Abstract: A storage battery device includes a battery unit, a first circuit breaker, a second circuit breaker, and a control unit. The first circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device. The second circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and the external device. The control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

Abstract: A driving recorder includes: an image data acquisition unit; an extraction unit; a determination unit; and a writing controller. The writing controller configured to write, when the determination unit has determined that a change in the other vehicle does not coincide with a predetermined reference change, the image data into a memory by a ring buffer form, and write, when the determination unit has determined that the change coincides with the predetermined reference change, the image data for a predetermined period of time including the plurality of pieces of image data regarding which the determination has been made in such a way that the image data is not overwritten by other data.

Abstract: A storage battery management device includes a connector, storage, a drive voltage controller, a determiner, and a current sensor controller. The connector is connectable to a current sensor. The storage stores current sensor information including an output range of normal output values and each current-sensor type indicating a type of a current sensor connectable to the connector in association with each other. The drive voltage controller causes a current to flow through a current sensor while varying a voltage to be applied to the current sensor. The determiner determines, based on whether an output value that is received via the connector from the current sensor falls in the output range corresponding to the current-sensor type, the current-sensor type of the current sensor connected to the connector. The current sensor controller controls the current sensor in accordance with the determined current-sensor type.

Abstract: A storage battery device includes: first and second battery systems including a plurality of first and second battery modules and a plurality of first and second monitoring units detecting module information that is information related to the battery modules, and respectively having first and second identification information; and a battery management unit configured to receive a lower-level communication frame containing the monitoring identification information and the module information from the monitoring units, and transmit, to an upper-level device of the battery management unit, an upper-level communication frame that contains individual identification information assigned to each of the monitoring units based on system identification information assigned to the battery systems, and the monitoring identification information, that also contains the module information detected by the first or the second monitoring unit corresponding to the individual identification information, and that has a larger data

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a support, a recording layer, and a protective layer provided on at least one surface of the support and containing plate-shaped particle powder. The plate-shaped particle powder is stacked in an overlapping manner in a thickness direction of the protective layer such that main surfaces of plate-shaped particles face a surface of the support, and the plate-shaped particles have an average plate ratio of 60 or more.

Abstract: The zoom lens comprises five or more groups of lens pieces, namely, the foremost or first lens group of positive refractive power located the closest to an object, the succeeding second lens group of negative refractive power, the third lens group of positive refractive power, the fourth lens group of positive refractive power, and the fifth lens group all arranged in this order, and if any, the rearmost lens group(s) closer to the imaging plane than the fifth lens group. The zoom lens meets requirements as defined in the conditional expression regarding a combined magnification of the fifth lens group and, if any, the rearmost lens group(s) closer to the imaging plane than the fifth lens group while the zoom lens is taking a telephoto position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into neural precursor cells, comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cells in the presence of a small molecule BMP inhibitor, and induced neural precursor cells prepared by this method.

Abstract: This hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a steel composition containing, in terms of % by mass: 0.02% or less of C; 0.02% or less of N; 0.1% to 1.5% of Si; 1.5% or less of Mn; 0.035% or less of P; 0.010% or less of S; 1.5% or less of Ni; 10% to 20% of Cr; 1.0% to 3.0% of Cu; 0.08% to 0.30% of Ti; and 0.3% or less of Al, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet has a Vickers hardness of less than 235 Hv.

Abstract: A presentation supporting device extracts a first word from a character string included in each region divided from a page of a document file, and calculates a score, for each region in a page currently-displayed, based on the first word and a second word acquired as a result of a sound recognition, and calculates, when the highest score of scores is equal to or higher than a first threshold, a distance between a first region in which the highlight display is currently executed and a second region in which the highest score is equal to or higher than the first threshold, and executes a highlight display in the second region when a frequency corresponding to the distance between the first region and the second region is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and executes a highlight display in the first region, when the second threshold is not reached.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pump device and a method of manufacturing a pump device. This pump device is provided with: a pump main body which is provided with hole portions in an abutting surface on the opposite side to a side on which a pump rotor is accommodated; a motor portion provided with a rotor attached to an outer circumference of a rotating shaft, a stator core which faces an outer periphery of the rotor and an end surface of which, in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, is in contact with the abutting surface, and coils attached to the stator core with the interposition of bobbins; and a resin molded portion which integrally retains the stator core and in which positioning pins that protrude from the end surface and are inserted into the hole portions are provided integrally.

Abstract: A polyester film has a wax on a surface of one side of the film and is a polyester film in which this wax is dispersed in the form of islands on the surface of the film, and a filling factor of the wax in the film surface is 20 to 45%, and, as for a number of islands of the wax dispersed in the form of islands and each of which has an area of 200 ?m2 or larger, there is one or less/10000 ?m2.

Abstract: A method for producing trans-bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane includes a trans-isomerization step in which cis-dicyanocyclohexane is isomerized into trans-dicyanocyclohexane by heating dicyanocyclohexane containing cis-dicyanocyclohexane in the presence of a tar component produced by distillation of dicyanocyclohexane; and an aminomethylation step in which trans-dicyanocyclohexane produced by the trans-isomerization step is allowed to contact with hydrogen to produce trans-bis(aminomethyl)cyclohexane.

Abstract: An electrical grid control system includes a plurality of power conversion apparatuses each storing active power relationship information indicating a relationship between an active power control level representing a level of control for active power output to an electrical grid, and a connection point frequency being a frequency at a connection point to the electrical grid; and a control apparatus that repeatedly receives information indicating a system frequency measured in the electrical grid, determines the active power control level based on the system frequency, and transmits the active power control level to the plurality of power conversion apparatuses. Each power conversion apparatus repeatedly measures the connection point frequency, receives the active power control level from the control apparatus, and controls the active power based on the measured connection point frequency, the received active power control level, and the active power relationship information.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a support, a recording layer, and a protective layer provided on at least one surface of the support and containing plate-shaped particle powder. The plate-shaped particle powder is stacked in an overlapping manner in a thickness direction of the protective layer such that main surfaces of plate-shaped particles face a surface of the support, and the plate-shaped particles have an average plate ratio of 60 or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transplantation adjuvant for neural progenitor cells containing valproic acid and/or zonisamide as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing cerebral cortex neurons from pluripotent stem cells. Provided is a method for producing cerebral cortex neurons from pluripotent stem cells, comprising (i) a step of performing a suspension culture of pluripotent stem cells in a culture medium containing a TGF? inhibitor, bFGF, a Wnt inhibitor, and a BMP inhibitor, (ii) a step of performing a suspension culture of the cells obtained in the step (i) in a culture medium containing a Wnt inhibitor and a BMP inhibitor, and (iii) a step of further culturing the cells obtained in the step (ii).

Abstract: An X-ray generator is capable of reducing invalid exposure caused due to wave tails, which do not contribute to the quality of an X-ray image, by preventing the wave tails from being supplied to an X-ray tube. An X-ray imaging apparatus includes the X-ray generator and a method of reducing the invalid exposure is implemented using the X-ray generator. The X-ray generator includes an X-ray tube to generate X-rays, and a high-voltage generator to supply a voltage having a pulse waveform to the X-ray tube. The high-voltage generator includes a high-voltage tank to generate a high voltage, a switch connected to an output terminal of the high-voltage tank and turned on or off, and a resistor located outside the high-voltage tank to receive a wave tail voltage having the pulse waveform and to consume power generated due to wave tails.

Abstract: A pump device, a main body, a cover body, a stator module at least a portion of the external of the stator module being covered with an insulation member, a securing part to secure the pump main body to the cover body, a load applying means provided between the securing part and the cover body so as to apply a load to the securing part and the cover body, a connector terminal electrically coupled to an external-connected terminal which is externally grounded, and a conductive-elastic member electrically coupled to the connector terminal and configured to make contact with the cover body as applying a load to the cover body. A discharge path is formed through the pump main body, the securing part, the load applying means, the cover body, the conductive-elastic member, and the connector terminal to discharge static electricity to the external via the external-connected terminal.