a fluorescent substrate consisting essentially of a sintered fluorescent substance that includes a fluorescent material; and a rotator that rotates the fluorescent substrate about an axis extending in a thickness direction of the fluorescent substrate.

Abstract: A fluorescence emitting element includes: a wavelength conversion member that is plate-shaped and includes a fluorescent material, the wavelength conversion member including a first principal surface and a second principal surface that is on an opposite side from the first principal surface; and a metal film bonded to at least one surface out of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. In a plan view of the wavelength conversion member, the wavelength conversion member includes a region that does not overlap the metal film, and the metal film includes a bonding surface that is bonded to the at least one surface, and an exposed surface on an opposite side from the bonding surface.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure comprises: an electrode body in which a belt-shaped positive electrode and a belt-shaped negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; an electrolyte; and an outer case which accommodates the electrode body and the electrolyte. The negative electrode has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer which is formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector and which contains a negative electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The negative electrode mixture layer has a region in which the solid electrolyte content in the inner winding end part is higher than the solid electrolyte content in the outer winding end part, and the solid electrolyte content continuously decreases from the inner winding end part side to the outer winding end part side.

Abstract: An integrity verification device, in which software is executed by one of one or more electronic control units connected to an in-vehicle network system, includes: a verification schedule determiner that determines a verification timing at which to verify the integrity of the software; an integrity verifier that, for the software, determines, at the verification timing determined for the software, whether first integrity information, that is information for verifying the integrity of the software and that corresponds to at least part of the software corresponding to a verification scope, matches second integrity information, that is information calculated from at least part of the software at the verification timing, and determines that the integrity of the software is ensured when the first integrity information and the second integrity information match; and a verification priority determiner that determines a verification priority that affects determining of the verification timing or the verification scop

Abstract: A voice recognition device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a first feature amount that is a feature amount of input voice data acquired by a first acquisition unit; an estimation unit that estimates a driving situation of a mobile object on the basis of operation information acquired by a second acquisition unit; an extraction unit that extracts, from a feature amount database, a second feature amount corresponding to the driving situation; a recognition unit that recognizes an input command on the basis of similarity between the first feature amount and the second feature amount; and an output unit that outputs a recognition result.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes three or more monitors each monitoring, as a monitoring target, at least one of software and a communication log. The three or more monitors include a first monitor operating with a first execution privilege, a second monitor operating with a second execution privilege having a reliability level lower than the first execution privilege, and a third monitor operating with a third execution privilege having a reliability level that is the same as the second execution privilege or that is lower than the second execution privilege. The first monitor monitors software of the second monitor, and at least one of the first monitor or the second monitor monitors software of the third monitor.

Abstract: One aspect of the present application relates to a polyphenylene ether resin composition including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) that is terminally modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, and a crosslinking-type curing agent (B) having two or more carbon-carbon unsaturated double bonds in each molecule, the modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-1) having a specific structure, and a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-2) having a specific structure.

Abstract: In a battery abnormality prediction system, an acquisition unit acquires a current flowing through a battery and a temperature of the battery. A prediction unit predicts the occurrence of an abnormality in the battery, based on a relationship between the amount of the current flowing through the battery for a certain period of time and a rise in the temperature of the battery for the certain period of time. The prediction unit may compare the ratio of an integrated amount of current to the temperature rise for the certain period of time with a threshold determined based on data on the battery having caught fire and thereby predict a sign of fire to be caught by the battery.

Abstract: An anomaly detection system includes: a register value collector that collects register values of register numbers from a controller; a future state predictor that predicts a future state of the control system; a blacklist creator that creates a blacklist based on a prediction result; an anomaly determiner that determines whether the control system enters an anomalous state by checking the collected register values against the blacklist; and an outputter that outputs a determination result. The blacklist creator defines, as the blacklist: a predicted register number that is predicted, if a register value of the predicted register number is changed, to cause the control system to enter the anomalous state in the future; and a range of the register value within which the control system is predicted to enter the anomalous state, and dynamically creates the blacklist corresponding to a combination of the collected register values.

Abstract: Active material particles include composite particles each containing a lithium silicate phase, and a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a first coating covering at least part of surfaces of the composite particles. The first coating contains an oxide of a first element with low crystallinity, and a carbon material, the oxide and the carbon material being mixed together. The first element is an element other than non-metallic elements.

Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor, an impact mechanism, an output shaft, a torque measuring unit, a fastening torque calculating unit, and a control unit. The output shaft receives, from the impact mechanism, rotational impact around an axis. The torque measuring unit measures, as measured torque, torque applied to the output shaft. The fastening torque calculating unit calculates, based on the measured torque measured by the torque measuring unit, fastening torque to be applied to a fastening member. The control unit performs a speed reducing function by changing, according to the fastening torque calculated by the fastening torque calculating unit, the number of revolutions of the motor from a first number of revolutions into a second number of revolutions. The second number of revolutions is smaller than the first number of revolutions.

Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication device configured to communicate with a server device that provides data; a storage device; and a control device that cyclically accesses the server device using the communication device to check whether or not new data has been provided from the server device, determines, based on a predetermined probability, whether to download the new data from the server device or to postpone download when the new data has been provided, and stores, in the storage device, the new data downloaded from the server device.

Abstract: An electricity charge output method includes, by a computer: acquiring a sum of electric energy usages, in a specified period, of a previously specified first device group among all devices provided at a facility and of a second device group that is among the all devices and is different from the first device group; acquiring an electric energy usage of the first device group in the specified period; reducing the sum in accordance with the electric energy usage of the first device group and calculating an electricity charge for the facility in the specified period, based on an electric energy after the reduction; and outputting information representing the electricity charge for the facility.

Abstract: A control device is mountable on a vehicle. The control device includes a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to implement a first hypervisor and a second hypervisor. The first hypervisor controls execution of a first virtual machine. The second hypervisor performs communication with the first hypervisor via a gateway and controls execution of a second virtual machine. The hardware processor is configured to dynamically limit at least one of a communication traffic of application communication or a communication traffic of evaluation and verification communication, based on the application communication executed between the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor, and the evaluation and verification communication executed between the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor during activation of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine, and based on a communication capacity of the gateway.

Abstract: A heat dissipating structure of the present disclosure is a heat dissipating structure provided inside a housing, the heat dissipating structure including: a blower that blows air; a heat dissipator including a heat dissipating blow passage through which air from the blower flows; a heat transmitter arranged on the heat dissipator and transferring heat generated by a heat source to the heat dissipator; and a branch blow passage provided between the housing and the heat transmitter and branching from the heat dissipating blow passage. The heat dissipating blow passage includes a branch inlet positioned between the heat transmitter and the blower. The branch blow passage branches from the branch inlet of the heat dissipating blow passage.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus system, a first imaging apparatus includes a first front casing, a common rear casing, a first lens mount attached to the first front casing, and a common monitor attached to the common rear casing. A second imaging apparatus includes a second front casing, a common rear casing, a second lens mount attached to the second front casing and different from the first lens mount, and a common monitor. When the first and second front casings are respectively attached to the common rear casings and, the center of the first lens mount and the center of the second lens mount are identical, regarding the relative positions in the left-right direction with respect to the common rear casings and.

Abstract: A package transport device includes: a main body (a vehicle main body, a first vehicle main body, and a second vehicle main body); a rail holder (connector) held by a rail located above the main body; a turntable that is provided between the main body and the rail holder and rotates the main body; a slider portion that extends with respect to the main body; and a package holder that holds a package attached to the slider portion.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus system includes a first imaging apparatus, and a second imaging apparatus. The first imaging apparatus includes a first top casing including a casing top surface, and a common rear casing including a casing rear surface. The second imaging apparatus includes a second top casing including a casing top surface, and the common rear casing. The first top casing has a shape in which a vent hole is formed in the second top casing.

Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator. At least one of the stator or the rotor includes a core (stator core or rotor core) that includes an oriented steel sheet.

Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes: a user input acquirer that acquires information based on input provided by a user to a user input device; and a communication anomaly detector that detects a communication anomaly in communication that is being observed, and the communication anomaly detector detects the communication anomaly based on information about a packet whose source or destination includes a monitoring target device and the information based on the input corresponding to the packet.

Abstract: The information processing device acquires operation history information and failure state description information about a device to be repaired, predicts a repair content candidate for the device to be repaired based on the learned repair content prediction model and the acquired operation history information and the failure state description information, and outputs the predicted repair content candidate.

Abstract: Provided is a phosphor that contains Cr3+ and emits near-infrared light, wherein a host crystal of the phosphor has a crystal structure same as that of a compound Mg3Ga2GeO8, a fluorescence spectrum FF1 has a fluorescence peak FPF1 within a range of wavelengths of 700 or more and less than 900 nm, and a fluorescence spectrum data group FD that is an aggregate of spectral intensities of the fluorescence spectrum FF1 at every 10 nm exhibits a unimodal shape within the range of wavelengths of 700 or more and less than 900 nm.

Abstract: Provided is an active material contributing to improving the charge/discharge cycle characteristics of a battery. This active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a core capable of reversible intercalation and deintercalation of Li; and a salt attached to the surface of the core, wherein the salt comprises an oxyfluoride represented by general formula M1OFa (2?a?6, M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Si, P, and B).

Abstract: A method of producing an all-solid-state battery comprises preparing a second slurry which is a solid electrolyte slurry, and applying the second slurry to a foundation layer using a die head to form a solid electrolyte layer. A pressure P of the second slurry and a viscosity ? of the second slurry inside the die head at a predetermined shear rate satisfy a relationship of P/4?<4. The foundation layer has a porosity within a range of 30% to 50%.

Abstract: A camera system includes a camera body, a lens barrel that is mounted to the camera body and includes at least one movable lens, and a zoom ring drive device that is mounted to the camera body. A first control unit of the camera body controls a second control unit of the lens barrel and a third control unit of the zoom ring drive device so as to move a zoom lens with a DC motor on the basis of information about the characteristic of the zoom lens and an optical characteristic value inputted to an input unit.

Abstract: An arc detection device that detects an arc fault that occurs in a transmission line connecting a DC power supply that generates DC power and a power converter that converts the DC power to AC power, includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not there is a possibility of an arc fault occurrence according to current flowing in the transmission line; a shutoff unit that temporarily stops the flow of current in the transmission line when the first determination unit determines there is a possibility of an arc fault occurrence; and a second determination unit that determines whether or not an arc fault has occurred according to an input voltage, of the power converter supplied from the DC power supply, after lifting temporary stoppage of the flow of current in the transmission line.

Abstract: A positive electrode for secondary batteries includes a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode mixture layer provided on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode mixture layer contains a positive electrode active material, a conductive agent, a polysaccharide, and a resin other than the polysaccharide, and at least part of surfaces of the positive electrode active material, the conductive agent, and the resin is coated with the polysaccharide.

Abstract: An active noise reduction device includes a signal processor that generates a cancelling signal for outputting a cancelling sound for reducing noise in an interior of a vehicle and a communicator that receives a change request for changing a parameter set related to generation of the cancelling signal to a user-designated parameter set that is designated by a user, and the signal processor generates the cancelling signal by using the user-designated parameter set based on the change request received.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system for performing wireless communication between a first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first communication device performs measurement during a fixed period of an index indicating at least one of the modulation method and the coding rate used in wireless communication with the second communication device, calculates the amount of variation in the index in the fixed period on the basis of the measured indices, and determines the directivity of an antenna for performing wireless communication with the second communication device on the basis of the amount of variation in the index.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores first detection object information; and a processor that acquires second detection object information, in which the processor determines whether an undetected object that has not been detected in the first parking is present, based on the first detection object information and the second detection object information, and changes an aspect of the notification when the undetected object is present.

Abstract: An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: controls whether to change a resolution of a picture from a resolution of a previous picture preceding the picture in one of display order and encoding order, according to a constraint that allows the changing only when the picture is a random access picture among one or more random access pictures; and when a resolution of a reference picture to be used in encoding of an inter-predicted picture is different from a resolution of the inter-predicted picture, resamples a reference image in the reference picture according to a difference between the resolution of the reference picture and the resolution of the inter-predicted picture, and encodes an image in the inter-predicted picture using the reference image resampled.

Abstract: A non-aqueous secondary battery including a positive electrode including a lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing at least nickel as a transition metal, a negative electrode including a silicon-containing material, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a liquid electrolyte. The liquid electrolyte contains a sultone compound and an isocyanate compound, and 1?A/B?10 is satisfied, where a concentration of the sultone compound in the liquid electrolyte is A mass %, and a concentration of the isocyanate compound in the liquid electrolyte is B mass %.

Abstract: An electron carrier includes a modified cyanobacterium in which at least: (i) a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to at least 30 percent and at most 70 percent of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain; or (ii) an organic channel protein which improves protein permeability of the outer membrane is expressed. The modified cyanobacterium performs at least one of supplying electrons to an outside or taking in electrons from the outside.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized in having a Ni-containing lithium transition metal oxide having a layered structure; the proportion of Ni in the lithium transition metal oxide being 91 to 96 mol % relative to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li; a transition metal being present in the Li layer of the layered structure at an amount of 1 to 2.5 mol % relative to the total number of moles of transition metals in the Ni-containing lithium transition metal oxide; and the Ni-containing lithium transition metal oxide being such that the half width n of the diffraction peak for the (208) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by X-ray diffraction is 0.30°?n?0.50°.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer formed on the surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mixture layer includes a first negative electrode mixture layer opposite to the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode mixture layer laminated on the surface of the first negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode mixture layer includes graphite particles and a highly dielectric material having a higher dielectric constant than the graphite particles. The porosity between the graphite particles in the second negative electrode mixture layer is greater than in the first negative electrode mixture layer.

Abstract: A plant growth promoter production method includes: preparing a modified cyanobacterium in which a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to between 30 percent and 70 percent, inclusive, of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain; and causing the modified cyanobacteria to secrete a secretion involved in promoting growth of a plant.

Abstract: This signal processing device is provided with a detection circuit for detecting a temporal variation in a time difference between channels of a stereo signal, and a control circuit for controlling the degree of smoothing of an inter-channel cross correlation function on the basis of the temporal variation in the time difference between the channels.

Abstract: This positive electrode active material contains a lithium metal composite oxide which is represented by general formula xLiyNizM1-zO2-(1?x)LiwNizM1-zO2 (wherein 0.1<x?1, 1.5?y?2.5, 0.4<z?0.9, 0.9?w?1.5, and M represents one or more elements that are selected from the group consisting of transition metals, Al, Si, Sn, Ge, Sb, Bi, Mg, Ca and Sr); and the lithium metal composite oxide has a layered structure, while comprising Li element that is coordinated to the position of the oxygen tetrahedron.

Abstract: A plant acidic invertase activator production method includes: preparing a modified cyanobacterium in which a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to between 30 percent and 70 percent, inclusive, of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain; and causing the modified cyanobacteria to secrete a secretion involved in activating an acidic invertase of a plant.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is provided with a negative electrode core and a negative electrode mixture layer provided on the surface of the negative electrode core. The negative electrode mixture layer has a first layer that includes: at least one of at least one kind of metal element selected from Si, Sn, Sb, Mg, and Ge, and a compound containing said metal element; at least one of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and single-walled carbon nanotubes; and a binding agent. The negative electrode mixture layer also has a second layer that includes graphite A with a particle fracture strength of 10-35 MPa. The porosity of the first layer is preferably 50-65%.

Abstract: A battery with a laminate film outer package, configured by bonding film materials; and a flat electrode body contained in the laminate film outer package having a positive electrode with a positive electrode non-coated part, without a positive electrode mixture layer and an exposed positive electrode core body midway in the longitudinal direction; and a negative electrode has a negative electrode non-coated part without a negative electrode mixture layer and an exposed negative electrode core body midway in the longitudinal direction; and a positive electrode tab is bonded and electrically connected to the positive electrode non-coated part; and a negative electrode tab is bonded and electrically connected to the negative electrode non-coated part, both tabs generally pass through the center of the flat electrode body in the thickness direction, while being positioned on the same side of a virtual plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of the flat electrode body.

Abstract: A battery includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the first electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer, the active material layer contains Bi as a main component of an active material, and the electrolytic solution contains at least one selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonate and fluoroethylene carbonate.

Abstract: This information processing device includes: a tracking unit that tracks a subject to be authenticated who is heading from a first region toward a second region into which entry is permitted in accordance with a result of authentication processing, even before the subject to be authenticated moves to the first region; an authentication unit that performs authentication processing on the subject to be authenticated, located in the first region; and a processing unit that, when the movement of the subject to be authenticated to the first region is detected by the tracking unit, associates the result of the authentication processing on the subject to be authenticated with the result of tracking the subject to be authenticated, and tracks the subject to be authenticated, and thereby manages entry of the subject to be authenticated into the second region.