Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine, a fuel pump to draw fuel into an outboard motor body from a fuel tank installed on a hull, a temporary storage tank to temporarily store the fuel drawn into the outboard motor body by the fuel pump, a fuel injector to inject the fuel stored in the temporary storage tank into the engine, a temperature sensor on the temporary storage tank to detect a temperature of the fuel stored in the temporary storage tank, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to limit an engine speed to no more than a predetermined upper limit rotation speed based on a detection result of the temperature sensor while the engine is running.

Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery (1), a positive electrode (2) and a negative electrode (3) are alternately adjacent to each other via separators (4) and (5). The positive electrode (2) includes a positive electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first positive electrode active material (21) held on one side of the positive electrode current collector, and a second positive electrode active material (22) held on the other side. The negative electrode (3) includes a negative electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first negative electrode active material (31) held on one side of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode active material (32) held on the other side. The first positive electrode active material (21) faces the first negative electrode active material (31), and the positive electrode active material (22) faces the second negative electrode active material (32).

Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that it is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.

Abstract: A method for treating a specimen in soluble GPC3 immunoassay, the method including mixing a soluble GPC3-containing specimen with a reducing agent. A soluble GPC3 immunoassay method including the following (a) and (b): (a) mixing a soluble GPC3-containing specimen with a reducing agent; and (b) measuring the amount of soluble GPC3 in the mixture obtained in (a) using one or more kinds of antibodies against soluble GPC3. A soluble GPC3 immunoassay reagent including the following (a) and (b): (a) a reducing agent; and (b) one or more kinds of antibodies against soluble GPC3.

Abstract: An ignition timing controller includes a storage and a processor configured or programmed to function as an ignition timing control section and a knocking determining section. The storage stores at least one of a first ignition timing map associated with a first fuel or a second ignition timing map associated with a second fuel more likely to cause knocking of an internal combustion engine than the first fuel. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing based on the first ignition timing map by executing a timing retardation based on the first ignition timing map when it is determined that knocking of the internal combustion engine has occurred. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine based on the second ignition timing map by executing a timing advancement correction based on the second ignition timing map when it is determined that the knocking of the internal combustion engine has not occurred.

Abstract: An object is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode that can suppress a deterioration in durability and improve energy density, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, comprising: a collector formed of a porous metal body, and a negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body, wherein the negative electrode material comprises a negative electrode active material formed of a silicon-based material, a skeleton-forming agent comprising a silicate having a siloxane bond, a conductivity aid, and a binder.

Abstract: A collision information providing system provides information about a collision with a marine vessel, and includes a controller configured or programmed to function as a judging unit to judge whether or not there has been a collision of an object with a marine vessel, an information obtaining unit to obtain information about the collision when the judging unit judges that there has been the collision, and a providing unit to provide the information obtained by the information obtaining unit.

Abstract: An ignition timing controller includes a storage and a processor configured or programmed to function as an ignition timing control section and a knocking determining section. The storage stores at least one of a first ignition timing map associated with a first fuel or a second ignition timing map associated with a second fuel more likely to cause knocking of an internal combustion engine than the first fuel. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing based on the first ignition timing map by executing a timing retardation based on the first ignition timing map when it is determined that knocking of the internal combustion engine has occurred. The ignition timing control section controls the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine based on the second ignition timing map by executing a timing advancement correction based on the second ignition timing map when it is determined that the knocking of the internal combustion engine has not occurred.

Abstract: Based on business operator information including the type of business or the location of a refueling base of an operating asset and on supplier information including the type of fuel and the location of a supply base, a fuel supply-demand matching system extracts and outputs a suitable supplier for a business operator by using matching conditions provided for each business operator that include the compatibility between the operating asset and the type of fuel and the relationship between the location of the refueling base and the location of the supply base.

Abstract: A delivery request system that requests a driver of a ride-share vehicle to deliver a fresh food, that extracts the deliverable ride-share vehicle, which is the ride-share vehicle capable of delivering the fresh food, based on a ride-share status of the ride-share vehicle, a position of the ride-share vehicle, and a delivery time or a delivery amount of the fresh food; and that makes a delivery request for the fresh food to the driver of the deliverable ride-share vehicle extracted by the deliverable ride-share vehicle extraction unit, wherein that extracts, as the deliverable ride-share vehicle, the ride-share vehicle being ride-shared at the delivery time, when a transportation influence time is within a predetermined time or when a loadable empty space is larger than a required delivery capacity, the transportation influence time being a time during which the delivery of the fresh food affects transportation of passengers.

Abstract: To provide a negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, by which durability deterioration and structural deterioration of the electrode is suppressed, and cycle durability and energy density can be improved by suppressing generation of voids in the inside of the porous metal, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same. A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, having a current collector made of porous metal, and a negative electrode material placed in pores of the porous metal, the negative electrode material including a first negative electrode active material placed on an internal surface of each of the pores and including a silicon-based material; a skeleton forming agent placed on the first negative electrode active material and including a silicate having a siloxane bond; and a second negative electrode active material placed on the skeleton forming agent.

Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that It is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which enables to suppress durability deterioration, improve energy density, and further suppress a decrease in the function of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery cell. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode; and a negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode has: a current collector comprising a porous metal body; and a negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body, the negative electrode material comprises a negative electrode active material comprising a silicon-based material, a skeleton-forming agent comprising a silicate having a siloxane bond, a conductive auxiliary, and a binder, and a content of the skeleton-forming agent in an outside in a surface direction of the negative electrode is higher than a content of the skeleton-forming agent in an inside in the surface direction of the negative electrode.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode which enables suppressing durability deterioration, improving cycle durability and energy density, and suppressing the rupture of the conductive paths of a current collector comprising a porous metal body in a region which is the boundary between a coated region with an electrode mixture and an uncoated region (electrode mixture boundary region) and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the same.

Abstract: An object is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode that can suppress a deterioration in durability and improve energy density, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, comprising: a collector formed of a porous metal body, and a negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body, wherein the negative electrode material comprises a negative electrode active material formed of a silicon-based material, a skeleton-forming agent comprising a silicate having a siloxane bond, a conductivity aid, and a binder.

Abstract: To provide a battery cell structure capable of improving heat dissipation without degradation of an energy density and an obstacle to size reduction while an electrode layer of a battery cell has sufficient heat transfer properties. The present invention relates to a cell structure including a positive/negative electrode formed in such a manner that a conductive base member having a three-dimensional structure contains an electrode active material and a collector formed continuously to the positive/negative electrode. One surface of the collector is formed continuously in a longitudinal direction of the positive/negative electrode (across a large area), and the other surface of the collector is exposed in a longitudinal direction of the cell structure (across a large area).

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery capable of obtaining a lithium ion secondary battery having a high capacity and excellent charge-and-discharge cycle characteristics. A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery (1) includes: a current collector (3) composed of a metal porous body having a three-dimensional network structure (2); and a negative electrode active material (4) held on the current collector (3). An overcoat layer (5) covering an outer surface of the current collector (3) is included, and the overcoat layer (5) includes hard carbon.

Abstract: Provided are a partial power generation element configured by a single laminate body in which a bipolar electrode is laminated, or a multi-layer laminate body in which a plurality of the single laminate bodies is laminated; and a positive electrode normal electrode and negative electrode normal electrode, in which the partial power generation element configures a serial partial power generation element in which the single laminate body which is a constituent element of the multi-layer laminate body is laminated between the positive electrode normal electrode and negative electrode normal electrode with an orientation of polarity configuring a serial connection, and between the positive electrode collector electrode and two negative electrode normal electrodes corresponding thereto, the serial partial power generation element joins with reverse polarity sandwiching the positive electrode collector electrode to configure a parallel connection body by connecting in parallel the serial partial power generation el

Abstract: A solid-state battery cell that can enable high output and in which cell terminals can be freely arranged is provided. A solid-state battery cell 100 has a plurality of unit solid-state batteries 10 that each have a negative electrode plate 101, a positive electrode plate 102, and a solid electrolyte layer 103, and a negative electrode collector plate 106 and positive electrode collector plate 107 that are electrically connected to cell terminals, wherein the negative electrode plate 101 and the positive electrode plate 102 each have a plurality of electrodes, the positive electrode collector plate 107 and the negative electrode collector plate 106 are respectively electrically connected to the pluralities of electrodes, and a plurality of the unit solid-state batteries 10 is electrically connected in series by the pluralities of electrodes and housed in a single cell.

Abstract: To provide an electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery being an electrode for obtaining a lithium ion secondary battery including a foamed metal as a current collector and having a high energy density, and further capable of improving durability and input/output characteristics (output density), and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery. A porous coating layer is disposed on an electrode layer of the electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery using a current collector made of a foamed metal, an electrolytic solution extruded from the electrode layer due to expansion of a negative electrode active material can be absorbed and trapped in the coating layer.