Abstract: A breaking device includes an interrupting section including interrupting units in which main interrupters, impedance circuits, and unit arresters are connected in parallel to each other, the main interrupters being connected in series, a resonant circuit section including a reactor, a capacitor, and a closing switch and connected in parallel to the interrupting section, and an all-point arrester connected in parallel to the interrupting section via the reactor. The clamping voltages of the unit arresters are equal among the interrupting units, and are in the range of 1.1 to 1.6 times the value obtained by dividing the clamping voltage of the all-point arrester by the number of the interrupting units connected in series in the interrupting section.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position; an event detection unit that detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and an acquisition unit that acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle. Then, when the event is detected, the calculation unit recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes an obstacle detection unit configured to detect an obstacle around a vehicle, a boundary detection unit configured to detect a boundary of a parking section, and a target position determination unit configured to determine a target position of a movement route of the vehicle based on the detected boundary. The target position determination unit recognizes, as a wheel stopper, the obstacle detected in a detection area that is set at a position in the parking section on a back side of an entrance and exit of the parking section based on the detected boundary, regardless of a height of the obstacle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer. The active material layer is disposed on at least one of faces of the current collector. The active material layer comprises active materials which include at least a cobalt-containing oxide and a lithium nickel manganese oxide. A ratio of a weight of the cobalt-containing oxide to a total of weights of the cobalt-containing oxide and the lithium nickel manganese oxide is 5 wt % or more and 40 wt % or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector, an electrode mixture layer, and a self-assembled film. The first self-assembled film covers at least a part of a surface of the current collector. The first self-assembled film contains organic molecules. The electrode mixture layer disposed on at least a part of the first self-assembled film.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a lithium zinc secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an aqueous electrolyte, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a zinc-including metal body and an oxide on at least a part of a surface of the metal body. The aqueous electrolyte includes zinc and a lithium salt. Zinc is dissolved and deposited at the negative electrode. Lithium is inserted and extracted from the oxide in a range of ?1.4 V (vs. SCE) or more and ?1.0 V (vs. SCE) or less. A specific surface area of the oxide is 10 m2/g or more and 350 m2/g or less. A mol concentration ratio Zn/Li between zinc and lithium in the aqueous electrolyte is 1.0×10?5 or more and 0.3 or less.

Abstract: Translation device includes first microphone, first voice recognition circuit, first translation circuit, first voice synthesis circuit, first loudspeaker, second microphone, second voice recognition circuit, second translation circuit, second voice synthesis circuit, second loudspeaker, first echo canceller, second echo canceller, and control circuit. Control circuit causes first echo canceller to update a first transfer function used to estimate a first echo signal during a period in which a first translated voice is being output, and causes second echo canceller to update a second transfer function used to estimate a second echo signal during a period in which a second translated voice is being output.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an active material includes a lithium-titanium composite oxide. The lithium-titanium composite oxide includes a lithium compound including at least one of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. A lithium amount of the lithium compound is within a range of 0.017 to 0.073 mass %.

Abstract: A parking assist device according to an embodiment includes: a peripheral image generation unit configured to generate a peripheral image representing conditions around a vehicle based on an imaging result of an imaging unit provided to the vehicle; a parking region acquisition unit configured to acquire a parking region where the vehicle is parkable; a display processing unit configured to display the peripheral image on a display device including a touch panel, and display a first symbol representing the parking region on the peripheral image; and an assist processing unit configured to start, when a position corresponding to the first symbol on the touch panel is touched, parking assist control for assisting parking at the parking region represented by the first symbol.

Abstract: A parking assist device according to an embodiment includes: a peripheral image generation unit configured to generate a peripheral image representing conditions around a vehicle based on an imaging result of an imaging unit provided to the vehicle; a parking region acquisition unit configured to acquire a parking region where the vehicle is parkable; a display processing unit configured to display the peripheral image on a display device including a touch panel, and display a first symbol representing the parking region on the peripheral image; and an assist processing unit configured to start, when a position corresponding to the first symbol on the touch panel is touched, parking assist control for assisting parking at the parking region represented by the first symbol.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position; an event detection unit that detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and an acquisition unit that acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle. Then, when the event is detected, the calculation unit recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid electrolyte includes a sintered body of ceramic grains. The sintered body includes a crystal plane having an ion conducting path. The crystal plane is oriented in a direction which intersects at least one surface of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: At a time when it is possible for a user's own vehicle to pull out from a parking space, an assist control unit of a parking exit assist device terminates an assist control in the event that the user's own vehicle has traveled forward by a predetermined distance (a minimum forward distance) from a predetermined position (a most recent intermediate position or an assist starting position).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid electrolyte includes a sintered body of ceramic grains. The sintered body includes a crystal plane having an ion conducting path. The crystal plane is oriented in a direction which intersects at least one surface of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery module includes a battery unit. The battery unit includes a nonaqueous lithium ion battery including a nonaqueous electrolyte, and an aqueous lithium ion battery including an electrolytic solution in which an electrolyte is dissolved in an aqueous solvent. In the battery unit, the aqueous lithium ion battery is connected in parallel to the nonaqueous lithium ion battery.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer. The active material layer is disposed on at least one of faces of the current collector. The active material layer comprises active materials which include at least a cobalt-containing oxide and a lithium nickel manganese oxide. A ratio of a weight of the cobalt-containing oxide to a total of weights of the cobalt-containing oxide and the lithium nickel manganese oxide is 5 wt % or more and 40 wt % or less.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a battery system. The battery system includes a first battery and a second battery connected in parallel with the first battery. The first battery includes a lead storage battery. The second battery includes a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a negative-electrode-mixture layer, and the negative-electrode-mixture layer contains lithium titanate. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material LiMn2-xM(a)xO4. A ratio of a battery capacity of the second battery to a battery capacity of the first battery is in a range of 1/133 to 1/2.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte is provided. The negative electrode includes titanium-containing oxide and at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of B, P, Al, La, Zr, Ge, Zn, Sn, Ga, Pb, In, Bi, and Tl. The electrolyte includes lithium ions and a solvent containing water.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of a first oxide having a spinel structure and represented by LixNi0.5Mn1.5O4, a second metal phosphate having an olivine structure and represented by LixMn1-wFewPO4, and a third oxide having a layered structure and represented by LixNiyMnzCo1-y-zO2. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a first solvent. The first solvent includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of trimethyl phosphate, triethyl phosphate, tripropyl phosphate, tributyl phosphate, and fluorinated phosphate ester.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of a first oxide having a spinel structure and represented by LixNi0.5Mn1.5O4, a second metal phosphate having an olivine structure and represented by LixMn1?wFewPO4, and a third oxide having a layered structure and represented by LixNiyMnzCo1?y?zO2. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a first solvent. The first solvent includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of trimethyl phosphate, triethyl phosphate, tripropyl phosphate, tributyl phosphate, and fluorinated phosphate ester.