Abstract: A metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may suppress H2S generation. Such a metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may include a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, a halogen element, and at least one metal element selected from metal elements of Groups 3 to 12 and Period 4 or higher of the Periodic Table, in which the molar ratio of the lithium element to the phosphorus element (Li/P) is 2.4 or more and 12 or less, and the molar ratio of the sulfur element to the phosphorus element (S/P) is 3.7 or more and 12 or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable according to the present disclosure includes a cable core having one or a plurality of optical fiber core wires therein; an outer cover which covers the cable core and has a concave portion or a plurality of convex portions for an outer edge of a cross section perpendicular to a long axis direction of the outer cover; and an impression which is marked on the concave portion or on a portion sandwiched between the plurality of convex portions of a side surface of the outer cover.

Abstract: In order to achieve the foregoing object, the optical cable laying method of the present disclosure lays an optical cable on a road surface or a wall surface so that the optical cable passes through two points along a route therebetween longer than a minimum distance therebetween.

Abstract: In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an optical fiber cable according to the present disclosure includes an optical fiber core wire, a sheath covering the optical fiber core wire, three or more anti-tension members inside the sheath, arranged along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber core wire, and a tear string having an outer periphery a part of which is located outside an outer circumscribed lines of outer peripheries of the three or more anti-tension members in certain cross-sections perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the sheath, and a part of which comes in contact with an inner periphery of the sheath or is located inside the inner periphery of the sheath in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the sheath.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conductive medium, an applying device, and a developing device. The applying device applies conductive liquid to a surface of the conductive medium to form an invisible image. The developing device adheres charged particles to the invisible image formed on the surface of the conductive medium to form a visible image.

Abstract: A radical polymerization method may use a compound having a polycyclic aromatic skeleton and an endoperoxide compound having a polycyclic aromatic skeleton. An endoperoxide compound may have a polycyclic aromatic skeleton of formula (1), and a compound may have a polycyclic aromatic skeleton, which is a raw material of the endoperoxide compound: wherein R is a C1-10 alkyl group, an alkoxymethyl group having a C1-5 alkoxy group, a C6-10 aryl group, an alkylcarbonyl group having a C1-10 alkyl group, an arylcarbonyl group having a C6-20 aryl group, an alkyloxycarbonyl group having a C1-10 alkyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group having a C6-10 aryl group, an alkyloxycarbonylmethyl group having a C1-12 alkyl group or an aryloxycarbonylmethyl group having a C6-12 aryl group.

Abstract: An electrolyte sheet for solid oxide fuel cells, wherein at least one main surface of the electrolyte sheet includes first recesses and second recesses, the second recesses each having a smaller diameter than the first recesses, the first recesses are spaced apart at an interval from each other, the second recesses are present between openings of adjacent first recesses among the first recesses, on side faces of the first recesses, and on bottom faces of the first recesses, at least one of the first recesses has an opening with a diameter of 60 ?m or more, and the at least one of the first recesses has a ratio of the diameter of the opening to a diameter of the bottom face of 30% or more.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable according to the present disclosure includes: a cable core having a plurality of optical fiber core wires; a sheath covering the cable core; and at least two or more tension members, having warping ability outward from an axial center of a cable core, disposed inside the sheath along the cable core, and any one of the tension members is disposed at a position laying along a position of another of the tension members with the axial center of the cable core sandwiched between the positions.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit extracts, from a plurality of observation signals obtained by a group of microphones, voice signals respectively related to the microphones by machine learning. This allows desired signal output. Moreover, a person on the other end of the line can easily hear the voice of a speaker and cannot hear the voice of other speaker, thereby providing a feeling of security and high confidentiality for users.

Abstract: A method for estimating a state of wax in a rubber compound according to a first aspect includes the following: acquiring a chromatogram of an extracted component, by separating components thereof, in which the wax is extracted from the rubber compound including the wax; and deriving a distribution of normal hydrocarbons in the wax based on the chromatogram.

Abstract: A diagnostic assistance method for a disease based on an endoscopic image of a digestive organ with use of a convolutional neural network (CNN). A diagnostic assistance method for a disease based on an endoscopic image of a digestive organ with a CNN trains the CNN using a first endoscopic image of the digestive organ and at least one final diagnosis result on positivity or negativity to the disease in the digestive organ, a past disease, a severity level, and information corresponding to a site where an image is captured, the final diagnosis result corresponding to the first endoscopic image, and the trained CNN outputs at least one of a probability of the positivity and/or the negativity to the disease, a probability of the past disease, a severity level of the disease, an invasion depth of the disease, and a probability corresponding to the site where the image is captured.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber testing method and an optical fiber winding device capable of appropriately reproducing the same lateral pressure and minute bending state in a test of an optical fiber as those in an optical cable. In the optical fiber testing method according to the present invention, an optical fiber 51-2 of the second layer wound around a bobbin 12 is used as an object to be tested. Lateral pressure to the optical fiber 51-2 of the second layer is applied by an optical fiber 51-3 of the third layer. The lateral pressure is adjusted by a tension when the optical fiber 51-3 of the third layer is wound around the bobbin. In other words, since the lateral pressure is applied to the optical fiber to be tested from another optical fiber, the same lateral pressure and minute bending state as those in the optical cable can be reproduced.

Abstract: An aqueous coating composition for automotive exterior, the aqueous coating composition containing resin particles (A), a crosslinking agent (B), a pigment (C), and a nanocellulose (D). In the aqueous coating composition, a content of the nanocellulose (D) is 0.5 to 2.0 parts by mass in terms of solid content with respect to 100 parts by mass of a resin solid content in the coating, a solid content concentration of the coating composition is in a range from 45 to 65 mass %, and a viscosity of the coating composition measured by a Brookfield-type viscometer under measurement conditions of a temperature of 20° C. and a rotor rotation speed of 60 rpm is in a range from 350 to 1200 mPa·s.

Abstract: A metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may have an effect of suppressing hydrogen sulfide generation and may express excellent working environments. Such a metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may contain a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, a halogen element, and at least one metal element selected from metal elements of Groups 2 to 12 and Period 4 or higher of the Periodic Table, in which the molar ratio of the lithium element to the phosphorus element (Li/P) is 2.4 or more and 12 or less, and the molar ratio of the sulfur element to the phosphorus element (S/P) is 3.7 or more and 12 or less.

Abstract: In some implementations, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) includes a delay line arm formed in a chip and a mirrored facet formed in the chip. The delay line arm may be configured to propagate light to the mirrored facet. The mirrored facet may be configured to reflect, to the delay line arm, a percentage of the light propagated to the mirrored facet by the delay line arm.

Abstract: A chemical bond evaluation method capable of directly evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and a silane coupling agent includes performing multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis on a rubber composition comprising a rubber component, a silica, and a silane coupling agent; and evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and the silane coupling agent in the rubber composition containing a rubber component, the silica, and the silane coupling agent.

Abstract: An analyzer for a rubber composition includes an acquisition unit, a peak identification unit, and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires data acquired by allowing a rubber composition to undergo component separation and mass separation, the data being plotted in a space defined by a time axis, a signal intensity axis, and a mass component axis. The peak identification unit identities peaks in signal intensity for mass chromatograms corresponding to positions on the mass component axis. The estimation unit estimates at least either of a physical property and an odor degree of the rubber composition based on the peaks identified for the mass chromatograms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a lithium halide compound, including performing a mixing heat treatment step of mixing lithium sulfide and an ammonium halide under a heating condition of 90 to 250° C., and which does not involve a step of directly removing water, does not use a simple substance halogen which is complicated to handle, can easily remove by-products, and does not require excessive energy for production.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a modified sulfide solid electrolyte in which ionic conductivity reduction is suppressed, and a generation amount of a hydrogen sulfide gas is reduced even if a sulfide solid electrolyte comes in contact with moisture and hydrogen sulfide is generated, and the modified sulfide solid electrolyte, and an electrode combined material and a lithium ion battery using the same. The modified sulfide solid electrolyte producing method according to the present invention includes mixing the sulfide solid electrolyte with Li2S, in which (100-?) parts by mass of the sulfide solid electrolyte is used per a parts by mass of Li2S (a represents a number of 0.3 to 15.0).

Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of providing a production method for a sulfide solid electrolyte having a high ionic conductivity by pulverizing a sulfide solid electrolyte without complicating the production process. Provided is a production method for a crystalline sulfide solid electrolyte including mixing a raw material inclusion containing at least one selected from a lithium atom, a sulfur atom and a phosphorus atom, and a complexing agent without using a mechanical treating machine to obtain an electrolyte precursor, heating the electrolyte precursor to obtain a complex degradate, performing smoothing treatment on the complex degradate to obtain a smoothed complex degradate, and heating the smoothed complex degradate.