Abstract: A battery unit, a bottomed case, a plate-shaped cooling plate, and first heat transfer material are included. The cooling plate is fastened to a bottom part of the case from the outside of the case, and can cool the battery unit via the bottom part of the case. The first heat transfer material have a plastic property and are held between the bottom part of the case and the cooling plate. The bottom part of the case has heat transfer material housings that house excess first heat transfer material therein when the cooling plate has been fastened to the case.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a printer driver allowing a computer including a nonvolatile memory to issue a print instruction causing a printing device to execute printing. The printer driver causes the computer to execute: displaying separate reception regions each corresponding to a different printing device and each including one or more configurable items that are related to printing and variable from reception region to reception region; when receiving a configuration with respect to a configurable item included in a reception region, storing the configuration to the nonvolatile memory to be is associated with a printing device corresponding to the reception region; and when receiving a designation of a printing device corresponding to a reception region, reading out each configuration associated with the printing device from the nonvolatile memory, and presenting the each configuration so as to be usable in issuing a print instruction.

Abstract: A temperature adjustment device includes a cooling member and a connecting member. The cooling member consists of a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is thermally abutted against a heat-generating member. The second plate is stacked on a lower surface of the first plate to define a cooling space with the first plate, the cooling space a cooling medium flows through, and being configured to include an inlet and an outlet of the cooling medium on a bottom surface facing against the first plate. The connecting member is the connecting member to a temperature adjustment circuit, and that is configured with a tube member having a flat part. The connecting member includes a connecting port connected to the inlet or the outlet on the flat part, and that is laminated and arranged on the second plate such that the flat part is abutted against the second plate.

Abstract: A heating device includes an electrical storage device, a warm-up unit configured to electrically connect to the electrical storage device and warm up the electrical storage device by power supplied from the electrical storage device, and a warm-up control unit configured to set the amount of power suppliable from the electrical storage device to a load by warming up the electrical storage device by the warm-up unit to be larger than the amount of power suppliable from the electrical storage device to the load when the electrical storage device is not warmed up by the warm-up unit.

Abstract: A technical problem is to fully make up for a restricted upper limit to the preform body wall thickness. An object is to provide a bottle which is narrow-mouthed and yet has a substantially expanded body. In principle, the bottle may include a mouth opening portion with a bore diameter of 10 mm or less and a maximum diameter of the body is 2.5 times or more than the bore diameter of the mouth opening portion, and wherein a maximum diameter portion of the body has a minimum wall thickness of 0.45 mm or more.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of grater than 6.

Abstract: A technical problem is to fully make up for a restricted upper limit to the preform body wall thickness. An object is to provide a bottle which is narrow-mouthed and yet has a substantially expanded body. The molding process comprises steps of: (1) injection molding a preform in the shape of a test tube taller than the bottle wherein the preform has a cylindrical mouth opening portion disposed in an upper part of the preform, and wherein the mouth opening portion of the preform serves also as a mouth opening portion of the bottle product; (2) thermally shrinking the preform from an initial height so that portions other than the mouth opening portion of the preform would have a height that is smaller than that of the bottle; and (3) setting this thermally shrunk preform in a blow mold and biaxially drawing and blow molding the preform into the bottle.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of grater than 6.

Abstract: A temperature regulating device of an on-vehicle battery includes a battery 1 capable of being charged at a charge station 11 in a state where it is mounted on a vehicle, a battery temperature sensor 4 for detecting a battery temperature, an SOC estimation part 3a for estimating a battery SOC, an air conditioner unit 2 for regulating the battery temperature, a charge judgment part 3b for judging based on the battery SOC whether or not the battery is need to be charged, a temperature regulating part 3c for executing during-vehicle-running temperature regulating control to output a temperature control command to the air conditioner unit 2 so that the battery temperature at a charge start becomes equal to a target temperature.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of grater than 6.

Abstract: A keyless device of a vehicle changes a search area “A” of a vehicle exterior antenna to a search area “A2” that is smaller than a normal area “A1”, and sets an overlapped area of a search area “B” of a vehicle exterior antenna and a normal search area “B1” to correspond only to an interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrochemical element reversibly absorbing and releasing lithium ions including: a current collector having a higher first convex portion and a lower second convex portion on at least one surface thereof; a columnar body including an active material formed in such a manner as to rise obliquely on the first convex portion and the second convex portion of the current collector.

Abstract: A fuel cell capable of operating under a high temperature environment and under a low humidity environment and a method for generating an electric power with use of the fuel cell. The fuel cell comprises an electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode, and an cathode electrode. In each of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, a catalyst is held on a catalyst support, and an electrolyte covers the catalyst and the catalyst support. The cathode electrolyte is composed of SnO2, NH3, H2O, and H3PO4. A molar ratio X represented by X?NH3/SnO2 is not less than 0.2 and not more than 5, and a molar ratio Y represented by Y?P/Sn is not less than 1.6 and not more than 3.

Abstract: A fuel cell capable of operating under a high temperature environment and under a low humidity environment and a method for generating an electric power with use of the fuel cell. The fuel cell comprises an electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode, and an cathode electrode. In each of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, a catalyst is held on a catalyst support, and an electrolyte covers the catalyst and the catalyst support. The cathode electrolyte is composed of SnO2, NH3, H2O, and H3PO4. A molar ratio X represented by X?NH3/SnO2 is not less than 0.2 and not more than 5, and a molar ratio Y represented by Y?P/Sn is not less than 1.6 and not more than 3.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of grater than 6.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of greater than 6.

Abstract: A proton-conducting structure that exhibits favorable proton conductivity in the temperature range of not lower than 100° C., and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. After a pyrophosphate salt containing Sn, Zr, Ti or Si is mixed with phosphoric acid, the mixture is maintained at a temperature of not less than 80° C. and not more than 150° C., and thereafter maintained at a temperature of not less than 200° C. and not more than 400° C. to manufacture a proton-conducting structure. The proton-conducting structure of the present invention has a core made of tin pyrophosphate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the core, the coating layer containing Sn and O, and having a coordination number of O with respect to Sn of grater than 6.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrochemical element reversibly absorbing and releasing lithium ions including: a current collector having a higher first convex portion and a lower second convex portion on at least one surface thereof; a columnar body including an active material formed in such a manner as to rise obliquely on the first convex portion and the second convex portion of the current collector.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the method comprising the steps of (a) generating a thermal plasma, (b) supplying a raw material of active material into the thermal plasma, and (c) depositing particles produced in the thermal plasma on a surface of a current collector to give an active material layer.

Abstract: A technical problem is to fully make up for a restricted upper limit to the preform body wall thickness. An object is to provide a bottle which is narrow-mouthed and yet has a substantially expanded body. The molding process comprises steps of: (1) injection molding a preform in the shape of a test tube taller than the bottle wherein the preform has a cylindrical mouth opening portion disposed in an upper part of the preform, and wherein the mouth opening portion of the preform serves also as a mouth opening portion of the bottle product; (2) thermally shrinking the preform from an initial height so that portions other than the mouth opening portion of the preform would have a height that is smaller than that of the bottle; and (3) setting this thermally shrunk preform in a blow mold and biaxially drawing and blow molding the preform into the bottle.