Abstract: A catalyst for methane synthesis is made up from layered double hydroxides represented by the following general formula (1). [M2+1-xM3+x(OH)2]x+[An?x/n·yH2O]??(1) In formula (1), M2+ is Ni2+ and M3+ is Al3+ or Cr3+. Further, An? is CO32?. Furthermore, the term x lies within a range of 0.19 to 0.34 (0.19?x?0.34), and y is 0 or a positive integer.

Abstract: An electrosynthesis system is equipped with an electrolysis device that carries out electrolysis on carbon dioxide gas and water vapor, a synthesizing device that synthesizes a hydrocarbon gas from hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide gas that are generated by the electrolysis, and a control device. The control device adjusts a flow rate of the water vapor supplied to the electrolysis device, in a manner so that a first concentration ratio, which is a concentration ratio between the hydrogen gas and the carbon monoxide gas in a mixed gas discharged from the electrolysis device and containing the hydrogen gas and the carbon monoxide gas, becomes a predetermined target concentration ratio.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (B1). Further disclosed is a corrosion inhibitor (B) containing one or more selected from the compound represented by the following formula (B1). Further disclosed is a lubricant composition containing an ionic liquid (A) and the corrosion inhibitor (B). The compound and the corrosion inhibitor are excellent in stability in any of a high vacuum, a low-temperature environment, a high-temperature environment, and an ordinary temperature-ordinary pressure environment, and the lubricant composition containing the corrosion inhibitor is excellent in metal corrosion resistance, solubility, and low evaporability. In the general formula (B1), M is an alkali metal and RB11 is an alkylene group having 1 to 19 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An oral care implement body to which a replacement head can be detachably coupled. In one embodiment, the oral care implement body includes a gripping portion having a shoulder, a stem extending from the shoulder along a longitudinal axis, and a boss protruding from an outer surface of the stem. The boss may have a locking rib section having an undercut surface that is axially spaced from the shoulder and a positioning rib section extending from the locking rib section to the shoulder. The undercut surface may circumferentially protrude from a first side surface of the positioning rib section. The locking rib section may extend along a first rib axis and the positioning rib section may extend along a second rib axis, the first rib axis oriented obliquely to the second rib axis.

Abstract: A fuel cell separator material includes: a composite material containing electrically conductive particles and a binder resin; and soluble resin layers located on both sides of the composite material.

Abstract: The plaque detecting device of the present invention comprises a light emitting unit (450) which irradiates ultraviolet or blue excitation light (L) toward the tooth surface (99a), and a first and second light receiving units (402) which receive radiated light (L?) from the tooth surface (99a). The first light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a first wavelength region including the wavelength range of fluorescent light specific to plaque from the radiated light (L?), and obtains a first output value corresponding to the intensity of that spectral component. The second light receiving unit extracts, from the radiated light (L?), the spectral component of a second wavelength region containing the wavelength range of the fluorescent light specific to enamel and having a predetermined lower limit wavelength below the lower limit wavelength of the first wavelength region, and obtains a second output value corresponding to the intensity of this spectral component.

Abstract: A bipolar lead-acid storage battery has both life performance to withstand long-term operation and high capacity performance. Positive electrode current collector plates include a lead alloy sheet, a mass loss per total surface area of a test piece is 100 mg/cm2 or less when measured after the test piece is placed in sulfuric acid at a concentration of 38 mass % maintained at a temperature of 60° C., and a continuous anodization performed at a constant potential of 1,350 mV on a reference electrode for 28 days. A thickness of the collector plate arranged on one surface of a substrate that covers both a side of a positive electrode and a side of a negative electrode of a cell member is between 0.10 mm and 0.50 mm, and a ratio of a volume of the current collector plate to a rated capacity of the battery is between 0.11 and 0.67.

Abstract: A bipolar storage battery includes cell members arranged with spacing in a stacked manner, each of the cell members including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and space-forming members forming a plurality of spaces individually accommodating the plurality of cell members. A value obtained by dividing the distance between a positive active material layer and a negative active material layer placed in a position facing the positive active material layer by the sum of the thickness of the positive active material layer and the thickness of the negative active material layer is 1.1 or more. The bipolar storage battery may suppress local use of active material during charging and discharging to achieve uniform use of active material in a cell.

Abstract: During welding for manufacturing a bipolar storage battery, it is possible to reduce heat accumulation inside an electrical conductor and heat conductivity to a periphery of a through-hole by connecting current collector plates on both surfaces of a substrate. In the battery in which a positive electrode current collector plate and a negative electrode current collector plate of cell members adjacent to each other are electrically connected to each other by an electrical conductor arranged in a through-hole and a plurality of cell members are electrically connected in series, an area of at least one of a connection surface of the electrical conductor with the positive electrode current conductor plate and a connection surface of the electrical conductor with the negative electrode current collector plate is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the electrical conductor parallel to the connection surface in a middle portion in a plate thickness direction.

Abstract: A bipolar storage battery includes cell members arranged with spacing in a stacked manner, each of the cell members including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and separators interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, space-forming members including a substrate that forms a plurality of spaces individually accommodating the plurality of cell members, and a frame body surrounding a side surface of the cell member. Each of the plurality of separators has a first surface and a second surface with different surface roughness, and a surface in contact with at least the positive active material layer is a surface having a smaller (finer) surface roughness than the first surface or the second surface. This configuration may suppress local use of active material during charging and discharging to achieve uniform use of active material in a cell.

Abstract: A belt-type continuously variable transmission includes an actual gear ratio calculation unit for calculating an actual gear ratio based on the rotation speed of a drive pulley and the rotation speed of a driven pulley, a reference gear ratio calculation unit for calculating a reference gear ratio by modifying the actual gear ratio based on an input torque and a driven pulley hydraulic pressure, and a condition determination unit for, in a case where the target gear ratio is an overdrive gear ratio, determining that at least part of rings of a belt is missing when the reference gear ratio is greater than or equal to a predetermined gear ratio and a drive pulley hydraulic pressure is greater than or equal to a predetermined hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: An imaging system, comprising a shooting operation interface that operates to form an image of a subject, and a processor that has a bio-information acquisition section and a stress determination section, wherein the bio-information acquisition section acquires bio-information of an operator when, during shooting awaiting action where an instant for acquiring still images is awaited, the shooting operation interface is operated, and the stress determination section determines stress conditions that shooting actions place on the operator based on the bio-information that has been acquired using the bio-information acquisition section.

Abstract: A deterioration determination device for a storage battery system includes: a current sensor configured to, at a time of stopping charging or stopping discharging of storage batteries, measure circulation current generated among storage battery arrays in each of storage battery array blocks; a measurement control unit configured to collect a value of the circulation current measured by the current sensor; and a storage battery state determining unit configured to, from the collected value of the circulation current, determine whether or not there is deterioration of the storage batteries in the storage battery array blocks.

Abstract: An electrocardiographic waveform measurement device includes a plurality of electrodes configured to measure an electrocardiographic waveform of a measurement target, a vibration detection unit configured to approach a chest region of the measurement target to detect vibration based on a beat of a heart of the measurement target, and a control unit configured to execute measurement processing for the electrocardiographic waveform. The control unit further executes lead type determination processing for determining, based on a detection result from the vibration detection unit, at least whether the electrocardiographic waveform measured by the measurement processing is an electrocardiographic waveform obtained by chest lead measurement.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush includes a gyro sensor inside a main body. The gyro sensor detects an angular velocity of the main body and the main body includes a head portion, a neck portion, and a grip portion in a longitudinal axis direction. An angle formed by a longitudinal axis of the main body in a state that brush bristles of the head portion contact with a brushing site in a dentition with respect to the longitudinal axis of the main body in a state that the brush bristles of the head portion contact with a reference position in the dentition is obtained, based on an output from the gyro sensor. A corresponding point corresponding to the brushing site on an approximate curve that curves corresponding to the dentition is obtained based on the angle, and coordinates of the corresponding point are used as a translational position of the brushing site.

Abstract: The plaque detecting device of the present invention comprises a light emitting unit (450) which irradiates ultraviolet or blue excitation light (L) toward the tooth surface (99a), and a first and second light receiving units (402) which receive radiated light (L?) from the tooth surface (99a). The first light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a first wavelength region including the wavelength range of fluorescent light specific to plaque from the radiated light (L?), and obtains a first output value corresponding to the intensity of that spectral component. The second light receiving unit extracts, from the radiated light (L?), the spectral component of a second wavelength region containing the wavelength range of the fluorescent light specific to enamel and having a predetermined lower limit wavelength below the lower limit wavelength of the first wavelength region, and obtains a second output value corresponding to the intensity of this spectral component.

Abstract: A belt-type continuously variable transmission includes an actual gear ratio calculation unit for calculating an actual gear ratio based on the rotation speed of a drive pulley and the rotation speed of a driven pulley, a reference gear ratio calculation unit for calculating a reference gear ratio by modifying the actual gear ratio based on an input torque and a driven pulley hydraulic pressure, and a condition determination unit for, in a case where the target gear ratio is an overdrive gear ratio, determining that at least part of rings of a belt is missing when the reference gear ratio is greater than or equal to a predetermined gear ratio and a drive pulley hydraulic pressure is greater than or equal to a predetermined hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: A toothbrush of the present invention includes: a main body including a head portion having a bristle raising surface on which bristles are provided in a standing manner; a light emission unit configured to emit light through a specific region of the bristle raising surface to a tooth surface; and a light reception unit configured to receive radiated light from the tooth surface resulting from the light through the specific region, the light emission unit and the light reception unit being provided in the main body. The toothbrush also includes a detection unit configured to collectively detect whether or not dental plaque or dental calculus is present on the tooth surface based on an output from the light reception unit. The toothbrush further includes a determination unit configured to determine that dental calculus is present on the tooth surface.

Abstract: A medical support system for supporting medical service by sharing patient information includes: a file server including a patient information database, the file server being connected to a network; and an information terminal apparatus configured to communicate with the file server via the network and transmit inputted order information to the file server, and the file server creates corresponding shooting condition information based on the order information transmitted from the information terminal apparatus and transmits the shooting condition information and the order information to the information terminal apparatus.

Abstract: An image file generating device, comprising a processor having an image input section and a file generation section, the image input section inputting image data that has been converted based on images, wherein the file generating section attaches annotation related information to the image data as metadata for a relationship between the image data and user's concern, and makes into a file as training data, wherein the annotation related information includes information that has been selected from within at least one of (1) information as to whether what is being determined is an event or not, and (2) information as to whether what is being determined is timing or not.