Abstract: An electrolytic foil and a battery current collector is provided in which the risk of breakage or tearing during manufacturing presented by reduced thickness can be restrained, and which possess sufficient strength for repeated charging and discharging in a secondary battery. The electrolytic foil and the battery current collector contain a Ni—Fe alloy layer, having a thickness of 1.5 to 10 ?m and having a first surface and a second surface and wherein the value of a three-dimensional surface properties parameter Sv divided by the thickness is equal to or less than 0.5 for the first surface and the second surface.

Abstract: A method of producing a light water reactor fuel assembly may include: setting conditions at least concerning an operation cycle period and burnup; setting an initial enrichment of enriched uranium; calculating excess reactivity of a light water reactor core where light water reactor fuel assemblies including the enriched uranium are burned until an end stage of a final operation cycle; determining whether a condition where excess reactivity at an end of a first operation cycle in the burnup calculation step is close to a predetermined positive value is true or not; and returning to the setting of the initial enrichment, when it is determined at the determining that the situation is not true, or deciding an enrichment of the enriched uranium when it is determined that the situation is true.

Abstract: A power transmitting device includes a power transmission unit using contactless power supply, processing circuitry configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmission unit between a normal output mode and a limit mode, and a transmission-side communication unit configured to execute communication with a power receiving device. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the power receiving device is a registered power receiving device based on information related to the power receiving device obtained from the transmission-side communication unit, determine whether the registered power receiving device is located inside a power transmission range of the power transmission unit, set the power transmission mode to the normal output mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is located inside the range, and set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when determining that the registered power receiving device is not located inside the range.

Abstract: Light water reactor fuel assemblies each comprises: light water reactor fuel rods that extend longitudinally, contain nuclear fuel materials including enriched uranium, and are arranged parallel to each other; and burnable poison containing fuel rods that extend longitudinally, contain nuclear fuel materials whose main component is uranium that is lower in enrichment than the enriched uranium of the light water reactor fuel rods, and burnable poison, and are arranged in a lattice pattern together with the light water reactor fuel rods. The assemblies are arranged parallel to each other and in a lattice pattern. An initial value of a first enrichment of the enriched uranium is set in such a way that the first enrichment of the enriched uranium at an end of each operation cycle is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic conductive film that is easily manufactured with high productivity and high yield. For this purpose, a pair of slits 13 are formed on a sheet-shaped base material 12 made of a flexible insulating film, and this is cut out to prepare a support member 14, and contact portions 16 and 17 are formed on the upper and lower surfaces thereof. Moreover, a conductive film 15, which makes only a pair of the contact portions 16 and 17, placed on the upper and lower surfaces, mutually conductive independently, is formed so that a conductive unit 11 is formed; thus, a number of the conductive units 11 are formed and aligned side by side.

Abstract: In order to provide a radio device which enables reducing its size regardless of the shape of a radio device antenna, a radio device includes a radio device antenna having a transmission/reception face A for transmitting and/or receiving signals, and a signal processing circuit for conducting predetermined processing on signals received at the radio device antenna and/or converting signals to be transmitted into signals adaptable to outputting from the radio device antenna. Further, in the radio device, a straight line (II)-(I) starting from a predetermined point (I) on the radio circuit board and extending from the predetermined point (I) in the direction opposite from the direction from the predetermined point (I) to a predetermined point (II) on the radio device antenna passes through a predetermined point (III) on the radio device antenna.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic conductive film that is easily manufactured with high productivity and high yield. For this purpose, a pair of slits 13 are formed on a sheet-shaped base material 12 made of a flexible insulating film, and this is cut out to prepare a support member 14, and contact portions 16 and 17 are formed on the upper and lower surfaces thereof. Moreover, a conductive film 15, which makes only a pair of the contact portions 16 and 17, placed on the upper and lower surfaces, mutually conductive independently, is formed so that a conductive unit 11 is formed; thus, a number of the conductive units 11 are formed and aligned side by side.

Abstract: Confocal microscope equipment which provides real time 3-dimensional display by scanning at high speeds in the direction of the optical axis, wherein sliced images of a sample are obtained by scanning the sample surface with a light beam using a confocal scanner having an objective lens actuator which scans the objective lens in the optical axis direction faster than a one image integrating time when photographing the slice images with an image pickup device or when observing the sliced images direction with the naked eye.

Abstract: A speaker provided with a diaphragm having a foamed resin body of relatively low density on its front surface includes a thin sheet of foamed resin applied to its surface. The thin sheet of foamed resin has relatively high flexural rigidity and is impermeable to air, to enable the surface of the foamed resin body to be protected against damage or indentation that might otherwise be caused. The thin sheet of foamed resin may be coated with a paint or have a foil applied to its surface. The speaker has improved electroacoustic transducing efficiency.