Abstract: An apparatus includes first and second chips. The first chip includes a first transmission control portion to generate a transmission signal, and a first transmitting coil connected to the first transmission control portion to transmit the transmission signal. The second chip includes a second receiving coil capable of receiving the transmission signal by being inductively coupled with the first transmitting coil, and a second detection portion to detect a voltage or current applied to the second receiving coil. The first and second chips are in close proximity to enable wireless communication through inductive coupling. The second detection portion is configured to detect, when a change in voltage or current occurring in the second receiving coil satisfies a predetermined condition, a change in relative position between the first chip and the second chip, or vibration applied to the first and second chips, pressure change, temperature change, or electromagnetic wave.

Abstract: To enable necessary information to be obtained from a sensor when necessary. An information processing device includes a processing unit including a memory, a sensing unit, a condition storage unit configured to store a condition for outputting a situation value indicating a state according to a situation in which the information processing device is disposed, a determination unit configured to determine whether the condition is satisfied, a situation value calculation unit configured to calculate the situation value based on a measured value acquired by the sensing unit, and an output unit configured to output the situation value when the condition is satisfied.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes a battery group, a case, a metal plate, an insulator and an electrical connection path. The battery group includes a plurality of batteries, and each of the batteries includes an electrode group and a metal exterior container made in which the electrode group is housed. The metal plate is provided between the battery group and the base and forms a clearance between the metal plate and the base. The insulator has plasticity and an electrical insulating property, and is sandwiched between the battery group and the metal plate. The insulator electrically insulates between the exterior container of each of the batteries and the metal plate. The electrical connection path electrically connects the metal plate to the base.

Abstract: A stator has a plurality of core pieces being arranged in a ring shape around a rotation axis, and is configured such that a coupling part having a fitting structure is formed between the core pieces adjacent to each other in an arrangement of the ring shape, the coupling part allowing rotation about a pillar portion and restricting displacement in the axis direction by a snap-fit coupling that is formed with the pillar portion being provided on the yoke side of one of the core pieces and extending in a direction parallel to the axis and an open ring portion being provided on the yoke side of the other of the core pieces.

Abstract: A method for producing a chip for cell culture that enables production of a microchannel structure, enables mass production at low cost, and also has functions suited to cell culture. The method includes forming a photosensitive adhesive layer by applying a photosensitive adhesive to a first substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a 3D printing substrate, 3D printing steps that employ vat photopolymerization, forming a first adhesive layer by depositing a first adhesive on a second substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a cell culture channel top plate, and bonding the cell culture channel and the cell culture channel top plate together via the first adhesive layer, and then performing thermocompression bonding to obtain a microchannel structural body having a hollow structure, wherein the first adhesive is a polyester-based resin having a Tg value of 5° C. or higher.

Abstract: A battery module includes a first cell group and a second cell group. The first cell group is provided with a plurality of cells each including a top surface on which terminal are arranged, a bottom face, a pair of long side faces, and short side faces shorter than the long side faces, the pair of long side faces being arranged to be opposed to each other. The second cell group is provided with a plurality of cells each including long side faces arranged to be opposed to each other, the cells being arranged at a position parallel with the first cell group.

Abstract: A method for producing a chip for cell culture that enables production of a microchannel structure, enables mass production at low cost, and also has functions suited to cell culture. The method includes forming a photosensitive adhesive layer by applying a photosensitive adhesive to a first substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a 3D printing substrate, 3D printing steps that employ vat photopolymerization, forming a first adhesive layer by depositing a first adhesive on a second substrate having transparency, thus obtaining a cell culture channel top plate, and bonding the cell culture channel and the cell culture channel top plate together via the first adhesive layer, and then performing thermocompression bonding to obtain a microchannel structural body having a hollow structure, wherein the first adhesive is a polyester-based resin having a Tg value of 5° C. or higher.

Abstract: A battery module includes a first cell group and a second cell group. The first cell group is provided with a plurality of cells each including a top surface on which terminal are arranged, a bottom face, a pair of long side faces, and short side faces shorter than the long side faces, the pair of long side faces being arranged to be opposed to each other. The second cell group is provided with a plurality of cells each including long side faces arranged to be opposed to each other, the cells being arranged at a position parallel with the first cell group.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery unit includes a first cell unit, a second cell unit and a third cell unit arranged adjacent to the first cell unit, respectively. Each cell unit includes a plurality of secondary battery cells, and the respective secondary battery cells are formed of a main body of a substantially rectangular solid shape and a pair of first and second electrodes of different polarities each other pulled out from one end of the main body. A first bus bar connects the first electrodes of the first cell unit and the second electrodes of the second cell unit in a first line, and a second bus bar connects the second electrodes of the first cell unit and the first electrodes of the third cell unit in a second line.

Abstract: A method of forming a coating solution for forming a light-absorbing layer of a solar cell, including dissolving a chalcogen and at least one metal or metal compound in dimethylsulfoxide and/or water in the presence of hydrazine to obtain a homogeneous hydrazine-coordinated metal chalcogenide complex solution; and adding at least one alcohol having 1 to 5 carbon atoms to the homogeneous hydrazine-coordinated metal chalcogenide complex solution.

Abstract: A coating apparatus including a coating part which has a nozzle which ejects a liquid material including an oxidizable metal from a tip portion, and a relative driving unit which moves a substrate and the nozzle in relation to each other so that the tip portion passes through the substrate, such that at least the tip portion of the nozzle provides an affinity control part which is formed so that affinity between the affinity control part and the liquid material is less than that between the liquid materials.

Abstract: A coating apparatus including a coating part which applies a liquid material including an oxidizable metal on a substrate, a chamber having a coating space in which the coating part applies the liquid material on the substrate and a transport space into which the substrate is transported, and a removal unit which removes the liquid material from the inside of the chamber when at least one of oxygen concentration and humidity inside the chamber exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a secondary battery apparatus includes an outer case including an airtight battery storing chamber formed inside, a coolant inlet for supplying an insulative liquid coolant to the battery storing chamber, and a coolant outlet for discharging the liquid coolant from the battery storing chamber; and a battery cell including an electrode terminal, the battery cell being disposed in the battery storing chamber of the outer case and immersed in the liquid coolant filled in the battery storing chamber.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connecting busbar includes a pair of first connecting portions provided on first end portions, a pair of second connecting portions provided on second end portions, and a coupling portion that couples the first end portions and the second end portions. Each of the first connecting portions and the second connecting portions is provided with projecting portions that project toward each of positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals, and a connecting opening portion provided on a tip end of the projecting portion. The projecting portion is joined to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal by performing welding such as laser welding on a thinned portion in a state that a surface of a curved portion contacts with the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal while the connecting opening approaches the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal.

Abstract: A heating apparatus including: a first heating part and a second heating part between which a substrate having a coating film is disposed at a substrate position in the film thickness direction; and a distance control part which controls at least one of a first distance between the substrate position and the first heating part and a second distance between the substrate position and the second heating part.

Abstract: A coating solution for forming a light-absorbing layer of a CZTS solar cell, including a hydrazine-coordinated Cu chalcogenide complex component (A), a hydrazine-coordinated Sn chalcogenide complex component (B) and a hydrazine-coordinated Zn chalcogenide complex component (C) dissolved in dimethylsulfoxide; and a method of producing a coating solution forming a light-absorbing layer a CZTS solar cell, including preparing dimethylsulfoxide having a hydrazine-coordinated Cu chalcogenide complex dissolved therein as a first solution, dissolving a hydrazine-coordinated Sn chalcogenide complex in dimethylsulfoxide to obtain a second solution, dissolving a hydrazine-coordinated Zn chalcogenide complex in dimethylsulfoxide to obtain a third solution, and mixing together the first solution, the second solution and the third solution.

Abstract: A method of producing a hydrazine-coordinated Cu chalcogenide complex, including: a step (I) in which Cu or Cu2Se and a chalcogen are reacted in dimethylsulfoxide in the presence of hydrazine, a step (II) in which a solution obtained in the step (I) is subjected to concentration and filtration, and a step (III) in which a purifying solvent is added to a solution obtained in the step (II).

Abstract: Provided is a chamber apparatus which includes a chamber, in a part of which an internal space capable of accommodating a substrate therein is formed, a heating portion which heats the substrate disposed in the internal space, and a temperature adjustment portion which adjusts the temperature of a part of the chamber, which is in contact with the internal space.

Abstract: A heating apparatus including: a heating part which heats a substrate having coated thereon a liquid material containing a metal and a solvent, and a thermocouple which is disposed to contact a portion of the heating part and has at least a surface of a contact portion contacting the heating part covered with a protection film.