Abstract: Composite particles for an electrode comprising LiVOPO4 particles and a metal, wherein the metal is supported on at least a portion of the surface of the LiVOPO4 particles to form a metal coating layer.

Abstract: An active material, an electrode, and a battery which exhibit high safety in overcharging tests, and methods of manufacturing them are provided. The active material comprises a first metal oxide particle 1 and a second metal oxide particle group 2 attached to a surface of the first metal oxide particle 1. The second metal oxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of zirconia, silica, and tin oxide. The first metal oxide particle 1 contains fluorine atoms from its surface to deepest part.

Abstract: There is provided a method of making an active material with satisfactory cycle characteristics. The method of making an active material according to the invention comprises contacting an aqueous solution containing a metal-fluoro complex and lithium salt with lithium-containing metal oxide particles.

Abstract: The system for the object control method according to an embodiment is a client/server system with a Web server (10) and a user terminal (20) connected through Internet (30). In the system for the object control method, a script (object control program) is embedded in a Web page to be transmitted from the Web server (10) and executed by the user terminal (20). The Web page contains a plurality of link elements (elements with links to other Web pages). A computer terminal having read the object control program displays a plurality of icons superimposed in front of the link elements in the Web page. Further, when a specified event is detected, (a) change the placement position of a specific icon, (b) temporarily or completely remove a specific icon, or (c) change the placement positions of a plurality of specific icons, for example, according to the event type.

Abstract: The method for making an active material according to the invention comprises a step of contacting an aqueous solution containing a metal-fluoro complex with a carbon material. The active material comprises a carbon material and a metal oxide particle group supported directly on the surface of the carbon material.

Abstract: The method for producing an active material according to the invention comprises a step of contacting an aqueous solution containing a zirconium fluoro-complex and a silicon fluoro-complex with a first metal oxide particle to form a second metal oxide particle group containing a zirconium oxide particle and a silicon oxide particle on the surface of the first metal oxide particle. The active material comprises a first metal oxide particle and a second metal oxide particle group formed on the surface of the first metal oxide particle, and the second metal oxide particle group contains a zirconium oxide particle and a silicon oxide particle.

Abstract: A script (object displacement program) is embedded in a Web page to be transmitted from a Web server 10 and executed by a user terminal 20. The user terminal 20 into which the object displacement program is read displaces a plurality of icons from their initial positions to target positions through a path outside a display area of elements in the Web page, and makes the icons converge on the vicinity of each of the elements in such a way that the icons are distributed to the respective elements in the page in accordance with various access data and statistical data (e.g. the number of page views (PV), click-through rate (CTR), order quantity etc.).

Abstract: A core conductor of a coaxial connector is electrically connected to a terminal electrode which is provided at an end of a surface of a board, and a shell GND of the coaxial connector is electrically connected to a GND electrode which is provided at an end of a back surface of the board in a relay connector. The shell GND has a substantially columnar outer shape. The relay connector includes: a conductive first block having a first surface and a second surface being opposite to the first surface, the first block formed with a through hole, the coaxial connector being provided in the through hole, a part of the shell GND being provided in the through hole, the core conductor of the coaxial connector being projected from the first surface of the first block; and a conductive second block provided with a board rest part on which the board is to be placed, the second block operable to relatively move with respect to the first block and being electrically connected to the first block.

Abstract: A production method for a ceramic-resin composite, comprising a welding step of ultrasonically welding a ceramic component and a thermoplastic resin component, wherein at the welding step, at least one of the ceramic component and the thermoplastic resin component has been heated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a flavor-containing particle composition characterized in that flavor, saccharide, and an oily substance having a softening point of 55 to 90° C. are mixed, the mixture is heated so as to bring the saccharide into a melted or a semi-melted state and then, cooled, solidified and crushed. With the flavor-containing particle composition obtained by the manufacturing method of the present invention, there is no dissipation caused by sublimation of the flavor, the flavor is completely encapsulated, preservation stability of aroma is good, fluidity of the powder is high, blocking is hard to occur even under a high-humidity environment, and moreover, flavor release occurs at desirable timing.

Abstract: A relay connector for electrically connecting a board and a coaxial connector including a shell GND, a dielectric member and a core conductor, includes: a conductive first block including a first surface from which the core conductor is projected and a second surface to which the shell GND is fixed, and provided with a guide pin extending in a first direction parallel to the first surface; a conductive second block including a board rest part on which the board is to be mounted and a guide hole into which the guide pin is inserted, and being electrically connected to the first block; an operating member, provided on the first block at an opposite side to the second block; an elastic member provided between the operating member and the first block in a contracted state; and a coupling member, one end of which is fitted into and fixed to a first groove of the second block, the other end of which is fitted into and fixed to a second groove of the operating member.

Abstract: There is provided a scroll fluid machine in which sealability is improved by uniforming a deformed shape of a fastened face of a spindle frame with respect to a fixed scroll, and compression performance is improved. The machine is characterized by comprising a scroll unit disposed in a container, a spindle frame that is interfitted in the container, fastened to the fixed scroll by fastening means at an outer circumferential portion, and houses the movable scroll in a space created between the spindle frame and the fixed scroll, a refrigerant path that is formed in the outer circumferential portion to penetrate the fixed scroll and the spindle frame in an axial direction to open in a rear face of the spindle frame, and guides a high-pressure refrigerant compressed and discharged by the scroll unit to the rear face side of the spindle frame, and a countersunk section that is formed in an opening rim of the refrigerant path of the spindle frame.

Abstract: A fixing structure of a relay connector includes: a guide block fixed to a lower portion of the relay connector; a movable support shaft movable in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction which is parallel to an axial direction of the coaxial connector; lock plates provided at both ends of the movable support shaft; a fixing operating lever provided inside the guide block so as to swing around a lever support shaft and provided with a cam part; and a rail member provided with a pair of slide parts, the guide block inserted between the slide parts. When the fixing operating lever is swung to be tilted to one side, the upper and lower surfaces of the slide parts are clamped and fixed between the side parts of the lower portion of the relay connector and the lock plates. When the fixing operating lever is swung to be tilted to the other side, the relay connector can move in the second direction.

Abstract: According to the present invention, when the electrode for electrochemical devices is fabricated, the treating method for removing off a binder solvent adsorbed to pores in an electrode-constituting activated charcoal or the like, using carbon dioxide in a supercritical state, is used or a method wherein the supercritical-state treating method is modified using a low-boiling solvent is used, whereby the electrostatic capacity of the carbonaceous material as the active substance and the reliability of the electro-chemical device can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active material which can increase the discharge capacity of a lithium-ion secondary battery as compared with the case using conventional LiMnPO4 as a positive electrode active material. The active material in accordance with the present invention contains a crystallite of LiMnPO4, the crystallite having a size of 20 to 93 nm in a direction perpendicular to a (060) plane thereof.

Abstract: An active material, an electrode, and a battery which exhibit high safety in overcharging tests, and methods of manufacturing them are provided. The active material comprises a first metal oxide particle 1 and a second metal oxide particle group 2 attached to a surface of the first metal oxide particle 1. The second metal oxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of zirconia, silica, and tin oxide. The first metal oxide particle 1 contains fluorine atoms from its surface to deepest part.

Abstract: An image pickup device mounted at a distal end portion of an endoscope is provided that can make joining work more efficient and simplified, improve maintenance performance and reduce the size and diameter. A distal end portion 44 of an endoscope is provided with an objective optical system 54, a prism 62 continuing to the objective optical system 54, a solid-state image pickup element 66 receiving observation light through the prism 62, a circuit board 68 electrically connected to the solid-state image pickup element 66, and a signal cable having a plurality of cable cores 78, and the circuit board 68 and the signal cable are electrically connected through a connection portion 74 and a joining member 76.

Abstract: An electrode which can improve the cycle characteristic of a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. The electrode of the present invention comprises a current collector and an active material layer, formed on the current collector, containing an active material and polybenzimidazole.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: a solid state image pickup element which includes a main surface having a light receiving section formed thereon and a back surface; a bendable circuit board electrically connected to the solid state image pickup element via a connection portion; a signal cable which is electrically connected to the circuit board; and an electronic component which is mounted to only one of the main surface and the back surface, and the circuit board is connected to the back surface of the solid state image pickup element and is bent within a projection area of the solid state image pickup element, and the surface of the circuit board to which the electronic component is mounted is arranged substantially in parallel to the back surface of the solid state image pickup element.

Abstract: A fixing structure of a relay connector includes: a guide block fixed to a lower portion of the relay connector; a movable support shaft movable in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction which is parallel to an axial direction of the coaxial connector; lock plates provided at both ends of the movable support shaft; a fixing operating lever provided inside the guide block so as to swing around a lever support shaft and provided with a cam part; and a rail member provided with a pair of slide parts, the guide block inserted between the slide parts. When the fixing operating lever is swung to be tilted to one side, the upper and lower surfaces of the slide parts are clamped and fixed between the side parts of the lower portion of the relay connector and the lock plates. When the fixing operating lever is swung to be tilted to the other side, the relay connector can move in the second direction.