Abstract: In a profile data delivery control apparatus, a storage unit stores therein a public key and a private key. A control unit obtains profile data including the identification information of a service provided using a server, and when the profile data satisfies a prescribed validity condition, attaches a signature to the profile data using the private key. The control unit embeds the public key to be used to verify the signature, in a client application that causes a client to perform an authentication process based on the profile data, and delivers the client application with the public key embedded.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode material layer. The negative electrode material layer includes a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium at a potential of 0.78 V (vs. Li/Li+) or more. A film containing a compound having a propylene glycol backbone is formed on at least a part of a surface of the negative electrode material layer. A content of the compound having the propylene glycol backbone in the film is 2 ?mol to 40 ?mol per g of a weight of the negative electrode material layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material containing LixNi1-a-bCoaMnbMcO2 (0.9<x?1.25, 0<a ?0.4, 0?b?0.45, 0?c?0.1, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Ti, Zn, Zr, Ca, and Sn). The separator includes polyester. A pore volume in a pore size distribution according to a mercury intrusion porosimetry is in a range of 0.9 cm3/g to 3 cm3/g. An air permeability value according to a Gurley method is in a range of 2 sec/100 ml to 15 sec/100 ml.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy includes: a core material made of an aluminum alloy including Si, Cu, and Mn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities; a brazing material cladded onto one side surface of the core material, and made of an aluminum alloy including Si, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities; and a sacrificial anode material cladded onto the other side surface of the core material, and made of an aluminum alloy including Zn and Si, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a total number density of single phase pure Si and a intermetallic compound existing in the sacrificial anode material and having a grain size of 0.1 ?m or more and 1.0 ?m or less is 1×103/mm2 or more and 1×106/mm2 or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.1 ml to 5 ml per 1 g when heated at 200° C. for 1 minute.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material and a binder. The negative electrode active material contains monoclinic titanium dioxide or Li4+aTi5O12 (here, ?0.5?a?3). The binder includes polyvinylidene fluoride with a molecular weight of 400,000 to 1,000,000. The negative electrode satisfies a formula (I) below. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains at least one of difluorophosphate and monofluorophosphate. 0.1?(P2/P1)?0.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material containing LixNi1?a?bCoaMnbMcO2 (0.9<x?1.25, 0<a?0.4, 0?b?0.45, 0?c?0.1, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Ti, Zn, Zr, Ca, and Sn). The separator includes polyester. A pore volume in a pore size distribution according to a mercury intrusion porosimetry is in a range of 0.9 cm3/g to 3 cm3/g. An air permeability value according to a Gurley method is in a range of 2 sec/100 ml to 15 sec/100 ml.

Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to an embodiment includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a lithium cobalt composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a lithium titanium composite oxide. The positive electrode and the negative electrode satisfy a formula (1): 1.25?p/n?1.6. Here, p is a capacity of the positive electrode, and n is a capacity of the negative electrode. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains propionate ester. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery satisfies a formula (2): 13<w/(p/n)?40. w is the content of propionate ester in the nonaqueous electrolyte. Here, 20% by weight?w<64% by weight, with respect to the weight of the nonaqueous electrolyte.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.1 ml to 5 ml per 1 g when heated at 200° C. for 1 minute.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator sandwiched between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material having a Li-absorbing potential of 1 V vs. Li/Li+ or more. An electrical resistance of the negative electrode in a discharged state is within a range of 100 ?·cm to 100000 ?·cm. A pore volume ratio of pores having a pore diameter of 1 ?m or more in the separator is more than 70%. The pore volume ratio is determined from a cumulative pore volume frequency curve of the separator obtained by a mercury intrusion porosimetry.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including a spinel type lithium titanate. The nonaqueous electrolyte has an ion conductivity of not less than 7 mS/cm and not more than 10 mS/cm at 25° C. A capacity ratio p/n is within a range of not less than 1.4 and not more than 1.8. A thickness ratio Tp/Tn is within a range of not less than 1.05 and less than 1.3. A ratio Pp/Pn is within a range of not less than 0.55 and less than 0.8.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a fiber-made nonwoven fabric having a tortuosity of 1.8 to 3 and a vacancy of 40% to 60%. The negative electrode has an operating potential of 0.7 V or more with respect to the potential of metallic lithium.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including an electrode group and a nonaqueous electrolyte is provided. The electrode group is formed by winding a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The tension modulus of the separator in the winding direction is within a range of 200 (N/mm2) to 2,000 (N/mm2).

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes negative electrode active material particles. The negative electrode active material particles include a spinel-type lithium titanate. The negative electrode has such a surface state that a ratio ALi/ATi of an Li atom abundance ratio ALi to a Ti atom abundance ratio ATi, according to a photoelectron spectroscopic measurement for a surface, is increased at a rate of 0.002 to 0.02 per cycle in a charge-and-discharge cycle test under the predetermined condition.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a container member, a positive electrode stored in the container member, a negative electrode stored in the container member, and a nonaqueous electrolyte stored in the container member. A gas composition in the container member when a charge ratio of the nonaqueous electrolyte battery is set to 30%, and the nonaqueous electrolyte battery is left stand at 35° C. for 24 hrs satisfies 0.02(cc/g)?VH2?0.01(cc/g) ??(1) 0.05?VC3H6VCO?0.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a container member, a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The container member is provided with a gas relief structure. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode mixture layer contains a titanium-containing oxide and Mn. Abundance ratios RTi, RMn, RA and RB obtained according to an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectrum of the negative electrode mixture layer satisfy the following relational expressions: 0.01?RMn/RTi?0.2 (1); 3?RA/RMn?50 (2); and 0.5?RA/RB?5 (3).

Abstract: A registration system includes a management apparatus configured to acquire first information of an authentication key for registration from a communication processing apparatus to communicate with the management apparatus, put a signature for the first information with a first registration key, and transmit the first information completed with the signature to the communication processing apparatus, and a registration server configured to acquire a registration request including the first information completed with the signature by the management apparatus from the communication processing apparatus to communicate with the registration server, verify the signature put for the first information included in the registration request, by using a second registration key paired with the first registration key, and register the first information included in the registration request, based on a result of verifying the signature put for the first information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a spinel type lithium-manganese composite oxide and a lithium cobalt oxide, which satisfy formula (1): 0.01?B/(A+B)<0.05. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing oxide. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery satisfies formula (2): 0.3?C/D 0.8. A is a weight ratio (wt %) of the spinel type lithium-manganese composite oxide. B is a weight ratio (wt %) of the lithium cobalt oxide. C is a pore specific surface area (m2/g) of the positive electrode. D is a pore specific surface area (m2/g) of the negative electrode.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes negative electrode active material particles. The negative electrode active material particles include a spinel-type lithium titanate. The negative electrode has such a surface state that a ratio ALi/ATi of an Li atom abundance ratio ALi to a Ti atom abundance ratio ATi, according to a photoelectron spectroscopic measurement for a surface, is increased at a rate of 0.002 to 0.02 per cycle in a charge-and-discharge cycle test under the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to one embodiment includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material-containing layer. The negative electrode active material-containing layer contains a negative electrode active material containing an orthorhombic Na-containing niobium titanium composite oxide. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material-containing layer. The positive electrode active material-containing layer contains a positive electrode active material. A mass C [g/m2] of the positive electrode active material per unit area of the positive electrode and a mass A [g/m2] of the negative electrode active material per unit area of the negative electrode satisfy the formula (1): 0.95?A/C?1.5.