Abstract: Provided is conductive carbon that gives an electrical storage device having a high energy density. This conductive carbon includes a hydrophilic part, and the contained amount of the hydrophilic part is 10 mass % or more of the entire conductive carbon. When performing a rolling treatment on an active material layer including an active material particle and this conductive carbon formed on a current collector during manufacture of an electrode of an electric storage device, the pressure resulting from the rolling treatment causes this conductive carbon to spread in a paste-like form and increase in density. The active material particles approach each other, and the conductive carbon is pressed into gaps formed between adjacent active material particles, filling the gaps. As a result, the amount of active material per unit volume in the electrode obtained after the rolling treatment increases, and the electrode density increases.

Abstract: Specifying information for specifying a surrounding inspection target which is an inspection target present in a predetermined range with respect to the imaging terminal is acquired from the imaging terminal. The surrounding inspection target is specified among the plurality of inspection targets on the basis of the specifying information. It is evaluated whether or not there is an image acquisition area in which acquisition of a new captured image is necessary for the surrounding inspection target on the basis of a result of accessing a database that stores maintenance and inspection information including at least a captured image for each of the plurality of inspection targets and referring to the maintenance and inspection information of the surrounding inspection target. Image acquisition area information indicating the image acquisition area in which the acquisition of a new captured image is evaluated to be necessary is output to the imaging terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a fluid fan clutch with excellent cooling performance capable of effectively preventing, by very simple means, a decrease in the volume of air due to backflow of cooling fan air occurring when the fan clutch is activated. The fluid fan clutch has a structure with a fan removably fixed to a housing composed of a front-side housing component (cover) and a back-side housing component (case), wherein projecting parts for preventing backflow of fan air are arranged on the back-side housing component so as to be shifted in the circumferential direction with respect to fixing projections of the front-side housing component.

Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.

Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive carbon mixture which is to be used together with an electrode active material in manufacturing an electrode of an electricity storage device and enables the manufacture of the electricity storage device having a good cycle life. The conductive carbon mixture for manufacturing an electrode of an electricity storage device comprises an oxidized carbon having electrical conductivity and a different conductive carbon which is different from the oxidized carbon, wherein the oxidized carbon covers the surface of the different conductive carbon. The conductive carbon mixture is characterized in that the ratio of the peak intensity of the 2D band to the peak intensity of the D band in a Raman spectrum of the conductive carbon mixture is 55% or less relative to the ratio of the peak intensity of the 2D band to the peak intensity of the D band in a Raman spectrum of the different conductive carbon.

Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.

Abstract: Provided is conductive carbon that gives an electrical storage device having a high energy density. This conductive carbon includes a hydrophilic part, and the contained amount of the hydrophilic part is 10 mass % or more of the entire conductive carbon. When performing a rolling treatment on an active material layer including an active material particle and this conductive carbon formed on a current collector during manufacture of an electrode of an electric storage device, the pressure resulting from the rolling treatment causes this conductive carbon to spread in a paste-like form and increase in density. The active material particles approach each other, and the conductive carbon is pressed into gaps formed between adjacent active material particles, filling the gaps. As a result, the amount of active material per unit volume in the electrode obtained after the rolling treatment increases, and the electrode density increases.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination, first, second and third receiving, and first and second checking units, and a controller. When a determination result matches a first determination result, the first checking unit outputs a matching determination result as the final output. The second checking unit checks the first determination result against a second. The first and second determination results are respectively received by the first and second receiving units. When the first determination result matches the second, the second checking unit outputs the matching determination result as the final output. When the input information is received, the controller operates the determination, first receiving, and first checking units. When it is determined that the determination result does not match the first determination result, the controller operates selectively one of a unit set and the third receiving unit. The unit set is constituted by the second receiving and checking units.

Abstract: A damper device according to an embodiment includes first to third rotating elements rotatable about a rotational center; a first elastic element located between the first and third rotational elements and compressed by relative rotation of the first rotational element to the third rotational element in one rotational direction; a second elastic element located between the second and third rotational elements and compressed by relative rotation of the third rotational element to the second rotational element in the one rotational direction, a support member intervenient between the third rotational element and the first elastic element to support the first elastic element; and a restrictor provided with the third rotational element to rotatably support the support member in a plane orthogonal to the rotational center, to restrict the support member from rotating beyond a certain angle and from moving away from the third rotational element in rotational directions.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains a number of times of data inputting required for each of plural input items to which operators are to input data and an input screen information generation unit that generates, for the operators on a basis of the obtained number of times of data inputting, input screen information to which the operators are to input data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires process information associated with a reference image and regarding an input process performed by referencing the reference image, and a process decision unit that decides a content of a next input process to perform by referencing the reference image, on a basis of the process information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode which gives an electric storage device that has high energy density and good cycle life. This electrode for an electric storage device is characterized by having an active material layer that contains: an electrode active material particle; and a paste-like conductive carbon that is derived from an oxidized carbon obtained by giving an oxidizing treatment to a carbon raw material with an inner vacancy and covers a surface of the electrode active material particle. The paste-like conductive carbon derived from the oxidized carbon is densely filled not only into a gap that is formed between the electrode active material particles adjacent to each other but also into a pore that exists on the surface of the active material particle, so that the electrode density is increased, thereby improving the energy density of the electric storage device.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first port and a processor coupled to the first port and configured to transmit, via the first port, a first signal to a first device coupled to the first port, cause a second device coupled to the first port to determine whether a failure is present in the first port when the information processing device does not receive a first response signal in response to the first signal, and determine that the failure is present in the first device when the second device does not determine that the failure is present in the first port.

Abstract: Provided is conductive carbon that gives an electrical storage device having a high energy density. This conductive carbon includes a hydrophilic part, and the contained amount of the hydrophilic part is 10 mass % or more of the entire conductive carbon. When performing a rolling treatment on an active material layer including an active material particle and this conductive carbon formed on a current collector during manufacture of an electrode of an electric storage device, the pressure resulting from the rolling treatment causes this conductive carbon to spread in a paste-like form and increase in density. The active material particles approach each other, and the conductive carbon is pressed into gaps formed between adjacent active material particles, filling the gaps. As a result, the amount of active material per unit volume in the electrode obtained after the rolling treatment increases, and the electrode density increases.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which leads to a lithium ion secondary battery that has high energy density. An electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention is characterized by containing: a coarse particle of a first active material that is able to act as a positive electrode active material or a negative electrode active material of a lithium ion secondary battery; and a particle of a composite composed of conductive carbon and a second active material attached to the conductive carbon that is able to act as an active material of the same electrode as the first active material. This electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery is also characterized in that: a diameter of the coarse particle of the first active material is larger than a diameter of the particle of the composite; and the particle of the composite is filled in a gap formed between the particles of the first active material. A conductive agent can be additionally contained in the gap.

Abstract: Provided is a fluid fan clutch with excellent cooling performance capable of effectively preventing, by very simple means, a decrease in the volume of air due to backflow of cooling fan air occurring when the fan clutch is activated. The fluid fan clutch has a structure with a fan removably fixed to a housing composed of a front-side housing component (cover) and a back-side housing component (case), wherein projecting parts for preventing backflow of fan air are arranged on the back-side housing component so as to be shifted in the circumferential direction with respect to fixing projections of the front-side housing component.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode which gives an electric storage device that has high energy density and good cycle life. This electrode for an electric storage device is characterized by having an active material layer that contains: an electrode active material particle; and a paste-like conductive carbon that is derived from an oxidized carbon obtained by giving an oxidizing treatment to a carbon raw material with an inner vacancy and covers a surface of the electrode active material particle. The paste-like conductive carbon derived from the oxidized carbon is densely filled not only into a gap that is formed between the electrode active material particles adjacent to each other but also into a pore that exists on the surface of the active material particle, so that the electrode density is increased, thereby improving the energy density of the electric storage device.

Abstract: A storage system includes storage apparatuses and a second transmission path. The storage apparatuses each include a control device, and memory devices coupled in series with the control device through a first transmission path having the control device at a beginning. The memory devices are accessed by the control device. The second transmission path couples the storage apparatuses in a loop to allow communications between the control devices. The second transmission path includes the first transmission paths included in the respective storage apparatuses. The second transmission path is formed such that an ending of the first transmission path included in a first storage apparatus of the storage apparatuses is connected to the beginning of the first transmission path included in a second storage apparatus subsequent to the first storage apparatus on the second transmission path.