Abstract: To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily and accurately performing an operation of changing a display. A navigation system displays standard map information in small scale on a liquid crystal display device, and displays status information on movement speed of a vehicle or guidance information on distance and direction to a cross point to turn next on a head-up display device. Only while a contact of a contact body on a surface of a touchpad continues to be detected, first scaled-up map information as the scaled-up standard map information continues to be displayed on the liquid crystal display device instead of the standard map information.

Abstract: In a power storage system equipped with a secondary battery, a control system of the secondary battery includes a unit which detects an index indicating a degradation state of a positive electrode, a unit which detects an index indicating a degradation state of a negative electrode, a unit which calculates a difference between the index of the positive electrode and the index of the negative electrode, a unit which determines a sign of the difference, and a unit which changes an operation condition of the secondary battery according to the sign. With this configuration, in the control of the secondary battery, it is possible to avoid a life estimation accuracy from being decreased while using a processor which has a high-speed processing performance and inexpensive.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting tool which comprises a cutting tool insert with a tip portion of cBN material having a cutting edge formed therein and a base portion forming a sintered composition with the tip portion, and a body portion coupling the cutting tool insert with a shank of the cutting tool, wherein the cutting tool insert has a rake face and a first flank face defining the cutting edge. The rake face has a negative rake angle relative to an axis parallel to a center axis of the body portion. A second flank face defining a further edge with the first flank face is formed such that the cutting edge and the further edge do not have a common vertex. The second flank face is tilted with respect to an axis parallel to a center axis of the body portion by an angle greater than 0°.

Abstract: A wall-mounted type toilet fixing device includes a flush water tank device that is hidden in an area behind a wall, and a fixing unit, the fixing unit includes support portions, a toilet fixing portion, a pair of left and right legs, and a drain pipe connection, and the pair of legs are disposed outside from the drain pipe connection and inside from a side wall of a toilet body in elevation view, and are disposed laterally asymmetrically to each other with respect to a central axis passing through a center of the drain pipe connection and dividing the fixing unit equally in a left-right direction, in a state where the toilet body is fixed to the toilet fixing portion.

Abstract: A light emitting element includes: an n-side semiconductor layer; a p-side semiconductor layer; an active layer comprising a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers, and being located between the n-side semiconductor layer and the p-side semiconductor layer. The plurality of barrier layers comprises a final barrier layer, which is a layer of the active layer that is closest to the p-side semiconductor layer. The p-side semiconductor layer comprises, from an active layer-side, a first p-side semiconductor layer, which is a layer of the p-side semiconductor layer that is closest to the active layer, and a second p-side semiconductor layer containing a p-type dopant and having a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the final barrier layer. The first p-side semiconductor layer has a bandgap smaller than the bandgap of the final barrier layer and greater than a bandgap of any of the well layers, and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the final barrier layer.

Abstract: A discharge valve apparatus includes a discharge main body, disposed above a flush water tank discharge port, for opening and closing the flush water tank discharge port by the up and down motion of a valve body disposed inside a casing; wherein the discharge main body includes an attachment portion allowing an operating wire extending from a wire pull-up operating apparatus to detachably attach to a valve body portion.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery having better performance. The secondary battery includes: a negative electrode; a positive electrode; an insulating layer; and a structure having pores each configured to carry an electrolyte, in which: the negative electrode and the positive electrode are alternately laminated on each other through intermediation of the insulating layer; and the structure is arranged in a region which is sandwiched between two of the insulating layers and faces at least part of an edge of the positive electrode, and includes a material different from a material of the insulating layer.

Abstract: By the feedback including a factor of vector, the operational feeling of a user in a touch input is improved. In the electronic device, the user performs an input by making a contact body such as a finger contacts a contact face serving as a touch pad to move the contact body. The contact face is supported by a housing, and a drive device moves the contact face with respect to the housing. The control unit obtains the position information including the contact position of the contact body with the contact face and the information indicating the movement of the contact position, and moves the contact face based on the obtained position information when the contact body contacts the contact face.

Abstract: To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily and accurately performing an operation of changing a display. A navigation system displays standard map information in small scale on a liquid crystal display device, and displays status information on movement speed of a vehicle or guidance information on distance and direction to a cross point to turn next on a head-up display device. Only while a contact of a contact body on a surface of a touchpad continues to be detected, first scaled-up map information as the scaled-up standard map information continues to be displayed on the liquid crystal display device instead of the standard map information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery having high utilization efficiency per unit volume. The secondary battery includes: an electrode laminate in which a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer are laminated on each other through intermediation of an insulating layer; a pair of support plates configured to sandwich the electrode laminate therebetween; and a column body which is sandwiched between the pair of support plates at both ends thereof and adhered to the pair of support plates.

Abstract: A light emitting element includes: an n-side semiconductor layer; a p-side semiconductor layer; an active layer comprising a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers, and being located between the n-side semiconductor layer and the p-side semiconductor layer. The plurality of barrier layers comprises a final barrier layer, which is a layer of the active layer that is closest to the p-side semiconductor layer. The p-side semiconductor layer comprises, from an active layer-side, a first p-side semiconductor layer, which is a layer of the p-side semiconductor layer that is closest to the active layer, and a second p-side semiconductor layer containing a p-type dopant and having a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the final barrier layer. The first p-side semiconductor layer has a bandgap smaller than the bandgap of the final barrier layer and greater than a bandgap of any of the well layers, and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the final barrier layer.

Abstract: A secondary battery is disclosed. The secondary battery has a bipolar electrode, an electrolyte layer, and a porous insulator. The bipolar layer includes a positive electrode layer formed on one surface of a collector foil and a negative electrode formed on the other surface of the collector foil. The electrolyte layer is famed at least on a surface of at least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The porous insulator is formed to a lateral surface of at least one of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer is laminated by at least one layer relative to the bipolar electrode to configure a bipolar battery. The porous insulator also includes an inorganic particle and a reactive agent for lowering a fluidity of the liquid electrolyte bleeding from the electrolyte layer.

Abstract: An operating device for a flush water tank assembly includes: a rotary shaft, an operating handle, an operating wire, and a drive unit, wherein the drive unit includes: a rotary member, a rotary winding member, a locking unit for mutually locking the rotary member and the rotary winding member when the rotary winding member rotates in a forward rotational direction from operating position P1 and reaches operating position P3, and a lock release portion for releasing the lock between the rotary member and the rotary winding member when the rotary member and the rotary winding member rotate in a forward rotational direction from operating position P1 and reach operating position P3.

Abstract: A ring support is attached to an inner wall surface of a chamber that houses a semiconductor wafer to support a susceptor. When the semiconductor wafer is placed on the susceptor, an inner space of the chamber is separated into an upper space and a lower space. Particles are likely to accumulate on a lower chamber window as a floor part of the chamber. However, since the upper space and the lower space are separated, the semiconductor wafer can be prevented from being contaminated by the particles flowing into the upper space and adhering to a surface of the semiconductor wafer even when the particles on the lower chamber window are blown up by irradiation with flash light.

Abstract: A rotor structure for a rotary electric machine in which an inner surface of a hollow rotor core and an outer surface of a shaft inserted into a hole of the rotor core are fitted together by mutual engagement between a projection and a recess to compose a rotor, the rotor structure including: a first retainer brought into contact with one end of the rotor core; and a second retainer brought into contact with a surface of the first retainer opposite to a surface in contact with the rotor core so as to fix the first retainer and the rotor core to the shaft, wherein a coefficient of static friction of a first sliding surface between the first retainer and the second retainer is smaller than any other sliding surface provided in the rotor.

Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: a sapphire substrate having a c-plane at a main surface thereof; and a semiconductor layer provided at the main surface side of the sapphire substrate. The sapphire substrate includes a first unit including a first region, a second region, and a third region, wherein, when viewed from the main surface side, the three regions together have a shape of a regular hexagon that is evenly divided into the three regions such that each region has a shape of a rhombus; and a plurality of second units disposed to be aligned with each side of the first unit, the second unit having mirror symmetry relative to the first unit. The first unit and the second units are arranged to make a space at the center of the unit.

Abstract: A drain valve device includes a valve body and a lift part. The valve body plugs a drain outlet arranged on a bottom surface of a tank. The lift part is configured to lift the valve body. The lift part includes an engagement part. The engagement part engages with the valve body at a first height and releases engagement of the engagement part with the valve body at a second height. The second height is greater than the first height.

Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus according to an embodiment includes a calculating unit and a measuring unit. The calculating unit is configured to calculate information related to a pulse wave of a subject, on the basis of luminance information of a picture signal of the subject. The measuring unit is configured to measure a fluctuation of blood pressure of the subject based on an increase or a decrease in the information related to the pulse wave, in accordance with a site of the subject from which the picture signal was obtained.