Abstract: A method for manufacturing slurry for an insulation protective layer of a rechargeable battery includes obtaining an insulation material calibration curve showing a relationship between particle size and compressibility of an insulation material using sets of particle size and compressibility of the insulation material, obtaining a binder calibration curve showing a relationship between particle size and compressibility of a binder using sets of particle size and compressibility of the binder, measuring particle sizes of the insulation material and the binder loaded, determining an optimal mixture weight ratio with reference to the curves so that compressibility of mixture powder of the insulation material and the binder equals a set compressibility based on the measured particle sizes, mixing the insulation material and the binder at the determined mixture weight ratio to form mixture powder, loading the mixture powder into a powder dispenser, and adding a solvent to the mixture powder.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a structure provided between the first and second semiconductor layers. The semiconductor apparatus further includes a first electrode supported by a first insulating layer, a second electrode supported by a second insulating layer, a first wire bonded to the first electrode through a first opening provided in the first semiconductor layer, and a second wire bonded to the second electrode through a second opening provided in the first semiconductor layer, and an annular member made of a non-insulating material and provided between the first semiconductor layer and the first electrode. A distance from the second semiconductor layer to a first joint between the first electrode and the first wire is longer than a distance from the second semiconductor layer to a second joint between the second electrode and the second wire.

Abstract: An analog-digital conversion circuit is disclosed for comparing a comparison potential with a reference potential generated based on a reference power supply to convert a comparison potential to a digital value. An analog-to-digital converter generates the comparison potential based on a sampled and held input potential, the digital value, and the reference power supply. A current amount control unit controls current amount flowing to the current amount control element in each bit circuit. In response to second switches of the bit circuits being turned on in order from the upper bit in each bit circuit by the digital value, the current amount control unit applies a current control potential to the current amount control element in any of the bit circuits that the noise current is more than allowable value while the noise current proportional to the charge flowing from the capacitor is more than the allowable value.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: a first head unit; a second head unit shifted with respect to the first head unit in both of a first direction in which nozzles of the head units are arranged and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed so as to overlap the first head unit in the second direction; and a first wiring member having flexibility and drawn from the second head unit in the second direction toward the first head unit, wherein the first wiring member includes a large-width portion on which a drive circuit is mounted and a small-width portion having a width in the first direction smaller than a width of the large-width portion in the first direction, and wherein the small-width portion passes through a space existing next to the first head unit in the first direction and extends in the second direction.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of a successive approximation type analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog input into a digital conversion value and outputs the digital conversion value, may include: a capacitance DAC that generates a bit-by-bit potential based on an analog input; a comparator that compares the potential generated by the capacitance DAC, wherein the comparator is a memory cell rewriting type, the comparator includes a first stage current mirror type operational amplifier; and a second stage memory cell; a conversion data generator that generates conversion data of resolution bits based on a comparison result of the comparator; and a correction circuit that corrects an output error of the conversion data caused by an offset error of the comparator by adding or subtracting an offset correction value that is a fixed value, and outputs the conversion data as a digital conversion value.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rechargeable battery includes forming a mixture layer and an insulating layer on an electrode substrate having an edge extending in a specified direction so that an exposed portion where the electrode substrate is exposed extends between the edge and the insulating layer; pressing the mixture layer; and stretching an extension portion, located between the edge and the mixture layer, and the insulating layer in the specified direction. The stretching includes applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the electrode substrate or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the electrode substrate and less than tensile strength of the electrode substrate to the extension portion, and applying a stress greater than or equal to yield stress of the insulating layer or greater than or equal to 0.2% proof stress of the insulating layer to the insulating layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reversing roller pair, a moving unit, and an obtaining unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The reversing roller pair nips the sheet having the image, rotates in a first direction, and then rotate in a second direction and conveys the sheet. The moving unit moves the reversing roller pair. The obtaining unit obtains the sheet length. If a first sheet having a first length is reversed and conveyed, the moving unit moves the reversing roller pair conveying the first sheet in the width direction by a first moving amount. If a second sheet having a second length greater than the first length is reversed and conveyed, the moving unit moves the reversing roller pair conveying the second sheet in the width direction by a second moving amount smaller than the first moving amount.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus jetting a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a first direction includes head units arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. One head unit includes nozzle chips; one nozzle chip has a nozzle arrangement area wherein nozzles are aligned in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The nozzle chip is arranged to be shifted relative to another nozzle chip in a direction crossing the first and second directions and different from the third direction. The head unit has a first overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of first and second nozzle chips included in the nozzle chips partially overlap with each other in the first direction. The liquid jetting apparatus has a second overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of third and fourth nozzle chips included in the head units partially overlap with each other in the first direction.

Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, and an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage, and provided downstream with respect to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage and rotates around an EGR valve axis to open and close the downstream passage.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes an individual flow passage member; and a common flow passage member joined to the individual flow passage member in a first direction. The individual flow passage member has nozzle groups formed on a surface on a side opposite to the common flow passage member and connecting hole groups formed on a surface on a side of the common flow passage member; and the common flow passage member has manifold flow passages corresponding to the connecting hole groups respectively. Each of the nozzle groups includes nozzles aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and each of the connecting hole groups includes connecting holes aligned in the second direction and connected to the nozzles respectively. Each of the manifold flow passages extends in the second direction and is connected to the nozzles via the connecting holes.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter is disclosed that converts an input analog potential to a digital conversion value. An analog-to-digital converter according to one or more embodiments may include a comparator that compares the input analog potential with a reference potential; and a conversion circuit that measures comparison operation time from a start to an end of a comparison operation by the comparator and outputs the digital conversion value according to the measured comparison operation time and a comparison result by the comparator.

Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream side of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream side of the second upstream passage, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage, rotates around an EGR valve axis.

Abstract: An object is to provide a coloring technique that makes it possible to impart luster while providing a vivid color, and further to provide a coloring technique that makes it possible to retain more unevenness when a substrate has unevenness. This object is achieved by a laminated sheet comprising a fiber substrate and a metalloid element-containing layer disposed on or above the surface of the fiber substrate.

Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, and an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage, and provided downstream with respect to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage and rotates around an EGR valve axis to open and close the downstream passage.

Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes: a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows; a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows; a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream of the second upstream passage; and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body is provided in the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage.

Abstract: A valve device increases or decreases a flow rate of EGR gas. The valve device includes a housing, a bypass valve body, an EGR valve body. The housing includes a first upstream passage into which the EGR gas cooled by an EGR cooler flows, a second upstream passage into which the EGR gas that bypasses the EGR cooler flows, a junction connected to each of a gas-flow downstream side of the first upstream passage and a gas-flow downstream side of the second upstream passage, and a downstream passage connected to the first upstream passage and the second upstream passage via the junction. The bypass valve body opens and closes the second upstream passage. The EGR valve body is provided in the downstream passage, rotates around an EGR valve axis.

Abstract: In coaching with the purpose of creating a document in mind, data containing question group related to components of the document, a question of details, and a question of another topic is included, an increase/decrease of information amount of the answers of the writer is estimated from a writer's past answers and a current answer, and a next question is selected based on the estimation result.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element, a resin member including, a front surface provided with a recess in which the at least one light emitting element is mounted, a back surface, a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first lateral surface, and a second lateral surface; a first lead including a first inner lead portion and a first outer lead portion; and a second lead including a second inner lead portion and a second outer lead portion. Each of the outer lead portions includes a first-outer-lead base portion along the bottom surface, and first and second bent portions which are extended toward the upper surface side. The resin member is not arranged in at least a portion of a region between the second bent portion of the first outer lead portion and the first bent portion of the second outer lead portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, a first guiding unit having a first surface forming a first feeding passage, and a second guiding unit forming a second feeding passage. The second guiding unit includes a first member made of metal and having a first guiding surface on which a leading end of a sheet is guided in a first section including an upstream end portion of the second feeding passage with respect to a sheet feeding direction, and includes a second member made of a resin material and having a second guiding surface on which the sheet is guided in a second section downstream of the first section in the second feeding passage with respect to the sheet feeding direction. The first guiding surface is spaced from a first phantom contact surface extending from an end portion of the first surface and contacting the second guiding surface.