Abstract: All-solid-state capacitor includes an inorganic solid electrolyte, and a pair of current collectors disposed so that the inorganic solid electrolyte is interposed therebetween. In the all-solid-state capacitor, the inorganic solid electrolyte has a polycrystalline structure composed of crystal particles and crystal grain boundaries formed between the crystal particles. In a first crystal particle included in the crystal particles, a domain located near the crystal grain boundaries is larger in size than a domain located near the center.

Abstract: A pressure sensor includes: a fixed part; a ring-like oscillator that is supported on the fixed part by a plurality of support beams; a plurality of electrodes that are provided on the fixed part and arranged in an oscillating direction of the ring-like oscillator with a gap; electret films that are formed on either one of opposite surfaces of the ring-like oscillator and the electrodes.

Abstract: A method of testing for leakage of a pulp chamber in a modified extracted tooth is provided, wherein the modified extracted tooth comprises enamel, dentine and a pulp chamber. The method comprises: (a) providing an extracted tooth which has been modified by removal of roots and dental pulp so as to create a pulp chamber, the pulp chamber having an opening at one end thereof, which opening is defined by a rim; (b) attaching a first end of a first tube to the rim of the pulp chamber so as to provide an air-tight seal between the first tube and the rim; (c) placing the modified extracted tooth into a liquid; (d) supplying a compressed gas into the pulp chamber via the first tube; and (e) determining visually whether or not bubbles of the gas are released into the liquid at the enamel of the tooth.

Abstract: Methods of forming two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide sheets are provided. The methods include adding a cross-linking agent to an activating agent to form a solution and mixing a two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide with the solution to form a mixture. The methods also include adding a cleaving agent to the mixture to form one or more contiguous sheets of transition metal dichalcogenide.

Abstract: An aspiration apparatus adapted to allow aspiration verification of a liquid such as of a biological liquid or reagent liquid, especially at low aspiration volumes (e.g., less than 25 ?L). The apparatus includes a pump operable at an operating frequency, the pump optionally including a pumping chamber, a probe having a probe interior, a main supply line containing a backing liquid coupled to and extending from the pump and including the probe interior, a striction coupled to the main supply line, or the pump chamber, if present, and a reservoir fluidly coupled to the striction, wherein the striction is sized to minimize backing liquid flow through the striction at one or more disturbance frequencies above the operating frequency. Systems and methods for carrying out the liquid aspiration are provided, as are other aspects.

Abstract: A metal oxide vertical graphene hybrid supercapacitor is provided. The supercapacitor includes a pair of collectors facing each other, and vertical graphene electrode material grown directly on each of the pair of collectors without catalyst or binders. A separator may separate the vertical graphene electrode materials.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a chip component and an external terminal. The external terminal includes a terminal electrode connection part, a mounting connection part, and a support part. The terminal electrode connection part is arranged to face an end surface electrode part of a terminal electrode of the chip component. The mounting connection part is connectable to a mounting surface. The support part faces one side surface of an element body of the chip component closest to the mounting surface so as to support the one side surface spaced from the mounting surface. A bonding region and a non-bonding region are formed between the terminal electrode connection part of the external terminal and the end surface electrode part of the terminal electrode. The non-bonding region is formed from the terminal electrode connection part to the support part.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a multilayer capacitor includes alternately laminating dielectric layers and conductor layers including less than 50 included in a first arrangement and a second arrangement different from the first arrangement when viewed from a lamination direction to form a laminate in which at least one pair of the conductor layers adjacent to each other with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween are included in the first or second arrangement, pressing the laminate to stretch the conductor layers in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the lamination direction, pressing the laminate to bend the conductor layers in the lamination direction, and forming first and second outer electrodes on laminate surfaces such that the first outer electrode is connected to the conductor layers included in the first arrangement and the second outer electrode is connected to the conductor layers included in the second arrangement.

Abstract: An electrostatic actuator includes: a fixed driving electrode that is disposed on a silicon substrate; a movable driving electrode that is disposed so as to face the fixed driving electrode and approaches the fixed driving electrode with an electrostatic force generated between the movable driving electrode and the fixed driving electrode; and a pair of spacers that comes in contact with the movable driving electrode in an approaching state in which the fixed driving electrode and the movable driving electrode approach each other and forms a prescribed air gap between the fixed driving electrode and the movable driving electrode, wherein each of the spacers has a spacer electrode portion that comes in contact with the movable driving electrode via an insulator and has the same potential as one of the electrodes at least in the approaching state.

Abstract: A container for a refrigerated fluid having an external container and an internal container between which an evacuated intermediate space is situated, which contains a superinsulator formed by several, separated layers of foil provided with a metal layer, is used as a storing device for electric energy. The foils act as foil capacitors and are electrically contacted so that an electric voltage can be applied to corresponding electric terminals on the exterior side of the container. In the container, a metal layer can be provided on both surfaces of the foil(s), and the foil(s) may consist of a material with a semiconductor characteristic. The foil capacitors are electrically connectable in series or parallel, and the electrical contacting of the foil metal surfaces can take place via a suspension structure of the internal container in the external container.

Abstract: An electric storage device having a multilayer body in which a separator layer is provided between a positive or negative first electrode and a second electrode of the opposite polarity to the first electrode, an electrolyte, and a package that holds the multilayer body and the electrolyte, and includes at least two first-polarity compound sheets, each configured by integrating a first-polarity collector electrode, a first-polarity active material layer provided on one main surface of the first-polarity collector electrode, and a separator layer that covers at least part of the one main surface. Another main surface of the first-polarity collector electrode in one of the at least two first-polarity compound sheets and another main surface of the first-polarity collector electrode in another of the first-polarity compound sheets are opposed to each other and joined via a joining layer. The joining layer contains a high-polymer having imide coupling in its main chain.

Abstract: An operation position detection apparatus includes: an operation body including front and back side operation surfaces; a casing; three strain generating bodies on at least one operation surface, wherein each strain generating body includes a connection section connected to the operation body, a fixed section fixed to the casing, and a displacement transmission surface displaceable by a pushing pressure to each operation surface; a distortion detection section arranged on each displacement transmission surface and detecting a distortion of the displacement transmission surface; and an operation position calculation section detecting which of the front side operation surface and the back side operation surface is pushed, the magnitude of the operation force generated by the pushing pressure, and an operation position of the pushing pressure, according to a detected distortion.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including ceramic layers and inner electrode layers, the inner electrode layers being disposed on interfaces between the ceramic layers, and an outer electrode on an external surface of the multilayer body and electrically connected to first end portions of the inner electrode layers exposed to the external surface of the multilayer body. Each of the ceramic layers includes a thin portion with a continuously reducing thickness near the first end portion. Each inner electrode layer includes a thick portion near a connection with the outer electrode, the thick portion having a thickness continuously increasing toward the connection on a first side in accordance with a shape of the thin portion in the ceramic layer.

Abstract: In a method of monitoring pollution of an air filter (Filt1) in a device in which an air flow (A) generated by a fan (F) engaged by a motor (M) passes the air filter (Filt1), the pollution is determined using data representative of a pressure difference (D2) over the fan (F), a pressure difference (D1) over the air filter, and a motor current (I) to the motor (M). The method comprises the steps of: estimating a flow through the air filter from data representative of the pressure difference (D2) over the fan (F), and the motor current (I) to the motor (M), estimating a filter resistance of the air filter from data representative of the flow through the air filter, and the pressure difference (D1) over the air filter, and estimating the pollution of the air filter from data representative of the filter resistance of the air filter.

Abstract: Provided is a supercapacitor having an anode, a cathode, a porous separator/electrolyte, wherein at least one of electrodes contains an integral 3D graphene-carbon hybrid foam composed of multiple pores and pore walls, wherein the pore walls contain single-layer or few-layer graphene sheets chemically bonded by a carbon material having a carbon material-to-graphene weight ratio from 1/100 to 1/2, wherein the few-layer graphene sheets have 2-10 layers of stacked graphene planes having an inter-plane spacing d002 from 0.3354 nm to 0.40 nm and the graphene sheets contain a pristine graphene material having essentially zero % of non-carbon elements, or a non-pristine graphene material having 0.

Abstract: Composite electronic including coil, capacitor and intermediate parts, wherein coil part includes coil-conductor and magnetic-layer, capacitor part includes internal electrodes and dielectric-layer, which contains SrO—TiO2 or ZnO—TiO2 based oxide, intermediate part between coil and capacitor parts, intermediate part includes intermediate material layer, which contains ZnO, TiO2 and boron, ZnO contained in intermediate material layer 50-85 parts by mole and TiO2 contained the intermediate material layer 15-50 parts by mole when total content of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer is 100 parts by mole, content boron in intermediate material layer is 0.1-5.0 parts by weight of B2O3 when total of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer set to 100 parts by weight, part of ZnO and TiO2 intermediate material layer constitute ZnO—TiO2 compound, which in intermediate material layer is 50 wt % or more when total weight of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer is set to 100 wt %.

Abstract: A pressure transducer comprising a resistive pressure sensor element with a measurement membrane which has at least four resistor elements. The resistor elements are arranged in a full-bridge circuit, having a longitudinal direction in which the full bridge circuit is to be supplied with a constant current. When being supplied with the constant current, a longitudinal voltage has a first pressure dependency and a first temperature dependency, and a diagonal voltage has a second pressure dependency and a second temperature dependency, the second pressure dependency being greater than the first pressure dependency at a given temperature. The pressure transducer has a processing circuit which is designed to determine a measured pressure value at least using the diagonal voltage and optionally the longitudinal voltage.

Abstract: An electrode plate, method for manufacturing an electrode plate, and method of testing an electrode plate enable efficient production of robust flowing electrolyte batteries. The method of testing an electrode plate includes forming a frangible portion in the electrode plate; providing a seal around a periphery of the electrode plate, wherein the periphery extends across the frangible portion; applying a gas adjacent a surface on a first side of the electrode plate; and detecting whether there is a presence of the gas adjacent a surface on a second side of the electrode plate, if the electrode plate passes testing, the frangible portion is removed from the electrode plate to define a cut-away region. The electrode plate is then positioned in a battery cell stack including a plurality of other electrode plates. A manifold is then attached to the cell stack adjacent the cut-away region of the electrode plate.

Abstract: A measurement method includes generating, by a sensor, a response signal in response to an excitation signal. The method also includes generating a sampling clock signal in accordance with a pseudo-random jitter, and sampling the response signal in accordance with the sampling clock signal to determine a plurality of digital samples. The method also includes combining the plurality of digital samples to form a measurement sample.

Abstract: Disclosed is a block supercapacitor, including two or more unit cells configured such that electrodes having a layered structure are disposed to face each other in an in-plane structure, wherein the two or more unit cells comprises an electrode arranged adjacent to each other respectively and the electrodes adjacent to each other are connected in series. As the unit cells are connected in series, a high-voltage supercapacitor can be provided.