Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode material is provided. The electrode material includes active material particles. The active material particle includes a phase of a monoclinic titanium dioxide and a phase of the spinel type lithium titanate. The active material particle includes a shell part and a core part surrounded by the shell part. The shell part is formed by dispersing at least a part of the phase of the spinel type lithium titanate on the active material particle. The core part includes a part of the phase of the monoclinic titanium dioxide.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material containing a niobium titanium composite oxide is provided. The niobium titanium composite oxide has average composition represented by LiyNb2+xTi1?xO7+0.5x (0?x?0.5, 0?y?5.5). The niobium titanium composite oxide satisfies peak intensity ratios represented by the following formulae (1) to (3): 0.05?(B/A)?0.7??(1) 0.01?(C/A)?0.2??(2) 0?(D/A)?0.1??(3).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. This electrode includes a current collector and an electrode layer formed on the current collector. The electrode layer contains an active material represented by LiMn1-x-yFexAyPO4 (where 0<x?0.3, 0?y?0.1, and A is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, Zn, and Zr). A pore diameter appearing at highest frequency in pore diameter distribution of the electrode layer obtained by mercury porosimetry falls within a range of 10 nm to 50 nm. A pore specific surface area of the electrode layer is from 12 m2/g to 30 m2/g.

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: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector including elemental zinc, and a negative electrode layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode layer includes a negative electrode active material including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an oxide of titanium, a lithium-titanium oxide, and a lithium-titanium composite oxide. The electrolyte solution includes an aqueous solvent and an electrolyte.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a ground object detection unit configured to, in a predetermined detection region set in advance in at least a portion of the vehicle periphery, perform detection of a ground object defining a parking stall in which garage parking is to be performed; an end portion specification unit configured to specify an end portion of the ground object detected by the ground object detection unit, the end portion being located on an entrance side of the parking stall; and a target parking stall setting unit configured to set, based on the end portion on the entrance side specified by the end portion specification unit, a corner portion of a rectangular parking frame that defines a target parking stall in which the vehicle is to be parked, and set the parking frame to extend from the corner portion in the depth direction of the parking stall.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an active substance. The active substance includes particles of niobium titanium composite oxide and a phase including a carbon material. The niobium titanium composite oxide is represented by Ti1?xM1xNb2?yM2yO7. The phase is formed on at least a part of the surface of the particles. The carbon material shows, in a Raman chart obtained by Raman spectrometry, a G band observed at from 1530 to 1630 cm?1 and a D band observed at from 1280 to 1380 cm?1. A ratio IG/ID between a peak intensity IG of the G band and a peak intensity ID of the D band is from 0.8 to 1.2.

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: An active material for a battery contains a niobium composite oxide represented by the formula: LixM(1-y)NbyNb2O(7+?), where M represents at least one kind selected from Ti and Zr. X, y, and ? are numbers respectively satisfying the following: 0?x?6, 0?y?1, and ?1???1.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of a first oxide having a spinel structure and represented by LixNi0.5Mn1.5O4, a second metal phosphate having an olivine structure and represented by Lix9 Mn1?wFewPO4, and a third oxide having a layered structure and represented by LixNiyMnzCo1?y?zO2. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a first solvent. The first solvent includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of trimethyl phosphate, triethyl phosphate, tripropyl phosphate, tributyl phosphate, and fluorinated phosphate ester.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of a first oxide having a spinel structure and represented by LixNi0.5Mn1.5O4, a second metal phosphate having an olivine structure and represented by LixMn1-wFewPO4, and a third oxide having a layered structure and represented by LixNiyMnzCo1-y-zO2. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a first solvent. The first solvent includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of trimethyl phosphate, triethyl phosphate, tripropyl phosphate, tributyl phosphate, and fluorinated phosphate ester.

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 solid electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing an active material, a negative electrode containing an active material, and a solid electrolyte layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes a lithium-ion conductive sulfide containing at least one element selected from a group consisting of Al, Si, Fe, Ni, and Zr, the total content of the element in the lithium-ion conductive sulfide is 0.03% by mass or more and 0.3% by mass or less.

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: A positive electrode active material includes LiMn1-xMxPO4 (wherein M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Fe, Ni, Co, Ti, and Zr; and 0?x<0.5) and has an average pore diameter of 8 nm or more and not more than 25 nm and a total pore volume of 0.05 cm3/g or more and not more than 0.3 cm3/g.

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: In the case that a user's own vehicle cannot pull out from a parking space without turning back steering, a parking exit assist device carries out a parking exit assist control by setting the size of a target steering angle in an exit-from-parking trajectory setting unit to a first steering angle. On the other hand, in the case that the user's own vehicle is capable of pulling out from the parking space without turning back steering, the parking exit assist device carries out a parking exit assist control by setting the size of a target steering angle to a second steering angle which is smaller than the first steering angle.

Abstract: At a time when it is possible for a user's own vehicle to pull out from a parking space, an assist control unit of a parking exit assist device terminates an assist control in the event that the user's own vehicle has traveled forward by a predetermined distance (a minimum forward distance) from a predetermined position (a most recent intermediate position or an assist starting position).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The negative electrode of the battery includes a negative electrode active material which can absorb and release lithium ions at a negative electrode potential of 0.4 V (V.S. Li/Li+) or more. The battery satisfying the following equations (I) and (II): 1?Q2/Q1??(I) 0.5?C/A?0.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a lithium/manganese-containing oxide represented by LiaMnbMcOZ (M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Al and F, and a, b, c and Z satisfy the following equations: 0?a?2.5, 0<b?1, 0?c?1 and 2?Z?3) and a Fe-containing phosphorous compound having an olivine structure. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing metal oxide into which lithium ions are inserted and from which lithium ions are extracted.