Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material containing orthorhombic Na-containing niobium-titanium composite oxide particles represented by general formula (1) Li2+vNa2?yM1xTi6?y?zNbyM2zO14+?. In general formula (1), M1 is one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cs, K, Sr, Ba, and Ca, M2 is one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Zr, Al, Sn, V, Ta, Mo, W, Fe, Co, and Mn, 0?v<2, 0?x<2, 0<y<2, 0?z<3, and ?0.5???0.5. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains an Na component in a range of 10 ppm by mass to 3,000 ppm by mass.

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 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 including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte is provided. The positive electrode includes an active material including Li1?xMn2?y?zAlyMzO4 (?0.1?x?1, 0.20?y?0.35, 0?z?0.1, M is at least one metal selected from Mg, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, and Sn). The negative electrode includes an active material including a first oxide represented by Li4+aTi5O12 (?0.5?a?3) and a second oxide of at least one element selected from Al, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Ni, Zn, and Zr. The second oxide is included in an amount of from 300 ppm to 5000 ppm relative to a weight of the first oxide.

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: The nonaqueous electrolyte battery according to one embodiment includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material containing manganese-containing composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide and titanium-containing composite oxide. A ratio p/n of a capacity p per unit area of the positive electrode to a capacity n per unit area of the negative electrode is in the range of 0.8 or more and 1 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: 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: An electronic circuit includes: a first logic circuit coupled to a first input line and a first output line; a second logic circuit coupled to a second input line and a second output line; a first line pattern coupled to the first output line and including an input line different from the second input line; and a second line pattern coupled to the second output line and different from the first input line, wherein at least a part of the first output line, the first line pattern, the second output line, or the second line pattern has a folded shape or a circular shape.

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: An apparatus for generating physical random numbers includes a physical random number generator configured to generate physical random numbers, a test unit configured to perform a test process to check randomness of the physical random numbers, a minimum entropy estimating unit configured to estimate a minimum entropy based on statistical information generated as a byproduct of the test process, an entropy compressing unit configured to perform an entropy compression process using the physical random numbers as an input, and an entropy control unit configured to control based on the minimum entropy a number of bits of the physical random numbers input into the entropy compression process performed by the entropy compressing unit.

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: From the least significant bit of the current secret key, k bits are retrieved, obtaining a binary window sequence. A binary bit string of concatenation of the random number to the more significant bits of the window sequence is obtained if the most significant bit of the window sequence is 0, subtracting a bit string from the current secret key to obtain a new secret key, or the bit string of a complement of the base number for the window sequence in binary system is calculated if the most significant bit of the window sequence is 1, obtaining a bit string by adding a minus sign to a bit string obtained by concatenating the random number to the more significant bits of the bit string, subtracting the bit string from the current secret key to obtain a new secret key.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first circuit configured to provide a predetermined function and a second circuit configured to have a physically unclonable function, wherein the second circuit is incorporated into the first circuit such that a signal value of at least one node in the first circuit varies in response to an output of the second circuit, and the output of the second circuit is set such that the first circuit provides the predetermined function.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material-including layer including a positive electrode active material, which includes a lithium-manganese oxide LiMn2-xMxO4, and a conductive agent. In the positive electrode active material-including layer, an average particle diameter d50 is within 2 ?m to 5 ?m, a particle diameter d10 and a particle diameter d90, where a cumulative frequency from a smaller side is, respectively, 10% and 90%, is within 0.5 ?m to 3 ?m and within 4 ?m to 10 ?m, respectively, in a particle size distribution. X, represented by X=(d50?d10) /d50 is within 0.4 to 0.8. Y, represented by Y=(d90?d50)/d90 is within 0.2 to 0.6.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electrode for battery which includes a current collector and an active material layer provided on the current collector. The active material layer contains particles of a lithium titanate compound having a spinel structure and a basic polymer. Here, the basic polymer is coating at least a part of the surface of the particles of the lithium titanate compound.

Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: a first logic circuit coupled to a first input line and a first output line; a second logic circuit coupled to a second input line and a second output line; a first line pattern coupled to the first output line and including an input line different from the second input line; and a second line pattern coupled to the second output line and different from the first input line, wherein at least a part of the first output line, the first line pattern, the second output line, or the second line pattern has a folded shape or a circular shape.

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 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.