Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry to determine a recommended setting by performing a comparison analysis using one or a plurality of first images and one or a plurality of second images. The recommended setting is a setting different from a setting used in obtaining the one or the plurality of second images by the second image reading apparatus or the second image processor. The recommended setting is a setting causing one or a plurality of third images to be closer to the one or the plurality of first images than the one or the plurality of second images. The one or the plurality of third images are obtained from the single-sheet original document or the multiple-sheet original document by the second image reading apparatus and by the second image processor to which the recommended setting is applied.

Abstract: An exterior material excellent in heat insulation, a container, and a combination of the container and exterior material. The exterior material is used by being attached to an outer periphery surface of the container main body included in the container. The exterior material is formed from a blank material including a paper-based material, and includes a plurality of projection portions including base end and tip end portions, the projection portions protruding from a surface facing the outer periphery surface, and at least some of the projection portions include a low-density portion wherein a density of fibers constituting the paper-based material is smaller than that in the base end portion, and form a concealing portion at a position closer to the tip end portion than the low-density portion, the concealing portion extending in the surface direction of the blank material and concealing at least a part of the outer periphery surface.

Abstract: A modified polyester resin production method, including a step of allowing a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid to react with a reactive raw material satisfying at least any one of Condition (A-1) and Condition (A-2) described below, and Condition (B) described below, in the absence of a solvent and at a reaction temperature lower than a decomposition temperature of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid. Condition (A-1): The reactive raw material contains a diol and a dicarboxylic acid component. Condition (A-2): The reactive raw material contains a polyester resin other than the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid. Condition (B): A ratio of an aromatic monomer configuring the reactive raw material in the reactive raw material is 0% by mole or more and less than 50% by mole.

Abstract: A lid having an excellent sealability of an opening part of a container is for attaching to an opening part of a container in a removable manner, characterized in including a cover wall and a side wall which surrounds the circumference of the cover wall, which is tapered from an upper end towards an lower end and which is made of a paper material, wherein the cover wall and the side wall are integrated with each other by a standing part formed on the circumference of the cover wall being joined to an inner surface of an upper wall of the side wall, wherein an engaging part for engaging with the opening part of the container is provided on an inner circumferential side of a lower wall of the side wall.

Abstract: A battery module includes a battery and a covering put over a surface of the battery. The surface of the battery is provided with a valve to release gas produced inside the battery. The covering includes a thin-walled part and a thick-walled part disposed in a region contiguous to the thin-walled part. The thin-walled part is formed thinner in thickness than the thick-walled part.

Abstract: A sealed battery including a battery case that includes a cylindrical exterior can having a bottom and an opening sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can; a gasket that is arranged between the exterior can and the opening sealing body; and an electrode body. The opening sealing body includes: a metal plate with an annular part to which an electrode lead is electrically connected, and a disconnecting part that is separated from the annular part when the inner pressure of the battery case exceeds a predetermined threshold; a valve body that is arranged further to the outside of the battery case than the metal plate; and an insulating plate that is arranged between the metal plate and the valve body. The insulating plate or the gasket is provided with an elastic deformation part that deforms in the direction of the valve body.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized by comprising a metal case main body, and an electrode body that is accommodated in the case main body and formed by winding a positive electrode and negative electrode with a separator interposed therebetween, wherein: the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode current collector exposed section where the negative electrode current collector is exposed; the negative electrode current collector exposed section is disposed on a winding ending section of the electrode body and makes more than one lap circling in the winding starting direction L from the winding ending section of the electrode body, thereby forming a laminated part comprising the negative electrode exposed section, the laminated part and the case main body being welded together.

Abstract: A wound-type battery includes a wound electrode group having a first electrode and a second electrode with polarity opposite to the first electrode, an electrolyte, a battery case, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the battery case, an insulating plate that is disposed between the electrode group and the sealing plate and that has a hole, and a first tab that passes through the hole to electrically connect the first electrode and the sealing plate to each other. At least a part of a region of the first tab that extends through the hole to a sealing plate side is covered with a tab tape on a side facing the insulating plate. The tab tape includes at least a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer on a side opposite the first adhesive layer and is in contact with the first tab through the first adhesive layer.