Abstract: A non-aqueous rechargeable battery includes an electrode body, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, and a battery case. The electrode body includes a negative electrode plate, a positive electrode plate, and a separator arranged between the negative and positive electrode plates. The battery case accommodates the electrode body and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode substrate and a positive electrode mixture layer arranged on the positive electrode substrate. The positive electrode mixture layer is formed by applying a positive electrode mixture paste, containing at least a positive electrode active material and an organic solvent, to the positive electrode substrate and drying the positive electrode mixture paste so that the organic solvent remains in the positive electrode mixture layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rechargeable battery including applying an electrode mixture that includes an electrode active material to a substrate that becomes a current collector, drying the applied electrode mixture, obtaining a specific surface area of the electrode active material before the drying the applied electrode mixture, in which the obtained specific surface area of the electrode active material is referred to as an obtained specific surface area, and a specific surface area of the electrode active material in a state in which the electrode mixture applied to the substrate forms an electrode plate is referred to as an electrode plate specific surface area; and adjusting the electrode plate specific surface area after the drying the applied electrode mixture by setting a drying condition of the electrode mixture in accordance with the obtained specific surface area.

Abstract: A battery pack includes battery cells and a spacer arranged between two adjacent battery cells. Each battery cell includes an electrode body and a case. The electrode body includes an upper curved portion, a flat portion, and a lower curved portion. The spacer presses one side wall of the case of one of the adjacent battery cells toward an inner side of the case at a part where the side wall opposes a region from the upper curved portion to the lower curved portion. The spacer forms passages for cooling air between the spacer and the side wall. A first cooling efficiency of the cooling air per unit area at a first opposing portion of the side wall that opposes the upper curved portion is less than a second cooling efficiency per unit area at a second opposing portion of the side wall that opposes the flat portion.

Abstract: An information processing system that manages an application executed by an image processing apparatus with an application identifier includes one or more controllers configured to provide combined information of a reproduction application that reproduces a description file for defining operation procedures and a first description file as a first combined application, provide combined information of the reproduction application and a second description file as a second combined application, manage a first description identifier corresponding to the first description file and a second description identifier corresponding to the second description file, and manage the first combined application and the second combined application in a distinguishable manner based on the first description identifier and the second description identifier.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a power source, a travel device, a power transmission device, and a control device. The power transmission device includes a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission having a relief valve capable of setting a relief pressure, and is configured to transmit power of the power source to the travel device. The control device includes a relief pressure setting unit configured to set the relief pressure of the relief valve in accordance with a target output value of the travel device.

Abstract: A balancer structure for an internal combustion engine and the internal combustion engine are provided. A transmission driving gear are arranged to be rotatable integrally with a crankshaft. A transmission driven gear is arranged to be rotatable integrally with a first balance shaft. The transmission driven gear meshes with the transmission driving gear. A balancer driving gear is arranged to be rotatable integrally with the first balance shaft. A balancer driven gear is arranged to be rotatable integrally with the second balance shaft. The balancer driven gear meshes with the balancer driving gear. The first balance shaft includes an output portion. The output portion outputs torque to an engine-driven accessory.

Abstract: A battery pack includes battery cells and a spacer. Each battery cell includes an electrode body and a case accommodating the electrode body in a state sealed by a sealing portion. The battery cells are arranged in an arrangement direction. The spacer is arranged between the case of one of the battery cells and the case of an adjacent battery cell. The battery cells are bound together in a state in which a binding pressure is applied to the battery cells. The electrode body includes a flat portion. The spacer includes a base plate and projections projecting from the base plate toward the case of the adjacent battery cell. The projections include a top projection that presses the case of the adjacent battery cell at a position located upward from an upper edge of the flat portion where the sealing portion is the closest.

Abstract: To provide a rechargeable battery that limits damage to a separator, a positive connector is configured to be bent at an acute angle in a thickness-wise direction in a bending region, which is defined between a first position and a second position, on a boundary position between a flat surface region and a second position in a longitudinal direction. The first position is a position at which a second distal end of a negative plate is disposed. The second position is a position separated from a third position, at which a first distal end of a separator is disposed, by a thickness of a positive mixture layer in a second width-wise direction.

Abstract: A valve plate of a hydraulic pump/motor, includes a high pressure-side port and a low pressure-side port, a first oil groove provided to be endless in an outer peripheral part of the high and low pressure-side ports, and a plurality of second oil grooves. Further, a plurality of pad oil grooves communicating with the first oil groove and opened toward the end face of the cylinder block is provided in an outer peripheral portion of the high pressure-side port, at least in a portion being on a downstream side of the relative rotation, in a pad region contacting the end face of the cylinder block, and the plurality of pad oil grooves is provided such that a proportion of an opening area to the end face of the cylinder block is larger on the downstream side than on an upstream side of the relative rotation.

Abstract: Provided are a magnetoresistance effect element and a magnetic memory having a shape magnetic anisotropy and using a recording layer having an anti-parallel coupling. A first magnetic layer (3) and a second magnetic layer (5) of the magnetoresistance effect element include a ferromagnetic substance, have a magnetization direction variable to the direction perpendicular to a film surface and are magnetically coupled in an anti-parallel direction, and a junction size D (nm), which is a length of the longest straight line on an end face perpendicular to the thickness direction of the first magnetic layer (3) and the second magnetic layer (5), a film thickness t1 (nm) of the first magnetic layer (3), and a film thickness t2 (nm) of the second magnetic layer (5) satisfy relationships D<t1 and D?t1 or D?t1 and D<t2.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1): where the symbols in the formula (1) are defined in the description, an organic electroluminescent device containing the compound, and an electronic device including the organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: An electrode mixture includes an electrode active material and a carbon nanotube as a conductive fibrous carbon material. The electrode mixture includes an inorganic nanoparticle disposed on a surface of the electrode active material.

Abstract: A storage medium storing an information processing program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring a first candidate group that includes candidates of operating routes of each of a plurality of mobile bodies; acquiring a second candidate group that includes candidates of delivery routes of each of packages, the delivery routes being combinations of candidates of operating routes; setting a function that uses a first variable that indicates whether to select each of the candidates included in the first candidate group and a second variable that indicates whether to select each of the candidates included in the second candidate group; determining operation and delivery routes so as to minimize the value specified by the function under a constraint that candidates of operating routes included in the combination of selected candidates of the delivery routes according to the second variable, are selected according to the first variable.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element with a small element size can be provided which achieves both an increase in a thermal stability factor ? and a reduction in a writing current IC0 and which improves a performance index ?/IC0(?A?1) obtained by dividing the thermal stability factor ? by the writing current IC0. The magnetoresistance effect element includes a first reference layer (B1), a first junction layer (11), a first magnetic layer (21), a first non-magnetic coupling layer (31), a second magnetic layer (22), and a second junction layer (12), and a film thickness of the first non-magnetic coupling layer (31) is 0.1 nm or more and 0.3 nm or less.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element with a small element size can be provided which achieves both an increase in a thermal stability factor ? and a reduction in a writing current IC0 and which improves a performance index ?/IC0(?A?1) obtained by dividing the thermal stability factor ? by the writing current IC0. The magnetoresistance effect element includes a first reference layer (B1), a first junction layer (11), a first magnetic layer (21), a first non-magnetic coupling layer (31), a second magnetic layer (22), and a second junction layer (12), and a film thickness of the first non-magnetic coupling layer (31) is 0.1 nm or more and 0.3 nm or less.

Abstract: A motorcycle includes a branch frame, a hanging frame, a front cowl, and a radar device. The branch frame is located in front of a head pipe and supported by the head pipe. The hanging frame is connected to the branch frame and includes a plurality of extension portions extending downward from the branch frame and an attachment portion connecting at least two of the plurality of extension portions to each other. The front cowl is arranged at a front part of the motorcycle and protrudes forward. A recess is formed at a rear side of the front cowl. The radar device is supported by the attachment portion of the hanging frame and arranged in the recess in the front cowl.

Abstract: A lithium-ion rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode mixture that includes a positive electrode active material and a lithium salt. The lithium salt reacts with hydrogen fluoride generated in an electrolytic solution to produce an organic acid that is a weak acid relative to the hydrogen fluoride, an acid dissociation constant of the organic acid being 3.15 or higher.

Abstract: A control method for a work vehicle, includes: acquiring a signal for changing a state of a traveling device, to which power is transmitted via a transmission and a clutch, between forward, neutral, and reverse states; outputting a command for reducing a torque of an output shaft connected to the traveling device in a state where a first clutch is engaged, before a specified time elapses from a time point at which the signal for changing to the neutral state is acquired in a state where the first clutch is engaged; outputting a command for releasing the first clutch after the specified time elapses; and outputting a command for controlling the transmission so that a rotation speed of an input-side element of a second clutch to be engaged next coincides with that of an output-side element of the second clutch in a state where the first clutch is released.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is able to execute an extended application, and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus holds, in a launched state, a virtual machine (VM) for executing the extended application, determines, in a case that the extended application is launched, whether or not the extended application can reuse the VM. In a case that it is determined that the extended application can reuse the VM, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not a VM that can be reused by the extended application is held, and in a case that it is determined that the VM which can be reused by the extended application is held, execute the extended application using the held VM.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: a first emitting layer including a first host material, a first organic material, and a first dopant material; and a second emitting layer including a second host material and a second dopant material, in which the first host material, the first organic material, and the second host material are different compounds in structure and satisfy Numerical Formula 1 and Numerical Formula 2. Numerical Formula 1: T1(H1)>T1(H3), Numerical Formula 2: T1(H2)>T1(H3) (In Numerical Formula 1 and Numerical Formula 2, T1(H1), T1(H2), T1(H3) are triplet energies of the first host material, the first organic material, and the second host material, respectively.