Abstract: An electrode structure includes a positive electrode layer and a positive electrode collector member. The positive electrode collector member includes a positive electrode collector foil, a carbon film, and a hot melt adhesive agent. A positive electrode total specific surface area is more than or equal to 2.2 m2/g and less than or equal to 3.0 m2/g, the positive electrode total specific surface area being represented by a total of a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a positive electrode active material, a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a solid electrolyte, and a product of weight ratio and specific surface area of a conductive material. A softening point of the hot melt adhesive agent is more than or equal to 100° C. and less than or equal to 130° C.

Abstract: Provided is an acrylamide compound, which is useful for the promotion of platelet production from platelet progenitor cells such as megakaryocytes in vitro and represented by general formula [I]: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.

Abstract: Provided is a novel heterocyclic compound having an aryl hydrocarbon receptor antagonist activity and useful for the promotion of platelet production, the compound being represented by the general formula [I]: wherein ring A, ring B, R1, R2, R3, R4, n, and X are as defined above, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A convection pattern control method includes: heating a silicon melt in a quartz crucible using a heating portion; and applying a horizontal magnetic field to the silicon melt in the quartz crucible being rotated. In the heating of the silicon, the silicon melt is heated with the heating portion whose heating capacity differs on both sides across an imaginary line passing through a center axis of the quartz crucible and being in parallel to a central magnetic field line of the horizontal magnetic field when the quartz crucible is viewed from vertically above. In the applying of the horizontal magnetic field, the horizontal magnetic field of 0.2 tesla or more is applied to fix a direction of a convection flow in a single direction in a plane orthogonal to an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field in the silicon melt.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of laminated cells stacked in a horizontal direction, and a battery case accommodating the plurality of laminated cells. The plurality of laminated cells are divided into at least a first cell group and a second cell group. The first cell group and the second cell group are spaced apart. The battery case includes a frame member disposed between the first cell group and the second cell group. The first cell group and the second cell group are electrically coupled by a conductive coupling member. The conductive coupling member includes first conductive coupling members, and a second conductive coupling member. The second conductive coupling member includes a bridge portion, a coupling portion, and a connecting portion connecting the bridge portion and the coupling portion. The coupling portion is disposed below the upper surface of the frame member.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of laminated cells, a battery case, and a wiring coupling portion. A first laminated cell positioned at an end portion of the electrical flow path and the wiring coupling portion are electrically coupled via a conductive coupling member. The first laminated cell includes a cell body portion and a cell terminal extending from the cell body portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the horizontal direction. The conductive coupling member is formed of a single plate-shaped member. The conductive coupling member does not protrude in an extending direction of the cell terminal with respect to an abutting portion abutting against the cell terminal, at least in a region on a lower side of upper end portions of the plurality of laminated cells when viewed from the first direction.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of laminated cells stacked in a first direction of a horizontal direction, and a battery case accommodating the plurality of laminated cells. Each of the laminated cells includes a cell body portion, and a cell terminal extending from the cell body portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the horizontal direction and having a length in an upper-lower direction shorter than that of the cell body portion. The battery case includes a frame member facing the cell terminal in the second direction. A stopper member is disposed in at least one of a space at an upper side of the cell terminal and a space at a lower side of the cell terminal and between the cell body portion and the frame member.

Abstract: In an air-outlet unit that forms an air outlet of an air conditioner in an automobile, a light-emission control unit controls, in accordance with the airflow rate of the air conditioner that is obtained from an air-conditioning control device of the automobile, an LED driving unit that drives an LED array in such a manner that the amount of light that is emitted from the LED array and that activates a photocatalytic filter increases as the airflow rate of the air conditioner increases. The light that is emitted from the LED array is visible light, and some of the light that is reflected by the photocatalytic filter transmits to an area outside of the air-outlet unit by passing through fins that adjust the direction and the flow rate of the air blown by the air-outlet unit.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing monocrystalline silicon by flowing inert gas in a chamber, applying horizontal magnetic field to a silicon melt in a quartz crucible, and pulling up monocrystalline silicon includes: forming a flow distribution of a flow of the inert gas flowing between a lower end of a heat shield and a surface of the silicon melt in the quartz crucible to be plane asymmetric with respect to a plane defined by a crystal pull-up axis of the pull-up device and an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field and rotationally asymmetric with respect to the crystal pull-up axis: maintaining the formed plane asymmetric and rotationally asymmetric flow distribution in a magnetic-field-free state until a silicon material in the quartz crucible is completely melted; and applying the horizontal magnetic field to the completely melted silicon material and starting pulling up the monocrystalline silicon.

Abstract: A method of controlling a convection pattern of a silicon melt includes applying a horizontal magnetic field having an intensity of 0.2 tesla or more to the silicon melt in a rotating quartz crucible to fix a direction of a convection flow in a plane orthogonal to an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field in the silicon melt, the horizontal magnetic field being applied so that a central magnetic field line passes through a point horizontally offset from a center axis of the quartz crucible by 10 mm or more.

Abstract: A displacement measuring apparatus includes a plurality of reflective members disposed at a detection target such as a seat in a vehicle. A signal source and a transmitting antenna transmit a radio wave of a predetermined frequency that can pass through a human body to each of the plurality of reflective members, and a receiving antenna and a mixer receive the radio wave reflected by each of the plurality of reflective members and returned. A distance calculation unit calculates information on distances to the plurality of reflective members based on information on a time until the transmitted radio wave returns, and a displacement-distribution measuring unit calculates a displacement of each of the plurality of reflective members based on the information on the distances.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing monocrystalline silicon by flowing inert gas in a chamber, applying horizontal magnetic field to a silicon melt in a quartz crucible, and pulling up monocrystalline silicon includes: forming a flow distribution of a flow of the inert gas flowing between a lower end of a heat shield and a surface of the silicon melt in the quartz crucible to be plane asymmetric with respect to a plane defined by a crystal pull-up axis of the pull-up device and an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field and rotationally asymmetric with respect to the crystal pull-up axis: maintaining the formed plane asymmetric and rotationally asymmetric flow distribution in a magnetic-field-free state until a silicon material in the quartz crucible is completely melted; and applying the horizontal magnetic field to the completely melted silicon material and starting pulling up the monocrystalline silicon.

Abstract: A method of controlling a convection pattern of a silicon melt includes applying a horizontal magnetic field having an intensity of 0.2 tesla or more to the silicon melt in a rotating quartz crucible to fix a direction of a convection flow in a plane orthogonal to an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field in the silicon melt, the horizontal magnetic field being applied so that a central magnetic field line passes through a point horizontally offset from a center axis of the quartz crucible by 10 mm or more.

Abstract: A convection pattern control method includes: heating a silicon melt in a quartz crucible using a heating portion; and applying a horizontal magnetic field to the silicon melt in the quartz crucible being rotated. In the heating of the silicon, the silicon melt is heated with the heating portion whose heating capacity differs on both sides across an imaginary line passing through a center axis of the quartz crucible and being in parallel to a central magnetic field line of the horizontal magnetic field when the quartz crucible is viewed from vertically above. In the applying of the horizontal magnetic field, the horizontal magnetic field of 0.2 tesla or more is applied to fix a direction of a convection flow in a single direction in a plane orthogonal to an application direction of the horizontal magnetic field in the silicon melt.

Abstract: When it is possible to capture a plurality of light sources as images of a plurality of separated light sources with a gain within a range for each of the ranges of mutually different gains, images captured with the maximum gains among the gains that enables the capturing as the images of the plurality of light sources, that is, images captured to be the brightest is generated as use images (a, b, and c). Then, an image d, obtained by combining only the use images (a and b) in which the plurality of light sources is successfully captured as the images of the plurality of separated light sources among the generated use images, is displayed on a display.

Abstract: When it is possible to capture a plurality of light sources as images of a plurality of separated light sources with a gain within a range for each of the ranges of mutually different gains, images captured with the maximum gains among the gains that enables the capturing as the images of the plurality of light sources, that is, images captured to be the brightest is generated as use images (a, b, and c). Then, an image d, obtained by combining only the use images (a and b) in which the plurality of light sources is successfully captured as the images of the plurality of separated light sources among the generated use images, is displayed on a display.

Abstract: A dropout detection device, a disk reproduction apparatus, and a dropout detection method for detecting the occurrence of a dropout are provided. A low-pass filter outputs, as a signal LFENV, a low-frequency component of an envelope signal ENV generated by an envelope generation circuit, which represents an upper envelope of a first RF signal RF1 input from an RF amplifier unit. An adder adds a shift amount SH to the envelope signal ENV, and outputs a resultant signal as a shifted envelope signal SENV. A comparator outputs a dropout detection signal DET during a time period PT in which the signal LFENV is larger than the shifted envelope signal SENV. A detection control unit detects an amplitude ARF1 of the first RF signal RF1, and changes a frequency gain characteristic of the low-pass filter and the shift amount SH according to the magnitude of the detected amplitude AR1.

Abstract: A disc changer is provided which can perform a disc check in a short time which involves checking whether or not each disc loaded in the disc changer is reproducible in loading CDs on the changer. File system data is selected from management data of a selected disc and reproduced by a file system data selector. The selected file system data is analyzed by a file system data analyzer, and a condition of the analysis is monitored by a reproducible file detector. When a reproducible file is detected, the analysis is suspended, a result of a disc check is generated, and a next disc may be checked.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of estimating a property of fuel accurately even when the engine is in an operating condition other than idling. An in-cylinder pressure sensor detects an amount of change in pressure in a cylinder #1 of the engine as a pressure change amount. An ECU calculates an amount of heat released in the cylinder #1 as a heat release amount, according to the pressure change amount. A vehicle speed sensor, a crank angle sensor, and an accelerator pedal opening sensor detect load on the engine. The ECU estimates a cetane number of fuel based on the calculated heat release amount and the detected load on the engine.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine wherein a load applied to the engine from at least one auxiliary component and/or an air conditioner, which are both driven by the engine, is reduced when the engine is operating in a predetermined low-load operating state. A property of the fuel in use is estimated based on a combustion state of the injected fuel after the reduction of the load applied to the engine.