Abstract: A battery includes an electrode collector, two electrode active material layers, two solid electrolyte layers, two counter-electrode active material layers, and two counter-electrode collectors in this order, and includes a first insulating layer that covers side surfaces of the two counter-electrode collectors, the two counter-electrode active material layers, the two solid electrolyte layers, and the two electrode active material layers. A first region not covered with any of the two electrode active material layers is provided at ends of both principal surfaces of the electrode collector. A second region not covered with any of the two counter-electrode collectors is provided at an end of a principal surface of each of the two counter-electrode active material layers that faces toward a corresponding one of the counter-electrode collectors. The first insulating layer covers the second region. The electrode collector projects from an outer surface of the first insulating layer.

Abstract: A large current electron beam is stably emitted from an electron gun of a charged particle beam device. The electron gun of the charged particle beam device includes: a SE tip 202; a suppressor 303 disposed rearward of a distal end of the SE tip; a cup-shaped extraction electrode 204 including a bottom surface and a cylindrical portion and enclosing the SE tip and the suppressor; and an insulator 208 holding the suppressor and the extraction electrode. A shield electrode 301 of a conductive metal having a cylindrical portion 302 is provided between the suppressor and the cylindrical portion of the extraction electrode. A voltage lower than a voltage of the SE tip is applied to the shield electrode.

Abstract: A battery includes: a power generation element including battery cells each of which includes an electrode layer, a counter-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the electrode layer and the counter-electrode layer, and which are electrically connected in parallel and stacked; an insulating member covering an electrode layer at a side surface of the power generation element; and a terminal electrode covering the side surface and the insulating member, and electrically connected to a counter-electrode layer, in which the power generation element includes: a first parallel unit that includes first battery cells and has both ends in a stacking direction at each of which a counter-electrode layer is located; and a second parallel unit that includes second battery cells, has both ends in the stacking direction at each of which an electrode layers is located, and is stacked on the first parallel unit.

Abstract: A battery includes battery cells. A battery cell includes a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. On a side surface of the battery cell, in a plan view of the side surface of the battery cell, striated cut marks which are inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the battery cell are provided.

Abstract: To improve the stability of spray application of a monolithic refractory in which a water injector is disposed in a material carrier pipe extending from a material supply device to a distal spray nozzle, and application water is injected from the water injector into a spray material that is being carried through the material carrier pipe, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to a flow volume of a spray material carrier gas for carrying the spray material is set to 0.07 to 2, and a compressibility index of the spray material is set to 32% or less. Alternatively, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to an application water volume is set to 100 to 1,000.

Abstract: A resistive switching memory stack, comprised of a bottom electrode, an oxide layer located on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode located on the oxide layer. The top electrode is comprised of a first layer, an intermediate layer located directly on the first layer, and a top layer located on top of the intermediate layer. Wherein the intermediate layer is comprised of a doped carbide active layer.

Abstract: A decelerating electrode of this energy filter comprises: an electrode pair that has an opening; and a cavity portion that provided in a rotationally symmetrical manner with the center of the opening as the optical axis. Voltages with electric potentials that are substantially the same as that of a charged particle beam are independently applied to the both sides of the decelerating electrode. When an electrical field protrudes into the cavity portion provided in the decelerating electrode, a saddle point having the same electric potential as that of incident charged particles is formed inside the decelerating electrode. The saddle point acts as a high pass filter for incident charged particles at an energy resolution of 1 mV or less. By analyzing charged particles which have been energy-separated, it is possible to measure the energy spectrum and ?E at the high resolution of 1 mV or less.

Abstract: A charged particle source is provided that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle source that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source according to the present invention has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other (see FIG. 4).

Abstract: A resistive switching memory stack, comprised of a bottom electrode, an oxide layer located on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode located on the oxide layer. The top electrode is comprised of a first layer, an intermediate layer located directly on the first layer, and a top layer located on top of the intermediate layer. Wherein the intermediate layer is comprised of a doped carbide active layer.

Abstract: A large current electron beam is stably emitted from an electron gun of a charged particle beam device. The electron gun of the charged particle beam device includes: a SE tip 202; a suppressor 303 disposed rearward of a distal end of the SE tip; a cup-shaped extraction electrode 204 including a bottom surface and a cylindrical portion and enclosing the SE tip and the suppressor; and an insulator 208 holding the suppressor and the extraction electrode. A shield electrode 301 of a conductive metal having a cylindrical portion 302 is provided between the suppressor and the cylindrical portion of the extraction electrode. A voltage lower than a voltage of the SE tip is applied to the shield electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a thermal spray material capable of, when used in a thermal spray operation for repairing a furnace wall of an industrial furnace or for other purposes, maintaining good post-repetition bondability with respect to a target surface to thereby prevent peel-off of a resulting thermally sprayed deposit, and improving initial ignitability while suppressing dust-generating property. The thermal spray material comprised a basic compound comprising at least one of a Ca component and an Mg component, a metal Si powder, and a silica-based or alumina-silica based powder. A content rate of a fraction constituting the basic compound and having a particle size of 0.15 mm or less is 30 mass % or more with respect to 100 mass % of the basic compound, and a content rate of a fraction constituting the metal Si powder and having a particle size of 20 ?m or less is from 10 mass % to 25 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the thermal spray material.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle source that exhibits small energy dispersion for charged particle beams emitted under a high angular current density condition and allows stable acquisition of large charged particle currents even for a small light source diameter. The charged particle source according to the present invention has a spherical virtual cathode surface from which charged particles are emitted, and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a first position on a tip end surface of an emitter and the virtual cathode surface for charged particles emitted from a second position on the tip end surface of the emitter match each other (see FIG. 4).

Abstract: A reproduction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology is a reproduction apparatus capable of executing synchronous reproduction of audio content with a different reproduction apparatus, the reproduction apparatus including: an illumination unit; an acquisition unit; a generation unit; a transmission unit; and a synchronization control unit. The acquisition unit acquires audio information. The generation unit generates illumination control information associated with the acquired audio information. The transmission unit transmits, to the different reproduction apparatus, synchronization control information that includes the audio information and the illumination control information. The synchronization control unit executes synchronous reproduction of the audio content with the different reproduction apparatus and synchronous control of the illumination unit, on the basis of the synchronization control information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, which is detachably mounted to the image forming apparatus. The image forming unit includes a storage unit configured to store a computer program for forming an image on the sheet; a detector configured to detect whether the image forming unit and the controller are connected to each other; a door to be opened to draw out the image forming unit from the image forming apparatus; and a locking unit configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The controller is configured to rewrite the computer program stored in the storage unit under a state in which the locking unit is in the locked state and the detector detects the connection between the image forming unit and the controller.

Abstract: To improve the stability of spray application of a monolithic refractory in which a water injector is disposed in a material carrier pipe extending from a material supply device to a distal spray nozzle, and application water is injected from the water injector into a spray material that is being carried through the material carrier pipe, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to a flow volume of a spray material carrier gas for carrying the spray material is set to 0.07 to 2, and a compressibility index of the spray material is set to 32% or less. Alternatively, a ratio of a flow volume of an application water carrier gas for carrying the application water to be introduced into the water injector to an application water volume is set to 100 to 1,000.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, which is detachably mounted to the image forming apparatus. The image forming unit includes a storage unit configured to store a computer program for forming an image on the sheet; a detector configured to detect whether the image forming unit and the controller are connected to each other; a door to be opened to draw out the image forming unit from the image forming apparatus; and a locking unit configured to switch between a locked state and an unlocked state. The controller is configured to rewrite the computer program stored in the storage unit under a state in which the locking unit is in the locked state and the detector detects the connection between the image forming unit and the controller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller having a first end and a second end, each of the first and second ends being rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that faces the platen roller and that forms an image on a printing medium, the thermal head having a first end and a second end, a gear that is provided on the first end of the platen roller and that is rotated by a motor, the rotation of the gear causing the platen roller to rotate, and a pair of urging units that urges the first end and the second end of the platen roller or the thermal head, wherein an urging force generated by one of the pair of urging units on the first end is smaller than an urging force generated by the other of the pair of urging units on the second end.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame, a platen roller rotatably supported by the frame, a thermal head that is provided to face the platen roller, and a supporting unit that supports the thermal head from above, wherein the supporting unit includes an adjustment part that can adjust a height of the supporting unit by an adjuster, and the supporting unit can adjust an angle of the thermal head by adjusting the height of the adjustment part by the adjuster with at least a portion of the supporting unit being deformed, and wherein the supporting unit can adjust the height of the adjustment part by adjusting a protrusion amount of the adjuster with a tip of the adjuster being butted against the frame.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped object using a plurality of materials can be shaped, and replenishment of the materials is implemented during shaping without stopping an apparatus. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes a shaping chamber in which a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object is shaped, at least two material spreaders that are provided in the shaping chamber and spread materials of the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object, at least two material suppliers that supply the materials to the material spreaders, a controller that controls movements of the material spreaders and the material suppliers, and a beam irradiator that irradiates the materials with a beam. The material spreaders and the material suppliers are respectively paired, and the controller controls the movements of the material spreaders and the material suppliers so that each of the material spreaders is supplied, at a predetermined timing, with the material from a paired one of the material suppliers.