Abstract: A positive electrode mixture layer for a lithium-ion secondary battery suitable for producing a lithium-ion secondary battery with high rate characteristics at an ordinary temperature and low temperatures and low internal resistance (DCR) at low temperatures, characterized by including a positive electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive additive, in which the conductive additive includes carbon black, a carbon nanotube (1) having an average fiber diameter of 80 to 400 nm, and a carbon nanotube (2) having an average fiber diameter of 0.4 to 3.0 nm, the content rates of the carbon black, the carbon nanotube (1), and the carbon nanotube (2) in the conductive additive are 40 to 80% by mass, 10 to 50% by mass, and 1 to 30% by mass, respectively, and the content rate of the conductive additive in the positive electrode mixed layer is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass.

Abstract: The present disclosure including determining that a state of a load on an occupant in a vehicle on the basis of at least one of a traveling state of the vehicle (100), an external environment state of the vehicle, and a state of the occupant in the vehicle, and executing a dialogue with the occupant by executing a dialogue program corresponding to the state of the load on the occupant.

Abstract: A travel information processing apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice data of a user, an output device configured to specify an object by estimating from the voice data based on a word extracted from the voice data and indicating the object around a traveling route and a word extracted from the voice data and indicating a positional relationship of the object and output image data or voice data indicating a specified object; and a travel information processor configured to change a traveling motion of a subject vehicle based on the specified object.

Abstract: A required time prediction apparatus (2000) acquires utilization facility information and assumed date and time information. The utilization facility information is information enabling to determine a departure facility and a destination facility. The assumed date and time information is information enabling to determine an assumed departure date and time assuming departure from the departure facility or an assumed arrival date and time assuming arrival at the destination facility. The apparatus (2000) estimates a waiting time at each facility being present between the departure facility and the destination facility, regarding a case of assuming departure from the departure facility at the assumed departure date and time, or a case of assuming arrival at the destination facility at the assumed arrival date and time. Then, the apparatus (2000) computes, based on the estimated waiting time, a predicted required time from departure from the departure facility to arrival at the destination facility.

Abstract: The power conversion device includes a semiconductor module having a connection terminal, a cooler, a control board, a capacitor module, a cover, a case, and a connection busbar. The semiconductor module, the cooler, the control board, and the capacitor module are arranged in an overlapped manner as seen in the direction perpendicular to the top surface of the cooler. The capacitor module has a capacitor cell, a capacitor case, resin, and a capacitor busbar. The capacitor busbar has an inner extending portion, an opening-side extending portion, and an outer extending portion. The connection busbar extends from the connection terminal of the semiconductor module to an outer surface of the outer extending portion and has a part extending in parallel to the extending direction of the outer extending portion. The connection busbar has a capacitor connection portion at an end thereof on the outer extending portion side.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a getting-off determining unit that determines whether or not an occupant gets off a vehicle, a location determining unit that determines whether or not an electronic device to be used by the occupant in the vehicle is at a predetermined position in the vehicle, and a notification control unit that gives a predetermined notification to the occupant when the getting-off determining unit determines that the occupant gets off and the location determining unit determines that the electronic device is not at the predetermined position.

Abstract: A device control apparatus includes a detector which detects sound; and a controller which controls a plurality of devices. The plurality of devices includes a first device which is not related to operation of a vehicle and a second device which is related to the operation of the vehicle. The controller is configured to: recognize voice of a user by using data of the sound detected by the detector; identify a type of an operation target device from a plurality of the devices and operation content of the operation target device, based on the voice recognized; notify a user of start of activating the first device by the operation content identified and activate the first device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the first device; and notify the user to request a response before the controller activates the second device by the operation content identified when the operation target identified is the second device.

Abstract: A lithium ion battery lifetime prediction method executes, by a computer, acquiring training data including cycle measurement data and lifetime data of a battery, learning a lifetime prediction model using the training data with respect to one or more cycle numbers at which a prediction is made, to acquire a set of learned lifetime prediction models corresponding to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, successively acquiring cycle measurement data for prediction of a battery that is a prediction target, up to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, and inputting the cycle measurement data for prediction acquired up to the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, to the learned lifetime prediction models of the corresponding cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, and acquiring a probability distribution of a lifetime at the cycle numbers at which the prediction is made, respectively, as an output.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide carbon-coated Si—C composite particles capable of maintaining a high Si utilization rate and suppressing deterioration of initial coulombic efficiency due to oxidation over time of a lithium-ion secondary battery. The carbon-coated Si—C composite particles of the present invention includes Si—C composite particles containing a carbon material and silicon; and a carbonaceous layer present on surfaces of the Si—C composite particles, wherein the carbon coverage thereof is 70% or more, wherein the BET specific surface area is 200 m2/g or less; wherein R value (ID/IG) is 0.30 or more and 1.10 or less and ISi/IG is 0.15 or less, when the peak attributed to Si is present at 450 to 495 cm?1 and the intensity of the peak is defined as ISi, in Raman spectrum of the carbon-coated Si—C composite particles: and wherein the full width at half maximum of the peak of a 111 plane of Si is 3.00 deg.

Abstract: A boarding/deboarding point providing system includes a probe vehicle group, a data server, and an on-board unit or a mobile terminal. When vehicle data transmitted from the probe vehicle group are input, the data server extracts a boarding/deboarding point suitable for boarding a vehicle or deboarding a vehicle from the vehicle data, and stores the point while updating the boarding/deboarding point information database. When a request for boarding/deboarding point information is received from the on-board unit or the mobile terminal, the boarding/deboarding point information stored in the boarding/deboarding point information database is searched for a boarding/deboarding point that meets the request conditions, and the search result that includes the boarding/deboarding point is transmitted to the on-board unit or the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Composite carbon particles including a porous carbon material and a silicon component, the composite carbon particle having an average aspect ratio of 1.25 or less, and a ratio (ISi/IG) of a peak intensity (ISi) in the vicinity of 470 cm?1 to a peak intensity (IG) in the vicinity of 1580 cm?1 as measured by Raman spectroscopy of 0.30 or less, wherein the porous carbon material satisfies V1/V0>0.80 and V2/V0<0.10, when a total pore volume at a maximum value of a relative pressure P/P0 is defined as V0 and P0 is a saturated vapor pressure, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is defined as V1, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=10?7 is defined as V2 in a nitrogen adsorption test, and has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more.

Abstract: A fluid leakage diagnosing device includes: when fluid leakage relating to a pipeline is being diagnosed by employing adaptive signal processing to suppress a component of a disturbance vibration contained in a vibration measured at a prescribed location in the pipeline, an acquiring unit that acquires distribution information that is associated with a characteristic of the pipeline and represents an actual distribution result of a value of a parameter in the adaptive signal processing when performance of suppressing the component of the disturbance vibration satisfies a criterion; an estimating unit that, based on the distribution information, estimates a probability density at which the value of the parameter with which the performance satisfies the criterion exists; and a determining unit that, based on the probability density estimated by the estimating unit, determines a range to search for the value of the parameter in the adaptive signal processing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to composite particles containing silicon and carbon, wherein a domain size region of vacancies of 2 nm or less is 44% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less when volume distribution information of domain sizes obtained by fitting a small-angle X-ray scattering spectrum of the composite particles with a spherical model in a carbon-vacancy binary system is accumulated in ascending order, and a true density calculated by dry density measurement by a constant volume expansion method using helium gas is 1.80 g/cm3 or more and 2.20 g/cm3 or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide composite particles capable of suppressing oxidation over time of a Si—C composite material. Composite particles (B) of the present invention contains composite particles (A) containing carbon and silicon; and amorphous layers coating surfaces thereof, where the composite particles (B) have ISi/IG of 0.10 or more and 0.65 or less, and have R value (ID/IG) of 1.00 or more and 1.30 or less, when a peak due to silicon is present at 450 to 495 cm?1, an intensity of the peak is defined as ISi, an intensity of a G band (peak intensity in the vicinity of 1600 cm?1) is defined as IG, and an intensity of a D band (peak intensity in the vicinity of 1360 cm?1) is defined as ID in a Raman spectrum, and where the composite particles (B) have a full width at half maximum of a peak of a 111 plane of Si of 3.0 deg. or more using a Cu-K? ray in an XRD pattern.

Abstract: A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery containing a composite (C) that contains a porous carbon (A) and a Si-containing compound (B). The porous carbon (A) satisfies V1/V0>0.80 and V2/V0<0.10. When a total pore volume at the maximum value of a relative pressure P/P0 is defined as V0 and P0 is a saturated vapor pressure, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is defined as V1, and a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=10?7 is defined as V2 in a nitrogen adsorption test. Further, the porous carbon (A) has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more, and the Si-containing compound (B) is contained in pores of the porous carbon (A). Also disclosed is a negative electrode sheet including the negative electrode material and a lithium-ion secondary battery including the negative electrode sheet.

Abstract: In a power conversion device, a semiconductor module, a bus bar assembly, and a smoothing capacitor are superposed on a cooler in the stated order from the cooler side. At least one of a cooling column-equipped member, which is at least one of the smoothing capacitor and the bus bar assembly, and the cooler is provided with a cooling column configured to transfer heat of the cooling column-equipped member to the cooler.

Abstract: A sound data processing device includes: a sound data acquisition unit configured to acquire first sound data that is data about a sound whose sound image is localized in a cabin of a vehicle; an object specifying unit configured to specify an attention object that is an object to which an occupant of the vehicle directs attention; a sound data processing unit configured to generate second sound data that is data about the sound for which a sound relating to the attention object is emphasized in comparison with the first sound data; and a sound data output unit configured to output the second sound data to an output device that outputs a sound to the occupant.

Abstract: A piping diagnostic device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: criteria distribution generating means for generating a criteria distribution that is statistical data of criteria data of piping based on construction information about the piping, design information about the piping, and material information about the piping; changed-state distribution generating means for generating a changed-state distribution that is statistical data of changed-state data of the piping that have changed due to aging based on at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping that have changed due to aging; measurement means for measuring at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping; and determining means for determining deterioration of the piping based on the criteria distribution, the changed-state distribution, and at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping.

Abstract: A required time prediction apparatus (2000) acquires utilization facility information and assumed date and time information. The utilization facility information is information enabling to determine a departure facility and a destination facility. The assumed date and time information is information enabling to determine an assumed departure date and time assuming departure from the departure facility or an assumed arrival date and time assuming arrival at the destination facility. The apparatus (2000) estimates a waiting time at each facility being present between the departure facility and the destination facility, regarding a case of assuming departure from the departure facility at the assumed departure date and time, or a case of assuming arrival at the destination facility at the assumed arrival date and time. Then, the apparatus (2000) computes, based on the estimated waiting time, a predicted required time from departure from the departure facility to arrival at the destination facility.

Abstract: A control apparatus (2000) computes a waiting time index value for each of a plurality of gates (20) for entering an area (10). The control apparatus (2000) detects, from among the plurality of gates (20), a first gate (20) and a second gate (20) of which relation between the waiting time index values satisfies a first criterion. Herein, the waiting time index value of the first gate (20) is greater than the waiting time index value of the second gate (20). The control apparatus (2000) causes a terminal (30) associated with the first gate (20) to output priority use information, which allows prioritized use of the second gate (20).