Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a center part and a covering part. The center part includes a layered rock-salt lithium-nickel composite oxide. The covering part covers a surface of the center part and includes a boron compound. The positive electrode active material has a crystallite size of a (104) plane that is greater than or equal to 40.0 nm and less than or equal to 74.5 nm. The crystallite size is calculated by X-ray diffractometry and Scherrer equation. The positive electrode active material has a specific surface area that satisfies a condition represented by ?0.0160×Z+1.72?A??0.0324×Z+2.94 where Z is the crystallite size (nm), and A is the specific surface area (m2/g). The specific surface area is measured by BET specific surface area measurement method.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a control unit configured to perform first control of, while performing printing by a printing unit in a state in which a trailing end portion of a preceding print medium overlaps a leading end portion of a succeeding print medium, controlling a conveying unit to separate the preceding print medium and the succeeding print medium from each other and, in the first control, adjusts a conveyance amount by the conveying unit to allow a conveying speed by the conveying unit to meet a criterion and adjusts a driving range of a nozzle based on the adjusted conveyance amount.

Abstract: When vibration sensed by knock sensor configured to sense the vibration of a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine is greater than a predetermined knock threshold value, a controller performs a first ignition timing control to retard ignition timings of cylinders so that the vibration becomes equal to or smaller than the knock threshold value; previously specifies a specific cylinder relating to a specific vibration due to a bending of a crank shaft; and in a state in which a driving state is in a predetermined specific driving region where there is a possibility that the specific vibration will be generated, when the vibration of the specific cylinder is greater than a predetermined specific vibration judgment threshold value that is smaller than the knock threshold value, performs a second ignition timing control to retard only the ignition timing of the specific cylinder by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, a control method for the printing apparatus, and a storage medium that can eliminate an overlapping state and suppress deterioration of alignment performance for discharged sheets are to be provided. Therefore, the appropriate distance at the completion of separating is set, and, in the separating operation, based on the distance, the overlapping state of the printing medium and the printing medium is eliminated by adjusting the conveyance speed of the downstream roller conveying the preceding printing medium and the conveyance speed of the upstream roller conveying the following printing media. Thereafter, the conveyance speed of the downstream roller is decelerated.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, first and second conveyance units conveying a print medium, and a control unit performing reduction control to reduce an overlap amount between a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium by using a speed difference. In a first case in which a trailing end of the preceding print medium and a leading end of the succeeding print medium are positioned in an interval between the first and second conveyance units, a conveying speed of the preceding print medium is set to a first speed. In a second case which is different from the first case and in which the trailing end and the leading end are positioned in the interval between the first and second conveyance units, the conveying speed of the preceding print medium is set to a second speed different from the first speed.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, comprising a printing unit, a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit at downstream side in a conveying direction of the first conveying unit, and a control unit for executing a first control such that a leading end portion of a second print medium succeeding a first print medium overlaps a trailing end portion of the first print medium and a second control such that the first and second print mediums are separated, wherein, in the second control, conveyance of the second print medium is suppressed while the printing unit is located in a region other than the to-be-printed region.

Abstract: A charging device is provided. The charging device switches to a (n+1)-th charging rate from a n-th charging rate when constant current charging is performed on a secondary battery at the n-th charging rate, at an SOC smaller than an SOC at which a voltage local minimum value appears when an experimental battery is charged at the n-th charging rate. The (n+1)-th charging rate is lower than the n-th charging rate, and n is a natural number.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus body held by a user and provided with a printing unit configured to perform printing in a case of being moved in a first direction; a first guide unit configured to guide the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit rotatably held with respect to a structure fixed to the apparatus body and configured to guide movement in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a drive unit configured to be connected with the second guide unit and to rotate the second guide unit so that the structure moves to the second direction relative to the second guide unit by driving of the drive unit.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feed roller, a conveyance roller, a recording unit, a reverse path, and a control unit. The conveyance roller conveys a sheet fed by the feed roller. The recording unit performs recording on the conveyed sheet. The reverse path reverses, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed. The control unit performs control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit. Recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet. The control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The separator is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a porous layer, a first adhesion layer, and a second adhesion layer. The first adhesion layer is provided between the porous layer and the positive electrode, and is adhered to the positive electrode. The second adhesion layer is provided between the porous layer and the negative electrode, and is adhered to the negative electrode. After the separator is heated at a heating temperature of 130° C.±5° C. for a heating time of one hour, an adhesion strength of the first adhesion layer with respect to the positive electrode is larger than an adhesion strength of the first adhesion layer with respect to the porous layer, and an adhesion strength of the second adhesion layer with respect to the negative electrode is larger than an adhesion strength of the second adhesion layer with respect to the porous layer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit to eject a liquid to an object to be printed in a first direction to perform printing, a placement unit on which the object is placed, and a detection unit capable of detecting a position of the object in the first direction in a noncontact manner. A control unit performs a first detection which changes relative positions of the placement unit and the detection unit in the first direction and on a plane intersecting the first direction before the printing on the object to detect, by the detection unit, the object placed on the placement unit, and the control unit performs a second detection which changes the relative positions of the placement unit and the detection unit on the plane during the printing on the object to detect, by the detection unit, the object placed on the placement unit.

Abstract: A gate apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (102) acquiring an image captured by a camera (5) provided at a side of an aisle through which a person whose personal identification is required passes and a processing unit (104) causing an authentication apparatus (50) to execute authentication processing on a predetermined region in the acquired image.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium in a conveyance direction, a second conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium printed by the printing unit, on a downstream side in the conveyance direction of the first conveyance unit, and a control unit configured to perform reduction control of reducing an overlap amount of a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium, from an overlap state in which the succeeding print medium overlaps a trailing edge of the preceding print medium. The reduction control includes control of conveying the preceding print medium conveyed by the second conveyance unit faster than the succeeding print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit, in a state in which the first conveyance unit is capable of conveying the succeeding print medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a supply unit configured to supply a print medium, a first roller configured to transport the print medium, a printing unit configured to print onto the print medium, and a control unit capable of controlling the supply unit and the first roller to create a state of overlap in which a leading end part of a following print medium overlaps a following end part of a preceding print medium on an upstream side of the first roller in the transport direction of the print medium. The control unit adjusts an overlap amount in the state of overlap on the upstream side of the first roller in the transport direction of the print medium based on print data for the preceding print medium and print data for the following print medium.

Abstract: A recording apparatus has a receiving member provided at a carriage having thereon a recording head and reciprocally moving, and receiving a liquid cleared away from a wiper for wiping and cleaning the recording head by a cleaner member. The cleaner member can assume, with respect to the carriage, a first position capable of cleaning the wiper, and a second position allowing the receiving member to receive the liquid cleared away from the wiper by the cleaner member.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes a lithium-nickel composite oxide of a layered rock-salt type.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes a lithium-nickel composite oxide of a layered rock-salt type.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes a lithium-nickel composite oxide of a layered rock-salt type.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus body held by a user and provided with a printing unit configured to perform printing in a case of being moved in a first direction; a first guide unit configured to guide the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit rotatably held with respect to a structure fixed to the apparatus body and configured to guide movement in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a drive unit configured to be connected with the second guide unit and to rotate the second guide unit so that the structure moves to the second direction relative to the second guide unit by driving of the drive unit.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head having a discharge part configured to discharge a liquid, and a shield member that is movable between a first position at which the shield member shields the discharge part and a second position at which the shield member exposes the discharge part in accordance with a temperature of the head.