Abstract: Provided is a sodium-ion secondary battery having a high capacity and excellent safety. A sodium-ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode containing a positive-electrode active material made of a crystallized glass containing crystals represented by a general formula NaxMyP2Oz (where 1?x?2.8, 0.95?y?1.6, 6.5?z?8, and M is at least one selected from among Fe, Ni, Co, Mn, and Cr); a negative electrode containing a negative-electrode active material made of hard carbon; and a non-aqueous electrolyte.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of corresponding computation processing that the distributed computing device is capable of handling, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the corresponding computation processing.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a controller configured to perform assignment processing configured to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on at least one of a prediction value of an output power of a distributed power supply placed in the facility, a prediction value of power consumption of the facility, and a prediction value of a surplus power of the facility.

Abstract: Provided is a novel space evaluation system capable of simply and quantitatively evaluating how close an unknown space is to a natural environment. The space evaluation system 1 comprises: a setting unit 12 for setting naturalness as an index of how close a space is to a natural environment; and an estimating unit 11 for estimating, from air quality data indicating a type of material including a microbe included in a sample collected from air in a target space to be evaluated and indicating an abundance of each material, the naturalness of the target space from which the sample has been collected.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes an acoustic MEMS device. An acoustic path communicates with the acoustic MEMS device. Ultrasound generated by vibration of the acoustic MEMS device can resonate in the acoustic path. An ultrasonic transducer has sound pressure frequency characteristics such that sound pressure peaks occur as a result of a combination of resonance of the acoustic MEMS device and resonance in the acoustic path. A relationship of about 5?(f0?fl)/f0×100?about 33 is satisfied, where f0 represents a resonance frequency of the acoustic MEMS device and fl represents a frequency lower than the resonance frequency and closest to the resonance frequency among frequencies at which the sound pressure peaks occur in the sound pressure frequency characteristics.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing a side opposite to the first surface, an opening, an acoustic MEMS element fixed to the first surface to cover the opening, an annular electrode surrounding the opening on the second surface, and a solder resist layer covering the second surface adjacently to the annular electrode on an outer side and an inner side of the annular electrode The solder resist layer includes a first cutaway portion to connect a first portion and a second portion to each other, the first portion being any portion in an edge of the annular electrode the second portion being any portion in an edge of the substrate.

Abstract: A plant cultivation apparatus comprising a cultivation box which has a hollow rhizosphere portion for hanging a root of a cultivation plant, wherein: the cultivation box is constructed by detachably combining an upper panel and a lower panel; a bottom wall of the lower panel is provided with a waste liquid port and a trough-shaped gutter is detachably installed below the bottom wall of the lower panel over an entire length in a length direction; the upper panel is provided with nozzle-mounting holes at intervals in the length direction; a nozzle for spraying nutrient solution is inserted into each of the nozzle-mounting holes and hung in the rhizosphere portion; the upper panel is provided with planting holes for the cultivation plant; and a root of the cultivation plant is inserted into the planting hole and hung in the rhizosphere portion, to which the nutrient solution is sprayed from the nozzle.

Abstract: A chemical liquid spraying apparatus suitable for disinfecting and sterilizing a large space, comprising: a case equipped with a pressurized chemical liquid tank and a compressor; an extension connecting pipe including a compressed air pipe through which a part of compressed air supplied from the compressor flows, and a pressurized chemical liquid pipe through which a chemical liquid pressurized by a rest part of the compressed air supplied from the compressor flows from the pressurized chemical liquid tank; and a two-fluid nozzle attached to a distal end of the extension connecting pipe; wherein the two-fluid nozzle comprises a compressed air passage connected to the compressed air pipe and a pressurized chemical liquid passage connected to the pressurized chemical liquid pipe, and is configured that the compressed air and the pressurized chemical liquid are mixed and ejected.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a dynamic pricing management system has an operation device which calculates and determines product information of each product to be displayed, plurality of electronic shelf labels each includes a display module which allows the product information to be displayed and rewritten, a communication device which allows exchange of the product information between the electronic shelf labels and the operation device, a database in which basic information of each product is stored, a management device which manages sales or inventory information of each product, and an other-than-product data collection device which collects and accumulates fluctuation data other than products with time.

Abstract: An ultra-fine spray-jetting nozzle includes a liquid passage (37) and a gas passage (41) that is disposed on a peripheral side of the liquid passage (37) through a partitioning wall and communicates with a jetting port (A). An outer surface of the partitioning wall at a jetting port side thereof is formed sectionally polygonal, long circular or elliptic. A peripheral surface of the gas passage (41) is formed sectionally circular. The outer surface of the partitioning wall having the configuration is brought into contact with the sectionally circular peripheral surface of the gas passage (41) at a plurality of positions to circumferentially divide the gas passage (41) at the jetting side into a plurality of gas passages. A gas jetted from jetting ports (A) of a plurality of the separate gas passages is mixed with a periphery of a liquid jetted from the liquid passage (37) to generate spray.

Abstract: The present invention is for providing a milling cutter which can provide for both an improvement in sharpness and a retention of cutting edge strength, while making the transverse cross-section an easily manufactured polygon shape. The milling cutter with a plurality of peripheral cutting edges (12) has a polygon shape transverse cross-section. The polygon is a convex polygon with one more apex point (13) existing between apex point pairs constituting the peripheral cutting edges with an apex angle greater than that of the apex points, and a longer side of the sides on either side of each of the peripheral cutting edges constitutes a rake face (14), while a shorter side constitutes a relief face (16).

Abstract: A spray nozzle has a nozzle tip removably installed on a main body of the spray nozzle at a spray side thereof. The nozzle tip has a flow path communicating a spray port disposed on a front-end surface with an inlet port disposed at a rear-end surface along an axis of the nozzle tip. A throat portion is provided on the flow path of the nozzle tip in a range from the inlet port to the spray port. The sectional configuration of the flow path in a range from the inlet port to the throat portion is circular or elliptic, and a sectional area of the flow path decreases gradually from the inlet port to the throat portion.

Abstract: The present invention is for providing a milling cutter which can provide for both an improvement in sharpness and a retention of cutting edge strength, while making the transverse cross-section an easily manufactured polygon shape. The milling cutter with a plurality of peripheral cutting edges (12) has a polygon shape transverse cross-section. The polygon is a convex polygon with one more apex point (13) existing between apex point pairs constituting the peripheral cutting edges with an apex angle greater than that of the apex points, and a longer side of the sides on either side of each of the peripheral cutting edges constitutes a rake face (14), while a shorter side constitutes a relief face (16).

Abstract: A retrieval apparatus is capable of simultaneously executing keyword retrieval and semantic retrieval of information.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an on-demand interface device which is capable of retrieving a function corresponding in meaning to an inputted request sentence and easily executing the retrieved function. The on-demand interface device comprises a function-description database containing function-descriptive sentences for respective functional items and action scripts for realizing respective functions, retrieving means for retrieving a functional item corresponding to a requesting sentence inputted through an input means, script executing means for realizing the retrieved function by executing a corresponding script. The retrieving means can conduct the retrieval of keywords as well as the retrieval of a requesting function by determining an inner product of two sentence vectors, i.e., of a request and each of function-descriptions for respective functional items.

Abstract: A saddle type deflection coil assembly is formed of a plurality of conductor wires which are not displaced and biassed. A resulted multicore parallel conductor wire is thus not twisted. The deflection coil assembly includes an external coil constructed by winding the plurality of parallel conductor wires in a laminated manner in a continuous groove of a first winding mold. An internal coil is constructed by winding a plurality of parallel conductor wires in a laminated manner in a continuous groove formed in a second winding mold. The internal coil is superimposed on the external coil to form a saddle configuration. A starting end of the external coil and a terminating end of the internal coil are interconnected with each other to form the deflection coil.

Abstract: A deflection coil is formed into a saddle shape by winding up a conductive wire ribbon in layers, such that the layered wire ribbon is formed in its cross-section into a parallelogram with adjoining sides crossing one another at other than 90 degrees. The deflection coil is produced by winding up in layers the wire ribbon in a plurality of coil grooves of a coil-winding frame die while the wire ribbon is delivered out from a nozzle, obliquely against the side wall face of each coil groove.

Abstract: A coil-winding frame body for deflection yoke coil, includes: a straight portion formed as a neck side; a trumpet-shaped curved surface portion spreading outward from the end of the straight portion toward a head side; and a plurality of flanges formed on the inner face of the body for defining a plurality of coil-winding grooves and walls, and each of the grooves is elongated from the neck side to the head side and into which a wire ribbon will be wound in layers.

Abstract: A sterilizing apparatus installed on a car includes a nozzle-installing pipe on which a plurality of nozzles are mounted at regular intervals, a driving mechanism for varying the spray angles of the nozzles, a driving mechanism for controlling the spray time periods, a supply mechanism for supplying disinfectant to a disinfectant-flowing path equipped in the nozzle-installing pipe, a plurality of tanks containing disinfectant to be supplied to the supply mechanisms and control mechanisms for controlling the operation of the driving mechanisms. The car is moved to a required place in a hospital, and the nozzles are operated by spray disinfectant particles, the diameter of which are 10 .mu.m or less.

Abstract: A wire ribbon has a plurality of insulator-coated conductive wires, each having an insulating layer formed on a surface of a conductive wire. The insulator-coated conductive wires are arranged parallel in a row to be adjacent to each other. The adjacent insulator-coated conductive wires are bonded to each other through interconnection adhesive layers so as to be integrated. A thermoplastic adhesive interlayer having an adhesion temperature lower than that of the interconnection adhesive layer is formed in a local circumferential region on an apex of each single-core wire on at least one of upper and lower surface sides of the wire ribbon.