Abstract: A loudspeaker includes: a first loudspeaker unit that includes a first magnetic circuit and a first cone; and a second loudspeaker unit that is disposed on a sound-emitting side of the first loudspeaker unit, and includes a second magnetic circuit and a second cone. The second loudspeaker unit includes a support component that: is fixed to the first magnetic circuit; supports therein the second magnetic circuit; is approximately cylindrical; and includes an end surface to which an entirety of an outer-circumferential portion of the second cone is connected.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a positive electrode mixture layer includes a positive electrode active substance. The quantity of dibutyl phthalate oil absorbed by the positive electrode active substance included in a lower-half region of the positive electrode mixture layer, when the positive electrode mixture layer is divided in the thickness direction into two equal parts, is less than the quantity of dibutyl phthalate oil absorbed by the positive electrode active substance included in an upper-half region; the quantity of dibutyl phthalate oil absorbed by the positive electrode active substance included in the lower-half region is at least 11 mL/100 g and no more than 19 mL/100 g; and the quantity of dibutyl phthalate oil absorbed by the positive electrode active substance included in the upper-half region is at least 15 mL/100 g and no more than 23 mL/100 g.

Abstract: An information presentation method is for outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body. The method includes registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body, and registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body. The method also includes outputting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of a purpose of use of the cabin in an area including the position information of mobile bodies. The trend information is output on the basis of correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein a separator has a porous base material and a heat-resistant layer including a filler and a binding agent. The heat-resistant layer includes a first heat-resistant layer formed on a first surface of the base material facing a positive electrode and a second heat-resistant layer formed on a second surface of the base material facing a negative electrode. The first heat-resistant material is formed as a sheet on the first surface of the base material and the second heat-resistant layer is formed as dots on the second surface of the base material. The average value of the intervals between the plurality of dots constituting the second heat-resistant layer is 30-100 ?m.

Abstract: A management server 1 acquires identification information of an apparatus; acquires association information associated with the acquired identification information from a memory, the association information including a structural diagram showing a structure of a facility, an installation location of the apparatus in the facility, and an installation procedure of the apparatus; generates installation information including an installation screen on which the installation location is indicated on the acquired structural diagram, and the acquired installation procedure; outputs the installation information; and when detecting that the installation procedure of the apparatus has ended up to a first procedure, outputs connection confirmation information for performing a connection confirmation work for a wire connection of the apparatus.

Abstract: A microwave oven and a method of operating the same is provided herein. The method includes the steps of: sensing that a door of the microwave is in an open state; interrupting a power input to a generator power supply unit comprising a first converter, a first energy reserve, a second energy reserve located downstream from the first energy reserve, and a second converter located between the first and second energy reserves; detecting an input voltage; and disabling the second converter if the detected input voltage is less than a threshold voltage that is proportional to the detected input voltage, wherein disabling the second converter triggers the second energy reserve to discharge, and wherein the time necessary to discharge the second energy reserve is free of influence from the first energy reserve and is independent of the detected input voltage.

Abstract: Provided is a head-up display including a backlight configured to emit light, a light-diffusion member through which the light emitted by the backlight is transmitted, a Fresnel lens through which the light transmitted through the light-diffusion member is transmitted, a display screen through which the light transmitted through the Fresnel lens is transmitted, and a mirror that reflects the light transmitted through the light-diffusion member toward a target space.

Abstract: Provided is a method for learning a network parameter of a neural network including, by an information processor: acquiring a learning image; acquiring a true camera parameter related to the learning image; calculating a true two-dimensional coordinate point by projecting a three-dimensional coordinate point on a unit spherical surface onto a predetermined plane by using the true camera parameter; calculating an estimated two-dimensional coordinate point by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate point onto the predetermined plane by using the estimated camera parameter estimated by the neural network; and learning the network parameter of the neural network based on a distance between the true two-dimensional coordinate point and the estimated two-dimensional coordinate point.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving first positional information including a current position, a traveling direction and a traveling speed of a first vehicle; receiving second positional information including a current position, a traveling direction and a traveling speed of a second vehicle; broadcasting the first positional information according to a timing based on a packetized signal from the base station or when no signal is detected from a vehicle other than the first vehicle; estimating a future position of the first vehicle based on the first positional information; estimating a future position of the second vehicle based on the second positional information; determining whether a distance between the future position of the first vehicle and the future position of the second vehicle is shorter than a threshold value; and outputting information indicating the distance is shorter than the threshold value, when the distance is shorter than the threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device configured to: start an application including multiple blocks each including a parameter for controlling an apparatus including at least one of an actuator and a heater, and a sequence including one or more processes involving at least a motion of a person, the sequence cooperating with an N+1th block of the application after completion of an Mth process; generate a state maintaining block having a parameter for maintaining a state of a processing object of the apparatus at completion of an Nth block; and execute the generated state maintaining block when completion of the Nth block is detected.

Abstract: A transparent display device according to the present disclosure includes a first substrate, an internal layer, and a second substrate. The first substrate is capable of transmitting visible light. The internal layer is provided on a main surface of the first substrate, and includes a plurality of light emitting pixels and a plurality of dimming pixels that are arranged at different positions in plan view. Each of the plurality of light emitting pixels is configured to emit light independently, and each of the plurality of dimming pixels is configured to change transmittance thereof with respect to the visible light independently. The second substrate is provided on a side of the internal layer opposite to the first substrate, and is capable of transmitting the visible light.

Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, which is one example of an embodiment, comprises: a positive electrode that has a positive electrode mixture layer; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode mixture layer contains a first lithium-and-transition-metal composite oxide represented by general formula LixNi1-y-zCoyMzO2 (in the formula, 0.8?x?1.2, 0?y?0.2, 0<z?0.5, and M is at least one metal element excluding Li, Ni, and Co), and a second lithium-and-transition-metal composite oxide represented by general formula LiaNi2-a-bMebO2 (in the formula, 0<a?0.5, 0?b?0.5, and Me is at least one metal element excluding Li and Ni). The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a sulfonyl imide salt.

Abstract: An operation situation detection device includes: at least one microphone that is provided in a chamber to detect a first operation sound which is an operation sound occurring when a predetermined operation is performed in the chamber; a memory that stores in advance a second operation sound which is a typical sound likely to occur when the operation is performed; a calculator that calculates a similarity between the first operation sound and the second operation sound; and a determinator that determines that the operation has been performed, when the similarity is a predetermined value or higher.

Abstract: A biometric information acquisition device includes a camera configured to capture an image of a hand of a user inserted into an imaging space, an illumination configured to illuminate inside of the imaging space from above, a housing configured to accommodate the camera and the illumination, and a first opening formed by cutting out a part of the housing and provided in a rectangular shape in a front view to form the imaging space.

Abstract: A display device is a display device that includes a display panel from which display light showing an image exits and a light source that emits basal light for producing the display light. The display device includes: a first diffusion sheet that diffuses the basal light that is to enter the display panel; a second diffusion sheet that is disposed spaced apart from the first diffusion sheet, and diffuses the basal light that is to enter the first diffusion sheet; and an optical member that includes a plurality of optical elements each of which refracts the basal light that is to enter the second diffusion sheet.

Abstract: An electrode mixture slurry coating device includes: a transport roller that transports a band-shaped base material; and a die head provided at a position opposed to the transport roller, and that discharges and applies an electrode mixture slurry to the base material being transported. The die head includes a fluid reservoir in which the electrode mixture slurry accumulates, a discharge port for discharging the electrode mixture slurry, and a fluid path that provides communication between the fluid reservoir and the discharge port. At least a portion, being adjacent to the fluid path, of the die head is formed of a first material having a coefficient of linear expansion of 4.0 ppm/K or less, and y<2000/Aix holds, where x [ppm/K] is the coefficient of linear expansion of the first material, and y [mm] is a length of the discharge port in a longitudinal direction of the die head.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes composite particles containing a lithium silicate phase, a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a crystalline phase of silicon dioxide dispersed in the lithium silicate phase. The crystalline phase of silicon dioxide contains ?-cristobalite and quartz.

Abstract: This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries contains a lithium transition metal composite oxide that is represented by composition formula LixMnyNizPaMbO2-cFc(wherein M represents at least one element that is selected from among Ti, Co, Si, Sr, Nb, W, Mo, Ca, Mg, Sb, Na, B, V, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ge, Zr, Ru, K and Bi; 1.0<x?1.2; 0.4?y?0.8; 0?z?0.4; 0<a<0.01; 0<b<0.05; 0<c<0.1; and (x+y+z+a+b)?2).

Abstract: An information presentation method incldues: acquiring full/vacancy information regarding a parking lot located at a facility set as a goal by a user; generating a route from a current location of a vehicle to the facility, based on road network data on a road from the current location of the vehicle to the facility; selecting, as a destination, a parking space based on parking lot network data on parking spaces and a roadway in the parking lot, and full/vacancy information indicating unoccupied parking spaces in the parking lot, and generating a route from an entrance of the parking lot to the selected parking space; and outputting guidance information for guiding the vehicle according to the generated routes, based on the current location of the vehicle both while reaching the facility from the current location and while reaching the destination from the entrance of the parking lot.

Abstract: In a security method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, when a fraudulent command is detected in an in-vehicle communication network, an electronic control unit (ECU) which can transmit a fraudulent command is specified, the specified ECU is caused to execute update of the software used by the specified ECU, and execution of update of the software by the specified ECU is prohibited after the update of the software is executed.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte for a non-aqueous secondary battery includes a non-aqueous solvent, an electrolyte salt, an isocyanate compound, and a nitrile compound having two or more nitrile groups, in which a content CNCO of the isocyanate compound is higher on a mass basis than a content CCN of the nitrile compound.

Abstract: A data generation device is a data generation device that generates determination data for determining a state of a target object. The data generation device includes: a first acquirer that acquires, from a first sensor, measurement data obtained by measuring the target object; a second acquirer that acquires, from a second sensor different from the first sensor, first factor data obtained by measuring a first noise factor that may cause noise in the measurement data; an accuracy information generator that calculates a measurement accuracy level of the measurement data based on the first factor data; and an accuracy information combiner that outputs the determination data in which the measurement data is associated with accuracy information indicating the measurement accuracy level of the measurement data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cylindrical battery in which the opening end of an outer can has an external terminal of a different polarity from a sealing body and easily connectable to an external lead. A cylindrical battery that is one embodiment described in the present disclosure comprises: an electrode body that includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode; a bottomed cylindrical outer can that houses the electrode body and is connected to one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a sealing body that is connected to the other of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The outer can has a groove, and an opening end that extends radially outward. The sealing body is fixed by crimping between the groove and a pressing member with a gasket interposed therebetween, said pressing member being joined to the opening end.

Abstract: A ventilator includes a box having an air inlet on a bottom surface of the box and an air outlet on a side surface different from the bottom surface of the box, a fan case for storing a fan and sending air from the air inlet to the air outlet, and an adapter fixed to the side surface of the box where the air outlet is disposed as a component independent of the box. The fan case includes a temporary fixation for temporarily fixing the adapter to the box.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a power transmission coil, and a power transmission side processor. A power reception device includes a power reception coil receiving electric power from the power transmission coil, a power reception power supply charging the storage battery based on the received electric power and general-purpose power supply components, a power reception side processor periodically controlling a charging current to the storage battery, and a current sensor detecting the charging current. When a value of the charging current is outside a predetermined range, the power reception side processor calculates a feedback control parameter to the power transmission power supply based on a difference between the value of the charging current and a target current value, and transmits the feedback control parameter to the power transmission side processor. The power transmission side processor controls electric power from the power transmission power supply based on the feedback control parameter.

Abstract: A resin composition contains a polyphenylene ether compound having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond at the terminal, a maleimide compound (A) having an arylene structure bonded in the meta-orientation in the molecule, and an inorganic filler.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores programmed instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer of an information display device that is able to communicate via a network with a navigation device configured to guide a vehicle to a parking location and includes a display, cause the computer to perform: acquiring, as parking location information, a current location of the vehicle transmitted from the navigation device that has detected parking of the vehicle; and causing the display to display a parking location in accordance with the acquired parking location information.

Abstract: An ECU (Electronic Control Unit) includes a HV (HyperVisor), and a first VM (Virtual Machine) and a second VM that operate on the HV. The first VM detects an abnormality in a process in the first VM. When the first VM detects an abnormality, the first VM notifies the second VM of information related to the abnormality via the HV. The second VM executes a process responsive to the abnormality, based on the information related to the abnormality provided from the first VM.

Abstract: The monitoring system is a system that monitors a virtualization system, the system including: a VM monitor and a request monitor each of which has a different authority, monitors the virtualization system, and detects an anomaly; and a determiner that determines a state of the virtualization system based on monitoring results from the VM monitor and the request monitor.

Abstract: In a “local production for local consumption” network including a backhaul line formed by wireless multi-hop communication between a plurality of base stations, and a plurality of local service servers, communication speed is increased by appropriately selecting communication routes between the user terminals and the local service servers, and the power efficiency of the wireless communication by minimizing the power consumption of the overall system. A network control server collects information regarding the user terminals, the access points, and the local service servers, sets communication routes between the user terminals and the local service servers, groups of the base stations, those of the existing base stations and local service servers that are active so as to optimize a power efficiency of the overall network according to the collected information, and notifies the base stations, the local service servers or the user terminals of route information regarding the communication routes.

Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a plurality of transmit antennas that transmits a plurality of transmission signals using a multiplexing transmission, and a transmission circuit that applies phase rotation amounts corresponding to combinations of Doppler shift amounts and code sequences to the plurality of transmission signals. Each of the plurality of transmission signals is assigned a different combination among the combinations. The combinations include at least two combinations of a same number of multiplexing by the code sequences.

Abstract: An alkoxysilyl compound includes two or more silyl groups bonded with a chain including an ether group, wherein the two or more silyl groups each has at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group and an oxy alkyl group. The alkoxysilyl compound is added to a non-aqueous electrolyte as an additive for a non-aqueous electrolyte.

Abstract: This biological information acquisition device comprises: a first camera which captures a first hand image of a user, the hand being inserted into an imaging region; a second camera which captures a second hand image of the user used for biological authentication; and a processor which causes the second camera to capture the second hand image when a stop of the user's hand is detected on the basis of the hand image captured by the first camera.

Abstract: A method of producing a slurry composition includes the following (a) to (c): (a) forming a binder solution by mixing a binder with a solvent; (b) filtering the binder solution to form a filtrate; and (c) producing a slurry composition by mixing the filtrate with a solid electrolyte.

Abstract: An alkaline dry battery includes a bottomed cylindrical case, a hollow cylindrical positive electrode that is in contact with the case from inside, a negative electrode filled in a hollow portion of the positive electrode, and including a negative electrode active material including zinc, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an alkaline electrolyte included in the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator, and a sealing unit covering an opening of the case, wherein an additive is charged in a gap between the negative electrode and the sealing unit, and/or a gap between the negative electrode and a bottom portion of the case, and the additive includes an organic acid having a melting point of 90° C. or more.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing method including, by a computer of a system that creates an application of controlling multiple devices: outputting a first operation screen having multiple time frames; receiving a first operation of disposing multiple blocks in columns of the corresponding multiple time frames to generate the application, the multiple blocks each having operation of at least one device of the multiple devices and an intervention degree indicating a degree of involvement of a user in the operation of the at least one device; calculating a sum of intervention degrees of one or more blocks disposed in each of the time frames; and outputting the application including information on the sum of intervention degrees and the multiple blocks disposed in the multiple time frames.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one exemplary embodiment comprises: a first lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by general formula LiaNibM11-bO2 (in the formula, 1.5?a?2.5, 0.95?b?1.00, and M1 is at least one metal element excluding Li and Ni); and a second lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by general formula LicNi2-c-dM2dO2 (in the formula, 0<c?0.5, 0?d?0.5, and M2 is at least one metal element excluding Li and Ni).

Abstract: A light source device includes a connector, a light source, a lever member, and a detector. The connector allows the light guide member to be detachably connected thereto. The light source emits light to be incident on the light guide member connected to the connector. The lever member is displaced depending on presence or absence of the connection of the light guide member to the connector. The detector detects the displacement of the lever member and outputs a detection result.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plating film that exhibits good adhesion to glass substrates. The present invention is a plating film comprising an oxide layer, an electroless plating film, and an electrolytic copper plating film in this order.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode group, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector having a belt-like shape and having a first end and a second end in a short-side direction of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode current collector includes at least one slit group constituted of a plurality of slits extending in a form of a dashed line along the short-side direction from one end of the first end and the second end toward the other end, and a hole formed on the other end side of the plurality of slits and having a width larger than an average width of the plurality of slits.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing having an exhaust surface including an exhaust port; a blower that is arranged inside the housing and sends air from an inside of the housing to an outside of the housing via the exhaust port; an exhaust portion arranged inside the housing and having an exhaust path for guiding the air sent from the blower toward the exhaust port along an air blowing direction intersecting the exhaust surface; and a fin arranged in the exhaust path and having a plurality of plate members. Each of the plurality of plate members is arranged along the air blowing direction.

Abstract: A control method is of an information processing device used for a parking lot management system. The control method causes a computer of the information processing device to perform: acquiring surrounding environment information of a parking location from the parking lot management system; determining a candidate parking location of a vehicle, based on the surrounding environment information; generating display information representing the candidate parking location to which the surrounding environment information is added; and causing a display unit of the information processing device to output the display information.

Abstract: A non-aqueous liquid electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, in which the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material, and a carbon nanotube, the positive electrode active material includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing Ni, a proportion of Ni in metal elements other than Li in the lithium-transition metal composite oxide is 80 atm % or more, and the non-aqueous electrolyte includes a fluorosulfonic acid salt.

Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes a display member, a light transmission member, a light diffusion member, and a plurality of protrusions. The display member has a display surface. The light transmission member is disposed on the display surface side of the display member, has a first surface on a side opposite to the display member and a second surface on the display member side, and has light transparency. The light diffusion member is disposed on a side opposite to the display surface of the display member, and has light diffusion. The plurality of protrusions is provided between the light transmission member and the display member.

Abstract: A service provider server is configured to receive from a terminal of an orderer order information concerning a product provided by a store, and a type of optional processing applied to the product; determine a deliverer who has a device capable of executing the optional processing, and delivers the product from the store to a delivery destination designated by the orderer; and send to a terminal of the deliverer or the device set information for the device to execute the optional processing applied to the product in a delivery way from the store to the delivery destination.

Abstract: A server acquires, from an achieved record database, achieved route information associating a start point, a finish point, and an achieved route being a past travel route between the start point and the finish point with one another, acquires a query including a start point and a finish point, creates one or more recommendable routes each having a start point and a finish point respectively agreeing with the start point and the finish point of the query by connecting one or more achieved routes recorded in the achieved data group, and outputs the one or more recommendable routes.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a covering member that covers the housing, and an attachment part that detachably attaches the covering member to the housing. The attachment part includes a one-side attachment part and at least one other-side attachment part. The one-side attachment part includes a first projection of the covering member extending from a first member toward a second member, a first accommodation part of the housing that accommodates the first projection, and a first movement restriction part that restricts movement of the first projection. The other-side attachment part includes a protrusion of the covering member extending from a second member toward a third surface of the housing, a second projection extending from the protrusion in a direction away from the first member, a second accommodation part of the housing that accommodates the second projection, and a second movement restriction part that restricts movement of the second projection.

Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery of the present disclosure includes a cathode body layer, a separator layer, and an anode body layer in that order, wherein the anode body layer contains a solid electrolyte and an anode active material, and wherein the anode active material is graphite particles having a ratio of a crystallite size of a (004) plane to a crystallite size of a (110) plane (the crystallite size of the (004) plane/the crystallite size of the (110) plane) measured by X-ray crystal diffraction measurement using CuK? rays of 0.683 or more.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion component which includes a base end and a tip end, and is inserted into a subject at least up to the tip end; a light source which emits first light and second light having a hue different from a hue of the first light a light sensor; and a controller, the insertion component includes: a first light guide member which emits the first light and the second light from the tip end as illumination light; and a second light guide member which guides reflected light of the illumination light emitted from the tip end, the light sensor receives the reflected light guided by the second light guide member, and the controller controls the light source based on the intensity of the reflected light received by the light sensor to stop emission of the at least one of the first light or the second light.

Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes: a second reflecting mirror, a first gear, and a rotating apparatus. The second reflecting mirror is rotatable around a first rotation axis C1 extending in a transversal direction. The first gear is disposed in a lower edge portion of the second reflecting mirror. The rotating apparatus includes a second gear that meshes with the first gear from below and that is rotatable around a second rotation axis C2 aligned with the first rotation axis C1. When the rotating apparatus rotates the second gear, the second reflecting mirror is rotated.