Abstract: To provide a gas sensor apparatus capable of preventing clogging of a gas intake port due to particles, droplets, or the like, of a gas and maintaining measurement accuracy for a long time, a gas sensor apparatus 1 includes a housing 3. The housing 3 includes an expansion chamber 6 communicating with an air intake passage 2 via an air intake port 8, and a measurement chamber 5 communicating with the expansion chamber 6 via a communicating portion 7. A double squeezing structure including the gas intake port 8 and the communicating portion 7 is provided, and two stages of regions where the volume expands between the gas intake port 8 and the measurement chamber 5 are provided. As a result, the movement of the air in the measurement chamber 5 is decreased. It is possible to provide a structure in which the capacity of the gas intake port 8 is increased to avoid clogging of the gas intake port due to particles or droplets.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to quickly and surely acquire icon information without passing through a plurality of hierarchies. A mobile terminal 110 according to the present invention includes a display unit 214, a touch detection unit 218 that receives a user input onto a surface of the display unit, an operation unit 216 including a plurality of movable operation keys, and a guidance display unit that enters a guidance display mode upon detection of a depression of a predetermined movable operation key of the operation unit 216, and in the guidance display mode, upon detection of a user input onto an icon displayed on the display unit by the touch detection unit 218, displays on the display unit a predetermined guidance screen related to the icon.

Abstract: In order to prevent deterioration and a breakdown of a sensor element when the sensor element is activated in a state where liquid is attached thereto, and to remove the liquid in a short period of time with lower power consumption, there is provided a gas sensor including a first heating element and a second heating element that is formed around the periphery of the first heating element and has a wider forming area than the first heating element, and measuring a gas amount by heating the first heating element to a predetermined temperature, in which the second heating element is heated when the gas sensor is activated, and the first heating element is heated to the predetermined temperature after a heat value of the first heating element is restricted for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: In order to achieve measurement with high precision by suitably correcting a measurement error, a hot-type fluid measurement device includes a module having a passage section and a circuit chamber, a sensor element disposed in the passage section, and a circuit element disposed in the circuit chamber. The circuit element includes a correction section that corrects flow rate information detected by the sensor element from temperature difference information of a temperature of a fluid and a temperature of the module, and at least one temperature of the temperature of the fluid or the temperature of the module.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to quickly and surely acquire icon information without passing through a plurality of hierarchies. A mobile terminal 110 according to the present invention includes a display unit 214, a touch detection unit 218 that receives a user input onto a surface of the display unit, an operation unit 216 including a plurality of movable operation keys, and a guidance display unit that enters a guidance display mode upon detection of a depression of a predetermined movable operation key of the operation unit 216, and in the guidance display mode, upon detection of a user input onto an icon displayed on the display unit by the touch detection unit 218, displays on the display unit a predetermined guidance screen related to the icon.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact and highly accurate intake air temperature sensor by integrating a fixed resistor, connected in series to a temperature sensing element, into an integrated circuit and dispensing with a reference resistor or a changeover switch for connecting the fixed resistor to this reference resistor. The intake air temperature sensor has a temperature sensing element whose resistance value varies with the intake temperature; an integrated circuit electrically connected to the temperature sensing element; a resistive element connected in series to the temperature sensing element; a writable memory that stores correction information corresponding to the resistance value of the resistive element; and a correction processing unit that corrects errors based on the resistance value of the resistive element, which are included in output signals of the temperature sensing element, on the basis of the correction information stored in the writable memory.

Abstract: Disclosed is a charging system for both plug-in charging systems and contactless charging systems, having a simple electrical configuration, and capable of achieving miniaturization and weight saving. The charging system includes a secondary cell charged via first/second coils of a transformer to which electrical power is supplied from a first power supply via a plug-in connector, and a third coil supplied with electrical power from a second power supply, a relative position of which to the second coil of the transformer is variable, and which can be magnetically coupled to the second coil when the second coil approaches the third coil, wherein the secondary cell is charged via magnetic coupling between first/second coils when charging the secondary cell by the first power supply, and the secondary cell is charged via magnetic coupling between the third coil and second coils when charging the secondary cell by the second power supply.

Abstract: There is provided a fluid measurement device that is high in measurement precision. The fluid measurement device has a circuit unit into which a first signal S1 output from a first detection element and a second signal S2 output from a second detection element are to he input, wherein the circuit unit includes signal processing means that outputs a third signal S3 according to the first signal and the second signal, state deciding means that decides a state of the first signal, and control means that controls an amount of change that a change of the first signal imparts to the third signal in accordance with a result of decision by the state deciding means.

Abstract: To provide a lithium recovery method which is capable of efficiently recovering lithium without containing impurities, such as phosphorus and fluorine. In the present invention, an alkali is added to a discharge liquid and/or a cleaning liquid containing lithium discharged in a process of recovering valuable metals from a lithium ion battery, an acidic solvent extractant is caused to be in contact with the discharge liquid and/or the cleaning liquid under a condition of pH 9 or less and a temperature of 0 to 25° C. and lithium ions are extracted, and the acidic solvent extractant having extracted the lithium ions is caused to be in contact with an acid solution of pH 3 or less and the lithium ions are stripped.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for separating and refining scandium capable of efficiently separating and refining the scandium from a solution containing the scandium, with improved stripping, while securing separability (selectivity) of the scandium from impurity elements. The method of the present invention involves mixing a solution containing the scandium with an organic solvent containing a trioctylphosphine oxide to extract the scandium into the organic solvent; and mixing the organic solvent with a stripping starting solution containing any one or more of water, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and oxalic acid to strip the scandium from the organic solvent.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thermal type flow rate sensor that offers high sensitivity and improved reliability. A sensor element according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a cavity portion formed on the semiconductor substrate, a heating resistor formed on the cavity portion via an electrically insulating film, a heating temperature sensor for detecting heating temperature of the heating resistor, and a driving circuit for controlling the heating temperature of the heating resistor using the temperature detected by the heating temperature sensor. The heating temperature sensor comprises temperature-sensitive resistors having resistance values varying according to temperature and disposed upstream and downstream of a direction of flow of a fluid to be measured relative to the heating resistor and on upper and lower sides in a direction perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid to be measured relative to the heating resistor.

Abstract: In configurations in which a circuit element is connected in parallel with a resistor, it is difficult to detect a break in the two wires. A thermal flow meter includes a heating element and a temperature controlling bridge circuit that is formed of a plurality of resistors and controls the temperature of the heating element. The thermal flow meter includes: a circuit element connected in parallel with at least one resistor configuring the temperature controlling bridge circuit through two wires drawn from both ends of the resistor; a voltage detection circuit that detects that the magnitude of voltage produced between the two wires has become smaller than a first predetermined value; and a fault signal output circuit that, when it is detected at the voltage detection circuit that the. magnitude of the voltage has become smaller than the first predetermined value, outputs a signal indicating a fault.

Abstract: To efficiently and selectively recover scandium from an acid solution containing calcium, magnesium and scandium. In the present invention, an acid solution containing calcium, magnesium and scandium is brought into contact with a scandium recovering resin impregnated with an amide derivative represented by the following general formula for an hour or more. In the formula, R1 and R2 each represent the same or different alkyl groups. The alkyl group can be a straight chain or a branched chain. R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. R4 represents a hydrogen atom or any group other than an amino group, which is bound to the ? carbon as an amino acid. The amide derivative is preferably any one or more of glycinamide derivatives, histidinamide derivatives, lysinamide derivatives and aspartic acid amide derivatives.

Abstract: In a related art sensor device, an output voltage of the sensor device is fixed not to a power supply voltage or a ground potential but to an intermediate potential upon disconnection of a power supply line or a ground line. A sensor device 1 is composed of: a detection element 8 whose voltage Vsen changes depending on a detected physical quantity; an output circuit configured by MOS switches 4 to 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 to 17, capacitors 2, 11 and 18, an operational amplifier 19, a reference voltage source 20, and output NMOS transistor 21; a series circuit of the MOS switch 4 and the capacitor 2, the series circuit being arranged in a negative feedback part of the output circuit; and a diode 3 that connects a well electrode of the MOS switch 4 and a power supply terminal Vcc.

Abstract: A flowmeter that improves a corrosion resistance is provided. The flowmeter includes a silicon substrate having a diaphragm where a heater is formed, an aluminum pad formed on a silicon substrate, an organic protective film laminated on the silicon substrate, and a mold resin that covers the silicon substrate. The diaphragm has an exposed portion exposed from the organic protective film, an adhesion surface high in adhesion property to the mold resin is laminated on the silicon substrate, and an adhesion film of the mold resin to the adhesion film is provided between the exposed portion and the aluminum pad.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for separating and refining scandium capable of efficiently separating and refining the scandium from a solution containing the scandium, with improved stripping, while securing separability (selectivity) of the scandium from impurity elements. The method of the present invention involves mixing a solution containing the scandium with an organic solvent containing a trioctylphosphine oxide to extract the scandium into the organic solvent; and mixing the organic solvent with a stripping starting solution containing any one or more of water, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and oxalic acid to strip the scandium from the organic solvent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a valuable metal leaching method and a valuable metal collection method, in each of which valuable metals can be leached efficiently, the amount of a reducing agent used can be reduced, and cost reduction can be achieved. In the present invention, a positive electrode material is immersed in an acidic solution together with a metal having a lower reduction potential than a reduction potential of hydrogen, whereby valuable metals are leached out from a positive-electrode active substance.

Abstract: An electronic device capable of making conversation using push to talk comprises a display module configured to display information, and a display controller configured to control the display module. The display controller makes the display module display a first display screen containing information about conversation using push to talk while the electronic device makes the conversation. When the display controller makes the display module display a display screen different from the first display screen while the electronic device makes the conversation, the display controller incorporates information on the first display screen into a partial region of the different display screen.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises an executing module, a display module, and a display controller. The display controller makes the display module display a first display screen containing information about execution of a certain function during execution. The executing module starts execution of a widget for making the display module display information included in the first display screen while the certain function is executed and thereafter when execution of the certain function is finished, the executing module finishes execution of the widget When the display controller makes the display module display a display screen different from the first display screen while the widget is executed, the display controller incorporates widget execution information into a partial region of the different display screen based on execution of the widget. The widget execution information includes at least part of the information on the first display screen.

Abstract: Measuring flow rate of gas based on amount of heat transfer from gas to temperature-sensing resistors, comprises: substrate having hollow space formed therethrough; an insulating film deposited on the substrate so as to cover the hollow space; a heat-generating resistor formed on the insulating film; temperature-sensing resistors arranged adjacent to the heat-generating resistor; electrodes arranged at an edge of the semiconductor substrate so electrodes are parallel to the edge; and wiring connecting the electrodes and heat-generating resistors. Thermal resistance of a first area is made almost equal to thermal resistance of a second area, first area is defined by the side of the heat-generating resistor closer to the electrodes and by the side of the hollow space closer to the electrodes, and the second area is defined by the opposite side of the heat-generating resistor and by the opposite side of the hollow space.