Abstract: A lithium recovery device equipped with a processing tank partitioned into a supply tank and a recovery tank by a lithium ion-conducting electrolyte film, and which, in order to selectively move Li+ to an aqueous solution in the recovery tank from an aqueous solution in the supply tank containing Li+ and metal ions Mn+ which are different therefrom, is also equipped with a first power supply connected between porous-structure electrodes provided so as to respectively contact both surfaces of the electrolyte film with the electrode on the supply tank side as the positive electrode, and a second power supply which connects in series to the negative electrode of the first power supply and in which said negative electrode is connected to a sub-electrode provided at a distance from the electrolyte film inside the recovery tank, wherein the second power supply applies a voltage so as to cause a current to flow from the positive electrode to the electrode.

Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material includes a complex oxide represented by Formula (1): LiNixMe1-xO2 where x satisfies 0.5?x<1, and Me is at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Al, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, B, Ga, Y, Ce, Sm, Gd, Er, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Sb, Bi, Cr, Mo, and W. In an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement of the positive electrode active material using Cu-K? rays, the ratio of the value of the full width at half maximum of a peak having the highest intensity within a diffraction angle 2? range of 40° or more and 50° or less to the value of the full width at half maximum of a peak corresponding to the (111) plane of a crystalline Si powder measured under the same conditions is less than or equal to 2.00.

Abstract: A system for detecting a presence of a person in a hoistway, having: one or more controllers configured to authenticate the person in the hoistway; the one or more controllers being operationally connected to an elevator car in the hoistway and configured to determine whether the person is within a predetermined distance of the elevator car from a signal emitter on the person; wherein when the person is within the predetermined distance of the elevator car, the one or more controllers is configured to transmit a feedback request to the person and stop the elevator car unless the one or more controllers receives feedback to the feedback request within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A rotary operating device includes a case, a rotating shaft member, an operation member, and a sensor. The case has a cavity having an annular shape with an opening at a top. The rotating shaft member is rotatable with respect to the case. The operation member rotates together with the rotating shaft member. The sensor is disposed within the cavity to detect rotation of the rotating shaft member. The case has an inner peripheral wall. The operation member has an inner cylindrical portion. The rotating shaft member has a peripheral wall that extends downward and along an outer peripheral surface of the inner peripheral wall. A first gap between the inner peripheral wall of the case and the peripheral wall of the rotating shaft member is smaller than a second gap between an inner peripheral surface of the rotating shaft member and the inner cylindrical portion of the operation member.

Abstract: The coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coated active material has a supernatant transmittance of greater than 64% and less than 93%. The supernatant transmittance is a transmittance of light with a wavelength of 550 nm measured for a supernatant liquid obtained by dispersing and precipitating the coated active material in a solvent. The supernatant liquid is placed in a quartz cell with a 10 mm optical path length and devoted to measurement of the transmittance.

Abstract: A positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material, a coating layer, and a second solid electrolyte. The coating layer contains a first solid electrolyte and coats at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. The second solid electrolyte is in indirect contact with the positive electrode active material with the coating layer disposed therebetween. A ratio of a volume of the first solid electrolyte to a total volume of the first solid electrolyte and the second solid electrolyte is greater than or equal to 4% and less than or equal to 60%.

Abstract: A novel method for forming a positive electrode active material is provided. The method for forming a positive electrode active material includes causing a reaction between a cobalt aqueous solution and an alkaline aqueous solution to form a cobalt compound; mixing the cobalt compound and a lithium compound and performing a first heat treatment to form a first composite oxide; mixing the first composite oxide and a compound containing a first additive element and performing a second heat treatment to form a second composite oxide; and mixing the second composite oxide and a compound containing a second additive element and performing a third heat treatment. The first heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1100° C. The second heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1000° C.

Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. A percentage of change in specific surface area from a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer to a specific surface area of the coated active material is greater than or equal to ?62.8% and less than or equal to +3.79%.

Abstract: A coated active material includes a positive electrode active material and a coating layer coating at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coating layer includes a first coating layer, which contains a first solid electrolyte, and a second coating layer, which contains a base material. The first coating layer is located outside of the second coating layer. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M, and X, where M is at least one selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I. A ratio of a specific surface area of the coated active material to a specific surface area of the positive electrode active material coated with the second coating layer is less than or equal to 42%.

Abstract: A coated active material including: a positive electrode active material; a second coating layer; and a first coating layer outside the second coating layer, in which a percentage of change from S1 to S2 is ?78.0% or greater and ?15.0% or less and/or a percentage of change from S3 to S4 is ?77.0% or greater and ?12.0% or less, where S1 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; S2 is a sum of dV/dD over a range of pore diameters of 2 nm to 100 nm of the coated active material; S3 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the active material coated with the second coating layer; and S4 is dV/dD at a pore diameter of 3 nm of the coated active material.

Abstract: A coated active material of the present disclosure includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coating layer includes a first coating material. The coated active material has a supernatant NV rate of less than 23%, where the supernatant NV rate is a ratio of the NV value of a supernatant liquid to the mass content ratio of the first coating material in a dispersing liquid obtained by dispersing the coated active material in a solvent, and the NV value of the supernatant liquid is a ratio of the mass of a non-volatile component to the mass of the supernatant liquid obtained by precipitating the coated active material by leaving the dispersing liquid to stand.

Abstract: A silica glass for a radio-frequency device has an OH group concentration being less than or equal to 300 wtppm; an FQ value being higher than or equal to 90,000 GHz at a frequency of higher than or equal to 25 GHz and lower than or equal to 30 GHz; and a slope being greater than or equal to 1,000 in a case where the FQ value is approximated as a linear function of the frequency in a frequency band of higher than or equal to 20 GHz and lower than or equal to 100 GHz.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a processor that acquires a type of a product sold by weight; and a transceiver connected to the processor and that establishes intercommunication with a weighing device that weighs the product sold by weight; a storage connected to the processor. The processor causes the transceiver to acquire, from the weighing device, a weight value of the product sold by weight weighed by the weighing device. The processor registers, in the storage, the type of the product and the weight value that corresponds to the type of the product.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of obtaining a shower plate having cleaning resistance without machining. The present invention relates to a silica glass porous body having a plurality of pores, in which the plurality of pores includes a non-communication pore and a communication pore, and the pores have an average pore size, obtained by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of 10 ?m to 150 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silica glass member having a plurality of pores, in which some or all of the plurality of pores are communication pores, and S/S0 is 1.5 or more. S: surface area obtained by a BET method for a 40 mm×8 mm×0.5 mm sample cut from the silica glass member; and S0: geometric surface area obtained based on external dimensions of the sample.

Abstract: An optical communication module includes: a circuit board; optical communication devices that are provided on an upper surface side of the circuit board; a case that accommodates the circuit board and the optical communication devices; and a heatsink that is attached to the case. The optical communication devices include a first device and a second device. The first device is located closer to an inlet opening for cooling air for cooling the heatsink than the second device is. A height from the circuit board to a top of the first device is greater than a height from the circuit board to a top of the second device. The heatsink is not equipped with a cooling fin in a first region where the first device is provided, and the heatsink is equipped with a cooling fin in a second region where the second device is provided.

Abstract: To improve transfer of signal charges. A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a first charge accumulation region and a second charge accumulation region provided separated from each other in a semiconductor layer; and a transfer transistor in which a channel is formed in a semiconductor layer adjacent to a gate electrode with a gate insulating film interposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, and signal charges accumulated in the first charge accumulation region are transferred to the second charge accumulation region through the channel. In addition, the gate insulating film has a thickness that is thinner on a downstream side in a signal charge transfer direction than on an upstream side in the signal charge transfer direction.

Abstract: Provided is a porous layer structure including a base material (A) and a urethane foam layer provided on the base material (A), wherein the urethane foam layer is a foam layer formed by foaming a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group, the urethane foam layer has a density of 0.10 to 0.60 g/cm3, and the urethane prepolymer substantially contains no volatile component and satisfies a predetermined composition.

Abstract: An optical module includes a case that contains a built-in optical component related to optical communication, a built-in electronic component, and a built-in temperature sensor that detects temperature of at least one of the optical component and the electronic component. Furthermore, the optical module includes a flow channel that is formed on at least one of surfaces of the case, that extends in a longitudinal direction of the case, and through which air flows.