Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery capable of providing a high capacity lithium-ion secondary battery. 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), wherein 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, and has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more; and wherein the Si-containing compound (B) is contained in pores of the porous carbon (A).

Abstract: A prediction device 100 of the present invention includes a detection means 121 for, on the basis of a river image that is an image obtained by capturing a river and associated with capturing position information representing a position where the river is captured, detecting river condition information representing a condition of the river at the position where the river image is captured; and a prediction means 122 for, on the basis of the capturing position information, the river condition information, and topography information representing the topography of the river, predicting a river condition representing a condition of the river at a given point of the river. The given point is different from the position represented by the capturing position information.

Abstract: There is provided a stacked film with strong interlayer exchange coupling strength for upper and lower two magnetic layers, a magnetoresistive effect element, a semiconductor memory, and a logic LSI. A stacked film 10 includes a first magnetic layer 11, an antiferromagnetic coupling layer 12 adjacent to the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer 13 adjacent to the antiferromagnetic coupling layer and antiferromagnetically coupled to the first magnetic layer. The antiferromagnetic coupling layer 12 includes a layer containing an Ir—Re alloy and has an atom proportion of Re in the Ir—Re alloy of more than 0% and 12.5% or less. The magnetoresistive effect element, the semiconductor memory, and the logic LSI include one or a plurality of the stacked films.

Abstract: Provided are composite carbon particles capable of obtaining a lithium-ion secondary battery having good cycle characteristics and small electrode expansion. 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: Provided is a step-down converter including: a step-down transformer including a primary-side coil and a secondary-side coil; a resin molded body integrally molded through use of a non-conductive resin together with the primary-side coil and the secondary-side coil; and a rectifier element, wherein the resin molded body has a mounting surface on which the rectifier element is to be mounted, wherein the secondary-side coil includes a first plate-shaped terminal, wherein the first plate-shaped terminal is exposed from the resin molded body in the mounting surface, wherein, on the mounting surface, a second plate-shaped terminal is provided in parallel to the first plate-shaped terminal across a gap, wherein the rectifier element is bonded to both of the first plate-shaped terminal and the second plate-shaped terminal by soldering, and wherein the non-conductive resin has a melting point higher than a melting point of the solder.

Abstract: A boarding permission determination device includes a controller that receive a signal from a sensor that is mounted on a vehicle to detect at least a prescribed movement of a person in the periphery of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The controller is configured to determine a stop location for the vehicle and register information indicating characteristics of the person in a storage device when the prescribed movement of the person was detected while the vehicle is traveling. The controller is configured to control the vehicle such that the vehicle stops at the stop location that was determined. The controller is configured to control a prescribed device mounted on the vehicle such that the person can board the vehicle after the vehicle is stopped at the stop location, after recognizing the person that was detected while the vehicle was traveling using the information.

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: 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 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 disclosure includes a first information acquiring device configured to acquire motion information related to a motion of an occupant; a second information acquiring device configured to acquire operation information related to an input operation to a predetermined onboard device, the input operation being based on the motion of the occupant; a memory configured to store the motion information and the operation information in association with each other; a motion detecting device configured to detect the motion of an occupant; and a controller configured to, when the motion information related to the motion of the occupant detected by the motion detecting device is stored in the memory, output command information related to an operation command to the onboard device by referring to the operation information stored in association with the motion information.

Abstract: A composite particle including carbon and silicon, in which the composite particle contains a crystalline metal oxide particle, and the end of the metal oxide particle is present inside the surface of the composite particle, and pores are present on the surface of the composite particle. According to the present invention, there can be provided a composite particle, in which silicon is attached to the inside of fine pores of a carbon material that has been provided with specific fine pores, the composite particle also contains a crystalline metal oxide particle, the end of the metal oxide particle is present inside the surface of the composite particle, and furthermore, pores are present on the surface of the composite particle. By using this composite particle, a lithium-ion secondary battery with excellent rate characteristics and cycle characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a particle including a carbon material and silicon, and a coating layer including carbon and oxygen on the surface of the particle, in which the composite particle has a true density of 1.80 to 1.99 g/cm3; in the Raman spectrum, a peak is present at 450 to 495 cm?1, and when the intensity of the peak is defined as ISi and the intensity of the G band is defined as IG, ISi/IG is 1.3 or less; and when the ratios of the number of atoms of Si, O, and C in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy are defined as ASi, AO, and AC, respectively, and the ratios of SiO2 and SiO are defined as BSiO2 and BSiO, respectively, ASi is 0.05 or more, and ISi/IG and AC/(AC+ASi×(BSiO2+BSiO)) have predetermined relationships.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is composite particles containing silicon and carbon, which are characterized as follows. When the cross-sectional diameter and the silicon content rate of the composite particles are measured by cross-sectional SEM-EDS and composite particles having a cross-sectional diameter of half or less than the number average of the cross-sectional diameter are defined as small diameter composite particles, the proportion of the number of the small diameter composite particles in the number of the composite particles measured is 5% or more and 50% or less, the ratio of the average silicon content rate (% by mass) of particles other than the small diameter composite particles to the average silicon content rate (% by mass) of the small diameter composite particles is 0.90 or less, and the silicon content rate of the entire composite particles is 45% by mass or more.

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 image processing device is disclosed that includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image captured by an imaging device fixed to a moving object; a behavior data acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior data indicating behavior of the moving object when moving; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the captured image includes scenery outside the moving object; and an image processing unit configured to, when the captured image is determined to include the scenery outside the moving object, perform shake correction processing on the captured image based on the behavior data acquired by the behavior data acquisition unit so as to cancel the shaking of the captured image due to the behavior.

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).

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.