Abstract: In a preferred aspect of the battery disclosed herein, a region encompassing five layers of the positive electrode (negative electrode) counting from one of outer surfaces at both ends of the lamination structure in the stacking direction is a first outermost periphery neighboring region, and a region encompassing five layers of the positive electrode (negative electrode) counting from the other outer surface is a second outermost periphery neighboring region S, and when in the first outermost periphery neighboring region, the number of the positive electrode tabs (negative electrode tabs) is A, and the number of layers of the first electrode is B, and in the second outermost periphery neighboring region, the number of the positive electrode tabs (negative electrode tabs) is C, and the number of layers of the first electrode is D, A/B and C/D are both less than 1.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode body having a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate stacked with a separator interposed therebetween, a rectangular exterior body, a sealing plate, an electrode terminal, a first current collector in connection with the electrode terminal, a second current collector in connection with the first current collector, and a tab group extending from the electrode body and connected to the second current collector. The tab group includes a positive electrode tab group/negative electrode tab group extending from a positive electrode core of the positive electrode plate/negative electrode plate, and is bent near a connection with the second current collector. A surface of the positive electrode core on and near its end from which the positive electrode tabs extend is covered with a protective layer. One end of the negative electrode plate faces the protective layer on the positive electrode plate.

Abstract: A battery module comprising: a battery integrated body in which a plurality of rectangular secondary batteries are layered; a pair of end plates that sandwich the battery integrated body: and a pair of side-surface securing members that form a bridge between the end plates, and a top-surface securing member, each secondary battery including a flat wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed therebetween, so that the winding axes are in the transverse direction, and the winding ends of the negative electrodes of at least the secondary batteries adjacent to the end plates face upward, the winding ends being positioned in the gap between half the height of the electrode body and the top part of the curved section of the electrode body in a cross-section orthogonal to the winding axes.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery that has a wound electrode assembly that has been precisely wound. A secondary battery is provided with a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator interposed therebetween, and is provided with a battery case that houses the wound electrode assembly. The separator has a strip-shaped base material layer and has a surface layer formed on the surface of the base material layer and having a mesh structure formed of polyvinylidene fluoride. The separator is positioned to the outside of a negative electrode trailing end of the negative electrode plate, and the distance between the negative electrode trailing end and a separator trailing end of the separator is not more than 30 mm.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a secondary battery capable of inhibiting precipitation of metallic lithium is provided. The secondary battery disclosed herein includes a flat wound electrode body. A positive electrode starting end portion inside the electrode body has a first region extending along a flat portion of the electrode body. On the other hand, a negative electrode starting end portion inside the electrode body has a second region extending along the flat portion, a folded portion folded back from an end portion of the second region, and a third region extending from an end portion of the folded portion. In addition, the electrode body has an electrode starting end stacked portion in which the first region, the second region, and the third region overlap. According to such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a partial pressing failure from occurring and inhibit the precipitation of metallic lithium.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes an operation screen operated by a user, and the operation screen includes i. a first individual selection screen as an individual selection screen for the user to individually select a first formation candidate which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of a three-dimensional object, ii. a second individual selection screen as the individual selection screen for the user to individually select a second formation candidate which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, and iii. a combination selection screen for the user to select a combination of the formation candidate including the first formation candidate and the second formation candidate.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes a preview screen, and the preview screen includes i. a first preview screen that makes a first formation candidate, which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, ii. a second preview screen that makes a second formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, and iii. a third preview screen that makes a third formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a third forming surface different from the first forming surface and the second forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user.

Abstract: A search method of searching for a feature that affects an output result of a machine learning model, the search method includes: a first step of applying, to all training data, at least one or more separate filters combining at least one or more feature presence/absence determining devices that determine presence or absence of a feature on a plurality of sets of correct answer data that is positive and correct answer data that is negative and information on whether the pieces of the data is positive; a second step of applying the pieces of training data generated in the first step to separate machine learning to separately execute machine learning; and a third step of outputting information that extracts a new feature using a verification result obtained by inputting verification data to separate machine learning after the machine learning.

Abstract: Disclosed here is a battery including: an exterior body having a bottom wall; and a winding electrode body in which positive electrode, negative electrode and separator are wound about a winding axis. The winding electrode body has a flat shape having a pair of curvature parts having a curved outside surface and a flat part that connects the pair of curvature parts to each other and has a flat outside surface. When a line perpendicular to the winding axis of the winding electrode body and perpendicular to the bottom wall of the exterior body is assumed as L1, a portion positioned at an outermost periphery of the negative electrode in at least one of the pair of the curvature parts faces a portion positioned on a winding inner peripheral side of the negative electrode via the separator and not via the positive electrode on the line L1.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory cell using vertical nanowire (VNW) FETs includes a program element of which a gate is connected to a word line, and a switch element that is provided between the program element and a bit line and of which a gate is connected to the word line. The program element and the switch element are each constituted by one or a plurality of VNW FETs, and these VNW FETs are arranged in a line in a first direction.

Abstract: A layout structure of a small-area one time programmable (OTP) memory using a complementary FET (CFET) is provided. The OTP memory has transistors TP as a program element and transistors TS as a switch element. The transistors TP are three-dimensional transistors of which channel portions overlap each other as viewed in plan. The transistors TS are three-dimensional transistors of which channel portions overlap each other as viewed in plan. The OTP memory of two bits is implemented in a small area.

Abstract: A positive electrode plate that has a positive electrode active material layer formed on a positive electrode core, wherein the positive electrode core has, on an edge side, a thick portion which has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of a portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides, and the positive electrode plate has a first region that extends into the thick portion from the portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides and a second region that is positioned outside the first region in the thick portion. The average maximum diameter of the metal crystal grains that compose the first region is smaller than those of the second region.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes a process chamber configured to process a substrate; a processing gas supply part configured to supply a processing gas to the substrate; a heater configured to heat the substrate; a transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate; a first power supply connected to at least one part selected from the group of the processing gas supply part, the heater, and the transfer robot; a first controller installed between the at least one part and the first power supply; a second power supply including two or more power sources configured to drive the first controller; and a second controller installed between the first controller and the second power supply and configured to allow power to be supplied to the first controller while setting a power ratio of each of the two or more power sources of the second power supply to a predetermined value.

Abstract: In a random access radio communication system configured to perform downlink communication from a radio base station to radio terminals by random access, the radio terminals include one or more low latency terminals requiring low latency and one or more non-low latency terminals not requiring low latency, and the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals are configured to be distinguished by service set identifiers (SSIDs). The random access radio communication system includes terminal assignment destination control unit of distinguishing the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals in accordance with the SSIDs and evenly distributing the terminals into a plurality of communication channels, and random access control unit of performing priority control on the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals for each communication channel so that the downlink communication in the low latency terminal satisfies a predetermined delay time.

Abstract: A rectangular secondary battery is provided with: a rectangular exterior body having an opening, a bottom part, a first lateral wall, a second lateral wall, a third lateral wall, and a fourth lateral wall; a sealing plate for sealing the opening; and a flat wound electrode body obtained by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator therebetween, wherein a plurality of the flat wound electrode bodies are arranged in the rectangular exterior body. The flat wound electrode bodies each have: a flat region formed at the center, a first bent region having a bent outer surface and being formed on one end side of the flat region; and a second bent region having a bent outer surface and being formed on the other end side of the flat region.

Abstract: A secondary battery provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; and a positive electrode current collector which is connected so that the plurality of positive electrode tabs are stacked, wherein the positive electrode plate has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core bodies. At one edge side of the positive electrode plate where the plurality of positive electrode tabs are provided, one surface of the positive electrode core body has formed thereon a first protrusion that protrudes from said surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body, whereas the other surface of the positive electrode core body has no protrusion formed to protrude from said other surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery which can be produced with high efficiency. This secondary battery is provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; a belt-like negative electrode plate having a plurality of negative electrode tabs; a flat wound electrode body obtained by winding the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate with a belt-like separator therebetween; and a positive electrode collector (second positive electrode collector) connected to the plurality of positive electrode tabs. The plurality of positive electrode tabs in a state of being laminated are joined to the positive electrode collector (second positive electrode collector). Identification parts are formed on some positive electrode tabs of the plurality of positive electrode tabs.

Abstract: Provided are a highly reliable electrode plate and a secondary battery using the electrode plate. A positive electrode plate, which is for a secondary battery, has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body has, at an end thereof, a thick part having a thickness larger than that of the center area of the positive electrode core body. The thick part includes a first projection that projects from one surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body is formed of an aluminum alloy which contains 0.5-2.0 mass % of Mn.

Abstract: A wireless LAN communication device generates an MPDU by attaching a MAC header to transmission data, generates an A-MPDU subframe by attaching an MPDU delimiter to the MPDU, generates an A-MPDU by aggregating a plurality of A-MPDU subframes, and transmits the A-MPDU. The wireless LAN communication device includes: an MPDU duplicating means for determining whether or not transmission data is a redundancy target according to a required quality of the transmission data, determining that an MPDU generated from the transmission data determined to be a redundancy target is a redundant MPDU, and generating a duplicate MPDU by duplicating the redundant MPDU; and an A-MPDU generating means for generating an A-MPDU that includes the redundant MPDU and the duplicate MPDU.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless LAN system in which an interference control signal transmitter that is provided in the surroundings of the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, and is configured to collect wireless environment information regarding the interfering AP/STA, and transmit, to the interfering AP/STA, an interference control signal that is to be used to set a transmission waiting period; and an interference control signal management device configured to collect the wireless environment information from the interference control signal transmitter, determine the interference control signal transmitter whose communication area includes the interfering AP/STA based on the wireless environment information, and control the determined interference control signal transmitter to transmit the interference control signal to be used to set the transmission waiting period that corresponds to a length of time of the communication between the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, wher