Abstract: An information providing system includes the following elements. An IC card stores card ID. An information providing terminal reads out the card ID of the IC card, provides information to the IC card, and transmits the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the ID of the provided information to a management server. The management server receives the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the provided information ID from the information providing terminal, has a database to manage the card ID and the provided information such that the card ID is associated with the provided information, acquires the information provided to the IC card from the database in response to an information request from a client terminal, and supplies the provided information to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the provided information supplied from the management server.

Abstract: A low-cost electrochemical capacitor is provided which has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability, and has the basic performance as a capacitor, achieved in that between a negative electrode and a positive electrode, a solution of a specific polyether copolymer, an inorganic or organic filler, and an electrolyte salt is selected as appropriate as the electrolyte and is held between the two electrodes. This low-cost electrochemical capacitor has the basic performance of a capacitor, has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, and simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition control unit configured to acquire information on function extension from an external object, the information on the function extension including attribute information indicating a function of a device and connection information relating to a connection to the device, and a function control unit configured to extend a function of the information processing apparatus based on the acquired attribute information, connect to a device corresponding to the extended function based on the acquired connection information, and enable the extended function.

Abstract: A low-cost electrochemical capacitor is provided which has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability, and has the basic performance as a capacitor, achieved in that, as the electrolyte between a negative electrode and a positive electrode, a solution of an ambient temperature molten salt and a specific polyether copolymer is allowed to gel using a specific photoreaction initiator and is held between the two electrodes. This low-cost electrochemical capacitor has the basic performance of a capacitor, has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics without use of a separator, and simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light emitting module includes: providing a light emitting device; placing a joining member on a wiring of a wiring board, the joining member containing solder particles and flux containing at least one of a solvent and an active agent; mounting the light emitting device on the joining member; performing a first heating process in which the wiring board, the joining member, and the light emitting device are heated for a first heating time in a first temperature range that is higher than a prescribed temperature, and lower than a fusing point of the solder particles; and performing a second heating process for a second heating time in a second temperature range higher than the fusing point of the solder particles, the second heating time being shorter than the first heating time.

Abstract: Provided is a binder for battery electrodes which includes a polymer including: structural units (1) derived from a (meth)acrylate monomer (A) having a hydroxyl group; structural units (2) derived from a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate monomer (B); and structural units (3) derived from a reactive surfactant (C). This binder is used to prepare electrodes, and produce batteries such as lithium ion secondary batteries. Provided are: an aqueous binder which has a low environmental impact, exhibits excellent binding properties, and, notably, does not cause oxidation degradation under an electrode environment; and an electrode and a battery which use said binder.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet head and the like that are small, are capable of achieving a higher resolution, increasing ejection stability, and lowering production costs, and include flow paths capable of circulating ink.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication through the access point using the stored setting information; and performs near field communication with the slave communication apparatus to transmit the stored setting information to the slave communication apparatus in response to a setting information request received from the slave communication apparatus via near field communication.

Abstract: A control device moves a split claw (11) holding a projecting portion (4d) of an eighth-layer coil segment (4) in a counterclockwise direction D1. At this time, the control device moves first to third extended blades (13a) to (13c) in an outward direction D3 so that the projecting portion (4d) of the eighth-layer coil segment (4) is bent in the outward direction D3. Then, the control device moves the first to third extended blades (13a) to (13c) in an inward direction D4. Through the above steps, the projecting portion (4d) of the eighth-layer coil segment (4) is bent in the counterclockwise direction D1 while being bent in the outward direction D3. As a result, a return force tending to return in the inward direction D4 is generated by an elastic deformation force.

Abstract: A system effectively performs content information acquisition processing and content purchase processing in which it is necessary to access different servers. If a user views information provided by an information providing server, for example, television program table information, and acquires content related to information selected from among pieces of information included in the television program table information, the user can transmit a content acquisition request including content specification information to a content providing server simply by dragging and dropping the selected information displayed on a display screen onto a toolbar included in a display unit or onto another server information display area. As a result, the user can effectively perform the selection and acquisition of content without switching between connections to various servers.

Abstract: An embodiment of an inkjet may include a plurality of nozzles to eject ink, a pressure chamber individually communicated with each nozzle and filled with ink, a pressure generator to eject ink by applying pressure to the pressure chamber, an inlet including a narrow portion with a flow path narrower than the pressure chamber and structured to supply ink to the pressure chamber, and a circulation flow path structured to discharge ink in the pressure chamber from near the nozzle. Viscosity resistance of the circulation flow path may be smaller than viscosity resistance of the nozzle, and impedance of the circulation flow path may be equal to or more than 0.5 times of the impedance of the inlet.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication through the access point using the stored setting information; and performs near field communication with the slave communication apparatus to transmit the stored setting information to the slave communication apparatus in response to a setting information request received from the slave communication apparatus via near field communication.

Abstract: Provided are an inkjet head and an inkjet recording apparatus which are compact and are capable of realizing high resolution, and are capable of stably ejecting liquid droplets at a high frequency while having a structure capable of circulating ink. The inkjet head includes: a plurality of nozzles which eject ink; a plurality of pressure chambers which are respectively communicate with the plurality of nozzles and are filled with ink; a plurality of pressure generation portions which apply a pressure to ink inside the plurality of pressure chamber; a circulation flow passage that is provided to be branched from an ink flow passage ranging from an inlet of the pressure chambers and an outlet of the nozzles, and is capable of discharging ink inside the plurality of pressure chambers; and a first damper and a second damper which are provided to face the circulation flow passage, and is capable of changing a volume of the circulation flow passage through elastic deformation in correspondence with a pressure.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a storage disk including a plurality of tracks each of which includes a plurality of sectors, a head configured to write data in and read data from the storage disk, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the head to carry out reading of a group of data units from target sectors in a target track of the storage disk, the group of data units being associated with a command received from an external device, determine whether or not the target sectors include one or more defective sectors based on result of the reading, and control the head to write the group of data units in physically consecutive non-written sectors of the target track or another track, when the target sectors are determined to include the defective sectors.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet head and the like that are small, are capable of achieving a higher resolution, increasing ejection stability, and lowering production costs, and include flow paths capable of circulating ink.

Abstract: A quantitative analysis condition setting unit (13) included in a sequential X-ray fluorescence spectrometer according to the present invention: performs qualitative analyses of a plurality of standard samples (14); sets, on the basis of the qualitative analysis results, a peak measurement angle of each measurement line for analytical samples (1) in quantitative analysis conditions; and obtains a single virtual profile by synthesizing peak profiles of the plurality of standard samples (14) subjected to the qualitative analyses and sets, on the basis of the virtual profile and a preset half value width of the peak profile, background measurement angles of each measurement line for the analytical samples (1) in the quantitative analysis conditions.

Abstract: Provided is a binder for a battery electrode, the binder having superior binding properties and being capable of effectively decreasing the internal resistance of a battery while still being usable as an aqueous binder with low environmental burden. A binder for a battery electrode according to the present invention has a core shell structure of a core section (A) containing a copolymer the principal constituent of which is methyl methacrylate and a shell section (B) having a (meth)acrylate-based copolymer containing (meth)acrylate as a polymerization component, wherein the swelling ratios with respect to a mixed solvent in which ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate are mixed at a volume ratio of 3:7 are 10% or less for the resin constituting the core section (A) and 30% or more for the resin constituting the shell section (B).

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition control unit configured to acquire information on function extension from an external object, the information on the function extension including attribute information indicating a function of a device and connection information relating to a connection to the device, and a function control unit configured to extend a function of the information processing apparatus based on the acquired attribute information, connect to a device corresponding to the extended function based on the acquired connection information, and enable the extended function.

Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk that includes a plurality of tracks, a magnetic head for reading data from the magnetic disk, and a controller. The controller begins controlling the magnetic head to move to a second track of the plurality of tracks from a first track of the plurality of tracks before decoding of a first track signal output from the magnetic head is completed, wherein the first track signal is output from the magnetic head while the magnetic head is positioned over the first track.

Abstract: There is provided a composition for gel electrolyte that has excellent coatability, gelation properties, and liquid retention properties, has a high film strength after gelation, and can impart excellent power characteristics and a high capacity retention ratio to an electrochemical capacitor. The composition for gel electrolyte comprises an electrolyte salt and a polyether copolymer having an ethylene oxide unit, wherein the polyether copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 100,000 to 1,000,000, and the composition for gel electrolyte has a viscosity at 25° C. of 1 to 12 Pa·s.