Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery electrode material in slurry form to be coated on a sheet-shaped current collector, the battery electrode material containing an electrode active material made of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) and containing an aqueous binder. The method includes, as a process of mixing and kneading raw materials of the battery electrode material by using water as a solvent, mixing the electrode active material; mixing the binder; and mixing a neutralizing agent, the neutralizing agent being lithium hydroxide (LiOH).

Abstract: The evaluation information generating system of the present invention evaluates a ground area owned by a user, using satellite data observed by an artificial satellite, and includes a user information acquisition unit that acquires user information that is personal information of the user, a ground area information acquisition unit that acquires ground area information including a position of the ground area, a satellite data acquisition unit that acquires the satellite data, a situation detection unit that detects a situation of the ground area based on the satellite data, and an evaluation data generating unit that generates evaluation data of the user or the ground area based on the user information, ground area information, and situation of the ground area.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor according to the present invention includes, as gas flow paths, diffuser flow paths into which process gas flowing from impellers to outside in a radial direction flows, curved flow paths that respectively communicate with the diffuser flow paths and change a flowing direction of the process gas from a direction toward the outside in the radial direction to a direction toward inside in the radial direction, and return flow paths that respectively communicate with the curved flow paths and cause the process gas flowing through the curved flow paths to flow into the impellers. In the present invention, the curved flow path configuring at least one of the gas flow paths is provided between a diaphragm and a flow path forming body that is provided between the diaphragm and the casing.

Abstract: An emergency reporting system includes first and second servers, a reporting device, a first database in which identification information of a vehicle and a vehicle model are registered, and a second database in which model-specific rescue information is registered, the first and second databases being disposed outside the vehicle. The reporting device includes a reporting unit that reports accident information of an accident vehicle to the second server. The second server includes a transfer unit that transfers the reported accident information to a prescribed rescue organization and the first server. The first server includes a receiving unit that receives the transferred accident information, an extracting unit that extracts rescue information of a vehicle model corresponding to identification information included in the received accident information from the first and second databases, and a transmitting unit that transmits the extracted rescue information to a terminal device of a rescue worker.

Abstract: A method for preparing cathode material for a lithium primary battery includes an active cathode material and an active anode material. The active cathode material is manganese dioxide, and the active anode material is either one of lithium metal and lithium alloy. The method includes: a first kneading step in which a boron compound and a thickening agent are kneaded with a diluent to prepare a paste made by dissolving the boron compound in the diluent; a second kneading step in which the paste is kneaded with a conductive additive; and a third kneading step in which the paste obtained in the second kneading step is kneaded with the active cathode material and a binder to prepare the cathode material in slurry form.

Abstract: A rotary machine includes: a casing; a rotor that includes a rotatable rotary shaft located inside the casing, and a plurality of stages of impellers fixed to an outer periphery of the rotary shaft; a diaphragm group including diaphragms that are respectively provided in the plurality of stages of the impellers; gas flow paths provided respectively corresponding to the impellers and through which process gas to be compressed flows; and a discharge volute connected to the gas flow paths. The discharge volute is provided to expand inward in an axis line direction of the casing.

Abstract: A gas expander includes: a casing where a swirl chamber for a gas to be expanded is formed; a turbine wheel that is housed in the casing and rotationally driven by the expanded gas; a diffuser that is mounted to the casing in a direction of a rotating shaft of the turbine wheel and includes a flow path for the expanded gas to flow in the direction of the rotating shaft; a swirl stopper that is disposed in the diffuser, faces a downstream front end surface of a boss of the turbine wheel that faces the flow path, and includes a closed swirl stopping surface that is disposed to face the downstream front end surface of the boss with a gap between the closed swirl stopping surface and the downstream front end surface; and a swirl preventing plate that circumferentially partition the flow path in the diffuser.

Abstract: A compressor 1 includes a base 10 that is fixed on a foundation F and supports a compressor main body 20 from below in a vertical direction Dv, and a connecting part that detachably connects the compressor main body 20 and the base 10 to each other. The compressor main body 20 includes a suction-side protruding pipe 28A and a discharge-side protruding pipe 28B that communicate between an inside and an outside of a casing 21 and protrude outward from an outer peripheral surface of the casing 21. The base 10 includes a support base 11 having a support surface 11f for supporting a lower part of the casing 21, and a suction port 12 that extends downward from the support base 11 in the vertical direction Dv and has a through-hole into which the suction-side protruding pipe 28A is inserted.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fluid apparatus with flanges that are fastened together may include the following steps: fastening the flanges with a fastening member; introducing a fluid into an internal space of the fluid apparatus, and plastically deforming portions of the flanges that form seats for receiving the fastening member and portions of the flanges that form mating surfaces with pressure of the fluid being applied; releasing the fastening member and correcting at least the mating surfaces out of the seats and the mating surfaces; and refastening the flanges.

Abstract: A conductive auxiliary agent for an electrode slurry for a battery. The electrode slurry contains an electrode active material and a conductive auxiliary agent, and is applied to a sheet-shaped current collector. The conductive auxiliary agent is a carbon paste produced by dispersing a carbon powder in a solvent. The carbon paste has a viscosity of at least 20 Pa·s and not more than 40 Pa·s. The carbon material can be acetylene black.

Abstract: A gas seal structure includes: a first member with a first flow path where seal gas flows; a second member that is disposed to face the first member and includes a second flow path where the seal gas flowing from the first flow path flows toward a predetermined seal surface; and a communicating pipe disposed across the first and second flow paths. The communicating pipe includes: a first pipe end and a first seal member that are held within the first flow path, a second pipe end and a second seal member that are held within the second flow path, and a flexible pipe that connects the first pipe end and the second pipe end. A rigidity of the flexible pipe end is lower than a rigidity of each of the first pipe end and the second pipe end.

Abstract: A laminated power storage element includes: an exterior body shaped into a flat bag shape by laminating a pair of laminated films to weld a peripheral edge region; an electrode body sealed within the exterior body; a positive and a negative electrode terminal portion allowed to project outside the exterior body from a predetermined margin of the exterior body; and a pair of tab films welded on surfaces where the pair of laminated films oppose one another in a region along the predetermined margin to mutually weld the pair of laminated films, and the tab film covers an end surface of the laminated film while deviating outward from the exterior body from the predetermined margin, and covers both front and back surfaces of each of a base end of the positive electrode terminal portion and a base end of the negative electrode terminal portion.

Abstract: An emergency reporting system includes first and second servers, a reporting device, a first database in which identification information of a vehicle and a vehicle model are registered, and a second database in which model-specific rescue information is registered, the first and second databases being disposed outside the vehicle. The reporting device includes a reporting unit that reports accident information of an accident vehicle to the second server. The second server includes a transfer unit that transfers the reported accident information to a prescribed rescue organization and the first server. The first server includes a receiving unit that receives the transferred accident information, an extracting unit that extracts rescue information of a vehicle model corresponding to identification information included in the received accident information from the first and second databases, and a transmitting unit that transmits the extracted rescue information to a terminal device of a rescue worker.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element has a flat body and an interior layered flat plate-shaped electrode body. A positive electrode terminal plate is mounted to a positive electrode of the electrode body and is guided outside from a predetermined margin of the body. A negative electrode terminal plate is mounted to a negative electrode of the electrode body and guided in the same direction. A film member spans across both electrode terminal plates. The film member is made by layering an insulating heat-resistant film and an adhesive to thermocompression bond the heat-resistant film to a matter to be adhered to. The film member is thermocompression bonded to the electrode terminal plate at a region facing principal surfaces of the positive and the negative plates, and is thermocompression bondable to the matter to be adhered to in a region that does not face the respective principal surfaces.

Abstract: An impeller is equipped with: a disk part, having a cylindrical part into which a rotary shaft that rotates around an axis line is inserted, with a portion of the cylindrical part in the axis line direction of the rotary shaft being fixed to the rotary shaft as a grip part, and a disk main body part extending from the cylindrical part outward in the radial direction of the rotary shaft a blade part protruding from the disk main body part toward a side in a first direction in the axis line direction; a reinforcing member attachment part formed on the cylindrical part closer to a side in a second direction in the axis line direction than the disk main body part; and a reinforcing member formed of material having a higher specific strength than the disk part, and attached so as to cover the reinforcing member attachment part from the outside.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element is configured of an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape by welding a first laminated film and a second laminated film by thermocompression bonding, and an electrode body that is sealed inside the exterior body, the electrode body having a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode. The first laminated film and the second laminated film respectively includes a first resin layer that has a property of transmitting a laser beam, a metal foil that is layered to the first resin layer, and a second resin layer is layered to the metal foil and has a thermal weldability.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element, including an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape, and an electrode body that has a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode layered via a separator and that is sealed inside the exterior body together with an electrolytic solution, wherein electrode terminal plates of the positive electrode and the negative electrode are guided in an identical direction from a predetermined margin of the exterior body to an outside of the exterior body, and a support part that is made with a film shaped resin having insulating and heat-resistant properties is formed on principal surface sides of the electrode terminal plates at a region that is along the predetermined margin and covers up to tip ends of the electrode terminal plates.

Abstract: A rotary machine includes a first flange in which a first hole portion is formed, a second flange disposed to face the first flange via an abutting surface and having a second hole portion formed therein, and a stud bolt inserted into a first hole portion and a second hole portion and fastened to a female screw of the second hole portion, wherein the thickness of the second flange is larger than the thickness of the first flange.

Abstract: In order to use a manned-travel work vehicle, such as a multi-purpose transport vehicle, for transporting machinery or material or for moving for the purpose of work, a rest or the like, and to cause an unmanned-travel work vehicle to reliably arrive at a destination using wireless communication, the present invention provides a work vehicle transport system. In the transport system, travel trajectory information about a travel trajectory of a first vehicle that is a manned-travel work vehicle to a work location is transmitted via wireless communication to a second vehicle, and it is determined whether the second vehicle is to perform unmanned-travel along the travel trajectory.

Abstract: A gas seal structure includes: a first member with a first flow path where seal gas flows; a second member that is disposed to face the first member and includes a second flow path where the seal gas flowing from the first flow path flows toward a predetermined seal surface; and a communicating pipe disposed across the first and second flow paths. The communicating pipe includes: a first pipe end and a first seal member that are held within the first flow path, a second pipe end and a second seal member that are held within the second flow path, and a flexible pipe that connects the first pipe end and the second pipe end. A rigidity of the flexible pipe end is lower than a rigidity of each of the first pipe end and the second pipe end.