Abstract: A solid-state battery having a battery body that includes a plurality of adjacent elements. A first external electrode is electrically connected to a first positive electrode. A second external electrode is electrically connected to a first negative electrode. A third external electrode is electrically connected to a second positive electrode. A fourth external electrode is electrically connected to a second negative electrode. A first element and a second element of the plurality of adjacent elements are connected in series by integrating the first external electrode and the fourth external electrode or by integrating the second external electrode and the third external electrode.

Abstract: A control device for a moving body is configured to execute following movement control under which a movement speed of a moving body is controlled to follow a preceding moving body moving ahead of the moving body, and constant speed movement control under which the movement speed of the moving body is controlled to be a predetermined target. The control device is configured to execute, when the preceding moving body is detected, the following movement control, and execute, when the preceding moving body is no longer detected during execution of the following movement control, the constant speed movement control under which the movement speed of the moving body is controlled such that the movement speed of the moving body becomes the target speed based on a movement speed of a surrounding moving body moving in a surrounding area of the moving body.

Abstract: A packaged solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery having a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface to the bottom surface; a supporting substrate supporting the bottom surface of the solid-state battery; an insulating cover layer covering at least the top surface and the side surfaces of the solid-state battery; and an inorganic cover film on the insulating cover layer.

Abstract: A solid fuel burner is provided with a guide member arranged on an outer circumferential section of a distal end of a first gas nozzle so as to guide a fluid flowing through a second flow passage outward in a radial direction; and a contraction forming member that is arranged on an upstream side of the guide member with respect to the flow direction of the second flow passage so as to reduce the cross sectional area of the second flow passage. An outer diameter of the guide member is formed to be smaller than an inner diameter of an outer peripheral wall of a second gas nozzle. The first gas nozzle, the guide member, and the contraction forming member are configured so as to be integrally attachable/detachable along an axial direction of the first gas nozzle toward the outside of a furnace.

Abstract: A solid-state battery that includes: a solid-state battery main portion having a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer alternatively stacked with a solid electrolyte layer interposed therebetween; a first end surface electrode electrically connected to the positive electrode layer and disposed on a first side surface of the solid-state battery main portion; a second end surface electrode electrically connected to the negative electrode layer and disposed on a second side surface of the solid-state battery main portion; a first lower surface electrode electrically connected to the first end surface electrode and disposed on a lower surface side of the solid-state battery main portion; and a second lower surface electrode electrically connected to the second end surface electrode and disposed on the lower surface side of the solid-state battery main portion.

Abstract: A solid-state battery having a battery body that includes a functional portion, a first edge portion, and a second edge portion. The functional portion is a portion where first and second internal electrodes and a solid electrolyte layer overlap each other in a thickness direction. The first edge portion is a portion where the first internal electrode, the solid electrolyte layer, and a second insulating layer overlap each other in the thickness direction. The second edge portion is a portion at which the second internal electrode, the solid electrolyte layer, and a first insulating layer overlap each other in the thickness direction. Each of thicknesses of the first and second edge portions are greater than a thickness of the functional portion.

Abstract: This solid fuel burner is provided with: a venturi tube in which a channel for mixed fluid in a fuel nozzle narrows toward the center in the channel cross section; a fuel concentrator that imparts, to the mixed fluid, a velocity component away from the center of the fuel nozzle; and a channel separation member that separates the channel of the fuel nozzle into an internal side and an external side; wherein the channel separation member is shaped in such a way that the cross sectional area of an external channel is larger at the downstream end than at the upstream end, and the upstream end of the fuel concentrator is located between the upstream end and the downstream end of an expanded portion of the venturi tube. This solid fuel burner prevents solid fuel particles, which is ground biomass fuel, from adhering and depositing inside the nozzle.

Abstract: A solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery layered body including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein at least one electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer has a tapered shape toward an edge of the electrode layer in a sectional view thereof, and the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte are an integrally sintered body.

Abstract: A packaged solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery having a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface to the bottom surface; a supporting substrate supporting the bottom surface of the solid-state battery; an insulating cover layer covering at least the top surface and the side surfaces of the solid-state battery; and an inorganic cover film on the insulating cover layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ceramic plate-shaped body that efficiently manufactures a ceramic plate-shaped body having high smoothness without requiring polishing after firing. The method includes preparing an unsintered plate-shaped body, preparing a plurality of resin sheets by a resin slurry containing a spherical resin powder that is composed of a resin material being poorly-soluble in an organic solvent and burning out during firing, producing an unsintered laminate by laminating and press-bonding the unsintered plate-shaped body and the resin sheet, firing the unsintered laminate so that the unsintered plate-shaped body is sintered to form a ceramic plate-shaped body, and the ceramic plate-shaped bodies are bonded to each other with scattered fine bonding portions interposed therebetween to form a ceramic laminate, and breaking the bonding portions in the ceramic laminate so that the ceramic laminate is divided into a plurality of ceramic plate-shaped bodies.

Abstract: A electricity management device increases a counter value as an electric vehicle is charged from grid power that is supplied from an electrical grid, retains the counter value when the electric vehicle is charged from electricity generated by an electricity generation device, and reduces the counter value as electricity in the electric vehicle is discharged to a distribution board.

Abstract: A solid fuel burner is provided with a guide member arranged on an outer circumferential section of a distal end of a first gas nozzle so as to guide a fluid flowing through a second flow passage outward in a radial direction; and a contraction forming member that is arranged on an upstream side of the guide member with respect to the flow direction of the second flow passage so as to reduce the cross sectional area of the second flow passage. An outer diameter of the guide member is formed to be smaller than an inner diameter of an outer peripheral wall of a second gas nozzle. The first gas nozzle, the guide member, and the contraction forming member are configured so as to be integrally attachable/detachable along an axial direction of the first gas nozzle toward the outside of a furnace.

Abstract: An all solid state battery that includes a sintered body, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, a first metal member, and a second metal member. The first metal member is electrically connected to the first external electrode and has a first reflow-mounting portion. The second metal member is electrically connected to the second external electrode and has a second reflow-mounting portion. A first wet plating layer is on at least a portion of a surface of the first reflow-mounting portion, and a second wet plating layer is on at least a portion of a surface of the second reflow-mounting portion.

Abstract: A power saving control device includes: an acquirer that acquires a power saving request; and a controller that determines whether or not power saving control for reducing a power consumption of a load device is to be performed in response to the power saving request, and that, when determining that the power saving control is to be performed, performs the power saving control. When the load device consumes power, the controller determines that the power saving control is not to be performed under a condition that no power flows from a power system into a facility in which the load device is installed, the condition being one of one or more conditions.

Abstract: A solid-state battery having a battery body that includes a functional portion, a first edge portion, and a second edge portion. The functional portion is a portion where first and second internal electrodes and a solid electrolyte layer overlap each other in a thickness direction. The first edge portion is a portion where the first internal electrode, the solid electrolyte layer, and a second insulating layer overlap each other in the thickness direction. The second edge portion is a portion at which the second internal electrode, the solid electrolyte layer, and a first insulating layer overlap each other in the thickness direction. Each of thicknesses of the first and second edge portions are greater than a thickness of the functional portion.

Abstract: A solid-state battery having a battery body that includes a plurality of adjacent elements. A first external electrode is electrically connected to a first positive electrode. A second external electrode is electrically connected to a first negative electrode. A third external electrode is electrically connected to a second positive electrode. A fourth external electrode is electrically connected to a second negative electrode. A first element and a second element of the plurality of adjacent elements are connected in series by integrating the first external electrode and the fourth external electrode or by integrating the second external electrode and the third external electrode.

Abstract: A solid fuel burner is provided with a nozzle that is provided around the central axis of the burner, that includes a straight tube section having an opening opposed to a furnace, and a curved tube section continuous with the straight tube section, and that sprays out, from the opening to the furnace, a fluid mixture which is of a solid fuel and carrier gas of the solid fuel and which is flowing in the curved tube section; a first swirler that gives the fluid mixture a swirl at the burner central axis side of the straight tube section; and a second swirler that gives, at the burner central axis side downstream of the first swirler, the fluid mixture a swirl opposite to that given by the first swirler.

Abstract: A power saving control device includes: an acquirer that acquires a power saving request; and a controller that determines whether or not power saving control for reducing a power consumption of a load device is to be performed in response to the power saving request, and that, when determining that the power saving control is to be performed, performs the power saving control. When the load device consumes power, the controller determines that the power saving control is not to be performed under a condition that no power flows from a power system into a facility in which the load device is installed, the condition being one of one or more conditions.

Abstract: A burner includes: an inner gas nozzle which extends along an axis while surrounding the axis, and which is capable of supplying a furnace with an inner combustion oxygen containing gas; a fuel supply nozzle surrounding the inner gas nozzle as seen in a direction along the axis, the fuel supply nozzle being capable of supplying the furnace with a fluid mixture of a solid powder fuel and a carrier gas; an outer gas nozzle surrounding the fuel supply nozzle as seen in the direction along the axis, the outer gas nozzle being capable of supplying the furnace with an outer combustion oxygen containing gas; and a flow-velocity-ratio adjustment apparatus capable of adjusting a relative flow velocity ratio of a discharge flow velocity of the inner combustion oxygen containing gas to a discharge flow velocity of the outer combustion oxygen containing gas.

Abstract: This solid fuel burner is provided with: a venturi tube in which a channel for mixed fluid in a fuel nozzle narrows toward the center in the channel cross section; a fuel concentrator that imparts, to the mixed fluid, a velocity component away from the center of the fuel nozzle; and a channel separation member that separates the channel of the fuel nozzle into an internal side and an external side; wherein the channel separation member is shaped in such a way that the cross sectional area of an external channel is larger at the downstream end than at the upstream end, and the upstream end of the fuel concentrator is located between the upstream end and the downstream end of an expanded portion of the venturi tube. This solid fuel burner prevents solid fuel particles, which is ground biomass fuel, from adhering and depositing inside the nozzle.