Abstract: An electric power supply system mounted in a vehicle includes: a first battery that supplies electric power to a motor that drives the vehicle; a second battery that supplies electric power to the motor and is replaceable; and DC/DC converter that is connected between the second battery and the motor and converts an output voltage of the second battery to a predetermined voltage.

Abstract: A toilet management system includes a toilet bowl device installed in a toilet room, a management device configured to manage a use situation of the toilet bowl device, and a communication device configured to transmit use situation information related to the use situation of the toilet bowl device to the management device. The management device includes an acquirer configured to acquire the use situation information from the communication device, and an abnormality detector configured to detect an abnormality of the toilet bowl device or a facility or equipment installed inside or around the toilet room when the use situation information acquired by the acquirer matches a predetermined condition.

Abstract: Provided is a microelectrode having a layered structure, including a layer containing a polymer compound having an aromatic ring (polymer compound layer) and a layer containing a conductive material (conductive layer), wherein a thickness of the polymer compound layer is 10 to 900 nm, a thickness of the conductive layer is 0.3 to 10 nm, and the microelectrode has a three-dimensional curved shape.

Abstract: To make validity of a prediction model created by machine learning be able to be verified with appropriate accuracy and efficiency. A software test apparatus includes a storage device configured to store a prediction model, and an arithmetic device. The arithmetic device is configured to accept inputs of a precondition, a constraint condition, and an approximation threshold value, convert the prediction model into a logical expression, analyze an approximation range based on the approximation threshold value with respect to the logical expression to simplify the logical expression, generate an inspection expression by combining the simplified logical expression with the precondition and negation of the constraint condition, search for, as a counterexample, a value satisfying the inspection expression, input the value to the prediction model to evaluate inspection accuracy when the counterexample exists, and output a result of the evaluation.

Abstract: A monoclonal antibody is provided which binds to a human CC chemokine receptor 1 (CCR1) and inhibits activation of the human CCR1, or an antibody fragment thereof. The monoclonal antibody binds to an extracellular region of a human CCR1 and inhibits activation of the human CCR1 by a human CC chemokine ligand 15 (CCL15). An antibody fragment thereof, a hybridoma producing the antibody, a nucleic acid having a nucleotide sequence encoding the antibody or the antibody fragment, a transformant cell containing a vector containing the nucleic acid, a method for producing the antibody or the antibody fragment using the hybridoma or the transformant cell; a therapeutic agent and a diagnostic agent containing the antibody or the antibody fragment, and a method for treating and diagnosing a CCR1-related disease using the antibody or the antibody fragment are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control apparatus configured to control a power unit, wherein the power unit comprises a battery, and a temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of the battery to a target temperature at the time of charge or discharge of the battery, and the control apparatus calculates, based on information concerning a demand response plan used to adjust a power demand and supply, an incentive obtained by charge or discharge of the battery by the demand response plan and a power cost needed to adjust the temperature of the battery to the target temperature by the temperature adjuster at the time of charge or discharge of the battery, and controls, in a case where the incentive is larger than the power cost, the power unit to execute charge or discharge of the battery by the demand response plan.

Abstract: In order to facilitate fixed-point monitoring over a wide area and for a long time, this water area monitoring device comprises: a detection unit for information, such as water area intrusion, which detects, from sound data that is acquired by means of optical fibers installed in the water or the water bottom and is data pertaining to a sound or a vibration at the respective positions of the optical fibers, at least any one among sounds of water area intrusion or the like that indicate intrusion into a target water area or water area intrusion or the like, which is a prescribed behavior in the target water area, at a time at which sound data is acquired, and changes in sounds or vibrations not caused by the water area intrusion or the like; and an output unit which outputs information indicating the sound such as water area intrusion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power trading system that executes power trading between a plurality of apparatuses, wherein at least one apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses includes a management unit configured to manage electric energy of a battery, and the management unit manages the electric energy of the battery by discrimination between electric energy derived from exhaustible energy and electric energy derived from renewable energy.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power trading system that executes power trading between a plurality of apparatuses, wherein at least one apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses includes a management unit configured to manage electric energy of a battery, and the management unit manages the electric energy of the battery by discrimination between electric energy derived from exhaustible energy and electric energy derived from renewable energy.

Abstract: A charge and discharge device for an electric vehicle includes a cable, a holder, and a cable suspending portion. The cable has a distal end at which a charge connector is provided. The charge connector is coupled to an electric vehicle to charge and discharge. The holder holds the charge connector. The cable suspending portion suspends and holds the cable. The holder and the cable suspending portion are disposed at a housing installed on a wall surface. The cable is extracted from the housing. The housing has a side portion at which a tapered surface as a surface facing obliquely ahead is disposed. The holder is mounted on the tapered surface.

Abstract: A charge and discharge device for an electric vehicle includes a cable, a holder, and a cable suspending portion. The cable has a distal end at which a charge connector is provided. The charge connector is coupled to an electric vehicle to charge and discharge. The holder holds the charge connector. The cable suspending portion suspends and holds the cable. The holder and the cable suspending portion are disposed at a housing installed on a wall surface. The cable is extracted from the housing. The housing has a side portion at which a tapered surface as a surface facing obliquely ahead is disposed. The holder is mounted on the tapered surface.

Abstract: A control apparatus comprises: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating charging and discharging performance of an electric power device and environmental information on the electric power device; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a characteristic of operation of charging and discharging the electric power device; a correction unit configured to correct the information indicating the charging and discharging performance of the electric power device on the basis of the environmental information; and a control unit configured to control the operation of charging and discharging the electric power device according to a management plan, the management plan being based on the information indicating the charging and discharging performance corrected by the correction unit and the information indicating the characteristic of the operation of charging and discharging the electric power device.

Abstract: A charge/discharge management apparatus for executing charge/discharge of a battery of a vehicle electrically connected to a facility, comprising an obtaining unit for obtaining use histories of a plurality of batteries corresponding to a plurality of vehicles electrically connected to the facility, and a selection unit for selecting a battery subjected to execution of charge/discharge from the plurality of batteries based on priority decided from the use histories.

Abstract: An electric power management device that manages electric power in a building configured to be electrically connectable to a vehicle including a battery, the device comprising a command issuing unit configured to issue a command to perform charging and discharging of the battery, a specifying unit configured to specify a target range for a charging rate of the battery in performing charging and discharging, and a storage unit configured to store the charging rate in performing charging and discharging, wherein the command issuing unit restrains an issuance of a command to start discharging when the stored charging rate is not more than a lower-limit value of the target range, and restrains an issuance of a command to start charging when the stored charging rate is not less than an upper-limit value of the target range.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a body portion and an external electrode on a surface of the body portion. The external electrode includes a base electrode layer, a first Ni plated layer, and an upper plated layer. The first Ni plated layer is provided on the base electrode layer. The upper plated layer is provided above the first Ni plated layer. The first Ni plated layer has a S concentration of not less than about 5.2×1018 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a body portion and an external electrode. The external electrode is provided on a surface of the body portion. The external electrode includes a base electrode layer, a first Ni plated layer, and an upper plated layer. The first Ni plated layer is provided on the base electrode layer. The upper plated layer is provided above the first Ni plated layer. The first Ni plated layer includes Ni particles having an average particle size of not more than about 52 nm.

Abstract: An electric power management apparatus that manages electric power in a facility configured to be electrically connectable to a vehicle including a battery, the electric power management apparatus comprising a calculation unit that calculates a degree of charging or discharging executable for the battery, an instruction unit that gives an instruction on the charging or discharging, an acquisition unit that acquires a degree of the charging or discharging that is actually being executed in response to the instruction of the instruction unit, and a stopping unit that stops the charging or discharging executed in response to the instruction of the instruction unit on the basis of a difference between the calculated degree and the acquired degree.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a body portion and an external electrode. The external electrode is provided on a surface of the body portion. The external electrode includes a base electrode layer, a first Ni plated layer, and an upper plated layer. The first Ni plated layer is provided on the base electrode layer. The upper plated layer is provided above the first Ni plated layer. The first Ni plated layer includes Ni particles having an average particle size of not more than about 52 nm.

Abstract: A charge control device capable of charging a battery with electric power generated by a photovoltaic power generator, includes: a setting unit configured to set a control value relating to a magnitude of electric power to be supplied to the battery; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to an actual supplied electric power supplied to the battery. The setting unit sets a predetermined initial value as the control value and then increases and decreases the control value based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A power control device that can charge a battery by controlling an output of a conversion unit configured to convert a supplied grid electric power into an electric power for charging the battery, the power control device includes: a sensing unit configured to sense voltage and current of the supplied grid electric power; a determination unit configured to determine whether a sensed voltage sensed by the sensing unit is in an unstable state in which the sensed voltage drops relative to a rated voltage of the supplied grid electric power; a calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable power value based on the sensed voltage and a rated current of the supplied grid electric power in a case when the determination unit determines that the sensed voltage is in the unstable state; and a control unit configured to control the output of the conversion unit based on the allowable power value.