Abstract: A case constituting an outer shape of a second cooler disposed between the battery cells and containing a second fluid having a lower thermal conductivity than the first fluid therein is constituted by a buffer member capable of expanding and contracting in accordance with a flow rate of the second fluid in the case, and the control unit increases a flow rate of the second fluid to be supplied to the second cooler when the temperature of the battery cell is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value than when the temperature of the battery cell is lower than the threshold value.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells each including a metal layer and a heat seal layer, the plurality of battery cells having a laminate film in which an electrode body is accommodated and a heat seal layer in a peripheral edge portion is joined; a case in which the battery cells are accommodated in a state of being laminated in a thickness direction; and a heat conductive member provided on an inner wall of the case so as to be in contact with the metal layer exposed from the peripheral edge portion and configured to dissipate heat from the battery cells.

Abstract: A battery module comprising: a plurality of battery cells; and a container containing the battery cells, wherein the container includes a housing containing the battery cells; and a plate-shaped member thermally connected to the housing and partitioning a space in which the battery cells of the housing are accommodated into a plurality of spaces, wherein the plate-shaped member includes a thermally conductive elastic body and a thermally conductive plate disposed on one or both sides of the thermally conductive elastic body.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a memory configured to store map information including information on a predetermined area used in autonomous driving control of a vehicle; and a processor configured to: refer to the map information to identify an autonomous-driving practicable point at which a planned travel route from the current position of the vehicle outside the predetermined area to a destination of the vehicle enters the predetermined area, calculate a manual-driving section length from the current position of the vehicle to the autonomous-driving practicable point along the planned travel route, and notify the calculated manual-driving section length to a driver of the vehicle via a notification device provided in the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A toilet-seat device according to an embodiment includes a hollow toilet seat and a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a sensor case that is fixed to be exposed from an opening formed in the toilet seat, the sensor case housing therein a sensor substrate. The sensor case includes an engaging part that is engaged with the toilet seat to fix the sensor case to the toilet seat. The engaging part is arranged in a position that is inner than an outer edge of the sensor case.

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a frame body, a rescue terminal portion formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape in a plan view and including a longitudinal side face, two lateral side faces connected to the longitudinal side face, and an upper face, a resin cover configured to cover the longitudinal side face, the two lateral side faces and the upper face. The resin cover includes a rotary shaft extending along the longitudinal side face and provided on a side where the longitudinal side face is provided and on a base end portion of the rescue terminal portion opposite to the upper face, the resin cover being configured to rotate with respect to the frame body about the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A map data output device includes: a map storage that stores map data that represents lane network information; a position determination portion that determines a current position of a vehicle; a read processing portion that reads the map data of an area established based on the current position; a control map generation portion that generates control map data obtained by adding information to the map; and an output portion that outputs the control map data to a vehicle control device.

Abstract: A frequency-swept light output unit to output frequency-swept light; a light splitting unit to split the frequency-swept light into reference light and irradiation light; a sensor head unit to cause a machining surface of a workpiece after the machining to be irradiated with the irradiation light, and receive reflection light from the machining surface; a light interference unit to generate interference light of the reference light and the reflection light, and convert the interference light into an electric signal; an A/D converter to convert the electric signal into a digital signal; a distance information calculating unit to calculate information about the distance from the leading end of the sensor head unit to the machining surface on the basis of the digital signal; and a roughness measuring unit to measure the surface roughness of the machining surface on the basis of a result of the calculation are included.

Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed at the inner face side of the metal layer and has an exposed portion, at which the metal layer is exposed, at at least part of the outer face of the battery cell case. The heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.

Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated. A current collector of which the distance from the surface of the battery cell case is the greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to the outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.

Abstract: The hydrogen sulfide producing device of the present invention includes a reactor (1-3) having a liquid sulfur filling part (1-2) inside, a mantle heater (1-4) that is a first heating unit for heating liquid sulfur to produce sulfur vapor, and a hydrogen supply pipe (1-5) that is a hydrogen supply member connected to the reactor (1-3), in which an interior of the reactor (1-3) includes a catalyst support member (1-6) provided above the liquid sulfur filling part (1-2) and a heat-insulating member (1-7) provided above the catalyst support member (1-6).

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a case body having a plurality of connector portions, a power supply side circuit board accommodated in the case body and a spare connector mounting portion provided in an upper portion of the case body and configured such that a spare connector is attached to and detached from the spare connector mounting portion. The spare connector includes a fuse configured to electrically connect the power supply side circuit board to a device side terminal connected to an end of an electric wire configured to be electrically connected to an electronic device.

Abstract: Included are: an interference unit that combines reference light with reflected light from a measurement object, separates the combined light into two orthogonal beams of polarized light, converts the two beams of polarized light into two analog electrical signals, and outputs the two analog electrical signals; an analog-to-digital converting unit that converts the two analog signals into digital electrical signals and outputs the digital electrical signals as two digital signals; and a calculation processing unit that converts the digital electrical signals corresponding to the two beams of polarized light into frequency spectra for each of beams of light emitted from an light emitting unit, calculates an optical path length difference between the reference light and the measurement light, obtains a polarized light phase difference between the two beams of polarized light for each of the beams of light, and obtains wavelength dependency of the polarized light phase difference.

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a case body having a plurality of connector portions, a power supply side circuit board accommodated in the case body and a general-purpose connector mounting unit provided in the case body and configured such that a plurality of types of connectors are selectively attached to and detached from the general-purpose connector mounting unit. The general-purpose connector mourning unit is configured such that a power supply side terminal of the plurality of types of connectors is electrically connected to a terminal connection portion of the power supply side circuit board.

Abstract: A lithium sulfide producing device (1-1) of the present invention is a lithium sulfide producing device for producing lithium sulfide by reacting hydrogen sulfide with lithium hydroxide, the lithium sulfide producing device including a reactor (1-3) having a lithium hydroxide filling part (1-2) inside, a heating unit for heating lithium hydroxide, and a hydrogen sulfide supply member connected to the reactor (1-3).

Abstract: An optical measurement device includes: a splitter to split light into measurement light and reference light; a switch interferometer to output first interference light obtained by causing two orthogonally polarized waves of the reference light to interfere with each other, second interference light obtained by causing two orthogonally polarized waves of reflected light from a target object of the measurement light to interfere with each other, and third interference light obtained by causing the reference light and the reflected light to interfere with each other; a photoelectric converter to convert the interference light into electric signals; a digital converter to perform A/D conversion on the electric signals; and a calculation processor to obtain an optical path-length difference between the two orthogonally polarized waves of each of the reference light and the reflected light, and an optical path-length difference between the reference light and the measurement light.

Abstract: The optical distance measurement device is configured to include an optical interference unit for separating the reflected light into a reflected light of a first polarized wave and a reflected light of a second polarized wave, extracting first and second components orthogonal to each other from an interference light of the reflected light of the first polarized wave and the reference light, and extracting third and fourth components orthogonal to each other from an interference light of the reflected light of the second polarized wave and the reference light, and a polarization rotation unit for acquiring one or more components of horizontal and vertical components of a polarized wave by rotating a polarization angle of a first complex signal having the first and second components and a polarization angle of a second complex signal having the third and fourth components, so that a distance calculation unit calculates, on the basis of the components acquired by the polarization rotation unit, a difference bet

Abstract: A controller includes a key top, a substrate, and an elastic member. The elastic member includes a pressed portion, a base, a skirt portion, and a pressing member. The substrate includes a contact. When viewed in the first direction, the pressing member is surrounded by an outer peripheral edge of a prescribed region. In the second direction, a distance between an end of the outer peripheral edge of the prescribed region on a side of a swing center of the key top and an end of a top surface on the side of the swing center is longer than a distance between an end of the outer peripheral edge of the prescribed region opposite to the swing center and an end of the top surface opposite to the swing center. In the second direction, the contact is located closer to the swing center than the top surface.

Abstract: Free-cutting copper alloy comprises Cu: more than 59.7% but less than 64.7%, Si: more than 0.60% but less than 1.30%, Pb: more than 0.001% but less than 0.20%, Bi: more than 0.001% but less than 0.10 mass %, and P: more than 0.001% but less than 0.15%, with remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities, wherein total amount of Fe, Mn, Co, and Cr is less than 0.45%, the total amount of Sn and Al is less than 0.45%, 56.7?Cu?4.7×Si+0.5×Pb+0.5×Bi?0.5×P?59.7 and 0.003?Pb+Bi<0.25 are satisfied, 0.02?Bi/(Pb+Bi)?0.98 is satisfied if 0.003?Pb+Bi<0.08, 0.01?Bi/(Pb+Bi)?0.40 or 0.85?Bi/(Pb+Bi)?0.98 is satisfied if 0.08?Pb+Bi<0.13.

Abstract: This fuel calculation device comprises: a remaining fuel amount calculation unit that periodically calculates and stores an approximate value of the remaining fuel amount on the basis of the measurement value of the remaining fuel amount remaining in a fuel container, and the fuel flow rate of fuel supplied from the fuel container; a failure determination unit that determines whether a remaining fuel amount meter that outputs the measurement value of the remaining fuel amount has failed; and a display control unit that controls so as to display the measurement value of the remaining fuel amount when the remaining fuel amount meter has not failed, and to display the approximate value of the remaining fuel amount when the remaining fuel amount meter has failed.