Abstract: A battery management apparatus for managing a chargeable-dischargeable battery includes: a battery status calculation unit that calculates a degradation degree of the battery; a degradation speed calculation unit that calculates a degradation speed of the battery on the basis of the degradation degree; and an upper limit temperature setting unit that sets an upper limit temperature of the battery on the basis of the degradation speed, wherein the upper limit temperature setting unit raises the upper limit temperature in association with a decrease of the degradation speed.

Abstract: A processing apparatus performs a predetermined process with respect to a substrate. The apparatus includes a driver configured to drive a stage that holds the substrate, a first controller configured to operate at a first frequency and control the driver, a second controller configured to operate at a second frequency higher than the first frequency and generate a command based on a position of the stage, and a device configured to perform one of the predetermined process in response to the command and a preparation process for the predetermined process.

Abstract: A battery pack includes: a plurality of stacked batteries; a support member (an intermediate block) that is adjacent to the batteries along a width direction Y intersecting a stacking direction X of the batteries and supports the batteries; a control member (a control board) that is provided on one end side (a controller unit side) in the width direction Y and controls the plurality of batteries; and a communication line (an electric wire) that is conducted to the control board and extends from the controller unit side toward another end side (a junction unit side) facing the controller unit side along the width direction Y. The intermediate block has an electrical or magnetic shielding property. The electric wire faces the intermediate block in a region from the controller unit side to the junction unit side.

Abstract: A battery pack includes: a plurality of stacked batteries; a holding member (a first end block and a second end block) which extends in an intersecting direction (a width direction Y) intersecting a stacking direction X of the plurality of batteries at an end portion along the stacking direction X and holds the plurality of batteries; a control unit (a controller unit) which controls the plurality of batteries; an input/output unit (a junction unit) which is provided along the stacking direction X and to and from which power of the plurality of batteries is input and output via the controller unit; and a fastening member (a fastening bolt) which directly fastens the first end block and the second end block and a housing (a case) of the junction unit.

Abstract: An appropriate upper limit current value is set in consideration of steep change in battery voltage in a high-current region caused by the ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte. An upper limit current calculator 152 includes: a concentration gradient estimator 1523 that estimates a lithium ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte of a battery, based on a current flowing in the battery, or on the current and a temperature; and an upper limit current determiner 1524 that determines an upper limit current value of the battery, based on the lithium ion concentration gradient. The upper limit current determiner 1524 determines the upper limit current value such that an overvoltage of the battery according to the lithium ion concentration gradient falls within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A control apparatus which generates control signal for controlling a control object, includes a first compensator configured to generate a first signal based on a control deviation of the control object, a corrector configured to generate a correction signal by correcting the control deviation in accordance with an arithmetic expression having an adjustable coefficient, a second compensator configured to generate a second signal by a neural network based on the correction signal, and an arithmetic device configured to generate the control signal based on the first signal and the second signal.

Abstract: A fluid flow field of a separator of a fuel cell stack allows a fluid to flow in a separator surface direction. A rubber seal member provides a seal between the fluid passage and the fluid flow field. The tunnel portion intersects the rubber seal member at an intersection. The tunnel portion allows the fluid flow field and the fluid passage to connect to each other. In the rubber seal member, a first portion protrudes from a flat portion in a stacking direction, and a second portion protrudes from a protruding end surface of a tunnel portion in the stacking direction.

Abstract: To provide a transport system, a server apparatus, and a program that make it possible to fill a parked vehicle with hydrogen. A transport system according to an embodiment includes a server apparatus and a transport apparatus. The transport apparatus transports a vehicle having a hydrogen tank based on an instruction given by the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit receives an input of first information indicating that the vehicle needs to be filled with hydrogen. In a case in which the input of the first information has been received, the processing unit instructs the transport apparatus to transport the vehicle to a filling area for hydrogen filling and instructs the transport apparatus to transport the vehicle from the filling area to a parking area for vehicle parking.

Abstract: A fluid flow field of a separator of a fuel cell stack allows a fluid to flow in a separator surface direction. A rubber seal member provides a seal between the fluid passage and the fluid flow field. The tunnel portion intersects the rubber seal member at an intersection. The tunnel portion allows the fluid flow field and the fluid passage to connect to each other. In the rubber seal member, a first portion protrudes from a flat portion in a stacking direction, and a second portion protrudes from a protruding end surface of a tunnel portion in the stacking direction.

Abstract: There is fear that some battery cells among battery cells which are serially connected may consume electric power all the time, thereby causing expansion of unbalance in voltage of the battery cells and hindering electric discharge of a battery system. When a second battery has a sufficient voltage, an electric current control board supplies operating power to a battery control unit and a relay via an external minus line and an external plus line. On the other hand, when the voltage of the second battery has decreased, the electric current control board supplies the operating power from a first battery to the battery control unit and the relay via an internal minus line and an internal plus line. A first electric current control unit and a second electric current control unit control the supply of the operating power according to, for example, the decrease in voltage of the second battery.

Abstract: An appropriate upper limit current value is set in consideration of steep change in battery voltage in a high-current region caused by the ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte. An upper limit current calculator 152 includes: a concentration gradient estimator 1523 that estimates a lithium ion concentration gradient in a diffusion layer formed around an interface between an electrode and an electrolyte of a battery, based on a current flowing in the battery, or on the current and a temperature; and an upper limit current determiner 1524 that determines an upper limit current value of the battery, based on the lithium ion concentration gradient. The upper limit current determiner 1524 determines the upper limit current value such that an overvoltage of the battery according to the lithium ion concentration gradient falls within a predetermined range.

Abstract: An oxygen-containing gas flow field and an inner bead (or a bead seal) are formed on one surface of a first metal separator, and a coolant flow field as a passage of a coolant is formed on the other surface of the first metal separator. Further, a coolant supply passage and a coolant discharge passage extend through the first metal separator in a separator thickness direction. An in-bead channel as a passage of the coolant is formed by a recess on the back side of the inner bead. A narrowed segment is provided in a part of the in-bead channel. The channel cross sectional area of the narrowed segment is smaller than those of other segments.

Abstract: A conventional parachute requires a velocity pressure during descent in order to open the parachute. As a result, a minimum descent distance and time are required from the beginning to the end of the parachute opening operation and use at low altitude has to be restricted. In order to remedy this issue, an airtight tube and a compressed gas device are provided together in a section of the parachute having the largest annular shape when the parachute has been opened. The tube is annularly expanded by the pressure of the gas, and the parachute is forcibly deployed and opened.

Abstract: A battery management apparatus for managing a chargeable-dischargeable battery includes: a battery status calculation unit that calculates a degradation degree of the battery; a degradation speed calculation unit that calculates a degradation speed of the battery on the basis of the degradation degree; and an upper limit temperature setting unit that sets an upper limit temperature of the battery on the basis of the degradation speed, wherein the upper limit temperature setting unit raises the upper limit temperature in association with a decrease of the degradation speed.

Abstract: A plurality of anode wavy portions provided in an anode separator of a fuel cell have wavy patterns in the same phase, and are arranged in an amplitude direction of the anode wavy portions at a first pitch. A plurality of cathode wavy portions provided in a cathode separator have wavy patterns in the same phase but in reverse phase with respect to the anode wavy portions, and are arranged in an amplitude direction of the cathode wavy portions at a second pitch. The first pitch and the second pitch have different sizes.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a cell stack body and a terminal plate and an insulator disposed at an end of the cell stack body in a stacking direction. The cell stack body includes a plurality of stacked power generation cells. Each of the power generation cells includes a membrane electrode assembly and a separator. The terminal plate is disposed between the cell stack body and the insulator. Elastic structure which elastically presses the terminal plate toward the cell stack body is provided between the insulator and the terminal plate.

Abstract: Oxygen-containing gas discharge passages are provided in a first metal separator of a fuel cell of a fuel cell stack. The oxygen-containing gas discharge passages include an upper oxygen-containing gas discharge passages and a lower oxygen-containing gas discharge passage. In the first metal separator, a central position at the center between the upper oxygen-containing gas discharge passage and the lower oxygen-containing gas discharge passage is positioned below the center of an oxygen-containing gas flow field in the gravity direction.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a stack body of power generation cells stacked in a horizontal direction. An oxygen-containing gas flow field is formed in the fuel cell stack, for allowing an oxygen-containing gas to flow along an electrode surface of a membrane electrode assembly. A plurality of oxygen-containing gas discharge passages for discharging the oxygen-containing gas as a reactant gas pass through the fuel cell stack in a stacking direction of the power generation cells. Each of the oxygen-containing gas discharge passages is connected to an outlet. The plurality of oxygen-containing gas discharge passages are connected together by a first connection channel at an end opposite to the outlet.

Abstract: A plurality of anode wavy portions provided in an anode separator of a fuel cell have wavy patterns in the same phase, and are arranged in an amplitude direction of the anode wavy portions at a first pitch. A plurality of cathode wavy portions provided in a cathode separator have wavy patterns in the same phase but in reverse phase with respect to the anode wavy portions, and are arranged in an amplitude direction of the cathode wavy portions at a second pitch. The first pitch and the second pitch have different sizes.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a compound suitable for a pharmaceutical composition, specifically a pharmaceutically composition for treating nocturia. The inventors have assumed that inhibition of nocturnal activity of placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP), i.e. aminopeptidase that cleaves AVP, would maintain and/or increase an endogenous AVP level to enhance the antidiuretic effect, which would contribute to a decreased number of nocturnal voids, and have extensively studied compounds which inhibit P-LAP. As a result, the inventors have found that (2R)-3-amino-2-{[4-(substituted pyridine)-2-yl]methyl}-2-hydroxy-propanoic acid derivatives have excellent P-LAP inhibitory activity. The inventors have evaluated antidiuretic effects in water-loaded rats and have found that the compounds increase endogenous AVP levels by inhibiting P-LAP and consequently reduce urine production.