Abstract: Provided is a metal-air battery and a method of using the same that make it possible to simplify replacement work while also sustaining high output effectively. The metal-air battery of the present invention comprises a cell unit provided with a plurality of metal-air battery cells in parallel, each metal-air battery cell being configured to include a metal electrode, an air electrode disposed facing the metal electrode, and a housing that supports the metal electrode and the air electrode. The metal-air battery also comprises handles for example that act as a first replacing means enabling the replacement of the entire cell unit. With this arrangement, it is possible to simplify replacement work while also sustaining high output effectively.

Abstract: A lip gap adjusting device and the like that can shorten a time required for adjustment of a lip gap are provided. In a lip gap adjusting device according to one embodiment, a plurality of lip gap adjusting mechanisms that are disposed in a width direction of an extrusion molding die and configured to adjust a lip gap at respective disposition spots each include an actuator and a coupling member that couples an output shaft of the actuator and a movable lip. The actuator adjusts the lip gap via the coupling member.

Abstract: The present invention provides (I) a dry-stretched microporous membrane and a separator for an electric storage device excellent in balance among the required performances such as product safety, charge/discharge characteristics, dimension stability, energy cost, consideration to the environment, etc., (II) a separator for an electric storage device superior in product safety obtained by controlling a puncture depth of a microporous membrane comprised in the separator for an electric storage device, or/and (III) a dry-stretched microporous membrane and a separator for an electric power storage device excellent in product safety realized by controlling a porosity and a puncture strength of a thin microporous membrane.

Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.

Abstract: An estrogen derivatization method uses a quaternary cation-containing 5-fluoro-2,4-dinitrophenyl compound represented by Formula (1): where in Formula (1), X is a quaternary cation. A mass spectrometry method includes derivatizing estrogen by the above estrogen derivatization method. A derivatization reagent derivatizing estrogen includes a quaternary cation-containing 5-fluoro-2,4-dinitrophenyl compound represented by Formula (1), where in Formula (1), X is a quaternary cation.

Abstract: An information creation apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where priorities of power supply are set to power supply targets, set upper limits of power storage remaining amounts of the power supply targets such that the upper limit of the power storage remaining amount of a power supply target with a lower priority is set to a value larger than a reference value.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-transmitting substrate, a light-transmitting interconnect located over the substrate, an insulating layer located over the substrate and the interconnect, and an intermediate layer formed in at least a region of a lateral side of the interconnect that overlaps the insulating layer.

Abstract: A bus bar unit includes a bus bar including two ends and tending from a first end to a second end, and a connector unit molded to be integrated with the bus bar. A first bolt insertion hole is formed in the first end. A second bolt insertion hole is formed in the connector unit. The bus bar unit is fixed, by fixing the bus bar unit to a fixing-object member, connecting the first end to a connection terminal provided on an electronic component, and connecting a cable to the second end. A bus bar unit fixing method includes a step of inserting the first bolt through the first bolt insertion hole and fastening the first end of the bus bar to the connection terminal, and a step of inserting the second bolt through the second bolt insertion hole and fixing the connector unit to the fixing-object member.

Abstract: A sealing unit (200) includes a substrate unit (210) and a protruding portion (220). The protruding portion (220) protrudes from the substrate unit (210) toward a substrate (100). Further, when viewed from a thickness direction of the substrate unit (210), the protruding portion (220) has a frame shape. An outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) includes a recessed portion (222). The recessed portion (222) of the outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) is located at a corner of the frame shape of the protruding portion (220). In addition, the recessed portion (222) of the outer wall (226) of the protruding portion (220) is recessed toward an inner wall (228) of the protruding portion (220) relative to an outer edge (216) of the substrate unit (210).

Abstract: A transport device transports an individualized sheet-shaped workpiece. The transport device includes: an annular transport belt having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and having a plurality of suction holes extending between the first surface and the second surface; first and second decompression chambers arranged along a moving direction of the transport belt; and a vacuum degree adjusting mechanism provided in the first decompression chamber and adjusting a vacuum degree in the first decompression chamber. The first and second decompression chambers each abut against the second surface, and each suction the workpiece through at least one of the plurality of suction holes toward the first surface such that the transport belt is capable of transporting the workpiece in the moving direction in a suspended state from the first surface.

Abstract: In a moving-object power supply system, a control unit selects, as a power transmission segment, one of segments included in at least one power transmission section. The control unit supplies, through a power supply circuit, power to the power transmission segment to thereby generate a magnetic field through a power transmission coil of the power transmission segment. The control unit determines, based on an ascertained first electrical characteristic of the power transmission segment and an ascertained second electrical characteristic of at least one power non-transmission segment, whether there is a malfunction in each of the power transmission segment and the at least one power non-transmission segment.

Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a plurality of coil conductors, a first resistive layer, and a second resistive layer. The plurality of coil conductors are disposed in the element body and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coil conductors include a first coil conductor and a second coil conductor adjacent to each other. The first resistive layer and the second resistive layer oppose each other between the first coil conductor and the second coil conductor. The first resistive layer is in contact with the first coil conductor.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearer rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a developing range, a holder, and an entrance seal. The holder has a facing face facing the developer bearer upstream from the developing range in the rotation direction, a support face defining a part of an outer face of the developing device, and a relay face extending from one end of the support face to one end of the relay face connected to the facing face to form an acute tip portion closer to the developing range than the one end. The entrance seal has a free end projecting from the one end as a cantilever, and a length of the entrance seal from a tip of the free end of the entrance seal to the one end is shorter than a length of the relay face from the acute tip portion to the one end.

Abstract: A thermopile sensor according to the present disclosure includes a p-type portion and an n-type portion. The p-type portion has a first phononic crystal in which first holes are arranged in a plan view. The n-type portion has a second phononic crystal in which second holes are arranged in a plan view. The p-type portion and the n-type portion constitute a thermocouple. The boundary scattering frequency of phonons in the first phononic crystal is different from the boundary scattering frequency of phonons in the second phononic crystal. Alternatively, the ratio of the sum of the areas of the first holes to the area of the first phononic crystal in a plan view is different from the ratio of the sum of the areas of the second holes to the area of the second phononic crystal in a plan view.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a p-type thermoelectric converter, an n-type thermoelectric converter, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. One end of the p-type converter is electrically connected to one end of the n-type converter. The other end of the p-type converter is electrically connected to the second electrode, and the other end of the n-type converter is electrically connected to the third electrode. The p-type converter includes a first phononic crystal layer having a first phononic crystal structure including regularly arranged first through holes. The n-type converter includes a second phononic crystal layer having a second phononic crystal structure including regularly arranged second through holes. The through direction of the first through holes is a direction extending between the ends of the p-type converter. The through direction of the second through holes is a direction extending between the ends of the n-type converter.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.

Abstract: A power supply device mounting structure for a power supply device disposed below a seat disposed in a vehicle interior is provided. The power supply device mounting structure includes a plate member and a contact portion. The plate member is disposed between the power supply device and a seat surface portion of the seat and the plate member covers an upper surface of the power supply device. The contact portion is provided at a position facing an edge portion of the plate member and the contact portion comes into contact with the seat surface portion when a load is input from the seat surface portion.

Abstract: A battery unit equipped in a vehicle includes a battery, a case accommodating the battery, an upper surface covering material covering an upper surface of the battery in the case, an intake portion provided on the upper surface covering material and configured to take in air from an outside of the case to above the battery, a lower surface covering material covering a lower surface of the battery in the case, an exhaust portion provided on the lower surface covering material and configured to discharge air that has cooled or heated the battery, a fan disposed below the lower surface covering material, configured to take in air discharged from the exhaust portion, and discharge the air between the lower surface covering material and a bottom surface of the case.

Abstract: A clearance is created between an inner circumference of a bushing main body (2) which surrounds a rack (5) across a row of rack gear teeth (50) and an outer circumference of the rack (5), and two supporting surfaces (21A, 21B) which face each other with a bushing main body axis O therebetween and a supporting surface (21C) which faces a back surface of the rack (5), each extending along an x-axis direction, are formed on the inner circumference of the bushing main body (2). The rack (5) in a neutral state is supported by the two supporting surfaces (21A, 21B) so as to be displaceable along a z-axis direction, and the rack (5) in operation is stably supported by the three supporting surfaces (21A-21C) at three places.