Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, including a void inside a primary particle, and a void amount A of the void with a fine pore diameter of 100 nm or less is more than 0.15 cc/g and 0.40 cc/g or less.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode active material whose volume variation due to charging and discharging is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an anode active material comprising a primary particle including a Si phase, an MSi phase that is a silicide phase wherein M is a transition metal element, and a first void.

Abstract: Provided is a novel production method for producing silicon clathrate II. In the production method for producing silicon clathrate II, in a reaction system in which a Na—Si alloy containing Na and Si and an Na getter agent coexist so as not to be in contact with each other, the Na—Si alloy is heated and Na evaporated from the Na—Si alloy is thus caused to react with the Na getter agent to reduce an amount of Na in the Na—Si alloy.

Abstract: The resin composition includes a block copolymer including a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon-derived structural unit and a conjugated diene-derived structural unit, the resin composition satisfying the following (1) to (3): (1) an area ratio of components having a molecular weight in terms of polystyrene of equal to or more than 400,000 with respect to all components is equal to or more than 8% and equal to or less than 50%; (2) at least one main peak of a loss tangent value (tan ?) measured under a condition of a frequency of 1 Hz at a temperature rising rate of 4° C./min in accordance with ISO 6721-1 is present in a range of equal to or more than 70° C. and equal to or less than 100° C.; and (3) a strain hardening degree (? max) of a compression-molded specimen prepared in accordance with ISO 293 is equal to or more than 2.0.

Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a thermoplastic continuous filament. Bending resistance in a machine direction of the spunbond non-woven fabric is 40 mN or more and 80 mN or less, the spunbond non-woven fabric includes a nonbonded projected part and a bonded recessed part, and in a non-woven fabric cross-section, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the projected part is determined to be tA, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the recessed part is determined to be tB, and respective distances from one surface of the projected part to one surface of the recessed part are determined to be tC and tD (tC<tD), and the spunbond non-woven fabric has a relation represented by formulas (1) and (2) below: 0.5?1?tB/tA<1.0 ??(1) 0.65<tC/tD<1.0 ??(2).

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: When a layered rock-salt type cathode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte are mixed to be a cathode mixture, and an all solid-state battery is obtained using this mixture, oxygen is released from the cathode active material when the battery is charged, and the sulfide solid electrolyte is oxidized, increasing the battery internal resistance. To increase the concentration of cobalt inside the active material, and at the same time to lower the concentration of cobalt of the surface of the cathode active material, to suppress oxygen release in charging, specifically, a cathode mixture includes: a cathode active material; and a sulfide solid electrolyte, wherein the cathode active material has a layered rock-salt crystal phase, and is made of a composite oxide containing Li, Ni, Co, and Mn, and the concentration of cobalt inside the cathode active material is higher than that of a surface of the cathode active material.

Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a nonbonded projected part and a bonded recessed part. Bending resistance in a machine direction of the spunbond non-woven fabric is 20 mN or more and 40 mN or less, and in a non-woven fabric cross-section, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the projected part is determined to be tA, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the recessed part is determined to be tB, and respective distances from one surface of the projected part to one surface of the recessed part are determined to be tC and to (tC<tD), and the spunbond non-woven fabric has a relation represented by formulas (1) and (2) below: 0.5?1?tB/tA<1.0??(1) 0.35<tC/tD<0.65??(2).

Abstract: An optical prism that includes an interlock structure that precisely couples to a complementary structure of a refractive lens. For precision, the interlock structure may be formed at the same time and using the same technique as the optical surface of the prism. The interlock structure provides high accuracy when assembling a folded lens system by precisely aligning the object side optical surface of the lens with the image side optical surface of the prism so that the optical axis is centered in the lens. The prism may have refractive power. A portion of the object side surface may be coated with an opaque material to provide an aperture stop at that surface.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of a porous silicon material of the present disclosure includes a particle forming step of melting a raw material containing Al as a first element in an amount of 50% by mass or more and Si in an amount of 50% by mass or less to obtain a silicon alloy, a pore forming step of removing the first element from the silicon alloy to obtain a porous material, and a heat treatment step of heating the porous material to diffuse elements other than Si to a surface of the porous material.

Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a thermoplastic continuous filament. A CV value of air permeability of the non-woven fabric is 15% or less, bending resistance in a machine direction of the non-woven fabric is 40 mN or more and 80 mN or less, the non-woven fabric includes a projected part and a recessed part, and in a non-woven fabric cross-section, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the projected part is determined to be tA, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the recessed part is determined to be tB, and respective distances from one surface of the projected part to one surface of the recessed part are determined to be tC and tD (tC<tD), and the non-woven fabric has a relation represented by formulas (1) and (2) below: 0.5?1?tB/tA<1.0??(1) 0.65<tC/tD<1.0??(2).

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an object region detecting unit, a local region detecting unit, an object specifying unit. The object region detecting unit is configured to detect an object region based on one of distance information and luminance information. The local region detecting unit is configured to, when a divided area obtained by dividing the detected object region meets a predetermined condition, detect the divided area as a local region. The object specifying unit is configured to specify, as a specification target object, the object region in which the local region is continuously detected.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material whose volume variation due to charge and discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a primary particle including at least one crystal phase of a Type I silicon clathrate and a Type II silicon clathrate, and the primary particle includes a void inside thereof.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also containing a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer; the solid electrolyte layer contains a solid electrolyte in a granular shape; and when X designates an average particle size D50 of the solid electrolyte and Y designates an average thickness of the solid electrolyte layer, X/Y is 0.0125 or more and 0.02 or less.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery including an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also contains a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer; and a contacting area rate in an interface between the solid electrolyte layer and the protective layer is 50% or more.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery in which occurrence of short circuit is inhibited. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising an anode including at least an anode current collector, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein a protective layer containing a Mg-containing particle that contains at least Mg, and also containing a polymer, is arranged between the anode current collector and the solid electrolyte layer.

Abstract: To improve the capacity of an all-solid-state battery, a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery having a cathode that contains sulfur include: performing initial charge and discharge separately at least in three cycles until a capacity of the battery reaches a design capacity, wherein a charge discharge capacity in a first cycle is at most 30% of the design capacity, and charge and discharge in a second cycle and after are performed, so that a charge discharge capacity in an n-th cycle is increased at least 1.15 times as much as a charge discharge capacity in an (n-1)-th cycle.

Abstract: To reduce an electric resistance of an all-solid-state battery, the all-solid-state battery includes: an anode active material layer; a cathode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode active material layer and the cathode active material layer, wherein the cathode active material layer contains S, Li2S, P2S5, and a single-walled carbon nanotube.

Abstract: A composition of general formula (1): Nax[MnaNibCrc]O2+y (1), wherein: 0.6?x?0.8; ?0.1?y?0.1; 0.55?a?0.7; 0.25?b?0.3; c?0.05; and a+b+c?1.0, an intermediate product for preparing a composition of general formula (1) and a process of synthesis, wherein the mixed sodium-transition metal oxide of general formula (1) may generally show an essentially or solely P2 structure, and may be used as a positive electrode material for a sodium ion secondary battery.