Abstract: According to one embodiment, a template for imprint patterning processes comprises a template substrate having a first surface and a pedestal on the first surface of the template substrate, the pedestal having a second surface spaced from the first surface in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface. A pattern is disposed on the second surface. The pedestal has a sidewall between the first surface and the second surface that is at an angle of less than 90° to the second surface.

Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an opening/closing part that is capable of opening and closing a rear opening part of a vehicle main body that continues to an inside of a load room; and a step that is rotatably connected to a rear end part of the vehicle main body and that has a load placement surface. The step rotates between a use position at which the load placement surface faces upward at a further rear position than a rear end of the vehicle main body and at a lower position than a floor surface of the load room and a storage position at which the load placement surface stands upright compared to the use position.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a front seat, a rear seat, and a mirror body. The front seat is arranged to face rearward in a travel direction. The rear seat is arranged, at a rearward side of the front seat, to face frontward in the travel direction. The mirror body is arranged at a rearward position of the rear seat and reflects a vehicle frontward side.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a front seat that is arranged to face rearward in a travel direction; and a rear seat that is arranged, at a rear side of the front seat, to face frontward in the travel direction. At least part of a floor below the front seat is constituted of a flat floor part. A seat portion of the front seat is capable of being flipped up such that a vehicle front side of the seat is a fulcrum point.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a first seat, a second seat, and an article placement part. The first seat and the second seat are disposed to face each other in a vehicle room. The article placement part is disposed around at least one of the first seat and the second seat. A high contrast part having a high brightness and a high saturation relative to another interior component is provided on a member surface which becomes a back portion of an article that is placed on the article placement part.

Abstract: A temperature control fluid is introduced through a first port. The temperature control fluid introduced into the first port is discharged through a second port. A piston is configured to be moved by a pressure to open or close a path connecting the first port and the second port. A pressure control space is provided at at least one side of a moving direction of the piston when the path is opened or closed. Air is supplied into the pressure control space through a third port. A leak portion communicates with the pressure control space, and allows the air supplied into the pressure control space to leak therethrough.

Abstract: A battery including an electrode group with a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, and tape. A current collector of the negative electrode plate is exposed in at least part of the outermost peripheral surface of the electrode group in the winding direction, and the current collector contacts a case body. The tape comprises a base material layer and an adhesive layer arranged continuously in the winding direction on the inner surface of the wound base material layer. Dividing the region of the tape, seen from the wound inner surface, into first regions configured from the base material layer and second regions configured from the base material layer and the adhesive layer, in the winding axial direction of the electrode group, the first regions are arranged adjacent to a second region in at least the center end of the electrode group on the both ends of the tape.

Abstract: This nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a winding-type electrode group which comprises a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, and tape adhered on the peripheral surface of the electrode group. A current collector of the negative electrode plate is exposed in at least part of the outermost peripheral surface of the electrode group in the winding direction, and the current collector contacts a case body. The tape comprises a base material layer and an adhesive layer arranged continuously in the winding direction on the inner surface of the wound base material layer. Dividing the region seen from the wound inner surface of the tape into first regions configured from the base material layer and second regions configured from the base material layer and the adhesive layer, the first regions are interposed between second regions in at least part of the area of the tape in the winding direction.

Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to suppress electrode plate deformation that may be a cause of an internal short-circuit from occurring in a configuration in which a tape is attached to the outermost circumferential surface of an electrode group in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a roll-type electrode group including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate and a tape attached to the outermost circumferential surface of the electrode group. The tape has two adhesion regions each including a base material layer and an adhesive layer and a non-adhesion region that is interposed between the two adhesion regions and that is composed of a base material layer only.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including an electrode body in which a positive electrode plate including a belt-shaped positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode plate including a belt-shaped negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector are wound with an insulating separator interposed there between. At the outermost periphery of the electrode body, a negative electrode current collector exposed portion, in which the negative electrode current collector is exposed, is provided, and a winding-finish end of the negative electrode plate is fixed with tapes attached to the negative electrode current collector exposed portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to suppress, in a winding type electrode body in which a negative electrode lead is bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector, electrode plate deformation in association with charge/discharge cycles. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a winding type electrode body (14). A negative electrode (12) includes a negative electrode lead (20a) bonded to a winding start side end of a negative electrode collector and is wound at least one turn from a winding-direction inner end so as not to face a positive electrode (11) with a separator (13) interposed therebetween. The negative electrode (12) includes an insulating tape (40) adhered to the negative electrode collector so as to straddle a surface of the negative electrode lead (20a) in a winding direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprinting method comprises forming a carbon film on a substrate. The carbon film being oxygen in an amount of less than or equal to 15% by weight. A transfer material is dispensed over the carbon film. A patterned template is brought into contact with the transfer material. The transfer material is cured with light passing through the patterned template. The patterned template is then detached from the cured transfer material.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using a silicon compound as a negative electrode active material, suppress deformation of a negative electrode. An embodiment includes a winding type electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are spirally wound with at least one separator interposed therebetween. In a negative electrode mixture layer, a silicon compound is contained as a negative electrode active material. A winding-start side end of the negative electrode mixture layer extends to a winding-start end side of the electrode body past a winding-start side end of a positive electrode mixture layer. A length Y (mm) of a portion of the negative electrode mixture layer extending from the winding-start side end of the positive electrode mixture layer and a rate X (percent by mass) of the silicon compound with respect to the total mass of the negative electrode active material satisfy a relationship of Y?3X?15 (6?X?15).

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to prevent, in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a tape adhered to an outermost peripheral surface of an electrode group from breaking due to charging and discharging. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a winding-type electrode group and tapes adhered to an outermost peripheral surface of the electrode group so that an electrode group winding end E is fixed to the outermost peripheral surface of the electrode group. The tapes include: two adhesive regions including a substrate layer and an adhesive layer; and a non-adhesive region sandwiched between the two adhesive regions and consisting only of the substrate layer. The non-adhesive region is disposed so as to extend across the winding end E, which is positioned on the outermost periphery of the electrode group, in the winding direction.

Abstract: An imprint device includes a load port for receiving a substrate to be processed, a sensor that acquires information from the substrate about a film on the substrate, and a primer forming unit configured to receive the substrate from the load port. A controller is configured to select primer process conditions corresponding to the film information. The primer forming unit receives primer process conditions from the controller and forms a primer layer on the substrate over the film. The primer layer is formed according to the selected process conditions. An imprinting unit of the imprint device is configured to receive the substrate from the primer forming unit and perform imprint lithography on the substrate.

Abstract: A tinnitus masking system for use by a person having tinnitus. The system comprises a sound delivery system having left and right ear-level audio delivery devices and is configured to deliver a masking sound to the person via the audio delivery devices such that the masking sound appears to originate from a virtual sound source location that substantially corresponds to the spatial location in 3D auditory space of the source of the tinnitus as perceived by the person. The masking sound being represented by left and right audio signals that are converted to audible sound by the respective audio delivery devices.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tobacco extract that, when utilized for a non-combustion type flavor inhaler, does not generate insoluble particles in a liquid mixture or the like, and can thereby suppress scorching at a heat source section and also suppress a change in smoke flavor. The present invention provides a tobacco extract produced by subjecting all or a portion of a tobacco plant body to steam distillation to obtain a fraction, subjecting the fraction to solvent extraction with a suitable organic solvent, and removing the organic solvent.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprinting method comprises forming a carbon film on a substrate. The carbon film being oxygen in an amount of less than or equal to 15% by weight. A transfer material is dispensed over the carbon film. A patterned template is brought into contact with the transfer material. The transfer material is cured with light passing through the patterned template. The patterned template is then detached from the cured transfer material.

Abstract: A control method of a heat medium includes a flow rate control process and a supply stop process. In the flow rate control process, a flow rate of the heat medium is decreased in a state where the heat medium is being supplied from a temperature controller configured to supply the heat medium whose temperature is controlled into a flow path formed in a heat exchange member configured to exchange heat with a temperature control target object. In the supply stop process, a supply of the heat medium into the flow path is stopped by controlling a supply valve provided at a supply line that connects the temperature controller and the flow path of the heat exchange member.

Abstract: A temperature controlling apparatus includes a member having a member flow path within the member, and includes a first temperature controller configured to control a temperature of a first temperature-controlled medium to a first temperature. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a second temperature controller configured to control a temperature of a second temperature-controlled medium to a second temperature, the second temperature differing from the first temperature. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a first flow path of the first temperature-controlled medium, between the member flow path and the first temperature controller. The temperature controlling apparatus includes a second flow path of the second temperature-controlled medium, between the member flow path and the second temperature controller, and includes a third flow path of the first temperature-controlled medium that flows to the first temperature controller, without using the member flow path.