Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector, an electrode mixture layer, and a self-assembled film. The first self-assembled film covers at least a part of a surface of the current collector. The first self-assembled film contains organic molecules. The electrode mixture layer disposed on at least a part of the first self-assembled film.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a lithium zinc secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an aqueous electrolyte, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a zinc-including metal body and an oxide on at least a part of a surface of the metal body. The aqueous electrolyte includes zinc and a lithium salt. Zinc is dissolved and deposited at the negative electrode. Lithium is inserted and extracted from the oxide in a range of ?1.4 V (vs. SCE) or more and ?1.0 V (vs. SCE) or less. A specific surface area of the oxide is 10 m2/g or more and 350 m2/g or less. A mol concentration ratio Zn/Li between zinc and lithium in the aqueous electrolyte is 1.0×10?5 or more and 0.3 or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an active material. The active material includes a composite oxide having an orthorhombic structure. The composite oxide is represented by the general formula Ti2(Nb1-xTax)2O9 (0?x?1). The composite oxide has an average valence of niobium and/or tantalum of 4.95 or more.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery active material is provided. The battery active material includes monoclinic complex oxide represented by the formula LixTi1?yM1yNb2?zM2zO7+? (0?x?5, 0?y?1, 0?z?2, ?0.3???0.3). In the above formula, M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Si and Sn, and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Ta and Bi.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a positive electrode active material containing positive electrode active material particles. The positive electrode active material particles have an olivine structure. The positive electrode active material particles are represented by LiMn1?x?yFexMyPO4 (0<x?0.5, 0?y?0.2, and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ni, Co, Sn, and Nb) and satisfy, Formula (1) below. ?<???(1), wherein ? is a ratio of Fe in LiMn1???yFe?MyPO4, and ? is a ratio of Fe in LiMn1???yFe?MyPO4.

Abstract: An image processing device (10) is for extracting pixels of a specific color from an image to be processed, and includes: a pixel information extraction unit (11) that extracts values of luminance, first chrominance, and second chrominance of pixels composing the image on a pixel-by-pixel basis; a calculation processing unit (12) that calculates, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a distance from a point defined by the extracted values to a preset reference plane in a space in which the luminance, the first chrominance, and the second chrominance are set along axes that are perpendicular to one another; and a converted image generation unit (13) that generates an image in which pixels satisfying the following condition are emphasized: the distance calculated by the calculation processing unit (12) is larger than or equal to a threshold.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery module includes a battery unit. The battery unit includes a nonaqueous lithium ion battery including a nonaqueous electrolyte, and an aqueous lithium ion battery including an electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte is dissolved in an aqueous solvent. In the battery unit, the aqueous lithium ion battery is connected in parallel to the nonaqueous lithium ion battery.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an active substance. The active substance contains active material particles. The active material particles comprise a compound represented by the formula: Ti1-xM1xNb2-yM2yO7. The active material particles has a peak A attributed to a (110) plane which appears at 2? ranging from 23.74 to 24.14°, a peak B attributed to a (003) plane which appears at 2? ranging from 25.81 to 26.21° and a peak C attributed to a (602) plane which appears at 2? ranging from 26.14 to 26.54° in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the active material particles. An intensity IA of the peak A, an intensity IB of the peak B, and an intensity IC of the peak C satisfy the relation (1): 0.80?IB/IA?1.12; and the relation (2) IC/IB?0.80.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode terminal electrically connected to the negative electrode current collector, a joint electrically connecting the negative electrode terminal and the negative electrode current collector, and a water repellent layer covering the joint. The joint is covered with the inner surface of the water repellent layer. A contact angle ? with respect to water on an outer surface of the water repellent layer satisfies 80°??.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes: a peripheral image generation portion that generates an overhead image of a periphery viewed from above based on a captured image of a periphery of a vehicle; and a display image generation portion that generates a display image by superimposing a host vehicle image displaying a host vehicle on one of left and right sides in the overhead image and superimposing a target frame displaying a target of a movement destination of the vehicle on the other of the left and right sides in the overhead image in an assist mode of a forward parking or a backward exit.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes: a peripheral image generation portion that generates an overhead image of a periphery viewed from above based on a captured image of a periphery of a vehicle; and a display image generation portion that generates a display image by superimposing a host vehicle image displaying a host vehicle on one of left and right sides in the overhead image and superimposing a target frame displaying a target of a movement destination of the vehicle on the other of the left and right sides in the overhead image in an assist mode of a forward parking or a backward exit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte is provided. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes titanium-containing metal oxide particles, an anatase type TiO2 phase, and a solid electrolyte phase. Each of the anatase type TiO2 phase and the solid electrolyte phase is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the titanium-containing metal oxide particles. The electrolyte contains an electrolyte salt and water.

Abstract: An active material for a battery includes a mixed phase includes a lithium titanium composite oxide phase and a nonstoichiometric titanium oxide phase. This active material is excellent in lithium absorption/desorption performance, exhibiting high electric potentials in lithium absorption/desorption and high conductivity.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. This active material is represented by the general formula of Li(2+x)Na2Ti6O14, wherein x is within a range of 0?x?6. The active material includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Mo, W, V, Nb, Ta, P, Y, Al, Fe, and B in a content of 0.03 to 8.33 atom %.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte including a water-containing solvent and a lithium ion. The negative electrode includes an aluminum-containing negative electrode current collector and a boehmite-containing cover layer, and the boehmite-containing cover layer is provided on at least a part of a surface of the negative electrode current collector, and has a thickness of 10 nm to 1000 nm.

Abstract: An active material containing a monoclinic ?-type titanium oxide or a monoclinic ?-type titanium complex oxide. A carbonate ion is disposed on at least a part of a surface of the active material. The active material has a peak belonging to a carbonate ion in at least a. region of 1430±30 cm?1, 1500±30 cm?1 and 2350±30 cm ?1 in an infrared diffuse reflection spectrum obtained using a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery active material includes a complex oxide containing Nb and Ti and an element M. In the active material, the molar ratio (M/Ti) of the element M to Ti satisfies the following formula (I): 0<M/Ti?0.5 (I). In the complex oxide containing Nb and Ti, the molar ratio (Nb/Ti) of Nb to Ti satisfies the following formula (II): 0?Nb/Ti?5 (II). The element M is at least one selected from the group consisting of B, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, P, K, Ca, Mo, W, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Fe.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a parking assist device includes a detector configured to detect a target parking position from a captured image obtained from an imager; a position identifier that identifies, during a period while the vehicle is moving after the captured image was displayed on the display device and before a captured image captured next by the imager is displayed, the target parking position with respect to a current position of the vehicle, based on a first moving amount by which the vehicle has moved since the captured image was displayed on the display device and on a positional relation between the vehicle and the target parking position at the time when the captured image was captured; and a parking assist unit that guides the vehicle during the period based on the identified target parking position when a request for guiding the vehicle to the target parking position is made.

Abstract: A parking assist device according to an embodiment includes: a peripheral image generation unit configured to generate a peripheral image representing conditions around a vehicle based on an imaging result of an imaging unit provided to the vehicle; a parking region acquisition unit configured to acquire a parking region where the vehicle is parkable; a display processing unit configured to display the peripheral image on a display device including a touch panel, and display a first symbol representing the parking region on the peripheral image; and an assist processing unit configured to start, when a position corresponding to the first symbol on the touch panel is touched, parking assist control for assisting parking at the parking region represented by the first symbol.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an active material. The active material includes a titanium-containing oxide. The titanium-containing oxide is represented by a general formula of Li(2+w)Na(2?x)M1(x/2)Ti(6?y)M2zO14. In the general formula, the subscripts w, x, y and z are within ranges of 0?w?6, 0<x<2, 0?y?3, and 0?z?3, respectively. M1 is at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, and Pb. M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of metallic elements M (excluding Ti and M1) and P.