Abstract: A lithium ion capacitor includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode comprises a conductive polymer and an oxidation-reduction material having a lower oxidation-reduction potential than the conductive polymer as a positive electrode active material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode for use in an electrical storage device includes bringing a porous material into contact with an oxidizing agent, then bringing the porous material into contact with a polymerizable monomer, so that the porous material is modified with an electrically-conductive polymer formed by a polymerization reaction of the polymerizable monomer and the oxidizing agent, and forming, on a surface of a collector, an active material layer containing the porous material modified with the electrically-conductive polymer.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode comprises a plurality of types of negative electrode active materials, wherein each of the plurality of types has different lithium-ion absorption potentials.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor electrode includes a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode side porous body and a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode side porous body. An oxidation-reduction substance causing an oxidation-reduction reaction during charging and discharging is adsorbed onto at least one of the positive electrode side porous body of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode side porous body of the negative electrode active material layer.

Abstract: First and second gateway devices perform TDM conversion on data from multiple packets supplied from the packet networks to generate TDM signals. A TDM exchange unit switches to the first gateway device from the second gateway device to supply the TDM network with only the TDM signal generated by the first gateway device. When the TDM exchange unit switches to the first gateway device from the second gateway device, a jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device notifies the first gateway device of the packet read order determined by the jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device, and the first gateway device determines a packet read order as the packet read order determined by the jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device.

Abstract: An enzyme electrode having excellent sensitivity, excellent stability, and a longer operating life, and an enzyme sensor using the enzyme electrode are provided. The enzyme electrode includes an electrode 2, a mesoporous silica material 3 formed on the electrode 2, and enzyme 4 immobilized in a small cavity of the mesoporous silica material 3. The size of the small cavity of the mesoporous silica material 3 is set to be 0.5 to 2.0 times the size of the enzyme 4.

Abstract: A redundancy gateway system that can avoid short interruption of data communication caused by system switching in gateway units configured in a multiplex manner for a plurality of systems, and that can maintain the communication state prior to the system switching and avoid degradation of communication quality. A duplicate of a received packet is generated, thereby supplying the packet of the same content to a configuration of gateway units. For each packet, a common write pointer corresponding to identification information appended to the packet is generated. Each gateway unit writes the packet to its own jitter buffer in accordance with the common write pointer corresponding to each supplied packet, sequentially reads out the written packet from the jitter buffer, and generates a TDM signal. One of the gateway units is selectively switched and only the TDM signal generated by the one gateway unit is supplied to a TDM network.

Abstract: First and second gateway devices perform TDM conversion on data from multiple packets supplied from the packet networks to generate TDM signals. A TDM exchange unit switches to the first gateway device from the second gateway device to supply the TDM network with only the TDM signal generated by the first gateway device. When the TDM exchange unit switches to the first gateway device from the second gateway device, a jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device notifies the first gateway device of the packet read order determined by the jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device, and the first gateway device determines a packet read order as the packet read order determined by the jitter buffer controller of the second gateway device.

Abstract: It is a first object of the present invention to provide a lithium secondary battery using a conductive polymer such as polyaniline, which exhibits a stable electrical conductivity over a long time. To achieve the first object, there is provided a positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an electrically conductive polymer having an amino group, a hydrogen bonding compound, and a protonic acid. Further, it is a second object of the present invention to provide a lithium secondary battery exhibiting a high charge-discharge capacity while using a conductive polymer such as polyaniline. To achieve the second object, there is provided a positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an electrically conductive polymer, and LiNiO2 and/or liFePO4.

Abstract: A network switching apparatus which is provided between a redundancy gateway system and a packet network and enables an uninterruptible changeover in a system changeover to be performed. The apparatus includes an up-direction transfer unit and a down-direction transfer unit. The down-direction transfer unit receives a changeover notification packet accompanied with designation information of a new active system gateway apparatus which has newly been set in place of an active system gateway apparatus. After the reception of the changeover notification packet, only in the case where a down-direction packet which is newly transmitted by the packet network is accompanied with designation information of the active system gateway apparatus before the changeover, the down-direction transfer unit changes the designation information to the designation information of the new active system gateway apparatus, thereby transferring the down-direction packet to the new active system gateway apparatus.

Abstract: A method of producing a polymer of a sulfur-containing aromatic compound includes reacting, under heating, a halide of a sulfur-containing aromatic compound having at least one aromatic ring and at least one ring containing one or more disulfide bonds wherein one side of the disulfide-containing ring constitutes one side of the aromatic ring, with inorganic sulfur in an amount equivalent to 2 to 8 S atoms relative to 1 mol of the halide of the sulfur-containing aromatic compound in the presence of at least one inorganic base selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal hydroxide, an alkali metal hydrogen carbonate and an alkali metal carbonate and/or at least one organic base selected from the group consisting of a tri(lower alkyl)amine and a heterocyclic amine in an organic solvent.

Abstract: Disclosed is an enzyme electrode comprising: an electrode; a carbon nanotube layer including a plurality of carbon nanotubes extending directly from the electrode and/or a metallic catalyst immobilized on the electrode; and an enzyme immobilized in the carbon nanotube layer by being sandwiched between the carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: A redundancy gateway system that can avoid, to the maximum extent, short interruption of data communication caused by system switching in gateway units configured in a multiplex manner for a plurality of systems, and that can maintain the communication state prior to the system switching and avoid degradation of communication quality. A duplicate of a received packet is generated, thereby supplying the packet of the same content to a plurality of gateway units. For each packet, a common write pointer corresponding to identification information appended to the packet is generated. Each of the plurality of gateway units writes the packet to its own jitter buffer in accordance with the common write pointer corresponding to each supplied packet, sequentially reads out the written packet from the jitter buffer, and generates a TDM signal. One of the plurality of gateway units is selectively switched and only the TDM signal generated by the one gateway unit is supplied to a TDM network.

Abstract: A redox-active reversible electrode has a redox-active film on a surface of an electrically conductive substrate. The redox-active film includes a redox-active sulfur-containing substance which has at least one aromatic ring and a ring containing at least one disulfide bond, with a side of the disulfide-containing ring constituting a side of the aromatic ring, and which has a property that it is capable of reversibly releasing and receiving one or more electrons per disulfide-containing ring without the disulfide-containing ring being opened.

Abstract: An apparatus that transmits digital data between ground-isolated apparatuses at a high speed. Also, a method for transmitting digital data and a clock from a first apparatus to a second apparatus ground-isolated from the first apparatus comprising a step whereby reference signals are generated from the power source voltage of the first apparatus and a ground of the first apparatus; a step whereby a multiphase clock having the same base frequency as the maximum base frequency of this digital data is generated from this clock; a step whereby these digital data and these reference signals are compared and these comparison results are output; and a step whereby these comparison results are latched using this multiphase clock.

Abstract: A redox active reversible electrode includes a conductive substrate and a redox active film formed on at least one surface of the conductive substrate. The redox active film contains a redox active sulfur compound and an electrically conductive polymer of a ? electron conjugated compound having p-type doping characteristics.

Abstract: A positive electrode for lithium secondary battery includes a collector obtained by forming a carbonaceous material film on the surface of a conductive substrate, and a positive electrode material layer carried on the carbonaceous material film side of the collector and containing an organic sulfide compound as a main active material.

Abstract: A novel protein having inhibitory activity on the protease activity of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) activator was purified and isolated, and its molecular weight (ca. 40,000 daltons) and its N-terminal and partial amino acid sequences were determined. A gene coding for the protein was cloned, and the gene DNA was incorporated into a vector, for transforming host cells. Cultivation of the transformant gave the desired protein. The protein can be used as an in vivo or in vitro control factor for HGF or HGF activator. It is also useful as an antigen to be used in producing an antibody to be used as means for kinetic studies of the protein, or as a standard in assay systems therefor.

Abstract: A novel protein having inhibitory activity on the protease activity of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) activator was purified and isolated, and its molecular weight (ca. 40,000 daltons) and its N-terminal and partial amino acid sequences were determined. A gene coding for the protein was cloned, and the gene DNA was incorporated into a vector, for transforming host cells. Cultivation of the transformant gave the desired protein. The protein can be used as an in vivo or in vitro control factor for HGF or HGF activator. It is also useful as an antigen to be used in producing an antibody to be used as means for kinetic studies of the protein, or as a standard in assay systems therefor.

Abstract: A novel protein having inhibitory activity on the protease activity of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) activator was purified and isolated, and its molecular weight (ca. 40,000 daltons) and its N-terminal and partial amino acid sequences were determined. A gene coding for the protein was cloned, and the gene DNA was incorporated into a vector, for transforming host cells. Cultivation of the transformant gave the desired protein. The protein can be used as an in vivo or in vitro control factor for HGF or HGF activator. It is also useful as an antigen to be used in producing an antibody to be used as means for kinetic studies of the protein, or as a standard in assay systems therefor.