Abstract: A structure of the present invention includes a base plate and a formation unit. The formation unit is bonded and fixed to and retained on the base plate by a first adhesive. The first adhesive is disposed at least in the vicinities of end portions of a peripheral edge of a bonding surface of the formation unit.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted voice recognition apparatus 1 is comprised of a voice input unit 10 for acquiring an inputted voice, a voice recognition unit 12 for performing voice recognition on the acquired inputted voice, a guidance information output unit 13 (14) for providing a guidance on the basis of the result of the voice recognition, and a recognized word understanding degree determining unit 20 for determining a user's degree of understanding of recognized words to the guidance according to the number of timeout times that a timeout has occurred in the user's operation which is monitored while the voice recognition unit 12 performs the voice recognition, and the number of correction times that a correction has been made to the user's operation, so as to change the guidance provided by the guidance information output unit 13 (14).

Abstract: The method of making a composite particle for an electrode in accordance with the present invention comprises a granulating step of integrating a conductive auxiliary agent and a binder adapted to bind the conductive auxiliary agent and an electrode active material together with a particle made of the electrode active material while in close contact with each other in an inert gas atmosphere so as to form a composite particle for an electrode containing the electrode active material, conductive auxiliary agent, and binder. When the composite particle obtained by this method is used as a constituent of an electrode, an electrode having an excellent electrode characteristic and an electrochemical device having excellent electrochemical characteristics can be formed easily and reliably.

Abstract: An information apparatus for use in mobile unit, which is mounted on a mobile unit, includes at least a broadcast receiver 11 and 13 for receiving a broadcasting signal containing a broadcasting station name; a recognition dictionary 30 for registering the broadcasting station name; and a voice recognition section 27 for performing voice recognition of a voice input indicating the broadcasting station name, and carries out, referring to the dictionary, tuning to the broadcasting station associated with the broadcasting station name corresponding to a voice recognition result.

Abstract: A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data

Abstract: A droplet ejecting device including: plural droplet ejecting heads that eject droplets; a transporting body, disposed to face nozzle surfaces of the droplet ejecting heads, that transports a recording medium; and a head holding member that holds the droplet ejecting heads movably along droplet ejecting directions respectively is provided.

Abstract: An IC card chip performs payment processing in response to item purchase in accordance with a command generated and encrypted by a secure application module. The IC card chip decrypts the encrypted command, and reads information corresponding to the command. The IC card chip appropriately encrypts the read information in accordance with key information managed together with the secure application module, and sends the encrypted information to the secure application module via a cellular telephone or the like. The secure application module generates a command for controlling the IC card chip of the cellular telephone in accordance with a request from a content server. The secure application module appropriately encrypts the generated command in accordance with the key information managed together with the IC card chip, and supplies the encrypted command to the IC card chip. The IC card chip operates in accordance with the supplied command.

Abstract: A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.

Abstract: A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.

Abstract: A liquid droplet ejecting head bar comprising: multiple liquid droplet ejecting head units that eject liquid droplets from nozzles; a long substrate on which the plurality of liquid droplet ejecting head units are arranged; and spacer components to which the liquid droplet ejecting head units are joined and fixed and which are attached to the long substrate so as to be removable.

Abstract: An active material having a good cycle performance is produced by bringing a metal-fluoro complex-containing aqueous solution into contact with particles of a first metal oxide so as to form, on surfaces of the first metal oxide particles, particles of a second metal oxide that is an oxide of the metal in the metal-fluoro complex. The active material is composed of particles of the first metal oxide and particles of the second metal oxide which coat the first metal oxide particles and have an average diameter of 50 nm or less. The second metal oxide particles have an adhesive force to the first metal oxide particles of at least 0.1 ?N.

Abstract: An apparatus for purification of exhaust gas comprises: an exhaust gas pipe (2) connected to an internal combustion engine (1); an upstream catalyst (3) arranged at the upstream side of an exhaust gas passage inside the exhaust gas pipe (2); a downstream catalyst (4) which is arranged at the downstream side of the exhaust gas passage inside the exhaust gas pipe (2), and on which nickel and/or iron is supported; and oxidizing gas supply means (5) which is connected to the exhaust gas pipe (2) between the upstream catalyst (3) and the downstream catalyst (4), and which supplies oxidizing gas into the exhaust gas pipe (2).

Abstract: A recording device has a recording section which records an image on a recording medium which is conveyed. A recording region of the recording section is greater than or equal to a width of a recording medium of a maximum width which can be recorded. When recording a recording medium of a width which is narrower than the maximum width which can be recorded, relative positions of the recording section and the recording medium can be changed in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording medium. The relative positions may be changed by changing a position of the recording medium in the direction orthogonal to the conveying direction.

Abstract: A composite particle for electrode as an active material capable of forming an electrochemical device with excellent discharge capacities and rate characteristics is provided. A composite particle for electrode according to the present invention comprises a particulate core including at least one mother particle containing an electrode active material, and an electron-conducting layer which covers at least part of the surface of the particulate core, the electron-conducting layer including carbon and microparticles containing an electrode active material, and the microparticles having a particle size of 300 nm or less.

Abstract: An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by use of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.

Abstract: An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Abstract: Composite particles for an electrode comprising LiVOPO4 particles and a metal, wherein the metal is supported on at least a portion of the surface of the LiVOPO4 particles to form a metal coating layer.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material in accordance with the present invention is used for a positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery, includes Li, Mn, Ni, Co, and O atoms, and has a substantially halite type crystal structure. Specifically, it is preferably expressed by LiaMnbNicCodOe, where a is 0.85 to 1.1, b is 0.2 to 0.6, c is 0.2 to 0.6, d is 0.1 to 0.5, and e is 1 to 2 (the sum of b, c, and d being 1). Because of such composition and crystal structure, the positive electrode active material of the present invention reduces the amount of elution of the battery into the liquid electrolyte and enhances the stability at a high temperature.

Abstract: An electrode has a current collector, and an active material-containing layer provided on the current collector and containing active material particles and ceramic particles, and a weight concentration of the ceramic particles to the active material particles in a surface part in the active material-containing layer on the opposite side to the current collector is higher than a weight concentration of the ceramic particles to the active material particles in a lower part in the active material-containing layer on the current collector side. Furthermore, the thickness of the surface part is not less than 30% nor more than 60% of the total thickness of the surface part and the lower part.