Abstract: A battery module joined to a joint body. Each heat transfer plate of the battery module has a sandwiched portion provided between adjacent battery cells and a joined portion. A first heat conductive layer that contacts a battery cell and has a first thickness is provided on the sandwiched portion of each heat transfer plate. A second heat conductive layer is provided on the facing surface of each heat transfer plate other than the heat transfer plate that is the closest to the joint body when the joined portion is joined to the joint body. The second heat conductive layer is configured to contact the joint body. The second heat conductive layer on the heat transfer plate that is the farthest from the joint body when the joined portion is joined to the joint body has a second thickness, which is greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery module including a plurality of rechargeable batteries, an electronic component that contributes to charging and discharging of the rechargeable batteries, and an installation body including an extending portion, which extends vertically. The installation body includes a placing portion, which projects from the extending portion in a direction crossing the vertical direction. At least one of the battery module and the electronic component is installed in the extending portion while being placed on the placing portion.

Abstract: An energy power depositing/charging management system and method is provided. When energy is deposited in an energy storage station from an onboard power storage device of a vehicle, a vehicle energy management unit manages reductions in the remaining stored energy level of energy in the onboard power storage device. The vehicle energy management unit and a storage station energy management unit manage increases in the energy remaining amount of deposited energy in the energy storage station, thereby allowing for charging up to the remaining amount of deposited energy of energy identified with an ID for the vehicle in the energy storage station.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a sealed case and a battery cell accommodated in the sealed case. The sealed case includes a case body, which has an opening, and a lid member, which is fixed to the case body by a plurality of bolts and closes the opening. When distances between adjacent ones of the bolts are compared, the distance between a specific adjacent pair of the bolts is greater than that between any other adjacent pair of the remaining bolts.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a sensor substrate, wherein the sensor substrate has plural photoelectric conversion devices and driving devices thereof formed on a substrate, signal lines for reading imaging signals obtained in the photoelectric conversion devices through the driving devices and relay electrodes electrically connecting between the driving devices and the signal lines to relay between them.

Abstract: The electric storage device disclosed herein is a stacked type electric storage device. The electric storage device includes a separator insulating a first electrode from a second electrode. The electric storage device includes a first conductive path from a first electrode terminal to the first electrode, a second conductive path from a second electrode terminal to the second electrode, and a current interruption device disposed between the second electrode terminal and the second electrode, the current interruption device being configured to interrupt the second conductive path. The separator includes a first surface part covering the one surface of the first electrode, a second surface part covering the other surface of the first electrode, and a connection part connected to both the first and second surface parts. The connection part is disposed between the current interruption device and an end of the first electrode on a current interruption device side.

Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition comprises (A) a resin that exhibits an increased solubility in an alkali developer when acted on by an acid, and (B) at least two types of sulfonic acid generators that generate a sulfonic acid when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, wherein the two types of sulfonic acid generators (B) consist of sulfonic acid generators (B1) and (B2) satisfying the following requirements, namely the sulfonic acid generator (B1) generates a sulfonic acid composed of 9 to 20 elements with an acid strength (pKa) satisfying the relationship pKa<?3.50, and the sulfonic acid generator (B2) generates an acid composed of 17 or more elements with an acid strength (pKa) satisfying the relationship ?2.00>pKa??3.50, provided that no hydrogen atom is included in the number of elements of the generated acids.

Abstract: A current interruption device includes: a deforming plate configured to deform when the internal pressure of the casing rises above the predetermined level; a conducting plate which configures the current path; and a contact plate. The conducting plate includes a first contact portion configured to contact the contact plate. The contact plate includes a second contact portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The deforming plate includes a pressure receiving portion configured to receive the internal pressure of the casing and a contacting portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The second contact portion is configured to be separated from the conducting plate by deformation causing the contacting portion to move toward the contact plate. The deforming plate is insulated from the conducting plate and the contact plate. The conducting plate is disposed to be interleaved between the deforming plate and the contact plate.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a position information acquisition unit which acquires, from a remote controller with a touch panel, three-dimensional position information of a pointing implement with respect to the touch panel, a display control unit which moves a cursor on a display screen according to movement of the pointing implement, a movement limiting unit which prohibits movement of the cursor on the display screen when the height of the pointing implement from the touch panel is at or below a predetermined lock threshold value, and a position selecting unit which selects the position of the cursor on the display screen when the pointing implement touches the touch panel when the movement of the cursor is prohibited.

Abstract: Provided is a separator incorporating an electrode, provided with two of separator sheets facing each other, an electrode sandwiched between the separator plates. Each of the facing surfaces of the separator sheets is provided with a coated portion coated with a ceramic, and a non-coated portion that is not coated with the ceramic, located in at least a portion of ranges corresponding to peripheral edges of the electrode. The separator sheets are joined to one another in the non-coated portion.

Abstract: A positive photosensitive composition, includes: (A) a resin having a repeating unit represented by formula (1) as defined in the specification and a repeating unit represented by formula (2) as defined in the specification and being capable of increasing a solubility of the resin (A) in an alkali developer by an action of an acid; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation; and a solvent, and a pattern forming method uses the positive photosensitive composition.

Abstract: According to an aspect, an imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and arranged on a same plane; a transparent electrode provided on a surface of the photoelectric conversion element; a plurality of first conductors, each of which is electrically coupled to the transparent electrode corresponding to one photoelectric conversion element at a plurality of points and provided to the transparent electrode corresponding to one photoelectric conversion element; and a second conductor that is provided between adjacent pixels and electrically couples the first conductors, and also electrically couples the first conductors between the adjacent pixels.

Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for refrigerator including a base oil and an acid scavenger, and a compressor using the composition are provided, where the acid scavenger is a polyalkylene glycol derivative represented by a formula (1) as follows: R1—[(OR2)e—OR3]f??(1) and the base oil is at least one compound selected from a group consisting of polyvinyl ether, polyalkylene glycol and an ether-base compound represented by a formula (2) as follows, Ra-[(ORb)n-(X)—(ORc)k]x-Rd??(2) where meanings of respective signs are as described in the specification.

Abstract: A negative-electrode stuff has negative-electrode active-material particles including: an element being capable of sorbing and desorbing lithium ions, and being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium; or/and an elementary compound being capable of undergoing an alloying reaction with lithium. The negative-electrode active-material particles includes particles whose particle diameter is 1 ?m or more in an amount of 85% by volume or more of them when the entirety is taken as 100% by volume, exhibit a BET specific surface area that is 6 m2/g or less, and exhibits a “D50” that is 4.5 ?m or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil composition for use in a compressor for a refrigerator in which a sliding surface of at least a part of constitutional members of the compressor is coated with a lubrication film-forming composition containing a resin having a heat distortion temperature of 100° C. or higher as a binder, and a solid lubricant, wherein the refrigerating machine oil composition contains a base oil made of a polyoxyalkylene glycol having a kinematic viscosity of from 3 to 50 mm2/s as measured at 100° C., and a compound selected from the group consisting of amide compounds, amidated amino acid compounds and aliphatic amines having a specific structural formula which compound is contained in an amount of from 0.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display panel in which circumferences of a pair of substrates disposed so as to face each other are stuck at a given distance to each other by a seal material, a liquid crystal inlet is formed in a part of the seal material, and a liquid crystal is sealed in an inner space defined between the substrates paired with each other, the liquid crystal display panel including a resin film being formed on the inner space side of one of the pair of substrates, and an inorganic insulating film being formed on a surface side of the resin film. An area not having the inorganic insulating film being present therein is formed in the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises an array substrate equipped with signal lines and scan lines deployed in a matrix arrangement, thin film transistors (TFTs) provided near the intersections of the signal lines and scan lines, and pixel electrodes of which one is provided in each of the pixel domains delimited by the signal lines and scan lines; a color filter substrate on which are formed color filters and common electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer placed between said two substrates; wherein the pixel electrodes are positioned so as not to overlap the signal lines, or not to overlap the scan lines, or not to overlap either, when viewed from above, and below the spaces between adjacent pixel electrodes, resin black matrices are deployed so as to overlap the pixel electrodes when viewed from above.

Abstract: According to an aspect, an imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and arranged on a same plane; a transparent electrode provided on a surface of the photoelectric conversion element; a plurality of first conductors, each of which is electrically coupled to the transparent electrode corresponding to one photoelectric conversion element at a plurality of points and provided to the transparent electrode corresponding to one photoelectric conversion element; and a second conductor that is provided between adjacent pixels and electrically couples the first conductors, and also electrically couples the first conductors between the adjacent pixels.

Abstract: A chatter vibration suppressing method includes acquiring a moment of inertia of a rotating body, recording a value indicating the acquired moment of inertia into a machining program, and calculating a variable amplitude and a variable period when a rotation speed of the rotating body is varied in order to suppress chatter vibration from the value indicating the moment of inertia recorded in the machining program and the maximum input power of a motor for rotating the rotating body.

Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for refrigerators comprising a base oil which comprises as a main component a polyol ester compound obtained from a polyhydric alcohol selected from among pentaerythritol, dipentaerythritol, trimethylolpropane, and neopentyl glycol and a C4 to C20 aliphatic monocarboxylic acid and which has an acid value of 0.02 mgKOH/g or less and a hydroxyl value of 5 mgKOH/g or less. A compressor using the lubricating composition. The lubricating oil composition is applicable to such refrigerators that use a refrigerant having a specific structure, such as an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound, and being usable in current car air conditioner systems, and has excellent compatibility with the refrigerant, good sealing properties, capability of imparting a low coefficient of friction to sliding members and, yet, excellent stability. The compressor uses the lubricating composition.