Abstract: The positive electrode active material disclosed here includes: first lithium composite oxide particles in the form of single particles; and second lithium composite oxide particles in the form of secondary particles. When in a volume-based particle size distribution obtained by a laser diffraction scattering method, a 10%-particle size (D10) is a particle size with a cumulative frequency of 10%, a 50%-particle size (D50) is a particle size with a cumulative frequency of 50%, and a 90%-particle size (D90) is a particle size with a cumulative frequency of 90%, a 50%-particle size of the second lithium composite oxide particles is larger than that of the first lithium composite oxide particles, and a particle size distribution width of the second lithium composite oxide particles expressed by (D90-D10)/D50 is 0.50 to 0.65.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a first input-output terminal and a second input-output terminal through which differential signals are input and output; a transceiver integrated circuit (IC) that transmits and receives the differential signals; a first line that connects the first input-output terminal and the transceiver IC; and a second line that connects the second input-output terminal and the transceiver IC. A first capacitance that is a capacitance between the first line and a ground is at least 80 pF and at most 220 pF, and a second capacitance that is a capacitance between the second line and the ground is at least 80 pF and at most 220 pF.

Abstract: A design execution apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs task group information indicating a task group including one or more tasks to be executed by an autonomous body and environmental information indicating an environment in which the task is executed; a determining unit that determines an order in which the autonomous body executes tasks included in a task group indicated by the task group information, based on the task group information and the environmental information that are input by the input unit; and a memory unit that stores order information indicating the order determined by the determining unit.

Abstract: A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a Schottky electrode that is formed at a first surface of the semiconductor layer and that forms a Schottky junction Sj between the semiconductor layer and the Schottky electrode, and the Schottky electrode has a first portion that is selectively formed near the first surface of the semiconductor layer in a thickness direction of the Schottky electrode and that is made of Ti containing oxygen. The Schottky electrode may have a second portion that is formed on the first portion and that is made of Ti and N.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material that can provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with high gas generation suppressing performance during storage and high output characteristics. The positive electrode active material includes monoparticulate first lithium composite oxide particles and secondary particulate second lithium composite oxide particles. The first and second lithium composite oxide particles contain Ni and have layered crystal structures. A median particle size D250 of the second lithium composite oxide particles is larger than a median particle size D150 of the first lithium composite oxide particles. An average primary particle size d1 of the first lithium composite oxide particles obtained by scanning electron microscope observation is less than 2.0 ?m. A ratio of the average primary particle size d1 of the first lithium composite oxide particles to the median particle size D150 of the first lithium composite oxide particles is 0.45 to 0.60.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode that can provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with high gas generation suppressing performance during storage and high cycle characteristics. The positive electrode disclosed here includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer supported by the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer includes monoparticulate first Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles and secondary particulate second Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles. The first Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles and the second Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles have layered crystal structures. The first Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles have an average particle size (D50) of 2 ?m to 6 ?m. The second Ni-containing lithium composite oxide particles have an average primary particle size of 1.2 ?m to 2.0 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material that can increase a volume capacity density of a positive electrode of a nonaqueous battery secondary battery and can provide the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with high cycle characteristics. A positive electrode active material disclosed here includes monoparticulate first lithium composite oxide particles and secondary particulate second lithium composite oxide particles. An average particle size of the second lithium composite oxide particles is larger than an average particle size of the first lithium composite oxide particles. The second lithium composite oxide particles have a porosity of 0.9% to 4.0%.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer including a semiconductor substrate and an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate; a surface electrode containing at least one selected from the group consisting of an aluminum alloy and aluminum and formed on the semiconductor layer; and an impurity region of a second conductivity type formed on a surface layer portion of the epitaxial layer and forming a pn junction with the epitaxial layer, wherein the surface electrode includes a Schottky portion that is in contact with a surface of the semiconductor layer and forms a Schottky junction with the epitaxial layer.