Abstract: A flush toilet includes multiple discharge outlets formed in a rim part and provided to discharge flush water in one circumferential direction along an inner peripheral surface of the rim part, and, when a toilet bowl part is divided into four divided regions in plan view by a lateral center line, and a longitudinal center line, the multiple discharge outlets include a first discharge outlet provided in at least one of a first divided region and a second divided region, and a second discharge outlet provided in a third divided region, and a water discharge part is configured such that the amount of flush water discharged through the first discharge outlet is larger than the amount of flush water discharged through the second discharge outlet.

Abstract: An electrode is constituted by a sheet-shaped porous body and used in an electrolyte-circulating battery that performs charging and discharging by circulating an electrolyte. Assuming that a portion of a side surface of the electrode that is adjacent to an inlet for the electrolyte when the electrode is installed in the electrolyte-circulating battery is an inlet end surface and a portion of the side surface of the electrode that is adjacent to an outlet for the electrolyte when the electrode is installed in the electrolyte-circulating battery is an outlet end surface, the electrode includes a first flow channel that is connected to the inlet end surface and extends toward the outlet end surface and a second flow channel that is connected to the outlet end surface and extends toward the inlet end surface. The first flow channel and the second flow channel do not directly communicate with each other.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register fin includes an elongated plate-shaped fin main body and an elongated decorative member attached to one of edges of the fin main body in a transverse direction. One of the fin main body and the decorative member includes an engagement projection. The other one of the fin main body and the decorative member includes a recess that accommodates the engagement projection and an engagement hook projecting from an inner surface of the recess. The engagement hook holds and engages the engagement projection.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a tubular retainer including a wail and a downstream opening, fins that are located adjacent to the downstream opening in the retainer and arranged parallel to one another so as to be tiltable relative to the retainer, and an operation knob mounted to a central fin. Each of the fins includes two rotation shafts at opposite ends of the fin. The wall of the retainer includes bearing holes, each supporting one of the rotation shafts of the corresponding fin. The overlap between the rotation shaft of one of the fins that is free of the knob and the inner surface defining the corresponding bearing hole is smaller than the overlap between the rotation shaft of the fin to which the knob is mounted and the inner surface defining the corresponding bearing hole.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer, a downstream fin, a knob, an upstream fin, and a fork. The downstream fin is swingably supported by the retainer with a downstream fin pivot. The knob is slidably attached to the downstream fin. The upstream fin has a transmission shaft. The fork is pivotally supported by the knob and includes two fork pivots. The knob includes two pivot receiving portions each having a pivot receiving hole. Each fork pivot is inserted into the pivot receiving hole of the corresponding one of the pivot receiving portions. An overlapping portion is provided at least at part of a location at which the fork and each pivot receiving portion contact each other. Slits are provided at two locations between the two fork pivots of the fork. A region between each slit and the nearest fork pivot constitutes an elastic support portion.

Abstract: A register for air-conditioning includes a plurality of fins in a retainer, each fin including: a plate-shaped fin main body; a fin shaft; and a coupling pin, the coupling pin rotatably inserted in a coupling hole of a coupling rod extending in an alignment direction of the fins, the coupling rod being in contact with the end face of each fin main body. The coupling rod includes a rod main body extending in the alignment direction. The coupling rod includes a circular disc portion which has a diameter larger than a width of the rod main body and which is provided around the coupling hole, and both side parts of the circular disc portion in a width direction of the rod main body protrude from the rod main body toward both sides in the width direction.

Abstract: A serial communication branching device and a serial communication system are provided. The serial communication branching device, which branches a plurality of slaves connected to the master by a daisy chain into a plurality of paths, is equipped with a first communication circuit that carries out communication with the master connected to a preceding stage side, a plurality of second communication circuits that carry out communication with the slaves of the paths connected to a subsequent stage side, and a path selection circuit disposed between the first communication circuit and the second communication circuits. In the case that a slave connected on the subsequent stage side transmits a reply signal to the master responsive to a transmission signal transmitted from the master, the path selection circuit selects a path of the slave that transmits the reply signal, and outputs the reply signal from the selected path to the master.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electrode sheet including a compression step of causing a band-shaped electrode sheet provided with an active substance layer which is an active substance forming portion between at least a pair of rotating columnar compression rolls, and pressing and compressing the electrode sheet by the pair of compression rolls, and a cutting step of cutting the electrode sheet undergoing the compression step parallel to a longitudinal direction of the electrode sheet. When the width of the active substance layer is assumed as a first width, the compression step compresses the electrode sheet using the compression rolls having a second width equal to or less than the first width.

Abstract: An electrode for redox flow battery is disposed opposite a membrane of a redox flow battery. The electrode includes a fiber assembly including a plurality of carbon fibers. The fiber assembly includes soft carbon fibers with a Young's modulus of 200 GPa or less. An average carbon fiber diameter of the soft carbon fibers is preferably 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: Nanofiber that keep crystallinity are obtained from a cellulose material under light load. The nanofiber are obtained by treating a material containing cellulose with 4% by mass or more and 9% by mass or less of an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution to produce alkali cellulose, reacting the alkali cellulose with carbon disulfide to give cellulose xanthate, and defibrating the cellulose xanthate. Then, the xanthate is treated with acid or heat to be regenerated into cellulose nanofiber.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detector that detects a voltage of a power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected, from among a plurality of power systems to which are respectively connected a plurality of electrical devices respectively available for communication; a receiver that receives running information expressing running conditions of each of the plurality of electrical devices; and a reporting unit that uses a detection result of the detector and a reception result of the receiver to report whether or not an electrical device corresponding to the running information received by the receiver is connected to the power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected.

Abstract: An electrode for a redox flow battery including a porous body formed of a carbon material, wherein the (002) plane of the carbon material has an interlayer distance in the range of 3.354 to 3.452 angstroms as measured by X-ray diffraction. The electrode for a redox flow battery is preferably an electrode for a redox flow battery in which the oxygen content derived from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide ranges from 1 to 100 ?mol/g as measured by temperature programmed desorption/mass spectrometry.

Abstract: It is possible to prevent a central processing unit and a security processing unit from accessing of a non-volatile memory at the same time. A data flash 13 includes a secure area 31 and a user area 32. In the secure area 31, a plurality of pieces of security information used in a security process is stored. A security IP 12 reads out a portion of the plurality of pieces of security information from the secure area 31 and stores it in the secure RAM 22. When the security information to be used in the security process is stored in the secure RAM, the security IP 12 reads out the security information from the secure RAM 22 and uses it.

Abstract: A shield includes an inductor that includes outer electrodes and that is mounted on a substrate in or on which a wiring pattern is formed, a second capacitor that is electrically connected between one of the outer electrodes of the inductor and a ground pattern formed in or on the substrate, and a shield member that is disposed so as to cover the inductor and electrically connected to the one of the outer electrodes of the inductor, to which the second capacitor is connected. The second capacitor has frequency characteristics such that, when the self-resonance frequency of the second capacitor serves as a boundary, the impedance of the second capacitor decreases as the frequency increases on the low frequency side and that the impedance of the second capacitor increases as the frequency increases on the high frequency side.

Abstract: A redox flow battery includes an electrode to which an electrolyte is supplied; a membrane disposed to face a first surface of the electrode; and a bipolar plate disposed to face a second surface of the electrode. The bipolar plate has a channel at a surface thereof facing the electrode, the electrolyte flowing through the channel, and the electrode has a plurality of recesses in a region thereof facing the channel, the recesses guiding the electrolyte in the channel from a side near the bipolar plate toward a side near the membrane.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer having an airflow passage, and a shut-off damper, which is pivoted about a damper shaft between opening and closing positions for the airflow passage. The shut-off damper has opposed side sections, which are opposed to each other with the damper shaft located therebetween, and a distal sealing portion. The distal sealing portion includes a curved surface and a planar surface. The curved surface is arranged on the trailing side in a pivoting direction of the shut-off damper towards the closing position. The planar surface is arranged on the leading side in the pivoting direction in a manner defining an acute angle with respect to an opposing direction of the opposed side sections. At least the planar surface is a textured surface having raised features each having a height of 110 ?m±50 ?m.

Abstract: A print head includes: a mounting board; a light source portion that includes a plurality of light emitting elements provided on one surface of the mounting board; a drive member that is provided on other surface of the mounting board so as to generate a lighting signal and drive the light source portion; and a first temperature detector that is provided on the mounting board, and at least one second temperature detector that is provided at a farther position on the mounting board from the drive member than the first temperature detector; and the drive member includes: a light emitting unit that generates the lighting signal based on a temperature detected by the first temperature detector and a temperature detected by the second temperature detector; and an optical unit that forms an image of light emitted from the light emitting unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detector that detects a voltage of a power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected, from among a plurality of power systems to which are respectively connected a plurality of electrical devices respectively available for communication; a receiver that receives running information expressing running conditions of each of the plurality of electrical devices; and a reporting unit that uses a detection result of the detector and a reception result of the receiver to report whether or not an electrical device corresponding to the running information received by the receiver is connected to the power system to which the information processing apparatus itself is connected.

Abstract: A power estimating apparatus includes a functional unit, at least one converter, a detection unit, and an estimating unit. The functional unit uses an alternating-current power supply. The at least one converter is connected to a branch point between the alternating-current power supply and the functional unit and includes a smoothing capacitor so as to convert an alternating current from the alternating-current power supply into a direct current. The detection unit obtains a total amount of currents supplied to the functional unit and the at least one converter. The estimating unit uses the total amount to estimate an amount of the current supplied to the functional unit. The total amount is obtained by the detection unit in a charge and discharge period during which the smoothing capacitor performs a charge and discharge operation.

Abstract: An automated robotic assembly system is configured to assemble a device by fitting a first component made of a material liable to deformation by external force with a second component by means of a robot, and the first component is provided with a distortion detection unit for detecting distortion thereof. If the distortion detected by the distortion detection unit exceeds a predetermined value, a signal for notifying abnormality is output to stop an automated assembly operation by the robot.