Abstract: Provided herein is a solid-state battery having high volume energy density, as well as a method of manufacture of such a solid-state battery. A solid-state battery 100 is a laminate including a first collector layer 1, a positive electrode layer 2, a solid electrolyte layer 5, a negative electrode layer 4, and a second collector layer 3, in this order from the top. The solid-state battery 100 satisfies ?>90°, ?>90°, and ?>?, where ? is the angle formed in the positive electrode layer 2 by a side surface 2A of the positive electrode layer 2 and the top surface of the solid electrolyte layer 5 underlying the positive electrode layer 2, and ? is the angle formed in the negative electrode layer 4 by a side surface 4A of the negative electrode layer 4 and the top surface of the second collector layer 3 underlying the negative electrode layer 4.

Abstract: A tube includes a corrugated metal tubular member; and a first covering part that covers the outside of the tubular member, and forms a braided structure using a resin string member of which at least a part is covered by a metal having lower electrical resistance than that of a metal forming the tubular member. The tube can also include a third covering part made of an insulating resin arranged between the tubular member and the first covering part, and covers the tubular member, wherein the first covering part covers the third covering part.

Abstract: Provided are an optical filter having excellent light fastness and moisture resistance and having excellent detection accuracy, a structure, and an optical sensor. An optical filter 10a includes a near infrared transmitting filter 1 and a dielectric multi-layer film 2. In this optical filter, the dielectric multi-layer film 2 and the near infrared transmitting filter 1 are in contact with each other, or an organic layer 3 is provided between the dielectric multi-layer film 2 and the near infrared transmitting filter 3. In the optical filter, at least two wavelengths at which a transmittance in a wavelength range of 600 nm or longer and shorter than 1050 nm is 50% are present, and in a case where a wavelength on a shortest wavelength side is represented by ?1 and a wavelength on a longest wavelength side is represented by ?2 among the wavelengths at which the transmittance is 50%, predetermined conditions are satisfied.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus of the present disclosure controls outputs of a blue laser oscillator and an infrared laser oscillator such that before a surface melting is detected on a workpiece, the workpiece is irradiated with at least blue laser light, and after the surface melting is detected on the workpiece, a power of infrared laser light with which the workpiece is irradiated is increased as compared to before the surface melting is detected.

Abstract: Provided is a composition with which a film having reduced color unevenness can be formed. In addition, provide are a film, an infrared transmitting filter, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. The composition including a light shielding material; and a compound A having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 or higher that has a radically polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group, in which the compound A includes a repeating unit having a graft chain, and a ratio Amin/Bmax of a minimum value Amin of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 400 to 640 nm to a maximum value Bmax of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 940 to 1300 nm is 5 or higher.

Abstract: Provided is a composition with which a pattern having excellent adhesiveness can be formed. In addition, provided are a film, an infrared transmitting filter, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. This composition includes a coloring material, a resin, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable compound includes a compound A having an alkyleneoxy group and three ethylenically unsaturated groups, and a ratio A/B of a minimum value A of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 400 to 750 nm to a maximum value B of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 1100 to 1300 nm is 4.5 or higher.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus of the present disclosure controls outputs of a blue laser oscillator and an infrared laser oscillator such that before a surface melting is detected on a workpiece, the workpiece is irradiated with at least blue laser light, and after the surface melting is detected on the workpiece, a power of infrared laser light with which the workpiece is irradiated is increased as compared to before the surface melting is detected.

Abstract: A light source measurement apparatus includes an objective lens that collects light emitted from a light source having a plurality of light emission points, a first reflection attenuation filter, a second reflection attenuation filter, a condensing lens, a space filter, and a movable stage, in which the first reflection attenuation filter and the second reflection attenuation filter are disposed such that polarization directions are orthogonal to each other, in which the space filter has an opening through which light emitted from a measurement target light emission point among the plurality of light emission points is transmitted, and in which the opening has a shape in which a dimension of the measurement target light emission point in a fast direction is larger than a dimension of the measurement target light emission point in a slow direction.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a lid includes a circular top portion, a fitting portion, and a skirt portion. The top portion has a drinking hole. The fitting portion includes an inner fitting portion protruding upwardly from a peripheral end of the top portion and adapted to contact a rim-side inner circumferential surface of a container body, and an upper fitting portion thicker than the inner fitting portion and adapted to be fitted onto a rim of the container body. An upper end of the fitting portion is at a level higher than the drinking hole. The skirt portion at its upper end is continuous with an outer-side lower end of the fitting portion. The skirt portion extends downwardly away from the rim. The skirt portion is adapted to cover a rim-side circumferential surface of the container body.

Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging element including a support 1 having a photoelectric conversion unit 10 and an optical filter 20 provided on a light incident side with respect to the photoelectric conversion unit 10. The optical filter 20 has two or more kinds of pixels 21, 22, and 23 arranged in a patterned manner and a partition wall 25 disposed between the pixels. A refractive index of the partition wall with respect to light having a wavelength of 533 nm is 1.10 to 1.30, a width W1 of the partition wall is 80 to 150 nm, a refractive index of the pixels with respect to light having a wavelength of 1000 nm is 1.60 to 1.90, a difference between a thickness H1 of the partition wall and a thickness H2 of pixels adjacent to the partition wall is 200 nm or less, and a difference between the refractive index of the partition wall with respect to light having a wavelength of 533 nm and a refractive index of the pixels adjacent to the partition wall with respect to light having a wavelength of 1000 nm is 0.

Abstract: A current estimating device that estimates a capacitor current of a high-voltage circuit for driving a motor, wherein the current estimating device calculates a voltage utilization rate using the input voltage of an inverter included in the high-voltage circuit and the speed of the motor, calculates a first constant by applying the voltage utilization rate to a predetermined first arithmetic expression, and calculates the capacitor current of an electrical condenser included in the high-voltage circuit by multiplying the first constant by a motor current effective value.

Abstract: Provided is a coloring composition capable of forming a cured film having desired spectral characteristics even for thin-film. In addition, provided are a cured film, a pattern forming method, a color filter, a solid-state imaging element, and an image display device. The coloring composition contains: a pigment A having a structure in which an aromatic ring group into which a group with an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a nitrogen atom bonded to an aromatic ring is introduced is bonded to a diketopyrrolopyrrole skeleton; and a compound having a curable group. A content of the pigment A in a total solid content of the coloring composition is 40% by mass or more.

Abstract: Provided are a composition including at least one selected from silica particles in a shape in which a plurality of spherical silicas are connected in a bead shape or silica particles in a shape in which a plurality of spherical silicas are connected in a plane, and a solvent, in which at least a part of hydroxy groups on a surface of the silica particles is treated with a hydrophobizing treatment agent which reacts with the hydroxy group; a film formed of the composition; a structural body; a color filter; a solid-state imaging element; and an image display device.

Abstract: Provided are a composition including at least one selected from silica particles in a shape in which a plurality of spherical silicas are connected in a bead shape, silica particles in a shape in which a plurality of spherical silicas are connected in a plane, or silica particles having a hollow structure, a surfactant, and a solvent, in which at least a part of hydroxy groups on a surface of the silica particles is treated with a hydrophobizing treatment agent which reacts with the hydroxy group; a film formed of the composition; a structural body; a color filter; a solid-state imaging element; and an image display device.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device includes a storage device that stores a normal signal generation model configured to output, upon receiving an output value of a knocking sensor, a noise-removed output value therefrom which an unlearned noise component value has been removed, and a first learned neural network pre-learned to output, upon receiving one of the output value of the knocking sensor and the noise-removed output value, an estimated value of a knocking intensity representative value, and a processor that acquires the estimated value by inputting the output value of the knocking sensor to the normal signal generation model and inputting the noise-removed output value to the first learned neural network, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the acquired estimated value.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component including: a ceramic element body including an end surface extending along a first axis, and a side surface extending along a second axis and intersecting the end surface; an end-face electrode formed on the end surface of the ceramic element body; and a lead terminal connected to the end-face electrode by soldering. The lead terminal includes: an adjacent part overlapping the end-face electrode in a side view from the second axis; and an extension part extending from an end of the adjacent part in a direction away from a plane including the side surface. A first recess is formed at the extension part and is recessed in a direction away from a plane including the end surface, and the first recess exists at a position close to the end of the adjacent part.

Abstract: An ignition timing control device includes a storage device that stores a normal signal generation model configured to output, upon receiving an output value of a knocking sensor, a noise-removed output value therefrom which an unlearned noise component value has been removed, and a first learned neural network pre-learned to output, upon receiving one of the output value of the knocking sensor and the noise-removed output value, an estimated value of a knocking intensity representative value, and a processor that acquires the estimated value by inputting the output value of the knocking sensor to the normal signal generation model and inputting the noise-removed output value to the first learned neural network, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the acquired estimated value.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a chip component and a metal terminal. The chip component has an element body where internal electrodes are laminated inside and a terminal electrode formed outside the element body and connected with end parts of the internal electrodes. The metal terminal is connected with the terminal electrode of the chip component. The metal terminal includes an electrode face portion and a mount portion. The electrode face portion is arranged correspondingly with an end surface of the terminal electrode. The mount portion is mounted on a mount surface. The electrode face portion is provided with an opening portion so that a part of the terminal electrode corresponding with at least a part of the internal electrodes is exposed to the outside.

Abstract: Provided are a composition, a film, and a film forming method. The composition includes: silica particles; a silicone-based surfactant; and a solvent, in which a content of the silicone-based surfactant in the composition is 0.01 to 0.30 mass % or a content of the silicone-based surfactant is 0.05 to 5.00 mass % with respect to a total solid content of the composition.

Abstract: A combustion device includes: a gas proportional valve; a control portion; a driving circuit; and a monitoring circuit. The monitoring circuit includes: a voltage generating portion configured to generate monitoring voltages corresponding to a driving current; and a branch output portion configured to output the monitoring voltages to a plurality of terminals of the control portion. When a voltage difference between the monitoring voltages input to the plurality of terminals is a determination reference value or more, the control portion determines that there is a failure of the monitoring circuit. When the voltage difference between the monitoring voltages is less than the determination reference value, and at least one of the monitoring voltages does not fall within a predetermined normal range while the gas proportional valve is controlled to become a predetermined state, the control portion determines that there is the failure of the monitoring circuit.