Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing, with excellent productivity, an anode active material having the composition of a mica group mineral. The object is attained by providing a method for producing a vitreous anode active material, comprising steps of: a heat treatment step of heat treating a raw material mixture having a composition that is capable of forming a mica group mineral, at a heat treatment temperature that is higher than or equal to the melting temperature of the raw material mixture, and thereby forming a raw material melt; and a cooling step of cooling the raw material melt and thereby vitrifying the raw material melt.

Abstract: A secondary battery capable of improving battery characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode 21 containing a cathode active material capable of inserting and extracting an electrode reactant, an anode 22 containing an anode active material capable of inserting and extracting the electrode reactant, and an electrolyte containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt. At least one of the cathode 21, the anode 22, and the electrolyte contains a radical scavenger compound. The radical scavenger compound is a compound in which a group having a radical scavenger function exists as a matrix, to which one or more carboxylic metal bases or one or more sulfonic metal bases are introduced. Chemical stability of the cathode 21, the anode 22, or the electrolyte containing the radical scavenger compound is improved. Thus, at the time of charge and discharge, decomposition reaction of the electrolytic solution is easily inhibited.

Abstract: A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the swollenness characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has a coat on an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector. The coat contains a metal salt. The metal salt has a hydroxyl group and at least one of a sulfonic acid group and a carboxylic acid group. Thereby, lithium ions are easily inserted in the anode and extracted from the anode, and decomposition of the electrolytic solution is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved type protease which comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 75% identical to SEQ ID NO:3, said improved type protease has at least one mutation selected from the group consisting of: (A) replacement of glutamine corresponding to glutamine at position 265 in SEQ ID NO: 3 with an acidic amino acid; and (B) replacement of glutamine at position 266 in SEQ ID NO: 3 with an acidic amino acid, and wherein said improved type protease has milk-clotting activity.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an application method capable of facilitating the application of the soft contact lens without using any instrument, a liquid for contact lenses capable of being used for the application method, and a soft contact lens package. The present invention is a method for applying a soft contact lens, including a shrinkage step of shrinking a soft contact lens by contacting the soft contact lens with a liquid for contact lenses, the liquid for contact lenses being capable of shrinking the soft contact lens to a state of being more intensively shrunken than an equilibrium state thereof in a physiological saline; and an application step of applying the shrunken soft contact lens to the eye, in which after the application step, the size of the soft contact lens is restored.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution that can be used as an electrolyte solution of a non-aqueous secondary battery to improve the discharge rate performance of the battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises a non-aqueous solvent and a BF3-cyclic ether complex. The BF3-cyclic ether complex content is greater than zero part by mass, but less than 1 part by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of other electrolyte solution components. Preferable examples of the BF3-cyclic ether complex include BF3-tetrahydropyran complex and BF3-dioxane complex.

Abstract: A single cell-culture chamber is provided that includes a dried vitrigel membrane covering and secured to one open end surface of a tubular frame. Also provided is a double cell-culture chamber that includes two tubular frames of substantially the same planar cross-sectional shape adhesively secured to each other with a dried vitrigel membrane interposed between the opposing open end surfaces of the tubular frames so as to form a first chamber and a second chamber via the dried vitrigel membrane.

Abstract: A fluid pressure shock absorber in which valve opening of the main valve is controlled by an inner pressure of a backpressure chamber. A first piston (3) and a second piston (4) coupled to a piston rod (10) are fitted in a cylinder (2) such that a piston chamber (2C) is defined between the first and second pistons. An extension-side main valve (18) and a compression-side main valve (23) are provided in the piston chamber (2C). Valve opening of the main valves is controlled by an extension-side backpressure chamber (19) and a compression-side backpressure chamber (24). A compression-side check valve (13) and an extension-side check valve (16) are provided at the first piston (3) and the second piston (4). During an extension stroke of the piston rod (10), the compression-side check valve (13) is closed, whereby action of a pressure of a cylinder upper chamber (2A) on the compression-side main valve (23) is prevented.

Abstract: A virtual machine managing program manages plural physical machines and makes a computer device execute processing through virtual machines developed on each physical machine. Virtual machines are assigned to physical machines on the basis of CPU usage rate and temperature, and are moved among the physical machines as needed, to maintain acceptable operating conditions.

Abstract: A job assignment apparatus includes: a correlation calculation unit to calculate a correlation between an execution time used for processing a program that depends on a computer resource operating at the start of an execution request job and an execution time used for processing a predetermined amount of data in the execution request job which operates immediately after completion of an operation of the program; a resource identification unit to identify the computer resource on which the execution request job depends on the basis of the correlation calculated by the correlation calculation unit; and a job assignment unit to assign the execution request job to one of execution servers connected to the job assignment apparatus so as to exclude simultaneous execution of a job that depends on the same computer resource as the computer resource identified by the resource identification unit and the execution request job.

Abstract: A dried vitrigel membrane is produced by a method including the following steps of (1) a step of keeping a hydrogel in the inside of a wall surface mold with a shape the same as the desired shape disposed on a substrate, and discharging a part of free water within the hydrogel from a gap between the substrate and the wall surface mold; (2) a step of removing the wall surface mold from the top of the substrate; (3) a step of drying the hydrogel to remove the residual free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried hydrogel; (4) a step of rehydrating the dried hydrogel to fabricate a vitrigel membrane; and (5) a step of redrying the vitrigel membrane to remove free water, thereby fabricating a vitrified dried vitrigel membrane.

Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide an anode material capable of improving cycling characteristics of a lithium secondary battery. The present invention solves the problem by providing an anode material comprising a reactant between: a metal oxide represented by a general formula of MxOy (M is a metal) or a metal represented by a general formula of M, which causes an alloying reaction or a conversion reaction with Li, and a polymer compound having an acid group in a side chain.

Abstract: A virtual machine managing program manages plural physical machines and makes a computer device execute processing through virtual machines developed on each physical machine. Virtual machines are assigned to physical machines on the basis of CPU usage rate and temperature, and are moved among the physical machines as needed, to maintain acceptable operating conditions.

Abstract: Assuming that N1 and N2 are the respective numbers of pinion rollers (23, 63); ?1 is the ratio between the inner diameter of a ring roller (22) and the outer diameter of a sun roller (21); and ?2 is the ratio between the inner diameter of a ring roller (62) and the outer diameter of a sun roller (61); and it holds that N1=3, and (?11)×(p21)?24+16×20.5, in the case where N2=3, then it holds that ?1?0.102×(?1+1)×(?2+1)+1.196, and ?1?min[0.204×(?1+1)×(?2+1)+3.123, 7+4×30.5], and in the case where N2=4, then it holds that ?1?(2?20.5)×(?1+1)×(p2+1)/4?1, and ?1?min [0.185×(?1+1)×(?2+1)+1.320, 7+4×30.5].

Abstract: A virtual machine managing method includes: a dependence relation list generation step of detecting a dependence relation among virtual machines implemented on a physical machine and generating a dependence relation list, based on a detection result; a target management table generation step of reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected; and a halted target presentation step of reading the virtual machine identification information on all of the virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted, and visually presenting the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted.

Abstract: A battery capable of improving the storage characteristics and the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. A solvent of the electrolytic solution contains a given sulfone compound such as bis(trimethylsilyl)methanedisulfonate. Compared to a case that a solvent contains other sulfone compound such as bis(methyl)methanedisulfonate, the chemical stability of the electrolytic solution is improved, and the decomposition reaction of the electrolytic solution is prevented.

Abstract: A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode and an anode oppositely arranged with a separator in between, and an electrolytic solution. At least one of the cathode, the anode, the separator, and the electrolytic solution contains a sulfone compound having a carbonate group and a sulfonyl group.

Abstract: The invention provides a cathode active material that includes: a particle containing a cathode material capable of absorbing and releasing an electrode reactive material; and a film that is disposed at least partially to the particle and contains a metal salt represented by a formula (1). (R1 represents a (a1+b1+c1) valent group and M1 represents a metallic element. a1, d1, e1 and n each represent an integer of 1 or more and b1 and c1 each represent an integer of 0 or more. However, b1 and c1 satisfy (b1+c1)?1.), a cathode therewith and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.

Abstract: A battery capable of obtaining the high energy density and obtaining the superior cycle characteristics is provided. In an anode, the thickness of a single face of an anode active material layer containing a carbon material as an anode active material is from 75 ?m to 120 ?m. An electrolytic solution contains difluoroethylene carbonate as a solvent. Thereby, the energy density of the anode is improved, and the diffusion and the acceptance of lithium ions in the anode are improved.

Abstract: A battery capable of improving the storage characteristics and the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. A solvent of the electrolytic solution contains a given sulfone compound such as bis(trimethylsilyl)-2,2-difluorosulfoacetate. Compared to a case that a solvent does not contain the foregoing sulfone compound, the chemical stability of the electrolytic solution is improved, and the decomposition reaction of the electrolytic solution is suppressed.