Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes a primary particle containing a phosphorus-containing monoclinic niobium-titanium composite oxide. The primary particle has a concentration gradient in which a phosphorus concentration increases from the gravity point of the primary particle toward the surface of the primary particle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a synchronization control apparatus which synchronizes an STC counter value, based on TAI (Temps Atomique International: international atomic time) time, in each of systems which constitute a transmission system in a broadcasting system or a distribution system, the apparatus includes a processor or a dedicated arithmetic circuit configured to determine a time length in which the STC counter value laps, to calculate a remainder of the time length relative to the TAI time, and to convert the remainder to the STC counter value, thereby determining the STC counter value.

Abstract: A communication device according to an embodiment is capable of communicating with another communication device via a first network and a second network each transmitting radio signal data by different communication methods. The communication device includes: a first communicator capable of communicating with another communication device via the first network; a second communicator capable of communicating with another communication device via the second network; a delay parameter acquirer to acquire a delay parameter of the first network; and a delay parameter reflector to reflect the delay parameter of the first network acquired by the delay parameter acquirer on a delay parameter of the second network.

Abstract: An ozone generator includes a metal electrode, a dielectric element, a conductive film, and a power feeding member. The dielectric element has a tubular shape and is spaced from the metal electrode with a discharge gap to which raw gas is supplied. The conductive film is located. on an inner surface of the dielectric element. The power feeding member is electrically connected to the conductive film, and includes a contact member of a mesh form including a plurality of woven metal wires. The contact member contacts with the conductive film.

Abstract: A portable electronic device of an embodiment includes a plurality of secure elements and a communicator. The communicator performs communication with a reader/writer device to which an external device is connected using non-contact communication. The communicator changes a transmission destination to a secure element corresponding to a transmission destination identifier for identifying the transmission destination among the plurality of secure elements on the basis of the transmission destination identifier and change-instruction-information giving instructions to change the transmission destination, assigned to telegraph data received from the reader/writer device using the non-contact communication and transmits the telegraph data received from the reader/writer device to the secure element.

Abstract: Certain embodiments provide battery system including: a battery; a current measurement unit configured to measure a current charged to or discharged from the battery; a voltage measurement unit configured to measure an output voltage of the battery; a function creation unit configured to create a function representing a depth-of-discharge characteristic of the battery on the basis of the measured current and output voltage; and a remaining capacity calculation unit configured to calculate a remaining capacity corresponding to the output voltage of the battery using the created function.

Abstract: An IC module includes a storage unit, a communications unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores reference data. The communications unit receives check data. The processing unit detects a degree of similarity between the reference data and the check data. Furthermore, when the degree of similarity is equal to or larger than a first threshold value, the processing unit determines a verification success, and when the degree of similarity is smaller than the first threshold value, the processing unit determines a verification failure, and updates a verification failure history in a weighted manner according to the degree of similarity.

Abstract: A transmitting system includes a variable-length packet multiplexing apparatus and a transmission slotting apparatus. The variable-length packet multiplexing apparatus generates a variable-length packet. The transmission slotting apparatus stores the variable-length packet in slots forming transmission main signals. The transmission slotting apparatus includes a capacity calculator, an extractor, a remainder calculator, a selector, and a slot information multiplexer. The capacity calculator calculates a data capacity of the transmission main signals for one frame. The extractor extracts a byte number of the variable-length packet. The remainder calculator calculates a remaining capacity of the transmission main signals. The selector stores a predetermined data sequence in a region left in the slots, and outputs the slots storing the data sequence. The slot information multiplexer multiplexes slot information and the slots output by the selector.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a container member, a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The container member is provided with a gas relief structure. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode mixture layer contains a titanium-containing oxide and Mn. Abundance ratios RTi, RMn, RA and RB obtained according to an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectrum of the negative electrode mixture layer satisfy the following relational expressions: 0.01?RMn/RTi?0.2??(1); 3?RA/RMn?50??(2); and 0.5?RA/RB?5??(3).

Abstract: An advanced oxidation water treatment system includes an ozone reaction tank; a first hydrogen peroxide supplier which supplies hydrogen peroxide to treatment water in a supply line supplying the treatment water to the ozone reaction tank; an ozone generator which generates and supplies an ozonized gas containing ozone to the ozone reaction tank; a second hydrogen peroxide supplier which can supply additional hydrogen peroxide to the ozone reaction tank downstream of where the ozonized gas is supplied; a meter which measures water quality of the treatment water at a location downstream of where the ozonized gas is supplied; and a controller which determines whether and how much additional hydrogen peroxide is to be supplied by the second hydrogen peroxide supplier based on the water quality measured by the meter, and to control the second hydrogen peroxide supplier accordingly.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a casing, a plurality of battery cells, and a first connector, for example. The casing includes a first outer wall and a protrusion that is provided on the first outer wall and protrudes outward from the first outer wall. The battery cells include an electrode terminal and are housed in the casing. The first connector is provided on the protrusion and is electrically connected to the electrode terminal.

Abstract: An engineering tool includes a hardware-allocation-data storage, an allocation-condition storage, and a tool processor. Hardware allocation data is to be downloaded to a controller that executes a host operating system (OS), and represents hardware allocation to each of the host OS and a guest OS that runs on a virtual machine implemented on the host OS. The allocation-condition storage stores therein hardware allocation conditions for the host OS and the guest OS. The tool processor causes a display to display a settings screen for inputting the hardware allocation data; after determining that the input hardware allocation data satisfies the allocation conditions stored in the allocation-condition storage, saves the input hardware allocation data in the hardware-allocation-data storage; and after determining that the input hardware allocation data fails to satisfy the allocation conditions, refrains from saving the input hardware allocation data therein.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a probability to achieve a purpose is increased in a case where information is intermittently allocated to a plurality of elements. An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus that allocates information to respective elements included in a first set and includes an allocator. The allocator uses a first subset and a second subset, and allocates the information to at least one element included in the first subset. The first subset is constituted by elements which are included in the first set and in which information allocation may be performed at a present time. The second subset is constituted by elements which are included in the first set and in which the information allocation is not performed at the present time.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor core of a rotor includes, in each magnetic pole, two embedding holes on sides of a d-axis, in which respective permanent magnets are loaded, respectively, and grooves formed in an outer circumferential surface in positions each including respective q-axes. When A represents a pole arc degree of the grooves along the outer circumferential surface, B represents a depth of the grooves, C represents a pole arc degree, and R represents a circumradius tangent to an outer circumference of the rotor core, each grooves is formed to satisfy relationships: 0.05<A<0.075 and 0.005<B/R<0.027.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor core satisfies a relationship: W2/W1 (A1+A2)/A1. Where, A1 represents an area of a region defined by a polar central axis, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first imaginary linear line extending on an outer circumferential-side long edge of an embedding hole, A2 represents an area of a region defined by the polar central axis, a q-axis, the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, a second imaginary linear line extending on an inner circumferential-side long edge of the embedding hole, a third imaginary linear line extending on a first edge of the cavity hole, W1 represents a half-width of a first bridge portion, and W2 represents a half-width of the second bridge portion.

Abstract: A remote I/O system includes an information network control module, I/O interface modules, and a remote I/O module. The information network control module includes a common memory and a second control IC. The second control IC includes a variation detecting circuit that includes a data latch buffer that stores read data from an information network; and a variation detection memory that stores data previously read from the information network. The variation detecting circuit compares data stored in the data latch buffer with data stored in the variation detection memory, to detect a variation in the data. The second control IC transmits, to the I/O interface module, by cyclic scan transmission, data from one of the scan memory areas corresponding to the data having the variation detected by the variation detecting circuit.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) card of an embodiment includes a communicator, a storage storing a plurality of pieces of biometric authentication information, an acquirer, and a processor. The communicator communicates with a terminal device. The acquirer acquires biometric information of a user. The processor collates the biometric information acquired by the acquirer with each of the plurality of pieces of biometric authentication information stored in the storage in a case that the communicator receives a command from the terminal device and updates some of the plurality of pieces of biometric authentication information stored in the storage with information on the basis of the biometric information acquired by the acquirer in accordance with collation results for the biometric authentication information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image feature emphasis device, a road surface feature analysis device, an image feature emphasis method, and a road surface feature analysis method which can improve the accuracy of detection of features of a road surface in a road surface image are provided. The image feature emphasis device includes a region acquirer and an image feature emphasis processor. The region acquirer acquires a region of a road surface portion from an image that has been captured. The image feature emphasis processor emphasizes a feature of the acquired region of the road surface portion by changing brightness values in the region of the road surface portion on the basis of a maximum brightness value and a minimum brightness value in the region of the road surface portion.

Abstract: An object handling control device includes one or more processors configured to acquire at least object information and status information representing an initial position and a destination of an object; set, when a grasper grasping the object moves from the initial position to the destination, a first region, a second region, and a third region in accordance with the object information and the status information; and calculate a moving route along which the object is moved from the initial position to the destination with reference to the first region, the second region, and the third region.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an end effector includes a gripping mechanism and a to-be-detected section. The gripping mechanism is configured to grip an article in a releasable manner. The to-be-detected section is irradiated with incident light from a distance detector. Regarding the to-be-detected section, a detection value group indicating a detection result of a distance from the distance detector to the to-be-detected section to be detected by the distance detector possesses optical characteristics different from a detection value group indicating a distance from the distance detector to the article to be detected by the distance detector.