Abstract: A stereo camera apparatus includes a housing, a first camera unit attached to the housing, a second camera unit attached to the housing, a processing device that performs image processing by using captured images acquired by capturing of the first camera unit and the second camera unit, and a circuit board on which the processing device is mounted. In the housing, a base length direction of the first camera unit and the second camera unit is a longitudinal direction, the housing and the circuit board are bonded to each other by an adhesive, and in a region in the housing, onto which the adhesive is applied, a length in the base line length direction is shorter than a length in an orthogonal direction that is a direction perpendicular to the base length direction.

Abstract: Provided is a coating film having excellent durability and wear resistance, and utility as mold surface release coating. The coating film has excellent releasability (non-adhesiveness) over a long period of time. Further provided is a coating composition capable of forming such a coating film, the coating composition containing a fluoropolymer and an oil that is a liquid at 25° C., wherein the decomposition temperature of the oil is higher than the melting point of the fluoropolymer.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a high-performance electrode for fuel cells. Disclosed is an electrode for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, comprising a polymer electrolyte material and a metal catalyst carried on carbon, wherein the polymer electrolyte material is an electrolyte material represented by the following general formula: and wherein, in a graph showing a relationship between a scattering vector magnitude and a scattering intensity, both of which are obtained by measuring the electrode in an air atmosphere by a smaller-angle neutron scattering method, the electrode has such a hydrophilic domain dispersibility that the maximum value of ratios of scattering intensities to baseline intensities for all ion peaks is in a range of more than 1.00 to 1.42.

Abstract: There are provided a surface modified material comprising a base material, and one or more kinds of sulfonimide compound groups bonded onto the surface of the base material via one or more linking groups -A-Y?— (A is a direct bond or an organic group. Y? is a bonding site with the base material.); the sulfonimide compound group comprising, in its molecular structure, one or more linking groups -A-Y?— and two or more sulfonimide groups; as well as a fuel cell using the surface modified material for a catalyst layer. There is also provided a sulfonimide compound for surface modification comprising one or more reactive end groups -A-Y (A is a direct bond or an organic group. Y is a reactive functional group.) and two or more sulfonimide groups.

Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte equipped with a hydrophilic portion having a cyclic quaternary ammonium salt and a hydrophobic portion bonded to the hydrophilic portion; and a fuel cell, a Li secondary battery, secondary battery and a primary battery using the electrolyte. The electrolyte has preferably a structure represented by the formula (A) or (B), wherein P? represents a hydrophobic portion, R1 and R2 each represents hydrogen, fluorine, a hydroxy group, or a hydrocarbon or fluorinated hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 each represents a hydrocarbon, fluorinated hydrocarbon, or a fluorocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, r and s each represents an integer of 0 or greater but not greater than 8 and satisfies 1?r+s?8, u represents an integer and satisfies 2?u?9, and X? represents a counter anion.

Abstract: An electrolyte having a structure where a fluorinated hydrophilic segment A represented by -E2-[Rf-E1]m- and a hydrocarbon hydrophobic segment B are alternately bonded to each other through chemical bond and a production process therefor, and an electrolyte membrane, a production process therefor, a catalyst layer and a fuel cell using the same. Rf is a linear or a branched perfluoro chain having one or more carbon atoms, E1, and E2 are each a proton conductive portion represented by Formula —(CONM)i1(CO)i2(SO2NM)i3(SO2)i4— (0?i1, 0?i2?1, 0?i3, 0?i4?1, 0<i1+i3, i1 to i4 are each an integer, and M is proton, alkali metal, or alkali earth metal), 2?m (m is an integer), and Rf, E1, and E2 may be each arbitrarily selected in the repeating unit.

Abstract: A polymer electrolyte includes a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide in a principal chain or side chain of the polymer. A battery includes the polymer electrolyte. An imide monomer is able to introduce a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide into a principal chain or side chain of a polymer through a polymerization reaction or a combination of a polymerization reaction and a fluorination reaction. A manufacturing method for a polymer electrolyte includes a polymerization step of polymerizing a raw material that includes one or two or more types of imide monomers that are able to introduce a fluorine-containing structure having an alicyclic 1,3-disulfonimide into a principal chain or side chain of a polymer through a polymerization reaction or a combination of a polymerization reaction and a fluorination reaction.

Abstract: There are provided a surface modified material comprising a base material, and one or more kinds of sulfonimide compound groups bonded onto the surface of the base material via one or more linking groups -A-Y?— (A is a direct bond or an organic group. Y? is a bonding site with the base material.); the sulfonimide compound group comprising, in its molecular structure, one or more linking groups -A—Y?— and two or more sulfonimide groups; as well as a fuel cell using the surface modified material for a catalyst layer. There is also provided a sulfonimide compound for surface modification comprising one or more reactive end groups -A-Y (A is a direct bond or an organic group. Y is a reactive functional group.) and two or more sulfonimide groups.

Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte equipped with a hydrophilic portion having a cyclic quaternary ammonium salt and a hydrophobic portion bonded to the hydrophilic portion; and a fuel cell, a Li secondary battery, secondary battery and a primary battery using the electrolyte. The electrolyte has preferably a structure represented by the formula (A) or (B), wherein P? represents a hydrophobic portion, R1 and R2 each represents hydrogen, fluorine, a hydroxy group, or a hydrocarbon or fluorinated hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 each represents a hydrocarbon, fluorinated hydrocarbon, or a fluorocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, r and s each represents an integer of 0 or greater but not greater than 8 and satisfies 1?r+s?8, u represents an integer and satisfies 2?u?9, and X? represents a counter anion.

Abstract: An electrolyte having a structure where a fluorinated hydrophilic segment A represented by -E2-[Rf-E1]m- and a hydrocarbon hydrophobic segment B are alternately bonded to each other through chemical bond and a production process therefor, and an electrolyte membrane, a production process therefor, a catalyst layer and a fuel cell using the same. Rf is a linear or a branched perfluoro chain having one or more carbon atoms, E1, and E2 are each a proton conductive portion represented by Formula —(CONM)i1(CO)i2(SO2NM)i3(SO2)i4— (0?i1, 0?i2?1, 0?i3, 0?i4?1, 0<i1+i3, i1 to i4 are each an integer, and M is proton, alkali metal, or alkali earth metal), 2?m (m is an integer), and Rf, E1, and E2 may be each arbitrarily selected in the repeating unit.

Abstract: An information service apparatus for serving one of messages stored to a caller through a telephone line, comprises: message storing unit; a table unit for storing plural tables for forming a hierarchical system for reproduction of the messages, each of the tables storing address data of a set of tablets out of the plural tables, and an address of the one of the messages, and a given code; a signal detector for detecting a data signal sent though the telephone line; and a controller response to a call for executing a first function in which the controller accesses one of the tables to determine the present scene where one of the messages is served, reads the address data of the set of the tables to next access to either of the set of the tables in accordance with the data signal by the caller, reproduces one of the messages in accordance with the read address, and detects the given code.