Abstract: A negative electrode includes an active material layer and an inorganic solid electrolyte layer. The inorganic solid electrolyte layer is on the active material layer. The active material layer includes, in order from a side far from the inorganic solid electrolyte layer, a lithium metal layer, an intermediate layer, and a surface layer. As constituent elements, the intermediate layer includes lithium and oxygen, the surface layer includes lithium, oxygen, and carbon, and the inorganic solid electrolyte layer includes a characteristic element different from lithium, oxygen, and carbon. In an element analysis result based on XPS, a ratio of an abundance of lithium to an abundance of carbon is greater than 2 at any depth within a range from a first intersection to a second intersection. The first intersection is where a characteristic element spectrum intersects a carbon spectrum. The second intersection is where a lithium spectrum intersects an oxygen spectrum.

Abstract: Provided is a work vehicle including left and right front wheels located in a front portion of a vehicle body of the work vehicle; left and right rear wheels located in a rear portion of the vehicle body; a driver section located at an intermediate position of the vehicle body in a front-rear direction, and including a driver seat; a ROPS frame including left and right front columns and left and right rear columns, and covering the driver section; and a plurality of suspension mechanisms supporting the front wheels and the rear wheels to the vehicle body in such a manner that the front wheels and the rear wheels are individually movable up and down, and wherein the ROPS frame is attached to positions immediately above, or in a vicinity of, vehicle body-side support sections of the suspension mechanisms.

Abstract: A sample preparation evaluation system comprises a preparation device that prepares a sample, a measurement device that measures a physical property or a structure of the sample prepared by the preparation device and outputs substance information indicating the measured physical property or the measured structure of the sample and a prediction device connected to the preparation device and the measurement device. The prediction device predicts a preparation condition for optimizing the substance information based on a data set including the preparation condition of the sample and the substance information of the sample. The preparation device prepares a sample according to the predicted preparation condition.

Abstract: A step linear actuator includes a stationary member of a magnetic material, a pair of moving units each being in contact with the stationary member and having a magnetic coupling element for magnetically generating a contact force to the stationary member and an opposing face opposing to the opposing face of the other moving unit through a gap therebetween, and a magnetic driver for generating magnetic forces to control the contract force between each moving unit and the stationary member and to cause a relative movement of the pair of moving units with respect to each other.

Abstract: A magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a motor driven differential mechanism having racks and pinions, an operatively activatable electromagnetic mechanism having movable levers and a plurality of magnetic coils for moving the levers for engagement with the differential mechanism and a tape transport system adapted to cooperate with the differential mechanism so as to be placed in a desired tape transport operation in accordance with the activational condition of the coils. The apparatus also has a pair of one-way clutches for transmitting the driving power of the motor selectively to the differential mechanism or to the tape transport system in accordance with the rotational direction of the motor.

Abstract: A magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a cam driven mechanism for moving a pressure roller from a first position within a cutout recess of a tape cassette and behind the inner side of a magnetic tape to a second position slightly spaced from a tape drive capstan. According to said movement of the pressure roller, a tape drawing pin is moved from an inoperative position within the cutout recess and behind the inner side of the magnetic tape to an operative position where the tape is drawn out of the cassette and brought into a desired tape path so as to be engaged with a magnetic head which is stationarily mounted on a base plate of the apparatus. The pressure roller is further moved to a third position in which it is pressed against the tape drive capstan by a solenoid mechanism upon energization thereof so as to move the tape.

Abstract: A guide drum apparatus for a video tape recorder and/or player has: a main shaft secured on a chassis, a first guide drum rotatably mounted on the main shaft and having a plurality of magnetic video heads, driving means for rotating the first guide drum at a rotational speed greater than the speed of movement of a tape, and a second guide drum mounted on the main shaft coaxially with the first guide drum and rotatable independently therefrom. The first and second guide drums have tape guiding portions, respectively, which are opposed to each other and have peripheral tape guide surfaces to guide the magnetic tape. Adjusting means is mounted on the main shaft so as to adjust the height of the video heads with respect to the tape guiding portion of the second guide drum. With this guide drum apparatus, the height of the video heads can be adjusted precisely and easily to trace the video track on the tape even while the video heads are rotating at a high speed.