Abstract: A validation document while responding to a customer's demand is efficiently created. A server creates a first sample document upon receiving, from a terminal device, a request for creation of the first sample document including an inspection item targeted for a first device. The terminal device receives an operation of inputting the parameter value to the first sample document, and transmits the inputted parameter value to the server. The server creates a first validation document on the basis of the parameter value received from the terminal device and on the basis of the first sample document.

Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.

Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell includes: a first electrode including a porous semiconductor layer supporting a dye; a second electrode serving as a counter electrode of the first electrode; and an electrolyte solution filled between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrolyte solution contains a silane coupling agent.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a negative electrode containing a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles dispersed in the lithium silicate phase and an electrolytic solution containing a fluorine-containing linear carboxylic acid ester represented by R1—(CO)O—CH2—R2 (wherein R1 is an alkyl group and R2 is an alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with fluorine).

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery, including: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a manganese dioxide, the negative electrode includes zinc and/or a zinc alloy, and the alkaline electrolyte includes at least one sulfonyl group-containing anion selected from the group consisting of a bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)imide anion, a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide anion, and a fluorosulfonate anion.

Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation.

Abstract: A secondary-battery negative electrode includes: a negative electrode collector; and a negative electrode active material layer provided on a surface of the negative electrode collector, and the negative electrode active material layer includes active material particles and amorphous carbon which covers at least parts of surfaces of the active material particles. At least a part of a surface of the amorphous carbon is covered with a film having a lithium ion permeability, the film contains an element M, and the element M is at least one selected from the group consisting of P, Si, B, V, Nb, W, Ti, Zr, Al, Ba, La, and Ta.

Abstract: An optical multiplexer includes a plurality of light sources that emit a plurality of laser beams having different wavelengths, a collimator that collimates a plurality of laser beams emitted from a plurality of light sources, and a diffraction grating that diffracts a plurality of laser beams collimated by the collimator and emits a plurality of laser beams along a same optical path, the diffraction grating being of a transmission-type. A plurality of light sources are linearly arranged on an incident side focal plane of the collimator, a grating surface of the diffraction grating is disposed on an emission side focal plane of the collimator, and distance D between two adjacent light sources is set to satisfy D=f×(?1??2)/p, where ?1, ?2 (?1>?2) are respectively wavelengths of laser beams emitted from the two adjacent light sources.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises water, a lithium salt, and a polycarboxylic acid having two or more carboxylic acid groups. A secondary battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and the electrolyte solution.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery including: a battery case; an electrode group; and a nonaqueous electrolyte; the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a nonaqueous solvent, a solute, and an additive; the electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween; the negative electrode includes foil composed of metal lithium or a lithium alloy, has a shape extending in a longitudinal direction and a short direction, and provided with a long tape adhered to at least one main surface of the negative electrode along the longitudinal direction thereof; the tape includes a resin substrate and an adhesive layer and has a width of 0.5 to 3 mm; and the additive is a lithium salt represented by the following formula (1): LixMCyOzF? (1?x?2, 0?y?6, 0?z?8, 0???6, and 1?y+z+? are satisfied, and y and z are not simultaneously 0), and the element M includes at least one of phosphorus and boron.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution is provided. The electrolyte solution contains water and one or more lithium salts, and the lithium salts include lithium fluorophosphate.

Abstract: In a sensor used in an energy harvesting system, electric power generated by a solar cell module is more efficiently utilized. In a sensor (100), a resistor (3) is connected in parallel with one of a first solar cell module (1a) and a second solar cell module (1b) that have mutually different current-voltage characteristics in the same illuminance environment and in series with the other one of the first solar cell module (1a) and the second solar cell module (1b). A first voltmeter (4a) measures a voltage (V1) across the first solar cell module (1a), and a second voltmeter (4b) measures a voltage (V2) across the second solar cell module (1b). A load (6) is fed with the electric power generated by the first solar cell module (1a) and the second solar cell module (1b).

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolytic solution contained in the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the separator. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material including zinc, and an additive. The additive includes at least one selected from the group consisting of maleic acid, maleic anhydride and maleate salts.

Abstract: An photoelectric conversion element in the disclosure is characterized by including: a first conductive layer; a porous hole-blocking layer disposed on the first conductive layer; a porous insulator layer disposed on the porous hole-blocking layer; photoabsorption layers disposed in a pore of the porous hole-blocking layer and in a pore of the porous insulator layer and containing an organic-based photoelectric conversion material; an electron-blocking layer disposed on the porous insulator layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the electron-blocking layer.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode material mixture including LixMnO2 where 0 ? x ? 0.05. The negative electrode contains at least one of metal lithium and a lithium alloy. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains an oxalate borate complex component and a cyclic imide component. In the non-aqueous electrolyte, the concentration of the oxalate borate complex component is 5.5 mass% or less, and the concentration of the cyclic imide component is 1 mass% or less. The mass ratio of the cyclic imide component to the oxalate borate complex component contained in the non-aqueous electrolyte is 0.02 or more and 10 or less.

Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a liquid non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode material mixture including LixMnO2 where 0?x?0.05. The negative electrode contains at least one of metal lithium and a lithium alloy. The liquid non-aqueous electrolyte contains a cyclic imide component and an organic silyl borate component. The concentration of the cyclic imide component in the liquid non-aqueous electrolyte is 1 mass % or less, the concentration of the organic silyl borate component in the liquid non-aqueous electrolyte is 5.5 mass % or less, and the mass ratio of the cyclic imide component to the organic silyl borate component contained in the liquid non-aqueous electrolyte is 0.02 or more and 10 or less.

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and an alkaline electrolyte retained in the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material containing zinc, and an additive. The additive includes an aromatic carboxylic acid and tin powder.

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte, and the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material containing zinc, a compound A having a P—O bond, and terephthalic acid. The molar ratio of the compound A to the terephthalic acid is 0.025 or more and 2.5 or less.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material particle and that is disposed on the surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material particle includes a positive electrode active material particle, a first coating that contains oxide X of metal element M1 and that is attached to the surface of the positive electrode active material particle, and a second coating having lithium-ion permeability that is attached to the surface of the first coating. The second coating contains oxide Y represented by LixM2Oy (0.5?x<4, 1?y<6), M2 being at least one selected from a group consisting of B, Al, Si, P, S, Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Ta, and La.

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery includes a battery case, a hollow cylindrical positive electrode accommodated in the battery case, a negative electrode disposed in the hollow portion of the positive electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution contained in the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the separator. The alkaline dry battery further includes a layer principally including a compound containing a polyoxyethylene group between the positive electrode and the inner surface of the battery case.