Abstract: A tire includes: circumferential grooves along a circumferential direction of a tire; lateral grooves along the circumferential direction, each lateral groove having one end opened to a side of the tire and the other end communicated with the circumferential groove; and narrow grooves in blocks defined by the circumferential and lateral grooves, each narrow groove having one end opened to the side of the tire and the other end communicated with the circumferential groove. The tire includes a surface that projects, at a position more to one side or the other in the circumferential direction than the narrow groove that is opened to the tire side, further to an outer side in a tire width direction than a tire side shape to which the narrow groove is opened, and the surface extends in a radial direction from a ground contact end to include a groove bottom of the narrow groove.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes an element body and at least one external electrode. The element body includes a dielectric and at least one internal electrode therein. The element body has a plurality of surfaces that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. Two end regions are defined on the second surface at opposite ends of the second surface, and an intermediate region is defined on the second surface between the two end regions. The intermediate region has a surface roughness smaller than each of the two end regions. The respective external electrode is formed on the element body at a position away from the second surface. The respective external electrode includes a base layer formed on the element body and a plating layer formed on the base layer. The base layer is connected to the respective internal electrode and contains at least one metal.

Abstract: Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display, a barrier, and a controller. The display displays a parallax image including a right-eye viewing image and a left-eye viewing image. The barrier defines a traveling direction of image light of the parallax image. The controller causes a black image to appear between the right-eye viewing image and the left-eye viewing image based on a parallax value of the parallax image.

Abstract: Antimicrobial activity exhibited against a wide variety of plant pathogens. A functional peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence: YYGFPAFSERTRKFWRIWKGKTS (SEQ ID NO: 1) or an amino acid sequence having an identity of 85% or more with respect to the amino acid sequence, or consisting of a partial peptide thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between a first fluid pressure generating device and a frictional brake and a second state allowing communication between a second fluid pressure generating device and the frictional brake. The second fluid pressure generating device generates a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and has a fluid pressure supply port connected to the switching valve and an atmosphere opening port connected to a reservoir tank. When, due to a failure, the switching valve becomes a third state in which the switching valve makes each of the first fluid pressure generating device and the second fluid pressure generating device communicate with the frictional brake, a control device controls the second fluid pressure generating device to close the atmosphere opening port with the piston.

Abstract: A novel ionic liquid is provided. A highly safe secondary battery with high charge and discharge capacity is provided. The ionic liquid includes a cation represented by General Formula (G1) and an anion represented by Structural Formula (200). In the formula, X1 to X3 each independently represent any one of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. One of X1 to X3 may be hydrogen. In addition, n and m each independently represent 0 to 5. Furthermore, a secondary battery including the above-described ionic liquid is provided.

Abstract: A novel method for forming a positive electrode active material is provided. The method for forming a positive electrode active material includes causing a reaction between a cobalt aqueous solution and an alkaline aqueous solution to form a cobalt compound; mixing the cobalt compound and a lithium compound and performing a first heat treatment to form a first composite oxide; mixing the first composite oxide and a compound containing a first additive element and performing a second heat treatment to form a second composite oxide; and mixing the second composite oxide and a compound containing a second additive element and performing a third heat treatment. The first heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1100° C. The second heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1000° C.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes including a first linear electrode; a color filter substrate including a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode including second linear electrodes, and a fourth electrode which is a floating electrode. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed between the black matrix and the liquid crystal layer. The second linear electrodes extend in a second direction and each overlap a portion of the black matrix extending in the second direction. The fourth electrode is disposed between the second linear electrodes and overlaps the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes an element body and at least one external electrode. The element body includes a dielectric and at least one internal electrode therein. The element body has a plurality of surfaces that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. Two end regions are defined on the second surface at opposite ends of the second surface, and an intermediate region is defined on the second surface between the two end regions. The intermediate region has a surface roughness smaller than each of the two end regions. The respective external electrode is formed on the element body at a position away from the second surface. The respective external electrode includes a base layer formed on the element body and a plating layer formed on the base layer. The base layer is connected to the respective internal electrode and contains at least one metal.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a first optical panel, and a second optical panel. The three-dimensional display device may further include a backlight and a controller. The first optical panel and the second optical panel define a traveling direction of incident light.

Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises; a semiconductor element having one surface with a plurality of electrode pads; an electrode structure including a plurality of metal terminals and a sealing resin. The plurality of metal terminals being disposed in a region along a circumference of the one surface. The sealing resin holding the plurality of metal terminals and being disposed on the one surface of the semiconductor element. The electrode structure includes a first surface opposed to the one surface of the semiconductor element, a second surface positioned in an opposite side of the first surface, and a third surface positioned between the first surface and the second surface. Each of the plurality of metal terminals is exposed from the sealing resin in at least a part of the second surface and at least a part of the third surface.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device prevents light leakage in a black display of a projected image when a light source reaches a higher temperature, and displays a high-quality image without any lost sense of reality. The device includes a light-transmissive liquid crystal display element including two glass substrates and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the glass substrates, a backlight device that emits light toward one glass substrate in the liquid crystal display element, an emission-light polarizing plate on the other glass substrate, an incident-light polarizing plate on the one glass substrate, and a polarizer being a plate and including a base layer including a glass substrate and a metal layer stacked on the base layer and having a polarization function. The polarizer is located with the base layer facing the incident-light polarizing plate. The base layer is thicker than each of the glass substrates.

Abstract: A method of proteolyzing a protein, including immobilizing a protein in at least one pore of a porous body, and contacting the protein immobilized in the pore and a protease immobilized on a solid surface such that the protease selectively accesses a site of the protein and proteolyzes the protein at the site.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method in which a porous body having a monoclonal antibody to be measured immobilized in pores thereof is brought into contact with nanoparticles having a protease immobilized thereonto in a liquid to perform selective protease digestion of the monoclonal antibody and a peptide fragment obtained by the digestion is detected by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS), wherein the monoclonal antibody is digested with the protease in the presence of an antibody specifically binding to the monoclonal antibody or a target molecule of the monoclonal antibody.

Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a windshield and a camera. The camera captures an image of at least an eye of a driver of a movable body through the windshield.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, an optical panel, and a controller. The display panel displays a parallax image. The optical panel defines a traveling direction of image light. The controller controls the parallax image based on positions of a first eye and a second eye of a user. The controller causes a predetermined proportion of pixels to display a black image. The predetermined proportion is determined to cause, for the first and second eyes of the user at a predetermined reference position, a black image to be displayed by a pixel at one end or two ends of multiple first areas viewable to the first eye and not viewable to the second eye and by a pixel at one end or two ends of multiple second areas viewable to the second eye and not viewable to the first eye in a parallax direction.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel that displays a parallax image, an optical panel including a plurality of less-transmissive portions and a plurality of transmissive portions repeatedly arranged alternately in a parallax direction, and a controller that controls the display panel. Each of the plurality of transmissive portions has a first width in the parallax direction greater than a second width of each of the plurality of less-transmissive portions in the parallax direction. The controller causes the display panel to display a black image in a binocular viewable area on the display panel viewable to two eyes of a user to allow parallax separation of the parallax image.

Abstract: A container set including: a filter unit; and a closing unit that is attachable to and detachable from the filter unit. The filter unit includes: a housing having a sample introduction opening provided at one end, and a liquid discharging opening provided at the second end; and a filter fixed to the housing. The housing has a first joining part, and the closing unit has a second joining part configured to be joinable with the first joining part. The first joining part and the second joining part are configured such that the liquid discharging opening is spatially closed in a state in which the two joining parts are joined together. A space between the closing unit and the filter is made into a positive pressure relative to a pressure in the sample holding space by pushing the filter unit and the closing unit such that the distance therebetween is shortened.