Abstract: In an electric power device and a method for controlling the same, a first circuit is electrically connected to a first battery tray and a second battery tray, a second circuit is electrically connected to the first battery tray, and a third circuit is electrically connected to the second battery tray. Between the first circuit and the second circuit, a first resistor unit is connected in series with the first battery tray, and a first interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the first resistor unit. Between the first circuit and the third circuit, a second resistor unit is connected in series with the second battery tray, and a second interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the second resistor unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Abstract: A light emitting element of one or more embodiments includes a first electrode, a second electrode oppositely to the first electrode, and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light emitting element of one or more embodiments includes a polycyclic compound represented by a specific chemical structure in the emission layer, thereby showing improved emission efficiency and life characteristics.

Abstract: (A) An electrolyte solution containing lithium bis(oxalato)borate and vinylene carbonate is injected into a lithium-ion battery. (B) Initial charging is performed. (C) Aging is performed. During the aging, lithium bis(oxalato)borate and vinylene carbonate contained in the electrolyte solution are degraded. After the aging, in the electrolyte solution, a mass fraction of lithium bis(oxalato)borate is less than 0.10% and a mass fraction of vinylene carbonate is less than 0.10%.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a peak detector that detects a peak from a frequency spectrum and a map generator that generates an abnormality map for the frequency spectrum. The abnormality map includes as abnormal components, a frequency of a detected peak of interest and a frequency of a peak that appears together with the peak of interest when the peak of interest is assumed as the peak originating from abnormality. The data processing device includes an abnormal peak extractor that extracts as an abnormal peak, a peak at a frequency that matches with any of the abnormal components included in the abnormality map and a first criterion value calculator that calculates a first criterion value representing occurrence of abnormality corresponding to the abnormality map based on a spectral density of the abnormal peak.

Abstract: Provided is abnormality diagnosis with improved stability on an appliance to which a rotational torque is transmitted from a rotating body. A state monitoring device monitors the state of an appliance to which the rotational torque of a rotating body is transmitted. The state monitoring device includes a storage unit and a controller. Specific information depending on a rotational speed of the rotating body, produced from vibration data of the appliance, is pre-stored in the storage unit. Using the rotational speed of the rotating body and the vibration data of the appliance, the controller performs abnormality diagnosis on the appliance. Using the specific information, the controller estimates the rotational speed of the rotating body, the rotational speed being a rotational speed when the vibration data of the appliance is measured.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a peak detector that detects a peak from a frequency spectrum and a map generator that generates an abnormality map for the frequency spectrum. The abnormality map includes as abnormal components, a frequency of a detected peak of interest and a frequency of a peak that appears together with the peak of interest when the peak of interest is assumed as the peak originating from abnormality. The data processing device includes an abnormal peak extractor that extracts as an abnormal peak, a peak at a frequency that matches with any of the abnormal components included in the abnormality map and a first criterion value calculator that calculates a first criterion value representing occurrence of abnormality corresponding to the abnormality map based on a spectral density of the abnormal peak.

Abstract: A heat exchange member which does not easily suffer from breakage due to thermal stress by relaxing the thermal stress. The heat exchange member is provided with a honeycomb structure and a covering member. The outer peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure has at least one slit. The covering member covers the honeycomb structure so that the heat exchange can be carried out between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchange member performs heat exchange by means of the outer peripheral wall of the honeycomb structure and the covering member in the state where the first fluid passing through the cells and the second fluid passing through the outside of the covering member are not mixed with each other.

Abstract: To provide a heat exchanger that can control temperatures of fluids to be heat-exchanged. A heat exchanger 30 includes a honeycomb structure 1, a second fluid flow through portion 26 located at an outer periphery side of the honeycomb structure 1 serving as a flow passage for a second fluid, and a third fluid flow through portion 27 located at an outer periphery side of the second fluid flow through portion 26 serving as a flow passage for a third fluid. Cells 3 of the honeycomb structure 1 serve as a first fluid flow through portion 25 through which the first fluid passes. With the heat exchanger 30, the first fluid, the second fluid, and the third fluid can be heat-exchanged without being mixed with one another. Constituting the fluid flow passage with three flow passages allows controlling temperatures of two fluids to be heat-exchanged by the residual fluid.

Abstract: Provided are an article including a joint portion of a fluororesin having sufficient strength, and a method of producing the same. The article includes a joint portion including: a porous first layer of a first fluororesin; a second layer of a second fluororesin having a melting point lower than a melting point of the first fluororesin; and a non-porous third layer formed between the first layer and the second layer, the non-porous third layer including the first fluororesin.

Abstract: A heat exchange component includes a honeycomb structure having partition walls extending through the honeycomb structure from a first end face to a second end face to define a plurality of cells forming a through channel of a first fluid, and including a ceramic material as a main component, a covering member made of a metal and fitted into a circumference of the honeycomb structure, a tubular passing portion disposed to come in contact with a circumference of the covering member and forming a through channel of a second fluid, and a circumferential passing portion disposed in a circumference of the tubular passing portion, containing the tubular passing portion, and constituting a through channel through which a third fluid is passed to come in contact with the tubular passing portion and the covering member.

Abstract: To provide a heat exchanger that can control temperatures of fluids to be heat-exchanged. A heat exchanger 30 includes a honeycomb structure 1, a second fluid flow through portion 26 located at an outer periphery side of the honeycomb structure 1 serving as a flow passage for a second fluid, and a third fluid flow through portion 27 located at an outer periphery side of the second fluid flow through portion 26 serving as a flow passage for a third fluid. Cells 3 of the honeycomb structure 1 serve as a first fluid flow through portion 25 through which the first fluid passes. With the heat exchanger 30, the first fluid, the second fluid, and the third fluid can be heat-exchanged without being mixed with one another. Constituting the fluid flow passage with three flow passages allows controlling temperatures of two fluids to be heat-exchanged by the residual fluid.

Abstract: Provided are an article including a joint portion of a fluororesin having sufficient strength, and a method of producing the same. The article includes a joint portion including: a porous first layer of a first fluororesin; a second layer of a second fluororesin having a melting point lower than a melting point of the first fluororesin; and a non-porous third layer formed between the first layer and the second layer, the non-porous third layer including the first fluororesin.

Abstract: A safe nursing system includes a control unit and monitors movement of a patient on a bed. The control unit sets, for each patient, a correspondence relationship between a plurality of types of predetermined movements and a plurality of alert levels based on conditions; calculates a value of a predetermined index used to determine a predetermined movement of the patient; sets a predetermined condition to determine the predetermined movement; determines the predetermined movement based on the calculated value and the set predetermined condition; and outputs information indicating that the patient has performed the predetermined movement at the alert level indicated by the correspondence relationship set for the patient in accordance with the predetermined movement, under the condition that the predetermined movement has been determined to have been performed. It is possible to give a notification to a caregiver based on the condition of each patient.

Abstract: A safe nursing system that monitors movement of a patient on a bed includes a control unit and an image capturing unit disposed in a position from which an image including a side of a top surface of the bed can be captured. The control unit obtains image data captured by the image capturing unit; specifies feature points in an image of the patient in the obtained image data, and calculates a value of a predetermined index of the feature points used to determine a predetermined movement in the patient; sets a predetermined condition to determine the predetermined movement based on a region of the bed in the obtained image data; determines the predetermined movement based on the calculated value and the set predetermined condition; and outputs information indicating that the patient has performed the predetermined movement under the condition that the predetermined movement has been determined to have been performed.

Abstract: There is provided a heat exchange member which does not easily suffer from breakage due to thermal stress by relaxing the thermal stress. The heat exchange member is provided with a honeycomb structure (1) and a covering member. The outer peripheral wall (7) of the honeycomb structure (1) has at least one slit (15). The covering member covers the honeycomb structure (1) so that the heat exchange can be carried out between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchange member (10) performs heat exchange by means of the outer peripheral wall (7) of the honeycomb structure (1) and the covering member in the state where the first fluid passing through the cells (3) and the second fluid passing through the outside of the covering member are not mixed with each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas barrier laminate film containing a substrate film having on at least one surface thereof plural layers of an inorganic thin film layer, from a first layer to an n-th layer (wherein n represents an integer of 1 or more) of the inorganic thin film layer on a side of the substrate film being formed by a non-plasma film forming method, and an (n+1)-th layer formed thereon in contact therewith being formed by a facing target sputtering method, and a method for producing a gas barrier laminate film containing a substrate film having on at least one surface thereof one or plural layers of an inorganic thin film layer, the method containing: forming from a first layer to an n-th layer of the inorganic thin film layer on a side of the substrate film by a non-plasma film forming method; and forming an (n+1)-th layer thereon in contact therewith by a facing target sputtering method, and thus provides a gas barrier laminate film with high gas barrier property and excellent productivit

Abstract: To provide a gas barrier laminate film containing a substrate film having on at least one surface thereof one layer or plural layers of an inorganic thin film layer, a first layer of the inorganic thin film layer on a side of the substrate film being formed by a facing target sputtering method, and a method for producing a gas barrier laminate film, containing forming one layer or plural layers of an inorganic thin film layer on at least one surface of a substrate film, a first layer of the inorganic thin film layer on a side of the substrate film being formed by a facing target sputtering method, and thus to provide a gas barrier laminate film with high gas barrier property having a dense inorganic thin film layer that inflicts less damage to a substrate film, particularly to a resin film, on which the inorganic thin film layer is formed, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus is disclosed that forms, by pressing a resin applied onto a substrate and a mold against each other, a pattern on the substrate. The imprint apparatus includes a substrate stage that holds the substrate, and a control unit for controlling the position of the stage by outputting a manipulating variable on the basis of a position error between a position of the stage which has been measured by position measurement unit and a target position. The control unit reduces a ratio of the manipulating variable to the position error while the substrate and the mold are in contact with each other until mold release.

Abstract: A safe nursing system that monitors movement of a patient on a bed includes a control unit and an image capturing unit disposed in a position from which an image including a side of a top surface of the bed can be captured. The control unit obtains image data captured by the image capturing unit; specifies feature points in an image of the patient in the obtained image data, and calculates a value of a predetermined index of the feature points used to determine a predetermined movement in the patient; sets a predetermined condition to determine the predetermined movement based on a region of the bed in the obtained image data; determines the predetermined movement based on the calculated value and the set predetermined condition; and outputs information indicating that the patient has performed the predetermined movement under the condition that the predetermined movement has been determined to have been performed.